Here you go! At CES, Mercedes pimped some weird "car-sharing" app with a doctored classic photo of Che Guevara with a Mercedes logo on his hat, because they were making a joke (joke?) about socialism, which, how did this even happen, on any of the complicated levels on which that seems like a bad idea at this moment? So, yes: "Felix Rodriguez, who is now president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, said other veterans of the failed invasion had also commented on Mercedes-Benz website and promised never again to buy a vehicle from the car maker." The Cubans are, sure, enraged, and perhaps you will enjoy the 313 comments at the Miami Herald today. ("All that we asked for and were promised was air and naval support to neutrolize Fidel's still vulnerable armed forces. But we had an American President who simpy lacked the testicular fortitute to go through with the Armed Forces' promises." [sic throughout.] It's always 1965 in Miami, the former terrorism capital and CIA base of America, baby!)
In other really dodgy moments, uh, here is the "augmented reality dashboard experience" Mercedes was doing at CES. Because what we alllll want is our Facebook friends projected on our windshields.
NO THANKS.
I am simpy outraged.
@barnhouse I actually read this as if Felix Rodriguez was a Cuban (vs. Cuban-American) person who was outraged over this, and thought: how many Mercedes are they buying in Cuba, anyway? I was someone gobsmacked when I realized that it was a Cuban-American person who was outraged by the placement of the logo of a giant corporation on Che's forehead.
I thought he said "some weird 'car-shaming' app." Which, okay, do that.
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#At least it wasn't Hitler.
@NotAndersonCooper Some people (pitbull) would argue that for many Cubans (not me, fwiw), it may as well have been. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_QrHwha7JM
cuba
is in a relationship with mercedes benzit's complicated.
S-Class warfare.
Eight Minutes Of A Low-Talking German Apparently Explaining An Esoteric And Unnecessary Concept.
If you flip the Mercedes logo, it's an ancient Sanskrit symbol for life.
@BadUncle A sad sort of girl I knew in college accidentally embroidered a Mercedes logo on the back of her jean jacket instead of a peace symbol. No one had the heart to tell her.
@C_Webb I'd be that guy forever trying to sneak a piece of vertical tape onto the design.
@BadUncle Years before my birth, my father met my aunt in Houston for the first time.
Father: That's a lovely peace sign necklace you're wearing.
Aunt: (horrified) Oh, no, that's a silver Mercedes logo, you know.
Can I get David Roth to talk about Yoenis Cespedes and Cuban sandwiches here?
No Cuban-AMERICAN will every buy one, but Cubans in Cuba will snap 'em up, right?
@jfruh With all that money they saved on healthcare!
Isn't putting a Mercedes logo on a Che image really super offensive to Cheism? Shouldn't the cuban dudes be stoked?
@deepomega I've tried to make a similar argument (ubiquity of che shirts = triumph of capitalism over che's marxism) to my abuelo. It didn't work.
@bocadelperro
Whose logo you slap on Che doesn't matter when Che's the logo for suburban teenagers.
Ha, of course they redesigned the steering wheel too, the dumbest concept-car cliche since forever.