Video games as propaganda

[Desslock]

US video game invasion of Venezuela riles Caracas
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/2006062...8qQNkZxFb8C;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--

Everybody knows that US government runs the video game industry.

Next up Mario invades North Korea in: Super Mario Brothers NK: King Coopa Jong Il.

 

[fly]

When has the US NOT used the media as propeganda? I doubt it's government guided tho...

 

[ZRH]

Like we care about Venezuela. Sorry but kicking everyones ass is a full time job and they just dont warrant the attention right now.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

I played the hell outta Mercenaries, I bet the second one is gonna be cool too.
I cant wait to start killin some venesuelian doodz

 

[b_sinning]

I met a girl from Venezuela once. She was hot.

 

[my little brony]

Chavez is a douchebag to the nth degree. He's like Al Gore with his own special ManBearPig that he feels the need to bitch to everyone and their third cousin about. Just whines and whines and whines about how we're planning on invading his country. Please; if the US wanted to invade Venezuela it wouldn't take much more than a few Marine regiments to take Caracas so fast our boys would be drinking Miller Lite and eating cheeseburgers in the palace before Geraldo shows up.

 

[ZRH]

Al Gore

 

[SpyderGST]

Like we care about Venezuela. Sorry but kicking everyones ass is a full time job and they just dont warrant the attention right now.

We want their oil. It's a lot closer than Middle East oil.

 

[fly]

I played the hell outta Mercenaries, I bet the second one is gonna be cool too.
I cant wait to start killin some venesuelian doodz

you just wanna be in thur base killin thur doods

 

[shawndavid]

Jane Goodall and the silverbacks are still enraged over Donkey Kong.

 

[my little brony]

We want their oil. It's a lot closer than Middle East oil.

yea but it probably tastes like moldy beans or something

 

[SpyderGST]

yea but it probably tastes like moldy beans or something

But it'll burn fine in our SUV's and trucks! And it seems we're handing out pickup trucks with ladders on them or lawnmowers in them at the border these days.

 

[ZRH]

We want their oil. It's a lot closer than Middle East oil.

Have you ever seen anything Chavez says?

 

[SpyderGST]

Have you ever seen anything Chavez says?

Yes. I didn't say he was right, just that his country hapens to have a lot of oil.

 

[ZRH]

Yes. I didn't say he was right, just that his country hapens to have a lot of oil.

Canada has a lot of Oil and they are even closer...

 

[SpyderGST]

Canada has a lot of Oil and they are even closer...

Yes they do, but is harder to extract (at the moment).

But, when we drain the Arab states and Venezuela dry, they're next.

/rubbing hands together
/cue maniacial laugh

 

[Galen]

Like we care about Venezuela. Sorry but kicking everyones ass is a full time job and they just dont warrant the attention right now.

“Latin America doesn't matter...people don't give one damn about Latin America.”

- Richard Nixon to a young Donald Rumsfeld

I'm having Venezuela quoted to me as a major success story of socialism by a few of my friends. Good to see a few latin american countries (Peru, Columbia for example) don't care much for his "persistent and flagrant interference" in the politics of other countries in the region.

 

[El Borracho]

soldat is possibly the most propaganda filled game i've ever played.

 

[water]

Venezuela sucks.

Hugo Chavez sucks.

The US not having it's own oil supply sucks.

I don't know who Hugo thinks he is really. He goes around saying how if the US tried to invade Venezuela we would be "soundly beaten" but prior to him gaining power and talking about the power of the Venezuelan military I didn't even know that there WAS a Venezuelan military.

 

[ZRH]

“Latin America doesn't matter...people don't give one damn about Latin America.”

- Richard Nixon to a young Donald Rumsfeld

I'm having Venezuela quoted to me as a major success story of socialism by a few of my friends. Good to see a few latin american countries (Peru, Columbia for example) don't care much for his "persistent and flagrant interference" in the politics of other countries in the region.

Major success story? If this is what socialist success looks like I dont want much to do with:

Wow, he's increased the economy 4% since he was elected. 4% from practically nothing as the 3rd? biggest exporter of oil in the world. Hold the presses!