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MAGA-land’s Favorite Newspaper
theatlantic.com ^ | January 13, 2021 | Simon van Zuylen-Wood

Posted on 01/17/2021 9:02:00 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper

... The epoch times was founded in 2000 by John Tang, an Atlanta-based follower of the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, whose members you might have seen doing meditative exercises in parks, and whose living messiah is Li Hongzhi, a cherubic-faced man generally shown wearing dark suits. The movement, which claims to have millions of adherents, encourages believers to abandon lust, greed, alcohol, and other worldly “attachments.” Some of the more unusual characteristics of its outlook include a distrust of medical doctors and a belief in malevolent, Earth-roaming aliens who created impious technology (such as video games). In 1999, the Chinese government concluded that Falun Gong was growing too popular. Beijing labeled the movement a cult and suppressed it. But Falun Gong flourished abroad among the Chinese diaspora, and its teachings took on a fervent anti-Communist bent.

The Epoch Times has sought to maintain a certain distance from Falun Gong, and its right-wing politics come across, at first glance, as no more cultish than those of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon’s old Washington Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: china; epochfakenews; epochtimes; falongong; lalaland; simonvanzuylenwood; theatlantic
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1 posted on 01/17/2021 9:02:00 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Atlantic doesn’t even work well to line a birdcage.


2 posted on 01/17/2021 9:05:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Chinese Communist censorship worldwide.
Nothing new.


3 posted on 01/17/2021 9:05:30 PM PST by Starcitizen (Thank you to the Senate for passing S.386, turning the US into the third-world shithole of India. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

millennials

https://twitter.com/svzwood


4 posted on 01/17/2021 9:07:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I subscribe to The Epoch Times.

Much better than the Wall Street Journal, which has fallen into the liberal la la la la land.


5 posted on 01/17/2021 9:08:15 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition!)
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To: a fool in paradise

The Atlantic doesn’t even work well to line a birdcage.
= = =

My parrot was getting constipated until removed it from his cage.


6 posted on 01/17/2021 9:08:42 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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To: Starcitizen

How queer, the first account to respond to his posted article on twitter is https://twitter.com/TrumpTombstones

“Tombstones For Trump”

Isn’t that a death threat? How utterly odd that Twitter is okay with that.


7 posted on 01/17/2021 9:09:15 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Maybe because it is our ONLY newspaper


8 posted on 01/17/2021 9:10:22 PM PST by madison10 (Democracy dies in darkness.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Just another foreign mouthpiece.


9 posted on 01/17/2021 9:11:08 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: a fool in paradise

I’m sure it works ok for a catbox liner.


10 posted on 01/17/2021 9:11:43 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I like the Epoch Times. I don’t always agree with every opinion, but they’ve always seemed to me to operate in the interest of individual freedom and freedom of expression.

Shen Yun dance troupe also stems from the Falun Gong. (How many ignorant liberals have paid to see them, because it was ‘fashionable’ to do so? and how many were absolutely fascinated?)

And What’s Wrong with trying to remember and revere the Chinese culture and history that existed before the devastation of the Communists?


11 posted on 01/17/2021 9:17:03 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: a fool in paradise

The widow of Steve Jobs is involved with Atlantic Monthly.

Yes, she is a moonbat.


12 posted on 01/17/2021 9:17:28 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Bite Me.....The Commander-in-Thief, Commander-in-Cheat, Illegitimate president!)
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To: Mr. Blond

Not really.


13 posted on 01/17/2021 9:18:19 PM PST by madison10 (Democracy dies in darkness.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Epoch Times awesome paper!


14 posted on 01/17/2021 9:20:03 PM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Even though I try to expose them to only the Travel and Sports sections, my birds are getting tired of the Washington Post.

Maybe I can find some other rag to buy every Sunday for that purpose, and the grocery coupons...


15 posted on 01/17/2021 9:21:44 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: a fool in paradise

Tried it as fish wrapper but it’s so slimy the fish kept slipping out!


16 posted on 01/17/2021 9:27:02 PM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: Berlin_Freeper

As someone who used to read the Atlantic many decades ago, I am astounded that it is now basically a glossy version of Mother Jones and the Nation mashed up.


17 posted on 01/17/2021 9:35:45 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Where’s he been? Does he think he has a scoop with this non news?


18 posted on 01/17/2021 9:38:04 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The paper is far superior than most American news outlets.


19 posted on 01/17/2021 9:55:32 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: a fool in paradise

This is on there and it’s genius...would LMAO if Trump did it


What if we tell Trump that resigning and letting Pence be the 46th president for a week will screw up all the “46” commemorative merchandise that Biden bought for the inauguration? The petty bastard might just bite.


20 posted on 01/17/2021 10:15:31 PM PST by Salamander (We're All Hamlet, Now....)
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