• @owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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    36910 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.

    • @TwinTitans@lemmy.world
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      11710 days 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
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      6310 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!

      • @P1nkman@lemmy.world
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        5310 days ago

        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
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          2810 days 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!

        • @anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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          29 days ago

          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.

    • @xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu
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      3210 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 🙏

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      410 days ago

      Exactly.

      Even before computers, we Indians were happily playing Chess until Mughals invaded us.

      And then we showed them Chess, got them hooked, and then Brits invaded us.

  • Rhynoplaz
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    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
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      3510 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.

      • @HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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        1010 days ago

        What are you going to do after all this is over, and it’s either even harder to get or just completely gone? Im sorry you have to go through any of this…

        • @Default_Defect@midwest.social
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          1110 days ago

          No idea, I have a good support structure, so I’m probably not completely fucked if/when it comes down to it. Also my doctor has implied he has some way of helping, should the shit hit the fan, not sure what that could possibly entail though.

    • ms.lane
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      210 days ago

      They’d have to have free healthcare in the first place…

  • @Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world
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    12610 days ago

    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.

      • @Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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        29 days ago

        Pays well too. The price of their morality for a lifetime of pay and free healthcare. Because let’s face it, these idiots get FEHB healthcare for life for being in congress because they made it so. They get a salary AFTER they served too, after Min 5 years, but they get 80% of their salary as part of a pension. Insane nonsense if you stay for 20 years compared to what we get.

  • CurlyWurlies4All
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    9910 days ago

    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.

  • @hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    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.

    • Ephera
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      4910 days ago

      His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality…

  • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7010 days ago

    …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.

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

  • @rozodru@lemmy.world
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    639 days ago

    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.

    • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      Seriously. I’d love some free healthcare.

      I’d probably be able to be more functional if I had proper healthcare.

      This whole thing of “Free healthcare = leeches” is fucking insulting.

  • @BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world
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    479 days ago

    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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      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.

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    469 days ago

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

  • @HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    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

    • @ours@lemmy.world
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      108 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.