He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?
Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
Submitted 1 day ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality…
iMastari@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
Here’s some more food for thought: what happens if the 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 1 day 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.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Gamers really are the most oppressed.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Mmm… Fresh copypasta 🤤
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh this is quite old my friend, early Gamergate years
epitaque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Look what happened in China. Some governments can absolutely limit gaming time if they have enough power over their citizens.
Tetragrade@leminal.space 12 hours ago
First they came for the gamers, and I did not speak out, because I was focusing busy hitting a sick 360° quickscope on Angel City.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Oh god they’ve been shitting on video games since pinball. Get some new lines bro
wabasso@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
They should control video games like they control guns.
theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 7 hours ago
Its a lot more rewarding than choking on a small carrot.
Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Should have chewed first.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 day 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.
rayyy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The goal is to get those “young men” out there in the job market struggling to make ends meet day after day so their boss can buy his second vacation home and new yacht. In the meantime Republicans will point to some group or minority as the cause of their woes. It’s a win, win for them.
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
I’d be interested to know how I can pay my electricity bill with my free healthcare. Also I need to go to the supermarket today; how do I convert free healthcare into a trolleyful of food?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Also where the fuck is this free healthcare?
jaupsinluggies@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
Civilised countries like the UK and other European countries. Technically it’s not free because it’s paid for by taxation, but it’s free at the point of use: if I go and see a doctor, I don’t get billed, but I do pay 9% National Insurance tax.
athairmor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The jobs do exist, and I’m pretty sure the young men are working them, but the jobs also kinda suck.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Can these monsters please just fuck off!
dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Oooh, I’m one of those! Gaming on foodstamps and social health in a US state, AMA.
match@pawb.social 12 hours ago
How does it feel being rich???
dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Truly wonderful.
You need the gaming in this lifestyle to help divert attention from not being able to get comfort foods at month’s end.
Otherwise it leaves me all the time to realize the physical and mental hells I am putting myself through. I’ve been qualified for free health care for over a year, but I just arrived to the point where I can reach out and engage the system. I initially thought enrolling would come in handy if I get into an accident, but last week I made the call to start preventive treatments.
I have an appointment with an actual doctor next month. I am also getting the ball rolling on the emotional side. I was contemplating moving back home, but now I might give this current iteration some more time.
samlan@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
Shit, they’re on to me.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 hours 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.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Wait, I can get free healthcare playing video games? Where?!?
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Much of the world outside the US
JIMMERZ@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Where is this free healthcare? Because I’m paying out the ass for my very minimal coverage.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 17 hours ago
What free healthcare?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Shut the fuck up, boomer. No seriously, get that dated, old man yells at cloud bullshit out of politics.
qarbone@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Doom@ttrpg.network 15 hours ago
Y’all got free healthcare?
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
How’s your son’s dick today, Mike Johnson? You have the app that tells you, so if you wouldn’t mind…
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Looks like I’m unaware of something horrible. . ?
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
You’re happier not knowing, delete your account before since sicko comes by to gleefully explain this one.
who@feddit.org 1 day 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.
TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
So basically, they are mooching off of free healthcare - by performing by one of the most risk free activities that is almost going to guarantee they won’t need healthcare in the first place?
MAGA tactic:
Take negative stereotype, say it is preventing a desirable goal from being reached, then say it is because of what you are actually trying to cut. Doesn’t matter if they barely have any real relation to each other.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah just get disabled, unable to work, and get ssi, then all the free health care. Just have to live with being disabled and not really able to do much, and being poor and hoping that the government doesn’t turn off your ssi cuase it will save them money.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also, unless you’ve got a way to pay rent or a house you own, good luck getting on housing assistance. Most cities have a waiting list months or years long - I know last time I had to look into it for myself, it was something like 15 months of waiting for a potential open slot anywhere in the city.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
What’s an enormous brain he has, it’s a meeting that 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.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
nah they are playing video games all day because video games are more fun than toxic work environments and helping CEOs earn bonuses
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Does he realize these unemployed, dirty gamers who complain but don’t do anything productive tend to lean conservative?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Young men have no idea what health care is, nor do they care.
They are healthy and heal fast.
They are the ones who traditionally pay in and dont take out.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
As someone who is 25 I must agree, not only do I not give a damn I actively welcome death. Shitty fucken eyesight not withstanding, I think there’s thinner ballistic glass
Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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 1 day ago
It’s hard being that evil
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Pays well too. The price of their morality for a lifetime of pay and free healthcare. Because let’s face it, these idiots get FEHB healthcare for life for being in congress because they made it so. They get a salary AFTER they served too, after Min 5 years, but they get 80% of their salary as part of a pension. Insane nonsense if you stay for 20 years compared to what we get.