• @[email protected]
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    People are checking out because the middle class is non-existent. It doesn’t matter how hard you work - the the prospect of getting ahead, owning a home, retirement is out of reach for the vast majority of people.

    People can work hard and stress themselves out or they can check out of the system and achieve largely the same result.

    This is about the failures of late stage capitalism. To claim the issue is free healthcare is gaslighting.

    • Jerkface (any/all)
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      494 days ago

      “Middle class” contrasts with “upper class” and “lower class”, not with “ruling class” and “working class”; it’s the wrong perspective.

      • @[email protected]
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        144 days ago

        It may be today, but a strong middle class is what placates the working class. Give em something to shoot for so they won’t shoot you.

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          “Middle class” IS working class. It’s a false distinction that only serves to undermine our only tool against the ruling class, class solidarity. (I think we’re kind of saying the same thing.)

    • Ulrich
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      34 days ago

      This is about the failures successes of late stage capitalism

      FTFY

    • @[email protected]
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      If you choose to pay this way, you will no longer be given upfront prices on the steam store and several months or years later you will receive a bill from a debt collector to finally pay for your game. And it’s going to be a lot more than you thought.

  • @[email protected]
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    143 days ago

    Hey look, an “elite” with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who’s just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

    I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I’d be doing it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Dunno if it is satire, i honestly am struggling to tell these days, but there’s a post that says this fucker routinely plays surgeon simulator while attending meetings…on twitch

  • @[email protected]
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    This man literally needs his son the keep his porn habits in check, and he’s whining about people playing video games…

  • @[email protected]
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    163 days ago

    People turning to escapism because the world is shit?

    FUCK THAT LET’S MAKE IT WORSE THEN.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    Young men who are capable of playing video games all day are likely depressed, and have a clinical problem. Our volition to be productive was demonstrated during the 2020 lockdown and the great resignation of 2021-22, in which young men (as with all other working demographics) learned:

    • They felt better in a non-toxic work environment
    • They couldn’t couch potato for more than a week without getting fierce cabin fever, and
    • They got highly skilled when they were doing a thing they liked.

    The ones who resigned from old jobs were the ones who were able to monetize their hobby enough to quit. Many more got productive, but didn’t find something in their craft for which there was a ready market.

    Speaker Johnson is a fierce MAGA and conforms to the common fascist trope of never speaking in good faith. See Sartre’s antisemite quote.

    With several perspectives including that crunch remains a thing in AAA game development, our ownership class and CEOs are less concerned about maximizing profits than they are being lords with a feif and peons (compulsory servitude).

    Oh and death to all monarchists. Disney deaths preferred.

  • @[email protected]
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    724 days ago

    And rich people don’t have jobs because they mooch off poor people.

    Hypocrisy at its finest.

      • Lightor
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        264 days ago

        Which the parents pay for… They just don’t know what words mean anymore.

  • Phoenixz
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    123 days ago

    Decades pass, yet politicians keep using the same bullshit claims, just the sauce is slightly different.

    Fuck Cheeto and the USA

  • Bakkoda
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    The amount of dirty looks I got today casually playing slay the spire on my steam deck as a 41 year old man in the waiting room of a medical facility was pretty impressive.

      • Bakkoda
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        123 days ago

        It’s so sweet. I am bad at consoles and haven’t owned one since Sonic made his debut but this thing rocks.