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    Violent crime has decreased since the 1990s as video games (including violent ones) have continued to grow in popularity. If anything, this establishes that violent video games prevent violent crime.

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      Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.

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        Sure, but they’ve only ever had correlational evidence to suggest video games cause violence. Their own correlational evidence does not support their conclusions, and that should be called out and ridiculed.

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        Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).

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    This is the same tired horse shit they’ve been peddling for decades.

    The problem is the for profit healthcare system. The system is designed to turn blood into money. It needs to be torn down, then rebuilt as nationalized, socialized healthcare system for all. Everything profit seeking needs banned.

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      Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!

      screenshot of NBC article
      (Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article)

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        Of all the games they try to demonize, they demonize a game type people have played at home for decades at parties, in person, with no computers.

        Brilliant.

        90s house party game here, I’m sure people played it earlier.

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            Interesting, had no idea about its origin story.

            Also… of course

            In June 2006 a Rockingham school inquiry was launched after parents complained of the traumatic effects classroom Mafia was having on their fifth-grade children. Davidoff responded to the reports, saying that as a parent who had studied child psychology for 25 years, he felt that the game could “teach kids to distinguish right from wrong”, and that the positive message of being honest could overcome the negative effects of an “evil narrator” moderating the game as if it were a scary story.

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      This has been done over and over again to entice boomer parents to get their kids to stop playing video games. My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini becuase they thought it was a exploration game…

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        It’s rock music. It’s “reefer madness”. Then it’s metal music with satanic messaging when played backwards. Now it’s video games. Same old blame game while never tackling the actual problems of lack of psych care, real societal pressures like financial difficulties, and more.

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          I mean aside from LSD being introduced by the CIA into the public, everything else the government tries to blame someone else.

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        Boomers’ children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn’t play anymore

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          I’m talking about boomer parents. In respects to the millennial parents, of course they are laughing at this shit (or I would hope so)

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            Boomers are the parents of Gen X kids.
            What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense.

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        My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini

        At least you landed on solid gold! Jet Force Gemini was the single best shooter for the N64. Far superior to Golden Eye. Yes, I’ll die on this hill.

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      If someone wanted to make a fast buck right now, I bet a game where you go hunt down CEO’s and virtually… you know, accomplish your mission goals on them, it would be wildly popular.

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    This is how you radicalize actual children. It’s clear these people are completely oblivious to the fact that every 10 year old in the country knows among us and plays it. Actual children will see how completely absurd all of this is. I love this move. Go ahead, show the children how utterly out of touch the top is.

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    It’s called ragebait, now they’re getting all kinds of engagement on their article. They know it’s stupid, but people fall for it every time.