Board 8 > Josh Hawley AGAIN tells MALE GAMERS to get off your LAZY BUMS and WORK!!.

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Republican Eggplant Josh Hawley has doubled down on his attack on male VIDEO GAMERS and calls on the american man to getting back to their responsibility as the male gender and to give up PORN while they're at it so they can make God PROUD by being responsible!!

He said "Spending your time on video games, spending your time watching porn online while doing nothing is not good for you, your family, God or this country"

He said the left is to blame for weak american men today who are wasting their time in front of the tv playing mindless video games and watching porn on their devices rather than going out in the world to be real men such as working, hunting, spending time with family, making a difference in society etc..

He sat down with Mike Allen from Axios' HBO program and was asked about that remark...

Hawley said after years of being told that their manhood is the problem, moer and more men are withdrawing into the enclave of idleness and porn and video games and said they need the kind of men that make republics possible

Allen asked why "masculinity" is such a big issue and said "Well, what i think what the left is doing is attacking America. They're saying that America is systemically oppressive, and men are systemically responsible"...

He then asks to define a man and Hawley says "Well, a man is a father, a man is a husband, a man is somebody who takes responsibility. As conservatives, we've got to call men back to responsibility. Have you seen how many men aren't working and thus playing video games and watching pornography while also not getting married and having a family?"

Allen pushed back asking if he what he meant was saying "literally" and what liberals are doing causing men to play more Donkey Kong and watching porn

Hawley doubled down and said liberal policy for years created the perceived problem of the male gender and said there are 16 million men not doing anything and part of it is their own responsibility but part of it is liberals killing jobs forcing them to be fatherless and playing video games all die while on their tax dollars keeping them afloat.

Hawley said video games for years have been turning men away from their responsibility of being a "real man" and if they don't turn this around soon they will have millions more men who will stop contributing to society and sitting on their lazy butts who have no worth to society.

Do you think video games are the problem for causing american men to be lazy and not work?

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I kinda feel like if you give a fist pump of encouragement to domestic terrorists you should lay off giving advice to others for at least a year

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https://youtu.be/n__GJuqLb00

Relevant enough I guess

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Why is this guy antagonizing the only base of people that would be inclined to shitpost for him if he runs for president in 2024?

I mean, he's right.

There is nothing wrong with gaming as a hobby or watching porn now and then, but if you dedicate the vast majority of your time to either of those two things, you're no more productive to society than a functional drug addict.

So much of happiness is derived from doing something meaningful beyond one's own pleasure.

ChainLTTP posted...

I mean, he's right.

There is nothing wrong with gaming as a hobby or watching porn now and then, but if you dedicate the vast majority of your time to either of those two things, you're no more productive to society than a functional drug addict.

So much of happiness is derived from doing something meaningful beyond one's own pleasure.

It's not so much it's wrong that it's a strawman

These people willingly staying unemployed aren't spending every waking hour of every day masturbating and playing video games. Heck if you're an avid video gamer you need money to buy them. Doubt many chronically unemployed people are playing a ton of video games.

People waste their time doing all sorts of things-- the problem is you have an entire generation of people who got exceedingly generous free government handouts for a year while the people who kept working through the pandemic got nothing, which makes it hard for people to muster up the willpower to bother.

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You could very well spin the argument into saying that the reason people aren't participating in the workforce is because of obscenely low wages for a lot of positions that don't require a college degree, and obscenely high costs of education if you do decide to pursue a bachelors.

Either way, his framing of the issue is more obnoxious than anything, basically saying that REAL men are on that sigma male octillionaire grindset, meanwhile he works in an institution that recesses every five minutes and collects millions of dollars sucking corporate dong.

Fuck no. My opposition to the idea of "working" has absolutely nothing to do with a desire to play video games, and everything to do with people like Josh Hawley being judgmental pricks.
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ChainLTTP posted...

So much of happiness is derived from doing something meaningful beyond one's own pleasure.

source?

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MechanicalWall posted...

You could very well spin the argument into saying that the reason people aren't participating in the workforce is because of obscenely low wages for a lot of positions that don't require a college degree, and obscenely high costs of education if you do decide to pursue a bachelors.

And luckily the one benefit to the pandemic is that seems to be changing. Well the wages thing

"Unskilled" labor is in such high demand these days that my (underpaid mind you) friend in IT could get a $4 an hour raise going to to Walmart as a fresh hire

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My friend who has a PhD in cognitive science tells me that porn addiction isn't recognized as an actual condition

Apparently, the issue that causes problems is when people have extreme religious beliefs that tell them masturbating is bad

Well, according to her, anyway. A quick Google search seems to back her up. But then again, do we really trust psychologists?

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Lopen posted...

Heck if you're an avid video gamer you need money to buy them. Doubt many chronically unemployed people are playing a ton of video games.

Half the people on this board live this way on disability checks