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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

free healthcare

does he think everyone in the US gets the same healthcare that congresspeople get?

[–] nwtreeoctopus 10 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 days ago

And rich people don’t have jobs because they mooch off poor people.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Music is making younger generations lazy.

Nono, it's books.

Nono, it's film.

Nono, it's TV.

Nono, it's music again, but only certain kinds of music like rock and metal.

Nono, it's video games.

[–] minibyte 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Younger generation is lame. We were so awesome. Remember how awesome we were? Kids these days!

[–] Croquette 8 points 6 days ago

And we've made their environment worst than ours and it's their fault.

Fucking youngsters

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So us person here. This free healthcare he speaks of is news to me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He gets free govt Healthcare and probably stays at home playing video games. It's all projection.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Young men who are capable of playing video games all day are likely depressed, and have a clinical problem. Our volition to be productive was demonstrated during the 2020 lockdown and the great resignation of 2021-22, in which young men (as with all other working demographics) learned:

  • They felt better in a non-toxic work environment
  • They couldn't couch potato for more than a week without getting fierce cabin fever, and
  • They got highly skilled when they were doing a thing they liked.

The ones who resigned from old jobs were the ones who were able to monetize their hobby enough to quit. Many more got productive, but didn't find something in their craft for which there was a ready market.

Speaker Johnson is a fierce MAGA and conforms to the common fascist trope of never speaking in good faith. See Sartre's antisemite quote.

With several perspectives including that crunch remains a thing in AAA game development, our ownership class and CEOs are less concerned about maximizing profits than they are being lords with a feif and peons (compulsory servitude).

Oh and death to all monarchists. Disney deaths preferred.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

Please tell me more about this free healthcare

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Theres nowhere in the country that has legitimate free healthcare, and only a small handful of states that have healthcare for those below the poverty line.

Where are these supposed young people just living it up off free healthcare?

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[–] Bakkoda 32 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The amount of dirty looks I got today casually playing slay the spire on my steam deck as a 41 year old man in the waiting room of a medical facility was pretty impressive.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Cmon they were just jelly u had a deck lol

[–] Bakkoda 12 points 6 days ago

It's so sweet. I am bad at consoles and haven't owned one since Sonic made his debut but this thing rocks.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hey look, an "elite" with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who's just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I'd be doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

Pretty rich coming from a guy who lets trump take every power congress is supposed to hold. WTF does he even do at work? If we stopped paying him, would anything at all happen? Every republican seems like a whiny crybullying grifter to me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Adding my health Card number to my steam account payment method.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago

This is rich coming from someone that has literally never worked a days labor in their lives.

Young men as a cohort have a 90% employment rate.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (4 children)

how do i leech off of free healthcare that sounds really good

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Become a congressperson, they get Medicare for life just like every other citizen should have but don't because Congress will grant it to themselves but not everyone else. If it's good enough for them it should be good enough to cover us.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Get elected to the US Congress. They don't do anything and get 6 figure salaries AND free Healthcare!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Yeah how does that work? How do I get my Healthcare to pay my mortgage?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

People turning to escapism because the world is shit?

FUCK THAT LET’S MAKE IT WORSE THEN.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

"No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who's duly owed—what we've talked about is returning work requirements, so, for example, you don't have able-bodied young men on a program that's designed for single mothers and the elderly and disabled. They're draining resources from people,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson last week.

'Get fucked poors, sucks to suck when working full time still keeps you below the poverty line. Can't afford to pay for you lazy fucks to see a doctor when we've got rich people who need the money more'

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You gotta be fucking kidding me. What sort of disconnected boomer statement is that!?

I hate using such terms as "boomer", but how else am I going to describe this?

I'm in Denmark, and I can just about get by on one job. I have friends from America struggling to make ends meet, and they're working TWO jobs!

So the fuck is this guy talking about!?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

I mean Republican assholes is a much better and more accurate adjective.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I would prefer to work a job than to grind in a videogame. Unfortunately, Americans live in a nation where bad working conditions, low pay, heavy competition, instability, and ghost jobs makes job seeking unpalatable.

American capitalism is a cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

This man literally needs his son the keep his porn habits in check, and he's whining about people playing video games...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Says republican who has access to healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Decades pass, yet politicians keep using the same bullshit claims, just the sauce is slightly different.

Fuck Cheeto and the USA

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Putting aside the, "Everyone but an idiot knows the poor must be kept poor, or they will never be productive" logic, it's also just dumb as shit to claim that "able-bodied young men" are going to be super motivated to get off the couch for the sake of health insurance - not even real healthcare, we're talking about paying hundreds of dollars a month so that if you get sick you can "only" be saddled with a very high deductible.

I fucking hate these people's guts. Something something Luigi's Mansion.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

My brother I am going to find every outlet of escapism possible to cope with the reality that your generation had a massive part in creating. Sorry 💅

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What free healthcare? It's Murica...

[–] Bakkoda 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He has free healthcare. That's all he cares about.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Just got done paying all my bills and mortgage with my health insurance. 🙃🙃🙃

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

He knows this is false. It's bait, that even i see this time. There really is nothing to see here

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

Imagine living in a country that has turn to shit so long ago that you can't believe that it is possible for people can be motivated to work without resorting to the constant threat of being left to die if they don't.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

this dude and his son monitor each other's devices to make sure they don't consume porn. i don't think he should be allowed to talk about literally anyone else's habits.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago
  • No job, grind away the entire waking day with a low paying zero hours contract while filing job applications, No videogames, no relaxation, more stress, costs healthcare providers more

  • No job, spend some of the day working while filing job applications, Yes Videogames, relaxation, lower stress, costs healthcare providers less

Yet another case where if the politician seriously thought about the issue for just half a minute they'd realise their attitude makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Oh sweet i didn't realize my healthcare covered video games

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

"I want to check that old building for treasure!" vs. "I want to check my son's porn usage".

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