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They targeted gamers.
He had me at "Return the dignity of work".
I don't think that he has any intention to do that, but that would certainly go a long way towards getting people to work like he wants.
Was annoyed, then confused, then I see what you mean. Yeah, he's got no intention of actually bringing dignity back to the workplace, but some people would be willing to work if jobs were treated in a dignified way. As it is, tipping alone has ruined any possibility that the US would ever let the people "take away" the ability of rich people to have servants.
Many men look at the pain/reward ratio and it's not actually worth it. People are rational: toiling away to at best afford a tiny apartment that takes up half your salary while the other half is spent on food is not alluring. Ironically, this guy is in a position to alter society so the rewards are not so small and instead he chooses moral condemnation as the tool to motivate, as though his castigation will change the equation. He may be an idiot or may be very intelligent and just exploiting the system by saying what people want to hear to distract from the real problem.
What the fuck does that have to with access to medical care you absolute fucking waste of flesh‽
No one is living off of Medicare or Medicaid. No one is able to not work and instead play video games all day because of these programs. All a work requirement does is make it harder for these programs to help the people who need them. Which of course makes it more likely that they will be stu k with deteriorating health issues which will make it harder for them to work.
This is just an attempt to cut benefits for the poor to make room for tax cuts for the rich. It's all about obfuscating the cuts so they can try to dodge accountability.
Fuck you Mike Johnson. You are net drain on humanity. You are actively working to increase suffering and death. Stop pretending to love Jesus because the last time he met someone like you he whipped them and drove them out of the temple.
Absolutely. i would also like to emphasize that this would disproportionately effect people with disabilities.
Also, when I was homesteading, I didn't officially have a job and didn't make much money, but I was working far more than an average full time job and was able to support myself other than the cost for health insurance.
But the whole idea that access to healthcare should be linked to and require employment is insane and sociopathic.
They are Nazis. Nazis believe that anyone who isn't a productive cog in their industrial and military machine doesn't deserve to live. The USA needs to overthrow this Nazi regime before they start the mass exterminations.
Hey now, the reason I game so much is cause I have insomnia. I go to work!
Couldn't you get some kind of medication to help with that from our wonderful healthcare system . . . ah, yes, I see the problem now.
I just finished working four 12 hour shifts dealing with morons and shitty people, Mike. I'll play some god damn video games if I want to.
Stop wasting your life playing vidyagaems. Start wasting your life creating shareholder value.
I'm going to start calling these motherfuckers Don Quixote, they debate strawmen as if they were fighting windmills
Mike Johnson, you know who's "draining resources?"
Your mother.
I‘m curious if he told Elmo the same. The ~~guy~~ nazi who streams gaming content from his private jet 30% of his day, posts shit on shitter 60% of the day and fucks up democracy 20% of the day.
This is what these productivity gurus are referring to when they‘re talking about giving 110% every day
Being CEO of 7 companies while also being the unelected head of a major government department only leaves a person with 99% of their time available for other stuff.
Pay people more work and have them do dignified jobs (ie: not making them pee in a bottle) and you'd have more people working.
Treat people like shit and crash the global economy, not so much.
But it's not like conservatives care about making sense of being consistent. Hang mike johnson.
Well since its always projection with these losers, I wonder what he's been playing lately that he feels so guilty about.
Anime-based porn games... Doesn't filter out by his son.
I'd wager I get more done by 8 AM than Johnson gets done all day.
Bonus: I don't wake up until 9 AM.
Well, maybe make life not suck so bad then. Make things affordable again? Let’s start there.
I’ll give up my fantasy worlds when you give up yours. Yours has been far more detrimental to the world.
Mike Johnson, you are cordially invited to fuck all the way off with that delusional bullshit.
When the hell will 'wholly detached rich guy says other people should work harder to make him even richerer' stop being so fucking common? I see like one of these a month minimum these days. Man, fuck every one of these assclowns.
Is he talking about Elon, or?
Now I'm gonna play video games extra hard today. Fuck you, Mike.
Also - I generate more value while taking a shit than this leech has created in his entire life.
He hates them because they're fun and he's republican. Sad and pathetic to end up so cross.
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