• MissJinx@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    American flip flops? Everyone knows the most powerful flip flops come from latin american moms.

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    7 hours ago

    Can someone explain it to me? I don’t understand the joke.

    Do they mean that trump flip flops all over the place with changing his decisions daily?

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        5 hours ago

        any country that invades mainland US is gonna be erased from reality. it’s funny for a second until I remember how many millions of innocent deaths that would mean

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        10 hours ago

        I think they’ll need to have a bit of a clear out first to make it more appealing to the imperialists.

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    No offense but Rainbow sandals are made in San Clemente California and are the best made sandals one can buy. Like no joke, they are as close to wearing a fully supported shoe as possible for a toe thong sandal. They will last like a high quality shoe, and far longer than the average tennis shoe or sneaker does now. I wore a pair daily for nearly ten years straight as my main shoes. Rainbow sandals have always been the educated consumer’s go-to choice and are far cheaper than the junk most people buy ten times over in the same span of time.

    It is not that Chinese friends are unable to make the exact same quality or better than Rainbow’s. We are all the same humans. The only differences between all of us emerge from spurious nonsense of upper societal castes. Dichotomous logic implies idiocy or malevolence from both canaille or interlocutor. The Chinese are tooled to make the junk (mostly) companies and occasionally consumers-directly demand in any range of quality or compromise without concern about the ethics of the company or motivations of the individual. In other words, the Chinese do not judge you for being a stupid miser or unethical hack with your money; because the money for goods is the only relevant transaction. If you want to be exploited or buy disposable junk, those are your ethics and problem. Those that spin this narrative in a racist light are criminals. I’m just a redneck white boy from Alabama, so what do I know. Think for yourself. Do not follow the piper’s music.

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      I love my Rainbows. They’re great.

      FYI, most of their sandals are made in China now because of their limited production capacity.

      You have to look for the “USA” mark in the middle of the sole at their factory store for their locally made sandals. Online orders don’t allow you to specify a country of origin.

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      8 hours ago

      Do they also sell vegan shoes/sandals? Not sure I’d afford shipping to Germany, but if I tried to buy some, I couldn’t since all of them seem to be made of leather

      • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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        It is a rather small and very old family business. They only make and sell the one product, that I am aware of. The whole thing is in a building smaller than a typical low income house for a family of 4.

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      19 hours ago

      ( the joke is not that these are low quality, but they are assembled wrong; Chinese embassy is calling Americans dumb )

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    19 hours ago

    This could have been effective. Instead they chose to showcase a thing which gets manufactured everywhere in the world. Media literacy is dead, god help us.

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        You’re the one completely missing here. This meme is ineffective because flip flops are manufactured everywhere and nobody screws them up. So what could have been a slam dunk here is more like OP slamming their forehead on the rim. Anyone who doesn’t have their head up their ass or zero clue about how reality works see this and just thinks “nah that’s fake” and they’re correct in saying that media literacy is dead because this is getting way more genuine engagement than rock bottom low effort propaganda should get.

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          Anyone … see this and just thinks “nah that’s fake”

          You’re being thick headed.

          Most people look at that and go “haha, they’re making a joke at America’s expense”.

          The image being fake is irrelevant, it’s just a prop to setup the joke.

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    22 hours ago

    They totally forgot to add the “Made In China” label on those flop-flips. Come on Chinese Embassy! If you’re gonna show off your own failures and pass them off as our own, you gotta show actual US products!

    I’d tell them to man up, but I don’t make fun of minors or those with the mental age if a minor.

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    23 hours ago

    Aamericans tend to over engineer, an approach which in many cases can be very desirable, but in this case would result in 1 inch thick of the heaviest rubber, with a tread, with a leather covering for entire foot, up to over the ankle, and the whole thing held together with shoelaces.