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RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 7 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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The shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

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[–] recursive_recursion@piefed.ca 72 points 7 months ago

CJ: "Ah shit, here we go again."

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 64 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The same shit for my whole fucking life. It's amazing.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if classification has made the mass shooting numbers look different. In the 90s I remember everyone just blamed gangs. Shoot out in a parking lot, "they were probably in a gang.". But soon as you list gun violence under gang related, it no longer falls under mass shooting according to the FBI and such. So even if 6 people get killed, that incident wouldn't show up.

Today I rarely see people lumping acts into something like that.

[–] WallsToTheBalls@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 7 months ago

Literally today when Kirk was gently relieved from the laborious task of breathing air meant for people better than him, when someone asked “how many mass shootings have there been in the last ten years”, his response was “excluding gang violence?”

[–] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My bad...I ate the last goddamn neuron in this assholes head

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

My condolences on your imminent starvation

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

This has already been disproven ...repeatedly

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago

I blame the Bible for mass shootings, and I guarantee that there is more evidence to support my claim than his.

Ban the bible!

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 15 points 7 months ago

Damn boomer... We still doing this old trick in 2025.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

Yes, it's mostly a US-only issue but you know that other countries, Australia, looking at you, that love to be ban happy with any flimsy justification.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And what we blame for violent insurrections against the State? Just curious.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tourist visits.

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

This explains all the visas they're denying and the people they're deporting. There was a typo... And everyone knows Christie Noem has trouble with the English language on a good day.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

I remember being in middleschool when this was disproven

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

🤡

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago

His father was killed because of the Hula Hoop.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 6 points 7 months ago

So along that line of logic, does all media with graphic violence cause murderous tendencies?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

Well at least they finally trained someone to be a good shot

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago

We need to stop reporting what these brainless twats are saying. Just freeze 'em out.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago

He’s says a lot of things but they’re all bullshit

[–] Sirdubdee@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if we can actually use this to our advantage. Microsoft paid $60billion for one of the most popular violent games, CoD. Can we force them to choose between political pressure or money?

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 points 7 months ago

Authoritarian demands always corrupt: nah.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

And here I'm blaming bloated prolapsed anuses that talk through worm ventriloquism.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Classic. This is why I shit up every school I ever went to.

This has been disproven so many times. People with mental health issues shoot up schools.

[+] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh I see, so you would say someone who wanted to kill people can have good mental health? Interesting point of view.

[+] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Arent Mental disabilities and mental health issues different? When I hear someone talk about a mental disability I think of something like a learning disability, or autism. I dont believe they have the propensity to be violent anymore or less than the average. Mental health, however, I think are more states of the mind and can happen to anyone with or without mental disability. Mental health episodes cause one to think and believe in extraordinary circumstances which causes people to do extraordinary things. Im fairly certain thats what the op was talking about.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 4 points 7 months ago

So explain why violent crimes plummeted when PlayStation and GTA came out. It’s lead poisoning from leaded gasoline. We cut that out and it’s been trending down. If violent video games have any impact, it’s likely to reduce physical violence instead of increase it.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

🙄

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

Yawn

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Just read an article today saying video games do not make peops violent. Am I the only boomer that likes to play violent and not violent vidya games?

Sheesh.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hilarious. The GoobaGators are silencing anyone posting this over in KIA. I thought they hated this stuff?

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

KIA?

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

r/KotakuInAction the Nazi hide out.

Funny thing about their Nazi problem. Is they deny people are Nazi’s after they post 1488 bullshit. It’s pathetic.

[–] lustyargonian@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Go ahead, ban it, see what that leads to then.

It'll be interesting to see them shut a 66B USA industry.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What happened to ol jack. I'm really hoping he got ran over by a arcade cabinet? Just looked and he is still kicking. He is also still hating that no one cares what he thinks.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

I kind of have the feeling GTA 6 is going to be neutered and Rockstar is a huge target for this admin. Fingers crossed tho