• CPMSP@midwest.social
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    20 days ago

    As a father of two young men… Good!

    Healthcare is a right. Especially in the richest nation in the history of humanity.

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    20 days ago

    I mean I do know a lot of people with no real jobs that game all day and they have some sorta shitty health care that doesn’t really get them proper treatment if that counts

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    22 days ago

    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.

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      22 days ago

      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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    20 days ago

    LOL, Says the guy mooching off all of us for free healthcare and a paycheck.

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    20 days ago

    I’d love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?

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      20 days ago

      State Medicaid. Just make sure you keep your wage under the limits.

      Don’t do this… But that’s what he means.

      Sell drugs or have a hustle on the side and get more money. /S

      It’s the same game from the street to the big businesses. Big businesses and rich people just make charities and get offshore bank accounts to rape our economy.

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        20 days ago

        It’s much worse than that, They have the entire US stock market rigged to so the same.

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    20 days ago

    When I was unemployed and playing video games while waiting for replies, I didn’t qualify for any free healthcare and I needed some

    I don’t know what he’s talking about

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      20 days ago

      Right-wing 101: “we need to destroy social safety net X because the immigrants/criminals/lazy/fraudsters are smooching it from hard-working, honest citizens!”

      Translation: we need to take services away from the working class so gazillionaires can have an extra tax break and buy a bigger yacht to put their current yacht on.

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    20 days ago

    Where does a young man get this free health care? I’m not young anymore, but for free health care I can pretend to be…

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    20 days ago

    Yeah! We gotta give people the choice to work or die due to lack of medical care! That’s never been done before! What’s that called?

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    20 days ago

    There was a billionaire, CEO to multiple companies, arguing that he’s one of the best in one of the most grindiest games…

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    22 days ago

    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.

    • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      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!

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        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.

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          Wait, isn’t Norway mostly rich from oil?

          I’m glad they use it for the good of its citizens, but it’s kinda fucking the rest of us.

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          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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      22 days ago

      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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    22 days 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.

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      21 days 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.