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[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

It’s mooching off healthcare in the us, it’s a basic need for other countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago

I've had it with these fucks I see him I'll kill him

[–] [email protected] 2 points 41 minutes ago

Just pop some health potions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 45 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 51 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Magats shit on women... Still get women votes... Shit in soliders still get soldiers votes... Shit on Mexicans.... Still get Mexican votes... Shit on men...still get men votes...

I don't know who this says more about... The voting group or Democrats that can't win despite this shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

Ah yes, young men. That notoriously healthcare obsesses group of individuals that do all they can to drain the system of all its funding. That's the problem.

It's a shame people actually fall for blatant lies like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I make time to do both 🤫

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Someone so disconnected with reality should not represent anyone.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

Ah, yes, because I don't need money for rent and food, just healthcare.

What a moron.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

They'll just keep turning the screws tighter if you let them.

Don't listen to their lies.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago

Healthcare is just a way to coerce the working class to produce value for the wealthy. That is the real reason why there is no universal healthcare in America.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

He seems to know a lot about "young boys."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

He talked about monitoring his sons porn viewing history I think.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

This guy unfortunately and unironically exists and likely has more power than anybody on the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago

We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

But where's the free healthcare?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

He's probably (attempting) to reference welfare .... essentially trying to justify work requirements for it

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Its a lot more rewarding than choking on a small carrot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Should have chewed first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

I got fucked up in a video game and can't handle the defeat so I blame them for attention!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 20 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Shit, they're on to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

nah they are playing video games all day because video games are more fun than toxic work environments and helping CEOs earn bonuses

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

And what was his "merit" again (since that's how they like to frame it)? Oh right, fooling people into voting for him. Just PR and courting big shots for campaign money.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago

The same old "welfare queen" argument again.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 22 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."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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

Okay, sure. But consider that they didn't earn those billions of dollars by sucking up to the right assortment of Wall Street financiers, rich family members, and ego-driven Presidential nominees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Nobody is a bigger government mooch then MAGA Nazi politicians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 36 points 22 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

This. The whole framing needs to be pushed back against.

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