His office leaked his plans to link video games to behavioral issues earlier this week, so he already had the press release ready, he just swapped some words around.
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Well, if you take away video games we'll have to find entertainment somewhere
Hey fuck you....I know video games didn't cause shit...it seems like I ate that part of his dumbass brain.
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.
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...)
I played tons of first person shooters, GTA, etc, and I also have never thrown a punch at anyone.
I've punched multiple people, but I know I punched people before I ever had a game console or computer.
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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.
Only someone completely disconnected from the rest of the world could take this argument seriously. Every country on the planet has access to violent video games, but somehow we have the most gun violence outside of a war zone in the world. But clearly it’s the video games. 🤦♂️
*Not the most gun violence in the world - I over stated.
It's straight disinformation. Nevermind that everyone else plays the same games, let's cherry pick the one western nation that has a comparable number of guns per capita and not think about that any further.
we have the most gun violence
If we look at "intentional homicide rate" (choice of weapon agnostic), the US is 66th and just above Greenland. I think this statistic is better than "gun deaths" since it excludes suicides and accidental deaths and looks at intentional murder.
The number is way higher than it should be, but probably way better than most assume given the news.
Fair enough, but still this is a bull shit argument.
Absolutely. There have been so many studies trying to prove a connection and failed. It's a completely debunked argument.
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Jack Thompson
For those who don't remember this guy, he was pretty obnoxious.
Remember when Mortal Kombat came out and we all started ripping each other's heads off and pulling out still beating hearts? Those were the days.
If its a stupid idea. RFK jr. has had it.
The single biggest factor for American military hegemony in Grenada was Pac-Man.
Jfc, this again?
Wolfenstein was pretty good, ngl
Is the shooter a person of color? Seriously, ask yourself that. Likely that is the citing factor for someone coming up with fucking bullshit like this. When the shooter is white, the defenders of gun rights will point to mental health. The point I am making is that POC will be a used as a scapegoat to upturn causes in society for their actions while a white person is largely upheld by gun rights advocates as a sign of failure to address mental health.
To be fair, a lot of POC gun violence is gang related, not mental health related, because POC tend to be stuck in poorer areas and resort to gangs to make ends meet. There is certainly white gang violence as well, but there's also a lot of mental health related crimes that happen to be committed by white people, probably because they have more ready access to guns that the average non-gang affiliated POC.
Games are unrelated to both cases.
I blame faulty condoms for RFK Jr
Video games? You mean mass murder training simulators.
If I don't pass that ant zone on silksong I'm going to shoot something.