• Alloi@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    i play arma a lot, mostly with americans. have for years. i have seen active service military members, veterans, police, even ICE agents play these games. ive seen them come in with their “trump 2016, trump 2020, trump 2024, trump 2028” name tags, ive seen white supremacists use these games as ideological recruitment and brainwashing grounds. pedos too. antivaxxers, bible thumpers, you name it.

    seen it all.

    the VAST majority of american players are absolutely brainwashed morons. if they cant win at the game, they try to argue about why free health care, womens rights, gays and trans rights, are somehow plots of the evil devil worshipping jewish shadow government, or some shit like that. basically, instagram coded level conspiracies. surface leve depth. no room for nuance or source based facts. just vibe based belief systems.

    these are the same idjits who genuinely believe canada (an extremely capitalist nation, with an extremely capitalist leader and admin) is a communist hellscape that needs freedom injected into it.

    its a relatively small sampling of people, however, and a good place to take a sample to see into the minds of impressionable youth and service memebers as the new waves of propaganda hit the masses.

    they want to invade canada. they think they need to.

    and they think north koreans are brainwashed. lmao.

    some real orwellian shit.