Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Zincy
“Stop making us look bad!”

“We just pointing out what you’re already doing!”

In the UK, the Conservative party is currently in the middle of having several of their social media accounts investigated, after one of their candidates posted this the other day on Twitter (and subsequently kicked out of the party)

@Background Pony #1F81

How did they expect to not get investigated for posting pedophilia shit?

Not only is that hilariously disgusting it also really does not make any sense.

I’ve never met someone whose scent I would describe as “buttery”.

@Zincy
That’s because you don’t participate in statutory rape.

MSNBC contributer Elie Mystal blames Buffalo shooting on Fox News and checks notes Gamers????

@YourPalContrail
So they’re blaming people for wanting to talk about more pleasant things than racism to their viewers?

100% even worse when the government is involved placing these hurdles in our way. Especially for airline pilots. Air travel still is the safest way to travel. I have some stats on that if needed but if people instead of flying choose to drive we could see an uptick in traffic fatalities like we saw after 9/11

I wouldn’t blame Fox News in and of itself, but when you have talking heads that echo dangerous conspiracy theories that are then acted upon by criminals it bears some examination.

If a man burns down a Burger King he is obviously the primary one at fault and is an arsonist. But if you then find out that someone with authority has been telling him the Burger King down the road is a satanic church that eats babies and maybe someone should go burn it down, you might want to look into them.

The gamer shit is nonsense though.

@Meanlucario
I imagine they mean more that people in chat or whatever start saying “stuff” and the streamer just ignores it. Many do, but some of the huge ones just go “haha, that’s just chat”.

In any case, we have FOX NEWS blaming games making people violent and this NBC guest blaming bad gamer communities, the usual.

I guess. He also mentioned something about a slur in hearthstone chat which I don’t think hearthstone has a in game chat function do they?

@The Smiling Pony
Of course they are. Violence and racism wasn’t a thing before Pong.

@YourPalContrail
You can probably thank clowns like this or the near infinite stream of “random rich person crashes their two-seater / lands on a highway”.

yea tucker has said some sus shit, to put it mildly, I won’t deny that but blaming gamers seems like a halo reach to me.

@Zincy
To make matters worse, this also came out on the same day that a former member of the Tories was arrested after he admitted to trying to sexually assault a 15 year old boy a few years ago.

the Tory party DOES need to be investigated for this shit.

I mean, Charles Manson was charged with those murders even though he was nowhere near them. Because people recognized that if it wasn’t for him they 100% wouldn’t have happened.

Same rationale applies to Fox News frankly.

What in the blue f### made him think posting that s##t was a good idea?

@Penguin Dragneel
It’s the sort of stuff they talk about comfortably among friends or “at work”, and some people suddenly forget Twitter isn’t a private facebook group, but very very public.

@The Smiling Pony
That s##t’s not something you should be discussing with ANYONE, let alone think about.

(But then again, they’re uber-conservatives, so…)

@Penguin Dragneel
You say that like conservatives and pedophilia go hand-in-hand.

No idea what to say as a comment, shit’s too fucked up.

@The Smiling Pony
That it’s fucked up how often this shit occurs?

@The Smiling Pony
Sounds like a well-regulated militia to me.

About an hour before the first round of polling closes. I believe Georgia, Alabama, Pennsylvania and Texas are having their primaries today.

And of course recently Abbott bemoaned that Texas is currently only second in most guns purchased in the nation.

Priorities.