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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 53 minutes ago

Lmfao what free healthcare?

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Is this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 minutes ago

The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.

[–] mcange@feddit.org 23 points 1 hour ago

Free healthcare?

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 56 minutes ago

Yes, that's why they're at home all day, and ignoring all the well paid jobs out there with free healthcare that I'm sure they'd get if they just went door to door with a résumé like these ghouls pretend they did in the 1950s.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 hour ago

What free healthcare?

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 hours ago

What free healthcare?

Young men have to jump through the most hoops to get state level health insurance.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 43 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

working where exactly? working on a farm that will pay you minimum wage, if that? oh OH I know working in the tech sector where it's now and has been for the past couple years an absolute nightmare to find a job in.

There are NO jobs out there that will pay for the current cost of living and the ones that COULD aren't hiring, and if anything, are laying people off. And yeah, these unemployed young men are TOTALLY playing videogames that now cost $80 a pop paid via a job they don't have.

[–] full_throttle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

The problem is not this bloke. The problem is the people that voted for him.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours ago

Oh god they’ve been shitting on video games since pinball. Get some new lines bro

Does he realize these unemployed, dirty gamers who complain but don’t do anything productive tend to lean conservative?

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 50 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

says some rich asshole who probably hasn't done real work a day in his life, likely living off dividends and bribe money

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago

And the healthcare Congress provides.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How's your son's dick today, Mike Johnson? You have the app that tells you, so if you wouldn't mind...

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like I'm unaware of something horrible. . ?

You're happier not knowing, delete your account before since sicko comes by to gleefully explain this one.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

All jobs are service industry now unless you're somebody's kid or relative. Things changed bigly over the last 20 years.

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 53 points 8 hours ago

Translated: Adults 18 to 25 are using there parents healthcare and are not paying for the crappiest healthcare being offered at their first jobs.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 57 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 40 points 8 hours ago

His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality...

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago

Once again, we have lawmakers just making spurious if not outright false statements with no repercussions. When your words decide people's reality, you should be afraid of what you say. And I don't see that fear in legislators.

They just say whatever the fuck incorrect bullshit they wish, and walk it back at their leisure when the effect is already resolved in throughout news media. The world's gotten their soundclip, the base started foaming when they heard their whistles, and then the politican quietly amends "oh, I obviously didn't mean that." If more politicans shut the fuck up because they were scared of the repercussions of walking their statements back, then maybe there'd be more reporting on what they've done then the inflammatorily idiotic shit they spew every other day.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 77 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of there young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It does make sense because I break my legs regularly playing video games, putting a huge strain on public healthcare.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You’re probably holding your controller wrong.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

His mouse pad must be broken.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago

It also makes sense considering I eat Prozac for dinner and live under a shelter made of BandAids

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 10 hours ago

...says guy who gets free healthcare and is paid by a public who he does nothing good for and billionaires who bribe him to hurt the public.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 54 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Videogames are the cheapest and most durable form of entertainment, ideal qualities when you don't have a job and resources to keep you busy. This fucker wants people to never escape being in misery.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

The goal is to get those "young men" out there in the job market struggling to make ends meet day after day so their boss can buy his second vacation home and new yacht. In the meantime Republicans will point to some group or minority as the cause of their woes. It's a win, win for them.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

What's an enormous brain he has, it's amazing that it fits in his itty bitty head.

So living in the UK which has free healthcare I can tell everybody that it's super easy to do this.

Obviously I don't have a job so I can't afford food, so I just starve myself until I nearly die, and then the NHS turn up and put me in one of those pokeball rehabilitation things and I'm good to go.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 53 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

So, they want to take away healthcare young men don’t have so they’ll get jobs that don’t exist. Sounds like a conservative plan.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 285 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

Can confirm. Here in Canada, nobody works. We all sit at home and play video games instead. There's no industry, no shops, no hospitals. Only video games.

[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 19 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

In Québec we all own a state mandated PS5 (no Xbox's allowed, that would be illegal) and play a variety of Fifa, Marvel Heroes and Valorant because it's said to sharpen our skills and better society. Many women knock on my door saying they want me to grant them children, but knowing that my KDA might suffer from their demands I know not to give in, and to instead keep grinding until my next government granted dialysis appointment. Mon dieu que j'aime le Québec 🙏

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 89 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, most people I know don’t have jobs! We just run extension cords between our igloos to power our video game machines. If it weren’t for them we could totally be like the States. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

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[–] who@feddit.org 35 points 12 hours ago

Man collecting handsome salary and amazing healthcare in exchange for betraying his entire country tries to shift the public focus onto people trying to make their lives less miserable with video games.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

And? What's the problem with that? In an ideal society with present technology we can afford to feed and house literally everyone. Let artificial scarcity rule you no longer. Let the people play games, and when 'work'is no longer, the obligation of wages they wil do it willingly, happily, and with enjoyment. Or at least wnough of us will to feed all.

So what if some get fed more than they work? I like helping people. We should have plenty to spare without the parasite class.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

With the caveat that we can accommodate everyone so long as sufficient people put in their fair share of effort. In an ideal world that will mean very short working hours and/or nicely early retirement/late entry into the work force.

Certainly the usual talking heads are spoiled rich guys that have never known labor and have not done their fair share, but it is a difficult thing to balance to make sure we do take care of each other but make sure enough people are engaged to successfully do that

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I must have been playing too many video games cuz I totally missed out on the free Healthcare. Can I still get some of that?

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Why would anyone want to waste their life working for any of these exploitive cunts. I’d much rather play video games.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 136 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn't have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he'd make. So, his only choice is to budget around permanent poverty or die.

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[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 105 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This is absurd, considering Mike Johnson doesn’t work for a living. None of these government officials do anything worthwhile but still get paid for it.

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[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 84 points 15 hours ago (12 children)

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 48 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Here's some more food for thought: what happens if they piss off the Eve players? Those clowns have basically been training themselves on how to come out on top in a no-hold-barred capitalist system.

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