To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
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.
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.
No they are not governing. They are attempting to rule using rhetoric they know sticks with older generations. That’s it. Just gotta keep people voting and they will say and do anything to get those votes.
Nah, young folk these days just don’t want to work. They need to buckle down, pull on the ol’ bootstraps, and work a part time job at the factory while going to college. No reason that shouldn’t support a family of 4 with a single income!
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.
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
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.
“Middle class” IS working class. It’s a false distinction that only serves to undermine our only tool against the ruling class, class solidarity. (I think we’re kind of saying the same thing.)
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.
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.
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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Oh sweet i didn’t realize my healthcare covered video games
This man literally needs his son the keep his porn habits in check, and he’s whining about people playing video games…
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:
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.
does he think everyone in the US gets the same healthcare that congresspeople get?
Probably.
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.
Younger generation is lame. We were so awesome. Remember how awesome we were? Kids these days!
And we’ve made their environment worst than ours and it’s their fault.
Fucking youngsters
Those inane Shakespeare plays are making the world a dumber place!
Is this free healthcare you speak of in the room with us right now?
Is he mad that young adults can stay on their parents’ health plan until age 26?
Which the parents pay for… They just don’t know what words mean anymore.
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.
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.
No they are not governing. They are attempting to rule using rhetoric they know sticks with older generations. That’s it. Just gotta keep people voting and they will say and do anything to get those votes.
Nah, young folk these days just don’t want to work. They need to buckle down, pull on the ol’ bootstraps, and work a part time job at the factory while going to college. No reason that shouldn’t support a family of 4 with a single income!
Sounds awesome! Reminds me of a Chinese Buddhist couple who work a few months then travel a few months to temples
I would take anything Hunter S. Thompson wrote with a massive grain of salt. He’s fun to read but gonzo journalism isn’t a great source for facts.
First, he wrote the book in the 1970s. People would have noticed if he was wildly off base.
Second, you can do a quick search and prove his numbers were correct.
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.
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
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.
“Middle class” contrasts with “upper class” and “lower class”, not with “ruling class” and “working class”; it’s the wrong perspective.
It may be today, but a strong middle class is what placates the working class. Give em something to shoot for so they won’t shoot you.
“Middle class” IS working class. It’s a false distinction that only serves to undermine our only tool against the ruling class, class solidarity. (I think we’re kind of saying the same thing.)
Time for another round of:
“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
Waaaay ahead of ya haha
Gaslight
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Adding my health Card number to my steam account payment method.
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.
Lol, sorry i forgot to put /s at the end …
And rich people don’t have jobs because they mooch off poor people.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
Who eats healthcare?
I go to the hospital to pick up my free aborted babies to turn into California cheeseburgers.
Somehow, your statement is better than trump being president.
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.
Where are they getting free healthcare from? I’d like it. Oh does Canada have this problem? No? Huh
We still have widespread disengagement in Canada too because the problem isn’t the healthcare.
The problem is wage suppression and corporate greed.
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?
Or food or shelter or anything?