To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
  • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    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.

    • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      We still have widespread disengagement in Canada too because the problem isn’t the healthcare.

      The problem is wage suppression and corporate greed.

  • PineRune@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Free 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.

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    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.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      I think he might be speaking about 16 year old boys. He seems mad that they’re children instead of working father’s.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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        27 days ago

        Didn’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.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    You gotta be fucking kidding me. What sort of disconnected boomer statement is that!?

    I hate using such terms as “boomer”, but how else am I going to describe this?

    I’m in Denmark, and I can just about get by on one job. I have friends from America struggling to make ends meet, and they’re working TWO jobs!

    So the fuck is this guy talking about!?

    • MintyFresh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      They’re close to saying the quiet part out loud here. The reason (one of them) universal healthcare gets so much pushback is because an employer provided healthcare is a major way to keep the working class in their place.

      I know so many people who have stayed in shitty abusive jobs because they can’t lose the healthcare. Imagine if people could fuck off and decide to live a less resource intensive life? Would be terrible for the economy.

      I’m pissed at the state of healthcare health business in this (u.s.) country, and I think you should be too!

      • piccolo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        27 days ago

        I know so many people who have stayed in shitty abusive jobs because they can’t lose the healthcare. Imagine if people could fuck off and decide to live a less resource intensive life? Would be terrible for the economy.

        Theres people that was scared of losing their jobs that they didnt disobey managment and leave the factory before it was washed away in the helene floods… many died. But dont worry, the family got a $100 walmart giftcard for compensation…