Quote from: pomelo on February 07, 2014, 09:20:59 AM

How is making pictures that makes fun of the clusterf*ck preparations made by the russians "supporting"?

Learn to read. What I wrote was:

Quote from: TheIrishman on February 07, 2014, 03:28:40 AM

If USDE is going to be used to depict the Sochi Olympics positively in any way (...)

If you're speaking positively of something, you're effectively supporting it.

Quote from: jacquette on February 07, 2014, 02:08:29 PM

lets not get into this Gay rights and Vladimir Putin debate circus, please....

It's not as much about gay rights as it is about suppression of freedom. The "gay aspect" of it just tends to gather more media attention. Anyways, there's no "debate" here, Putin is a ruthless dictator and that's it.

Quote from: USD-e on February 07, 2014, 11:18:23 AM

We'd like to address some of the confusion surrounding the Sochi graphic / meme announcement. Its intention was nothing other than getting a graphic, which relates to Sochi, the Olympics and the USDe in a humorous way. No disrespect was intended.

This graphic was meant to accompany a trending satirical piece on Sochi, which again, is a story about currencies. My apologies if this was not made clear.

I think we might have a good set of marketing concepts here which could be used in an extremely rewarding way for the coin. The main slogan associated with USDE is "USDe - The Free People's Currency". Under Putin's rule, Russia has turned into a dictatorship with Putin perpetuating himself in power by violently harassing (or actually incarcerating) his enemies, both personal and political, while at the same time instilling fear in the people through a very effective propaganda machine or even outright violent physical repression of anything against his regime. We've all seen this before, in nazi Germany, in North Korea, etc.

Russian cable news channel TV Rain under threat after 'political attack'

"Backlash over online poll on Leningrad siege leads to channel being axed from networks amid claims of Kremlin interference."

So I believe USDE might use the fact that it's already presented as a coin that intends to help people defend their freedom and produce material mixing that with mockery of Putin, his actions, and of course, Sochi. Google is doing it right now:

Rainbow Google doodle tackles anti-gay laws as Sochi kicks off

"Search engine's logo presented in the colours of the rainbow flag to coincide with the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi."

It doesn't need to be specifically about gay rights, the amount of material that can be used is huge: the Pussy Riot band incarceration, the detention of the "Arctic 18" group of GreenPeace activists under conditions that violated universal human rights, etc. And if anyone here feels any sympathy for Putin and his actions, by all means, move to Russia! The rest of the world will be much better off with you there.