Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.

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[–] 195 points 1 year ago (6 children)

it's supposed to connect 'steam' with 'extremism' instead of something like Twitter, Truth, or Fox to coincide with their recent 'fact finding mission'

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  • [–] 101 points 1 year ago

    Absolutely, here is RFK on Sept 10 saying they cause mass shootings. (Completely ignoring the ENTIRE WORLD OUTSIDE THE US)

    https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-video-games-mass-shootings-gun-violence-2127808

    Also Congress has called for the leaders of discord, steam, Reddit and twitch to come and testify about extremism.

    https://www.engadget.com/social-media/house-committee-asks-discord-valve-twitch-and-reddit-to-testify-on-online-radicalization-184100470.html

    I don't see any of the social media heads who donated to Trump's inaugural on that list.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Steam is very much connected to extremism. Far right extremisn to be precise.

    Take a look at any Steam forum and you'll see. The reason is because Valve hardly ever hires moderators and delegates responsibility to the developer who created the game the forum is about.

    I think German speaking Steam has a total of two global (i.e. paid by Valve) moderators? Not sure where I've heard this though.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This actually true, even though I swear it didn’t used to be like that. There are sooo many far right people on the forums and in the discussions. I was looking up a game where one of the female characters has the option to date her female friend. I went to the discussion tab to see if anyone knew what choices you had to pick to unlock it. A whole bunch of trolls calling the game “woke” and disgusting for hating an OPTIONAL story arc. Even on games like Life is Strange, which isn’t a new game and is pretty well known for having lgbtq elements, tons of far right people gay-bashing in the discussions tab.

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I bet he played violent video games, like Among Us

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Because it's saying "leftists play video games, rightists play and watch sports" without saying it. Same with the "serially online" thing.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Lol, just check out WoWs general chat to find as many right wingers as you want.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I see. Video games cause violence. Guns had nothing to do with it. Mandatory id, facial scanning, and government reporting on all video game platforms is totally cool and justified. /s

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You see, guns in video games, where nobody is hurt, are bad. Guns in reality are good.

    It's a bad example, the gun in this case was good. Would have been great if just aimed 15 cm higher.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    and a gobsmacking negative review of Sea of Thieves despite that 2,000 hours of playtime.

    Oh damn, he's one of those people... Sounds like the worst charge so far

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I am more concerned that he logged like 3 work weeks worth of time playing "power washing simulator"

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    People under capitalism are so alienated from their work that they escape to something as mundane as Power Washing Simulator. Having a stable job with a modicum of satisfaction and control is a power fantasy nowadays.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's particular simulator game actually has you saving the world from some sort of Alien UFO time traveler conspiracy plot though doesn't it? It's not quite as mundane as some other simulator games like farming or truck driving sims.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I wish we lived in a time before videogames when there were no political assassinations or mass shootings.

    /s <-- do I even need this?

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Famous gamer John Wilkes Booth.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lincoln ruined his killstreak and swatting wouldn't be invented for three more years, by famous inventor Thomas "I made up the N word" Edison.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    wouldnt those graphs look similar though, even if just by coincidence?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.

    Nothing incompetent about it. Just evil this time.

    They want a profile of the guy. They want to sell him as a left-wing extremist. They'll outright lie about it if they have to--they mostly have already--but lies work better when they're based on some level of truth.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How did he have time to practice his rifle skills? That's my question.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Motivated by radical pirate ideology confirmed.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    His Steam profile has over 100 "Mind Blown!" Awards lmao

    You can look up the tweet from the article to get the link to the Steam profile

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    I'd rather not since there was the whole fiasco with the guy buying the shirt the killer wore having the FBI come after him. I found it by searching for the guy's twitter handle and one of the usernames posted in the screenshot

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You're going to back off your first amendment rights because the FBI might come ask you about it?

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago

    To me what's stupid is that they found nothing, as most of us would have expected going through a steam account, and yet they are "leaking" this information and what kind of bullshit narrative are they trying to push this time.

    Trying to back up RFK's bullshit, disproven games caused mass shootings BS?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    but I'm not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

    Criminally insane.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    The evangelicals supporting trump are responsible for the recent mastercard debacle to remove steam games. I wouldn't be surprised if they start into a new wave "video games cause violence" bullshit.

    Also I thought the kid seemed fairly normal but him being a SoT sicko makes me wonder.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I am telling you that there is proof video games effect people. Ever notice how most people born in the 80s grew up and all became plumbers? I mean sure all the competition has driven costs down for all of us and with just a little work you can find a plumber that will do the work for free, but a lot of these plumbers can no longer support their families and are forced to live in sewers and fight turtles for food.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    affect.

    You affect things. Things have an effect.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You'd probably want to use a colon instead of a comma there.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    there is proof video games effect people

    Holy shit they can give birth now?

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    The trick to using effect/affect is to use them interchangeably and at random, then you're bound to be right sometime. Or panic and use "impact" instead, like a coward.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Kinda what I do, I am dyslexic and if spell check says it's good I tend to miss that it is the wrong spelling of the word.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    That’s because 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who was charged earlier this week with murdering Kirk at a speaking event last week, reportedly used Donald Trump’s name as an alias on the Valve-owned gaming storefront at one point. Sources told Bloomberg the reference to the president is what led to the Secret Service’s involvement despite the Homeland Security agency having no role in protecting Kirk at the time of the assassination.

    https://kotaku.com/charlie-kirk-shooter-steam-library-valve-discord-radicalization-2000626897

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    1.) If you didn’t vote in '22 or '24 and legally had the ability to do so, you’re not a Liberal or Progress, full stop.

    2.) No Liberal or Progressive would want to be associated with Trump, even ironically for the “lols”.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He bagged some transgender baddie and it turned a God-fearing conservative white boy into a radical sleeper cell leftist assasin. That's why they are trying to keep us transgender girlies down...

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Sometimes the Stochastic Terrorism boomerangs.

    This is exactly what intelligent people have been saying for years would happen.

    Some MAGAt, primed for violence, finally figures out they've been lied to for 10 years & decided to put that penchant for violence to use.

    Both of Trump's would-be assassins were registered Republicans.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, if the published narrative is true this is a man who was taught by the right wing all their shit with guns and everything that came out of the militia movement through maga, then fell for a trans chick, and questioned the narrative but not the means then did what the right was amping up to do.

    The left was taught through extreme state retaliation and intense media spin that violent actions work against our goals outside very specific situations (waiting for them to attack first in ways the center is horrified by). Between cointelpro and the green scare we've more or less learned to keep to demonstrations that strive to build popular support. Meanwhile during that same time the right has been building armed compounds because they understand the double standards. After Waco the government was afraid to crack down on righr wing paramilitaries.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago*

    It's supposed to paint the "Games turn people violent" narrative, nothing else.
    This dude could have 2000 hours on Animal Crossing and they'd still find a way

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The fuckheads in office are searching for stuff they can blame. It's couldn't possibly because he was a right wing nutjob. Oh no it must be video games! Time to start cracking down on that now!

    Dumb fucks...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    right-wing nutjob

    Didn't he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where's this coming from?

    Agreed that Steam is a really stupid place to be looking for anything of substance.

    Well, maybe the fact that he left a negative review for a game he has over 2000 hours in signifies derangement on some level, if not political, lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do you mean those totally legit messages that totally didn't sound like it was a mix of someone from the 60s and cop speak? Or did he criticize somewhere else?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're right, every piece of evidence that doesn't confirm your biases must be fabricated.

    There's no other possibility.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    My only bias in the situation is not trusting cops, espescially Trumps justice department and Patel's FBI.

    If you look for any information outside of what the administration says and what the news repeats, you will see many people believe it was fabricated. People who are the same age as him say it doesn't read plausible, people on the far right say it doesn't sound like anything they have read, leftists say it sounds like no kid they have come across, people who study linguistics say it doesn't match someone his age and the writing cadence is weird, especially someone who spent as much time online as him.

    It's just super fishy, and I would be skeptical no matter who was in charge. I think a healthy dose of skepticism is important in today's environment. We will find out more when this comes up in court.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Didn’t he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where’s this coming from?

    He was an active groyper.

    The Groyper War began in the fall of 2019, when Fuentes and his followers launched a social media campaign targeting Turning Point USA's "Culture War" college tour, led by Charlie Kirk. Motivated by the firing of a Fuentes ally and other conflicts, Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights to challenge mainstream conservative figures like Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and Ben Shapiro, whom they labeled "Conservative Inc." for deviating from their far-right views.

    This is also why Ben Shapiro went into hiding shitting himself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions

    This is pretty much the opposite of what Robinson did, so...what are you talking about?

    Also, groypers didn't criticize Kirk because he 'spreads too much hate'—if anything, they think he's not extreme enough. Another direct contradiction.

    I think you're believing what you want to believe, not what the evidence points to.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    People who play Powerwash Simulator are not to be trusted.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Probably several hundred hours of afk time

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