Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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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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    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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      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 spoiler

      Ok no the double down will woosh someone, here’s your /s

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        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!

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      It’s called the ‘Gish Gallop.’

      The best way for the Right to defeat the Left in an argument is to unload a torrent of lies, half truths, complete nonsense, and other disinformation. The idea is to overwhelm the other side’s ability to form a coherent response, because there’s too much to unpack.

      Trump knows Kennedy is an idiot, but he’s a useful idiot in that he forces the Left to deal with him.

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        Who the fuck is downvoting this comment? Genuinely why? Is this some pro-trump instance or something? Like wtf I don’t understand what I said wrong…

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            Trump listens to Fox News on the daily. He takes advice and opinions from Fox News. Fox News influences his stances and direction.

            In this way, Fox News is even more powerful than Trump himself. Because Fox News influences like half the country, but also influences Trumps future actions.

            So it’s not that Fox News covers the news. The issue is that Fox News creates news.

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              the comment wasn’t about fox news specifically, it was about news in general. like it or not, we need news agencies to cover what these people are doing.

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      Same reason any other politician is on the news. Because unfortunately they dictate our collective plight as Americans. And really outside the US as well.

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      Because they control the country and people should know what they are doing. It’s not that complicated.

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    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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    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.

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    Ooh, so original. Going back to those age old talking points eh. So fresh, so new. Why does anyone listen to these wind bags?

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