• @ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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    82 days ago

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

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    112 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.

    • @Jarix@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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

    • @RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      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.

  • @Thrillhouse@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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.

  • ssillyssadass
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    163 days ago

    Music is making younger generations lazy.

    Nono, it’s books.

    Nono, it’s film.

    Nono, it’s TV.

    Nono, it’s music again, but only certain kinds of music like rock and metal.

    Nono, it’s video games.

  • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    1084 days ago

    Look up the book “Hell’s Angel’s” by Hunter Thompson.

    There’s a section in the book where he writes about the economics of being a hippie/biker/artist circa 1970.

    A biker could work for six months as a Union stevedore and save up enough money to go on the road for two years. A part time waitress could support herself and her musician boyfreind.

    • @Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee
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      414 days ago

      That’s what these guys grew up seeing and reading, huh? So they’re trying to govern with assumptions that have not held true for decades.

      • Bakkoda
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        193 days ago

        No they are not governing. They are attempting to rule using rhetoric they know sticks with older generations. That’s it. Just gotta keep people voting and they will say and do anything to get those votes.

      • @Sturgist@lemmy.ca
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        73 days ago

        Nah, young folk these days just don’t want to work. They need to buckle down, pull on the ol’ bootstraps, and work a part time job at the factory while going to college. No reason that shouldn’t support a family of 4 with a single income!

    • @Belgdore@lemm.ee
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      23 days ago

      I would take anything Hunter S. Thompson wrote with a massive grain of salt. He’s fun to read but gonzo journalism isn’t a great source for facts.

      • @Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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        83 days ago

        First, he wrote the book in the 1970s. People would have noticed if he was wildly off base.

        Second, you can do a quick search and prove his numbers were correct.

  • @cmrn@lemmy.world
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    163 days ago

    People turning to escapism because the world is shit?

    FUCK THAT LET’S MAKE IT WORSE THEN.

  • @kreskin@lemmy.world
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    223 days ago

    Pretty rich coming from a guy who lets trump take every power congress is supposed to hold. WTF does he even do at work? If we stopped paying him, would anything at all happen? Every republican seems like a whiny crybullying grifter to me.

  • Bakkoda
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    243 days ago

    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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        113 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.