Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo
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The most hilarity comes from the American thought process. If somebody/something doesn't celebrate the holiday at the top of it's lungs and kiss the USA's ass all day long, that must mean they are completely opposed to and an enemy of the country, right? I mean, it's impossible for every individual at Google to have a silent opinion on the tragedy, but then as a company just get on with it. I seriously doubt that everybody at Google is American, so why create an image to represent the company that half the employees cannot identify with? Everybody identifies with Tetris. Put some happiness out there and get a backlash from overly patriotic idiots. What a world it is.
We're supposed to celebrate war? Hmmm... Missed that memo. I swore that war was a bad thing. Oh well, if we're going to celebrate; Woohoo troops in Iraq, forcing the country into a democracy (basically) against their will.
"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free! And I won't forget the men who died to give that right to me! I'd gladly stand up next you..."
Yeah, I don't know the rest of the song or if that is even right.
Stupid country... Patriotism has all but killed us you lousy, media-washed twits.
"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free! And I won't forget the men who died to give that right to me! I'd gladly stand up next you..."
Yeah, I don't know the rest of the song or if that is even right.
Stupid country... Patriotism has all but killed us you lousy, media-washed twits.
If they had actually wanted to have a tribute to D-Day, surely they could have asked Google to create a sign to commemorate it. To call Google "Anti-American" for this is ridiculous, and as others have said; It's better to see something being commemorated in happiness than to be saddened by a tribute to a war.
I like the fact that they seem to be making D-day out as if it where some kind of US only mission. Also I think that google made the right choice in this one, after all google has always about the the more intellectual side of the world.
So the whole BIG event in France wasn't ENOUGH for you?
God nobody gave any love to Tetris and somebody remembered. Kudos to you Google, you win a bit of my heart.
Also, Anti-American?
Oh yeah sure, there weren't any British or Canadian troops on Normandy at all, no sir. The French President said so and it can't be because he's an arrogant ****.
God nobody gave any love to Tetris and somebody remembered. Kudos to you Google, you win a bit of my heart.
Also, Anti-American?
Oh yeah sure, there weren't any British or Canadian troops on Normandy at all, no sir. The French President said so and it can't be because he's an arrogant ****.
Not that I can see anything wrong with arguing over the nationalities of dead men, but there were quite a lot of Germans there too, and why does it matter? D-day is a memory that belongs to humanity, not a specific nation.
And forcing people to commemorate it kind of misses the point of commemorating in the first place. Google is a search engine on teh intarwebs i'm pretty sure they can get topical and commemorate something techy. Incidentally what nationality is Tetris? Because we wouldn't want to be anti-them either.
And forcing people to commemorate it kind of misses the point of commemorating in the first place. Google is a search engine on teh intarwebs i'm pretty sure they can get topical and commemorate something techy. Incidentally what nationality is Tetris? Because we wouldn't want to be anti-them either.
We all know this is stupid. (Protip for everyone outside America: you can't criticize us all for anything with the words, "Conservative" "Southern" or "Christian" attached to it. They don't count, there basically just really, really loud and dumb. About everything. We would rather not be lumped in the same category as them. Gross over generalization over) One thing I'm wondering is how would Google commemorate D Day in some stylized icons on its front page? Pools of blood for the O's? I'm really not sure there is a tasteful way to represent it, even if they wanted to. People from that side of the political fence have this creepy obsession of memorializing every single thing they can manage, and then value the memorial way more then the thing itself. They freak out about flag lapel pins and other superfluous nonsense. So to all the people saying American are dumb, let me tell you that were not any dumber then any other country in the world. Our dumb people are just very good at being very loud.
The American right; labouring long and hard to foster anti-Americanism around the world since, well, 1812 at least.
-- Steve
-- Steve
Must I say thats because the Americans dropped the ball on there navigation and intelligence, number of casualty does not equal effectiveness, just look at the battle of the Somme.BudZer said:
But yeah this entire thing is just stupid, google can do whatever the hell it wants, and how exactly would they have celebrated war, some nice dead bodies, perhaps a friendly looking soilder killing a Nazi?
