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2-D Avatar To Be Pulled From Theaters In China
SimonTheSoundMan notes that Avatar is being pulled from screens in China for being too successful, and too provocative in its anti-authoritarian message. (The 3-D and IMAX versions will remain.) "The communist nation's state-run movie distributor China Film Group is unexpectedly yanking the James Cameron-directed blockbuster Avatar from 1,628 2-D screens this week in favor of a biography of the ancient philosopher Confucius starring Chow-Yun Fat. ... According to a report in the Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, the move was made at the urging of propaganda officials who are concerned that Avatar is taking too much market share from Chinese films and drawing unwanted attention to the sensitive issue of forced evictions."
I was not a huge fan of District 9, but to even consider the two in the same sentence when it comes to political commentary is just silly. District 9 was an overtly critical action flick, Avatar was platitude-filled garbage.
This decision had nothing to do with politics, just the Chinese film industry looking out for its own interests.
What you are essentially saying is that extreme nationalism is okay. I wonder if you felt that way during the Bush administration.
No, extreme nationalism is very dangerous. However, if the people of a country want to do that, that's their right, as long as they don't bother anyone else. It's when they start invading other countries (like Germany in WWII) that it becomes other countries' business.
You're also saying that military might in that uprising equals right, regardless of the backer. Well, that's what the Cubans did with their communist backers, yet if the US tries to do the same thing and loses, the US is the great wrong and should have backed off.
Huh? No, I'm saying the people who are citizens of a country are the ones who get to decide what to do in that country, not some foreigners. If the Cubans want to install or overthrow communists, that's their business. If the US gets involved in Cuba's government, that's wrong. How'd you like it if China tried to have a say in our elections?
"There's a simple lesson here: if you're not a citizen of a foreign country, then you don't have any rights there,"
Holy F man. Does that mean we get to shoot all the illegal immigrants in the US?
No, because our laws don't allow that. However, if a sovereign country wants to make a law allowing their citizens to kill illegal immigrants, that's their right as a sovereign country. Don't like it? Don't go there.
Hell, I'm pretty pro-US, but even I think that if the Koreans own part of Los Angeles, that's their property right. Same with the Japanese or anything else.
So you'd be OK with China buying up tons of land in California (or better yet, Washington DC), and then demanding that that land be turned over to China's control?
And people often point to how internationally ignorant and isolated Americans are, then I read crap like this.
This has nothing to do with international ignorance, it's simply about minding your own business and not telling other sovereign countries what to do.
It is your attitude that leads to more war and more misunderstanding. Stay in our own country? Fine. When we want to EXPAND our own country, we'll do it, and then we're right back at the very point you are arguing against.
Expand? Expand where? In case you haven't noticed, all the land on earth is spoken for now, and has been for over a hundred years. You don't need to expand, because it would come at the cost of someone else. Figure out how to make do with what you have, because you don't have the right to take someone else's land.
You're a neo-con, right?
I'll assume for the moment you support more left wing type ideas than libertarian style views.
Here are a list of a few items which I consider Left Wing Religious Ideologies, which are not based on anything but the religion of "progressives".
Robin Hood Tax policies, Abortion, Global Warming/Earth First, Political Correctness, Equality of results, Class/Race/Ethnicity, (D) good/(R) bad.
The fact is, there is plenty of blame for shit to go all around. If you think progressive (again, still assuming) politics is pure and holy, you're just as retarded as those you protest.
Here is one "Progressive" rant.
Why is this guy still on the air? Oh right! Because Scott Brown is (R), and progressives are pure and holy.
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