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.
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
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.
Bao Feng has been cashing in on the prepper/meal team 6 crowd for years now. Their packaging just caught up.
“John 3:16”
That’s Austin 3:16
Hell yeah!
Study: Packages Sealed with ‘Atheist’ Tape 10 Times More Likely to Disappear
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.
That is an amazing little ad hoc study!
The word that pops up in my mind when i read this is “sabotage”
“Hence the word… sabotage.”
Fascinating case study. I hadn’t heard of this before.
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…
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.
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.
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.
Made in china, you dipshit flag-waving cucks.
- Pandering to conservatives
- Has the recycling logo
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.
christian woke… choke… coke?
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.
Can be truth or lie depending on the company.
Hell, I think the OG iPods w the clickwheel did too
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.
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.
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
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?
We need a distinctive and protected “Made in Canada” symbol.
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’s also printed on In-N-Out drink cups & Forever 21 plastic bags.
It is nearly always in the large crowds somewhere at sportball events.
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.
Ah, right down the Old Glory hole.
“Freedom”
/jk
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’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”.)
If I was a troll, I’d start putting the weird ones on like Jeremiah 10:1-4 or Deuteronomy 22:9.
