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.
- Pandering to conservatives
- Has the recycling logo
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.
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.
Don’t all iPhone have the same sentence on them?
Hell, I think the OG iPods w the clickwheel did too
iPhones are actually designed in the US. My point is that the phrase is almost certainly a lie in this case.
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.
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 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.
Should’ve used “Make in PRC”, conservatives would be too dumb to know what that means 🤣
I was caught off guard when I initially saw it, but a Google search showed it for what it was.
If you feel compelled to hide the fact that you made something because you feel other people will look on in judgment, not buy your product…would this not compel the normal person to look inward & ask, “Are we the baddies?” 🤔
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.”
For fuck’s sake, just fucking say fuck! FUCK!
FUCK!
I just woke up and that’s how I feel at this moment. It’ll fade.
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?
Spangle banging
On the first date?
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, indeed.
Ah, right down the Old Glory hole.
I vote for “orange-staining”
Burger-laundering
Hamburgling?
burger-washing
Hamburding
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 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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
“Freedom”
/jk
not American. Explain why black and white strips are politically charged ?
The bible verses are so dumb lol
Black and gray flags are used by the US military on some uniforms. Civilians also sometimes display them as “no quarter” flags, meaning the person displaying the flag will show no mercy to any perceived enemies. For both of these reasons the right-wing nationalist crowd likes them.
The American flag is very politically charged atm. Honestly. By & large the left hates the American flag, see below “I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a B&W American flag”. They hate the flag displayed, and they hate the people who wear it.
This isn’t a new or fringe sentiment; see it in this 4 year old YT video.
The left has surrendered their claim to the American flag. A couple years ago there were some TikTok videos saying “if there was an American flag at their house they some racist ass white motherfuckers”.
Here’s a woman appearing to bemoan that fact, saying that we’re all Americans & all should fly the flag.
It doesn’t really mean anything, but conservatives parade it around alot. I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a black and white American flag. Maybe someone else is more knoweledgable.
knoweledgable
Well that’s a new one, thanks for the pain.
My spellcheck is broken, please bare with me.
I can’t believe this wasn’t a satire project by some artist.
Weird, because baofeng is such an American name. Definitely designed in USA.
Ah wait. They mention package designed in USA. Yes that is totally believable. And then a unique color theme for the American version.
Something not to order as a European.
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.
She was so dummy thick she rerouted international trade for weeks
And that’s not ever a given.
Am I missing something? What does your link provide that supports your claim?
I can’t help you if you can’t read “B-Tech Distribution, Inc.”.
The screen shot is what I see from the link provided. Where do you see B-tech distribution? Or what am I doing wrong to not see where you are getting that from?
Seems you don’t see the captcha… try printing the page using the button and closing the print prompt. should see a captcha show up.
Edit: Here’s the content for you. Seems that loading the page directly somehow breaks the captcha… No idea why.
Edit2: and the full page with the URL in the bar so you see that the link is accurate… Just broke-dick site it seems.
