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China Rebrands With... Death Star 2.0?

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

China launched its plan for world domination on Friday with a swarm of drummers, dancers and flying levitating corporate logos meant to hypnotize every human on the planet.

Billed “One World, One Dream” by the time they beat us into submission with their 18000-strong storm trooper synchronized drumming, the planet was too enraptured to worry about the Death Star rising from the stadium depths.

Not to be left out, global corporations will play a major role in the New World Order. Telecom giant AT&T is limiting communications, Google is censoring the Internet, and Nike will expand its program to enslave our young people.  Nike has also struck a deal to finally outfit the global population with those silver jumpsuits we were promised so many decades ago.

Our world leaders were also on hand to grace China’s takeover. President Bush and others waved feebly to our nation’s young elites as they marched proudly to their doom dressed as, well, our nation’s young elites.

To ensure complete submission, event organizers even enlisted the Voice of God to give His blessing and reassure the masses of our Dear Leader’s Benevolence. It is hoped that with so much entertainment the world will not pay too much attention phase II of “One World One Dream", which began simultaneously with much less fanfare but just as many fireworks in Georgia.

With this New World Order in place China is also hoping to expand its prison, science and citizen disappearance programs, which in the least would give our local Bodies exhibit a little more variety.  

Photo via Dead Spin.

-written by Byron Dafoe, who is filling in for Verena this week

 

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mandy said:

on the one hand this strikes me as a xenophobic post -

on the other hand it might not be too far off.

August 11, 2008 12:39 PM

somekindofasian said:

Xenophobic: true. Not far off: true.

There ARE Chinese people who read this, and frankly, we're kind of jealous of some Americans' hypocritical smugness. Damn. Kind of analogous to how jealous America is of our glow-in-the dark suits with light bulbs on them. Yeah. I went there.

Meanwhile, I love how the completely culturally uneducated commentator said that a dancer's headpiece was "Indian" and that children were being surrounded by Tai Chi masters doing "karate". Sexy.

August 11, 2008 2:11 PM

jamestown said:

Don't think it's xenophobic as I'm sure Dark Knight Cheney is right there with 'em.  We've seen it again and again and this only makes the case: the powers that be are only interested in "democracy" insofar as it promotes and enables capitalism.

Should authoritative state-capitalism work better than why not?

but it's not as those China would reign such a dark world alone.

August 11, 2008 2:51 PM

fanboy compulsivecorrector said:

Shouldn't that be Death Star 3.0?

August 12, 2008 11:32 AM

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Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Hooksexup, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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Emily Farris writes about culture and food for numerous publications and websites you've probably never heard of, including her own blog eefers. Her first cookbook, Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven was published in 2008. Emily recently escaped New York and now lives in a ridiculously large apartment in Kansas City, MO with her cat, but just one... so far.

Brian Fairbanks is a filmmaker living in the wilds of Brooklyn. He previously wrote for the Hartford Courant and Gawker. He won the Williamsburg Spelling Bee once. He loves cats, women with guns, and burning books.

Colleen Kane has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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