Bravo, Leica. What a great idea to celebrate mankind greatest achievements. To help you out, next something closer to your home. Anniversary of the rise of Third Reich. Silver-plated shooter encased in human skin in SS-black, bears an inscription of Adolf Hitler's favorite slogan. Throw in a free copy of "Mein Kampf", and to max out the gaudiness pack everything in a box made of bones (humans or animals? your choice). Irony beside: fuck you morons, whomever is behind that idea.
@machloja You forgot about the native americans. They should probably make a version with a bunch of indian bones and maybe a cool little teepee etching with flames and maybe another etching of smallpox infested blankets. yeah that would be an AWESOME version of the camera.
oh what's that? my comment totally ruined your portrayal of the world in black and white and US as good and everyone else as evil? my bad
@Kaitou KID haha, good points. Still, you can't deny that life in China aint as great as it is in the US right now. At least we have the right to talk bad about our government and demand reform. Try gettin away that over in China, lemme know how it goes...
@Kaitou KID Do you feel better about your self now that you can believe that you knocked another self-righteous American/westerner down a peg or two?
Seriously do you believe that those past wrong somehow puts the US on the same level of the Chinese government and their current regime of oppression? Don't get me wrong I'm in no way condemning, ignoring or minimizing what happened to the native peoples of North America (though not all of which was committed by what is now the US gov't); there are clear differences between between the two countries that are hard to ignore. Say what you will about the US, or believe whatever be it real or some crap you pulled of the web, but the there are freedoms that the US permits and guarantees that are simply not allowed in China. I know people like you will minimize freedom of speech, protest, religion etc., but these are real freedoms that people in the US enjoy and exercise even if foolishly. When you look at China these fundamental freedoms are limited or non-existent. One of the best modern examples is of course the Tienanmen Square incident, a protest that was brutally put down. Not only put down but actively denied and and events suppressed and minimized by said gov't (just try searching for it in china). Not to mention the daily suppression of free speech by the gov't and the "detaining" of people who disagree with the regime, or the gov't sponsored mistreatment, harassment, and massacre of Christians in the country.
While yes you can point to some misdeeds done by the US the big difference is they are not some secret or suppressed incident and is widely open to debate and criticism. The same cannot be said of China. Does that make the US good, well of course that can be debated but it does certainly make it far better.
@Brokinarrow Yeah in the US you can talk bad, if you are willing to be tased that is, or thrown in quantanamo and tortured, but yeah long live freedom of speech, make sure you tell the EFF too and the ACLU, but use a proxy because their communication is monitored by the glorious homeland security people and fraternizing with them puts you on the terrorist watch list.
@thinkindependent "massacre of Christians", yeah we now know your sources of 'information', and you ridicule people getting info from the internet? Yeah right.
You're right. China will never beat America when it comes to American standards.
I personally say we get an emperor and start a proper imperial dynasty, but I doubt the CIA would be nearly as willing to fund and train me as they do *certain other groups*.
Camera's still kinda ugly though, there's no denying that.
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Bravo, Leica. What a great idea to celebrate mankind greatest achievements. To help you out, next something closer to your home. Anniversary of the rise of Third Reich. Silver-plated shooter encased in human skin in SS-black, bears an inscription of Adolf Hitler's favorite slogan. Throw in a free copy of "Mein Kampf", and to max out the gaudiness pack everything in a box made of bones (humans or animals? your choice).
Irony beside: fuck you morons, whomever is behind that idea.
@machloja You forgot about the native americans. They should probably make a version with a bunch of indian bones and maybe a cool little teepee etching with flames and maybe another etching of smallpox infested blankets. yeah that would be an AWESOME version of the camera.
oh what's that? my comment totally ruined your portrayal of the world in black and white and US as good and everyone else as evil? my bad
@Kaitou KID haha, good points. Still, you can't deny that life in China aint as great as it is in the US right now. At least we have the right to talk bad about our government and demand reform. Try gettin away that over in China, lemme know how it goes...
@Kaitou KID Do you feel better about your self now that you can believe that you knocked another self-righteous American/westerner down a peg or two?
Seriously do you believe that those past wrong somehow puts the US on the same level of the Chinese government and their current regime of oppression? Don't get me wrong I'm in no way condemning, ignoring or minimizing what happened to the native peoples of North America (though not all of which was committed by what is now the US gov't); there are clear differences between between the two countries that are hard to ignore. Say what you will about the US, or believe whatever be it real or some crap you pulled of the web, but the there are freedoms that the US permits and guarantees that are simply not allowed in China. I know people like you will minimize freedom of speech, protest, religion etc., but these are real freedoms that people in the US enjoy and exercise even if foolishly. When you look at China these fundamental freedoms are limited or non-existent. One of the best modern examples is of course the Tienanmen Square incident, a protest that was brutally put down. Not only put down but actively denied and and events suppressed and minimized by said gov't (just try searching for it in china). Not to mention the daily suppression of free speech by the gov't and the "detaining" of people who disagree with the regime, or the gov't sponsored mistreatment, harassment, and massacre of Christians in the country.
While yes you can point to some misdeeds done by the US the big difference is they are not some secret or suppressed incident and is widely open to debate and criticism. The same cannot be said of China. Does that make the US good, well of course that can be debated but it does certainly make it far better.
@Brokinarrow
Yeah in the US you can talk bad, if you are willing to be tased that is, or thrown in quantanamo and tortured, but yeah long live freedom of speech, make sure you tell the EFF too and the ACLU, but use a proxy because their communication is monitored by the glorious homeland security people and fraternizing with them puts you on the terrorist watch list.
@thinkindependent
"massacre of Christians", yeah we now know your sources of 'information', and you ridicule people getting info from the internet? Yeah right.
@thinkindependent
You're right. China will never beat America when it comes to American standards.
I personally say we get an emperor and start a proper imperial dynasty, but I doubt the CIA would be nearly as willing to fund and train me as they do *certain other groups*.
Camera's still kinda ugly though, there's no denying that.
@meepmeep
Tiananmen Square.....Tiananmen Square.......