Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    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.

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    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…)

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    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.

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    Whololooooo

    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.

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    Whololooooo

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    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?

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      train of thought

      bobby

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

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    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.