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Make's me really sad to be an American. | |
Yes, why remember something that brought joy to the hearts of children and adults everywhere when we can remember the day all those people died on a beach... Honestly if the people feel they need a google image to properly pay tribute to something, they probably didn't care much in the first place. | |
Hey Todd; Perhaps you've heard, Google's audience consists of more techies and people from outside of America than vets. This whole internet thingy? Turns out it's international to! Bloody commies. | |
My typical response to this kind of crap: Who cares? More importantly, what were they supposed to do? Use the corpses of soldiers to arrange their letters? | |
Must i say that half the troops in normandy were british/canadian. | |
Goddamn assholes. Maybe people like to think of joyous times with a great game than a invasion that had hundreds of deaths associated with it. | |
It actually does warm my heart. I would rather see something cheerful then something deppressing, always. | |
Same here. | |
*Insert half arsed joke about Americans being late for every war* | |
Some people need to get a life... I'd prefer Tetris than 'Google' spelt out in dead bodies of people on a beach for fuck sake. | |
WHAT. Seriously? Who gives a shit. | |
*reads* *walks away to grab cup of coffee* *takes a sip* *reads again* *spits out coffee* WHAT THE HELL! | |
Why would you want a D-Day logo for google, war's just depressing. | |
Wow, America is just like Nazi Germany... Edit, how would you even do a Google image for that? | |
Somehow I knew that America would take offence to that. Today Google is Anti American, Tomorrow Google is a terrorist. It's all just silly. | |
It's just journalists trying to make names for themselves by being pretentious jackasses. | |
Un-American so all the British, Canadian etc. Soldiers yeah they just weren't their thats part of the fairy tales to make the other nations feel important. Get off you high horse America, may be uncaring or whatever but to say un-american well thats just stupid in my opinion. | |
Fuck I hate my country sometimes.. | |
One was sixty-five years ago, the other twenty-five. For how long should we remember the honoured fallen? "A man is not dead while his name's still spoken." Let them go to their rightful rest. | |
You would think that would be any sane person's rational thought process. Sometimes I wonder just how true your username can be... | |
I am going to say... Meh. | |
It's weird isn't it? | |
Is that not more....anti-France? If anti-anything. | |
I'm wondering how they would commemorate D-Day with the Google logo. Maybe create the logo out of blodd stained corpses. Nazi corpses, to show how glorious the war was because we won. I know it's been said before but I'll say it again: | |
God, get a grip. It's not like they celebrate tetris every year. It's just that 25th is a much more signifigant anniversery than 65th. | |
Why didn't they create a mock of Tetris: WWII Edition? | |
Tetris > People dieing right? Ssh, lalalala I can't hear you explaining the origin of Tetris. | |
That was the point where he lost all credibility and coincidentally the point where I stopped caring.
And you are similarly stupid to blame all of America when it's just My bad. Apparently, it's two. | |
I third this. | |
You aren't alone. Seriously. This is a message to every American who still cares about this kind of crap (I know most people on here don't. Show this to the next person who does care!); Get. Over. World. War. Two. You turned up late and have spent the last six decades overstating your importance in it while everyone else is trying to move on. I'll give you an analogy; When I turn up late for college, I don't spend the next month telling everyone that I made a comment that our tutor said was a "good point"... | |
Fuck. More idiots that get attention. Shield your eyes! This is really what the world has to fear. | |
And stupidity proves its existence again! Let me hear if for stupidity! Yay for stupidity! | |
Fucking American government. I like Americans, but I hate America if that makes sense. It's Anti-American, ay'? What about all the English troops? And for that matter, surely this is shaming the soldiers. They didn't get in the war for props, they got in the war to protect their country. I doubt they'd care if they weren't part of a banner for a website. | |
Hahah this is hilarious. | |
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Google Criticized as "Anti-American" for Tetris Logo
Google has been criticized as "anti-American" for using a Tetris-style logo to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the famed videogame rather than marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Political leaders gathered in France this weekend to mark the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history that set the stage for the eventual end of the Second World War. Google, however, chose to commemorate a somewhat more nerdy birthday that just happened to fall around the same date: The 25th anniversary of the creation of Tetris, one of the most popular and enduring videogames ever made.
But Google's whimsical choice has left some observers unhappy. "Here we are on June 6, 2009 and, in its inimitable way, Google has decided to memorialize the important occasion by adding an image on its homepage depicting... the computer game Tetris," conservative columnist Warner Todd Huston wrote on NewsBusters.org. "Yes, it's far more important to Google to celebrate the anniversary of the invention of the video game Tetris than to memorialize D-Day. It just warms the heart, doesn't it?"
"I have to say, though, that this is no departure for Google, a firm that finds it nearly impossible to post images celebrating any American holidays or important milestones in American history," he continued. "So, what we have here is just one more example of Google's essentially anti-American policies."
Google also took heat from WorldNetDaily writer Drew Zahn, who said that Google has "a history of ignoring major American patriotic and religious holidays." He further noted that while company representative Sunny Gettinger said in 2007 that the special logos "tend to be lighthearted and often scientific in nature," Google has in the past used poppies to mark Remembrance Day and honor the war dead of Canada, Australia, Ireland and the U.K.
via: GameCulture
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