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.
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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who@feddit.org 10 months ago
potatoguy@potato-guy.space 10 months ago
Luigi killed the CEO on call of duty, makes sense
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But then aren’t people who do get jobs so they can have healtcare mooching off free healthcare?
altphoto@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
They are finally going for the most oppressed minority!
arin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So time to remove the free healthcare benefits from this congress member
x00z@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lmao.
What a joke.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mike, just cause you’re a shit parent who can’t talk to his kid, doesn’t mean you gotta make the rest of us suffer.
lockhart@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Yeah you don’t need to buy food, only healthcare.
flandish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cool. Until there is no more profit and no more billionaires, there should be no labor and free healthcare.
dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
He must be thinking we get the same healthcare they do. That’s how far removed they are.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Lol. I have free healthcare and I played videogames every fucking chance I get because it makes me happy, but it’s pretty rare since I worked 278 hours in May.
technomad@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
What free healthcare because it sounds like I’ve been fucking doing it wrong this whole time holding down job after SHITTY job since I graduated high school and don’t have shit to show for it. Fuck all the way off attacking the one thing that brings joy to my life you disingenuous piece of shit.
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 10 months ago
No that is what billionaires do mooch off the tax payer.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Through what fucking program? Magic?
TommySoda@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just in case you forgot, getting rid of video games is part of Project 2025. Republicans have had a vendetta against them since Mortal Kombat came out in the arcades back in the 90s.
Asafum@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Sounds about right.
Project 2025: Fuck literally everything good in this world. Work to death and be forced to praise Jesus.
technomad@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Could you give a reference? I don’t doubt what you’re saying, I just think it would be helpful for people to see it.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Working isn’t worth doing.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 10 months ago
Sometimes the only way to win is not to play.
But also Johnson is stupid.
saltesc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Meanwhile the unemployment rate continues to be troublingly low, begging the question, “If not for immigration, who’s going to fill the new fancy All-American manufacturing industries?”
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What about all of those congress critters that get that big bad “socialized medicine” that the common people can’t (funny how it is fine when it is for them isn’t it.)? I bet that costs a shit ton given the average age of congress critters. How about we make some cuts there?
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
As an Aussie who has always enjoyed playing (and making) games, I’ve had free healthcare all my life and have only worked my arse off… Like most people I know.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
*Used to get free healthcare.
Dunno how it is where you are, but bulk billing GPs just don’t exist anymore in SA.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s getting harder but they are there. But hey, if I break my leg and go to ER at a public hospital, even though I have to wait a shit load of hours, I won’t pay anything when I walk out.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Congress need to fix big and large companies from firing people in masses every quarter and not hire people.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
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.
epitaque@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Look what happened in China. Some governments can absolutely limit gaming time if they have enough power over their citizens.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Here’s some more food for thought: what happens if the 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.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
And the diplomacy and politics.
And scams. Or baits, escalations, and war strategies.
I ran my small alliance for a bit. The organization skills corralling 200 active people for an op is insane. Spending days prepping and doing logistics moving tons of ships. Making arrangements and mutual defense agreements. It was arduous work.
Then to have the fight not happen. Or the target not to drop. And having to manage the morale of everyone who devoted the time for it or purposely made sure they were free.
can@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Gamers really are the most oppressed.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
Mmm… Fresh copypasta 🤤
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh this is quite old my friend, early Gamergate years
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah just get disabled, unable to work, and get ssi, then all the free health care. Just have to live with being disabled and not really able to do much, and being poor and hoping that the government doesn’t turn off your ssi cuase it will save them money.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also, unless you’ve got a way to pay rent or a house you own, good luck getting on housing assistance. Most cities have a waiting list months or years long - I know last time I had to look into it for myself, it was something like 15 months of waiting for a potential open slot anywhere in the city.
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As a young man, I’m just waiting for the AGI breakthrough, so it either fixes the fucking government, or wipes us out. Win-win.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is this the one who gets his son to monitor whether he’s masturbating or not? Or is that some other guy?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Does getting health care mean leaving your basement?
If so, young men aren’t doing it.
Hell, I leave my basement frequently and don’t want to get health care because I’m sure it will bankrupt me.
If someone callled me an ambulance I’d fight them because I don’t have ambulance money.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Can confirm. I dont leave my basement or get healthcare.
Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s hard being that evil
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pays well too. The price of their morality for a lifetime of pay and free healthcare. Because let’s face it, these idiots get FEHB healthcare for life for being in congress because they made it so. They get a salary AFTER they served too, after Min 5 years, but they get 80% of their salary as part of a pension. Insane nonsense if you stay for 20 years compared to what we get.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
What we can? How? I’ve been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well see thats you’re problem. Ditch cobra and join J.I JOOOOEEEEEE!!!
Then you can be paid under minimum wage to risk your life fighting in unjust wars, only to find your government abandons you and any help you were promised for injuries or complications to your daily lifestyle as a result of your time in the service.
See? 'MURICA!
chunes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah yes, because free health care pays my rent.