Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.
He outed himself as an ignorant fool.
RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.
Submitted 21 hours ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 hours ago
He’s been doing that his entire life.
readyno@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Hey, that’s an insult to ignorant fools
chrislowles@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
what in the 1993
cheloxin@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
It’s just a rehash of the same silly satanic panic in the 80s. Same idea, different scapegoat, slightly different thing it supposedly causes. But the repugnants have a multi decade history of this shit and trot it out every 5-10 years
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
I know, right? Jack Thompson called, he wants his shtick back.
carlossurf@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Yeah sure its not idiots like this calling democrate child rapists thats doing it
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
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.
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bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Ask Jack Thompson how that line of reasoning worked out for him
MelloniDev@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Didn’t work last time, won’t work this time
BanMe@lemmy.world 13 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 right now. Their coalition isn’t going to last forever.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
it’s guns.
fittedsyllabi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
RFK Jr. is the epitome of The Weekly World News.
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Only someone completely disconnected from the rest of the world could take this argument seriously. Every country on the planet has access to violent video game, but somehow we have the most gun violence outside of a war zone in the world. But clearly it’s the video games. 🤦♂️
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
It’s straight disinformation. Nevermind that everyone else plays the same games, let’s cherry pick the one western nation that has a comparable number of guns per capita and not think about that any further.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
we have the most gun violence
If we look at “intentional homicide rate” (choice of weapon agnostic), the US is 66th and just above Greenland. I think this statistic is better than “gun deaths” since it excludes suicides and accidental deaths and looks at intentional murder.
The number is way higher than it should be, but probably way better than most assume given the news.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
why should we exclude suicides and accidents?
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Fair enough, but still this is a bull shit argument.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
No, Nazis like you do. Look at Charlie Kirk. Nazi down.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Hey, dude was a POS but I’ll never condone violence.
Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
This man is an absolute moron, him saying this is no different from the uneducated garbage he’s been spewing
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
His Brain worm is right. I remember when Pong first came out, and I’d get so pissed off, I wanted to kill somebody.
tal@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
Jack Thompson
For those who don’t remember this guy, he was pretty obnoxious.
ChimpChamp22@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
WhatYearIsIt.jpgLost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 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.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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 4 hours ago
The Kennedy assassinations were clearly the result of the Hula Hoop.
Cheems@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Hey fuck you…I know video games didn’t cause shit…it seems like I ate that part of his dumbass brain.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Remember when Mortal Kombat came out and we all started ripping each other’s heads off and pulling out still beating hearts? Those were the days.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 16 hours ago
Well, if you take away video games we’ll have to find entertainment somewhere
selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Played adventure games and fighting games growing up. Never in my entire forty-something years have I even thrown a punch at anyone.
Japan LOVES video games, you don’t see them being brought up for the reason they have sooo maaany murders. Oh wait…
(Now I play MMOs and I never cast a spell at anyone either, in case y’all wondering…)
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
World War 2? Nanking? Unit 451. They were plenty messed up.
freeman@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
So you are saying videogames fixed them?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They also gave us anime. I wonder what effect that has had on the world. Nyaaa~!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I played tons of first person shooters, GTA, etc, and I also have never thrown a punch at anyone.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ve punched multiple people, but I know I punched people before I ever had a game console or computer.
Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Christ man, it’s either “god had a plan” or “captain price from mw2 indirectly shot the suspect, your honor”
HubertManne@piefed.social 20 hours ago
If its a stupid idea. RFK jr. has had it.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
the single biggest reason for American hegemony is Grenada was pacman
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Yeah. When all y’all are talking about how we need government intervention and legislature to get you what you want?
THIS is why some of us are very wary of that and don’t think “We are just idea people. Other people can make it a law” is at all a good idea.
normalexit@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Jfc, this again?
BanMe@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
His office leaked his plans to link video games to behavioral issues earlier this week, so he already had the press release ready, he just swapped some words around.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Wolfenstein was pretty good, ngl
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 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…