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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I bet he played violent video games, like Among Us
Because it's saying "leftists play video games, rightists play and watch sports" without saying it. Same with the "serially online" thing.
Lol, just check out WoWs general chat to find as many right wingers as you want.
Yeah but that's not the perception uh people that think they're offline rightists have.
Would love some MAGA to say this to me. Then I whip their ass in any game or sport they want to play. Gravy Seals can get balled on.
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
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.
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
I am more concerned that he logged like 3 work weeks worth of time playing "power washing simulator"
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.
Work in HVAC, I go home and play project zomboid. My fantasy is that everyone stops needing me and I can stay inside on a Tuesday and just read and eat sphaghetti straight out of the can.
People spend hundreds of hours driving transport truck simulations in traffic.
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.
I play space truck sim. Sometimes you just wanna chill and press clunky buttons. Do some really low stakes slow shit. I'm old though.
I wish we lived in a time before videogames when there were no political assassinations or mass shootings.
/s <-- do I even need this?
Famous gamer John Wilkes Booth.
Brutus was way better at Halo
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.
wouldnt those graphs look similar though, even if just by coincidence?
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.
How did he have time to practice his rifle skills? That's my question.
Motivated by radical pirate ideology confirmed.
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
Mind sharing it here please?
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
You're going to back off your first amendment rights because the FBI might come ask you about it?
I don’t really get it, they already have his account, so what’s the point?
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?
but I'm not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us
Criminally insane.
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.
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.
affect.
You affect things. Things have an effect.
Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.
You'd probably want to use a colon instead of a comma there.
Thanks. I never really got a good grasp on colon usage or the more nefarious semicolon.
there is proof video games effect people
Holy shit they can give birth now?
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.
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.
And the turtle with the stick is super OP compared to the rest.
But all of them have trouble swimming around dams.
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
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”.
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...
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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?
You're right, every piece of evidence that doesn't confirm your biases must be fabricated.
There's no other possibility.
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.
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.
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.
People who play Powerwash Simulator are not to be trusted.

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