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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

This man literally needs his son the keep his porn habits in check, and he's whining about people playing video games...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Hey look, an "elite" with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who's just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I'd be doing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Dunno if it is satire, i honestly am struggling to tell these days, but there's a post that says this fucker routinely plays surgeon simulator while attending meetings....on twitch

[–] thatsmysandwich 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Adding my health Card number to my steam account payment method.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

If you choose to pay this way, you will no longer be given upfront prices on the steam store and several months or years later you will receive a bill from a debt collector to finally pay for your game. And it's going to be a lot more than you thought.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

I dunno. I'd be a lot more apt to go seek a job if the market for my desired career and skills wasn't currently being recklessly trashed. No point in taking a job offer knowing I'll be the new guy and the first to get let go when the inevitable cuts come due to government cutbacks, tariff damage, and a recession leading to more reductions. It's way easier to stay home and let the government, who carelessly took away my job, pay for me to play video games all day.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Music is making younger generations lazy.

Nono, it's books.

Nono, it's film.

Nono, it's TV.

Nono, it's music again, but only certain kinds of music like rock and metal.

Nono, it's video games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Those inane Shakespeare plays are making the world a dumber place!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Younger generation is lame. We were so awesome. Remember how awesome we were? Kids these days!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago

And we've made their environment worst than ours and it's their fault.

Fucking youngsters

[–] Tiger666 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I go to the hospital to pick up my free aborted babies to turn into California cheeseburgers.

[–] Tiger666 1 points 11 hours ago

Somehow, your statement is better than trump being president.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

Says republican who has access to healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Just got done paying all my bills and mortgage with my health insurance. 🙃🙃🙃

[–] phoenixz 12 points 1 day ago

Decades pass, yet politicians keep using the same bullshit claims, just the sauce is slightly different.

Fuck Cheeto and the USA

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

People turning to escapism because the world is shit?

FUCK THAT LET’S MAKE IT WORSE THEN.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Young men who are capable of playing video games all day are likely depressed, and have a clinical problem. Our volition to be productive was demonstrated during the 2020 lockdown and the great resignation of 2021-22, in which young men (as with all other working demographics) learned:

  • They felt better in a non-toxic work environment
  • They couldn't couch potato for more than a week without getting fierce cabin fever, and
  • They got highly skilled when they were doing a thing they liked.

The ones who resigned from old jobs were the ones who were able to monetize their hobby enough to quit. Many more got productive, but didn't find something in their craft for which there was a ready market.

Speaker Johnson is a fierce MAGA and conforms to the common fascist trope of never speaking in good faith. See Sartre's antisemite quote.

With several perspectives including that crunch remains a thing in AAA game development, our ownership class and CEOs are less concerned about maximizing profits than they are being lords with a feif and peons (compulsory servitude).

Oh and death to all monarchists. Disney deaths preferred.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Please tell me more about this free healthcare

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

"No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who's duly owed—what we've talked about is returning work requirements, so, for example, you don't have able-bodied young men on a program that's designed for single mothers and the elderly and disabled. They're draining resources from people,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson last week.

'Get fucked poors, sucks to suck when working full time still keeps you below the poverty line. Can't afford to pay for you lazy fucks to see a doctor when we've got rich people who need the money more'

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

free healthcare

does he think everyone in the US gets the same healthcare that congresspeople get?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago

Pretty rich coming from a guy who lets trump take every power congress is supposed to hold. WTF does he even do at work? If we stopped paying him, would anything at all happen? Every republican seems like a whiny crybullying grifter to me.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The amount of dirty looks I got today casually playing slay the spire on my steam deck as a 41 year old man in the waiting room of a medical facility was pretty impressive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

They were wondering why you weren't playing Balatro.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cmon they were just jelly u had a deck lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

It's so sweet. I am bad at consoles and haven't owned one since Sonic made his debut but this thing rocks.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Theres nowhere in the country that has legitimate free healthcare, and only a small handful of states that have healthcare for those below the poverty line.

Where are these supposed young people just living it up off free healthcare?

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[–] [email protected] 233 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

People are checking out because the middle class is non-existent. It doesn’t matter how hard you work - the the prospect of getting ahead, owning a home, retirement is out of reach for the vast majority of people.

People can work hard and stress themselves out or they can check out of the system and achieve largely the same result.

This is about the failures of late stage capitalism. To claim the issue is free healthcare is gaslighting.

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[–] [email protected] 145 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is this free healthcare you speak of in the room with us right now?

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Look up the book "Hell's Angel's" by Hunter Thompson.

There's a section in the book where he writes about the economics of being a hippie/biker/artist circa 1970.

A biker could work for six months as a Union stevedore and save up enough money to go on the road for two years. A part time waitress could support herself and her musician boyfreind.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's what these guys grew up seeing and reading, huh? So they're trying to govern with assumptions that have not held true for decades.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So us person here. This free healthcare he speaks of is news to me.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

When pasty rich worms like this spout this kind of exploiter class drivel it makes me want to punch them in the throat.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 day ago

And rich people don’t have jobs because they mooch off poor people.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

My brother I am going to find every outlet of escapism possible to cope with the reality that your generation had a massive part in creating. Sorry 💅

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Putting aside the, "Everyone but an idiot knows the poor must be kept poor, or they will never be productive" logic, it's also just dumb as shit to claim that "able-bodied young men" are going to be super motivated to get off the couch for the sake of health insurance - not even real healthcare, we're talking about paying hundreds of dollars a month so that if you get sick you can "only" be saddled with a very high deductible.

I fucking hate these people's guts. Something something Luigi's Mansion.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 2 days ago

Meanwhile: Politicians who never had a day of honest work their entire life.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Free Healthcare ? In Amerikkka ?

Since when ?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would prefer to work a job than to grind in a videogame. Unfortunately, Americans live in a nation where bad working conditions, low pay, heavy competition, instability, and ghost jobs makes job seeking unpalatable.

American capitalism is a cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

how do i leech off of free healthcare that sounds really good

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Where are they getting free healthcare from? I'd like it. Oh does Canada have this problem? No? Huh

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You gotta be fucking kidding me. What sort of disconnected boomer statement is that!?

I hate using such terms as "boomer", but how else am I going to describe this?

I'm in Denmark, and I can just about get by on one job. I have friends from America struggling to make ends meet, and they're working TWO jobs!

So the fuck is this guy talking about!?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

What country is he talking about? Cuz it sure as shit ain't this one

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

He knows this is false. It's bait, that even i see this time. There really is nothing to see here

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