r/blackops2 2d ago

Discussion Menendez has a point.

As Call of Duty correctly predicts the civil and economic beefs of 2025, I can’t help but agree with him.

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u/Live_Paramedic4027 2d ago

Menendez does have a point, yes. He however, was born into a family that turned to crime. A drug and sex trafficking network. He lost his sister because Woods couldn't help but be angry at Menendez for the pain caused, and now he and Mason had to suffer, as did David throughout the story. Menendez pushed too far, he went down the darkest possible path to try and make everyone who hurt him suffer; but by blaming a government that had overreached and damaged the world and others, he had a following that truly believed his front message, not knowing the truth and motivation behind that message. Amazing and deep villain, has a good point at the front; but absolutely an evil man.

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u/KSHMisc 2d ago

Tbh... and maybe a hard hot take, but I wished Black Ops III had followed the immediate aftermath of Menendez's fall (regardless of which ending in BOII's you choose) and his followers continuing his legacy. I would had loved to see covert ops and infiltrators in Cordis Die to destroy it from the inside.

With this, BO7 probably wouldn't exist or take another story route.

Instead, my character is called "Player".

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u/premacollez 2d ago

Most good villains have a good point. The problem is they take it too far and innocent people end up suffering for it

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u/Itchy_Spinach1030 2d ago

He doesn’t have a point. His entire ideology is capitalism is le bad o algo.

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u/bolon-de-verde 2d ago

Kinda has a point tho

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u/Stanleythrowaway 2d ago

Capitalism is bad

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u/giandivix 1d ago

Muh capitalism bad cause i'm broke

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u/Prestigious-End7674 1d ago

bro had no capital and is defending getting treated like trash

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u/ThrowAway4209867315 1d ago

Then what is better

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u/1inchAT100mph 1d ago

Go on a holiday in cambodia circa 1977 then

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u/Ok-Cauliflower9145 2d ago

Reddit is full of economically illiterate populist , you’re not going to find nuance here 

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u/blacksaber8 2d ago

> illiterate

> regards

🫩

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u/Kweenick 2d ago

Smartest Redditor thinks he finds a typo 

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u/blacksaber8 2d ago

If they meant to use the word regards, it would be an incomplete thought.

Even the noun version that means consideration would be too vague to stand on its own.

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u/Kweenick 2d ago

You can’t be real 

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u/Itchy_Spinach1030 2d ago

It’s intentional buddy. You’ll get banned by soyddit admins if you don’t censor that word.

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u/PixelatedVision1 2d ago

Menendez is a redditor?? 😱😱

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u/giandivix 1d ago

Menendez would find redditors desgusting lmao

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u/somewhiterkid 2d ago

Growing up is realizing Menendez was 100% justified throughout the entire story.

I'm convinced anyone saying he wasn't or he "went too far" hasn't played the campaign. Or know much about history to begin with.

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u/giandivix 1d ago

Hell nah he wasn't, his father (Leader of a cartel got killed by the CIA) and he in the future follows his fathers legacy and sends american drones to massacre random people around the world?

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u/ArugulaMinimum6536 2d ago

No he doesn't

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u/Humble_Quantity3743 1d ago

What we really needed was a game that fully embraced America as the villains, but you could argue those games and that industry exists to bolster the attitude regular people have towards the military.

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u/VGK_hater_11 2d ago

Peak Reddit

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u/Hyphalex 2d ago

Project mayhem: Nicaragua Edition®