Railing5132 @ Railing5132 @lemmy.world

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As I mentioned to the other replier, other countries don't have the mass promotion of gun violence coupled with the ready access to an incredible variety of firearms.

Oh, I completely agree. There is no single thing that is the "magic cure". There are a bunch of factors that add up to a fetishization of guns and gun culture / violence in the US. And the incredible availability of guns makes gun violence inevitable.

I hear what you're saying, but how many hours are logged by some swimming in images of fps games? I'd argue, from my interaction with teens, that there are far more hours logged than passively watching any media. But that's not the point anyway.

Our American society is swimming with a gun obsession. Whether it's via video games, movies, social media, politicians, the NRA, "2nd ammendment cities" (wtf), and too many more avenues to think of. Games are just one vector of marketing guns to a maleable population. The core of this suit is that a manufacturer was pushing their models within the game in collusion with Activision. I believe advertising guns to a kids demographic is prohibited. I'd search it, but I'm lazy and the AI results would be wrong anyway.

I get what you're saying, but in the case of the games in question, it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, don't you agree? Get them while they're young and impressionable?

Eeehhhh, I'm kinda OK with this guy being excused from general society for a bit. I'd prefer he had the chance to learn how to be a better human (like the Nordic countries' models), but I can hope and vote for those changes while he's in time out.

From what I recall, he's been doing it since at least "The Apprentice", where he'd shit himself on set and wouldn't do anything about it. It was alongside news about office cabinets and desk drawers crammed with boxes upon boxes of... Sudafed(?) but I don't know the pharmacology of that (shrug)

Yeah, I figured I was misremembering. The last couple of days have been a hell of a month. And I was too lazy to double check.

He shits himself regularly. The press in the D.C. (?) courtroom were complaining about the putrid stench. The news of that getting out sparked this particular branch of insanity.

I'm sitting in the pediatric ICU with my 1-month old child. Yesterday, she went into respiratory arrest and they called a code blue on her. I thought she was dying in my arms, and I'm still shaking with fear, although she's doing better. I CANNOT FATHOM any father putting their child into such harm. I hope, with all my heart, the child recovers fully, and the father died (or dies) slowly, screaming.

Yeah, change the fucking record already, right?

I think you conveyed it excellently - not solely because it was the exact thought I had. I would have used more clumsy wording though.

That would help; I hope there's no audience as well.

The first sentence: "somehow, different than Linux" :D

Rock-a-bye eagle, on the great plains...

That's a feature, not a bug

Sounds like a good place to start when the revolution comes.

Look, I get it. I want all aid to Israel cut off forever, and we should be supporting the removal of Bobo Bibi and sharing evidence at the Hague. But the point is, with all this shit going on domestically, and the fascist, wholly undemocratic abandonment-of-founding-principles shit Cheeto Mussolini has been spouting, if the media (and social media) wasn't so driven to keep us on a knife's edge, this election should be polling at a blowout. I'm talking on the order of Mondale-Reagan blowout. We're sliding into Christian fascism, half the voting country is OK with it, and the furthest left contingent can't see the forest for the trees.

Hell, the supreme court codified "gut feeling" into fucking law.

I can't remember the name of the case, but it was referenced in "Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell. A guy was pulled over because the cop believed the lens to his taillight was cracked, which led to an arrest on drug possession charges. Turns out, the state that they were in didn't have a law about 'cracked lenses', but the cop thought they did. Our fucked up SC upheld the probable cause, the resulting search and seizure, and all the rest of the fruit of the poisonous tree by saying: "that the officer thought the activity was illegal was enough basis for a probable cause stop.

We are truly fucked, ladies and gentlemen.

Oof.

I mean, I'm no prude, and sex workers deserve every labor protection available, but Trump was bitching and whining about immigrants taking American's jobs when Melania got to the US on a tourist visa and worked before having her work visa. Also, while everyone has seen Melania's tits, and I think it's demeaning to the oval office, Nancy Reagan was the throat GOAT.