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Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Binding of Isaac is why I torture children /s

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

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

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] BipolarSilence@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 days ago
[–] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 2 points 6 days ago

Kirk was pretty dense.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days 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.)

[–] fulg@lemmy.world 157 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 124 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 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 6 days ago

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

[–] mohab@piefed.social 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

train of thought

bobby

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

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 106 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 19 points 1 week ago

They're communing with Satan, I hear!

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[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

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

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 39 points 1 week ago (2 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.

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[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 31 points 1 week 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.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There was one helluva gamer in Utah today.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week 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 week ago (2 children)
[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Games don't cause mass shootings.

Conservatives(policies) do.

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

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

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[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week 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?

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 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

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Those spoilers deserve an upvote.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This comic is 26 years old. Still relevant.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Jesus K Rist he is stupid.

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

[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 1 week ago

i blame mass shootings for video games

[–] FrickAndMortar@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago
[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

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

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week 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!

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

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

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week 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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