Someone tried recruiting my sister and a couple of her Special Olympics teammates into the Marines in Rec Room. I got on my sister’s mic and told the dude to fuck off and to stop preying on obviously vulnerable people. He was so pushy with his recruitment, that he was making my sister uncomfortable. She asked him to stop and he didn’t. After telling the dude off, I advised my sister and her teammates to try a different game for a bit. It was disgusting to see this dude try to get people with intellectual disabilities to literally throw their lives away for a country that’s constantly fucking them over.
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TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 3 months ago
So this isn’t about actual gamers, this about bad actors looking for chuds to recruit through games, which is not a new concept. It used to be chat rooms, and then forums, then social media, now games (as many have social features).
I mean the US military, among others, have been using gaming to recruit people already.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Archelon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hell, Steve Bannon got his start using WoW gold farms to find and target lonely young men.
masquenox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean the US military, among others, have been using gaming to recruit people already.
Somehow I don’t think that’s the kind of extremism they’ll be clamping down on…
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 3 months ago
Didn’t say it was. It was an example of a group that has been recruiting via games, the point of the article.
Maeve@kbin.social 3 months ago
Jack Teixeira.
scottywh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s been happening for over 20 years
Rezbit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Grooming. Non-sexual grooming. Just wonderful.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I was in the Australian airforce cadets from 12 until 18 at which point i went to join the airforce but got am apprenticeship at the same time that paid more.
Many of my friends enlisted though.
Its certainly grooming, though
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I mean they show up to schools to tell kids about military careers and jrotc and stuff.
Maeve@kbin.social 3 months ago
Thanks GW Bush!
masquenox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The recruitment starts the minute they pressure kids into worshipping a piece of colored fabric.
Drusas@kbin.social 3 months ago
Are they pretending the JROTC doesn't exist? The US military absolutely targets minors under the age of seventeen for recruitment.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I think that’s the point, not ignoring it. They don’t have them literally sign up, but they do everything they legally can to capture them.