The White House is making arcade games racist
The White House is making arcade games racist
白宫正在让街机游戏变得种族主义
Tetris isn’t happy about it. 俄罗斯方块（Tetris）对此很不高兴。
The PR masterminds at the White House just released a series of vaguely policy-themed “arcade” games, some of which are racist — and modeled on real games whose copyright holders may not be too happy to be associated with the MAGA agenda. 白宫的公关策划团队刚刚发布了一系列主题模糊的“街机”游戏，其中一些带有种族主义色彩，且模仿了现实中的游戏。而这些游戏的版权方可能并不乐意与“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）议程扯上关系。
The Tetris Company has already responded to “Build the Wall,” which is obviously modeled on the famous puzzle game. In the Trump administration’s game, the player has to stack interlocking shapes to stop a “zombie border siege” along the southern border. Aliens — the administration’s preferred term for noncitizens, and the subject of previous grotesque attempts at humor — run across the screen, trying to get to America before the gates are shut. 俄罗斯方块公司（The Tetris Company）已经对“筑墙”（Build the Wall）游戏做出了回应，该游戏显然模仿了这款著名的益智游戏。在特朗普政府的游戏中，玩家必须堆叠互锁的形状，以阻止南部边境的“僵尸边境围攻”。“外星人”（Aliens，这是该政府对非公民的惯用称呼，也是此前其拙劣幽默尝试的主题）在屏幕上奔跑，试图在边境大门关闭前进入美国。
In a statement to The Verge, Tetris spokesperson Kerri Brusca clarified that the company wasn’t involved in the creation of Donald Trump’s game. “For more than 40 years, Tetris has brought people together across generations and cultures through play and joy. The objective of the game has always been to stack with purpose to clear as many lines as possible,” Brusca said. “We are currently reviewing the matter.” 俄罗斯方块公司发言人克里·布鲁斯卡（Kerri Brusca）在给《The Verge》的一份声明中澄清，该公司并未参与唐纳德·特朗普这款游戏的制作。“40多年来，俄罗斯方块通过游戏和快乐将不同世代和文化的人们联系在一起。游戏的目标始终是有目的地堆叠，以尽可能多地消除行数，”布鲁斯卡表示，“我们目前正在审查此事。”
The various companies whose brands the White House ripped off to make and promote these games — including Sega, Nintendo, Xbox, and the Flappy Bird Foundation Group — did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment. 白宫在制作和推广这些游戏时盗用了多个品牌的创意，包括世嘉（Sega）、任天堂（Nintendo）、Xbox 和 Flappy Bird 基金会集团，这些公司均未立即回应《The Verge》的置评请求。
Previously, the Trump administration has gotten in trouble for infringing on others’ copyrights. The Department of Homeland Security has had to delete some of its racist, fancam-esque posts after receiving DMCA takedown requests. 此前，特朗普政府曾因侵犯他人版权而陷入麻烦。国土安全部在收到《数字千年版权法》（DMCA）的删除请求后，不得不删除了其发布的一些带有种族主义色彩、类似粉丝剪辑（fancam）风格的帖子。
The purpose of Trump’s interminable memes, games, and other gimmicks is manifold: to drum up support for Trump’s policies, to entertain his groyper fans, and, of course, to troll the libs. (One game, “Rio Run,” is like snake, except the head of the snake is a Border Patrol agent who collects migrants as he moves across the screen. Ha ha, get it? The president is deporting people.) But the games also inadvertently highlight the administration’s policy failures, not to mention the hypocrisy of Trump’s agenda. 特朗普那些没完没了的表情包、游戏和其他噱头的目的多种多样：为特朗普的政策争取支持，娱乐他的极端支持者（groyper），当然，还有嘲弄自由派。（其中一款名为“里约快跑”的游戏类似于贪吃蛇，只不过蛇头是一名边境巡逻人员，他在屏幕上移动时会“收集”移民。哈哈，明白了吗？总统正在驱逐移民。）但这些游戏也无意中凸显了该政府的政策失败，更不用说特朗普议程的虚伪性了。
Trump’s efforts to build a wall through protected lands in the Southwest, including Big Bend National Park, has been met with mass opposition — even from Republicans in deep-red Texas who form a key part of the MAGA coalition. 特朗普试图在包括大弯曲国家公园（Big Bend National Park）在内的西南部受保护土地上筑墙的努力，遭到了大规模反对——甚至连作为 MAGA 联盟核心部分的深红州德克萨斯州的共和党人也表示反对。
Other games are similar reminders of how Trump’s policies are backfiring, even on the right. 其他游戏也同样提醒人们，特朗普的政策是如何适得其反的，即使是在右翼阵营内部也是如此。
There’s “Flappy Bill,” a play on Flappy Bird that involves getting a bald eagle to deliver a piece of legislation to the National Mall. Cute! Except the administration has rolled back protections under the Endangered Species Act, the landmark legislation that helped rescue bald eagles from the brink of extinction. The administration’s supposed revamping of the National Mall has also been unpopular. 游戏中还有一款“飞翔的比尔”（Flappy Bill），这是对《Flappy Bird》的戏仿，内容是让一只秃鹰将一份法案送到国家广场。可爱吧！但问题是，该政府已经撤销了《濒危物种法案》下的保护措施，而正是这项具有里程碑意义的立法帮助秃鹰从灭绝边缘被拯救回来。该政府对国家广场所谓的改造也一直不受欢迎。
In “Supply Line,” reminiscent of the game Tapper, you have to knock processed foods — those filled with additives, seed oils, and artificial colorings — off a conveyor belt before they get fed to schoolchildren. But Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn’t managed to do any of that. Besides issuing a likely AI-drafted report for his “Make America Healthy Again” commission, RFK Jr.’s main role at HHS has been to roll back vaccine recommendations and food safety regulations. The administration’s gutting of the Food and Drug Administration made it harder to investigate the spread of cyclosporiasis, the so-called explosive diarrhea parasite, earlier this year. 在让人想起游戏《酒保》（Tapper）的“供应线”（Supply Line）中，你必须在加工食品（那些充满添加剂、种子油和人工色素的食品）被喂给学童之前，将它们从传送带上敲掉。但卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪（Robert F. Kennedy Jr.）并没有做到这一点。除了为他的“让美国再次健康”（Make America Healthy Again）委员会发布一份很可能是由人工智能起草的报告外，小肯尼迪在卫生与公众服务部的主要工作就是撤销疫苗建议和食品安全法规。该政府对食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的削弱，使得今年早些时候调查环孢子虫病（一种所谓的“爆炸性腹泻”寄生虫）的传播变得更加困难。
If anything, these games serve as a great reminder that our well-being is a big joke to the president and the people who surround him. 如果说这些游戏有什么作用的话，那就是它们很好地提醒了我们：对于总统及其周围的人来说，我们的福祉不过是一个巨大的笑话。