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There's this weird overlap between the Moonies, The Epoch Times, and the American Far Right. I think the Shen Yun group is also involved. They'll all hard core anti-CCP and went far, far too into Authoritarian Capitalism as a result. The Moonies were the cult that Shinzo Abe had connections to and his assassin's mother gave all the family's money to.
If it wasn't all documented, I'd think it's a nonsense conspiracy theory. But it's true. The Moonies pop up with a weird number of attachments all over the GOP.
Abe's assassin's story already sounds like a work of fiction. A young man radicalized to the alt right because of his mother giving all his college money to a cult, only to find out that the same cult has ties to the alt right groups he was aligning himself with and changing course.
The Moonies themselves don't even look like a normal conspiracy group from a Bond movie or something. They look more like some parody from Kingsman.
The Moonies own DC's second newspaper, the Washington Times, which has a strong conservative streak.
TiL that Shen Yun isn't just an innocent performing arts show
Please elucidate. To me they are that weird Chinese outfit that comes through town every couple of years. I've never known anyone who has seen their act.
I've only seen billboards and tv advertisements and it seems kinda cool.
It's some kind of state-sponsored propaganda, but I don't know much more than that.