Radicalized by Among Us - Wednesday!

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What’s up, everyone! Happy Wednesday! I hope you’re all having a great day. So, I was thinking about how everyone says mainstream media is dead, news reporting is dead, and all that stuff. Sometimes I roll my eyes at that, but then I saw this article from ABC News yesterday, and it just blew my mind.

I get it, they want to figure out what made Luigi Mangione tick, what was going on in his head. So, they go looking for anything and everything they can find online. And what do they find? They found he had an Xbox account. Okay… They found that he was playing video games a few years ago. But which video games was he playing? Which video games radicalized him? Was it that evil Call of Duty? Or maybe Grand Theft Auto, which they used to blame for all the world’s crimes when I was growing up?

Nope, the one they chose to mention was Among Us. Among Us! I don’t know if you guys don’t play video games, but Among Us is like a party game. It’s so kosher, so benign in terms of violence. Basically, you play as a character, you go around, you find your friends, and you’ve got to eliminate them without anyone else figuring it out. It’s like the video game version of Mafia, if you ever played Mafia growing up. We played a lot of Mafia. Such a benign party game that they blamed! They’re like, “Well, the suspect did play Among Us where you play as an assassin.” Dude, is this where we’re going as a society? He also played some game called Assassin’s Creed.

I’m telling you, none of these games affected or gave him the skills to do what he did. You know what ruined him? Private healthcare. Private insurance not paying out what it should be. Apparently, his mom was suffering from some sort of disease, and, you know, insurance was being difficult to deal with. That’s what radicalized him. Charging so much that you can’t get care and that you’re watching your people around you suffer daily – that radicalized him, not playing Among Us! I’m just saying, this is the most benign, asinine thing that I think anyone could read.

It’s gotten to the point where even other journalists are just laughing, like, “This is what our industry has come down to.” I get it, you’ve got a deadline, you’ve got to push an article, you’ve got to do something that draws traffic to your website, but come on, man, why this? This is so jokes. Anyway, y’all have a dope-ass day! I’m going to go enjoy the day off. I am playing Marvel Rivals. Peace!

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updated_at 31-07-2025
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