StoneToss: Episode 52

Comic Name: Same Crap, Different Gay

Description: The new satanic panic.

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Originally Published: 3/19/2019

What The Comic Is: A balding boomer holds aloft a copy of classic first person shooter game DOOM, crying out that video games caused "the shooting", this scene is labeled as "THEN". In the second panel, a gay caricature holds out his phone with a Pepe meme on it, crying out that memes caused "the shooting", this scene is labeled as "NOW".

What StoneToss Actually Thinks: Online communities don't promote violence.

Why It's Fucking Stupid: In the 90's and early 00's, video games being connected to violent shootings was the media norm. Doom, specifically, was implicated as being closely associated with the 1999 school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. The perpetrators of the shooting were both avid Doom fans, and unsupported legend claims they even created custom Doom maps designed after their school, in order to 'practice' the mass shooting. 

"Video games cause violence" has largely faded away from mainstream attention, left to fringe outrage groups that have no platform left to decry from. This is because numerous scientific studies and observations showed that, in the scheme of everything that influences a violent person, video games were a considerably small factor in violent behavior. Video games became much more normalized as entertainment outlets throughout the 90's and early 00's, shifting from something that was seen as a niche fan culture in the vein of comic books or DnD (both were also demonized in very similar fashion to video games) and into something much more mainstream. 

Memes are jokes on the internet. They can encompass a wide variety of subjects and culture, and are often the 'front line' of a given subculture's group rhetoric and opinion. You can learn a lot about how a certain community feels/thinks by looking at the memes they make. This is, then, why a meme is not a video game and why StoneToss is a dumb asshole. 

Doom was a video game that was violent. Memes directly encouraging real violence are not akin to a video game that was violent. One is merely violent, the other encourages violence. Suffice to say that things would be a lot different if a video game called "JEWS TRY TO TAKE OVER AMERICA: KILL THEM ALL EDITION" was ever released and actively encouraged its players to commit real violence, it would be quickly condemned by everyone with a functioning brain for promoting violence. Only, oh wait, games like that totally do exist. And just like memes encouraging violence, they are unwelcome on most platforms and are pushed into fringe communities where they become increasingly obscure as time passes, their influence only touching those that were already specifically looking for them. 

It's never really been about the comics themselves or the Dungeons and/or Dragons themselves or the video games themselves or the memes themselves; even the most pearl clutching of 90's-era Boomer Karens didn't really care about the medium that the supposed 'violence promotion' occurred in, it's just about self-righteous witch hunting and drama stirring. Video games do not cause violence just like memes do not cause violence. But you know what does cause violence? Promoting violence and encouraging people to do it.

So yes, StoneToss, maybe it's sort of the same when someone blindly claims a violent video game or a meme about a gun caused violence to happen. However, the difference is that Doom did not encourage its players to commit real violence on real people; racist pepe memes in a hatebox community full of people that unironically want to make each other commit violence, however, is something that causes violence.

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Comic Name: Crossing the Line

Description: Chain(saw) migration.

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Originally Published: 3/21/2019

What The Comic Is: A man explains that borders are just imaginary lines. He tells the viewer to observe as he crosses from the USA into Mexico. Standing across the border, he explains that nothing has happened, though the very next panel shows him in a LiveLeak video about to be beheaded by a drug cartel. 

What StoneToss Actually Thinks: You get beheaded by a drug cartel if you go to Mexico, and that's why we need a border wall.

Why It's Fucking Stupid: "Border walls are stupid, don't work and aren't even a financial possibility," reality whispers in StoneToss' ear. StoneToss scowls. It wasn't fair. Why did brown people get to exist? Why did Trump's deranged, unhinged and unfulfillable promises fail to come to fruition? It seemed so innocent back then, in the good ol' days of 2015. Trump was going to build a wall. Mexico was going to pay for it. Countries have borders. Blacked.com was the most amazing porn site StoneToss had ever found. The last one was still true, StoneToss reassured himself, as he finished masturbating to yet another interracial porn video. Cleaning himself up with his own shirt, he leaned back on the stack of wooden palettes that he used as a makeshift chair (remember, StoneToss owns nothing because buying products is stupid and for communists) and thought to himself. "Border walls aren't going to happen because (((Trump))) is a cuck," StoneToss realized. "But how else can I complain about borders?".

The idea struck him. He grinned a StoneTossian grin most grinningly. If he couldn't whine and bitch about the border wall forever, he'd just remind the people why borders need to exist in the first place! Mexico has problems with cartel violence, right? Well, okay, so does the USA, but mostly only in (((((((CommunismFornia))))00)), if you ignore all the cartel presence that Texas has, at least. 

We can't have people going into Mexico, they might get hurt by bad people. We should build a wall and have a strict border, to protect people for their own good. Liberty is only infringed upon if people who aren't racist infringe upon it, after all. If StoneToss does it because he hates Mexicans, then it's core Libertarianism. If we have a strict border, then that means the cartels and gangs in the US will cease to operate. They certainly won't become even worse because closing the border was only a band aid on the systemic issues of why drug cartels and gangs exist to begin with (if you ask StoneToss, it's because they're brown people. If you ask anyone who isn't a fucking idiot, it's because of deeply ingrained socio-economic issues that aren't fixed by borders).

The description of the comic is a reference to Chain Migration, a form of human movement defined by people of one community following a group of other people as they travel past, leading to a 'chain' of migrants that pick up more and more members as they continue on to wherever they're migrating. This had been a hot topic for nearly half a decade at the time StoneToss made the comic, as conservatives were alarmed en masse about the large number of migrant 'caravans' migrating into the US from parts of South America. What in the world chain migration has to do with people from the USA going into Mexico and being murdered by cartels is literally anyone's fucking guess.

I wonder what StoneToss has to say about all the LiveLeak footage of people committing mass shootings at places of worship, under political and personal beliefs that mirror his own. Oh yeah, probably nothing, because he's an idiot and a fucking coward.