Nixon In China

Obā-san · 2012-02-08 22:23:24

The opera begins at Beijing Airport. A detachment of Chinese troops marches on to the stage and sings a 1930s Red Army song...

Viani · 2012-02-08 22:24:08

>10:00

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BUT THAT'S TOO LONG

[insert whywouldyoudothat.jpeg here]

Is it about richard nixon?

Misery · 2012-02-08 22:24:45

Sounds pretty interesting.

Idler · 2012-02-08 22:25:21

The guy who wrote this (amusingly sharing a name with a complete different president, John Adams) also wrote an opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Imipolex G · 2012-02-08 22:26:35

There is an old Vulcan proverb: "Only Nixon could go to China."

Obā-san · 2012-02-08 22:26:48

@ Tno: The music starts around the 4:50 mark.

Justice4243 · 2012-02-09 00:45:20

I once got in an internet argument about who was an eviler president, Nixon or Lincoln.

It was the stupidest thing I have every had the disprivilege of participating in, ever.

Obā-san · 2012-02-09 00:46:26

How is Lincoln evil? Were you arguing with a Stormfag?

Justice4243 · 2012-02-09 00:48:37

Not unless that's another name for Deathpigeon...

Also, he was evil because he suspended habeas corpus during the beginning of the Civil War.

Viani · 2012-02-09 00:51:38

I got into an argument on the minecraftforums about people "not caring/being indifferent to things they reply to when they say 'I dont care'".

It went on for around 5 pages, all with the guy I was talking to about the whole "I don't care" thing, quoting me, but erasing my post and replacing it with "worthless reply not even worth re-reading", and assenting that he did not care about the thread he was posting in, or the idea, but declaring that he is actively choosing to ease his boredom by replying to the thread and every post I make in it even though he vehemently restated that he doesn't care and that I am a waste of space and nothing I say is worth writing.

tl;dr

Travesty: I don't care about the balance of the game.
Nia: if you didn't care then why did you post?
Travesty: [worthless comment not worth quoting.] I can post in a thread and read the replies to it, but that doesn't mean I care about it.
Nia: If you really didn't care you wouldn't have need to reply at all and just completely disregarded this thread.
Travesty: [worthless comment not worth quoting in full context.] Everything you say is generally worthless, I don't know why you are even trying to sound like your opinion is worthwhile. I am Indifferent to the progress to this thread and seek to amuse myself by putting simple-minded individuals incapable of understanding higher reasonings like mine in their place.

and it goes on for a long time, and I really wish I never EVER replied to this asshole....T_T

He "didn't care" but continued to reply to my posts, and everyone else's posts with this kind of stuff.

Ace Rimmer · 2012-02-09 02:25:51

The only evil thing Nixon did according to my history book was to bug the DNC people in the Watergate hotel

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Obā-san · 2012-02-09 12:10:12

^^No, he didn't do it, but was involved in the cover up.

Justice4243 · 2012-02-09 14:41:22

He was also antisemitic and found of having his opponents bugged as well as using his Presidential powers to have various activist groups and individuals harassed by various government agencies.

He definitely comes off as more self-serving than most Presidents.

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