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After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games (www.npr.org)

submitted 2 years ago by sam_uk@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@kbin.social

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[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How to make yourself sound like an idiot boomer 101.

[–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think he even is a boomer, he's just married to one! :)

[–] roofuskit@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But he sounds like an idiot boomer.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Totally. It's ridiculous.

[–] Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Mm you're right, he was born in '77 so he's GenX.

[–] StaggersAndJags@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

I'm not surprised that desperate politicians are still going to this well, but I'm pleased to see the media no longer taking the bait. You can practically hear this journalist's eyes rolling. "This shit again?"

[–] Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It could have been worse, he could have said "videogames and Rock&Roll".

[–] livus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Comics... dungeons and dragons... bubblegum...