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.
This might be weird but at 3-4 in the morning when I get off work and can’t sleep because I gotta take the kids to school in a couple hours, I day dream about some super power I acquire that allows me, in some form or another, to end the corruption, stop the wars, force every politician into a wage slave job.
Sometimes it’s teleportation and I scare the shit out of them enough to change their ways and fuck over their bank accounts everywhere. Sometimes it’s mind control. Sometimes it’s Jebus-like prophet bullshit.
Ultimately, I just want them to take all the money there is out there from us or in their coffers, and create the utopia we could have, or get close to, if the leaders or the world and those that pay them, didn’t fuck it up for all us little peons.
Then I wake up, rush around to put my house in some semblance of order before I go to work again, smile and laugh, whether I want to or not, for the legit people who struggle just as much as I do and tip me way too fucking much because they know it’ll put food in my kids’ bellies.
Most of them love Trump which hurts every fiber of my being. They’re still good people. They care, and they’re generous and kind. They will go out of their way for anyone, and I’m not exaggerating when I say this. It’s harder to handle them when there’s a dem in office because they never stfu about it and it riles me up having to listen to them but aside from the Punch and Judy indoctrination we’ve all succumbed to we’d agree on absolutely everything as long as you don’t use certain hot button phrases when you talk about it.
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.
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.
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.
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 vote for “orange-staining”
burger-washing
Hamburding
Burger-laundering
Hamburgling?
Spangle banging
On the first date?
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, indeed.
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.
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:
The bible verses are new to me
Didn’t even see that. And it’s coded so you actually have to pick up your cipher book! Or maybe it’s a dogwhistle and every christofascist worth their salt knows what it stands for.
The second. John 3:16 is a very popular verse in the Baptist crowd I grew up around in the 90s. I don’t think it’s any more a fascist dog whistle than a Jesus fish. YMMV on how christofascist that is.
Like, I never went to church and it’s ingrained in my brain from my classmates and reading bumper stickers.
I believe the exact verse is:
“And that’s the bottom line because Stone Cold said so.”
It is nearly always in the large crowds somewhere at sportball events.
It’s also printed on In-N-Out drink cups & Forever 21 plastic bags.
What a difference in where one grows up. I have never once heard about John 3:16 and I had no idea what it is. You learn something new every day, I guess
John 3:16 is an all-time well known verse. Only one I could say without looking it up.
Ezekiel 23:20
Got me through some hard times.
This is one of my personal favorites as well.
My friend likes to use Hebrews 16:4… Because Hebrews only has 13 chapters. She uses it as a sort of litmus test to see if people actually know what they’re talking about. Apparently everyone she mentions it to just starts talking about how it’s such a beautiful verse, and they like it too. She said I’m the only person who has ever called her out on the fact that her “favorite” verse doesn’t exist…
I’m an agnostic atheist, and she leads her bible study group. She always jokes that I studied my bible better than anyone in her study group.
I was walking through a gift shop at a museum and the mugs had an obnoxiously large sticker on the front that said ‘Decorated in the USA’. Never came across that before. They bought made in China mugs and slapped an image on them in the USA. I guess that’s slightly better than ‘Designed in the USA’ as some factory here actually did some printing.
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.
We need a distinctive and protected “Made in Canada” symbol.
Ah, right down the Old Glory hole.
“Freedom”
/jk
Study: Packages Sealed with ‘Atheist’ Tape 10 Times More Likely to Disappear
That is an amazing little ad hoc study!
Fascinating case study. I hadn’t heard of this before.
The word that pops up in my mind when i read this is “sabotage”
“Hence the word… sabotage.”
“What’s up with the USPS? Who knows”
Oh, they know.
Honestly, should send them with AirTags or similar hidden inside and track their progress - would easily get to the bottom of who the culprits are.
Just have the recipients of the shoes return successfully delivered tags in a replay paid envelope for a refund/credit.
Cardboard, great, versatile, recyclable.
Americans: dye it all black and produce it in china. Put som child diddler quotes on it and our stupid flag. Now it’s perfect
You bought it from the US distributor.
They buy the Chinese product and package it in their own package.
That’s really interesting! I had no idea, but I am not surprised.
Work a moment in the logistics world and you quickly realize our entire world is a fragile system of interconnected shipping lanes and if anything even touches it wrong millions of people will feel the impact or even suffer or potentially die.
That… Makes way too much sense actually.
Man you guys remember when that one straight got blocked.
Or when covid 19 hit.
She was so dummy thick she rerouted international trade for weeks
And that’s not ever a given.
Am I missing something? What does your link provide that supports your claim?
I can’t help you if you can’t read “B-Tech Distribution, Inc.”.
The screen shot is what I see from the link provided. Where do you see B-tech distribution? Or what am I doing wrong to not see where you are getting that from?
Seems you don’t see the captcha… try printing the page using the button and closing the print prompt. should see a captcha show up.
Edit: Here’s the content for you. Seems that loading the page directly somehow breaks the captcha… No idea why.
Edit2: and the full page with the URL in the bar so you see that the link is accurate… Just broke-dick site it seems.
Bao Feng has been cashing in on the prepper/meal team 6 crowd for years now. Their packaging just caught up.
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.
This bullshit is not from the well-known Chinese radio maker Baofeng (baofengradio.com) but rather from a US company called “BTech” which has the deceptive URL BaoFengTech.com.
Lol so we’ve finally hit the point of an American company trying to knock off a respected Chinese brand.
TIL there are knockoff Baofengs out there
I’ve had a UV-5R for over a decade now, and I’m just now learning of this. Mine didn’t come with any of the mossy oak black rifle coffee tactical sister fuck nonsense though.
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’
cries in goth girl
More options for you!
How do I get to cry in a goth girl?
“John 3:16”
That’s Austin 3:16
Hell yeah!
This has been going on basically forever. It’s false pandering. It’s technically true, a bunch of weak-wristed men sat in an office in Portland, Oregon and they “designed” this product. Then once they were done “designing” it, they sent the schematics off to China for production & ripping off of IP.
That’s the best case scenario. If it’s as Chinese-y as you say, maybe they modified one feature of a Chinese radio, slapped a couple Bible verses on the box…voilà, it was “designed in USA”. 😆
I don’t think there’s any legal basis for having “designed in” be truthful, where as “made in” is a requirement for the marking of country of origin for imports.
- Pandering to conservatives
- Has the recycling logo
Conservatives really like the recycling myth because it puts the onus of waste on the individual consumer instead of the corporations actually producing the waste.
If it’s any consolation, just think how much joy and laughter it’s created in Guangdong or wherever.
Almost just assumed it was meant to be a Thin Blue Line flag because of the colors.
Yeah. I have seen the monochromatic flag referred to as a “no quarter” flag, and initially wondered if that was the intent. Or maybe they just wanted to minimize colors to reduce printing costs.
monochromatic flag referred to as a “no quarter” flag
Intent or not, that’s what it is, the black flag or no quarter flag is one that states I will kill you dead even if you surrender.
Chuds think this means they’re tough manly men, what it really means is a declaration that they cannot be trusted with anything for any reason. It’s broadcasting to the world that you don’t intend to abide by any rules of engagement so it’s best to just blow you off the map pre-emptively. Flying this flag, even if you don’t even engage with an enemy, is itself a war crime according to the Hague conventions.
Most often seen on an Under Armor t-shirt with the word FREEDOM next to it.
If they wanted to minimize color/printing costs, they wouldn’t color the whole box black.
Don’t all iPhones have the same sentence on them?
No, they specify California. They ain’t getting some cheapo des Moines engineers
iPhones are actually designed in the US. My point is that the phrase is almost certainly a lie in this case.
The point they’re making us that every iPhone says “Designed in California, Made in China” on it, just like this product. “Designed in the US” means nothing if the vast majority of the actual production work is done in China.
Hell, I think the OG iPods w the clickwheel did too
Can be truth or lie depending on the company.
