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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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aroace flag but it's colorpicked from this image of tintin :)

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gender euphoria is looking rly hot to other queer people and offputting to everyone else

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STOP!!! being in other countries. I wanna! Hang out >:(

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I ship this ship because:

I have eyes

I can see

I am the smartest person in the room

I receive divine revelations about them in the dead of night, alone in my chambers

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more falin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Heathstrid is actually the ideal enemies to lovers ship

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oh, thats zionist propaganda in my knuckles the echidna show

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Abolish the comic book industrial complex 🙂

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plagues history and global epidemiology as an autistic special interest was already a heavy topic but not a day goes by I dont briefly recall drunkenly telling people at the bar in autumn 2019 “yeah the next pandemic will probably be a coronavirus and we’re due for one”

if they remember that i have to wonder if they think they met the devil at the club that night

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Master doc that contains different resources and support for many countries including Palestine, Congo, Haiti, Hawai’i, etc ((op is underneath the link))

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some first frost stuff

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guy on the street corner looking like he's about to sell you drugs but instead he opens his trenchcoat and pulls one of these bad boys out

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Congratulations!

You reached the bedrock after u scrolled ur feed so deep.

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Israeli settlers again attack Palestinian farmers

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian farmers in residential areas in the occupied West Bank. “The settler attacks occurred in the Jordan Valley [north], Hebron, and Bethlehem [south],” the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) and the Wafa news agency reported. In a statement, the commission said Israelis from illegal settlements had “raided the homes and tents of citizens in the Jordan Valley area and destroyed their belongings, and attacked shepherds in the area”. It added that the attack affected “the residence of citizen Fuad Draghmeh in the Ein al-Hilweh community in the northern Jordan Valley, and the tent of citizen Mohammed Abu Mta’awe in Al-Sakout area. A witness also told the Anadolu news agency that armed settlers had attacked several Palestinian farmers inside their fields in the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, to force them to leave.