The White House continues to use video games to promote the US bombing of Iran. After Call of Duty, now they use GTA: San Andreas.
This one is ours timeline is total poshizio. Or so it seems when you realize that the White House’s official X profile is using video games to make America’s bombing of Iran fun.
First, earlier this week they used Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III as a fake footage in the process of ordering an airstrike, and added a scoring effect for each target hit in the actual bombing footage. As if that wasn’t bizarre and disgusting in itself, now they’ve gone even further from the White House – using materials from GTA: San Andreas to portray the bombing as cool thing.
The allusion is actually to the popular San Andreas meme “Ah shit, here we go again“, given that the USA has not had this kind of action the first rodeobut in addition music from San Andreas is used and the “Wasted” screen is added to the recordings, which in GTA games is shown when dying.
Even if you see nothing wrong with video games being tied to real world military actions like this, the fact of the matter is that this is extremely hypocritical of the Trump administration. It is Trump, still in his first term, blamed violence in the US on “violent video games”. Whenever there is a problem in the US, violent games are a scapegoat for politicians to avoid responsibility. And when the American government literally promotes its military actions on the other side of the world, then those same “violent video games” are no longer controversial. On the contrary, they are good for promotion.
Of course, we are aware that behind the official X profile of the White House is not the literal US government, but a community manager who “knows memes”. However, the government does not distance itself from such announcements, so in the end it does not matter who publishes them.