French President Emmanuel Macron called on parents to keep child rioters off the streets on Friday, while saying some young people appeared to be copying violent video games which had “intoxicated” them.

Speaking after chairing a crisis security meeting, the 45-year-old head of state said that around a third of the people arrested over three nights of rioting were “young, or very young”.

“It’s the responsibility of parents to keep them at home,” he said. “It’s not the state’s job to act in their place.”

Blaming video games for young people not staying home. That's a new one on me.

"The French's longstanding history of political protest is caused by video games!" says out of touch talking-head for the elite

Maybe if the police stopped playing so many violent video games, they would stop shooting kids.

Its not the systemic racism and economic disparity. Its not the overreacting to terrorist threats. It's not the billionaire class capturing government.

Its video games.

What year is this?!

Lol lmao even. Holy shit how many times have we gone over the dumb line of "video games cause violence."

And I thought my expectations of Macron couldn't get any lower...

I'm old enough to remember the peaceful times before video games - there were no wars, no protests, and people were all nice to each other. And then, Pong was released and everything changed...

The lack of demands and continued riots seemingly confound him, so in absence of any understanding, the old rich guy reaches for a familiar boogeyman.

The issue is, he didn‘t fix or improve shit after the previous riots, which even had some demands. Nothing got met, nothing defused, it just got pushed away. So incidents like this death can light a spark and then it gets unleashed again.

Perhaps it’s time we stop seeing these struggles as “lacking” something, but rather as determinate acts of negation with their own particular force, meaning, and history. To take seriously the content of struggles without demands, one must see them not as isolated events, but as moments within a history of developing antagonistic relations between capital and the life it subsumes.

Macron is such a fucking piece of shit. I hope the people of France remove him from office ASAP. When's their next election?