Wow, they really attacked gamers. Conservatives speedrunning how to be hated by everybody.

I like him even more now

Walz likes video games? Like a third of the entire planet does? What a weirdo, so unrelatable.

Walz is the guy who will join your 3 man group in Phantasy Star Online at 2 AM to go take down Dark Falz.

The fact that’s it was the Dreamcast of all consoles puts so much respect on it tbh.

The republicans really, really do hate being called weird, don’t they.

Wow! They're really struggling to attack him! He's gotta be squeaky clean if this is the best they can do!

I despise Republicans so much. Bro your candidate is a rapist insurrectionist who spent all day in the White House watching TV. Now he's using Twitter's AI to make fake images of himself being popular.

Glad being called "weird" is enraging them this bad, though.

No charlie, that's not that weird. In fact it happens all the time.

Dude... he has a fucking Dreamcast? Tim Walz is the dad I never had.

I'm really sick of the age thing when it comes to gaming. Tons of middle-aged and older men spend hours watching sportsball every week, but nobody gives them shit.

This just makes me respect him more.

Dreamcast was a fantastic console, but it didn't have much success in the US due to poor marketing decisions.

The fact that Waltz recognized its value back then shows good judgement IMO.

I don't find that anecdote weird, but I do find searching through the life events of some politician to find things to signify that he's weird to be creepy and fucking weird.

But that's par for the course for you, Chuckie, you fucking balloon headed weirdo. Get a real job you mutant potato.

He supports a criminal who openly lusts for his own daughter.

But please, tell me how too much video games is the issue here.

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Imagine:

You enjoy your hobbies. And you have a good enough relationship with your spouse that you’re able to keep each other accountable in simple small ways.

What a weird way to live!

On the scale of "weird shit"

Being addicted to videogames<fucking couches

If this is real I smell a “Gamers for Waltz” fundraiser soon

You mean Tim Walz is one of us?

Way to lose the gamer vote, Trump

Kirk should be very careful about accusing anyone of being weird, a liar or a racist - those are qualities he has on his own resume.

That is quite the laboured attempt at insulting Walz. Like the worst thing you can say about him is that he, like so many humans, got hooked on a video game? You're really not finding anything on this guy, Republicans, you fucking weirdos.

I already like Walz you don't have to sell me on him.

They're trying to turn weird around? Fucking LMFAO!

Is the defense familiar with the "I'm rubber, you're glue" gambit?

I'd say the story shows more character than anything.

Meaning "This politician sometimes knows how to realize when they're obsessed with something and will take steps to make sure they back off of it".

I like when politicians have functioning frontal lobes and can self-moderate. Usually it makes them far less extremist, or likely to be extreme in their viewpoints.

With each new revelation, Walz gets better and more relatable, while Vance gets creepier and weirder. It must be tough for the Republican strategists having to come up with attacks against Walz when this is the kind of material they have to work with.

Tinyface McGhee is trying to dictate who is weird? Talk about pure deflection. That clown is basically in a villain group for talentless weirdos (along with Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Tomi Lahren, Matt Walsh, and Steven Chowder).

And after all the weird shit Kirk and company have pushed over the years, they are gonna have to do a lot better than Walz being hooked on playing a games console.

As a lifelong gamer pushing my 5th decade, I think rednecks that beat their wives after watching their team lose at sportsball is a hell of a lot more cringe than a guy with a hobby.

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Oh yeah that fucking loser Charlie Kirk is going to call other people weird. Nah.

Bumping up on 50 here. I'll be playing something or other before bed tonight, maybe PC maybe PS5... who knows, but it will be fun... and it will actually be IN BED... and in the background will probably be the DNC nomination acceptance speech. It isn't weird, it is relatable...

Also, if he was playing Soulcalibur on Dreamcast then who can blame him. That was one of the few games my attention span actually pushed through from start to finish.

I've never been a GQ model, but I've not yet understood how someone who literally looks like Butthead has become such a focus. I feel like I missed out on being a pundit.

GAME ON FOREVER MY FRIENDS

Dang, I wonder if Coach was really into Crazy Taxi. Or maybe Space Channel 5? 🛸

Come on Lemmy, it is in the contract:

https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/

What a very weird, sad thing for a very weird, sad person to say.

Anyway, my Saturn crawled so that the Dreamcast could fly.

They attacked gamers.
Gamers.

(I don't remember how the rest of the copypasta goes, because I'm a leftist video game enjoyer and try to distance myself from Gamers®.)

That said this probably won't go anywhere. In the Gamergate days the right wingers kept outright insulting Gamers® and the Gamers® just did some mental gymnastics. Political literacy among Gamers® has gone to even deeper depths since.

The stuff they say is cringe af. They try SO HARD.

Are they weirded out that he didn't beat her like a conservative man would if his wife did that? And are they going to pretend there aren't countless women fed up with their manchildren conservative husbands?

I was pretty addicted to league and my wife had to give me an ultimatum. It was affecting my sleep and work.

I haven't touched that crack in 8 months.

They attacked gamers. Gamers.

This Charlie Kirk guy seems to be counter productive to the GOP.

So far, I've seen him antagonizing:

• gamers
• fathers, with healthy relationships with their daughers
• possibly, healthy families as well
• women, as in tradition
• people of color

Not that I'm complaining...

Genius. Gamers are such calm and quiet people and definitely not prone to loud retribution against people they hate. Legally, of course. No gamer has ever perpetuated violence against someone.

Wow, the propagandists have fucking nothing huh? Seeing the bots and troll nets flounder like this is pathetic and fun to watch. Money down the drain for the fascist. You love to see it.

I love how they keep trying "no u" as their attempt to counter the weird label democrats have put on the MAGA crowd. Seems to be working great for them.

I can't keep my racists straight, is Charlie the one who picks boogers to the point of blood or is that Nick?

Anyway, I like video games. Looking to get a steam deck so I can sit with the wife.

I'd rather a politician be addicted to Dreamcast than cocaine.

Ah. Trying to switcheroo the weird insult to imply they aren't the weird ones. Clever girl.

I get what they were going for considering I've known certain people who have been so addicted to specific games that they've ruined their lives but I don't think Walz is in that crowd. He's still married, looks like he's a great father who's involved with his kids and is a more responsible and active politician than 90% of those in politics.

It's such a poor jab. Besides gaming being this mainstream hobby that everyone partakes of these days, there's also the fact that even if he was irresponsible, the youngest two of the voting generations would vibe with it. I know people who overspend their money or ignore reality entirely because they feel helpless. It's a symptom of a problem.

Bro, if the Dreamcast taught me anything it's that the world would be threatened by giant lizards anally pleasuring themselves via death-laser equipped space colonies far less often if we could get political figures capable of telling Sonic from Shadow.

Tim Walz has my support. Prevent Biolizards from threatening the planet!

Poor Charlie never had a dweamcast... 😫

Real men get addicted to booze, pain pills and fox

Omg he's literally me

I once heard someone arguing a similar thing back around 2010, and we already thought it was an odd thing to say. Why, yes, grown people do play video games, and certain mechanics are addictive no matter how old you are.

Your face is weird. Like, really.

Powerstone was fucking awesome. And Soul Calibur.

But, did she give it back?

Lmao they're trying so hard.

"I'm not weird, you're weird!"

...said the normal man who's been a Koch Brothers funded propagandist since he was 18, normally.

Just remember that Charlie is an extra special flavor of stupid. That oversized head of his is filled with more bullshit than he spews

Or it's empty. Only reason I'd say otherwise is with that much empty space the little shit would drift off uncontrollably.

Please tell me he played Sonic Adventure that would be very awesome!

It's so funny to me that Charlie Kirk made his entrance on college campuses, and despite still being dedicated to representing college Republicans, is overwhelmingly most popular with boomers.

So he ends up saying boomer shit like this, deriding video games as disqualifying behavior for a politician...

Charlie Kirk, would be school shooter.

I love how US political discourse has devolved into who can call the other party 'weird'

I'm sure like many, my 'X' feed has felt injected with right wing posts since Elon took over. Just maybe two or three days ago, I noticed a new trend of posts it was serving to me. This whole weird new trough of posts has been super alpha male vibes and 'hot' women shaming men for playing video games. I legit wonder if this story has anything to do with why that's being targeted at me, a very casual gamer, now.

And if you vote for Democrats you're all gonna get free healthcare too! The horror!

Charlie Kirk is both sad and weird

Charlie Kirk struggling to be relatable as ever

Getting a little addicted to video games is normal, even for men in their 30s. What's not normal is peeing on prostitutes in a bed Obama slept in.

Conservatives appearantly are trying to appeal to the crusty vampires who peaked in the 60's and think Pong is too new school to be trifled with voting block...

They attacked cat ladies, grandmas, the swifties, and now gamers. Are they going to attack the Palestinians and the undecided movement (some more) just to be sure?

9/9/99 rise up!

Depends on what he was addicted to. Soul caliber? Not weird. Seaman? Weird. Yes, hide the console!

Is he the rubber and we, the glue?? 😢

Kirk has to still be a virgin.

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These weirdos are so weird that every time they try to call someone else out for being weird it just shows how weird they are instead.

Shenmue 4 lyf

Isn't it sad and weird if people get mental or physical health problems like addictions and the flu? /s

if it was Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense hes got my vote.

one more voting bloc for tim

I still have my dreamy in the office.

All it's ever used for is the odd Quake 3 game; for people to play Metropolis Street Racer on it when they ask what console it is; and serving as a reminder that I really need to set a week aside for playing Shenmue III.

i wonder if he plays any online games, and if so, i wonder what his handle is

they really attacked gamers

Next level PvP

Charlie Kirk looks like someone drew a tiny face on a caucasian pumpkin and set it on an over-starched shirt.

Games are bad, mmmmmk, because they're bad.

If you want the anime crowd to hate the republicans, then remind them which party made (and which former vice president helped to author it) the PROTECT Act (the law that put loli/shota into a legally gray area, as it's still subject to the Miller test).

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At least all he did (presumably) during to a couch during that time is sit on it.

I wanna see him play some Jet Grind Radio.

Charlie Kirk has a small face. Isn't that weird?

Toilet Paper USA!

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Naaaaahhh he rocking those Fighting game bangers. Next we know he's gonna moneymatch WeirDee Vance On MvC2 lowtiers.

i watch one debate with Charlie Kirk, had no idea who he is till 2 days ago and now hes everywhere!!!

I would feel inclined to vote for anyone who has maintained a Chao garden for this long. Surely they can't be all that bad.

Proof that gamers are the most oppressed people :c

fuck charlie kirk, his forehead looks like the sega genesis with an adapter cartridge plugged in and then another one plugged in on top of that

Honestly? The idea that his wife had to pull a mom move on him? Yeah, a little bit weird to me.

I'd like to say that's because I have enough self-control to not get that far-gone, but it's probably more that my wife is more likely to join me, rather than stop me.

This is weird tho aside from context. 35olds should have some semblance of grasp on life generally or at least pretend cause no woman wants to be nanny in relship.

Edit: lol.

FWIW, the genisis game out in 1989 in the US. he would have been 25. So. like. if he was playing the console a decade after it released.... he'd have been 35....

Tim's also owns:

No stock, bonds, or investments of any kind. No real estate No home! No 401k! He owns literally nothing.

Tim waltz in a financially illiterate scrub. Not exactly someone I have confidence in to help run the economy of even a state, much less the whole country!