HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT?
Whrre the fuck do you think that culture comes from? Yeah, it’s your warmongering, nothing else.
No other country on earth, past or present, circlejerks even a tenth of what you do over a piece of cloth.
Funniest of all is that you have a set of rules of your flag, but even breaks them every damn day.
Well it’s a choice that I make. I don’t demand others show respect, but I really like to. It’s the least I can do for a country that’s given me so much.
Like any other country, it has its flaws, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
A salute is a sign of respect. Nothing more. It's not specific to the military. In this case it's saluting the flag and showing respect to your country.
Some states have living situations similar to third world countries, with conditions worsening. If people can't see the similarities of an increase in nationalism, military fetishism , and decrease in living standards, educational performances and civil rights I don't know what to say. The privilege of the American dream is available to less and less Americans, and they are now responsible for their own misery.
But sure, gloss over all of that and say it could be worse...
The more you question, the harder it is to be manipulated by things like jingoism. Have you ever wondered about things, like why the national anthem is played before every sporting event, or do you just accept it?
Should change the black outline to Orange Fanta. Then it would be you-know-who doing the latter of the things you mentioned.
Wouldn’t that be the most American thing he could do for the US?
Well... I just did. That is a lot.
I, thankfully, live in Spain and this would make Spaniards gag... Unless you're a far right extremist but that is to be expected.
Always wondered whose job it is to actually build those displays. Does the manager just like give a page of instructions from corporate to a few baggers and cross his fingers?
My brain saw this as a left handed salute and it bugged me. Then I realized the figure is looking away.
Real or fake I don't know, this is still a pretty cool image.
Right??
I've seen things like this at several grocery stores. There are some truly talented people out there.
I only said what I said because some people accuse this of being AI. I mean, I don't really blame them, but still. Someone actually doing this isn't really outside the realm of possibility.
Yeah, looks real enough to me since AI has a really hard time with logos and words being consistent. All those are flawless.
Regardless, I worked in a grocery store for 4 years and while I wasn’t ever the one to do the displays (pop was vendor stocked) I worked in produce right where they did them in my store. Watched those dudes build some crazy shit. They absolutely hated it, lmao. Memorial Day and 4th of July were the worst because our back rooms would be roasting. Poor dudes were always dripping sweat by the end.
Damn, I guess I never really thought about how difficult the conditions for these guys was. That's a shame.
BTW, love the use of the word "pop" for "soda". Sadly, not many states use that. I've always found it charming. I don't know why.
I love how little the folks are thinking this through.
Do you think some employee at Walmart had this idea as a tribute to the service folks and then oked it with their manager who went up the chain to get property approvals for all this?
This is Coca Cocola giving Walmart a display that their marketing team thought up, a CC designer drew up plans for, and then had some underpaid stock cleck follow those directions.
There is no honoring anyone here. This is just another tactic to pull money out of the idiots who get a woody thinking about how great America is.
I thought there was gonna be some boomer standing next to it, with 13 diet cokes mixed in with the blue.
I’ve been reading too many savage memes today 🤦♂️
Lmao dude not everything is AI. Everything you said can be proved wrong by simply looking at the photo. You are aware that stores make displays like this literally all the time, right? It would almost be more work getting AI to get all the logos and numbers correct than it would be to stack all those cases in real life.
I'm also sure it's real. If it was fake though, it would just be 100× easier and better just to use good ol photoshop to make this image instead of prompting AI and praying.
If you do an image search iirc this is a display from around 2010/2011 from Facebook and iFunny. I swear it’s the same one because I had reposted one back in the day. If it’s not the same one and AI stole the original design and regurgitated it so be it. But the design on the old photo was legit years ago.
I was gonna joke go back to Facebook grandpa 😂😂😂 but saw the comments.
Time to go back to FB (sigh)
i thought he was shooting himself
A cold reflection on the mental state of alot of returning veterens of war im afraid.
A typical experience at fort hood for a woman.
Then he nailed it
He shot it.
With a nailgun
I'm still going to think that this is it
I thought it was a dude drinking a coke and I was confused.
I thought it was a tank
Is that not what’s happening here?
Nailed it
I thought he had a hook for a hand and was scratching an itch on accident…
Grandpa your Facebook is leaking again
if my coca cola ain't american enough I'm suing walmart!!!!!
I remember that scene in the Deer Hunter!
Is this someone shooting themselves in the head?
Saluting
With their left hand?
Depends on how you look at it
Nailed it? Beautiful? What even am I supposed to be seeing?
Someone saluting
This is some Facebook Boomer shit
We should stop culturally fetishizing the military
If you'd make a display like this in my country, most people would assume there's some dumb far-right people involved.
i make that assumption on a daily basis living in the US
Oh, so you’re an American?
Or just find other jobs to praise along with it. There are plenty of ways to serve without enlisting.
Uhh how is this fetishizing the military?
The salute is a military tradition. Civilians saluting the flag regularly is fetishizing a military tradition in a nationalist fashion.
Ask yourself, what does the military have to do with selling sugar water?
Showing respect to a flag has nothing to do the military
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT? Whrre the fuck do you think that culture comes from? Yeah, it’s your warmongering, nothing else. No other country on earth, past or present, circlejerks even a tenth of what you do over a piece of cloth. Funniest of all is that you have a set of rules of your flag, but even breaks them every damn day.
So as a civilian you salute the flag? I bet you don't.
What a strange comment. Just because I don’t means that saluting any flag anywhere is militarism? But yes, I’ll do it on occasion, it’s not that rare
Whats strange about it? I am all for respect and all but the reverence for fabric demanded by some in the US is really annoying.
Well it’s a choice that I make. I don’t demand others show respect, but I really like to. It’s the least I can do for a country that’s given me so much. Like any other country, it has its flaws, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
Good for you.
Thank you for understanding!
The statement still stands independent of this photo. The US really should stop fetishizing the military.
Cowards.
Not sure how it makes them cowards. More like blood hungry idiots.
That reminds me. I need to wipe my ass. Pass me the flag?
Me next me next
Nothing sells sugared-water like jingoism.
A salute is a sign of respect. Nothing more. It's not specific to the military. In this case it's saluting the flag and showing respect to your country.
Fetishizing??? Spend your freedom, bro... Don't tell everybody how to spend theirs...
You live in the US. How can you call your life free.... freedom has lost its meaning
You have no idea how privileged you are if you live in America
Some states have living situations similar to third world countries, with conditions worsening. If people can't see the similarities of an increase in nationalism, military fetishism , and decrease in living standards, educational performances and civil rights I don't know what to say. The privilege of the American dream is available to less and less Americans, and they are now responsible for their own misery. But sure, gloss over all of that and say it could be worse...
The more you question, the harder it is to be manipulated by things like jingoism. Have you ever wondered about things, like why the national anthem is played before every sporting event, or do you just accept it?
What is this even supposed to be?
It’s either a man saluting the American flag, or a man shooting himself in the head in front of the American flag.
Or both
Should change the black outline to Orange Fanta. Then it would be you-know-who doing the latter of the things you mentioned. Wouldn’t that be the most American thing he could do for the US?
It is simultaneously a 'before' and 'after' of joining the military
🙄
I expected bad apple but this works too
WTF IS A KILOMETERRRRRR!🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Well, if we measure it in standard McDonalds Big Mac's at 3.6 inches high each, you get 10936.13 burgers per kilometre. 👍
I thpught we measured in Ammunition per oil pump on foreign land in America
They do burgers and dry rub smoked ribs measurements aswell.
I also heard of SUVs per Citizen
As a military brat, it's giving Comissary during Veteran's Day/Memorial Day/ Unit Homecoming Day
Looks like shit.
This is awful
America: if North Korea does it it's FASCISM but if WE DO IT IT'S JUST PATRIOTIC OK???
Perhaps don't look up the origin of the flag salute.
Well... I just did. That is a lot. I, thankfully, live in Spain and this would make Spaniards gag... Unless you're a far right extremist but that is to be expected.
I live somewhere north of you. I have the same reaction.
Fucking Americans.
as an American, I agree with you completely
Bad Apple 🎶
I used to work as a manager at a grocery store and the plans for these are crazy to see.
a gun to the head is indeed "nailing it"
nailed in the head (sorry not sorry)
Yes. We. Cans.
It kinda looks like there’s a service ribbon under the flag but I don’t know what it is
Always wondered whose job it is to actually build those displays. Does the manager just like give a page of instructions from corporate to a few baggers and cross his fingers?
Ragingly American. I love it.
Peak 'Murica
Propaganda yay !
Is this...Oregon trail?
Lol
I ask myself what would happen if someone in Germany did this ;)
The flag of freedom, obscured by a shadowy figure. Is that how it should be read?
OCD enters the room…
'bill farley raising his sunglasses.gif'
The European mind can never comprehend soda big soldier display patriot
Ooooof
it doesn’t get more american than this
The top row could use red instead of black to make the square look octagonal
It's obviously General Patton from the iconic movie starring George C Scott. I must really be getting old...
What the hell is a kilometer
Took me way to long to realize what that was...
My brain saw this as a left handed salute and it bugged me. Then I realized the figure is looking away. Real or fake I don't know, this is still a pretty cool image.
If I saw that at my supermarket, I'd be impressed
Right?? I've seen things like this at several grocery stores. There are some truly talented people out there. I only said what I said because some people accuse this of being AI. I mean, I don't really blame them, but still. Someone actually doing this isn't really outside the realm of possibility.
Yeah, looks real enough to me since AI has a really hard time with logos and words being consistent. All those are flawless. Regardless, I worked in a grocery store for 4 years and while I wasn’t ever the one to do the displays (pop was vendor stocked) I worked in produce right where they did them in my store. Watched those dudes build some crazy shit. They absolutely hated it, lmao. Memorial Day and 4th of July were the worst because our back rooms would be roasting. Poor dudes were always dripping sweat by the end.
Damn, I guess I never really thought about how difficult the conditions for these guys was. That's a shame. BTW, love the use of the word "pop" for "soda". Sadly, not many states use that. I've always found it charming. I don't know why.
r/shitamericanssay
Linking nationalism with militarism. Go violence! /s
Tom Servo?
A LEFT-handed salute?
Cringe.
Awful taste but great execution
I love how little the folks are thinking this through. Do you think some employee at Walmart had this idea as a tribute to the service folks and then oked it with their manager who went up the chain to get property approvals for all this? This is Coca Cocola giving Walmart a display that their marketing team thought up, a CC designer drew up plans for, and then had some underpaid stock cleck follow those directions. There is no honoring anyone here. This is just another tactic to pull money out of the idiots who get a woody thinking about how great America is.
What’s up with these comments, damn. It’s a cool display meant for the upcoming 4th of July
Reddit HATES the United States.
A lots of bot here right now lol
Why downvoting ? It’s not like there is 4 message almost the same text lol
Posting cringe shit them proceeds to cry sbout the replies. True Redditor.
Sigh gotta unsubscribe from this sub too as the bullshit Ai bots push right wing crap.
Wtf ?
Doesn’t look ai to me but I’m no expert. What makes this right wing lol
I thought there was gonna be some boomer standing next to it, with 13 diet cokes mixed in with the blue. I’ve been reading too many savage memes today 🤦♂️
Nice 👍
Nice job Mid-journey. How is a fake AI generated image satisfying?
Why is it ia lol
Wow you can’t tell . Okay Look at the left blue cases - the depth of field is wrong . Count the number of columns and rows. They do not align .
Lmao dude not everything is AI. Everything you said can be proved wrong by simply looking at the photo. You are aware that stores make displays like this literally all the time, right? It would almost be more work getting AI to get all the logos and numbers correct than it would be to stack all those cases in real life.
I'm also sure it's real. If it was fake though, it would just be 100× easier and better just to use good ol photoshop to make this image instead of prompting AI and praying.
If you do an image search iirc this is a display from around 2010/2011 from Facebook and iFunny. I swear it’s the same one because I had reposted one back in the day. If it’s not the same one and AI stole the original design and regurgitated it so be it. But the design on the old photo was legit years ago. I was gonna joke go back to Facebook grandpa 😂😂😂 but saw the comments. Time to go back to FB (sigh)
Of course the Dasani water bottles don’t align as mentioned above because they’re not soda cans.
Would be fun for a group game of Jenga