Tag: Call of Duty

The CIA has released a new Call of Duty PsyOp /s

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Black Ops 7 campaign review: Maybe the worst Call of Duty campaign ever

I had to check and see what country it targeted this time.

Google AI overview:

The country that represents the Mediterranean city of Avalon in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the fictional nation of Avalon, which is depicted as a city-state and a former crime syndicate based in the Mediterranean region. While it is a fictional location, the city’s in-game storyline and characteristics, particularly its former criminal organization, are inspired by real-world locations like Monaco, and it has historical ties to France and Italy. 

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Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

from the pew-pew-pew dept

Whatever your thoughts on policing in general in America, I would hope it would be largely uncontroversial to state that a huge percentage of Americans believe that police are generally over-militarized and at least slightly a little too trigger happy, especially when it comes to engaging minority communities. If you somehow think that there isn’t at least a perception problem among the public here, then you probably don’t need to keep reading the rest of this post, because it’s not going to make sense to you.

Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call Of Duty’ In Real Life

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History of Racism in Peoria

[2022] Chaos Agent – Yuri Bezmenov

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Yuri Bezmenov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada in the ‘70s, and his warnings about disinformation have made him a posthumous star on social media. Documents obtained by CBC News reveal his toxic relationship with Canada’s intelligence services.

Chaos agent (archived)

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Call Of Duty Trailer Recklessly Promotes Far-Right Conspiracy Theory (archived)

The person interviewing Bezmenov in the footage is far-right conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin, who has since made a name for himself in HIV/AIDS denialism and alt-right recruitment. As a member of the John Birch Society, a famously anti-Communist organization focused on establishing a more conservative government in the United States, it makes sense that Griffin would peddle Bezmenov’s claims about Soviet interference by way of social progress without any critical analysis. In the Call of Duty trailer, Activision presents Bezmenov’s words bereft of this important context.

Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War uses KGB video from 1984. Critics say it’s CIA propaganda

Reporters Are Using Counter-Strike To Deliver Ukraine War News to Russians

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A Finnish newspaper is using a secret room in a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive map to provide uncensored news reports about the Ukraine war to people in Russia.

Reporters Are Using Counter-Strike To Deliver Ukraine War News to Russians

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Russian mobilization announcement triggers huge drop in number of ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ players. Find out why

Ukraine’s Army Has Found a Novel Use for the Steam Deck

On The E-Girl Army Psyop Phenomenon

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Video: On The E-Girl Army Psyop Phenomenon via Justin Taylor

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Weaponizing e-girls: How the US military uses YouTube and TikTok to improve its image

How E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military

But Haylujan isn’t the only E-girl using Sanrio sex appeal to lure the internet’s SIMPs into the armed forces. There’s Bailey Crespo and Kayla Salinas, not to mention countless #miltok gunfluencers cropping up online. While she didn’t document her military career, influencer Bella Poarch also served in the US Navy for four years before going viral on TikTok in 2020, and is arguably the blueprint for this kind of kawaii commodified fetishism in the military. An adjacent figure, Natalia Fadeev, also known as Gun Waifu, is an Israeli influencer and IDF soldier who uses waifu aesthetics and catgirl cosplay to pedal pro-Israel propaganda to her 756k followers. She poses to camera, ahegao-style, with freshly manicured nails wrapped neatly around a glock, the uWu-ification of military functioning as a cutesy distraction from the shadowy colonial context: “when they try and destroy your nation,” she writes in one caption.

Call of Duty is a Government Psyop: These Documents Prove It

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II has been available for less than three weeks, but it is already making waves. Breaking records, within ten days, the first-person military shooter video game earned more than $1 billion in revenue. Yet it has also been shrouded in controversy, not least because missions include assassinating an Iranian general clearly based on Qassem Soleimani, a statesman and military leader slain by the Trump administration in 2020, and a level where players must shoot “drug traffickers” attempting to cross the U.S./Mexico border.

Call of Duty is a Government Psyop: These Documents Prove It

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Spies Infiltrate a Fantasy Realm of Online Games (behind a paywall)

Just some notes, for myself:

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New Call of Duty game includes mission to ‘assassinate Qassem Soleimani’

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The latest Call of Duty video game includes a mission very similar to the real-life assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, according to gamers with early access to the new installment of the franchise.

New Call of Duty game includes mission to ‘assassinate Qassem Soleimani’

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Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War uses KGB video from 1984. Critics say it’s CIA propaganda

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Mass Shootings: The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics.”—Professor Henry A. Giroux

Mass Shootings: The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence

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Documents expose how Hollywood promotes war on behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA