“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.

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    Hypothesis: Men are leeching government funds and playing video games all day

    Proof: Man with government contracts playing POE on plane

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    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.

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    How about we all spend 20 hours a week doing actually important jobs, not 40 hours on frivolous bullshit jobs?

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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

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      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"

      https://youtu.be/el8BHe18owk

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    I have an idea, mike. How about you stop trying to tell people what to do in their lives and trying doing your fucking job? Parasite.

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    says guy who’s job is literally nothing more than draining resources. go fuck yourself cuntface.

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    Men should stop wasting their time on nonsense like religion. Grow up. You can’t leave your life based on a fairy tale.

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    ‘They’re Draining Resources’

    “Building new power plants and taking all the water just to service broligarchs’ AI businesses is fine, though.”

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    As always, what’s not said is often more telling that what is.

    He values women so little that he doesn’t even consider their contribution worthwhile enough to mention. It’s fine for them to waste their time playing games all day. (Or he doesn’t think women don’t play games, which is just as poor)