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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)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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