Why Do Americans Care So Much About Freedom

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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Remember the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics which brought them worldwide attention? Shit, they even parodied it on Southpark.

They went and hired Zhang Yimou, a famous, international award winning director to oversee it even though they previously BANNED him from filmmaking for 5 years after making an allegedly “counter revolutionary” movie called To Live(I think I’ve recommended this movie to you before because of it’s portrayal of life during Mao’s era) and gave him lots of creative freedom.

I don’t like most of his movies other than that one, Red Sorghum and one or 2 low budget ones but the dude has immense talent when it comes to visual aesthetics.

He’s like Zack Snyder except he can display some real filmmaking skill when he decides to get his head out of his ass every once in a while.

Again, this was in 2008. I couldn’t believe it when I found out they hired him. It was mindblowing, to say the least. I can say with a lot of confidence that the dude would have walked away if they fucked around too much with his vision at that time given his track record of other movies with anti-commie innuendoes that I think the censors were too dense to pick up at that time.

Or they gave him a fuckload of money.

If you watch the trailer for the Shang Chi movie, you’ll see a scene that’s a nod to one of his movies called House of Flying Daggers, which I thought was a steaming pile of shit although it was visually astounding.

The UK tried something similar in the next Olympics hosted by them by hiring Danny Boyle(Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) but it ended up pretty lacklustre. I wonder why. Danny Boyle’s one of my favorite directors.

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Hey, as Deng said, “No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.”

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Was what?

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I see the statues of the 2 cats on the bridge leading into Nanchang every time I pass by from the airport lol.

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Here you go

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I think so. Wasn’t it a cooking demonstration by P.F. Chang chefs?

YES.

Isn’t that the movie that I was immediately confused about the motivations of the dude who wanted another dude to carry him on his back?

I watched the rest not too long after that and the number of questions I have would probably require a thread of its own.

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Yeah. That dude was just hired to carry him home because he was half drunk lol. It’s like we used to have rickshaw pullers.

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It was some kind of commentary about the dehumanization of poor people during an era of excess by the rich and how communism led to the same thing but for everyone.

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Note to self: Don’t forget the post-hyperinflation job opportunity of carrying rich and drunken liberal weenies home.

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Nah, the rich dude was just a cowardly bum who just went with the flow and served as a POV device for the audience. His wartime friend was the one who joined the CCP and eventually got purged.

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I was talking about a potential career shift to becoming a pack animal in the post-Biden hellscape we’re all sure to occupy in the near future, when all of the American freedoms are gone forever.

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Don’t worry. The State will provide you with an equally rewarding career. You won’t have to look for a job yourself.

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What if I want to be a pack animal to carry rich and drunken liberal weenies home? What if that’s my calling at the moment? What if the tips are really good? What if I’m getting some nice action on the side from un-satisfied wives and girlfriends?

How is…

…going to make things right for me?

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The liberal weenies will all have been sent down to the countryside to do hard labour by that time to “experience the joy of rural life”. You can go hunt them down and do a Deliverance on them lol.

I suggest you pick up the banjo to get their trust first.

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I didn’t read that article, but it sounds like something that anyone with a healthy conscience would go right along with. Who doesn’t love the Countryside?

Americans do, and that’s why we have a lifetime’s worth of easily-accessed parks and public spaces set aside for people to have incredible experiences in. Something tells me we’re talking about the same shared values here. Let’s all go Down to the Countryside!

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You must not be familiar with the typical white, American liberal. There’d be no reason for Deliverance-style love, unless it’s roleplay.

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Well, I’ll give you the figure. Top 1%? That’s nothing.

“Ten percent of the 1970 urban population was relocated.” Do the math lol.

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The entire affair is a staggering, shocking and shining example of why government must be treated like a fire up north during the winter.

You need it to continue on, but if it gets out of control you will lose everything.

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I did have a feeling Jon Voight and Burt Reynolds don’t really look like one of them. But Ned Beatty and the guitarist…

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Wait, Jon Voight was in Midnight Cowboy. Ok, you’re right.

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Yeah, just think about the amount of government power and immense amount of manpower that was needed to achieve this. It’s fucking astounding.

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I’m still learning about Chinese history but the visual impression it has been making on me is waves and waves of lives crashing upon one another in numbers I can’t begin to wrap my head around for durations of time I can’t identify with.

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