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Pretty wild guess but maybe to prevent radicalization and recruitment? If you have a game like this and get the players onto your discord, you might move over s
by echoangle 2y ago
Pretty wild guess but maybe to prevent radicalization and recruitment? If you have a game like this and get the players onto your discord, you might move over some of them to do something in real life.
- lordofgibbons 2y agoAre people still seriously clinging on to the "video games cause violence" idea?
- wiseowise 2y agoI was skeptical about whole thing, but then getting Jewish pogroms in the middle of freaking Amsterdam in 2024 wasn’t on my bingo card. Some things are better be blocked for good. And before I get “but Counter-Strike!” - it is set in imaginary universe with made up factions.
- ricardobeat 2y ago> pogrom: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group Not what happened in Amsterdam by any measure. Israelis started a row on the streets and got backslash from the local Arab population. No casualties.
- cempaka 2y agoEven this is soft pedaling it a bit. A bunch of soccer hooligans chanting genocidal slogans got their teeth kicked in.
- wds 2y agoCompletely untrue. https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/IDF https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/IDF https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/SEAL_Team_6 https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/SEAL_Team_6 https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/GSG-9 https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/GSG-9 https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/FBI https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/FBI
- wiseowise 2y agoOn T side. You’ve listed good guys.
- ckdksndbd 2y agoA pogrom with zero casualties. What’s next, a holocaust of taunting? When a government is committing genocide, you can expect people will have strong feelings about it.
- wiseowise 2y agoWell, at least one tram got destroyed. Maybe it was some sort of tram genocide/pogrom? Rest in peace.
- defrost 2y agoYou do realise the bulk of video showing packs of dark dressed soccer thugs chasing down victims were showing Israeli fans chasing local Arabs? I'm not sure what happened where you live but here several networks apologised and withdrew their earlier reports. https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/amsterdam/104615398 https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/amsterdam/1046153...
- Aeolun 2y agoI dunno who this guy is, but I really like his facial expressions as he describes this stuff.
- defrost 2y agoPaul Barry - very much a veteran Australian news reporter and on again off again host of Media Watch for decades - an Australian weekly short that rips into print, tv, radio, and internet media reporting across the board and takes it to task for accuracy, dodgy deals, misrepresentation, etc. The facial expressions are great .. the weekly shows are only 20 minutes or so and still soak up the time of 10 staff or so, including KC's (King's Counsel Lawyers (top ranked in Commonwealth countries)) that donate a fair bit of time gratis to double check statements and liabilities. They do f*ck up on occassion but it's a solid show for ripping into the (media) pricks with substance and receipts. That segment is from the very last of Barry's hosting sadly, he's retiring after a storied career that includes being fired (and later rehired) for asking tough questions.
- keybored 2y ago> I was skeptical about whole thing, but then getting Jewish pogroms in the middle of freaking Amsterdam in 2024 wasn’t on my bingo card. Thanks for irresponsibly spreading falsehoods without any factual basis. Very cool.
- aguaviva 2y agobut then getting Jewish pogroms in the middle of freaking Amsterdam in 2024 An utterly ludicrous description of the actual events.