Us this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?
Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
Submitted 10 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
full_throttle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The problem is not this bloke. The problem is the people that voted for him.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Maybe. But in many areas, only one party realistically has a shot, so reps basically get elected in their primary process. So instead of needing a majority of the total population to win, you just need a plurality of the few who get involved in the primary process.
Blame the people involved in the primary process, not the people who only vote in the general election.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
All jobs are service industry now unless you’re somebody’s kid or relative. Things changed bigly over the last 20 years.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does he realize these unemployed, dirty gamers who complain but don’t do anything productive tend to lean conservative?
mcange@feddit.org 10 months ago
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
What free healthcare?
Young men have to jump through the most hoops to get state level health insurance.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh god they’ve been shitting on video games since pinball. Get some new lines bro
wabasso@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They should control video games like they control guns.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
Looks like I’m unaware of something horrible. . ?
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
You’re happier not knowing, delete your account before since sicko comes by to gleefully explain this one.
rozodru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
BTW Steam Sumner sale is going on right now, Robocop for 5 bucks for the win! Id buy that for 5 dollars.
wabasso@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Btw is $80 actually up from the oughts and 10s? I’ve had $80 as the price for the latest AAA game in my head forever and am continually surprised it hasn’t changed.
FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
U ok?
Appleseuss@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Are you?
MITM0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He is.
rozodru@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m fine, are you?
reksas@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
says some rich asshole who probably hasn’t worked a day in his life, living off dividends and bribe money
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And the healthcare Congress provides.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
qarbone@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?
Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality…
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I thought they were breaking into your basement to tell you they won’t watch your kid and you still have to buy them health insurance
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
What’s an enormous brain he has, it’s a meeting that 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 months ago
or pretending that conversion therapy cured them, and addicted to possibly porn.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Wait, you can eat heath care?
brsrklf@jlai.lu 10 months ago
All those lazy bums getting their nutrition from free IV drips.
unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Why would anyone want to waste their life working for any of these exploitive cunts. I’d much rather play video games.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months 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.
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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 10 months 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
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
People will use labor to make food if they only have the means. No one sane would rather starve, and even the bourgeoise can be taught the value of their labor once it saves a life, perhaps their own.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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 10 months ago
It does make sense because I break my legs regularly playing video games, putting a huge strain on public healthcare.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
You’re probably holding your controller wrong.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It also makes sense considering I eat Prozac for dinner and live under a shelter made of BandAids
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I pay $60 (or whatever), pay for my data connection, and get to play my game literally for years. It’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment around. I get tons of value out of my purchase, it reduces stress, I get a sense of challenge out of it, and for the amount I spent I get a lot pf return.
Now if only health care were free. That’s just a bullshit statement and not even worth responding to. That said, In its current state it’s the opposite of video games. It’s expensive. The amount you put in is often not what you get out. It’s stressful.
Maybe the only way it’s like games is that someone can pull the plug on you when it’s not profitable anymore.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Right? I feel bad that it’s beautiful outside and we’re all inside paying games and streaming TV, but every time we leave the house as a family, it ends up costing me at least $100.
duchess@feddit.org 10 months ago
I don‘t like to see the politics of this miserable country here.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What healthcare?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
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?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Have you tried just eating food? Every time I do that in games it heals me. :P
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the population of young men who do nothing all day, have no interest in employment, but are also extremely motivated to apply for and maintain their access to healthcare and make regular doctor appointments
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 10 months ago
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 10 months 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.
modernangel@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Newsmedia that repeat blatantly pro-fash talking points as headline grist, are complicit
athairmor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The jobs do exist, and I’m pretty sure the young men are working them, but the jobs also kinda suck.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
how the fuck do i do this it sounds awesome
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months ago
What free healthcare?