“Return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Republican efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid, suggesting that young American men are wasting their lives “playing video games all day” instead of working.
Johnson’s remarks came as House Republicans pushed forward a budget framework that would help finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, with plans to slash federal spending by trillions. GOP leaders are eyeing $880 billion in reductions to Medicaid, a move critics warn could gut health coverage for millions of low-income Americans.
What’s the point of fighting for freedom if my free time is still dictated by the government?
Quit enjoying your life with games and get back to making me and my billionaire buddies more money you slacker!
From time to time the ruling class has to be reminded that, as the bigger of the two classes, the working class could just eat them and start over. If we’re not content with the system, we can change it anytime we like. We’ll start by trying to get change by ballot box, but if you close that door for us, if you force us too… we absolutely can get change by guillotine.
How about we all spend 20 hours a week doing actually important jobs, not 40 hours on frivolous bullshit jobs?
Problem is there are way more people than there are “important jobs”
That’s why you reduce the number of hours.
maybe try paying a living wage first.
The day Mike quits his cushy job as house speaker and goes to work in the mines is the day I’ll join him there
They need to get back to sharing their porn playlist with their kids like good decent American folks.
He’s a waste of air
‘They’re Draining Resources’
“Building new power plants and taking all the water just to service broligarchs’ AI businesses is fine, though.”
As a gamer, I believe the appropriate response is, “Suck my dick fag Johnson, your mom’s a cum guzzling whore draining the resources of my balls.”
Or something to that effect.
They messed with gamers.
Gamers.
Only a seasoned Xbox Live veteran could phrase that eloquently.
It’s unfortunate how many self-described “gamers” voted this entire thing in because they hate women and hate accountability and hate responsibility.
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If you are interested in video games, mental health and the current moral panic about it from an actual scientific perspective… from a scientist who is also a life long fan of video games… and understands them beyond “is too much video game bad?” check out the youtube channel Psychgeist, in particular this recent video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42D9olrXL-s
If Mike Johnson gave a shit about young men, he would be terrified by the speed that mobile phone gambling, especially but not limited to sports gambling is tearing through and destroying the lives of young men in the U.S. I mean, everyone is suffering from it but demographically the whole industry seems aimed at young men.
Fuck you Mike Johnson, video games are art and you don’t understand art because you are a boring-creepy ass fascist.
Let me say this emphatically, if you are out there playing video games and not really wanting to go through the hellish process of applying to jobs in the U.S. and decide to play an extremely good video game that is both mentally challenging and also a vehicle for socialization and making friends… good. The rules of capitalism were supposed to be that if the pay and conditions you are offering employees isn’t sufficient vs. the required amount of labor and time, you need to sweeten the deal as the employer, that is how bargaining works?? The fact that people like Mike Johnson always return to this rhetoric the minute the “wisdom of the market” turns not in favor of the rich tells you everything you need to know about Mike Johnson and his ilk.
fuck you, pay me - The Philharmonik 🎵 🎵 🎵 🎵
https://thephilharmonik.bandcamp.com/track/pay-me
Hours - Maky Lavendar 🎵 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3d0bcuokTk
non-acoustic version that bumps 🎵🎵🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyfH8zSfTX4
https://makylavender.bandcamp.com/album/at-least-my-mom-loves-me
Makes me think of Bukowski’s ‘The Genius of the Crowd’…this part particularly;
"…but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world"
The US has the lowest unemployment rate in history. Who he fuck has time to play games?!
I like to look at the employment population ratio of those 25-54. We don’t need to count college kids, and we don’t need to count retired folk. This is a nice, easy measure that doesn’t need many judgement calls on who has a job and who wants a job.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
And yup, it’s as close to the high as it ever was.
I usually fall asleep 15 mins into playing because corporate America drains my resources 40+ hours a week.
says guy who’s job is literally nothing more than draining resources. go fuck yourself cuntface.
Men should stop wasting their time on nonsense like religion. Grow up. You can’t leave your life based on a fairy tale.
That’s funny. Last I checked, I’m not the one taking recess for f’ing Easter of all things.
no one shut down their job and prevented everyone from working for over a week just because they didnt get their way, either.
Typical republican sophistry
