Says the asshole mooching off the gold standard free healthcare given to congressmen.
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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buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
gabbath@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And what was his “merit” again (since that’s how they like to frame it)? Oh right, fooling people into voting for him. Just PR and courting big shots for campaign money.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 10 months ago
The same old “welfare queen” argument again.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 10 months ago
I’m not concerned about some young videogamer getting free healthcare. I’m more concerned with the DOGE GOBLIN getting BILLIONS in government contracts to build rockets that blow up spectacularly, wasting a billion dollars with every explosion, just so he can quip “Just a scratch.”
That’s a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.
I’m not worried about American citizens getting health care, I’m worried about Foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs getting BILLIONS in government contracts, paid for by taxes on the working class, while calling those same workers/taxpayers “parasites.”
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.
Okay, sure. But consider that they didn’t earn those billions of dollars by sucking up to the right assortment of Wall Street financiers and rich family members.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Nobody is a bigger government mooch then MAGA Nazi politicians.
fum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Utter BS
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I can’t wait to pay for groceries with my free healthcare.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
I don’t accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.
Many jobs make the world worse. I’d rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.
Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another “AI” company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into “the metaverse”? Waste of time and resources.
That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That’s a bum deal. But there’s a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you’d likely get more people working.
Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should – wait, he’s southern baptist? The “we’re going to split off because we want slavery” sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.
gabbath@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This. The whole framing needs to be pushed back against.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Been there, done that. Eventually you need to get up and go find a job.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, but the motivation behind the rhetoric is far more sinister and cynical. They’re demonising affordable healthcare as excuse to stay home and play videogames.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 months ago
does jerking off while I’m supposed to be working count?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You know what, he’s right. I’ll go get off my ass to spend the evening running my 2 million dollar quarts mine and then swing by my 875k dollar quarts furnaces, weight seperation, flotation cells, and crystalization facility to create a bunch of semiconductor grade silicon used in solar and electronics production.
OH WAIT! I DON’T HAVE $3M FACILITIES TO RUN! Somebody else is out there doing the work that used to take a hundred men. The world doesn’t need us all doing 12 hour days, the world wouldn’t take us if we even offered.
dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Oooh, I’m one of those! Gaming on foodstamps and social health in a US state, AMA.
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
How does it feel being rich???
dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Truly wonderful.
You need the gaming in this lifestyle to help divert attention from not being able to get comfort foods at month’s end.
Otherwise it leaves me all the time to realize the physical and mental hells I am putting myself through. I’ve been qualified for free health care for over a year, but I just arrived to the point where I can reach out and engage the system. I initially thought enrolling would come in handy if I get into an accident, but last week I made the call to start preventive treatments.
I have an appointment with an actual doctor next month. I am also getting the ball rolling on the emotional side. I was contemplating moving back home, but now I might give this current iteration some more time.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 10 months ago
First they came for the gamers, and I did not speak out, because I was focusing busy hitting a sick 360° quickscope on Angel City.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Got laid off. I now have two jobs. One at a store for the health insurance. Which I’ll lose in an upcoming strike. Which is most likely to happen. Because fuck corporate. Then I have my start up job that is a side job till they can afford to pay me salary. I make all commissions now. But sales are a tough thing to get in this field. Thankful for Ai to help email so many people.
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 10 months ago
I’d be interested to know how I can pay my electricity bill with my free healthcare. Also I need to go to the supermarket today; how do I convert free healthcare into a trolleyful of food?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also where the fuck is this free healthcare?
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Civilised countries like the UK and other European countries. Technically it’s not free because it’s paid for by taxation, but it’s free at the point of use: if I go and see a doctor, I don’t get billed, but I do pay 9% National Insurance tax.
JIMMERZ@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Where is this free healthcare? Because I’m paying out the ass for my very minimal coverage.
don@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Another boomer fucking idiot saying idiot fucking boomer shit because idiot fucking boomers voted like boomer fucking idiots.
raynethackery@lemmy.world 10 months ago
He’s fucking Genx, my generation. I hate every GenXer that sold out. Now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, remember we are fighting class warfare. Don’t let them divide us along generational lines. My good friend is a Boomer and is as liberal as can be. My two coworkers are GenX and both voted for Trump.
don@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m also genx (xennial if it matters) and I’m referring to the boomer mindset, not the baby boomer generation. There are zoomers who voted for the current fascist regime and baby boomers who voted Harris. I hate generational warfare too, but “boomer” is a convenient term for an appalling mindset that can infect anyone, regardless of generation.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can these monsters please just fuck off!
ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is just the “violent video games make people violent” argument from the 90s and 00s. Fear mongering at its core.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“These violent games make you violent!” “These cozy games make people lazy!”
Sometimes I think they just complain because it’s a fetish for them.
ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That darn avocado toast!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shut the fuck up, boomer. No seriously, get that dated, old man yells at cloud bullshit out of politics.
PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
claims mouthpiece of the medical insurance industry
FTFY
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Young men have no idea what health care is, nor do they care.
They are healthy and heal fast.
They are the ones who traditionally pay in and dont take out.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
As someone who is 25 I must agree, not only do I not give a damn I actively welcome death. Shitty fucken eyesight not withstanding, I think there’s thinner ballistic glass
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Wait, I can get free healthcare playing video games? Where?!?
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Much of the world outside the US
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
So basically, they are mooching off of free healthcare - by performing by one of the most risk free activities that is almost going to guarantee they won’t need healthcare in the first place?
MAGA tactic:
Take negative stereotype, say it is preventing a desirable goal from being reached, then say it is because of what you are actually trying to cut. Doesn’t matter if they barely have any real relation to each other.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
The argument is utterly stupid.
Ignoring that the it’s building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.
impetchewus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Um also, can I get some of that free healthcare? Cuz I have NEVER received free healthcare in my life!
Doom@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
Y’all got free healthcare?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I’d be happy to oblige them. Good call.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
Or the media will be like “Yeah, that makes sense” and will not push back.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah they just move on and don’t even call out the lie. Then people see it and assume it’s true
y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Lmfao what free healthcare?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Seriously. I’d love some free healthcare.
I’d probably be able to be more functional if I had proper healthcare.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months 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.
iMastari@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.