I never let my sons play Call of Duty. I was in the military and I saw firsthand eager young men, primed by the primitive shooter games of the late 90s, charge headfirst into battle only to die, get wounded and disabled for life, or come home so broken some of them took their own lives later.

Call of Duty wasn’t primitive. There are whole body gear setups, VR headsets, everything to make you feel like you’re really there, in the moment.

But what’s missing is the sensory immersion. The smell of smoke, fuel, fire, burning rubber and metal. The sounds of screaming, rapid gunfire, wails, crashes, explosions. The unmistakable scent of copper, the metallic odor of human blood. The sight of carnage in real humans, twisted limbs, unimaginable gore, exposed tendons, muscles blown to pulp, and the inimitable expression of agony on a still-living victim. Watching the soul leave a person’s eyes. To feel death in the air so thick you must wade through it.

These young men have been primed for this without realizing they themselves are utterly disposable to the regime. The regime doesn’t care about the agent’s culpability, and if and when power flips back, they won’t defend those street thugs. They’ll fold in and only defend the ivory castle personnel. All of those goons will either pay for their crimes, in court or in the streets or in their own minds, or they’ll be put down in the streets by civilians who’ve had enough. And the regime will merely kick their body to the side and keep moving, after exploiting the carcass for political gain and to justify more slaughter.

All of this to say; this is the ONLY video I’ve seen with this clip, and I generally don’t tout something as accurate without three separate verifiable sources. That’s the rule. So I’m not saying this is actually what was said, but we’d be absolute fools if we rejected the premise that these young men’s brains have been hijacked, intentionally and with malice, by a propaganda machine coupled with a video game industry that was only more than happy to feed their blood lust for big bucks.

I’m not absolving them of guilt. Absolutely not. Each of these men should be tried and hanged for their crimes against humanity. But we must examine the conditions that led to such a mass hijacking of human brains and hearts with this as the goal.

None of this is accidental. This was all by design. These young men may as well be the AI robot soldiers from movies considering their degree of brainwashing. They have been immersed their entire lives, from Christian Nationalists invading and reshaping churches to the rise of increasingly insular communities throughout the south and midwest, and trained to hate liberals, to see guns as playthings, and to see combat as a game.

I’ve seen these men before.

Calling anyone with brown skin a “r-gh—d” and plunging into battle with eager ferocity.

And I watched them come home silent, broken, their eyes hollow pits in their heads. Some of them didn’t live long enough to realize the error of their ways. They died heady in battle, blown apart by an IED after screaming into the void and charging their humvee ahead into the “righteous crusade” they came here to pursue.

Only the demented among them celebrated their kills in Baghdad and Fallujah, men who would later beat their wives and abuse their kids to the point they ended up in their late 30’s alone and bitter, when lo and behold, their golden president asks them to come back out for one more round of play.

So the demented older men join the brainwashed younger men in “the field”, which is now our American city streets. Everything they’ve been trained to hate. Big cities. Liberals. Democrats. Brown people. Black people. Women. SO MANY FUCKING WOMEN who won’t shut up, who keep screaming in their faces, so many women, everywhere we go they’re screeching at them and the demented older men and the brainwashed younger men have been subliminally taught to hate one thing more than any else, more than the brown people and black people and city folk… and that is uppity, mouthy women.

These men are primed to explode.

What they need to see more than anything else, what we witnessed yesterday, what is NECESSARY, OKAY, is for them to see more MEN coming out to face them. When a man stepped between them and the women they were CHASING to abuse, they exploded on him in fury.

We need more men in the streets. ESPECIALLY WHITE MEN OMG WE NEED Y’ALL!!

White men. Come out. COME ON. Come replace Alex Pretti TENFOLD. PLEASE.