alessandroYoung men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
woelkchenMeanwhile: Politicians who never had a day of honest work their entire life.
ThrillhousePeople 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 co deck 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.)
Miles O'BrienGaslight
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UlrichThis is about the failures successes of late stage capitalism
FTFY
Time for another round of:
“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”
Waaaay ahead of ya haha
Lyin’ Mike at it again
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.
PineRuneFree healthcare doesn’t pay rent or utilities. I would love to stay at home and play video games regardless of my healthcare status, but I simply couldn’t afford to.
FingolfinzHealth care is a human right
Where can I get this free healtcare that pays your rent?
By getting elected to Senate or Congress
ZomgShits all fucked up my guy
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rayonI’m flabbergasted
CoelacanthDidn’t you know sex is bad? It’s absolutely reprehensible and the only allowable exception is for the purposes of procreation, where you are allowed only to use the missionary position and your lawfully wedded wife is to be completely obscured by a blanket covering her entire body apart from a small hole in her crotch area. You can not look down or touch her body with your hands at any point, you should be reciting prayer the entire time and preferably keep one hand on the Bible during the whole process.
All other ways to engage with sexual acts and sexuality are unnatural, ungodly and frankly disgusting.
FizzThe lord needs to help these people. They’re cooked.
Where are they getting the money for the games? Those are expensive as shit, I’m still making do with games I bought decades ago because I can’t afford new ones.
How are they eating? Food is fucking expensive, are they getting free food as well?
How are they paying rent? Have to have a roof over your head and electricity in your walls to play video games all day.
This mother fucker thinks all guys are like his son, lazy mother fuckers mooching off their parents. What a dumb, ignorant moron.
I think he might be speaking about 16 year old boys. He seems mad that they’re children instead of working father’s.
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.
Since I am not from the us or ever been there, I do have a question: are people that truly believe in this bullshit?
psvrhYes, but they get there “backwards”.
It’s not like they believe healthcare is inherently demotivating, it’s that they’re already Red Team members, and “Healthcare and welfare breed moochers” is a Red Team belief, and since they’re good Red Team members, they synthesize it into their belief system–despite the fact functionally no one rips off the healthcare system because, frankly, you have to have some kind of pathology to visit a doctor enough for fraud to be an issue.
I mean “Oh noes, they’re ripping off the healthcare systems by… (checks notes) …getting antibiotics for their earache!!” is not a thing. Ever.
Everyone, even in countries with socialized medicine, avoids interactions with the healthcare system until they need to. I mean, do you you really want to recreationally get your throat swabbed? I’m sure there’s four people on this planet of nine billion who get off on that, but that’s it.
Now, rich people, they come to this believe authentically. They hate public healthcare because a) they have to pay for it, and b) it’s one less piece of leverage they have to keep people shackled to work. But make no mistake, they also suffer from the delusion, above.
The answer is about half of them do and the other half don’t and are there to fleece the first half. You see the same pattern with priests, where some of them are true believers and the rest are just there to devour the flock.
In a crowd of 200 people, you are nearly guaranteed to have a sociopath without any kind of conscience. These people are more or less like sharks and move around and devour those around them without a second thought. It’s a shame, because they are often the limiting factor to scaling any kind of human organization.
So many of the rules and restrictions we have today are due to these people, and sadly, it’s just part of the human condition.
Congressman can’t be fired for doing a poor job?
Sure. Let’s just pretend video games are free. And so is healthcare.
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.
Sounds awesome! Reminds me of a Chinese Buddhist couple who work a few months then travel a few months to temples
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.
SturgistNah, 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!
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.
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.
bdonvrWhat???
What free healthcare? And even if they have that, that doesn’t pay for food, shelter, etc…
Hey Johnson… care to let people in on your little secret? As in… little… secret.
The joke that keeps on giving
“I want to check that old building for treasure!” vs. “I want to check my son’s porn usage”.
And rich people don’t have jobs because they mooch off poor people.
Hypocrisy at its finest.
It must be really nice to live in a world where your own idiotic opinions don’t lead to any meaningful consequences for yourself.
JaysynThis is rich coming from someone that has literally never worked a days labor in their lives.
Young men as a cohort have a 90% employment rate.
“We need people to have the threat of death to work” isn’t the offer you think it is you fuck.
Just a normal US politician. They lost all connection to reality ages ago. Take his ID papers away and let him survive on minimum wage jobs somewhere where nobody knows his sorry face.
rpl6475What free healthcare? It’s Murica…
He has free healthcare. That’s all he cares about.
And if he is projecting like everything else in his life he is playing candy crush in his office right now.
Why is this specific to men? Are women not able to take advantage of these same programs? Are men having job placement issues where women are not?
What is the root cause of this? Since jobs and people have both existed for a looooooong time, I doubt this latest generation was just born lazy. What’s the behind the scenes info here?
the behind the scenes is that they made it the fuck up. Men 25-84 have about a 90% participation rate in the workforce.
The only places where men are at low participation in the workforce is 16-19. He wants more children working.
Ah, then the “free” healthcare is the healthcare they get because their parents pay for it. Covering kids is far from free. But it taps in to any rage parents may feel having to cover their kids even if they always argue with their kids. A lie that his base is happy to hear.
Yes, working instead of going to college.
He believes any woman not currently pregnant is an abomination unto nuggan
We should take away their free healthcare
ZeroOneFree Healthcare ? In Amerikkka ?
Since when ?
Until you’re 26 off your parents
Only when you’re so poor (earn less than 15k/yr out 21k a year in some states) not having it functionally costs more money, but only so long as you follow all the bureaucratic rules to continually prove eligibility.
And don’t forget, you still have to find healthcare providers that accept Medicaid, pay copays, etc.
In some states they don’t even have that. I’ve been seeking disability for six years in America for a partially broken back (I can walk, but I’m stooped most of the time and get to live with chronic pain, yippee) and because I couldn’t get by on nothing, and got a part time gig that didn’t cross the threshold I still got my benefits denied. So like, in all technicality, though I see myself as an able-bodied young man and pursue an active lifestyle to make sure my weight doesn’t cause my spine to degrade and leave me fully paralyzed, I’m not even who this guy’s talking about, and I can’t get benefits through the current system. Now I’m just uninsured and planning to immigrate for education (and healthcare).