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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Don't forget Marilyn Manson and videogames.

/s

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marilyn Manson led a charge to overthrow the government??

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doubt it. Last time I saw him on stage, he made trump look like an eloquent speaker.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk why you're getting downvoted for an obvious joke lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it's not funny or relevant and is an attempt to join two things - satanic panic with legal culpability in social media platforms.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not relevant?

Metal music and videos games have been blamed for mass shootings before.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And this is neither of those things. This is something much more tangible, with actual science behind it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, that exactly is the point.

How people who supposedly care for children's safety are willing to ignore science and instead choose to hue and cry about bullshit stuff they perceive (or told by their favourite TV personality) as evil.

Have you got it now? Or should I explain it further?

Didn't expect Lemmy to have people who lack reading comprehension.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People don't appreciate having spurious claims attached to their legitimate claims, even in jest. It invokes the idea that since the previous targets of blame were false that these likely are as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're all external factors. Music and videogames have been (wrongly, imo) blamed in the past. Media, especially nowadays, is probably more "blameable" than music and games, but i still think it's bs to use external factors as an excuse to justify mass shootings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What are the internal factors of a person that are not influenced by the environment or culture?