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Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

He outed himself as an ignorant fool.

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[–] fulg@lemmy.world 154 points 22 hours ago (4 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

"Yo, Charlie got PONGED"

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 49 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yup, famously before that, violence didn't exist at all.

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[–] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Games of Mass Destruction

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

These guys were evil! 😯

[–] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the mass shootings are just emulation of the mass violence the ultrarich inflict on everyone on a daily basis.

I hope the shooter's name is Mario Brother

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[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 14 hours ago

so the cheap access to assault weapons that NO ONE FUCKING NEEDS is not a factor? Also, the lack of mental health care? Yeah... right....

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago

Oh we're doing this one again? Good luck, things have changed since the last time you dusted this one off.

[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 18 hours ago

i blame mass shootings for video games

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 120 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

this is so obviously false it's enfuriating coming from the head of HHS. Lots of coutnries all over the world have the same violent video games we do without the mass shootings.

“Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago,” said Kennedy, 71. “We have a mass shooting every 23 hours.”

“There are many things that happened in the 1990’s that could explain these,” he added. “One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs... there could be connections with video games and social media.”

okaaaaaaay... follow that train of thought just a liiiiiitle bit further bobby. Do you think Switzerland is stuck in the 80s or something?

[–] mohab@piefed.social 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

train of thought

bobby

You got yourself in a cul-de-sac there. The worm ate the train long ago 😂

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

God damnit Bobby...

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 36 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

There was one helluva gamer in Utah today.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 20 hours ago

I live in Utah and have a coworker that was supposed to be there for class tonight. Wild times...

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

How many more until he can call in a drone or an air strike?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What did they tell him about how his father and uncle died?

Probably the truth, just like they told him the truth about vaccines.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

The Kennedy assassinations were clearly the result of the Hula Hoop.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 31 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Games don't cause mass shootings.

Conservatives(policies) do.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 16 points 22 hours ago

Conservatives (reactionary fear mongering) do.

[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

Are we really restarting this conversation for the FUCKING millionth time???

[–] Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 19 hours ago

This man is an absolute moron, him saying this is no different from the uneducated garbage he’s been spewing

[–] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Christ, man. It’s either “god had a plan” or “captain price from mw2 indirectly shot the suspect, your honor”

[–] MelloniDev@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't work last time, won't work this time

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It actually galvanized people against the movement and made a younger generation more politically aware, including many probably seeing (voluntarily even) their first testimony to congress as they flipped over from MTV to CSPAN to watch some of their favorite rockers.

So yeah good call GOP

They are really in the shitter with ideas, they have a lot of levers right now, but they are truly staggering under their own weight. Their coalition isn't going to last forever.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

I played a lot of Pac-Man and now I'm munching for pills in dark rooms while listening to repetitive music. It's true, I love techno parties. Joke, I barily ever played Pac-Man.

I also played a lot of age of empires. Now I annoy everyone with "whololoooo" all the time. Joke, no I don't.

Tap for spoilerWhololooooo

It probably has nothing to do with widely available guns.

Here in NL we don't have that, but we do have loads of mass shootings. Oh wait, no we don't. But we don't have violent video games. Oh wait, yes we do.

Tap for spoilerWhololooooo

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago
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[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago

it’s guns.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No, Nazis like you do. Look at Charlie Kirk. Nazi down.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

Even if you've never heard of video games, you can tell this is total bullshit by the fact that RFK jr is saying it.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jack Thompson

For those who don't remember this guy, he was pretty obnoxious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)

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