You know what? I’m just gonna play video games even harder
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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My Schedule 1 empire is going to be massive by the end of the weekend.
Schedule 1 empire
Drugs or a game?
Both, as is tradition.
No one knows draining resources like a politician from Louisiana.
literally and figuratively from the swamp
gross
I wonder if there's a specific name for that dynamic by which the ruling class separates work from reward so that they can keep the reward of other people's work for themselves, then ends up conplaining that nobody wants to work any more.
Capitalism.
I was waiting for that one.
And no.
The same thing happens in state communism - in fact, it generally happens even faster, since the disconnect between work and reward is there from the start, and the party leaders are in such a perfect position to siphon off reward other people earned. They can do immediately what a capitalist system can only do after wealth has been concentrated and used to buy political power.
It comes with the establishment of a hierarchy by which some can arrange things such that they enjoy unearned privilege - it doesn't much matter specifically how that hierarchy is established or nominally justified, and "capitalism" is just one of them.
Yeah. Separation from the results of work is a fucking issue. I do wish the old philosophers on this would get a new English translation. "Alienation from labor" is a fucking mouthful.
I’m working my 40 slave hours and I’ll spend my free time as I please, dork.
Same, but I have been considering switching to a new use of my free time, especially since video games don't bring me any joy anymore.
I think I will dabble in carpentry...
Leave it to the wealthy to say the poors just aren't working hard enough
Known welfare queen Mike Johnson
This from a man who professes to wasting his time talking to imaginary voices in his head. Fuck off Mike. You are a scam artist. Go away.
this is the guy so hung-up on gay porn he has to have his son 'monitor' his phone?
i wonder if its his black son he "adopted" i doubt it htough.
hes the guy thats obssesed with porn, most likely gay, and have his son monitors it.
Eat shit and die, Johnson, you servile fuck.
What if I told you…
A horde of aimless, depressed, isolated, self-destructive young men is the inevitable outcome of a political regime clinging to patriarchy and capitalism far beyond the point where anyone below the top 10% really got a good deal from either of those grifts.
Mike needs to quit wanking to his son's porn and get his ass to work.
Mike would be far more productive if he just stayed home and jerked off all day tbh.
mikey probably avoids post nut clarity(this feels right), and lets the homo-erotic rage builds up inside from not wanking it too much.
He can drain the resources from my balls and ass
he could be a bottom.
This just in: Exploitative capitalist upset that men aren't more exploitable.
Ironic considering what he’s doing is hardly a job.
Ive had an active job search since last september. Sorta have to have a job to work. Funny because there is no lack of ads but its almost like companies are uncertain about what they want to do for the future. Wonder why that is?
Me: working on a Saturday debugging a deployment, playing balatro between runs waiting for error messages:
Mike and his MAGA party are draining what's left of America. Video games should be the least of his worries. The mirror should be he greatest worry.
People literally pay other people money to watch them play games all day. It is work.
Elon pays people to play his games for him. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-admits-to-paying-people-to-play-video-games-for-him-2000552872
Now I'm going to play TWICE AS MANY VIDEO GAMES
Go fuck yourself Magic Mike. I work 50 hours a week and video games are my pleasant distraction from that work. You should try it sometime. Working, I mean.
Elon Musk must be pissed
I work and play video games all day...
yeah, because subsidized basic medical care enables people to forego working for a living and play video games all day... what youre trying to lock behind a workers-only paywall is things like eye exams, things like therapy, medication, and doctors visits for any number of conditions, disorders and injuries - things that without, it's pretty fucking difficult or often outright impossible to just "get to work"
what a spoiled asshat spewing utter fucking nonsense who should "get to work" doing the job theyre supposed to be doing: actually helping their fucking constituents, looking out for the worst off among us. instead theyre confidently looking down from their high horse, as if theyre better. Im sorry we all cant make a living being total fucking sellouts to the oligarchs like you, mike
go work a fucking day in the soul crushing job that is american social services, dude. go try to help poor people get a job in a state that said fuck giving some of the poorest among us basic healthcare; see how fucking hard it is for people who cant get and stay relatively healthy in this supposedly so "great" nation because they cant get the permanent, full time fucking job needed first. whats that? you dont actually know fuck all about the struggles of a poor person? youre just some fucking schmuck who gets off putting other people down?
maybe some folks play video games to deal with the feelings that go along with realizing some of our neighbors and family actually thought you are worthy of representing them. maybe the utter, crushing sadness and disappointment they feel seeing you so effortlessly embrace selfishness as a complete traitor to the oaths you swore becomes a little more tolerable after some distracting video games, you waste of clean air and water, you fucking embarassment of a human being
Be a shame if someone posted the days congress worked so far this year...
Stop doing the things that's responsible for 95% of our military recruitment
Noooo Mike Johnson don't go after gamers they famously don't have tempers or skills to fight back /s
GAMERS GETTING SHAT ON BY THEIR OWN ... 🫵😂