Speaker Mike Johnson defended efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid, suggesting that young men are wasting their lives "playing video games all day."
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    What if I told you…

    A horde of aimless, depressed, isolated, self-destructive young men is the inevitable outcome of a political regime clinging to patriarchy and capitalism far beyond the point where anyone below the top 10% really got a good deal from either of those grifts.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Ive had an active job search since last september. Sorta have to have a job to work. Funny because there is no lack of ads but its almost like companies are uncertain about what they want to do for the future. Wonder why that is?

  • aquafunkalisticbootywhap@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 days ago

    yeah, because subsidized basic medical care enables people to forego working for a living and play video games all day… what youre trying to lock behind a workers-only paywall is things like eye exams, things like therapy, medication, and doctors visits for any number of conditions, disorders and injuries - things that without, it’s pretty fucking difficult or often outright impossible to just “get to work”

    what a spoiled asshat spewing utter fucking nonsense who should “get to work” doing the job theyre supposed to be doing: actually helping their fucking constituents, looking out for the worst off among us. instead theyre confidently looking down from their high horse, as if theyre better. Im sorry we all cant make a living being total fucking sellouts to the oligarchs like you, mike

    go work a fucking day in the soul crushing job that is american social services, dude. go try to help poor people get a job in a state that said fuck giving some of the poorest among us basic healthcare; see how fucking hard it is for people who cant get and stay relatively healthy in this supposedly so “great” nation because they cant get the permanent, full time fucking job needed first. whats that? you dont actually know fuck all about the struggles of a poor person? youre just some fucking schmuck who gets off putting other people down?

    maybe some folks play video games to deal with the feelings that go along with realizing some of our neighbors and family actually thought you are worthy of representing them. maybe the utter, crushing sadness and disappointment they feel seeing you so effortlessly embrace selfishness as a complete traitor to the oaths you swore becomes a little more tolerable after some distracting video games, you waste of clean air and water, you fucking embarassment of a human being

  • Ascrod@midwest.socialEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Go fuck yourself Magic Mike. I work 50 hours a week and video games are my pleasant distraction from that work. You should try it sometime. Working, I mean.

  • The_Caretaker@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Mike Johnson is a victim of conversion therapy. No matter how fanatical he gets with his religious BS, he can’t hide his sexuality and he shouldn’t have to.