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.
Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
Submitted 18 hours ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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athairmor@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
The jobs do exist, and I’m pretty sure the young men are working them, but the jobs also kinda suck.
qarbone@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
All jobs are service industry now unless you’re somebody’s kid or relative. Things changed bigly over the last 20 years.
who@feddit.org 14 hours ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 hours 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.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 15 hours 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 13 hours 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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What healthcare?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 hours 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 12 hours ago
Have you tried just eating food? Every time I do that in games it heals me. :P
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours 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 5 hours 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
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 hours ago
What we can? How? I’ve been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 14 hours ago
Ah yes, because free health care pays my rent.
unconsciousvoidling@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Why would anyone want to waste their life working for any of these exploitive cunts. I’d much rather play video games.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
how the fuck do i do this it sounds awesome
technomad@slrpnk.net 16 hours 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.
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I hope he gets Fibromyalgia.
ccunning@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Is this a reference to something in particular or just picking a random shitty disease?
marlowe221@lemmy.world 14 hours 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.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 17 hours 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?
dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 15 hours ago
He must be thinking we get the same healthcare they do. That’s how far removed they are.
potatoguy@potato-guy.space 14 hours ago
Luigi killed the CEO on call of duty, makes sense
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 12 hours 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
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 17 hours 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 17 hours 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 13 hours ago
Can confirm. I dont leave my basement or get healthcare.
altphoto@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
No that is what billionaires do mooch off the tax payer.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 hours 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 11 hours 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 12 hours ago
I don‘t like to see the politics of this miserable country here.
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 17 hours 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 12 hours 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 12 hours 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.
TommySoda@lemmy.world 16 hours 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 12 hours 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 16 hours 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.
modernangel@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Newsmedia that repeat blatantly pro-fash talking points as headline grist, are complicit
aesthelete@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Through what fucking program? Magic?
saltesc@lemmy.world 17 hours 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?”
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 17 hours 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.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 16 hours 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 15 hours 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 16 hours ago
Gamers really are the most oppressed.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 hours ago
Mmm… Fresh copypasta 🤤
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Oh this is quite old my friend, early Gamergate years
epitaque@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Look what happened in China. Some governments can absolutely limit gaming time if they have enough power over their citizens.