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McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased] (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mitch McConell says the quiet part out loud.

Exact full quote from CNN:

“People think, increasingly it appears, that we shouldn’t be doing this. Well, let me start by saying we haven’t lost a single American in this war,” McConnell said. “Most of the money that we spend related to Ukraine is actually spent in the US, replenishing weapons, more modern weapons. So it’s actually employing people here and improving our own military for what may lie ahead.”

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4085063

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only thing Kojima got wrong was his depiction of women

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Also the middle part of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, funnily enough.

Just played and was like "holy shit this has just become a Kojima game". It was awesome.

kojima

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who and what

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hideo Kojima is the creator of the Metal Gear Solid video game franchise. The games have a plot critical of the war economy/racket. I think the original commenter is saying that the games got their criticism of the war economy right, but their depiction of women was sexist and/or oversexualised.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't know who Hideo Kojima is?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

am i expected to

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

gigachad

freeze-gamer s in shambles

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's ok not to know. I think it's extremely odd to think most people would know.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I agree

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's kind of a household name in videogames so it's unusual not to know.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean if you don't play many videogames it's not unusual.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sure but that's like 50-60% of western populations and 36% of global so. Not sure about america specifically but I know the european figure off the top of my head and it's 51%, my gut assumption would be the US is higher?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's very high everywhere, though my understanding is a lot of people game on their phones, like more than 50%, and it's been a while since there was a mobile MGS game.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I do play video games but not particularly those video games. I long forgotten the name of Hideo Kojima which i play like one game 25 years ago and i didn't even liked it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm just kind of surprised. He's such a huge cultural influence for a lot of people. His Metal Gear Solid games are very well regarded both for their gameplay, but also for their commentary on modern politics, especially the MIC, that ping-pongs from utterly bizarre and surreal and frighteningly prophetic.