Those neoliberals are getting cocky.
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.
"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’
Lots of my friends play games everyday, and all day if they can sometimes. They are also hard workers. It’s how we unwind.
When pasty rich worms like this spout this kind of exploiter class drivel it makes me want to punch them in the throat.
What country is he talking about? Cuz it sure as shit ain’t this one
Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to “able-bodied young men” playing videogames instead of working
Everyone else has already pointed out the obvious point that free healthcare does not exist here, but you’ve at least gotta give it to him that this is a reasonable conclusion to draw given that “able-bodied young men” would surely be the least likely among us to get by without access to healthcare.
Please tell me more about this free healthcare
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.
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.
I’d give you dirty looks as well if you weren’t playing on A20 and fighting the heart
Cmon they were just jelly u had a deck lol
It’s so sweet. I am bad at consoles and haven’t owned one since Sonic made his debut but this thing rocks.
free healthcare
does he think everyone in the US gets the same healthcare that congresspeople get?
Probably.
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?
How do you not work and still have money for the Xbox subscription and steam sales?
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 💅
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.
