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If you visited Google a few days ago, you may have noticed that the site comemorated the 25th anniversary of the creation of Tetris by having a Tetris-themed logo for the day.
Quite a few people were upset with this, claiming that Google was "anti-American" for choosing to recognise Tetris' anniversary rather than the anniversary of World War II's D-Day, which fell on the same day.
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While President Obama joined European leaders to commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day over the weekend, Google posted an icon to its popular search page to memorialize something else: Tetris, the video game where players configure various-sized blocks for points.
"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," wrote Warner Todd Huston of Newsbusters.org. "So what we have here is just one more example of Google's essentially anti-American policies."
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- Google Criticized as (escapistmagazine.com)
- Critics Say Google's Tetris Logo Was Unpatriotic (gameculture.com)
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Most recently commented on by on Jun 13, 2009
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While D-Day is definitely alot more important then Tetris, I have no idea what the critics were expecting Google to do. Have the logo spelt out in dead bodies, guns and fighter planes? That's hardly appropriate. It's not exctly something that can be shown through a logo design. People probably then would have complained about Google trivializing war, or something equally silly.
gg, GG
65 is 13/25ths which is not really one of those dates you make a point to mention.
simple... Plus D-day is remembered plenty. Tetris can have one ffs.
Want to know the funny thing? People are bitching because they didn't do it. If they did, people would complain because they did do it. If they did nothing, people would still cry about it. Sometimes you can't win.
You can't win.
Google still wins. The slow-news-day-US-24-hour media loses.
Regardless of your beliefs; if you disagree with war, then surely you'd want the day remembered, in order to stop something similar re-occuring. And on the other hand if you have pride in what they fought for, of course you'd want it remembered.
There's not really any excuse man, pacifist, hippy, nationalist, pro-war, anti-war, whoever you are, war needs to be remembered. The dead need be honoured.
You say we're "not free"; what would be your definition of freedom then? Bullshit man, you wanna get the picket lines going, you dont even know what it is you're protesting about. If those people hadnt fought for what they did, you would be locked up before you even thought about saying what you just said, dont you understand that? You would not be ALLOWED to air a difference of opinion. And you tell me we're not free? You have the freedom to live to the fullest, and yet at the same time you have the freedom to spit on our heroes, you have the freedom, to live in filth should you choose to, you even have the freedom, to turn around to the rest of the world and tell them to go *bleep* themselfs, and you still have the tenacity to tell me here, that we're not free? disgusting man. what more do you want? bloody free popsicles?
Bullshit. Of course they did it happily man. What greater pride is there than to die for your utmost cherished belief? What greater ideal is there than the protection of your nation; your people, your WORLD? Let me ask you something, imagine yourself, in that sort of situation. You may not be happy about being there, you may not be happy doing what you're doing. But imagine you take a bullet through the chest, and fall down dead. In that very last moment, that very last breath, would you not be elated, blissful at the fact that YOU have done something to protect what you hold dear? One less bullet that'll be fired upon an innocent. That you took that bullet in protection of the people; for the people, as a winner, instead of taking the bullet, as a loser, having done nothing to attempt to prevent it? They took those bullets so we dont have to. And what's trying to be done now, in our "oh so modern age", is that that pride, is trying to be stolen, taken from any and all of us. "It's wrong to honour the glory" they say. It's wrong to forget it, is what I say man. Where I come from man they still sing songs about people who fell 1000 years ago, and where I live now they spit on the heroes that march home. what a world man.
So you keep on whining about your "freedom" man. Only when someone comes along who TRULY takes your freedom from you, are you gonna genuinely understand what it means to be free. You wont know how good you've got it, till it's too late.
I have some respect for them, because I like to think we all just want to be free, but have different ideas of how to get there, or are too weak to try so we turn to other things.
Thing is, me and them have something in common -- I'd die for freedom, too, I just wouldn't kill for it. No one is that different -- the "enemy" wants freedom, too. Killing others is killing ourselves.
You can't expect people to put down their guns because you say it's the "right" thing to do. You cant expect people to just "allow" you to continue to live, or be free, that is absurd man. You have to take it upon yourself, to protect what you hold dear, or as I said, it'll be trampled on and forgotten. You have to be prepared for war, before you can ever think about peace; because for it to mean ANYTHING not to fight, you have to be ABLE to fight. Otherwise it's not a choice, and that there is the weakness. Because you can choose, always. You must have the power to do both, and then choose whichever is righteous.
This sort of trivial attitude to the gift that they give, the undermining of the importance that even ONE loss of life represents; frankly I'll be honest man, it disgusts me. Regardless of whether war is a cycle or progress or what ever other crap you're talking about, you have to aknowledge the fact that if those PEOPLE, hadnt fought, hadnt given their own lives, you wouldnt be here. Before you can put the guns down, you have to be holding one. Or else bang you'll be shot before you speak.
And still, I dont understand, what you mean by "free" in this context. WHat do you mean man, elaborate on that if just for my sake; you think we all "just want to be free", free how? How much more freedom can you attain? Bullshit man, you dont want freedom, you want ease. You want everything to just "happen" with none of the work. That's not freedom man. Thats stagnation. You either make things happen, or nothing happens. That is freedom. Fight for it, freedom is not free, as they say.
I never said anything about "right".
I think you have to be prepared for peace before you even think about war.
As kik said, free means different things to different people. For me, I would summarize it as "personal contentment", encompassing all aspects of life. What's your definition of free?
I don't know why you're attacking me when you know almost nothing about me, or why you expect anyone to listen to you with that approach. I consider myself far from complacent, and am disturbed by your notion that war is the only way to work toward freedom.
calmly, cooly, as civilily as possible; I'll say this. It IS TRUE, for as long as we make it so. If we start to doubt it, if we start to forget, if we start to allow people to disrespect it, then it'll no longer be true. But from my stand point, life is too important, to say that those people died for nothing. Or to say that they were anything less than Heroes. I dont mean to imply that you would insult the memory of your friends, I'd never over step that line man, thats something personal, people grieve in their own way. But from what you said there, it seemed disrespectful to the ideal of the soldier, to the memory of the thousands upon millionss of fallen that are faceless, nameless. No-one grieves for them man. Their only heritage is that they made the world we live in, possible, through their lives, through their deaths. I may begin to sound like a broken record here, I can appreciate that, but it doesnt seem to be getting across to people, the sheer IMPACT that it has. Nothing less than heroes man.
You know what mate, if only, is all i can say, if only. Unfortunatly, rather than die with a gun in my hand, Im forced to live with a knot in my gut. Barring some sort of world war 3 with a heavy need for physically ailed "cannon fodder" i dont think I'll be getting to see my share of the action any time soon man.
Again, there is no need for you to go into detail of service, I take your word for it and I appreciate that is something greatly personal man. But what everyone here does not seem to understand, is that I am saying, that its also a great honour. It rubs me the wrong way that people undermine the importance of this, or that people disrepect this; they disrespect the very people who are out there, protecting them; and at the SAME time, they EXPECT that protection as a given, or as their "right". And for you to say you did this service, and in the same breath condemn it, thats what I cant get my head round man.
as a cap to this, I'll say, we're all human beings man, we can shake hands, agree to disagree in this instance, but I will not allow anyone to disrespect those ideals, thats all I say. If you do not respect them, then respect ME instead and keep it to yourself.
A salute man, I salute your flag, I salute my flag, I salute my neighbours flag, I'll salute my enemy's flag so long as we're all fighting for justice.
And what about the support for the opposing soldiers? They died for their country just as much as anyone else in the war. For anyone to get this worked up over a website not honoring the "American" D-Day anniversary, is ludicrous. I say don't get worked up over all that crap and just remember for yourselves. Who really cares what the website was doing, and WTF does that site have to do with D-Day anyway?!
Before he died, I asked him what he thought of people that just don't agree with war, and he said he couldn't be happier to hear that. He said that he fought for the sole purpose of people being able to openly speak of their differing opinions, and after hearing that, he knew he succeeded in that fight.
Just think about it-- by trying to tell others how to think, act, etc. You're defeating the overall purpose of why they fought on that historic day.
So, rest in peace Uncle Lloyd, and rest in peace all of those who fought and died for our freedom.
....still <3 Tetris, though.
I agree -- I try to live by the belief that everyone should be able to live freely as they please, so long as they don't infringe on anyone elses right to the same, which includes forcing your beliefs on them. We all come from different sets of experiences..we're bound to be different..we're supposed to be different. I think that's something to celebrate rather than fight over.
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