RFK Jr. Comes Up With Bonkers Explanation for Mass Shootings
www.thedailybeast.com
The HHS Secretary trotted out an old, baseless potential culprit for mass shootings in America.

Shade of idiot Jack Thompson with brain worm here.

  • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    86·
    3 months ago

    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?

    • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
      24·
      3 months ago

      train of thought

      bobby

      You got yourself in a cul-de-sac there. The worm ate the train long ago 😂

    • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
      342·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • mienshao@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        3 months ago

        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…

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            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.

            • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              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.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

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

  • TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19·
    3 months ago

    I played a lot of Pac-Man and now I’m munching for pills in dark rooms while listening to repetitive music. It’s true, I love techno parties. Joke, I barily ever played Pac-Man.

    I also played a lot of age of empires. Now I annoy everyone with “whololoooo” all the time. Joke, no I don’t.

    Tap for spoiler

    Whololooooo

    It probably has nothing to do with widely available guns.

    Here in NL we don’t have that, but we do have loads of mass shootings. Oh wait, no we don’t. But we don’t have violent video games. Oh wait, yes we do.

    Tap for spoiler

    Whololooooo

    • BanMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      It actually galvanized people against the movement and made a younger generation more politically aware, including many probably seeing (voluntarily even) their first testimony to congress as they flipped over from MTV to CSPAN to watch some of their favorite rockers.

      So yeah good call GOP

      They are really in the shitter with ideas, they have a lot of levers right now, but they are truly staggering under their own weight. Their coalition isn’t going to last forever.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • Phegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

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