china = 4th grade bully

hello, china speaking. we saw those weird exercises you were doing at recess as a threat to our popularity, and decided we’re going to beat the hell out of you. (psst! mouse over link for ny times login).

to summarize, apparently china has moved on from silencing the “opposition” in its own country (most notably the falun gong movement) to start working on ours. hey, it worked with us and democracy, right? if it’s good enough for us, it’s good enough for you, mr. iraqi-insurgent.

it doesn’t help that we are a country populated by the insensitive and hypocritical. these are the same upstanding citizens who voted for “moral values” in this country, yet they don’t seem to care what happens to the people that actually live in it. take this genius, for example:

“The pictures are so gross, but when you see it day after day you just get desensitized,” said Staci Singer, a stockbroker for TD Waterhouse, as she stood on Water Street last week, a few feet from Falun Gong demonstrators. “I just wish they’d go away.”

what a stupid bitch.

I’ll go out on a limb here and say the allegations are true. seriously, if you were getting your ass kicked for believing there’s a “spiritual wheel” in your tummy, would you want to talk about it? hell, half the rape victims in this country refuse to come forward. most people would rather just keep quiet and move on with their lives. trouble is, this is a spiritual, quasi-religious matter. you can’t convince people to give up their faith that easily, especially not if it’s guaranteed by the thing that those guys wrote in philly. you know, the one that arnold’s fans want to change.