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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.
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.
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.
Am I missing something? What does your link provide that supports your claim?
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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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.
Study: Packages Sealed with ‘Atheist’ Tape 10 Times More Likely to Disappear
Fascinating case study. I hadn't heard of this before.
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.
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.
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.
Huh.. I bought from https://baofengtech.com/ not that long ago and didn’t have pandering boxes.. they are located in South Dakota so I guess I can’t say I am super surprised, just disappointed.
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.”
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.
Bao Feng has been cashing in on the prepper/meal team 6 crowd for years now. Their packaging just caught up.
Should've used "Make in PRC", conservatives would be too dumb to know what that means 🤣
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.
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.
