• @[email protected]
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    42 hours ago

    I work with two people that are within a year of retiring and they are absolutely ecstatic that Trump was doing this to Social Security, as well I work with people that are in their early 20s that are exactly the same happy that this is happening and thinking that they will all become super wealthy.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 hours ago

    Employer and employee both have to pay 6.2%, wanna bet they eliminate the employers portion?

  • @someguy3
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    339 hours ago

    The American Prospect, which first reported earlier this week that Acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek was weighing staff cuts of up to 50%

    Congratulations protest non voters, this is what you voted for.

    • @Rhoeri
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      75 hours ago

      100% agree, and they need to never be allowed to forget this.

    • @Maggoty
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      And blaming the voters still isn’t the energy you want.

      • @[email protected]
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        It is a pretty amusing overlap in the people that will screech about victim blaming but can’t seem to wrap their head around the concept that the people ultimately responsible for a crime are only the people doing it.

        • @Cryophilia
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          Bullshit. Those who allowed it to happen are also culpable. Fuck you, protest voters. You could have stopped this by voting for Harris and you chose not to.

      • @Rhoeri
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        So you assume to know what others want? Because I’m right there with them. Non protest/non-voters absolutely helped to put us here. There is nothing at all wrong with pointing this out.

        And as John Lydon would say: Anger is an energy.

        And I believe that anger’s best use now is ensuring that the fucking assholes that did this are called out and learn from it so that if god-forbid we happen to find ourselves here again, they’ll acutely get off their assed and fucking help.

        • @Maggoty
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          All you’re doing is ensuring people ignore the Democrats. They hate politics. They don’t trust you or the parties. Yelling at them just confirms it.

          • @Rhoeri
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            324 minutes ago

            And all you’re doing is expecting people to kiss your collective asses while you all sit around and smugly talk down to everyone while making bullshit proclamations.

      • partial_accumen
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        44 hours ago

        How is this blame? This is what the voters wanted. This is what they are getting.

        • @Maggoty
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          He’s blaming the people who didn’t vote. Which is a bullshit theory the conservative Democrats have been pushing to keep from dealing with why they lost.

          • @someguy3
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            I’ll point you back to the article. And to my comment: Congratulations protest non voters, this is what you voted for.

            Literally what protest non voters voted for.

            • @Maggoty
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              128 minutes ago

              Sigh. They didn’t vote. That’s quite literally not a vote. No matter how hard you want to blame them for something they didn’t do.

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                Sigh. They made a choice that amounted to voting for this. An intentional and deliberate choice. Thus, this is what they voted for. Congratulations!

  • pizzaboi
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    6611 hours ago

    So, when Social Security gets gutted, we’re all getting the money we put in back, right? …right?!

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes, of course! As long as you make at least $100M a year, all investments will be returned as tax breaks.

      • @[email protected]
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        1310 hours ago

        Billionaires: anything less than one hundred million is basically the same as zero to me.

        • @Maggoty
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          Eh, that’s a tenth of their worth. It would be significant. But a million?

          He’s a fun fact. A billionaire expends the same percentage of wealth with 500,000; as a normal worker does buying a 20 dollar meal at Burger King.

    • @IphtashuFitz
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      Every American should file for a refund of all the SS taxes they paid when they do their income taxes next year. With the gutting of the IRS on top of SS, they’ll probably accept those claims without question and accept those refunds.

  • TheObviousSolution
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    Musk has been spouting how Social Security is a scam and how tariffs will make up for it. Basically, kiss your social security pension away and just hope a substitute pops up - although it will likely be in the form of “get a check if you don’t criticize us” now. DOGE is an excuse to Big Data everything from every department and process it through AI, including knowing your political association.

    • partial_accumen
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      and just hope a substitute pops up

      I have equal confidence in a trump designed Social Security replacement as the healthcare replacement trump came up with to replace Obamacare (ACA).

    • @[email protected]
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      Hilarious.

      “Social security is a scam” = “I’m taking your retirement money for myself”

      “Tariffs will make up for it” = “As a bonus fuck you, 20% tax on everything you need to survive”