Post Ar9B17zLFLIXDi9tGi by Jackiemauro@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #Ar92hYetZutoVlki2q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T14:06:45Z
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There are not people who are "150 years old collecting social security checks"But, this effort by a billionaire to generate resentment against imaginary people getting a few hundred measly bucks is transparent. Trying to make all people who use the social security checks they EARNED and paid for out to be moochersWhy are some people so foolish to hate an (imaginary) ordinary person for having a little? This is welfare queens with Cadillacs all over again.
(DIR) Post #Ar92w7Xgg6gEkuKCg4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T14:09:20Z
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This is why people jumping the turn styles in the subway gets so much press ... and no one asks "why are there people so broke they feel the need to do that?" and "why isn't pubic transportation (free per use) for everyone? I guess it's just easier to resent those who are similar to ourselves than the people who live with wealth that isn't easy to even comprehend.
(DIR) Post #Ar92zB6dstwQg38Htw by 0x5021@mastodon.xyz
2025-02-15T14:09:53Z
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@futurebird As a German I was surprised by the CN but u am glad you talk about social security
(DIR) Post #Ar93cCrPIPfzPacI8O by burnitdown@beige.party
2025-02-15T14:16:57Z
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@futurebird the boss' media sells the boss' news
(DIR) Post #Ar93dM6mOj9yNpM4S8 by garbados@friend.camp
2025-02-15T14:17:08Z
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@futurebird the kicker as i understand it is that he got the ages of these imaginary people wrong because the underlying system runs on cobol and he doesn't know shit about it https://x.com/toshiHQ/status/1889928670887739902?mx=2but the prevailing point remains: it really is just a capitalist telling those with little to once again despise those with less.
(DIR) Post #Ar94C0mXgGs0NNPklU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T14:23:27Z
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@0x5021 Given the way things are going it could be either SS around here jeeeeez. I am so sick of these clowns and every person lacking the will to tell them "no" when they overstep their bounds. I really hope I don't have to leave this country. I like it here generally.
(DIR) Post #Ar96oTZ1JoFoYPYgfg by ShiitakeToast@beige.party
2025-02-15T14:52:44Z
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@futurebird It amazes me the extent to which people will just believe the pronouncements of a proven habitual liar like they have amnesia for all the other things they lied about
(DIR) Post #Ar9827XQ6fgqFasdJQ by cstross@wandering.shop
2025-02-15T15:05:46Z
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@futurebird The "people 150 years old" meme is bullshit.Social Security in the US runs on mainframes using code written in COBOL going back to the late 1950s. It predates the idea of undefined data in a database! So they picked an arbitrary date in the past—1875—to mean "undefined" (nobody that old was then claiming SS).Dilbert Stark's teenage minions may know how to program in Rust or Javascript but are just plain ignorant about anything older than their parents.
(DIR) Post #Ar98AL9dMhhEnVfq2i by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2025-02-15T15:07:56Z
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@futurebird And the funny thing is, he could pay them all off for life without even having to spend next on his next toy.
(DIR) Post #Ar99LpgoHDKUdkEfHk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-15T15:21:15Z
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@ShiitakeToast It's easy and tempting for all of us to believe what we WANT to be true is true when someone tell us the thing that we always suspected. I try to remember this and not do it when I can but it's frustrating when there are so many people who just don't really like the other people who are basically in the same boat as all of us.
(DIR) Post #Ar9B17zLFLIXDi9tGi by Jackiemauro@fosstodon.org
2025-02-15T15:39:51Z
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@futurebird @ShiitakeToast We’re so deep in this state of not having any way to discern fact from fiction, I think a lot of ppl just believe whatever aligns with their beliefs and denies whatever doesn’t.
(DIR) Post #Ar9KTFlKpqgb1j5ph2 by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
2025-02-15T17:25:48Z
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@futurebird Sure, it would be great if public transport were gratis.But if you think the vast majority of people who enter the subway without paying are poor, come to the High St station and take a look. Even rich European tourists have gotten the message that only suckers pay.
(DIR) Post #ArAabAFmzf7igP5lJ2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-16T08:01:11Z
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@chris @cstross He might well know it's and error and keep repeating it anyway. Anything to stoke resentment for social security as they would love to liquidate the entire program. In theory this should be a "political third rail" but this isn't a philosophy that asks permission or assumes anything is off limits. I really hope they don't manage to gut the state teacher pensions. I'll be PISSED if they do. I just got mine corrected and it was very annoying.
(DIR) Post #ArAaqCCU2QG142iHY0 by chris@mstdn.strafpla.net
2025-02-16T08:03:56Z
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@futurebird > Why are some people so foolish to hate an (imaginary) ordinary person for having a little?Maybe it’s a try at a counterspell?