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US government wants gamers to become air traffic controllers

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"It's not a game," transportation secretary Sean Duffy says: "Its [sic] a career!"

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The US government is once again posting videos targeting gamers, but in a surprising twist it's not using them to promote wars of aggression or gutter racism. Instead, it's hoping to convince them to sign up to become air traffic controllers.

"YOU can be the future of air traffic control," US secretary of transportation Sean Duffy said on X, in a message complete with police car light and googly-eye emojis. "It’s not a GAME, its [sic] a CAREER."

The video was subsequently retweeted by the US Federation Aviation Administration and White House X accounts.

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