There is a careless omission of the Tesla logo on that flag
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I haven’t seen that Adbusters flag in YEARS. I used to have one hanging in my trailer in college!
Left to right:
- CBS, ?, CocaCola, ABC, Camel Cigarettes, Windows
- ?, ?, Apple, Nike, ?, Chrysler,
- Warner Brothers, ?, ?, Intel, Pizza Hut, McDonalds
- ?, Adobe, IBM, General Electric ?, ?
- ?, Shell, ?, NBC, Pepsi, ?
A lot of those had/have defense divisions.
Edit: This was from Bush's era.
- CBS, Playboy, CocaCola, ABC, Camel Cigarettes, Windows
- ?, ?, Apple, Nike, ?, Chrysler,
- Warner Brothers, ?, ?, Intel, Pizza Hut, McDonalds
- ?, Adobe, IBM, General Electric, Internet Explorer, ?
- ?, Shell, Adidas , NBC, Pepsi, ?
- CBS, Playboy, CocaCola, ABC, Camel Cigarettes, Windows
- ?, Travelers, Apple, Nike, AT&T, Chrysler
- Warner Brothers, ?, Chase, Intel, Pizza Hut, McDonalds
- Xerox, Adobe, IBM, General Electric, Internet Explorer, Bell Laboratories
- ?, Shell, Adidas, NBC, Pepsi, Compaq
- CBS, Playboy, CocaCola, ABC, Camel Cigarettes, Windows
- ?, Travelers, Apple, Nike, AT&T, Chrysler
- Warner Brothers, ?, Chase, Intel, Pizza Hut, McDonalds
- Xerox, Adobe, IBM, General Electric, Internet Explorer, Bell Laboratories
- United Airlines, Shell, Adidas, NBC, Pepsi, Compaq
- CBS, Playboy, CocaCola, ABC, Camel Cigarettes, Windows
- US Sprint/Sprint^, Travelers, Apple, Nike, AT&T, Chrysler
- Warner Brothers, White-Westinghouse, Chase, Intel, Pizza Hut, McDonalds
- Xerox, Adobe, IBM, General Electric, Internet Explorer, Bell Laboratories^
- United Airlines, Shell, Adidas, NBC, Pepsi, Compaq
Edit^
- Credit to atomicbocks for being there first
- Small note here; while bell labs had retained the logo, BellSouth and providers in Canada also used the logo.
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Long time lurker first time poster here!
The first column second row is the old Sprint PCS logo.
What did Playboy do?
I'm wondering if there was less access to logos and information at the time? There might be stuff we don't know as well. Still a strong statement.
why is playboy on there?
not really defending porn but... don't really see it in the same category as the rest
Adbusters were culture jammers. Around this time the playboy logo was popular on clothing.
+1 insightful! ty!
Addidas was on the list? Do they do some back handed stuff I don't know about?
To start, it was founded by a literal Nazi
Holy shit.
Before Rudolf was released, Adi had to appear before the denazification panel. The result was announced on 13 July 1946: Adi was declared a Belasteter, the second most serious category of Nazi offenders, which included profiteers, and could lead to a sentence of up to 10 years in prison for those convicted.[39][40] The immediate threat was that he would be removed from management of the firm.
His early membership in the Nazi Party and the Hitler Youth were not contestable. On appeal, he amassed a portfolio of testimony attesting to his good conduct during the war. Adi's staunchest supporter was Herzogenaurach's mayor, who the Allied forces trusted.[41]
I think this is just a list of American Corpos, to fill out the square; regardless of individual action/intention.
Maybe? A lot of them are pretty evil.
Is that a Compaq logo?
I’d pledge allegiance to The Compaq States of Presario
Fuck yeah, I have that flag! AK Press.
Where did you buy it?
AK Press..
Different one. That one is more up to date though.
Thanks. I can’t find it on AKPress
Yeah, we're talkin 20 years ago or so
Is the camel the Silk Road logo? Because the founder of the Silk Road drug marketplace (Ross Ulbricht) got pardoned by Trump probably for a few bitcoins.
Where is Nestle, Google, Amazon, P&G?
On the modern one
https://subscribe.adbusters.org/products/corporate-america-flag
Wow, that's super interesting. ABC and CBS fell off, but NBC is still there. Rightfully so, but still kind of quirky. I think we need all 50 stars to really show off the evil.
There are 2 I don't know still.
- Visa, Nike, CocaCola, Goldman Sachs, Walmart, Nestle
- Citibank, General Motors, Apple, Google, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson
- AT&T, JP Morgan Chase & Co, NBC, News Corp, Starbucks, Amazon
- Disney, Mastercard, Wells Fargo, ?, Pfizer, ?
The last two are Meta, and Philip Morris International.
Oh fuck, Meta. What a shitty logo.
ABC is owned by Disney, so it doesn't need to be listed separately. CBS is owned by Paramount, but I don't see that represented.
Microsoft is on there twice but they didn’t use Clippy, missed opportunity.
always has been