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Product packaging pandering to conservative Americans

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.

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  • 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.

      • If they wanted to minimize color/printing costs, they wouldn't color the whole box black.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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