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Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I guess RWS can add a 'Kennedy Mode' to Postal2 Redux. (in reference to the previous lowest difficulty, Liebermode, named after Senator Joe Lieberman.)

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Binding of Isaac is why I torture children /s

[–] BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

So it's a mass shooting now? Feels like a slap in the face to every other incident

[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 2 points 4 hours ago

Kirk was pretty dense.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If you're referring to the Kirk shooting, this was before that.

[–] BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 1 points 11 hours ago
[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 15 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What's old is new again...

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

No what's old is running the government

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 24 points 23 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?

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 10 points 23 hours ago

Yeah unfortunately 40% of Americans do take this jackass seriously.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But it peaked the same year Doom came out. Obviously Doom was the cause of the peak!

I should add, that as less people played Doom, violent crime reduced.

Tap for spoilerOk no the double down will woosh someone, here's your /s

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Doom is a game made by a cultist where the player goes to hell to interact with demons!!!

Ban the Mormon made demon killing game!

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 23 hours ago

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!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I'm bout to pong yo eye out, mutha flicka!

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago

RFK Jr do better...Tylenol killed 7 people in the 90s, Kirk was obviously killed by Tylenol.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Back to the 90s.

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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 12 points 1 day 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 8 points 23 hours ago

I mean, typical boomer shit from an ignorant boomer. I'm not surprised at all.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] tino@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I love that he is telling something stupid, trying to validate it by using a fact that is probably the best way to prove how stupid it is.

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

He was so close to the truth, yet so damn far

[–] fulg@lemmy.world 169 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 119 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Oh wow, we're really hitting all the classics.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

We're almost back to blaming violence on D&D. Exciting times.

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

We got time travel before GTA 6

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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] atk007@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day 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.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Charlie Kirk would like to have a word. Go ahead Charlie, Charlie? CHARLIE NO!!!!

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 124 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago

remember, that his bear cub incident was only 10-11years prior too.

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Jesus K Rist he is stupid.

Better loosen gun laws some more, that'll fix it.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Been playing bloodborne all week. I still have no desire to go out with 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.

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[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 day ago

i blame mass shootings for video games

[–] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago
[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day 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 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There was one helluva gamer in Utah today.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Funny, Hillary Clinton said the same thing.

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