Everyone wants to work, it’s the single most popular activity in all of human history. Unemployed people are people who are muscled out of the economy because the pork aren’t hiring? Why hire when all the work is getting done?

Besides, maybe we just want to be more like porky. Be a lazy fuck who wants to twiddle their thumbs all day. If porky hates to hire and wants his business to stay microscopic. Then why the fuck should poor people hand out labor solely because “it’s the right thing to do”.

If porky is our god, why should we not take porky’s logic and always obsess over getting the best deal possible regardless of who’s getting soaked? Nice superstructure you made, piggo. Enjoy your consequences you disgusting pig.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 66 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

if porky's job is "job creator" then he's doing a real shit job and we should fire him

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah we should fire at him luigi-dance

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish somebody would combine this with the dark souls "You Died" screen

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

Fucking lmao thank you!

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

rat-salute

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or the GTA "Wasted"

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

anakin-padme-2 Fire him out of a giant gun, right?

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 3 weeks ago

There's also the fact so many employers don't want to have people employed enough to require them to provide it as an option.

How many workers simply don't qualify because they don't get enough hours to qualify as full time?

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Everyone wants to work

I could find other things to fill my day with tbh

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If none of them are in any way productive you'll almost certainly get bored sooner or later. People like doing things that matter. Work doesn't have to mean a job!

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

I'm built different

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's go fishing

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Fishing is work

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

You ruined the bait

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago

I-was-saying I don't want to work

[–] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

I would work to better myself and the rest of humanity, but maybe I'm just built different.

[–] ephemeral@hexbear.net 105 points 3 weeks ago

you don't believe in free healthcare for people who work either so fuck off Mike

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 83 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Politicians should lose access to all of their prior assets, receive only minimum wage, and be given only the benefits that are available to the unemployed for the time they're in office.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My take is that they should lose access to their assets, get a nominal wage plus housing/their needs tended to, and after they retire be given a pension and never allowed to take up other employment, including accepting fees for public speaking etc.

Being offered a sinecure position after they stop working as a politician is, I think, a major form of bribery.

[–] Lyudmila@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What about public sinecure positions for electeds who leave office?

Make them a train station manager or postmaster. Once you're in a public job position, the government will employ you til you hit 62 and get your pension.

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Also a decent option!

[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How will this be enforced? Can't even take the president's shitty hotels, how will you enforce this for tens of thousands of people?

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh I know, since the people currently in office have no reason to change the system that benefits them, it'd have to be post-revolution at which point it doesn't matter anyway.

Which in a way is kinda the point. If one were a liberal who wanted to get rid of corruption in the current system, they'd have to push for something like this, which would be seen as outlandish.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It would mean that the only people who could afford to be politicians would be capitalists and their hirelings.

[–] witheyeandclaw@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's already the result, though.

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 68 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's the link: https://xcancel.com/Breaking911/status/1952509305548161350#m

I don't think he had any idea what to do with those responses. He just ends with "I don't think the majority of Nebraskans agree with you" as if the whole room didn't just shout him down twice.

[–] semioticbreakdown@hexbear.net 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

god i hate twitter comments

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 47 points 3 weeks ago

It's wild to see how much open nazism is everywhere on twitter now. Feels like every twitter link should be followed up with a cognitohazard

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 67 points 3 weeks ago

What part of "everybody should have access to free healthcare" are you not understanding Mike?

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that I’m surprised by the audience’s reaction means this country has been and is beyond saving

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 68 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is a bit surprising, but free healthcare is pretty popular even among Republicans. It's one of the strongest examples of issues where it's literally just the politicians refusing to do a popular thing.

[–] XxFemboy_Stalin_420_69xX@hexbear.net 50 points 3 weeks ago

dictatorship of the bourgeoisie moment

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every time I think about free health care, I think about how much of a pipe dream it really is. Each year at open enrollment, you can clearly see all of the different industries that are propping this shit up AS WELL AS the many different shadowy consultant-type positions branching out from the pharmaceutical, insurance and care industry. We are so fucking cooked

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

I'm very much convinced that the world would be a better place if every single pharmacy benefit manager dropped off the face of the earth somehow.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 46 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Gonna start selling pitchforks and torches outside of these things.

Cracker: Torches and Pitchforks

[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You should also apply for the "I hope whatever kills me isn't too painful" rider to your "I hope I don't get sick" healthcare plan.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

intense pain -> want to die -> pain too intense to go die agony-deep

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago

Haha