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[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 13 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

says some rich asshole who probably hasn't done real work a day in his life, likely living off dividends and bribe money

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 32 points 4 hours 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 40 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 hours 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 15 points 5 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.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 70 points 7 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 13 points 5 hours 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 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You’re probably holding your controller wrong.

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

His mouse pad must be broken.

[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 16 points 6 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 53 points 7 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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 49 points 7 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.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 48 points 8 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.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 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.

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

[–] who@feddit.org 32 points 8 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.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 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 6 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 4 hours 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.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 256 points 12 hours ago (6 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.

[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 13 points 8 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 79 points 12 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. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 45 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Can confirm, only video games in the UK too. Certainly not the 6th largest economy in the world worth £3.84 trillion. Nor a labour force with 74.9% in employment, that would be silly!

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 35 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Norwegian living in Denmark. I moved from Norway because everyone was just gaming, but I wanted to go to gigs, so I moved. Turns out everyone games in Denmark all the time too! It must be why the Northern European countries score so high in the happiness rating: all we do is game all day. It's not like these countries have any money, especially Norway.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 18 points 10 hours ago

I am so fucking tired of gaming, could someone for the love of fuck get rid of my healthcare?!?!?! I wake up, gaming. For lunch I game. Dinner? You guessed it, gaming. At night I just constantly game. I don't know how I get out of this, but at least my health is fucking fantastic!

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 8 points 7 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

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 96 points 12 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.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

It's hard being that evil

[–] 100@fedia.io 14 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 123 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 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.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 19 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Same reason I've been unemployed for a long while, my disability and medicare covers so much of my costs that working would likely result in less money in my pocket.

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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago

Ah yes, because free health care pays my rent.

[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 75 points 11 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.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 44 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 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.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 7 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.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 hours ago

how the fuck do i do this it sounds awesome

[–] duchess@feddit.org 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 9 points 8 hours ago

Luigi killed the CEO on call of duty, makes sense

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 32 points 11 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 9 hours ago

Mooch on guys!

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