PulledaBrad

Not exactly. Back when the Wednesday show was a thing, we pretty much knew 'hey, these games came out and we're going to play this, this and that this week. You know exactly what you're getting.' whereas the entire premise of UPF, as far as i know, is that it's just duders sitting on a live stream, fucking around playing whatever game they want.

So aside from picking a game to play for a half hour, seems pretty direction-less to me.

Ni No Kuni.

@pulledabrad: Have you ever been on food stamps? Or the equivalent of food assistance, wherever you live? I have been, for many months. I've received Medicaid, too. (Had my wisdom teeth taken out by a sketchy Medicaid approved place; had literally no problems. Was pretty impressed.) It's not an enviable position, a position I ever wanted to be in, and those food assistance dollars are not sufficient to feed a household. When I see stories about people on welfare trying to get more food, I don't think "those greedy/lazy takers", I think "these are malnourished people who don't have enough money to live on and they're taking advantage because they need it."

I understand the individual mandate being a hitch for some people, but why isn't that something you're totally down with, if you're all about personal responsibility? The individual mandate is, for better or worse, all about forcing people to sign up and start contributing to the system. It's about making people take responsibility for their healthcare. That would seem to me to be the exact sort of thing that those concerned with lazy/greedy people would support.

And that disability check is barely enough to pay rent in most states. If you're sitting around thinking that people coast through life on a free ride on Social Security, you are wrong. It's typically less than $8,000 a year. Some people CAN'T work. For some, getting work is nearly impossible; if they're legally disabled, do you think that people are going to hire them over other people that can actually hold those jobs without special treatment? Sure you can tell me that workplaces are generally non discriminatory in their hiring practices but that's not true, it's a legal thing you have to slap on there. Even if I were legally considered a female, if it was out there that I'm a trans girl and not a biological one, I'm going to have a hell of a time being hired at Victoria's Secret.

But congratulations on finding work in two weeks(which is not actually a "good while" by the way) that benefits you by giving you benefits! But don't try and use your experiences to say that they're the same as everyone else's.

Even setting aside the straight-up factual inaccuracy in his bizarre rant that the Affordable Care Act somehow enables 'mooching' (the law is literally about getting more people to pay for insurance) I find the idea that advocating for cheap or freely-available healthcare is somehow about being lazy and greedy to be downright offensive. Healthcare should be as cheap and freely available as possible.

The idea that this type of greed is somehow both indicative of the entire population as well as something that has only emerged within our current generation is a complete joke on both parts.

Again, stop drawing party lines. Democrats were just as moronic when crafting the law. Now that it has gone into affect, Obamacare has pushed private insurance premiums sky-high (some as high as a 300% increase). The website for Obamacare registration barely works, and even then, there are thousands upon thousands of people who are looking at the price of the "Affordable" Care Act and realizing that it's still too costly for them.

Moreover, the Democrats and GOP both didn't think about how this will affect medical practice overall. Medicare and Medicaid are already rarely taken in private practices due to the slow payout (if there's any payout at all). Obamacare will force private practice hands even harder to stop taking socialized health care (as well as most HMOs, they hate that shit). In turn, the addition of socialized health care will solve nothing.

The best thing to do would be to completely eliminate health insurance as a whole and take doctors back to what they did in the first place: accepted payment how THEY wanted to accept it. Unfortunately, because of the continued efforts of the people to "get free money" by throwing out frivolous lawsuits, we've created an atmosphere where insurance, malpractice insurance, and multiple other junk has to be in place. We say it's to protect all involved, but it's not. It all comes down to the NEW American mindset: "how can I get as much free money as possible without doing anything?"

This is what the "American dream" has devolved to. It's not about opportunity anymore. It's about being dumb as shit, doing absolutely nothing, and feeding off others for as much money as you can. If you don't believe me, walk the streets or stand around in a gas station for a little while.

The American people like to sit idly by while they are getting raped in every way possible. They WANT to have shit like ammoniated beef and high fructose corn syrup shoveled down their throats, and they want it available on every fucking street corner possible. They WANT to sit around and watch TV all day, play video games, and do nothing else. If they can't do that, they bitch and complain about it, whining like a 5-year-old until they get what they want. It's how they were raised. They WANT to live in houses they cannot afford, cars they cannot afford, have clothes they cannot afford, wear jewelry they cannot afford, and if someone has something they don't have, you better believe they will bitch and complain until they do have it.

That's the problem: people look at "all men are created equal" and believe that it means "we should all have the same thing." That's not the purpose of that statement at all, though. All men are created equal...meaning that they all have the opportunity to do great things, build great legacies, become something more and do something great with their lives. Instead, the modern interpretation of this is "bitch, I want a smartphone too."

Modern America believes in socialism, that everyone should BE equal in lifestyle. Once FDR instituted Social Security during the New Deal, the redistribution of the wealth started. With Medicaid, Medicare, Federal Income Tax (more specifically the Earned Income Credit portion of it) and Social Security, redistribution of the wealth has been something America has practiced for many decades. We've been a socialist nation for a while, but no one wants to see it or realize it.

So whatever. Obamacare was the next step. It's a bullshit law. As a nation that is supposed to be about being having a choice, having freedom, we should not be FORCED to have something...ever.