OfficialBurtMacklin
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#wereallgarbagetogether #butseriously #stopit #beexcellenttoeachother
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Feb 15, 2018 2:09 PM
OfficialBurtMacklin
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3091
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#wereallgarbagetogether #butseriously #stopit #beexcellenttoeachother
FP Edit: wow, first time crawling out of u-sub. Send me kitties.
arphaSleepWrecker
Technically, person x is proven to be garbage at y time regarding w time morality.
SpicyTheBurrito
Burning witches is actually a lie, but... Ok
Rivalyn
I've been playing a lot of monster hunter world, and all it makes me want to do is chase dragons with comically oversized weaponry.
NineColonels100
Very few movies, games and music in some Muslim countries, but you can get killed for not wearing the proper clothing. Some humans suck.
PiGiSpi
I'm in Miami. Are they really trying to blame videogames? Geez louise...
Frogapus
In 1954, Frederic Wertham found that 80% of juvenile deliquents read comics. His study left out that 80% of all juveniles read comics.
ShortblackFlatwhite
Guns, drugs, video games, etc. everyone wants to blame something, because no one wants to admit that that they are capable of it too.
SkrinTight
This is a community/society mental health crisis.. It just seems like ppl don't want to admit it. Gun access is low hanging fruit.
StrayLilCat
Yeah, that's why all the other countries with their people and mental health issues have mass shootings all the time too! Wait- Just America
EarlGreyII
They still do that in Africa.
shitcoveredtardwrangler
SSRI = School Shooting Recipe Ingredients https://ssristories.org
poorwhitetrash
As a garbage human, I agree.
Rifneno
How the hell is she communicating over hundreds of miles!? SHE'S A WITCH, BURN HER!
Opportunist
I lived in a town in England that burned so many witches, human fat ran in the gutters. /sigh
Nova225
I think the video game violence debate died in the last 10 years. You hardly hear about it anymore, even with GTA Vs popularity
Digsby
I wonder how true the idea of that debate dying with Jack Thompson is.
betterknownasthelittletramp
NRA loves a strawman
dumbefi
We didn’t do it cause they were witches. We did it because we thought they were witches. Which is more messed up really
satanscott
there are still people today who kill women with rocks for not covering their face with a scarf. What video game is that from?
mccar7hy
Seanbaby said it best back in 2001: http://www.seanbaby.com/news/col-lawsuit2.htm
thebadhorse
Blaming shit on vydja. So hot right now.
Sinus23
Nah it's old news that's been debunked. Access to guns however legal or illegal...
norbanddag
+1 for Burt Macklin
RealEnglishRage
Midgarmerc
Morgan Freeman never said this
RealEnglishRage
Sounds a lot more convincing if you hear it in his voice tho.
MericanNightmare
Saliman78
They burnt wiches because they turned kids into psycho by letting them play "war" with sticks !
Saliman78
Witches... Sorry, frenchy here, was writing with one hand, the otherone was busy baking a baguette...
Midgarmerc
Studies have shown that video games are stress RELIEVERS and make people less violent.
MVPHingleMcCringleBerry
Sometimes after a stressful day I play video games to unwind. It’s a huge stress release for me.
SlotegeAllDay
I don't know. I've been at parties and watched people engage in fisticuffs over Super Smash and Mario Kart.
Midgarmerc
Multiplayer games and board games are grounds for hostilities lol
calyxium
Unless you're playing Dark Souls or Cuphead, that would make me throw things.
Midgarmerc
Get gud. Those games make you feel super satisfied when you beat them. Also playing difficult games is never recommended when in a bad mood
calyxium
Haha I don't have the temperament, but I'm glad they exist for people who thrive on challenges
ThisGuyHere
Unless it's lagging...and they're all cheating. This game is fuckin' bullshit! GAAAAHHHH!! HACKERS! GODDAMMIT! GOD...*face very red* DAMMIT!
preaction
The AP just reported a white supremacist group is taking credit for training him. That's probably a big part of it.
preaction
Looks like the police are calling the claim bullshit. Why would a white supremacist group take credit for something they didn't do?
mds308
We all know how much white supremacist groups love people named Cruz.
preaction
White supremacy isn't in the name. It's in the heart.
kkanne20
HOW TO END MOST GUN VIOLENCE: Help poor communities>fix loopholes/raise penalties for ILLEGAL guns>take mental health more seriously. 1/2
kkanne20
2/2 mickey mouse bullshit like banning scary looking guns or arbitrarily limiting mag size does nothing but limit our rights. /rant
Sinus23
People should be able to own drones with missiles. Why not? banning the general population to own one limits their rights. Right.
kkanne20
that's not what we're talking about, but since you brought it up, seems like something we'd have to decide democratically. drones are crazy
Sinus23
Nah drones don't kill people, people kill people therefor drones with missiles are just machines ;) But I get what you mean.
Sinus23
Someone didn't get what I meant.
Sinus23
Drones are crazy? How about guns? nAh GunS ArE SAnE.
kkanne20
you seem like a troll
nightdweIIer
Psychologist here, there has been a research about this. Long story short: there was found no significant correlation between violent ->
nightdweIIer
games played and violent behaviour. A correlation was found instead in movies and media in general that basically goes as following: ->
nightdweIIer
After watching violent stuff you get temporarly more violent and more violent stuff is searched from people who are usually more violent. ->
nightdweIIer
None of this applies to videogames however, as i said there's no correlation between VG content and behavior. Source: my textbook. I can ->
nightdweIIer
provide more info and proof if wanted.
StrayLilCat
I wonder what the disconnect is that makes our brains not escalate after killing in games, but enhances violence when you watch it?
Heratickle
So hours of actively choosing to shoot people to get a game reward is less likely incline a person to choose that action when decompensating
deterisotope
I'm surprised republicans aren't trying to outlaw rap music
preaction
Surely you mean *still*
LuckyDirt
Nah, just the people who make it.
Dirtybirdsalltheway
They say music can alter moods and talk to you, but can it load a gun up for you and cock it too?
skldfkjsdklfjjklsdfjksjkl
I see Eminem, I upvote
jellyonrooster
My cockatoo didn't have a gun but not was he moody
APrettyCoolCat
Is this from a song?
Dirtybirdsalltheway
Yeah It is from an Eminem song, "Sing for the moment" sampling the Aerosmith song, "Dream on" Fucking awesome song, will cause teary eyes.
APrettyCoolCat
Oh awesome dude I’ll listen to it when I get a chance thanks
debunker
In Canada, we have the exact same games, music, movies, etc. That's not the problem and anyone who thinks it is, is an idiot. Sorry.
stormegedendarklordofall
You know it's going down when a Canadian calls someone stupid
purplMarbleVoter
"sorry" spoken like a true Canadian
idontknowwhateven
not sorry*
Jonataurus
I like this comment until I got to the "anyone who thinks x, is y" part.
debunker
Sorry for calling out idiots, but it's the truth.
Jonataurus
I agree with with you, but turning the comment into an attack on the people who don't agree will make so you won't change their minds.
viz0
Thank you.
frankxcid
Proud to be a Canadian eh? In the America, the same feeling would be considered by Canadians racist
debunker
No surprise, but you're uninformed. That's another uneducated, ridiculous statement.
kimsahobbit
Sounds like the missing link is.... Americans? Just joking. Must be the guns.
irlborat
Or the mental healthcare, that could be a reason
HurrDurrImABurr
Can't be. Unthinkable. Damn commie.
blahjohnson
Idk i saw a documentary where they say blame canada. they had a whole song and everything
Dongskanker
Can't trust them, with their flappy heads!
SargentKetchup
And their beady little eyes!
Isthe4thtimethecharm
Yeah but in the U.S we have to blame anyone else than ourselves. That's why we don't take care of the mentally ill. It is thier fault.
SerialKitten666
PS, we don't REALLY take good care of the mentally ill in Canada either...it's just more affordable to see a psychologist and less guns
WithPride
To be fair, if you seriously said that Canadians take care of the mentally ill in public then the ridicule wouldn't stop for years. We don't
PoopholeAintALoophole
Or veterans... Oh wait... Who do we blame for that?
savagestarshine
If my MiL is right, the aid we give to foreign countries.
MrRandom314159
We must blame them and cause a fuss, before somebody thinks of blaming us.
PoopholeAintALoophole
This is an argument I can get behind. One question: can we keep Alec? He's ok... Right?
debunker
It's not even about blame .. it's about admitting you might be wrong and looking to others to see how to better yourselves.
strcmdman
Do all the wrong things first then maybe we do the right its the American way
mrread55
Sounds like the blame game.
Carnwenhau
America is never wrong! USA! USA! USA!
debunker
That was a great comment/gif combo!
thatstrangenoise
I like it because Spiderman wears USA flag colors. It's still thematically coherent!
rimehoarfrost
Agreed, but in Canada we don’t have that mentality we need to defend ourselves from everyone and our gov’t. We let the police do their job—
rezpawner
Oh I don't know. If Trump was my leader, I'd want to buy a gun too, just to prepare for the fucking end-times.
antlerbear
We also have waaaay less people though, probably helps.
mculp17
Except that when you normalize the murders to a per capita rate, US has ~3 times higher murder rate than Canada.
debunker
It a "rate" .. has nothing to do with population.
RealDMurda
In Canada you don’t have the American government though
debunker
Correct. That's why we have good gun regulations and kids don't die in schools anywhere close to the rate as in the US.
mineovermatter
Its not a gov't problem.Its a cultural one starting with parents and progressive schools
RealDMurda
Well. Gun ownership does not exactly correlate to violent crime. Or there wouldn’t be violent crime in places like the UK or Chicago.
rimehoarfrost
—and while there are still cop killings and violent crime, we really don’t have as much. Source: am from Canada.
AlmightyDylon
What you have to remember is that most countries where handed to them by large powerful countries( Britain and France) 1/2
AlmightyDylon
But the US had to fight to exist, multiple times. So it's ingrained in our heritage to fight and defend what's ours. Even our anthem is 2/3
AlmightyDylon
About war and fighting for our rights 3/3
GrandArcanum
That’s stupid and you know it. You can bring up so many examples of people having to fight to exist and are kinda living peacefully now
debunker
I'm also from Canada. It's not that we don't have "as much", we have WAY, WAY less. Like every other industrialized nation on the planet.
MoneybagsMcGee
I dunno man I've been to Montreal
GrampaJack
Seriously. There is no comparison.
debunker
Nope. Can't figure out why American can figure this out. It's simple shit.
ElationProximate2
Let's just drastically oversimplify everything, that will help determine the root cause of the problem, right?
debunker
What's oversimplified?
ElationProximate2
ThisIsCanadaWinterIsAlwaysComing
It's a good baseline backed up with factual evidence. What's not to understand here?
ElationProximate2
Baseline
irlborat
Canada also takes care of her mentally ill, the US, not so much.
eightbreeze
I wish we did. I was thinking of killing myself. The hospital's response to my doctor's referral was that"I didn't seem suicidal enough yet"
eightbreeze
I guess the words were more "not enough of an immediate concern" but translation to me was "ur not immediately jumping off a bridge so meh"
debunker
We have our issues to. Just a mentally ill person can't get a gun nearly as easily as a mentally ill person in the US.
eightbreeze
TBH if I lived in the States and it were that easy to get a gun, I would have killed myself by now. Thanks Canada.
SadHedgehog
I disagree. My town in Britain has a 1+ year waiting list for therapy. We have a low murder rate but a massively high suicide rate. 1/2
SadHedgehog
Wed rather kill ourselves than kill others. Killing people here is socially unacceptable, unless its yourself, then that's alright :/
irlborat
Anyone can aquire a gun if they try hard enough, its our job as a society to make sure they don't want to use one on another person.
debunker
Our job is to not make it easy to get a gun. Of course nothing is 100%, but proper controls ensure what happens in the US doesn't happen.
irlborat
Having worked as an armorer I can tell you its not that simple. Guns are extreamly simple machines, anyone can build a machine gun 1/
irlborat
We need to help individuals who are clearly disturbed. They need treatment and care, until then gun control is simply security theatre
SerialKitten666
Not really,we have very few permanent care facilities, still many in jail or homeless. Therapy is not covered by most basic healthcare cards
irlborat
Explain? Sorry I don't know much about Canadian healthcare, I just assumed it covered MH based on what others say
SerialKitten666
Each province has slightly different government healthcare coverage and most of this doesn't cover therapy or only covers a few sessions>
SerialKitten666
so you still generally need to pay for private insurance for therapy or out of pocket. It's still a 1-3 month wait for non-emergencies if>
madmongoose18
1878. We murdered young women, here, in America. For Witchcraft. 140 years ago.
Rokobex
It's because of things like these I think the primary problem is the mentality of the US-citizens, not Thema having guns.
majortool
Turns out what people thought was witchcraft was probably a hallucinogenic fungus in the bread called ergot.
scaredshirtless
To be fair though, the video games that came out in 1878 were pretty violent. Nothing but first person shooters and Grand Theft Horse.
DukeDarkwood
You forgot the Witcher.
TheBlueMuppet
Rust, if you fucked up bad enough.
PersonalityFire
2018. We murder school children, here, in America. For freedom. 0 years ago.
DarkSock
Allow child slaughter for something as intangible as freedom? NEVER!No, we do it for slightly higher profits for Remington, Winchester, etc.
IAmDrBanner
I mean, the world and humanity changed more in the past 150 years than it did ini the past 1000.
hellothisispeggy
Yes but we have had the same two political parties for the last 165 years. It's rather limiting of choice.
hellothisispeggy
We haven't elected a president that wasn't a republican or democrat since 1848.
debunker
Nothing like murder, but it was only like 50 years ago that parts of the US had different drinking fountains for black people.
FreyaNicci
Spousal rape was legal until the 1990s. Even then, some states allow it as long as there's no physical force used.
LimeMime565
Wait wat
FreyaNicci
Yep. In some states you can rape your wife just as long as you roofie her first so she cannot struggle.
LoudBirb
Don't forget that we had red-lining until like the 80's!
debunker
80s? That's still happening today! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining#Current_issues
LoudBirb
Well, shit. That's... disheartening yet unsurprising. Thanks for the link, though! Time to do some readin'.
debunker
Pass on the knowledge!