Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo

[A Username Not In Use]

Your missing the main point. This is not about remembering the begining of the liberation of Western Europe, oh no, this is about Google promoting a product of Communist Russia, dame reds

 

[systhicsfg]

Must i say that half the troops in normandy were british/canadian.

Actually the casualties were mainly from the US, as their artillery didn't clear the beaches as the UK did, so had to throw meat at the cannons until they were tired.

LISTEN TO ME. It's because they didn't use funnies. For explanation see my earlier post. Historical inaccuracies make me angry.

 

[xdiesp]

LISTEN TO ME. It's because they didn't use funnies. For explanation see my earlier post. Historical inaccuracies make me angry.

Dude you're not the only guy with History channel.

 

[systhicsfg]

THEN STOP SAYING WRONG STUFF. Also Fox is for fools.

 

[Spirit_Of_Fire]

I do think that something should of been done, but what would they use to make the letters?

 

[Fergi]

If i make enought of stink anyone think the American press would complain about my birthday not being mention on the google logo ?

 

[systhicsfg]

http://www.geocities.com/britsatwar/funnies.html

"These were very useful on D day and if the Americans had not refused to use them on D-Day, they would not have had so many casualties on Omaha"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%27s_Funnies

BLAM

Eat your words. EAT THEM!!

Um did you even read your article? It says right in there that we DID use them but not many made it to shore because of the heavy defenses.

And I quote "Sadly, at Omaha beach, only a few of the DD tanks reached the beach as they were launched out of the landing craft too far offshore as the Coxswains of the landing craft feared that if they got too close to the beach, they would hit a mine or be attacked by German Artillery or machine gun fire."

Now I'm not saying they wouldn't have prevented loss. I'm just saying that the beach was heavily fortified and getting them there was very hard.

They used only a few, these were mismanaged, and once again luck was against them. If they had taken up the Brits offer for tons more they would have done better

 

[Sayvara]

Nine and half pages of pages of discussion just because some two-bit columinsts happened to say something utterly ignorable.

Who are being the oversensitive ones here, hm?

/S

 

[Bluebacon]

Considering it wasn't even the bloodiest battle by far with about 10,000 casualties (people killed, wounded, missing or captured) with 6,600 US casualties and 2700 Brtish Empire casualties, it was relatively minor in terms of troops lost compared to the two Batlles of El Alamein with about 26,500 Allied casualties put together, and absolutely nothing compared to the Allied losses during the Battle of Stalingrad with over 1,000,000 casualities; the fact that the men who died at this battle get most of the attention while those who died at other battles are not remembered as well is quite sad.

I appreciate that it is the anniversary of the Normandy Landings, but you can't deny that they are one of the most well remembered events of the Second World War despite that fact that those other battles were extremely important too.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

writer Drew Zahn, who said that Google has "a history of ignoring major American patriotic and religious holidays."

And let's face it, it's every person's duty to respect patriotism/religion.

Uhhh....hold on?

 

[Sigenrecht]

Saw "conservative columnist" and instantly decided to care even less than I had before.

 

[dannyboi1236]

who give's a shit i think that saying something is anti american is being idiotically patriotic, what about other countries and as i remember google is an international company.

 

[Dommyboy]

Wait, what the hell? Does this really matter anyway and Google is American though not that it matters much but I doubt an American founded company is going to be Anti-American.

 

[Valiard]

Google is an internation search engine, yes the company is based in america and yes the founders themselves are american, but that does not mean they need to bash it into everyone elses face, its kinda intresting to find out about other holidays ya know?

 

[Vrex360]

Isn't everyone anti American now anyway?

 

[ThePeaceFrog]

If we need a pointless memorial than i think we should go for Operation Bagration. It was timed by the Russians to coincide with D-Day but as opposed to a petty 160,000 soldiers landing, it comprised of 1,250,000 soldiers jumping on the German Army Group Center and turning it into a highly nutritious mulch, now thats how to attack.

 

[Inco]

Isn't everyone anti American now anyway?

No, its just more 'anti American Patriotism' cause thats the stuff that gets shoved down our throats by the minority of the US. Being Anti American means that we would be against all of em, and from my memory, some of em are quite cool.

But to the point, if we didnt have stupid, ignorant commanders in the Armed forces (any country) we would have much less remembrance days. (Gallipoli is a good example for another country.)

 

[Lord Krunk]

65 years of some battle I've never heard of, as opposed to the silver anniversary of the greatest game of all time? These critics are stupid.

 

[dannyboi1236]

Isn't everyone anti American now anyway?

No, its just more 'anti American Patriotism' cause thats the stuff that gets shoved down our throats by the minority of the US. Being Anti American means that we would be against all of em, and from my memory, some of em are quite cool.

But to the point, if we didnt have stupid, ignorant commanders in the Armed forces (any country) we would have much less remembrance days. (Gallipoli is a good example for another country.)

totally agree,i am from newzealand and and on anzac day ( when we remember the gallipoli attacks) i was listining to the radio and they were making alot of jokes about it and frankly it doesnt really matter , isnt it better to make someone smile then feel sad.