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
    123·
    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?

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    I’m pretty sure the mass shootings are just emulation of the mass violence the ultrarich inflict on everyone on a daily basis.

    I hope the shooter’s name is Mario Brother

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      The CEO killing was nothing more than a correction of the Free Market. His denial policies went to far, and the market corrected the problem. In addition, his company, and other health companies as well, loosened up their denial policies as a result of the killing, almost certainly avoiding deaths. THAT is the very definition of a Free Market correction.

      This is another one. MAGA policies have gone too far, and are promising to go further, despite outrage from the majority of the citizens. Now one of those citizens has attempted to reduce some of the most vicious, treasonous, and influential rhetoric by removing the source. It’s another Free Market correction.

      The Free Market is the Conservative religion, you would think they’d be cheering at evidence that it is working.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Well what is the saying, free market for everyone else, but socialism for themselves.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    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
    25·
    3 months ago

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

  • selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    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…)