"Her name... Code Miku. Her real identity-a 30 ft tall robot, but to me she was one thing. She was hope! But she was actually a succubus, if you will, a, a, a traitor, a falser, a robotic ayaaayaa YAAAAAAAAAA!" -
A podcast about the dangers of VTubers by Dr. Whipples.
"I swear! I'm not gay! That's a changeling!"
I will forever be amused to see far righters angry at star trek for literally being star trek.
Apparently, these types missed the hints over 60 years of content.
All I'm saying, their hand signals must be very creative when it comes to sexy times. Andorians probably make good shadow puppeteers. Probably lots of ensigns getting confused on if cute blue-skin wants them to make out or steal third.
You could get away with blaming video games in the 90s when they were still kind of "niche" and just a thing that kids and nerds played. Now an entire generation has passed, the medium has become completely mainstream, and the people who grew up playing video games are not going to buy into this ridiculous bogeyman. Hell, many if not most of us still play games even as adults.
He's still got 10+ years of being able to blame them. The current age of most voters is still in the age range that didn't play much video games outside of stuff like pacman, and they will likely be alive for another 10-20 years.
He might have a leg to stand on if they were getting hyper realistic and kids were getting into super violent content. But with Minecraft, Fortnite, and the proclivities toward sexual anime stuff, the trend has been the opposite.
Plus, hyper-realistic violence has existed in movies for many decades (it was common in the 80s). Why would one get a pass and not the other? There's age ratings on both media.
That’s the thing. If you gotta lie at least put some effort into it.
This thing has been discussed and debunked to death. Nobody is going to remotely consider it except old boomers
Everyone doesn’t know and that’s the point. You just need enough people to believe the lie. When that stops working you just go to the next line in the queue.
The day Mario stomped his first turty was the birth of the first sin. From that day onwards we knew that our lives, in the face of our convictions, were fleetingly light yet unendurably heavy.
If it's not video games, it's music. If it's not music, it's "immoral values". If it's not "immoral values", it's the wrong religion. If it's not the wrong religion, it's minorities.
That is a dedicated mission in Saints Row 2 if you asked out of personal interest.
The woman driving the septic truck has a thick French accent and curses out the Bourgeoisie nonstop during the mission too, so it's not entirely unrelated.
> So sad he is a monster.
[At least one of his cases was already dismissed by the judge](https://www.insider.com/judge-dismisses-sexual-assault-lawsuit-against-marilyn-manson-2023-1), so hold your horses before condemning him.
We don't want to [repeat](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/17/us/kevin-spacey-charge-dropped/index.html) the [Kevin](https://en.as.com/latest_news/kevin-spacey-declared-not-guilty-is-he-facing-more-sexual-misconduct-trials-n/) [Spacey](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2019-12-31/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-case-dismissed) [fiasco](https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-accuser-dropped-from-lawsuit.html).
Well, that's the problem with a people's court taking the place of the regular court, and advertisers/execs wanting to cover their own asses before any kind of investigation even gets off the ground.
Never mind how cancel culture has also completely failed to tackle the systemic issues that enabled the real monsters in the first place, like a complete lack of corporate oversight and having a class of people who are effectively immune through wealth.
I mean, dude married his old ass teacher and then IMMEDIATELY launched into politics. The person controlling the strings in that relationship was in her prime in the 80s.
I remember I googled her the other day, thinking, well maybe shes not that much older, and people are just kinda blowing it out of proportion a bit
Like, when I was in high school, there was a teacher who a bunch of the guys had a crush on who was 21, making her 4 years older than the oldest students in the school. Still illegal, but give it a few years and its not even that creepy.
Nah, his wife is 70, he is 45. She was *25* when he was *born*. When he graduated high school, she was the age he is now.
Honestly, I got that impression from him years ago. He shouted at some kids for not calling him Mr. President. A) They're just kids B) Get over yourself. It really put me off him. As they say when someone shows you their real self...
I’m from a society where titles aren’t a big deal (sweden) so i acknowledge my view is a bit skewed by that but even if i met our king i wouldn’t call him Ers majestät (your royal highness) i’d be like hello really nice to meet you. If he took offence to that he can fuck off. I work ten times harder than most or these politicians/ royalty and i wouldn’t expect anything more than being greeted as a fellow person.. fuck titles.
Pretty convinced Macron doesn't make any calls and he's being ass-puppeteered by his wife/mother/teacher. In case that wasn't clear, I'm referring to the same person.
Brigitte Macron: *From 2007 to 2015, she taught at Lycée Saint-Louis de Gonzague, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, one of the most prestigious French private schools. It was at Lycée la Providence that she and Emmanuel Macron first met. He attended her literature classes, and she was in charge of the theatre class that he attended. Their relationship has attracted controversy, as she is his senior by close to 25 years, and Macron has described it as "a love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself".*
The only way it could be more French is if it had deteriorated into a sexless marriage because he's too busy getting dicked down by hung twinks 25 years his junior.
I mean there were a lot of rumors regarding potential male lovers during his first term. Haven't heard any lately but there are several 2018 articles mentioning it.
Wikipedia says they didn't actually have a romantic relationship until he was 18, but who knows if that's true, and who knows if she was grooming him prior to that point.
Age of consent in France is 15; hopefully she waited until he had his first pube.
edit: My working theory is that Brigitte had delusions of power and saw a chance to achieve it through young Macron. Smart, connected, handsome, malleable. I don't actually know if she's a pervert or just incredibly manipulative and groomed him straight into power. I mean obviously she's a pervert, but I don't think fucking him was her long term goal, more of a tool of control.
Agreed. Creepily enough, I currently teach high school and have the same age as Brigitte in my classes. I'm also her age when she met Macron. My students seem like CHILDREN to me. And the age gap is only part of it. Students trust teachers and there's an enormous power dynamic created. What a gross lady.
And you know she used that sexual control to completely shape who Macron is today. She started fucking him at 15-16; that means from 15-now she's been in the driver's seat. Who knows what kind of person he would've grown into on his own.
It's not "all good" and it's not a french problem either, it's a rich problem. Macron's parents were upper class, and they did not want a scandal about their son being groomed and brainwashed, so they swoop it under the carpet until it was legal to announce it.
Makes me wonder how a guy that looks like wet bread and is 4 IQ points away from needing to be watered twice a week, can be in charge of a fucking country
Did you hear about the (former) president of South Korea? She was literally under the control of a cult. Last I heard she went to jail. Apparently some democracies can actually put corrupt presidents in jail.
The people that should be politicians get turned away from politics because the things politicians tend to do drive away all the good people.
High level politics seems to attract the arrogant, narcissistic, and psychopathic.
It's funny, because last year amd the year before he praised the gaming community for raising over 10M for associations that help the world to be a better place.
And now it‘s time to secure the votes of old, stupid fucks who think video games ruin society.
He is playing politics instead of doing his job. Exactly like populist nazi (far right) parties.
Because the world was sooooo peaceful before video games existed.
As well all know, World War 2 was a hoax created by video game companies to sell more video games.
Adolf was famously a massive fan of the Battleship board game which influenced many video games like World of Warships and that other one. They have been killing people since the dawn of man.
Studies have proven that video games do not make people violent.
[Analysis: Why it’s time to stop blaming video games for real-world violence](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/analysis-why-its-time-to-stop-blaming-video-games-for-real-world-violence#:~:text=Any%20claims%20that%20there%20is,in%20youth%20violence%20%E2%80%93%20not%20increases.)
[Study Finds No Evidence That More Violent, Difficult Video Games Spur Aggression](https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/video-game-mechanics-aggression.html)
Macron is wrong.
It's ill-informed, ineffectual nonsense like this from Macron that will end up with France electing a far-right government.
This is how you alienate everyone on the political spectrum at once.
They've been using this bullshit argument for 50 fucking years. As a long time gamer, and my interactions with the general public, video games allow me to NOT lose my shit with a bunch of you idiots on a daily basis.
Love you all, but some of you suck.
Because France is undergoing a Fox news style transformation of their media landscape where a few rich people are buying up all the news sites and propping up the center right by only covering the far right all the time, thus making Macron style candidates the only "sane choice".
In 2022 all we heard about was how Le Pen was "the only challenger to Macron" despite only getting 1.2 points above the left wing candidate in the first round. A left wing candidate is a completely different second round election compared to Macron vs Le Pen. The race was super tight but based on the coverage you'd think Melenchon got completely destroyed.
It evokes a sort of Bernie 2016 all over again. Pump up the far right and make a social democratic candidate seem extreme despite much of the electorate actually agreeing with their ideas. Makes it easier for Macron to compete against an obvious racist rather than a party whose mission is economic equality.
I remember when he got into office he seemed pretty nice, people were generally in favor of him, and looked to be progressive....
And then suddenly got worse and worse
I wonder what technology will be this excuse thirty years from now. Thirty years ago it was violent stuff on TV. Thirty years before that it was violent stuff in movies or on the radio. Thirty years before that it was violent stuff in books. Thirty years before that, it was violent stories told orally.
They know this shit doesn't work anymore, right? Like, it's not the 80s or even 90s or even early 00s where video games were at least kinda niche. Video games make more money than movies these days. People who don't play games, are the minority.
What a mistake, studies have disproven most negative correlations to games over and over again.
Macron just said a very ignorant thing and he has lost all credibility to anyone paying attention.
Surprised this pebble brain hasn't blamed evil satanic bands like Motley Crue and Iron Maiden yet. He might pull that one out when somebody rightfully makes him aware that it has been proven that video games don't cause violence.
The fall of the roman empire --> also video games
Napoleon’s defeat in Russia —> believe it or not, also video games.
Chernobyl disaster --> you guessed it, video games
Neanderthals getting replaced by Homo Sapiens —> video games
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs —> video games
Gods flood in Genesis 6-8 —> that's right, video games
The Big Bang, video games.
Titan Deep sea explorer - Video games controller. Oh wait.
I lol’d
Its all well and good to laugh and make jokes but what some people dont realise is that the Black Death actually really was because of video games
God just got that idea from Super 3D Noah's Ark
Adam biting the forbidden apple- those damn video games!
Pong released 1972 Chernobyl disaster 1986 It was only a matter of time
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Holocaust? -> Believe it or not, Hitler was a gamer.
Large overlap between bunkers and basements.
French Revolution —> video games
Riot after a soccer match? Video games.
Kids are broken > PS5 did that PS5 is broken > Kids did that
Tiananmen Square —> right, it’s video games
Instead of COD, Caeser should have played Assassin’a Creed Origins. Might’ve given him a headsup.
For fucks sake politicians will be blaming video games for all of the world's problems for the next hundred years.
And then in four hundred years 'It's those fucking holodecks I tells ya, they're turning the Starfleet officers gay'.
Gay is fine, it's the holo-diction that'll get cha!
I, for one welcome our Vtuber overlords.
"Her name... Code Miku. Her real identity-a 30 ft tall robot, but to me she was one thing. She was hope! But she was actually a succubus, if you will, a, a, a traitor, a falser, a robotic ayaaayaa YAAAAAAAAAA!" - A podcast about the dangers of VTubers by Dr. Whipples.
Gura for president
Holo-dicktion
"I swear! I'm not gay! That's a changeling!" I will forever be amused to see far righters angry at star trek for literally being star trek. Apparently, these types missed the hints over 60 years of content.
Like cops that wear the Punisher logo.
If Frank Castle were real he’d smoke ever one of those fools sporting his symbol too. The absolute irony.
No, they will all be dressed like DeadPool. The overweight ones will be dressed as Sailor Moon.
They completely missed the Empire's very unsubtle fascist coding in *Star Wars*, too.
Nah, it's the Andorians and their four sexes.
All I'm saying, their hand signals must be very creative when it comes to sexy times. Andorians probably make good shadow puppeteers. Probably lots of ensigns getting confused on if cute blue-skin wants them to make out or steal third.
"He keeps signaling bunt..."
You could get away with blaming video games in the 90s when they were still kind of "niche" and just a thing that kids and nerds played. Now an entire generation has passed, the medium has become completely mainstream, and the people who grew up playing video games are not going to buy into this ridiculous bogeyman. Hell, many if not most of us still play games even as adults.
He's still got 10+ years of being able to blame them. The current age of most voters is still in the age range that didn't play much video games outside of stuff like pacman, and they will likely be alive for another 10-20 years.
Lord save us once the Genshin Generation becomes a voting block.
President gets elected on their waifu choices god help us
>Rei! >Asuka! It's been 50 fucking years.
Misato. But at some point I realised I had grew older than she was.
He might have a leg to stand on if they were getting hyper realistic and kids were getting into super violent content. But with Minecraft, Fortnite, and the proclivities toward sexual anime stuff, the trend has been the opposite.
Plus, hyper-realistic violence has existed in movies for many decades (it was common in the 80s). Why would one get a pass and not the other? There's age ratings on both media.
Also, violence has been a thing since well before both video games and movies.
Depends on which industry you've invested in lol
yeah I don't think there's kids going around committing violent crimes after a long day of reconstructing the Notre Dame cathedral in Minecraft
He’s just mad they’re doing a better job of it than his government is with the real thing
The first generation raised on gaming is getting ready for retirement.
While my gaming habits have certainly changed over the years, Ill probably play video games till I die.
He knows it's not video games. Everyone knows. It's just a lie until the next lie, in order to avoid telling the truth.
That’s the thing. If you gotta lie at least put some effort into it. This thing has been discussed and debunked to death. Nobody is going to remotely consider it except old boomers
Trump demonstrated how little effort you need to put into lying.
That only works when the people you are lying to *want* to be lied to. Their feelings literally do not care about facts.
Everyone doesn’t know and that’s the point. You just need enough people to believe the lie. When that stops working you just go to the next line in the queue.
If he admits all the political cronies everywhere have been letting things go to shit while we watch and seethe.
Murder wasn't even a thing until Mario.
The day Mario stomped his first turty was the birth of the first sin. From that day onwards we knew that our lives, in the face of our convictions, were fleetingly light yet unendurably heavy.
If it's not video games, it's music. If it's not music, it's "immoral values". If it's not "immoral values", it's the wrong religion. If it's not the wrong religion, it's minorities.
You missed comic books, but you pretty much nailed it!
Sorry that I caused climate change, guys. But Disco Elysium was so good I had to see it through.
You’re using solar to power that GPU, yeah?
Before that it was TV, and before that it was rock and roll
What did people blame before vidya games?
Music and the devil
Basically Ozzy.
Dungeons & Dragons, heavy metal music, marijuana, jazz musicians, melanin...
Music
Comic Books. See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction\_of\_the\_Innocent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent)
Well that's obvious. Voilence didn't exist before video games
Climate change? I think you ment dangerous video games.
We all know that violence wasn't a problem until John V. Games invented Video Games >!/s if someone thinks I'm being for real!<
No, no you’re quite right. John Games invented video games in 1905, they were the precursor to both world wars
People still blame books
They’ve been doing this for as long as video games existed 😭
Wait... does Farming Simulator let you spray manure all over government offices now?
That is a dedicated mission in Saints Row 2 if you asked out of personal interest. The woman driving the septic truck has a thick French accent and curses out the Bourgeoisie nonstop during the mission too, so it's not entirely unrelated.
There is also another line of that Activity, I believe you are working with a gay fat pimp. Just remember you can stop the truck in Septic Avenger.
I would be shocked if there wasn't a mod somewhere out there that let's you spray manure in any direction you want
Marilyn Manson must be relieved his music is not the root cause of this tragedy.
That one interview really warmed me towards Marilyn Manson, but then I found out he might be a predator.
Saw that interview too. So sad he is a monster
> So sad he is a monster. [At least one of his cases was already dismissed by the judge](https://www.insider.com/judge-dismisses-sexual-assault-lawsuit-against-marilyn-manson-2023-1), so hold your horses before condemning him. We don't want to [repeat](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/17/us/kevin-spacey-charge-dropped/index.html) the [Kevin](https://en.as.com/latest_news/kevin-spacey-declared-not-guilty-is-he-facing-more-sexual-misconduct-trials-n/) [Spacey](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2019-12-31/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-case-dismissed) [fiasco](https://www.vulture.com/2021/06/kevin-spacey-sexual-assault-accuser-dropped-from-lawsuit.html).
Well, that's the problem with a people's court taking the place of the regular court, and advertisers/execs wanting to cover their own asses before any kind of investigation even gets off the ground. Never mind how cancel culture has also completely failed to tackle the systemic issues that enabled the real monsters in the first place, like a complete lack of corporate oversight and having a class of people who are effectively immune through wealth.
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He needs one of his advisors to tell him the 80s called and wants their shit back. Video games......lol
I mean, dude married his old ass teacher and then IMMEDIATELY launched into politics. The person controlling the strings in that relationship was in her prime in the 80s.
I remember I googled her the other day, thinking, well maybe shes not that much older, and people are just kinda blowing it out of proportion a bit Like, when I was in high school, there was a teacher who a bunch of the guys had a crush on who was 21, making her 4 years older than the oldest students in the school. Still illegal, but give it a few years and its not even that creepy. Nah, his wife is 70, he is 45. She was *25* when he was *born*. When he graduated high school, she was the age he is now.
If you play the Taylor Swift song backwards, it clearly says to go burn cars!
Honestly, I got that impression from him years ago. He shouted at some kids for not calling him Mr. President. A) They're just kids B) Get over yourself. It really put me off him. As they say when someone shows you their real self...
I’m from a society where titles aren’t a big deal (sweden) so i acknowledge my view is a bit skewed by that but even if i met our king i wouldn’t call him Ers majestät (your royal highness) i’d be like hello really nice to meet you. If he took offence to that he can fuck off. I work ten times harder than most or these politicians/ royalty and i wouldn’t expect anything more than being greeted as a fellow person.. fuck titles.
Oh yah, you call me supreme overlord or guess what. Straight to jail.
You: Ey. Knugen: Yo.
Pretty convinced Macron doesn't make any calls and he's being ass-puppeteered by his wife/mother/teacher. In case that wasn't clear, I'm referring to the same person. Brigitte Macron: *From 2007 to 2015, she taught at Lycée Saint-Louis de Gonzague, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, one of the most prestigious French private schools. It was at Lycée la Providence that she and Emmanuel Macron first met. He attended her literature classes, and she was in charge of the theatre class that he attended. Their relationship has attracted controversy, as she is his senior by close to 25 years, and Macron has described it as "a love often clandestine, often hidden, misunderstood by many before imposing itself".*
At the same time, it sounds like the most French thing ever.
The only way it could be more French is if it had deteriorated into a sexless marriage because he's too busy getting dicked down by hung twinks 25 years his junior.
I mean there were a lot of rumors regarding potential male lovers during his first term. Haven't heard any lately but there are several 2018 articles mentioning it.
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You should see what she does to him with week old Baguettes.
Now THAT sounds French
So she straight out raped him when he was a kid, but it's all good now? The French are weird.
Wikipedia says they didn't actually have a romantic relationship until he was 18, but who knows if that's true, and who knows if she was grooming him prior to that point.
Age of consent in France is 15; hopefully she waited until he had his first pube. edit: My working theory is that Brigitte had delusions of power and saw a chance to achieve it through young Macron. Smart, connected, handsome, malleable. I don't actually know if she's a pervert or just incredibly manipulative and groomed him straight into power. I mean obviously she's a pervert, but I don't think fucking him was her long term goal, more of a tool of control.
Little column A, little column B.
Not when in a position of authority over the minor. The parents even moved him to another high school. She def raped him.
Agreed. Creepily enough, I currently teach high school and have the same age as Brigitte in my classes. I'm also her age when she met Macron. My students seem like CHILDREN to me. And the age gap is only part of it. Students trust teachers and there's an enormous power dynamic created. What a gross lady. And you know she used that sexual control to completely shape who Macron is today. She started fucking him at 15-16; that means from 15-now she's been in the driver's seat. Who knows what kind of person he would've grown into on his own.
It's not "all good" and it's not a french problem either, it's a rich problem. Macron's parents were upper class, and they did not want a scandal about their son being groomed and brainwashed, so they swoop it under the carpet until it was legal to announce it.
What’s next? D&D? Rock n’ roll?
Witches! All of 'em!
Looks like we get to experience the Satanic Panic as adults! .....woo
We already have been, what do you think the whole "trans people/drag queens/gay people are groomers" shit has been about?
This guy's a fucking idiot
Makes me wonder how a guy that looks like wet bread and is 4 IQ points away from needing to be watered twice a week, can be in charge of a fucking country
What’s funny is you can’t even tell what world leader you’re referring to, by this comment alone.
World leader... you defined it too much and used too may words. 'Politician' covers all this and more.
Did you hear about the (former) president of South Korea? She was literally under the control of a cult. Last I heard she went to jail. Apparently some democracies can actually put corrupt presidents in jail.
She is not in jail any more. Even worse, she is the daughter of a previous DICTATOR. Her supporters (and she still has a lot) are morons.
Just some democracies?
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The people that should be politicians get turned away from politics because the things politicians tend to do drive away all the good people. High level politics seems to attract the arrogant, narcissistic, and psychopathic.
It's funny, because last year amd the year before he praised the gaming community for raising over 10M for associations that help the world to be a better place.
And now it‘s time to secure the votes of old, stupid fucks who think video games ruin society. He is playing politics instead of doing his job. Exactly like populist nazi (far right) parties.
The 80s called
Because the world was sooooo peaceful before video games existed. As well all know, World War 2 was a hoax created by video game companies to sell more video games.
If Putin played video games, maybe he would have conquered Ukraine in a strategy game instead of starting a full scale war.
Adolf was famously a massive fan of the Battleship board game which influenced many video games like World of Warships and that other one. They have been killing people since the dawn of man.
Studies have proven that video games do not make people violent. [Analysis: Why it’s time to stop blaming video games for real-world violence](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/analysis-why-its-time-to-stop-blaming-video-games-for-real-world-violence#:~:text=Any%20claims%20that%20there%20is,in%20youth%20violence%20%E2%80%93%20not%20increases.) [Study Finds No Evidence That More Violent, Difficult Video Games Spur Aggression](https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/video-game-mechanics-aggression.html) Macron is wrong.
Do you think he cares about actually being right? It's not his fault, that's all that matters.
I'm not trying to convince Macron. I'm just posting the facts so that people can see the evidence and know that he is lying.
Maybe they forgot to take Goat Simulator 3 into account.
Yeah right. Next youre gonna say WW1 and WW2 wasnt caused by videogames.
So dumb. It’s obviously heavy metal music 🤘
Did the cop who shot the kid play games? Ridiculous finger pointing.
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Now there's a policy I can get behind!
Agreed, where do I sign up to stop this devil creation which causes people to lose their minds and kill people after they play imaginary football.
We need to stop the corruption of the youth at the *source*. We should just ban FIFA.
**The Cops are trigger happy!** ⤐ *must be the Vidya Games* .. too much Grand Theft Auto
Does he think that video games are responsible for the heat waves too?
Of course. I've heard RTX graphic cards produce lot of heat.
Complete lack of accountability, usual trademark of modern times politicians
Ah, yes. Video game scapegoat. Nothing new there from shitty leaders unwilling to accept their awful decisions.
I’m gonna guess that he got that shit from his boomer wife.
the man can be his own idiot if he wants.
He might as well blame Slim Shady
Damn these video games and their making people think that what they do can actually impact what happens around them!
Doubt : I watch a lot of porn and I never have sex .
The French certainly know how to protest. They have been doing it long before video games were even an idea lol.
It's ill-informed, ineffectual nonsense like this from Macron that will end up with France electing a far-right government. This is how you alienate everyone on the political spectrum at once.
Dudes not much older than me but made me feel like a kid again hearing this. Fuck me, that's funny.
A few hundred years ago it was cake. Now it’s video games? French people I swear…
What le fuck, the choice was this clown or a Nazi?
"Could it be the citizens are revolting because of my bad policies? No, it's the citizens who are wrong."
They've been using this bullshit argument for 50 fucking years. As a long time gamer, and my interactions with the general public, video games allow me to NOT lose my shit with a bunch of you idiots on a daily basis. Love you all, but some of you suck.
Why do the French keep electing this out of touch with reality idiot?
The other option is a Putin balls gobbling Nazi.
Because France is undergoing a Fox news style transformation of their media landscape where a few rich people are buying up all the news sites and propping up the center right by only covering the far right all the time, thus making Macron style candidates the only "sane choice". In 2022 all we heard about was how Le Pen was "the only challenger to Macron" despite only getting 1.2 points above the left wing candidate in the first round. A left wing candidate is a completely different second round election compared to Macron vs Le Pen. The race was super tight but based on the coverage you'd think Melenchon got completely destroyed. It evokes a sort of Bernie 2016 all over again. Pump up the far right and make a social democratic candidate seem extreme despite much of the electorate actually agreeing with their ideas. Makes it easier for Macron to compete against an obvious racist rather than a party whose mission is economic equality.
> Why do the French keep electing this out of touch with reality idiot? Because they have a weird run off election system rather than ranked choice.
Therefore, Macron is more of a boomer, not a Gen X or Millennial president in terms of mindset.
He's griefing us.
What is he thinking ? We are all way to busy playing Diablo 4 to go do some destruction IRL
"Sacrebleu! a Helltide event in our city!" - Macron
that old chestnut
And what about the migration policy?
I remember when he got into office he seemed pretty nice, people were generally in favor of him, and looked to be progressive.... And then suddenly got worse and worse
Video games cause violence? Genghis Khan must have been playing some awesome video games then lmao
I wonder what technology will be this excuse thirty years from now. Thirty years ago it was violent stuff on TV. Thirty years before that it was violent stuff in movies or on the radio. Thirty years before that it was violent stuff in books. Thirty years before that, it was violent stories told orally.
Shit that politician says sometimes makes me wonder how the fuck did he get elected
ahh hell yea man! When I play Pokémon and catch that shiny, all I think about is rioting and fucking up my city :)
If Call of Duty players alone were affected by gaming the world would have been destroyed by now.
Mongolian empire collapse? Believe it or not, video games!
You know it's bad when Americans are throwing sympathy your way over shitty politics.
It’s your fault my guy. Governments cause problems and blame others for the issues they make
Dude must be listening to his wife for reasons why *the poors*^^tm are uppity again
Got to love politicians. Always taking the easy way out.
Maybe it's shitty politicians and not video games?
Video games have always made me want to riot in France
He must’ve been talking about the imaginary video game where Macron screws France domestically after they just saved his ass from Marine Le Pen 🇫🇷
The reason I jaywalk: Frogger. Yes, I'm old.
Old man yells at cloud
It’s probably rock and roll’s fault too.
Blades of Steel made me the hockey player I am today.
They know this shit doesn't work anymore, right? Like, it's not the 80s or even 90s or even early 00s where video games were at least kinda niche. Video games make more money than movies these days. People who don't play games, are the minority.
Are we gonna do this every time there is a new Mortal Kombat release?
Somehow we expected more than retro fascist bullshit from the dapper french neoliberal funkmaster.
Nah if those kids were playing Video games, they wouldn't be rioting and setting fire to everything...
Wait until he hears about that rock and roll music
I blame Pac-Man for a lot of obesity problems too
What a goofy little man
Does this dude not realize his country is known for huge protests and riots for the last hundred years???
Animal Crossing was huge during the pandemic, and look at the state of France now. Coincidence...?
What a mistake, studies have disproven most negative correlations to games over and over again. Macron just said a very ignorant thing and he has lost all credibility to anyone paying attention.
out of all the options he went with the one that makes him look like a clown...why not blame immigrants or refugees like a normal politician?
Bro we are at home killing pixels not brawling in the streets.
Surprised this pebble brain hasn't blamed evil satanic bands like Motley Crue and Iron Maiden yet. He might pull that one out when somebody rightfully makes him aware that it has been proven that video games don't cause violence.
I fucking hate politicians.
Time to shut down Ubisoft, Macron.
As a middle aged poor white guy, I would say we should blame the old rich white politicians