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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 11 points 48 minutes ago

Translated: Adults 18 to 25 are using there parents healthcare and are not paying for the crappiest healthcare being offered at their first jobs.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 18 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 hour ago

His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality...

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour 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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

What's an enormous brain he has, it's amazing that it 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.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 59 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of there young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It does make sense because I break my legs regularly playing video games, putting a huge strain on public healthcare.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 hour ago

You’re probably holding your controller wrong.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 13 points 2 hours ago

It also makes sense considering I eat Prozac for dinner and live under a shelter made of BandAids

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 3 hours ago

...says guy who gets free healthcare and is paid by a public who he does nothing good for and billionaires who bribe him to hurt the public.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 45 points 3 hours ago

Videogames are the cheapest and most durable form of entertainment, ideal qualities when you don't have a job and resources to keep you busy. This fucker wants people to never escape being in misery.

Why would anyone want to waste their life working for any of these exploitive cunts. I’d much rather play video games.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 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.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 36 minutes ago

Instructions unclear, I smashed up all my walls but there was no food inside

I heard golden carrots are the best at that, which you can get from the farmer for the low price of 1-2 emeralds.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 44 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

The jobs do exist, and I'm pretty sure the young men are working them, but the jobs also kinda suck.

[–] who@feddit.org 32 points 4 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.

[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I thought they were breaking into your basement to tell you they won’t watch your kid and you still have to buy them health insurance

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Right? I feel bad that it's beautiful outside and we're all inside playing games and streaming TV, but every time we leave the house as a family, it ends up costing me at least $100.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 7 points 3 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

[–] duchess@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago

I don‘t like to see the politics of this miserable country here.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 hours ago

or pretending that conversion therapy cured them, and addicted to possibly porn.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

Ah yes, because free health care pays my rent.

[–] 100@fedia.io 13 points 4 hours ago

the rich siphoning money for themselves is infinitely more damaging than anything else

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 hours ago

how the fuck do i do this it sounds awesome

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 234 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

Can confirm. Here in Canada, nobody works. We all sit at home and play video games instead. There's no industry, no shops, no hospitals. Only video games.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Exactly.

Even before computers, we Indians were happily playing Chess until Mughals invaded us.

And then we showed them Chess, got them hooked, and then Brits invaded us.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I couldn't possibly do both things!

[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 12 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

In Québec we all own a state mandated PS5 (no Xbox's allowed, that would be illegal) and play a variety of Fifa, Marvel Heroes and Valorant because it's said to sharpen our skills and better society. Many women knock on my door saying they want me to grant them children, but knowing that my KDA might suffer from their demands I know not to give in, and to instead keep grinding until my next government granted dialysis appointment. Mon dieu que j'aime le Québec 🙏

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 72 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, most people I know don’t have jobs! We just run extension cords between our igloos to power our video game machines. If it weren’t for them we could totally be like the States. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

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[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 9 points 4 hours ago

Luigi killed the CEO on call of duty, makes sense

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Wait, you can eat heath care?

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 89 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 4 hours ago

Mooch on guys!

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 71 points 7 hours ago (12 children)

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 2 points 3 hours 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 41 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Here's some more food for thought: what happens if they 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.

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 115 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn't have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he'd make. So, his only choice is to budget around permanent poverty or die.

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