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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 337 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Can confirm. Here in Canada, nobody works. We all sit at home and play video games instead. There's no industry, no shops, no hospitals. Only video games.

[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago

Yeah, most people I know don’t have jobs! We just run extension cords between our igloos to power our video game machines. If it weren’t for them we could totally be like the States. 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can confirm, only video games in the UK too. Certainly not the 6th largest economy in the world worth £3.84 trillion. Nor a labour force with 74.9% in employment, that would be silly!

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Norwegian living in Denmark. I moved from Norway because everyone was just gaming, but I wanted to go to gigs, so I moved. Turns out everyone games in Denmark all the time too! It must be why the Northern European countries score so high in the happiness rating: all we do is game all day. It's not like these countries have any money, especially Norway.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 24 points 1 day ago

I am so fucking tired of gaming, could someone for the love of fuck get rid of my healthcare?!?!?! I wake up, gaming. For lunch I game. Dinner? You guessed it, gaming. At night I just constantly game. I don't know how I get out of this, but at least my health is fucking fantastic!

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[–] xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In Québec we all own a state mandated PS5 (no Xbox's allowed, that would be illegal) and play a variety of Fifa, Marvel Heroes and Valorant because it's said to sharpen our skills and better society. Many women knock on my door saying they want me to grant them children, but knowing that my KDA might suffer from their demands I know not to give in, and to instead keep grinding until my next government granted dialysis appointment. Mon dieu que j'aime le Québec 🙏

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[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 154 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Or, what if their healthcare continued to be free so they wouldn't have an incentive to find a way to live on $700 month?

I know one of those young men playing video games, and he REALLY wants a job, but no matter how he works the math, the medication that keeps him alive costs more than what he'd make. So, his only choice is to budget around permanent poverty or die.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Same reason I've been unemployed for a long while, my disability and medicare covers so much of my costs that working would likely result in less money in my pocket.

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[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 115 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 92 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Here's some more food for thought: what happens if they 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 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Gamers really are the most oppressed.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

That does make sense considering every other developed country has free healthcare and literally 100% of their young men spend every waking hour playing video games.

[–] Gibibit@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It does make sense because I break my legs regularly playing video games, putting a huge strain on public healthcare.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You’re probably holding your controller wrong.

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[–] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

It also makes sense considering I eat Prozac for dinner and live under a shelter made of BandAids

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago

He has no idea what the medicare requirements are, does he?

...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.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 62 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

says some rich asshole who probably hasn't done real work a day in his life, likely living off dividends and bribe money

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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 58 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

working where exactly? working on a farm that will pay you minimum wage, if that? oh OH I know working in the tech sector where it's now and has been for the past couple years an absolute nightmare to find a job in.

There are NO jobs out there that will pay for the current cost of living and the ones that COULD aren't hiring, and if anything, are laying people off. And yeah, these unemployed young men are TOTALLY playing videogames that now cost $80 a pop paid via a job they don't have.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 57 points 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.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lmfao what free healthcare?

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[–] mcange@feddit.org 48 points 18 hours ago
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 45 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not concerned about some young videogamer getting free healthcare. I'm more concerned with the DOGE GOBLIN getting BILLIONS in government contracts to build rockets that blow up spectacularly, wasting a billion dollars with every explosion, just so he can quip "Just a scratch."

That's a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.

I'm not worried about American citizens getting health care, I'm worried about Foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs getting BILLIONS in government contracts, paid for by taxes on the working class, while calling those same workers/taxpayers "parasites."

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[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 19 hours ago

What free healthcare?

Young men have to jump through the most hoops to get state level health insurance.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Or the media will be like "Yeah, that makes sense" and will not push back.

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[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 39 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Is this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

The argument is utterly stupid.

Ignoring that it is building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.

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[–] who@feddit.org 37 points 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.

[–] mintiefresh@piefed.ca 35 points 6 hours ago

But where's the free healthcare?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 34 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.

Many jobs make the world worse. I'd rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.

Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another "AI" company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into "the metaverse"? Waste of time and resources.

That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That's a bum deal. But there's a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you'd likely get more people working.

Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should -- wait, he's southern baptist? The "we're going to split off because we want slavery" sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh god they’ve been shitting on video games since pinball. Get some new lines bro

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 32 points 9 hours ago

Anybody who has ever been unfortunate enough to have to apply for any of these healthcare or food stipend programs would know that it's not as easy as the government makes it seem. In fact, the amount of bureaucracy, means testing, and highly restrictive income limitations means that most people don't qualify period and people who do qualify have to spend an inordinate amount of time waiting to hear back from the government to know if they have been accepted or not, all the while hoping and praying they don't get sick and can manage their money long enough to continue feeding themselves.

Case in point, my fiance is out of work right now and actively seeking work. She applied for both MediCAL and SNAP and was denied for MediCAL because she had earned too much already that year to qualify and the SNAP benefits totaled out to $20/month in food stamps, based on historical income, which is insufficient even for the most frugal of individuals to make work. This is for someone currently earning $0/month and being almost entirely supported by me.

After a certain point, it becomes a massive drain on your time and resources that could be spent looking for a job, so you stop bothering with the system altogether because who wants to spend hours doing paperwork and submitting claims just to get enough spare change to buy a bulk bag of rice to feed yourself a struggle meal?

I don't want to hear shit about "handouts" from anybody. My fiance paid her taxes faithfully for years without ever having to rely on the program, so where are her benefits? She has undoubtedly paid more into the system than she will ever extract.

[–] ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

This is just the “violent video games make people violent” argument from the 90s and 00s. Fear mongering at its core.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 31 points 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.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 29 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Another boomer fucking idiot saying idiot fucking boomer shit because idiot fucking boomers voted like boomer fucking idiots.

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[–] PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca 28 points 15 hours ago

claims mouthpiece of the medical insurance industry

FTFY

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What we can? How? I've been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Says the asshole mooching off the gold standard free healthcare given to congressmen.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 24 points 6 hours ago

I'm disabled and can't afford a working computer to play video games, you rich motherfucker.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 21 points 12 hours ago

I can't wait to pay for groceries with my free healthcare.

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 19 points 8 hours ago

Rich people always think they pay for everyone. Wrong.

We are in the same society. A society with no hope is not a stable society.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What's an enormous brain he has, it's amazing that it 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.

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