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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pretty sure coating the whole thing with black ink to make it look 'manly' makes recycling more difficult to.
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.
Bao Feng has been cashing in on the prepper/meal team 6 crowd for years now. Their packaging just caught up.
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
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.
Almost just assumed it was meant to be a Thin Blue Line flag because of the colors.
LMAO, this immediately made me think of a George Carlin bit, "That’s the reality; angry men in combat fatigues talking to God on a two-way radio and muttering incoherent slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment, especially after your stupid fcking economy collapses all around you and the terrorists come out of the woodwork and you’ll have anthrax in your water supply, and saran gas in your air conditioner, there’ll be chemical and biological suitcase bombs in every city and I say enjoy it, relax, enjoy the show, take a fcking chance, put a little fun in your life.”
Did you get a knockoff? www.baofengradio.com is the legit url that I've bought baofeng radios from, and I just checked the boxes; no flags or bible verses.
Another commented mentioned this is from a US distributor that repackages Baofeng products.
But to be honest, there are so many Baofeng/BTech radios for sale on the internet I was never confident about which were legit and which were knock-offs. I just went for it and hoped for the best. They seem to work fine, at least so far.
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.
Made in china, you dipshit flag-waving cucks.
Should've used "Make in PRC", conservatives would be too dumb to know what that means 🤣
you gotta hand it to the chinese, they know how to play americans like a guqin.
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.
As if conservative Americans have read the bible. They'd be the ones crucifying Jesus for being too "woke" if they knew what it was all about.
