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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 11

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  1. hobbes64
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    There's a website I discovered from a bluesky post today, which is apparently an SNES-style adventure that mocks Trump and his admin in a creative way. https://www.epicfurious.com/ After a little...

    There's a website I discovered from a bluesky post today, which is apparently an SNES-style adventure that mocks Trump and his admin in a creative way.

    https://www.epicfurious.com/

    After a little research, I found this very clickbaity DailyBeast article about it. Apparently this is done by some artists called "The Secret Handshake" who also made physical arcade machines with the game.

    President Donald Trump has no chance of winning an arcade game that appeared near the Washington D.C. War Memorial on Monday morning.

    Three fully functioning arcade cabinets, plastered with cartoonish paintings of the president, were unveiled near the White House in West Potomac Park on the National Mall.

    Titled Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell, the installations mock the Trump administration’s controversial war propaganda on social media, which has included bizarre video game-style footage, including clips from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

    I haven't played much of the browser game, but my experience doesn't completely match the description given by The Daily Beast so I'm not sure if it's identical.