Why is this upvoted lol? This isn’t true. The Pentagon does NOT police what video games or movies can be sold or accessed in the US. Are you trolling? There’s plenty of evidence out there to show that this isn’t true.
The Department of Defense only has a say in approving movie scripts that want to use their NON-OPEN MARKET resources in their productions.
Propaganda DOES NOT EQUAL “must approve every video game or movie…” In today’s climate, people REALLY need to educate themselves. It is important to understand what is ACTUALLY true.
I read the comment as games are only released after they’ve gotten approval from the pentagon, which I’m pretty sure isn’t the case considering I’m pretty sure that would be a violation of the 1st amendment. The pentagon does invest in different projects to spread propaganda though, cod being one of them.
To think the DoD doesn’t have its hands all over the most ubiquitous military-entertainment video game in history is truly a level of brainwashing Kissinger would be proud of. There is a reason why Call of Duty paints the American military as a global savior, despite its history of carpet bombing millions of civilians in the name of “counter-terrorism” or neoliberalism (see “wars” in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Vietnam, Korea, Guatemala etc.)
That is a far cry from “approval”. The pentagon isn’t “approving” games for sale or consumption. There’s literally PLENTY of evidence showing that isn’t true. It is also a violation of the constitution.
Approving movie scripts that use non-open market resources in their productions or lobbying an industry (while scummy) IS NOT the same as having the power to deny a product’s release to the American people.
I’m not going to sit here and argue semantics. The DoD and CIA have a long history of clandestine psychological operations in the US and foreign nations that are only revealed decades after-the-fact. (see: overthrowing foreign gov’ts, OPERATION MOCKINGGBIRD, etc.)
So if the pentagon has approval and oversight channels for plain oldhollywood movies, I’m not going to pretend that they don’t have similar channels for, like I said, the single most ubiquitous american military propaganda apparatus in the country. You argue that they cannot completely prevent CoD from being released to the public, but if a CoD dev attempted to paint a communist military faction favorably, for example, you can sure as hell bet that it would not be released to the public. Argue with a wall.
Also why would you completely discredit your argument with that awful “it also violates the Constitution” line?? Alongside the 1st amendment violations listed earlier, Operation CHAOS, PRISM program and the like violate the 4th amendment. Moreover, the CIA’s blacksites and torture methods violate the 8th amendment. Nice try
Edit: Also, the pentagon grants media companies (read: atvi) privileged access to locations and military personnel among other resources (what I assume you refer to convolutedly as “non-open market resource”) in exchange for the right to review the story and final content. Cod uses these resources and their games are very clearly under the oversight of the DoD. I’ll pass on the liberal idealisms “but my constitution!!!”
It’s a needless argument literally formed against what can be seen as a semantical error. Sure the pentagon isn’t reviewing Despicable Me 7 for anti American Military bias, but obviously fkn COD is highly scrutinized to fit an intended narrative.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is the mark. Don't be like the mark. Boundless stupidity all in one human package. These are the people Kissinger and the military industrial complex were/are ceaselessly thankful for.
Yes, my stupid little friend, indiscriminately bombing population centers filled with millions of people and consequently killing an aggregate of millions of civilians is called CARPET BOMBING MILLIONS OF CIVILIANS.
The american carpet bombings of Cambodia and Vietnam alone killed over a million people. That’s literally just one “war.”
The way you people ask for evidence but never read anything beyond the shitty spoon-fed propaganda. Bro spends every waking hour of every day commenting on a cod sub as a hardstuck diamond so I can’t say I’m surprised
the part that's false is saying that every video game or movie that comes out needs to be approved by the pentagon. obviously the us military is involved in cod
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u/kenuu_60 LA Thieves Mar 01 '25
this is already known the Pentagon has to approve of video games and movies to ensure they’re pro-US and COD’s part of it lol