follow-up from my latest reposts: this is how a lot of military-themed media from that era worked, they had to invent generic bad guys and maybe a few fake counties in eastern europe because they didn't want to deal with the moral panic and censorship of criticizing the US directly

Like the COD4 Nuke was the “OpFor” sending it but you only die since you had to try to save the life of one pilot -> not US fault Shepherd kills Ghost -> not US fault Makarov kills civilians while CIA plays along -> not US fault Last COD campaign I played was BO2 so I’m out of the loop though

Yeah, but the COD games I’ve played presented any US Military enemies as off-the-grid evil orgs Like MW2 2009’s Shepherd had the “Shadow Company” private military contractor instead of the CIA And the examples you list are old: nuke (COD4 07), executing subordinates (MW2 09), civilians (MW2 09)

I know they say the CoD games are propaganda for the military but I’d argue that they are critical of the government. The playable character can’t escape a nuke dropped by his own country, military leaders executing subordinates, The CIA conducts a mass shooting of civilians to manufacture consent.

1 month into mw4 theyre gonna do a kpop demon hunters crossover

nah dude they're gonna cave, the money's too good

I love how cod's messaging is always "our last game was dogshit!!"

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Public records turned up by The Ellis Collective, a student-led research group, have revealed that the UC system shared data collected by automated license plate readers at multiple campuses with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal agencies, in apparent violation of state law.

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The Berlin Wall has appeared a surprising amount of times in the Mario series, being featured in four games and one ad campaign.

anyone who tells me to switch to Mastodon needs to first prove to me they know what snouts.online was and why its final days might have soured me on the fediverse there's plenty of good posters over there, but holy goddamn does it have some TERRIBLE ones too

It's been 16 hours since two journalists were arrested with protesters at Delaney Hall. Even lawyers can't reach them. New Jersey State Patrol made arrests. According to Essex County Jail, everyone is physically there. But they're just "transport." Legal "custody" is with Newark Police Department.

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i don’t even give a shit what the parade is about. it could be the “puppies are good” annual parade, but if smotrich is there the response to the invite should be “no, and i’ll denounce it”

This is absolutely despicable. Smotrich is a proud "Jewish fascist," his words, and openly genocidal. He is a war criminal. And what does Schumer, the Democratic leader do? Openly join him in celebrating Israel in NYC. Madness. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

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'average pig has three accidents a year' factoid actualy just statistical error. average pig has zero accidents a year. mr. frumble, who drives a pickle and has over 10,000 accidents a day is an outlier adn should not have been counted

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Heads up ya'll! with Bluesky rolling out moderation crack down in their new update, please consider enabling "adult content" under your moderation tab in settings. Not so you can have porn on your feed, but to ensure that you can still see posts with the word "stupid" and "hell" in it-

Towards the end of my time at CAP, I remember bringing up in a department meeting that the cops were helping ICE and I was told that it wasn't helpful for us to message that because "we need them on our side". Anyway, just thinking about that.

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Why is the 'Rude' label automatically set to 'Hide' again? Omg bro you fucking Bluesky devs and mods are a bunch of dumbass little crybabies, huh? Can't handle a bit of cursing🥺? You gonna cry from being criticized🥺? Did you guys piss your pants from all the meanie accounts on here🥺?

Briahna Joy Gray: "I believe myself to be COVID vaccine-injured."

🚨 FUNDS NEEDED FOR JAIL SUPPORT AT DELANEY HALL Over forty six Delaney Hall protesters were just kettled by the NJPD and arrested. Raising jail support funds for those impacted/injured. Venmo "!"@bronxjailsupport **Any extra funds will be used to cover legal fees in case of repression

yeah i heard that one before

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AND NOW MY CAR GOT TOWED, and they want 600$ for it back. I'm going to try to fight it (I think it was towed illegally), but this is really the last thing I need right now ko-fi.com/fooneturing/...

Really need folks to understand that when Trump does his next coup and we take to the streets, it'll be Democratic governors calling out the National Guard and Democratic mayors calling out the cops to violently suppress us. They'll be calling for law and order and "violence is never the answer".

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the fact is these democratic governors do not have actual control over their own state police forces, and that’s a seriously scary problem that no elected wants to talk about or deal with

it's vice signaling all the way down

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The moral of the story is that ACAB includes ALL cops. Whether it's the New Jersey State Police or the Gendarmerie in Vichy France rounding up Jews on behalf of the Gestapo.

In 1854, a small force of US Marshals entered the city of Boston to capture Anthony Burns, a runaway slave, and return him to Virginia in chains under the Fugitive Slave Act. When a large crowd gathered to prevent this, it was Boston police who protected the Marshals and brutalized the crowd.