Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.
Battlefield and CoD are responsible for war?
Oh jeez, I glad they didn’t have video games in 1914, otherwise they might have killed a bunch of people!
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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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 hours ago
Crime in the US peaked in 1993… when Doom first came out. Then it started dropping until recently.
Conclusion: violent video games cause a drop in crime.
untorquer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
But it peaked the same year Doom came out. Obviously Doom was the cause of the peak!
AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Ooh, so original. Going back to those age old talking points eh. So fresh, so new. Why does anyone listen to these wind bags?
echodot@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Well he’s right.
Until the invention of video games no one ever killed anyone ever. Then pong came along, and it was mass murder every other day.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
RFK Jr do better…Tylenol killed 7 people in the 90s, Kirk was obviously killed by Tylenol.
rozodru@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Remember when Coloumbine happened and politicians started blaming DOOM (a several year old game at that point) and Quake? Hell didn't they also try to blame the Matrix simply because the shooters were wearing trench coats? meanwhile the film came out like what? one or two weeks before the shootings?
Politicians just LOVE their scapegoats.
Bosht@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I mean, typical boomer shit from an ignorant boomer. I’m not surprised at all.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Back to the 90s.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Hear me out…James Tiberius Kirk was supposed to be a descendant of Charles Aswipe Kirk. Slowly these photos will fade away and be replaced by photos of Christopher Pike.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Then we’d be in a timeline where Spock dies instead, which ends up much worse. (per Strange New Worlds)
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I concur
fulg@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yup, famously before that, violence didn’t exist at all.
J92@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
No but his dad and uncle were still alive.
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Games of Mass Destruction
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
“Yo, Charlie got PONGED”
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
These guys were evil!
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Oh wow, we’re really hitting all the classics.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
We’re almost back to blaming violence on D&D. Exciting times.
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s those skateboards that done it, and the comic books the hooligans are readin. And all them lady folk wearin trousers! It’s the devil I tells ya!
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
They’re communing with Satan, I hear!
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
We’ll get there, just give it time.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
We got time travel before GTA 6
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
When you are trying to avoid the most obvious solutions at all costs, you gave to recycle the greatest hits.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Tipper Gore just got a tingling sensation I’m her naughty bits.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Can’t risk hinting that the policies that they push directly lead to the material conditions that cause these shootings.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
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.
mohab@piefed.social 20 hours ago
train of thought
bobby
You got yourself in a cul-de-sac there. The worm ate the train long ago 😂
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
God damnit Bobby…
mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
God. Are we back on this loop again?!! Incidentally what is the most selling game currently?
A game about a bug with a needle? Super violent.
rozodru@piefed.social 3 hours ago
I'm old enough to remember "Mortal Monday" with the release of the first Mortal Kombat on consoles and everyone was CONVINCED that it would result in kids ripping the spines and hearts out of peoples bodies.
Hell I remember when the original TMNT and Power Rangers was bad because it would encourage kids to do "ninja stuff" to the point where in the UK they changed "Ninja" to "Hero" and eventually Michaelangleo wasn't allowed to use nunchucks anymore because out of ALL the weapons the turtles had, THOSE were a no-no. Sword? Sai? that's fine...even the boe! but heaven forbid a child crafted their own nuncucks!
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
We never left it, its just not been getting as much traction. It also pivoted, to “Video games cause sexual violence towards women”. And yes, GTA was the main culprit as it always has been.
atk007@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.
I agree. Those who miss out on playing violent video games, end up resorting to real life violence later.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago
so does he believe that Swiss people do not play video games, or what
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Charlie Kirk would like to have a word. Go ahead Charlie, Charlie? CHARLIE NO!!!
Hupf@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Charlie yes! Charlie always yes!
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Well, he’s retarded, so take it with a grain of salt.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Jesus K Rist he is stupid.
Better loosen gun laws some more, that’ll fix it.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I thought they figured out a long time ago that it was actually the ADHD medicine causing it
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Spoons made me fat!
quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 14 hours ago
i blame mass shootings for video games
Phegan@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Oh we’re doing this one again? Good luck, things have changed since the last time you dusted this one off.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
There was one helluva gamer in Utah today.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I live in Utah and have a coworker that was supposed to be there for class tonight. Wild times…
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
How many more until he can call in a drone or an air strike?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Been playing bloodborne all week. I still have no desire to go out with a two wagon wheels assembled together with some kind of cog mechanism to toss it over my shoulder and slam it into dogs that are too aggressive for my tastes.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Do not lie to yourself hunter, it calls to you just as it calls to all of us. The need for blood the call of the hunt.
Throws spider Patches into the Walmart
froufox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Dogs or pigs?
FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Microwaved Mel Gibson can fuck all the way off with that nonsense.
Peripherally related:
Wolfram@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Are we really restarting this conversation for the FUCKING millionth time???
daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Funny, Hillary Clinton said the same thing.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
And Tipper Gore in the 90s.
devolution@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Games don’t cause mass shootings.
Conservatives(policies) do.
SoupBrick@pawb.social 18 hours ago
Conservatives (reactionary fear mongering) do.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
The CEO killing was nothing more than a correction of the Free Market. His denial policies went to far, and the market corrected the problem. In addition, his company, and other health companies as well, loosened up their denial policies as a result of the killing, almost certainly avoiding deaths. THAT is the very definition of a Free Market correction.
This is another one. MAGA policies have gone too far, and are promising to go further, despite outrage from the majority of the citizens. Now one of those citizens has attempted to reduce some of the most vicious, treasonous, and influential rhetoric by removing the source. It’s another Free Market correction.
The Free Market is the Conservative religion, you would think they’d be cheering at evidence that it is working.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
Well what is the saying, free market for everyone else, but socialism for themselves.
krimson@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
[deleted]DagwoodIII@piefed.social 21 hours ago
It's called the 'Gish Gallop.'
The best way for the Right to defeat the Left in an argument is to unload a torrent of lies, half truths, complete nonsense, and other disinformation. The idea is to overwhelm the other side's ability to form a coherent response, because there's too much to unpack.
Trump knows Kennedy is an idiot, but he's a useful idiot in that he forces the Left to deal with him.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
It's because we have Trump to deal with that we have him to deal with.
mienshao@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
[deleted]mienshao@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Who the fuck is downvoting this comment? Genuinely why? Is this some pro-trump instance or something? Like wtf I don’t understand what I said wrong…
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Because Brain Worm Jr is Trumps gift to the world.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Who do you think they’ll run in 2028?
Ulrich@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Same reason any other politician is on the news. Because unfortunately they dictate our collective plight as Americans.
Wolf@lemmy.today 3 hours ago
You mean the same dumbass that blames an ingredient that hasn’t been in vaccines in over 20 years for Autism, an ingredient that has never been shown to cause autism in the first place? Does anyone actually take this jackass seriously?
Bobby Kennedy must be rolling over in his grave.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah unfortunately 40% of Americans do take this jackass seriously.