• @RizzRustbolt
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    33 hours ago

    They call it the third rail for a reason. And if any of those morons rode public transportation, they’d know why.

  • @[email protected]
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    166 hours ago

    Funny how you had all these interviews with older MAGAs talking about their benefits and not getting enough and expecting Trump to help them…

    Wonder how they’ll explain that.

  • @jordanlundM
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    95 hours ago

    Waiting for them to start talking about “entitlements”.

    Do I feel entitled? Well, I’ve been paying into the system since 1987, shit yeah I feel entitled.

  • @badbytes
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    76 hours ago

    We will write down those fuckers names, to put on the naughty list.

  • @NocturnalMorning
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    4210 hours ago

    Are they trying to start a war? Cutting benefits will make people desperate, and desperate people do desperate things.

    • @satanmat
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      54 hours ago

      Well they sure as fsck can’t raise taxes on the rich…

    • @breadsmasher
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      3210 hours ago

      cutting benefits is what the people voted for. thats why trump was elected

      • @[email protected]
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        2610 hours ago

        “i thought he was just gonna cut their benefits, not mine!”

        (where ‘their’ represents any one of a dozen demographic groups where the whiner and diaper share a hatred of)

        • @ATDA
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          209 hours ago

          “He promised not to touch social security, and reduce prices”

          To “I don’t want to talk about politics anymore!”

          • @CharlesDarwin
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            23 hours ago

            Or my favorite: “let’s just agree to disagree”.

  • @[email protected]
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    2911 hours ago

    This is one of the last major things on their list of changes that they haven’t forced through the system yet.

    I hope it hurts the right people. I don’t use any of that stuff and the people I know who do all vote consistently right.

    Two years until there is any chance of shifting the balance. I hope these wake up but I have serious doubts that will happen. I am very confident the right wing media will convince them it’s the left’s fault.

    I don’t know how they’ll do it but they’ve honed the propaganda skills necessary to make it happen.

    • @[email protected]
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      910 hours ago

      Seeing stuff like this hurts to read. Sure a large majority who get hurt will probably be “those people” Sure it’s great it doesn’t affect you personally. It all just sounds incredibly callous and privileged to dismiss the suffering of others.

      My fiancee and her mother have been spending every minute of visiting hours at the hospital. My fiancee’s father has been teetering on the verge of death. Their benefits and insurance are on the cutting block. Upon hearing about this news he mother came to us crying because she doesn’t know what they will do without it.

      These are retired veterans who put in their time and have always voted left and for progressive policies. They are also some of the most caring and supportive people I’ve ever met. My fiancee often jokes that her mom loves me more than my own mother.

      I don’t have any good solution, but it feels like it would be better not to wish for harm to befall people because it doesn’t impact you or any good people you know.

  • @Sanctus
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    1311 hours ago

    Do it. Force our hands. Stain the future such that we can no longer just watch.

  • peopleproblems
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    38 hours ago

    That’s going to make a lot of people upset. I don’t recommend doing that.

    But then again, I can use reasoning to gauge whether a certain action will have a certain outcome.