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Kokesh lemmy.world kokesh@lemmy.world
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Tar_Alcaran sh.itjust.works Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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Truly reaching Russian levels of credibility

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Gork sopuli.xyz Gork@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-01
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It's a lot faster to put in video game footage than it is to get some B-roll from the military and get it declassified.

Not that this administration cares about rules tbh.

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Diplomjodler lemmy.world Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-08
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Very in character for people who have always lived in la-la-land.

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Alcoholicorn mander.xyz Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-24
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Truly reaching Russian levels of credibility

Usually I mock posts that see America doing the things America has always done and going "what are we a bunch of <slavs/chinese/third world nation>", but usually America is good at lying.

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Maeve kbin.earth Maeve@kbin.earth
Joined: 2024-06-16
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Usually I mock posts that see America doing the things America has always done and going "what are we a bunch of &lt;slavs/chinese/third world nation&gt;", but usually America is good at lying.

The sociopath seems the antithetical retort to "It is no measure of health to be well -adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

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futurk feddit.org futurk@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-07-06
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I wish I could react with an emoji to this post xd

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Zozano aussie.zone Zozano@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-09
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Truly reaching Russian levels of credibility

Russian

None of this, OK?

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Iconoclast feddit.uk Iconoclast@feddit.uk
Joined: 2026-02-05
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It is real but probably not what people think. They're not exactly hiding the fact that they're using footage from a game.

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ObtuseDoorFrame lemmy.zip ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-26
#10 · (edited) Quote Reply

...you're saying this is funny? What?

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redsand infosec.pub redsand@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-04-09
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Call of Duty. One of Epstein's favorites. He even helped bobby kotick name CoD Points so they could use the abbreviation CP

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Zozano aussie.zone Zozano@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-09
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

Russian None of this, OK?

Christ...

The joke was "No Russian"

(CoD MW2 reference)

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kibiz0r midwest.social kibiz0r@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-07-14
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It's a lot faster to put in video game footage than it is to get some B-roll from the military and get it declassified. Not that this administration cares about rules tbh.

The president can declassify stuff with his mind

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Hazmatastic lemmy.world Hazmatastic@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-07
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Leveraging one of their biggest recruitment tools as additional propaganda? Say it isn't so. Well luckily, it's not like CoD is actually on the government payroll, so of course a cease and desist will be following shortly... right?

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Gork sopuli.xyz Gork@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-01
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The president can declassify stuff with his mind

You've got a good point. Such an amazing ability that the President has.

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kibiz0r midwest.social kibiz0r@midwest.social
Joined: 2023-07-14
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You've got a good point. Such an amazing ability that the President has.

No one has abilities like this. You’ve never seen. They’re saying, many of them, and it’s been very badly reported.

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Phoenixz lemmy.ca phoenixz@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Call of Duty. One of Epstein's favorites. He even helped bobby kotick name CoD Points so they could use the abbreviation CP

Source on that? Not that I don't believe you but that is something I'd like to see

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redsand infosec.pub redsand@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-04-09
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Source on that? Not that I don't believe you but that is something I'd like to see

Bobby Kotick was very good friends with Epstein. Just search for both of their names together. Epstein also pushed microtransactions.

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jballs sh.itjust.works jballs@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-13
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Article link with the video: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/world/video/iran-war-propaganda-call-of-duty-stelter-nc-digvid

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
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I wish I could react with an emoji to this post xd

🤷

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Town lemmy.zip Town@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-03-03
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It's a lot faster to put in video game footage than it is to get some B-roll from the military and get it declassified. Not that this administration cares about rules tbh.

I'm surprised it's not all AI video.

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Lushed_Lungfish lemmy.ca Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-02-14
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The average CoD lobby has more intelligence than the current American administration.

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yermaw sh.itjust.works yermaw@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-07-10
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Just in case theres any kids watching that might think war may not be as glamorous as the video games make it seem. Its EXACTLY like a video game! Sign up today!

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tackleberry thelemmy.club tackleberry@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-01-30
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Real or not. Iran, Khamenei, Venezuela, Maduro, kindergaten girls etc are not the actual targets of our military operations. The main course is Vladimir Putin. If you watch the chain of events closely, this is exactly what you do when you have to take down Vladimir Putin.

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underisk lemmy.ml underisk@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Real or not. Iran, Khamenei, Venezuela, Maduro, kindergaten girls etc are not the actual targets of our military operations. The main course is Vladimir Putin. If you watch the chain of events closely, this is exactly what you do when you have to take down Vladimir Putin.

You must use clips from the military propaganda video game in your official White House war propaganda videos to… defeat Putin. Got it.

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RampantParanoia2365 lemmy.world RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-02
#26 · (edited) Quote Reply

Uh, your video is just an image. I'll undownvote once you fix your link.

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RampantParanoia2365 lemmy.world RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-02
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Article link with the video: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/world/video/iran-war-propaganda-call-of-duty-stelter-nc-digvid

Thanks, OP! Wait, why has your name changed?

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Calfpupa [she/her] lemmy.ml Calfpupa@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-01-26
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Real or not. Iran, Khamenei, Venezuela, Maduro, kindergaten girls etc are not the actual targets of our military operations. The main course is Vladimir Putin. If you watch the chain of events closely, this is exactly what you do when you have to take down Vladimir Putin.

Wild mental gymnastics, because they're in no way targeting Putin, while they are double tapping kindergartners. None of these actions have impacted Putin, and if anything, destabilizing Venezuela has given Russia a bigger foothold on oil sales. If it wasn't obvious with the Ukrainian war, the US doesn't care about what Russia is doing.

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Sc00ter lemmy.zip Sc00ter@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-14
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It is real but probably not what people think. They're not exactly hiding the fact that they're using footage from a game.

Its not about them trying to pass video game footage as real. Them leaning into the video game esthetic is the problem. Its glorifying war, death, and destruction. Its also intentionally appealing to military aged boys/men. Its a sleezy recruitment video

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Wokili lemmy.today Wokili@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-03-04
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Real or not. Iran, Khamenei, Venezuela, Maduro, kindergaten girls etc are not the actual targets of our military operations. The main course is Vladimir Putin. If you watch the chain of events closely, this is exactly what you do when you have to take down Vladimir Putin.

Is that satire?

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abies_exarchia lemmy.dbzer0.com abies_exarchia@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-19
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Source on that? Not that I don't believe you but that is something I'd like to see

I don’t remember anything about the cp stuff but there is a very interesting Behind the Bastards podcast about epstein and many of his evils beyond child sex trafficking. Talks about Kotick a lot
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/

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tackleberry thelemmy.club tackleberry@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-01-30
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Wild mental gymnastics, because they're in no way targeting Putin, while they are double tapping kindergartners. None of these actions have impacted Putin, and if anything, destabilizing Venezuela has given Russia a bigger foothold on oil sales. If it wasn't obvious with the Ukrainian war, the US doesn't care about what Russia is doing.

A lot of you fail to see the lines being drawn and will not even recognise it if I show it to you. You already called it "mental gymnastics" proving to me that you have a hard time figuring it out. I already did the hard work for you so you don't have to and I guess you believed Trump was going after Maduro for drug sales (because Maduro is a pharmaceutical rep. , right?) Maybe that one is easier for you to understand. No "Mental gymnastics" required lol 😄

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RampantParanoia2365 lemmy.world RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-02
#33 · (edited) Quote Reply

"Hey, you know that simulation where you die horrifically over and over and over? That's just what this war is like, now with incredible pain, and fewer Doritos. High five."

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RememberTheApollo_ lemmy.world RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-26
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Probably used AI or something to scrape the footage.

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Calfpupa [she/her] lemmy.ml Calfpupa@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-01-26
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A lot of you fail to see the lines being drawn and will not even recognise it if I show it to you. You already called it "mental gymnastics" proving to me that you have a hard time figuring it out. I already did the hard work for you so you don't have to and I guess you believed Trump was going after Maduro for drug sales (because Maduro is a pharmaceutical rep. , right?) Maybe that one is easi...

Bring receipts or don't speak. No one thinks that about Maduro, it's explained in the 2025 National Security Strategy that it's because the US can't compete with China and needs to pull back international presense. If you can't prove what you say even with your "proof," there is nothing you need to say. What, did god whisper it to you in a dream? You read it in your tea leaves? Your FBI handler finally reply back?

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October lemmy.world edgemaster72@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#36 · Quote Reply

I'm surprised it's not all AI video.

Give it time, Trump is probably still 'thinking' of ways to top his anti-protester flyover

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October lemmy.world edgemaster72@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#37 · Quote Reply

Real or not. Iran, Khamenei, Venezuela, Maduro, kindergaten girls etc are not the actual targets of our military operations. The main course is Vladimir Putin. If you watch the chain of events closely, this is exactly what you do when you have to take down Vladimir Putin.

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tackleberry thelemmy.club tackleberry@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-01-30
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Bring receipts or don't speak. No one thinks that about Maduro, it's explained in the 2025 National Security Strategy that it's because the US can't compete with China and needs to pull back international presense. If you can't prove what you say even with your "proof," there is nothing you need to say. What, did god whisper it to you in a dream? You read it in your tea leaves? Your FBI handler...

Hmmm, you already got the message. I can not tell you what to do with it. When I told Iranians on Reddit all their leaders will be eliminated, I was insulted. But that's ok

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LurkingLuddite piefed.social LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-02-04
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#39 · Quote Reply

I'm surprised it's not all AI video.

"AI" has to be trained on something. They don't want it to look too similar to the Iraq invasion, etc...

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Kokesh lemmy.world kokesh@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#40 · Quote Reply

Uh, your video is just an image. I'll undownvote once you fix your link.

Oh no! I must do that then. Google the article yourself.

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Iconoclast feddit.uk Iconoclast@feddit.uk
Joined: 2026-02-05
#41 · Quote Reply

Its not about them trying to pass video game footage as real. Them leaning into the video game esthetic is the problem. Its glorifying war, death, and destruction. Its also intentionally appealing to military aged boys/men. Its a sleezy recruitment video

I don't disagree but my point was that usually with news like this it's someone trying to slip in video game footage as real to potray their military more capable than it really is or to claim that something was hit when it actually wasn't. I think it's safe to assume that this is what most people imagine happened here too but this is different. It's just a PSA - I'm not defending what they're doing.

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Blackmist feddit.uk Blackmist@feddit.uk
Joined: 2023-07-04
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Real or not. Iran, Khamenei, Venezuela, Maduro, kindergaten girls etc are not the actual targets of our military operations. The main course is Vladimir Putin. If you watch the chain of events closely, this is exactly what you do when you have to take down Vladimir Putin.

China, not Russia.

China got most of their oil from Venezuela and Iran. If they want any in the future they'll have to play nicer with Trump, and promise not to take Taiwan.

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#43 · Quote Reply

The sociopath seems the antithetical retort to "It is no measure of health to be well -adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

#unexpextedkrishnamurti

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wonderingwanderer sopuli.xyz wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-12-31
#44 · Quote Reply

You've got a good point. Such an amazing ability that the President has.

We joke, but that's one power a sitting president actually does have. Because the classification system was originally implemented by a president and not by congress, it is functionally maintained at-will by the president. That's why presidents don't need a security clearance.

Once that president is out of office, unauthorized possession of classified material is a crime. Depending on the severity of the situation, the amount and nature of the material and the degree of classification, how it's handled (stored and transported), the deliberateness with which possession is maintained, whether or not unauthorized persons are given access to it, and how the person responds when it comes to their knowledge that they're still in possession of classified material, the crime could be a felony up to and including espionage and treason.

Which is what magats don't get when they point to an empty folder with classified markings that Biden found in an empty drawer in his office from his time as VP, and immediately reported it through the proper channels and turned it in, and they say "see! both sides are the same! it's a political witch hunt!"

While trump knowingly and willingly loaded boxes of classified material onto a plane and transported it to his mansion in Florida in the time between losing an election and leaving office, where he stored those boxes in a bathroom even after leaving office (and thus no longer having authorization to possess the material), where he entertained guests including foreign emissaries and businessmen, who gave him lucrative gifts through proxies such as his family members, and were likely given access to that material stored in his bathroom.

Yeah, not the same thing at all.

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tackleberry thelemmy.club tackleberry@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2026-01-30
#45 · Quote Reply

China, not Russia. China got most of their oil from Venezuela and Iran. If they want any in the future they'll have to play nicer with Trump, and promise not to take Taiwan.

We can always hit 2 targets in one shot. That's hoe efficient the US military is.

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