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    I can believe it. It takes some brain worms to willingly submit oneself to the insanity that is CoD “plots”

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        Because USians have a victim complex and salivate at the idea of being invaded by one of the “bad guys”. It’s projection; the West wants to pretend other countries will do to us what we do to them in order to justify all the heinous shit we’ve ever done. Red Dawn, the inspiration for the CoD Russian invasion, is the perfect example of it.

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            Oh, it most certainly is. Every game is centered around glorifying the US and its allies. Even when they try to be nuanced, showing some kind of gray area, it’s completely overshadowed by how righteous the West is and how bad our enemies are. The closest they can ever come is saying “both sides bad”. Doesn’t matter if it’s showing the Red Army as evil and/or incompetent butchers in WWII (in CoD:2, they just use the same wretched tropes and writing from that propaganda film, Enemy at the Gates, including the Red Army being poorly equipped and NKVD officers giving speeches while executing fleeing soldiers), or if it’s justifying drone strikes and torture against rebels in the Global South (the Modern Warfare series is absolutely polluted with this). Cherry on top is the Black Ops series, which literally played up propaganda of Soviet brainwashing, sleeper agents, and other crazy shit that never happened but is just designed to justify our horrible involvement in Cuba, Vietnam, and anywhere else.

            The entire series is just designed to glorify our own forces and justify our wars with enemies. Best show of nuance they have is in an effort to humanize the enemy by making it seem like it’s only their evil governments that are the bad guys, the regular citizens just wanna be like us. It’s the same with Battlefield, and probably most other military franchises in the West.

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        Their invasion of the US actually goes pretty well all things considered.

        If only a protagonist wasn’t there.

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    Surprising how the constant depiction of people of color, and/or Russians as enemies makes for the racial relations of a brain in formation.

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    Yeah… it’s no surprise that you are going to come across people who on the bottom of the barrel in a game series built around Western propaganda.

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    Surprising how the constant depiction of people of color, and/or Russians as enemies makes for the racial relations of a brain in formation.

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    I mean obviously, who would have guessed it lmao.

    But why would Minecraft players be racist? The creator is wall material but I don’t see anything wrong with game itself.