"During the blockade of the Ambassador Bridge by truckers in February 2022, Kayyem was accused of promoting vigilantism when she tweeted "The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks"
I think I see what she's getting at, though she's horribly misguided. She is citing how a large number of people don't live in the real world, so everything feels fake. If one of these people frequents video games, especially shooters like halo, then they risk losing moral reservations about shooting people.
Her logic is like blaming vodka for making people drunk, when we should be blaming the drunk's poor habits for being drunk.
It just doesn't work that way, though. Reality vs fantasy is a thing. Drone pilots, FI, get PTSD at about the same rate as soldiers that are in up close and personal firefights. But, neither shooters nor Looney Tunes have made killers.
Plus, they keep studying violent video games for this stuff, and never find what they're after. They know it's BS.
Lay off guys, she's talking about websites not games
Are these the sites the mysterious hacker known as 4chan uses?
Close, they're the ones Cowboy Bebop visits on his computer.
"Born in Los Angeles to Lebanese parents"
Also another gem:
Really, Halo? If it was Halo then we should have a whole generation of psychopaths right now.
Wait, we do. They're called leftists.
I'm surprised they found time to book her between her bouts of yelling at clouds.
Why is it Halo ? Geraldo used it too
It was the most famous shooty video game 20 years ago, which was the last time these boomers paid any attention to pop culture
I was half expecting her to say Doom tbh
Because Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything.
We have a military you daffy cunt.
They're constantly deployed and constantly using weapons against enemies.
What fucking world does this goofy bitch live in?
Israel's enemies.
Literally the fucking point you dumb boomer bitch.
she cannot perceive breakfast
I think I see what she's getting at, though she's horribly misguided. She is citing how a large number of people don't live in the real world, so everything feels fake. If one of these people frequents video games, especially shooters like halo, then they risk losing moral reservations about shooting people.
Her logic is like blaming vodka for making people drunk, when we should be blaming the drunk's poor habits for being drunk.
It just doesn't work that way, though. Reality vs fantasy is a thing. Drone pilots, FI, get PTSD at about the same rate as soldiers that are in up close and personal firefights. But, neither shooters nor Looney Tunes have made killers.
Plus, they keep studying violent video games for this stuff, and never find what they're after. They know it's BS.
exactly. To put it in terms of alcoholic, the drink does not make a drunk. The bad habits of a drunk makes a drunk.
Exposure to the evil and hedonism of the average person is more likely to drive someone to murder than gaming is.
what is excess escapism (such as too much gaming) if not hedonism?
I have no opportunity to do anything else in my life besides gaming and being a wage slave
I'm sorry to hear that, but that doesn't change my earlier statement
Ahh yes. very live and currently successful game franchise Halo.
Wort?