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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

There never was a rules-based order. There was just America, the imperialist empire that it is. There are no norms anymore. It's just bitches running wild.... And it kind of always was like this, really. It's just... the temperature is rising, and the events are accelerating. America, the Supreme Karen, is flailing about making a scene. She never worked on herself. And so all she can do is slap, bite, and scratch. As she falls into the abyss of her own self-awareness and Self-Hatred. So entering the stage is the kazoo man playing the national anthem trailing off, losing interest. You can hear the coughing in the audience and the crickets chirping as people are exiting out the back. A limp dick, a turd left in the bowl you flush and its legacy is the streak that is left. USAID is the CIA slush fund and charity is tyranny. A mechanism of colonizers. The world is a capitalist hellhole. War is used as a bludgeon to beat down the working class. These rich bitches might have an argument or two amongst themselves, but they understand their place in the hierarchy. They will join forces to get you to work for nothing. They all in on it. It is your kids not mine. So, I'm only gonna live so long, so it is what it is. Meh.... okey dokey in the hocus pokey and you turn yourself around and that's what it's all about. AOC and Bernie Scamturdz is gonna save us all! hahahhahahhaha. Oh Nancy! Oh Nancy! Where are you Nancy?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

You only need look away for the briefest moment and suddenly there is a fresh infestation of new copy pasta. Marvelous.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Too Long; Deranged Rant

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you forget how to spell?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I never understood this one. Why is the Red Cross so annoyed about videogames depicting the red cross to mean health?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The red cross sign has a very specific meaning and protection under international law. They don't want the symbol to be used outside of the agreed uses because they don't want that meaning, and consequently the protection it affords, to get muddled.

They also don't like when a red cross is used on a random first aid kit in the real world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What about on a country's flag?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

It's color-inversed and the countries flag was there first.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just start labeling health packs with the Swiss flag. Problem solved. 😌

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

That's how it often is.

Or the same thing in green.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

It is the Swiss flag... Because of Geneva and their pesky Conventions which they FORCED on everyone with their ARMY KNIVES

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Everyone is betting Tonga will not get itself into a war.

But if it hypothetically happened, I assume they would be pressured to use an alternative war flag by the international community.

On a more serious note, applying international laws against sovereign states is always more complicated than to enforce them against individuals and organizations operating inside of signatory states.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It is, genuinely, in the Geneva Conventions that nobody should use the red cross except for to designate medical staff and establishments that are protected under the conventions. The idea is to make sure that there is absolutely never any doubt that that symbol means anything else in order to minimise the risk to those people

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

nods and continues to use original doom wads with the red cross design for health pickups because the green one from BFG editions look like shit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

...And Johnson & Johnson.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Switzerland almost in trouble.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

(it's literally the Swiss cross)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

England blocked

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i look at this and nod. then i look at sponsored fortnite skins with the red cross and realize they dont give a fuck about that actually, theyre just greedy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't played Fortnite so I might be missing something, but glancing at screenshots and promotional stuff it looks like they're consistently using white on red instead of red on white

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

damn you right. fuck them anyway

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Not sure about everyone else but to me using an insanely popular game to fund global non-profit organisation is kinda a good way to raise money. It's really a weird hill to die on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

To add, the first time I heard about it was through the video game stuff. So if anything, I think we should view them going after game devs as a form of spreading awareness. When it hits headlines it makes it clear just how important it is to not use it in other contexts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah they have a legitimate case for defending the use of the symbol so aggressively and the best way to avoid is to use the green and white variant that is used on pretty much every first-aid kit sold.

Still has the desired effect for both parties.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

My biggest gripe with this is games that present a historical setting, such as World War 2 games. The Red Cross was all over the place during WW2. Saying game developers cannot ever use it under any context means that a game that wants to present historical accuracy would not be able to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Its pretty obvious to me.

The red cross, red crescent and red crystal emblems provide protection for military medical services and relief workers in armed conflicts.

Under no circumstance is it acceptable to create a situation where something could be mistakenly identified as being associated with the Red Cross. If it appears in the game it might appear on a publicly visible computer screen, poster, TV, etc and thats not acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

i think it has to do with trademarking law
if enough people use is to mean other stuff they can lose their trademark

edit: i looked it up and its called genericize

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I think they were worried about their branding being associated with violence. In the 90s, there was a ton of anti-video game propaganda branding it as violent garbage that was corrupting our children.

Ironically, video games are very good at conditioning human responses to iconography. So despite the Red Cross’ hostility, video games still succeeded in conditioning a lot of people to instantly associate plus signs (any color) with health.