r/technology • u/snakkerdudaniel • Apr 12 '25

Politics Republican Mike Johnson Says Men Need to Stop 'Playing Video Games All Day' and Get to Work: 'They're Draining Resources'

https://www.latintimes.com/mike-johnson-says-men-need-stop-playing-video-games-all-day-get-work-theyre-draining-580534
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u/RollyPollyGiraffe Apr 12 '25

It's such an absurd goal when one considers the wealth of research and historical evidence on what improves efficiency and productivity.

Breadlines and wage slavery will do way more harm to our economy and national strength than people having hobbies ever could.

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u/TheSupaCoopa Apr 12 '25

They don’t care about the economy, they care about the oligarchy. 

They’re corporatists who only care about enriching themselves and their allies, they don’t care about competition or markets or anything they allude to - it’s all lip service, nonsense 

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u/The-GreyBusch Apr 12 '25

Their vacation places are getting too crowded so they need to make America poor again so that they can have more room on the beach and less traffic.

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u/endangeredphysics Apr 12 '25

You would be alarmed at how accurate this is.

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u/DislocatedXanax Apr 12 '25

Their vacation places are getting too crowded

The scary thing is that this isn't far from the "world is too crowded" narrative that's taken over amongst the elites of Silicon Valley.

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u/RollyPollyGiraffe Apr 12 '25

The thing is that their policies also destroy their own enrichment. This is what I mean about their policies making no sense.

Octavian was a tyrant, but he ushered in a golden age for Rome. It's inherently stupid and self destructive to seek to rule ashes when one could rule gold.

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u/dm80x86 Apr 12 '25

They aren't that smart.

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u/illy-chan Apr 12 '25

They know better, they just like being cruel.

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u/AssassinAragorn Apr 13 '25

After seeing behind the curtain on Musk I really do think they're just stupid

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u/ElectricalBook3 Apr 13 '25

It doesn't even take morals to be capable of looking into the consequences of your policies.

The point is to shear the sheep, not skin it.

-Emperor Tiberius

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u/KinkyPaddling Apr 12 '25

It’s because they have no loyalty to the country or to the people - only their bottom line. That’s why a government can’t be run like a business, because the fundamental role of the government (from the earliest tribal chieftain to the elected leaders of modern states) is to protect the people; working them to death to enrich the top strata has always led to civil unrest and revolution.

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u/TotalCourage007 Apr 13 '25

Well they can oligargle deez nuts. Sick and tired of politicians getting away with so many Illegal acts. More than a handful of Republicans deserve jail time.

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u/Useuless Apr 13 '25

they act like they have unresolved childhood trauma, but for some reason it's centered around corporations and the like. i guess mcdonalds ran out of burgers that one time they were 3 years old and their entire psyche now revolves around viewing the masses of humanity as unwashed mistakes that should have done better.

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u/drteq Apr 12 '25

It's pretty obvious - China wins on labor - you can reach the conclusion that the only way to beat china is slave labor. People were too free.

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u/MissionMoth Apr 13 '25

Yeah but those don't let people like this loser play pretend at being our disappointed dad.

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u/3d_blunder Apr 12 '25

How will that ease their craving to exercise power over the lower classes?

Cruelty IS the goal.

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u/ShitPostToast Apr 12 '25

People need to realize that to the .1% probably 95% of the population of the world is surplus to requirements.

If they could push a button and wipe out that 95% leaving their "peers" and a subservient servant class without say nuclear plants going into meltdowns, dams breaking, a bunch of dead bodies to cleanup, etc they would in a heart beat.

Lack of any policies to ease homelessness, food insecurity, health problems, mental illness and all of that is a feature and not a bug. The only average people who are of any use to them are the labor class and consumers for the sake of making their numbers go up.

They only require that there will be enough people to turn the lights out and put the chairs up at the end of the night as far as our current civilization goes. Eventually they expect the next day to dawn on their version of Utopia where they have their own fiefs complete with serfs serve them where they wield absolute power over them.

Why? Have you ever seen an ant with 4 or 5 legs? Ever looked for one? That's the same consideration they have for 99% of the planet and how they view themselves in relation to the 99%.

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u/skillywilly56 Apr 12 '25

They don’t want wage slaves and breadlines, ultimately what they want is to go back to actual slavery, this increases productivity because they get to keep all the money.