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Worst trend of the 90s coming back.
Aug 6, 2019 9:01 PM
Mergetvs
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Worst trend of the 90s coming back.
MasterNateT
I heard that before there were video games there weren’t any wars or murders.
clubfootjohnnyjohnson54
Well, if our "president" says it, it MUST be true!
EMTMarv
I remember them blaming the matrix too
Plaguewalker209
Someone call tipper gore and the housewives
stupendiferous
America is full of Americans, other countries have far fewer Americans and much less gun violence. Maybe we should ban Americans.
MrOsmo
So how's that whole Epstein thing going?
Raiderbeater
We should also ban guns so they won’t be around anymore. Just like we did with drugs.
FrogBotherer
Oh shit there's an election next year.... SPIN THE WHEEL OF BLAME! *clickclickclickclick* video games!
IDownvoteAllPoliticalPosts
Only for retarded people will it ever be a topic of discussion
MandaLynne90
Been wondering where this has been on here...love it
Mergetvs
Thanks! A Facebook meme group I am in asked for peoples thoughts on this subject and this meme format popped into my mind and here we go
Hogwaller
Som woman politician in Ohio is blaming it on Drag Queen culture.
beatingoffinfrontofapegasus
vargul16661
C&C Red Alert explains my overpowering need to conquer Europe my plan to have the UK leave the EU however has hit some speed bumps...
thecoldmage
I played the original Mortal Kombat arcade when I was in 4th grade. Never did I throw a spear at any of my friends or rip their head off.
iunderstoodthatusername
I gamed myself, and definitely agree with that argument. But I also did know somebody who got high and supposedly did try to GET OVER HERE/1
iunderstoodthatusername
some animal./2
Fairemont
Did it work?
iunderstoodthatusername
Luckily he said he missed, because it was a cat. Of course he was high and probably drunk, so he coulda been trying to snag a plastic bag.
hstein3
Somebody get Jack Thompson on the phone.
guannabislord
OrC23
It's just an HD remaster of an old canard.
AmotsEinhorc
Of course it's all because of video games. I mean what else could it be...
kojenk
Thats the first syllable of the actual source.
MrPoopStick
Shaved her mustache I see
WC2ElectricBoogaloo
"Video games cause violence"...false."Video games cause sexism"...false."Video games improve hand-eye coordination and overall mood"....true
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Renzworth
That's why you don't let them play those types of games as children who cannot differentiate between right and wrong
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TigerThong
hell even hillary clinton came to the right mentality on this
jobe
Couldn't be the stupid amount of guns in your country.
SpyofBlock
100 million gun owners and 33k annual gun deaths. most deaths come from gang warfare and suicide. mass shootings are less than <1% of deaths
jobe
Yeah and the gangs, how hard again is it for them to get guns in a culture where guns are worshipped, just buying it for 'protection' too
SpyofBlock
gangs are a policing and drug issue. it’s a whole lot easier to fix those than to confiscate 350 million guns
jobe
Imagine how many you could then arrest for illegally owning firearms, fill those for profit prisons you Americans love so much
SpyofBlock
i have no response so i'll just get you with a dumb joke about a thing i don't even know your opinion on
Zangakkar
And just over 280 fatal stabbings in the UK out of over 40k knife related incidents. Its not guns my friend its people
Zangakkar
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/uk-42749089
jobe
But people with guns is a force multiplier, school shootings is only an American thing because they can get their hands on them.
bloatyOs
That’s because the same old white men in power in the 90s are the same old white men today. Vote them out.
bloatyOs
The politicians in office for 30+ years used the same excuses in the 90s. If new people were elected, we might get some change. That’s all.
bloatyOs
For context: 10 incumbent reps in the House since the 90s are black, w John Lewis being the longest serving out of the bunch.
pronoun
And 8 years of a black man changed what exactly? Your mentality is just divisive and racist.
ijust12bcd8d
More white males aged 17-44 killed more people in mass shootings/school shootings in this country than ANY immigrant has since 9/11/2001
ijust12bcd8d
maybe we should cage/ban them! lol (i'm white.. and I approve this message, i'm out of the age range lol
iunderstoodthatusername
I mean if you want to go a bit deeper and analyze those numbers per capita. Of course, I'm pretty sure the numbers would be worse for/1
iunderstoodthatusername
at least one other racial group, so keep that in mind./2
Zangakkar
And the 6% of American population that is young black men commit roughly 50% of the from i am brown. So what not do we ban and deport them?
Zangakkar
You aound ridiculous
TheJudgeHasItBackwards
Let's be fair, only one stripe of politician is blaming video games. And it's not the "lib-tard socialists".
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ParanoydAndroid
Lol, some random ass YouTube link. Why do you dipshits always have to source YT? Is it because no legit sources ever back you up?
ParanoydAndroid
"the left" didn't blame video games and didn't have to, since theres literally no indication the Dayton shooting was ideologically motivated
Hybris51129
This time. The "Blame video games" card has been played by both sides and debunked each time.
TheJudgeHasItBackwards
That's fair. I don't remember the left doing it to distract from addressing mass shootings through gun legislation though
Zangakkar
The Dayton shooting this weekend, it was all over twitter from verified journos and senators for a bit.
TheJudgeHasItBackwards
How is the left distracting from that by proposing common sense gun legislation?
Dillonnnyousonofabitch
Hilary did though
ParanoydAndroid
Where and when? Are you dragging up outdated arguments from 25 years ago or was this recent?
5po0ky
Throw the Clintons into the sun
tyriok
Republicans. I have yet to see a dem blame video games
daddyshome66
Nope, many of them are falling into the bullshit like the dem-tards. Wanting to shred our civil liberties with a red flag law.
Zangakkar
You'd have to look back a few years they've done it. It haooened,again wifh the dayton shooting it was all over twitter for awhile
SargnargThaHardgeHag
It’s cause politicians on the right don’t want to admit that they’re influencing these shooters like they always have been.
daddyshome66
Hey billy, wanna jump off a bridge? People are accountable for their own actions. Grow the fuck up.
pronoun
Looks like no one told you the Ohio shooter was far left.
NotaClipaMagazine
Yep. Almost like their politics don't matter and it really is a mental health thing!
mginster
That is not declared yet, they are still digging, you are probably going off fox bs theories.
pronoun
He tweeted "kill every fascist" and "nazis deserve death" and supported Antifa, so you can quit hoping he's alt-right...
ParanoydAndroid
People kill people all the time for reasons unrelated to their politics, and there's literally no indication that the Dayton shooter was
pronoun
Convenient perspective to have when the killer is a leftist...
ParanoydAndroid
I linked the stats, dude.
pronoun
You just said political opinion isn't related to why someone kills. That makes the stats irrelevant, dude.
ParanoydAndroid
politically motivated. Conversely, ideologically motivated terrorism, by a large margin, a right wing issue. The FBI agrees.
ParanoydAndroid
Like, the stats aren't even close, and there's a reason the manifesto of the El Paso shooter uses the same language conservative media does.
ParanoydAndroid
https://www.businessinsider.com/extremist-killings-links-right-wing-extremism-report-2019-1
ThailandExpress
Attwarnerm
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/health/video-games-violence-explainer/index.html
Habitman
The radicalization of boomers is a whole separate issue, and if anything it would be MSNBC/FOX, as CNN at least pretends to be centrist.
MetaSomma
They really don't, if you don't see that then you're in the same boat
Habitman
I think Anderson Cooper leans left, Don Lemon more so but their other anchors aren't as overtly partisan as the other 2 networks.
morphoyle
If either of them leaned any further they would fall over.
Somerichdude
Jake Tapper trys to be fair. He did run the 15 minutes of hate though.
probshouldntsayitbut
Were the perpetrators of many mass shootings parents that watched CNN and Fox news?
CabooseNomerson
Most of them were people that watched Fox News, that much is clear
youwouldbeproud
I think he meant twisting the mind, making it impure. Leading to bad judgement calls.
spiffylookingnerfherder
I'm not saying CNN is great, but let's not pretend those two things are equivalents.
morphoyle
Dude stop. It doesn't matter which is worse when they are both so terrible and harmful. Stop being an apologist.
MetaSomma
In this particular case, maybe they are similar enough. I have a friend who gets scarily riled up by CNN
georgecostanzalatexsalesman
They both suck
sophware
Fox is worse; but CNN does a ton of damage. In its own way, it does more damage.
EIPresidenteDeMexico
I don’t watch either, but how can CNN be worse?
kruug
Telling half truths. Ensuring people live in fear after a news report.
spiffylookingnerfherder
In what way is that different, let alone worse?
Fuckme721
Misleading trivia and fear mongering. Dear god I hate those things so much.
Wuz314159
Growing up in the 80s, we were told music was the problem, not guns. In the 60s, it was comic books.
IamtheJubster
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Adato88
It all started with them bloody cave drawings inspiring violence onto the modern man
lesliebugs
Hardly anyone is saying it now, we heard about video games a lot more in the 90s. It's comparatively not very hot at all.
OmenJones
For a topic that's been thoroughly debunked, it's hotter than it should be.
OmenJones
Late 70s, early 80s, D&D.
WeAllLiveInAUserSubmarine
Fuck man, wasn't there a group of kids convicted of being murderous satanists because played DnD and seemed a bit weird?
TroyLoModel
Jokes on us it’s these SSRI drugs. Big pharma warping kids minds.
diphenhydraminehcl50mg
aka: old people are out of touch
OmenJones
People who don't want to address the issue are out of touch.
CodeChimpin
At one point it was DnD. I mean, have you met the people that pay DnD? They are not even likely to leave their house, let alone shot people.
soulman901
In the 50s Rock and Roll was the Devils Music
Hrafna55
And before that it was 'the wireless' or cinema.
Thatsmykenku
I’m the 40s it was jazz music
JustAnotherLinkInTheChain
In the 40s it was the Japanese. Oh wait, only in the US
Harryteeters
In the aughts it was bare ankles and elbows
countbassy
Aughts... love it
Wuz314159
Two-thousand aught one was a dark time.
ilovedogknots
Killers gonna kill nothing can stop that
mattig89ch
Except another armed citizen
OMFGWhatHaveWeDONE
Actually... FBI ways conspiracy theories enable a bunch of these terrorists.
Wuz314159
Take away their guns & they have to do it with their fists. and you know how fast fists kill.
Jagerbeast
Pretty much anything can be a weapon
RedBeardedTrucker
Guns are easy to get on the black market, I can buy the parts for an ar, completely untraceable, a little mill work and done. Also bombs.
EccentricNimoy
@FBIGuy, plz
RedBeardedTrucker
It's completely legal to buy an 80% lower and mill out the rest.
Wuz314159
There's one gun store in México.... All of the violence on the border is from US bought guns.
RedBeardedTrucker
I'm sure none of it comes from El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, etc.
ilovedogknots
if only murder will illegal... oh wait my point is that banning guns will work as well as prohibition probably create more crime
DarkZalgo
Why is it that we see gun control working in other countries but can't imagine how it'll possibly help in our country that has the least
DarkZalgo
Restrictive gun control laws in the world? It's fucking ridiculous.
DesperateDunn365
If guns are as easy to make as alcohol then I agree completely.
Chpgmr
Guns are easy to hide and keep.
ilovedogknots
A lot of prohibition alcohol didn’t come from the us it was smuggled on boats from places like Cuba
RedBeardedTrucker
Guns are easy to make.
MoreAshyThanLarry
Let's all say it together - sensible gun control.
ilovedogknots
Yeah stricter background checks are totally reasonable
Jagerbeast
It's a distraction, and everyone's falling for it
JakunJa
And here we all are, discussing it..
BSemisch
Are they though? I feel like everyone is groaning as it’s being pushed by dipshits.
AnthropomorphisingEverything
Well, what are we talking about right now?
Comet260
Trump got GRILLED for what he said about games.
TheFinalCountdown09
We have a winner!
OmnibusLatinName
You can't lead with that and then not follow through without telling us what we're be distracted from :)
TeppeMannen
Where did this come from really? Which public figure said this? I mean, it's not like 50k karens suddenly went "vIdEOgAmeS" at once on FB
TheValleyofGwangi1
Yes. Just like Kellogg’s Raisin Bran
KrampusCopia
It's more like an effort to shift the blame on to something other than Trump.
daddyshome66
Are you implying that president trump is the cause of this violence?
Comet260
Well, that asshole in El Paso was killing "invaders". Hmmmm, where have we heard that kind of language before?
daddyshome66
I wonder if this monster could say that in court. “Trump made me do it”. Monsters are going to be monsters.
unlimited38
Well to be fair mass shootings happened under Obama. Now the motivations can be tied to the orange though...
5po0ky
Imagine being this stupid, holy shit
unlimited38
And exactly which fact I brought up was stupid? The fact that mass shootings sadly aren't new or that Trump has statistically emboldened
unlimited38
many extremists in the US related to race/nationality?
StewedTomaters
Racist rhetoric has an effect, holy shit.
5po0ky
Mind bottling
Groose
2nd amendment. I get the whole free to bear arms crap but it needs to be made more specific to what guns, times change.
BunkerJohn
So does that apply to the first amendment also? Same logic of escalation....
azurfluh1
The arms weren’t meant just for hunting though, they were also giving you the right to fight back against a tyrannical government
EIPresidenteDeMexico
Only weapons that existed when the second amendment was written. A fair and equal compromise.
azurfluh1
Gatling gun, cannons lmao
Torquemada10110
Then I can get my own. Privately owned War ship? SWEET
tweakbz
And the claim that tighter gun control will solve it. Except no, it'll just disarm every law abiding citizen. Criminals will still have guns
crusadurus
Literally no other country in the entire world has this problem.
StephenDaniels
So why doesn't France have way more gun violence than the US? Maybe because your premise is shit?
tweakbz
You're an idiot.
NotaClipaMagazine
I see you've already forgotten. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks
kojenk
That vs the 250+ mass shootings just this year
NotaClipaMagazine
"250+ mass shootings just this year" if you need to redfine words to build up your narrative, that doesn't bode well for you.
mginster
255 this year
mginster
You found one from 2015 and compare that to the 1 per day we have here? Good job.
NotaClipaMagazine
"1 per day" sure buddy
mginster
You are right, it’s more than 1 per day.
mginster
Too bad you are ignorant.
mginster
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shootings-2019-more-mass-shootings-than-days-so-far-this-year/
tweakbz
Why? Because they're *criminals* which means they do not care about the law and will find ways to obtain weapons while the rest of us can't.
mginster
More restrictions = inflates black market prices due to lower ability to obtain = less criminals with guns.
mginster
Yes criminals with money will still find a way, but supply and demand still works here, less would be able to freely afford illegal weapons
StephenDaniels
The rest of the world disagrees with your statement.
tweakbz
No, only you do, because you're fucking stupid.
mginster
Learn to read statistics you fucking muppet. You are wrong.
tweakbz
Do you even understand statistics or what they actually mean or are you just saying some bullshit?
ParanoydAndroid
The statistics are pretty unambiguous. That you don't care about facts and just want to source your feelings is your problem dude.