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.
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.
Bao Feng has been cashing in on the prepper/meal team 6 crowd for years now. Their packaging just caught up.
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.
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
“John 3:16”
That’s Austin 3:16
Hell yeah!
- 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.
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.
If it’s any consolation, just think how much joy and laughter it’s created in Guangdong or wherever.
They know how pandering to political powers works.
why bible verse on a box, its very out of place why not somewhere else.
It is out of place, but it’s designed to pique human curiosity & get people to unwittingly Google Bible verses. Effortlessly spreading the gospel as they’re told to, fulfilling the Great Commission.
If I was a troll, I’d start putting the weird ones on like Jeremiah 10:1-4 or Deuteronomy 22:9.
You’re right, but I googled the wrong thing and googled John 4:16, which is “Jesus said ‘Go call your husband […]’” (It says more, but search cut it off there.)
I had a solid guffaw because these boxes are for 2-way radios. Then I realized that I googled the wrong thing and lost interest in continued research.
John 4,16 is actually : "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. "
But on the box the reference is actually 3,16:
"This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. "And John 14,6:
“Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
This is actually 1 John 3:16 (from the letters of John). John 3:16 (from the gospel according to) is actually:
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.
(Arguably the most famous new testament quote besides “Jesus wept”.)
Made in china, you dipshit flag-waving cucks.
christian woke… choke… coke?
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.
