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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week 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.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week 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.

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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lmfao what free healthcare?

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[–] mcange@feddit.org 51 points 1 week ago

Free healthcare?

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 week ago

What free healthcare?

Young men have to jump through the most hoops to get state level health insurance.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or the media will be like "Yeah, that makes sense" and will not push back.

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[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The argument is utterly stupid.

Ignoring that it is building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.

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[–] who@feddit.org 39 points 1 week 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.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh god they’ve been shitting on video games since pinball. Get some new lines bro

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week 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.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well see thats your 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!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 points 1 week 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.

[–] Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, because free health care pays my rent.

[–] 100@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago

What free healthcare?

[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 week 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.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)
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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

how the fuck do i do this it sounds awesome

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week 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?

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] Doom@ttrpg.network 15 points 1 week ago

Y'all got free healthcare?

He must be thinking we get the same healthcare they do. That's how far removed they are.

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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

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