- cross-posted to:
- nintendo@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- nintendo@lemmy.world
The Department of Homeland Security has sparked a Pokémon backlash after using the kids’ game to promote ICE deportation raids.
The DHS social media team posted a video to X on Monday of dramatic immigration raids—including one that was bungled yet still posted online by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—spliced with animé imagery from the popular Japanese cartoon and collectibles game, which is part owned by Nintendo.
If Nintendo shows anything less than their usual unjustly overzealous, orders-of-magnitude-above-necessary litigiousness, that’s a very bad sign.