Video games -- phhhfft!

[Kablooie]

They are simply pandering to a discredited conspiracy theory because they know it plays well with their base.
It also distracts from the real problem which is the proliferation of weapons designed for mass killing.
At at time like this!

No mention of anything that will begin to control these horrific massacres!

They are not interested in protecting people's lives.
Everything, no matter how serious, is used to pander to their political base.
That's all they care about. Nothing else.
If they had any sense of morals they would begin to educate their base about reality and try to change things for the better.
It's disgusting how callous and uncaring they are about American lives.


A study on violence and video games:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408382/

[912gdm]

1. Didn't Tipper Gore try that in the 90's?

I remember some dumpster fire about that back in the day

[underpants]

4. Her thing was lyrics in songs

[Voltaire2]

2. It is their play book: pick a scapegoat, attack the fucking goat, distract from doing anything about

their lovely precious guns.

[Ohiogal]

3. Kids in other countries play the same video games

How come in Japan, there is barely any gun violence at all? This excuse is so weak it laughable.

[rocktivity]

5. Pffft indeed -- he's running out of scapegoats

Vox.com: The science is still out on social media addiction, but Hawley’s bill aims to fix it anyway.

The Missouri Republican unveiled the Social Media Addiction Reduction Technology Act — or the SMART Act — a bill aimed at curbing what Hawley calls “social media addiction.” The legislation wouldn’t kill off social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube entirely, but it would force them to change the core ways their products function.

Among other things, it would ban infinite scroll and autoplay on their apps and websites, and it would automatically limit a user’s time on a platform to 30 minutes a day. A user could change or remove the time limit, but it would reset every month...you would have to tell Twitter every 30 days that you want to spend more than a half hour on its service every day...

It’s part of his broader posturing as a post-Trump populist who sees himself as a defender of the middle of the country against the so-called elite. (It’s worth noting he went to Stanford and Yale.) Some of his proposals have earned bipartisan support. Others — namely a widely criticized social media bias bill and now this social media addiction bill — have not.

Link to tweet

Since both the shooters were white, and the second one said he was acting in retaliation to the first one, I rest my case -- you should have been a little more careful about what you wished for, President Twitter Tantrum!


rocktivity