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    Exclamation [Parody] New York Times Admits Giant Banner Honoring Mao May Have Been Inappropriate

    New York Times Admits Giant Banner Honoring Mao May Have Been Inappropriate

    September 10th, 2019



    NEW YORK, NY—In honor of the anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong's death, The New York Times unfurled a giant, 50-foot-wide banner honoring the "brave revolutionary" outside its New York offices Monday.

    After public outcry, they admitted this might have been "slightly inappropriate."

    "While we stand by our decision to honor one of history's great men, we admit the banner lacked important historical context," said one Times editor. "While his ideas were morally right, they factually killed a bunch of people, and that's not something we wanted to promote. Unless you're killing yourself to combat climate change."

    Paper executives considered adding some historical context to the banner, like writing "Morally right but factually a mass murderer" to the bottom but eventually decided to just take it down so as not to obscure the facts above and beyond the paper's usual fact obscuring threshold.

    The banner has been replaced with a large mural of Joseph Stalin.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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    These guys need to stop giving the left idea's....
    "The Patriarch"

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    NYT should have recognized immediately that it was a bad idea.
    "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."

    Calvin Coolidge

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    Wasn't there some guy named MacArthur that warned us about the s*** like 60 70 years ago what a crazy racist misogynist xenophobia homophobe lgbtq hateful Anti-semite he was...




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    why I should worship the state (who apparently is the only party that can possess guns without question).
    The state's only purpose is to kill and control. Why do you worship it? - Sola_Fide

    Baptiste said.
    At which point will Americans realize that creating an unaccountable institution that is able to pass its liability on to tax-payers is immoral and attracts sociopaths?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Globalist View Post
    NYT should have recognized immediately that it was a bad idea.
    Parody site.
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    I saw it and was thinking, would they really go that far, probably a parody site, then thought it really is not that far off the mark to be true.

    Then what do you know there was this recently.

    New York Times Deletes Tweet Downplaying Mao Zedong's Murder Of 45 Million People.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/09/n...o-mass-murder/

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    With how ridiculous sh!t is today, its hard to differentiate satire from reality. I personally dont think this is funny, in the least - this country is in a very bad state.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kahless View Post
    I saw it and was thinking, would they really go that far, probably a parody site, then thought it really is not that far off the mark to be true.

    Then what do you know there was this recently.

    New York Times Deletes Tweet Downplaying Mao Zedong's Murder Of 45 Million People.
    https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/09/n...o-mass-murder/
    Sorry to trick people with a BB story, but that was exactly what I had in mind.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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    Babylon Bee is often too close to reality for parody.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    Babylon Bee is often too close to reality for parody.
    You're right...
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11

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    nah, its real...its from our IMMEDIATE FUTURE
    FLIP THOSE FLAGS, THE NATION IS IN DISTRESS!


    why I should worship the state (who apparently is the only party that can possess guns without question).
    The state's only purpose is to kill and control. Why do you worship it? - Sola_Fide

    Baptiste said.
    At which point will Americans realize that creating an unaccountable institution that is able to pass its liability on to tax-payers is immoral and attracts sociopaths?

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    I actually have seen a large picture of Mao in NYC before . I just assumed it was the god they worship.
    Do something Danke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian4Liberty View Post
    Babylon Bee is often too close to reality for parody.
    Reality is often too close to the Babylon Bee for parody these days.
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    Here, not a joke..........................


    From a China Traveler

    By David Rockefeller

    Aug. 10, 1973


    The social experiment in China under. Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history. How extensively China opens up and how the world interprets and reacts to the social innovations and life styles she has developed is certain to have a profound impact on the future of many nations.

    https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/10/a...-traveler.html
    FJB



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