Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.

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    it’s supposed to connect ‘steam’ with ‘extremism’ instead of something like Twitter, Truth, or Fox to coincide with their recent ‘fact finding mission’

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    I am telling you that there is proof video games effect people. Ever notice how most people born in the 80s grew up and all became plumbers? I mean sure all the competition has driven costs down for all of us and with just a little work you can find a plumber that will do the work for free, but a lot of these plumbers can no longer support their families and are forced to live in sewers and fight turtles for food.

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    I wish we lived in a time before videogames when there were no political assassinations or mass shootings.

    /s <-- do I even need this?

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    The fuckheads in office are searching for stuff they can blame. It’s couldn’t possibly because he was a right wing nutjob. Oh no it must be video games! Time to start cracking down on that now!

    Dumb fucks…

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      right-wing nutjob

      Didn’t he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where’s this coming from?

      Agreed that Steam is a really stupid place to be looking for anything of substance.

      Well, maybe the fact that he left a negative review for a game he has over 2000 hours in signifies derangement on some level, if not political, lol.

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        Didn’t he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where’s this coming from?

        He was an active groyper.

        The Groyper War began in the fall of 2019, when Fuentes and his followers launched a social media campaign targeting Turning Point USA’s “Culture War” college tour, led by Charlie Kirk. Motivated by the firing of a Fuentes ally and other conflicts, Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions on immigration, Israel, and LGBT rights to challenge mainstream conservative figures like Kirk, Donald Trump Jr., and Ben Shapiro, whom they labeled “Conservative Inc.” for deviating from their far-right views.

        This is also why Ben Shapiro went into hiding shitting himself.

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          Groypers disrupted college events by asking provocative questions

          This is pretty much the opposite of what Robinson did, so…what are you talking about?

          Also, groypers didn’t criticize Kirk because he ‘spreads too much hate’—if anything, they think he’s not extreme enough. Another direct contradiction.

          I think you’re believing what you want to believe, not what the evidence points to.

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        Do you mean those totally legit messages that totally didn’t sound like it was a mix of someone from the 60s and cop speak? Or did he criticize somewhere else?

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            My only bias in the situation is not trusting cops, espescially Trumps justice department and Patel’s FBI.

            If you look for any information outside of what the administration says and what the news repeats, you will see many people believe it was fabricated. People who are the same age as him say it doesn’t read plausible, people on the far right say it doesn’t sound like anything they have read, leftists say it sounds like no kid they have come across, people who study linguistics say it doesn’t match someone his age and the writing cadence is weird, especially someone who spent as much time online as him.

            It’s just super fishy, and I would be skeptical no matter who was in charge. I think a healthy dose of skepticism is important in today’s environment. We will find out more when this comes up in court.

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    Because it’s saying “leftists play video games, rightists play and watch sports” without saying it. Same with the “serially online” thing.

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      Lol, just check out WoWs general chat to find as many right wingers as you want.

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      Would love some MAGA to say this to me. Then I whip their ass in any game or sport they want to play. Gravy Seals can get balled on.

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    Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.

    Nothing incompetent about it. Just evil this time.

    They want a profile of the guy. They want to sell him as a left-wing extremist. They’ll outright lie about it if they have to–they mostly have already–but lies work better when they’re based on some level of truth.

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    but I’m not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

    Criminally insane.

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    To me what’s stupid is that they found nothing, as most of us would have expected going through a steam account, and yet they are “leaking” this information and what kind of bullshit narrative are they trying to push this time.

    Trying to back up RFK’s bullshit, disproven games caused mass shootings BS?

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    The evangelicals supporting trump are responsible for the recent mastercard debacle to remove steam games. I wouldn’t be surprised if they start into a new wave “video games cause violence” bullshit.

    Also I thought the kid seemed fairly normal but him being a SoT sicko makes me wonder.

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    you know steam has a messaging system don’t you

    you don’t?

    oh

    jesus, people are fucking idiots

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        The most I’ve used it was too annoy my friend to join my game or let me join theirs, and I only used steam messaging because he was on “do not disturb” on discord but I assumed (correctly) that he forgot to change steam