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Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/young-men-are-playing-videogames-all-day-instead-of-getting-jobs-because-they-can-mooch-off-of-free-healthcare-claims-congressman/

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  • PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    claims mouthpiece of the medical insurance industry

    FTFY

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What we can? How? I’ve been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!

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  • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can’t wait to pay for groceries with my free healthcare.

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When I was unemployed and playing video games, I didn’t qualify for any free healthcare and I needed some

    I don’t know what he’s talking about

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    • ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Right-wing 101: “we need to destroy social safety net X because the immigrants/criminals/lazy/fraudsters are smooching it from hard-working, honest citizens!”

      Translation: we need to take services away from the working class so gazillionaires can have an extra tax break and buy a bigger yacht to put their current yacht on.

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  • CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Rich people always think they pay for everyone. Wrong.

    We are in the same society. A society with no hope is not a stable society.

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  • gerowen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’d love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?

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    • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      State Medicaid. Just make sure you keep your wage under the limits.

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      • MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Looking forward to the federal thc hemp ban. Then I can grow weed and quit my real job. Wish they’d make alcohol illegal too. Moonshine is even easier to mass produce than weed.

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      • Buske@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s much worse than that, They have the entire US stock market rigged to so the same.

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    People vote for this guy.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This guy unfortunately and unironically exists and likely has more power than anybody on the fediverse.

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  • Tetragrade@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • Pulsar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Healthcare is just a way to coerce the working class to produce value for the wealthy. That is the real reason why there is no universal healthcare in America.

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  • jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also where the fuck is this free healthcare?

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      • jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What free healthcare?

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  • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah yes, because free health care pays my rent.

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  • Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I hope he gets Fibromyalgia.

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    • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is this a reference to something in particular or just picking a random shitty disease?

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      • marlowe221@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s not just a shitty disease…. It’s a shitty disease that the Social Security Administration really, REALLY does not like to pay out disability for. Mostly because, unless something has changed recently, it’s hard to prove that you actually have it because it defies easily quantifiable medical testing, among other things.

        Source: I used to be an attorney who fought for people who had been denied benefits.

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  • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah yes, young men. That notoriously healthcare obsesses group of individuals that do all they can to drain the system of all its funding. That’s the problem.

    It’s a shame people actually fall for blatant lies like this.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The same old “welfare queen” argument again.

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What healthcare?

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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      • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Have you tried just eating food? Every time I do that in games it heals me. :P

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  • jhoff90@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He seems to know a lot about “young boys.”

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  • technomad@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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  • forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah, yes, because I don’t need money for rent and food, just healthcare.

    What a moron.

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  • iMastari@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.

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  • WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Can these monsters please just fuck off!

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  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wait, I can get free healthcare playing video games? Where?!?

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    • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Much of the world outside the US

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  • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Y’all got free healthcare?

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  • Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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      • Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    how the fuck do i do this it sounds awesome

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