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Speaking of LEGO, I went to the Alcatraz tour in SF and they had an amazing lego mural on the floor consisting of the faces of important civil disobedience acti

Speaking of LEGO, I went to the Alcatraz tour in SF and they had an amazing lego mural on the floor consisting of the faces of important civil disobedience activists. It was done by Ay Weiwei remotely from his home in China (he's under house arrest). Not the same one, but similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2dzAdK1s3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2dzAdK1s3E

flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
Ai Weiwei has been happily living in Germany since 2015, FYI! [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Release
- kabes 7y ago
  He's living in Cambridge now. I read an interview last year where he talked about moving out of Germany since it was 'no longer open to other cultures'. Strangely enough his plan at the time was to move to the USA during Trump administration. Looks like he decided to move to another country under a nationalist/protectionist government to find his openness towards other cultures...
  - mschuster91 7y ago
    Or he decided to move to a country that is not caving to China. Germany bows over backwards to China (still haven't banned Huawei or done anything meaningful regarding the Muslim Gulags), not to mention the "nazi emergency" that Dresden recently declared or how Germany allows China to gobble up companies left and right. Meanwhile, UK is certainly not going to hand him over to China, and the US under Trump is going openly offensive against China as well. I despise both Trump and BoJo, but the only way left to deal with China is massive international sanctions, blockades or outright war.
    - irrational 7y ago
      https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50302762 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50302762
    - Tepix 7y ago
      Why would they ban Huawei? Because Trumps wants them to?
    - kabes 7y ago
      Sure, but then why wouldn't he say so? It's not like he likes Chinese government very much, so why would he present it as a racism issue? It's almost the opposite...

flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago

Ai Weiwei has been happily living in Germany since 2015, FYI! [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Release https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei#Release

kabes 7y ago
He's living in Cambridge now. I read an interview last year where he talked about moving out of Germany since it was 'no longer open to other cultures'. Strangely enough his plan at the time was to move to the USA during Trump administration. Looks like he decided to move to another country under a nationalist/protectionist government to find his openness towards other cultures...
- mschuster91 7y ago
  Or he decided to move to a country that is not caving to China. Germany bows over backwards to China (still haven't banned Huawei or done anything meaningful regarding the Muslim Gulags), not to mention the "nazi emergency" that Dresden recently declared or how Germany allows China to gobble up companies left and right. Meanwhile, UK is certainly not going to hand him over to China, and the US under Trump is going openly offensive against China as well. I despise both Trump and BoJo, but the only way left to deal with China is massive international sanctions, blockades or outright war.
  - irrational 7y ago
    https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50302762 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50302762
  - Tepix 7y ago
    Why would they ban Huawei? Because Trumps wants them to?
  - kabes 7y ago
    Sure, but then why wouldn't he say so? It's not like he likes Chinese government very much, so why would he present it as a racism issue? It's almost the opposite...