Thank you for your service.

No, it is not.
One year they showed the Vietnam memorial; other years, they showed the wars and Memorial Day's reasons.

They had one that celebrated George Floyd, seriously the criminal.

This is more likely them trying to appease the CCP by trying to ignore it.

@TheHerrDark

If that's how you want to read it, that's your business; but I didn't get the impression in the slightest that it's being done to insult veterans for the benefit of sucking up to the Chinese. I mean, really?

@Alysandir They're not insulting veterans. They are ignoring them, which is even worse.
I never said anything about sucking up to China; I said sucking up to the CCP, and every other major corporation does it, so why not Google? They have been trying to get into China since they started; the only thing keeping them out is the CCP.

@TheHerrDark

I never said anything about sucking up to China; I said sucking up to the CCP

Now you're just splitting hairs in order to justify being upset. I'm going to leave you to it.

@Alysandir, I'm not splitting hairs; that is how it works in the world. Countries and governments are two separate things.

@TheHerrDark

Yes, that's how it works.

What I was referring to is you intentionally assuming that I meant China the people and not China the government in order to "correct" me. You want for me to validate your aggravation over this and because I can't do it, you're becoming argumentative. Which is why I said I'm just going to leave you to it because there's nothing I can say at this point that would be productive.

If you really think Google made this logo with the express purpose of signalling to the world that they're selling out Americans, then there's nothing else to say. All I said, is that I don't see it.

@TheHerrDark My understanding is that Google is basically owned by the CCP. Alphabet owns Google and Alphabet is a corp financially controlled by Chinese interests. Chinese firms are controlled by the CCP -- much like old USSR outfits had a political "advisor" on hand to keep the real officers in line. No Chinese company can do much of anything without CCP approval.
I also recall that waaay back Google had broken off negotiations for getting into Chinese territory. Their motto at the time was something like: "don't be evil". They've since abandoned that and are actively involved in negotiations to get heavily into China market. They are, as expected, following the money. If they get into the market they will have to rat out any Chinese nationals who dabble in "wrongthink". In the past, such people were disappeared or simply sent to a camp. Not as final as NKorea, but not too different, either.

@bobbo666 Every business, no matter how small or big, the CCP automatically owns a piece, and they still collect taxes from these said businesses, plus the floor space rent/lease from the companies; yes, they own the real estate companies. So when they ordered a lockdown, they still expected the businesses to pay for that floor space. The CCP is really messed up

@TheHerrDark I'm not sure I'd consider them messed up. They are doing what any totalitarian regime does, destroy all opposition. If their ownership of companies means that they continue to collect $$ even if the company is shutdown, that's a win win for the CCParty. They get paid while killing off small businesses -- that are predominantly capitalist and therefore generally conservative. What really bites for the US is when they own so much of a company, large or small, that they drive its direction, its ideology. That used to be 30+% or so a decade or so ago. Once they control the company they can cause it to "go woke" with no effort at all. And, cause it to act in anti-competitive manner -- to kill off more of opposition. Might get reversed in time by court finding. But, by then they have killed off more opposition. Which is the point -- destroy opposition.
Their approach is economic genocide. And, they have won.