Does your city have those ENDLESS Shen Yun ads? It's worse than you think.

[nolabear]

I sort of knew they were an anti-Communist cult but not how right wing crazy they are. Epoch Times? That’s them. Yeesh.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/stepping-into-the-uncanny-unsettling-world-of-shen-yun

[bif]

1. They seem to buy half the billboards here in Detroit!

I get so sick of them.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. Yup. Proto-fascist, uber right-wingers.

They're pretty awful and the fact that they're able to sneak in under the guise of some cultural performance is annoying.

[Coventina]

3. I'm so sick of their ads I've sworn never to go. Plus, it looks like just twirling.

They seem to have just one dance move: the twirl.



on edit: They are also kooky cult members.

[nolabear]

4. And apparently an apocalyptic ending with commies

all dressed in black under Mao and Marx posters who sweep in like a tsunami and destroy the world. Oh, and evil men holding hands.

[Coventina]

5. haha! I'll have to see if I can find the end on YouTube.

It sounds like a hoot!

[hunter]

6. I've not seen them around here.

This is the land of Spanish language fast food and accident-or-immigration-lawyer billboards.



This reminds me of the Moonies. When I was in college I had a Moonie classmate who spent an entire spring term trying to get close to me. I think she mistook my autistic spectrum weirdness for some kind of vulnerability.

My superpower is cluelessness.

[GP6971]

7. They're in Seattle from

March 31 - April 9th. A lot of TV ads.

[nolabear]

10. I swear they've been advertising since October.

What is McCaw Hall thinking? Money, I suppose.

[dalton99a]

8. Disgusting scam - many stores agree to display their posters thinking they're legit

[Sympthsical]

9. I'm pretty sure they run BART in SF

And own fully one third of all restaurants.

They're a very powerful corporation. Like the Amazon of walking around.

Edit: The article links these. I laughed so hard and so long, I think I was risking stroke.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[nolabear]

11. BWAHAHAHA!!

I’ll never hear Baby Got Back the same again.