https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-uses-call-duty-002900633.htmlFollowing the recent escalation of the United States and Israel's joint military campaign against Iran, the White House has taken to X to share a video promoting its ongoing operations. In addition to real footage from recent attacks, the video includes a killstreak animation from 2023's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.The video begins with a Call of Duty player activating an MGB (Mass Guided Bombs) killstreak--a hidden killstreak that can only be issued by players who get 30 kills without dying. Once activated, players have only 10 seconds before the match ends, with the team that launched the attack emerging victorious. The remainder of the White House video features numerous clips from the United State's recent military strikes against Iran with accompanying kill scores. This video was shared the same day that thousands in Iran attended a funeral mourning the estimated 175 civilians who were killed in these attacks, which demolished an elementary school. The White House denies responsibility for this particular attack, but is reportedly looking into it, per The Guardian.GameSpot reached out to Activision for comment, but has yet to hear back from the company.It remains unclear if Activision or its parent company, Microsoft, consented to the White House using footage from Call of Duty. Microsoft has come under scrutiny in recent years for its alleged support of Israel's involvement in what has widely been recognized as a genocide in Palestine. Last year, The Guardian reported that Israel's military surveillance agency heavily relies upon Microsoft's cloud and Azure services to extensively monitor Palestinians. Microsoft denied this accusation, writing in a blog post that it conducted both internal and external reviews and "found no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza."
I envy gamer Hegseth, having real weapons and blood to play with
>>1494422I wonder if they accidentally published something meant for internal use to calm down Congressman Bloodfeast. He hasn't seen a video game since his grandkids showed him one in the 70s, so it's not like he'd know it's not real.
THEY USED A VIDEO GAME KILLSTREAK TO MEME ABOUT THEIR IRL KILLSTREAK THIS BARELY QUALIFIES AS NEWSI CANT WAIT UNTIL PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY GREW UP WITH MEMES ARE IN CHARGE, SHOULD BE FIRE. ONLY A FEW MORE YEARS
>>1494422It's like the Pokemon ICE video. Meme magic.
>>1494422I'm sure the families of the six dead servicemen and the thousands of American civilians who have been abandoned in the ME will take comfort in seeing how serious the administration is taking this
>>1494475Do you really not find it disgusting to compare real world military action, which has killed many civilians, including a school full of children, to a video game like this? That doesn't trigger revulsion in you?
>>1494476>meme magicSo the Russians are behind it like they were behind everything /pol/ did in the 2016 election?
>>1494486I sure wish the Indian shills would stop spammin 4chan because 'it helped get Trump elected'.It's been a decade of spamming from losers.
>>1494486Worse. People who want to be Russians are behind it. These idiots currently in charge of DoD look at the second army in Ukraine, see them pretending to be strong at every opportunity while getting their shit pushed in, and think 'wow, I want to be like that'. You can see it in a lot of places. The President and his cabinet are busy taking a hatchet to our current system and hope to replace it with a system where brown-nosing and kickbacks get you promoted, where the President is always right, where everyone on their side looks strong especially if they aren't, where elections don't matter and the legislature is weak. I don't care how 'based' or 'trad' it is, a country set up in that way is going to do nothing but destroy itself repeatedly forever - just like Russia.
>>1494482War now shares a lot in common with video games. Ukrainian drone operators literally get points for their confirmed kills, which they can use to buy better weapons and supplieshttps://mod.gov.ua/en/news/army-of-drones-bonus-program-delivers-results-nearly-820-000-russian-targets-hit-in-2025-says-mykhailo-fedorovSince a real war has real killstreaks now, people are going to meme about it, there's no point in fighting reality. And for the record, this isn't some new degeneracy. Boy's toys have always resembled their father's weapons, just like boy's athletics have always had a role in prepping men for combat.
>>1494504You're disgusting. Can you really not concieve of a world that treats anything with the gravity it deserves? >"There's no point in fighting reality" Stop treating the world as though everything is a forgone conclusion. Better things are possible.>People are going to meme about itPeople may, and that's fine, but the government should not. These are matters of life and death, the people calling the shots should absolutely not be cracking jokes and "memeing" about the deaths of innocents. It's fucking disgusting, and while I know 4chan is being astroturfed, it's appalling how many people fall for it.
>>1494530Memes are part of soft power expression now. Deal with it boomer.
>>1494564Much more organic then the faux Democrat protests they report on the news.But hey, I'm still laughing from the No Kings one. What fucking children. The regulars barely even showed up for those.
>>1494422The “good day fellow kids” energy of this administration continues to amaze and dismay.
>>1494593you're a faux american
>>1494530>Better things are possible.No.Israel and or the United States and/or Europe Will be hit with a dirty bomb Dirty War (2004): Brit movie.Radioactive materials used in medicine are being accumulated now by terrorists/freedom fighters for just such a bomb.Freedom is gained at the price of blood
