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Turks boycott America by smashing their iPhones
August 17, 2018, 12:42 PM
VeeperTurks boycott America by smashing their iPhones
Okay so I mean, I can imagine in my imagination a point to where they'd be pissed that their currency is about to collapse. Sure, if I work hard enough I can get there I guess.
Do you really want to smash something you've already paid money for?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...ones-boycott-americaI guess there are two things I found fascinating enough to post this on SF:
1. One of the Turkish politicians goes to destroy an iPhone, what appears to be a cell phone store, and the phone falls into two pieces as it hits the ground. Clearly it has already been destroyed or it's a display model. This seems to be a metaphor for all of these "symbolic" videos that come from Islamic movements. Shucks, I've seen tons of pallywood videos and liveleak ISIS videos in the last year alone that are clearly staged. They drive the same truck past the camera over and over; or a guy with the same clothes is a corpse in one scene and a "first responder" in the next. There's even a video of two dozen innocent victims of some kind of Evil Israeli bombing, and the corpses can't stop scratching their faces under the shrouds that have been carefully draped over them. "HAKIM! STOP SCRATCHING YOUR BEARD!"
2. Islamic people smashing technology. Is it any wonder that any area of this planet, controlled by Islamic forces for any length of time, becomes a nasty desolate backwater location? Filthy and disgusting, devoid of progress and cleanliness?
Crazy people.
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newtoSig765I don't have one to check, but aren't I-phones made in China?
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August 17, 2018, 12:49 PM
egregorequote:
Turks boycott America by smashing their iPhones
They
really showed us this time. How will we ever recover from this devastating blow?
August 17, 2018, 12:50 PM
VeeperThis thread... omg. haha.
https://twitter.com/mutludc/st.../1029915723785752576They're pouring coke down the toilet, or better yet - a guy destroys his iPhone while his kid next to him is sitting there in a GAP t-shirt.
Yikes.
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken August 17, 2018, 12:51 PM
BigSwedeI saw a few videos the other day of them fellas burning US dollars. I cant seem to find my g.a.f.
August 17, 2018, 12:55 PM
Sgt NeutronSmashing an iphone makes about as much sense as shooting up a Yeti cooler.
August 17, 2018, 12:58 PM
smlsigquote:
Originally posted by Veeper:
This thread... omg. haha.
https://twitter.com/mutludc/st.../1029915723785752576They're pouring coke down the toilet, or better yet - a guy destroys his iPhone while his kid next to him is sitting there in a GAP t-shirt.
Yikes.
One of the better quotes...
"Wow I can’t believe Erdogan would force his people to get Android’s. Cruel"
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August 17, 2018, 01:00 PM
VeeperWell, AND, I heard a CBS Marketwatch blurb on my way into work early this week and the pundit tried to claim that the market was down on investor fears of Turkish uncertainty.
What the fuck does the market have to do with Turkey? At all?
I don't have market smarts, I get that, but what does Turkey contribute to the world?
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken August 17, 2018, 01:14 PM
Sigmanicquote:
What the fuck does the market have to do with Turkey? At all?
They buy iphones.
August 17, 2018, 01:33 PM
braillediverTheir currency is collapsing because Erdogan appointed his brother in law the finance minister.
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August 17, 2018, 01:35 PM
parabellumBrilliant
August 17, 2018, 01:40 PM
229DAKquote:
Originally posted by Veeper:
I don't have market smarts, I get that, but what does Turkey contribute to the world?
Rugs.
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August 17, 2018, 01:43 PM
stickman428But IPhones are made in China.
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August 17, 2018, 01:45 PM
Jimbo54Apple should use some of those videos for advertisement purposes. Looks like they take a lot of punishment before breaking.
I wonder if they become pissed off at Japan, would they drive their Toyotas off of a cliff?
Jim
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August 17, 2018, 01:52 PM
Balzé Halzéquote:
Originally posted by smlsig:
quote:
Originally posted by Veeper:
This thread... omg. haha.
https://twitter.com/mutludc/st.../1029915723785752576They're pouring coke down the toilet, or better yet - a guy destroys his iPhone while his kid next to him is sitting there in a GAP t-shirt.
Yikes.
One of the better quotes...
"Wow I can’t believe Erdogan would force his people to get Android’s. Cruel"
Sounds like he's doing them a favor.
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August 17, 2018, 02:09 PM
Oat_Action_ManI knew numerous Turks while I was in grad school, back in the mid 2000s.
To a man and woman, every single one of them was worried about Erdogan as soon as he took power and every single one of them was worried about the country's backslide to Islamization.
At least some of them saw it coming years ago.
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August 17, 2018, 02:14 PM
BigSwedeWatch out! We have a savage here. $5
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9BxkB_1534528061
August 17, 2018, 02:20 PM
Veeperquote:
Originally posted by BigSwede:
Watch out! We have a savage here. $5
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=9BxkB_1534528061
I wonder why he has that bandage on his thumb?
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken August 17, 2018, 02:23 PM
jhe888quote:
Originally posted by Sgt Neutron:
Smashing an iphone makes about as much sense as shooting up a Yeti cooler.
Hah!
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. August 17, 2018, 02:24 PM
jhe888quote:
Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:
I knew numerous Turks while I was in grad school, back in the mid 2000s.
To a man and woman, every single one of them was worried about Erdogan as soon as he took power and every single one of them was worried about the country's backslide to Islamization.
At least some of them saw it coming years ago.
Not to insult your friends, but that didn't take Natradamus.
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