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    It’s a lot faster to put in video game footage than it is to get some B-roll from the military and get it declassified.

    Not that this administration cares about rules tbh.

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          We joke, but that’s one power a sitting president actually does have. Because the classification system was originally implemented by a president and not by congress, it is functionally maintained at-will by the president. That’s why presidents don’t need a security clearance.

          Once that president is out of office, unauthorized possession of classified material is a crime. Depending on the severity of the situation, the amount and nature of the material and the degree of classification, how it’s handled (stored and transported), the deliberateness with which possession is maintained, whether or not unauthorized persons are given access to it, and how the person responds when it comes to their knowledge that they’re still in possession of classified material, the crime could be a felony up to and including espionage and treason.

          Which is what magats don’t get when they point to an empty folder with classified markings that Biden found in an empty drawer in his office from his time as VP, and immediately reported it through the proper channels and turned it in, and they say “see! both sides are the same! it’s a political witch hunt!”

          While trump knowingly and willingly loaded boxes of classified material onto a plane and transported it to his mansion in Florida in the time between losing an election and leaving office, where he stored those boxes in a bathroom even after leaving office (and thus no longer having authorization to possess the material), where he entertained guests including foreign emissaries and businessmen, who gave him lucrative gifts through proxies such as his family members, and were likely given access to that material stored in his bathroom.

          Yeah, not the same thing at all.

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          No one has abilities like this. You’ve never seen. They’re saying, many of them, and it’s been very badly reported.

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    Call of Duty. One of Epstein’s favorites. He even helped bobby kotick name CoD Points so they could use the abbreviation CP

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    Leveraging one of their biggest recruitment tools as additional propaganda? Say it isn’t so. Well luckily, it’s not like CoD is actually on the government payroll, so of course a cease and desist will be following shortly… right?

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    “Hey, you know that simulation where you die horrifically over and over and over? That’s just what this war is like, now with incredible pain, and fewer Doritos. High five.”

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    Just in case theres any kids watching that might think war may not be as glamorous as the video games make it seem. Its EXACTLY like a video game! Sign up today!

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    Real or not. Iran, Khamenei, Venezuela, Maduro, kindergaten girls etc are not the actual targets of our military operations. The main course is Vladimir Putin. If you watch the chain of events closely, this is exactly what you do when you have to take down Vladimir Putin.

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      China, not Russia.

      China got most of their oil from Venezuela and Iran. If they want any in the future they’ll have to play nicer with Trump, and promise not to take Taiwan.

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      Wild mental gymnastics, because they’re in no way targeting Putin, while they are double tapping kindergartners. None of these actions have impacted Putin, and if anything, destabilizing Venezuela has given Russia a bigger foothold on oil sales. If it wasn’t obvious with the Ukrainian war, the US doesn’t care about what Russia is doing.

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        A lot of you fail to see the lines being drawn and will not even recognise it if I show it to you. You already called it “mental gymnastics” proving to me that you have a hard time figuring it out. I already did the hard work for you so you don’t have to and I guess you believed Trump was going after Maduro for drug sales (because Maduro is a pharmaceutical rep. , right?) Maybe that one is easier for you to understand. No “Mental gymnastics” required lol 😄

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          Bring receipts or don’t speak. No one thinks that about Maduro, it’s explained in the 2025 National Security Strategy that it’s because the US can’t compete with China and needs to pull back international presense. If you can’t prove what you say even with your “proof,” there is nothing you need to say. What, did god whisper it to you in a dream? You read it in your tea leaves? Your FBI handler finally reply back?

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            Hmmm, you already got the message. I can not tell you what to do with it. When I told Iranians on Reddit all their leaders will be eliminated, I was insulted. But that’s ok

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      You must use clips from the military propaganda video game in your official White House war propaganda videos to… defeat Putin. Got it.

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    It is real but probably not what people think. They’re not exactly hiding the fact that they’re using footage from a game.

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      Its not about them trying to pass video game footage as real. Them leaning into the video game esthetic is the problem. Its glorifying war, death, and destruction. Its also intentionally appealing to military aged boys/men. Its a sleezy recruitment video

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        I don’t disagree but my point was that usually with news like this it’s someone trying to slip in video game footage as real to potray their military more capable than it really is or to claim that something was hit when it actually wasn’t. I think it’s safe to assume that this is what most people imagine happened here too but this is different. It’s just a PSA - I’m not defending what they’re doing.