I bought some cheap Chinese 2-way radios. The packaging has a big American flag and a “Designed in U.S.A.” claim, which I suspect is bullshit given the company involved. Also, there are two Bible verses referenced. This smacks of pandering to a particular slice of conservative Americans. All I want is cheap radios for skiing with my kids next winter, not a reminder of my country’s socio-political bullshit.
Something not to order as a European.
not American. Explain why black and white strips are politically charged ?
The bible verses are so dumb lol
It doesn’t really mean anything, but conservatives parade it around alot. I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a black and white American flag. Maybe someone else is more knoweledgable.
knoweledgable
Well that’s a new one, thanks for the pain.
My spellcheck is broken, please bare with me.
Black and gray flags are used by the US military on some uniforms. Civilians also sometimes display them as “no quarter” flags, meaning the person displaying the flag will show no mercy to any perceived enemies. For both of these reasons the right-wing nationalist crowd likes them.
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Yeah it’s a bad rhetorical position to have backed ourselves into, but also yeah we’re certainly there. I think the 00s really did it with the flag waving support our troops leading to defense of torture and dismissal of war crimes. By that point it was hard to be proud to be an American and rather than join a national conversation about what we’d done, the right saw us recoil in horror and advanced. They screamed “love it or leave it” and asserted that America was the best. By the time the disaster of the war on terror really hit them they owned the cultural perception of “patriotism” and “America fuck yeah”. They then descended into conspiracy to explain it, the most recent contrapoints video was quite compelling on that discussion.
The left has been doing some work to reclaim it. Shermanposting is very much an example, but reclaiming national pride is hard in the face of a nationalist movement. Our history is such a mix of good and bad and when you’re committed to reality it’s hard to reclaim the flag waving position, especially when it’s gotten so bad your national value of liberty has become a fascist buzzword and the country has ruined most of its goodwill internationally.
Should’ve used “Make in PRC”, conservatives would be too dumb to know what that means 🤣
Nah its that foreign country Puerto Rico that we keep getting immigrants from. Almost as bad as the guamanians stealing jobs from our hardworking soldiers /s
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Hey, it’s hard to read a whole nine words. Probably fools a lot of them.
you gotta hand it to the chinese, they know how to play americans like a guqin.
Pretty sure coating the whole thing with black ink to make it look ‘manly’ makes recycling more difficult to.
black ink to make it look ‘manly’
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More options for you!
You could also see it as a form of greenwashing, making you think you’re buying local, and thus greener, if you don’t look closely.
We’re seeing this in Canada now too. Murcan products with a big maple leaf on them. Some stores are also slapping maple leafs on obviously Murcan products. We’re calling it Maple-washing.
I wonder what Murcans should call this OP example. Star-washing?
I’m used to ‘Packaged in the USA’ labeling on Made in [somewhere else] products. ‘Designed’…same-same, definitely since NAFTA, maybe before. The bible verses are new to me.
Right! So maybe “John-washing” cuz it’s all about the book of John.
yeah, the only one of the Beatitudes in Matthew they seem to like is the one where they get to adopt a persecution complex. The stuff about being meek and merciful is damned un-American.
I looked it up:
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
So you have to believe that he existed, but not follow his teachings cuz they’re too woke. Got it.
Genesis 19:31
Ezekiel 23:20
Judges 1:19
Genesis 19:31
Ezekiel 23:20
D:
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Spangle banging
On the first date?
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, indeed.
I vote for “orange-staining”
Burger-laundering
Hamburgling?
burger-washing
Hamburding
We need a distinctive and protected “Made in Canada” symbol.
“Freedom”
/jk
Ah, right down the Old Glory hole.
The elites don’t want you to know this but the flags of the USA are free you can put them on your packaging I have 458 flags.
I love when this happens so I know who to stop giving business.
I’m sure Baofengtech makes a version for liberals too, probably in a brown box marked as recyclable.
I’ve bought 15 Baofeng uv5r radios over the years… Every single one has been packed in a plain looking brown box marked recyclable
I think Baofeng might be one of the good ones.
Upvote for decent smartassery.
Lol you’re gonna run out of companies to buy from and have to live in the woods like a hermit. Every company does this, not matter how big or small.
Like… farmers are mostly conservstive and likely voted for a fascist, are you gonna stop buying food grown by farmers and grow your own?
The last time I made that decision it was over a dietary supplement. There is quite a bit of competition there. I guess if you are the one with a hot comodity you can shove Jesus and Hitler down everyone’s throat all you want.
They know how pandering to political powers works.
Chinese OEM resellers will print anything on the product and the packaging. It’s just another sale for them. Same guy probably sells it with ten different brandings and flags and quotes and slogans for different markets.
Bao Feng has been cashing in on the prepper/meal team 6 crowd for years now. Their packaging just caught up.
Christianity loves to pretend it’s still a downtrodden little secret society, with their sneaky Bible verses in tiny print and their fish symbols and such. It’s hilarious fantasy play, because they are a global hegemony and spend a lot of time persecuting others.
Oh man, I haven’t seen a fish symbol in a decade.
You know, you’re right.
Trump’s latest rambling about hoping he goes to heaven ends with his assertion that we need more religion in the US. The whole thing is hilarious but that last part especially so.
They have a persecution fetish. They want so bad to be oppressed. Or at least think they do…
Well, that’s because they literally turned religious persecution into a religious fetish (as in, the anthropological term “fetish”, definition 1).
It’s ingrained in Christianity so deeply that the official doctrine of the catholic church is that only those that die from religious persecution can intercede with God.
That’s the only way they know they’re being good Christian’s. If they aren’t being persecuted then they’re doing something wrong.
They think they are too.
They see anything other than absolute cultural dominance in all parts of the world to be persecution. I remember being told in catholic school as a kid how America wasn’t being very tolerant of Christianity because people would do fun things on Sunday mornings.
Like practice your religion as you want and I’ll do the same with mine, but part of religion is that it’s yours.
I think it’s funny that they put the verse on there, like I know what the fuck it says. I’m not looking it up.
Oh that is just QA engineer John, he stamped it at 3:16.
