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"Japan is not happy with the US government's habit of using images from Japanese videogames in its political rhetoric, which has included racist, war-mongering social media posts" (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago

When Trump uses American copyrighted stuff, he gets sued.

If Japan wants Trump to stop they have to start a war.

That's what Trump wants. Another war.

[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago

Nintendo is fully capable of suing Trump for it, they just don’t like suing people who can afford attorneys fees.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

Trump can't afford discovery. Too much truth for him.

[-] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 4 points 1 day ago

The us government has a base in Japan. They can be asked to leave. This would piss the CIA off so much.

[-] Promethiel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Fuckers took that into account. A pull out leaves that side of the contraband network still functional, as it does after every pull-out from any CIA operation.

The actual military might be peeved, but probably be secretly glad they don't have to pretend to police their troops on leave from also eating the Japanese crayons and committing heinous crimes.

Pokemon, Mario, the IPs of some relevance yet for the youth. Which US alphabet soup agency do you suppose put their use forward? It may be as infuriating as if it was 'just for the lols', but it absolutely isn't just for the lols.

The entire thing is part of the currently ongoing digital offshoot of COINTELPRO.

[-] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 1 points 23 hours ago

Feels more gladio than cointelpro.

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