Says republican who has access to healthcare.
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Who eats healthcare?
Just got done paying all my bills and mortgage with my health insurance. 🙃🙃🙃
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.
Younger generation is lame. We were so awesome. Remember how awesome we were? Kids these days!
And we've made their environment worst than ours and it's their fault.
Fucking youngsters
Decades pass, yet politicians keep using the same bullshit claims, just the sauce is slightly different.
Fuck Cheeto and the USA
People turning to escapism because the world is shit?
FUCK THAT LET’S MAKE IT WORSE THEN.
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.
"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'
Please tell me more about this free healthcare
When pasty rich worms like this spout this kind of exploiter class drivel it makes me want to punch them in the throat.
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.
Actually I am playing videogames all day at work, thank you. NHS provides free corridors to die in if I need healthcare.
What country is he talking about? Cuz it sure as shit ain't this one
free healthcare
does he think everyone in the US gets the same healthcare that congresspeople get?
Probably.
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.
Cmon they were just jelly u had a deck lol
It's so sweet. I am bad at consoles and haven't owned one since Sonic made his debut but this thing rocks.
I'd give you dirty looks as well if you weren't playing on A20 and fighting the heart
Lots of my friends play games everyday, and all day if they can sometimes. They are also hard workers. It's how we unwind.
Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working
Everyone else has already pointed out the obvious point that free healthcare does not exist here, but you've at least gotta give it to him that this is a reasonable conclusion to draw given that "able-bodied young men" would surely be the least likely among us to get by without access to healthcare.
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?
How do you not work and still have money for the Xbox subscription and steam sales?
Or food or shelter or anything?
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 💅
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.
Those neoliberals are getting cocky.
So us person here. This free healthcare he speaks of is news to me.
He gets free govt Healthcare and probably stays at home playing video games. It's all projection.
With fascists every accusation is an admission
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.
All capitalism is cancer.
True. Even the Nordic Model nations are backsliding from what I hear. It is why I think that we need to try an wholly artificial economic system, with rules and principles. Similar to a Constitution's framework, but focused on providing for the wellbeing of all citizens.
Yes socialism will work with another name attached to it.
The only social system that can work is if democracy comes into the workplace, and that is what socialism is. When workers unite and control the means of production, then we will all truly be free. This is what Marx meant by saying: "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains."
The only problem is the name. Some have called it democracy at work, but I feel that is not snappy enough.
He knows this is false. It's bait, that even i see this time. There really is nothing to see here
Look up the book "Hell's Angel's" by Hunter Thompson.
There's a section in the book where he writes about the economics of being a hippie/biker/artist circa 1970.
A biker could work for six months as a Union stevedore and save up enough money to go on the road for two years. A part time waitress could support herself and her musician boyfreind.
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People are checking out because the middle class is non-existent. It doesn’t matter how hard you work - the the prospect of getting ahead, owning a home, retirement is out of reach for the vast majority of people.
People can work hard and stress themselves out or they can check out of the system and achieve largely the same result.
This is about the failures of late stage capitalism. To claim the issue is free healthcare is gaslighting.
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And rich people don’t have jobs because they mooch off poor people.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
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!?
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