Musk labeled Social Security a "Ponzi scheme"
Well, he is correct about that. But in true republican fashion his solution is to get rid of it, instead of reforming it to be more sustainable without infinite population growth
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Maybe stop using "unelected". Most of the cabinet is technically "unelected". Focus on the part where he did not get a senate confirmation.
Like... he must be so unpopular if he can't even get a republican controlled senate to approve him.
If he guts SS, it will be his demise. That’s all the working class has to look forward to.
77 million mouth breathers will blame “woke”
They will themselves become "woke" when they realize they've been asleep for so long.
You could've said that 1,000x by now. Nothing will wake these people up.
They'll just hold a press conference and tell the people how that's Obama's (the black man, remember) fault.
At the first missed payment, they'll start burning down Social Security offices.
You don't want to piss off the old people. For many of them, its all they have. If you take that away, they'll have nothing left to lose, and lot of them are armed. That's a bad combination.
Republicans are doing a great job on both sides...social security in case your luck fucks out, and the market in case your thought you could get away:
Who said retirement? That's illegal! You and I will be working for elon until we both end up 6' under. (By that I mean fucking dead like a month Python parrot)
Unelected tech lord deciding grandma's retirement funds is exactly the cyberpunk hellscape novels warned us about.
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Social Security is a non-partisan red line.
If this chode killed it his chances of survival would plummet.
I really hope he fucks with it.
I would buy all the popcorn to watch 2 million boomers walk up Pennsylvania Avenue to Gaddafi his ass for days.
Same, I truly believe Americans won't be on the same page about anything. Unless they fuck with it.
That the case may be, but he'd be a martyr for the ultra-capitalistic sorts that make these efforts their life's work.
A despicable end, but one that may appeal to Musk himself.
Nah. No one would mourn him. The next ultra rich person would learn from his mistakes, but continue on with his work.
Why aren't you all protesting? You should all be out on the streets.
Your politicians aren't going to save you.
Everyone's situation is different, but for me: I'm not white and only have derived citizenship (as opposed to "natural born" citizenship), and my dad is still a Chinese Citizen (because he sucks at English for natualization test). They are already trying to deport Mahmoud Khalil. Can't risk putting a target on my family's back.
CCP is hostile and already tried killing me, theres no going back (not that I have Chinese Citizenship anymore anyways). I could end up stateless and that's not fun.
My only hope is that the fascists are incompetent and elections still exist in the future.
I think protesting is a very brave thing to do, but I also can't blame anyone for not doing so. Its very risky.
People in the US think politics is just another soap opera on the daytime TV that has nothing to do with their lives just like watching celebrities and Trump was picked because he adds to all that
Biden was deliberately put in office to be a good step stool for Trump
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Hard to feed yourself on the street
Musk is ruining America.
MIRA?
que pasa
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
before his slash-and-burn nonsense and warped views of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid cause a spike in the sale of pitchforks.
Ha. I'd argue the time for pitchforks is already here.
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I wonder why he always brings his toddler kid to public gatherings...
I have a theory his kid is a human shield so he doesn’t get luigi’ed.
He's been wearing that kid like a hat ever since that CEO got shot. First time anyone had EVER seen the kid in public, too, and suddenly he hasn't been seen anywhere without him.
Imagine getting older and realizing your dad only spent time with you to avoid getting shot. Poor kid.
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All it does is puts a second person on that side of the trolly tracks.
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He needs to be able to steal that money, you guyzzzzz!
Enriching fElon is about "efficiency", at least according to MOE - the Ministry of Efficiency, where up is down, black is white.
We can't move to direct voting quickly enough.
Get these "representatives" out of power and put them in regular jobs like the rest of us.
Musk = POS Nazi.
POS Nazi
Redundant statement is redundant.
He may not be elected but he paid the guy who got elected a ton of money, so that's basically the same as being elected... Right? Right?!?
He’ll be replaced with another billionaire. Why are people focused on musk instead of at the root of the problem?
Perhaps if we made a strong enough example of him it'll make other billionaires think twice. The De Witt Brothers come to mind, tell them "It's either this or 92% wealth tax on assets, you pick."
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No. I'm sick of ratcheting right, of normalizing the former Republican president's regime by half, of promising that maybe, eventually, long after my kids have died of old age, we'll get around to fixing what's broken. A return to normalcy will only legitimize this fucking bullshit. The climate is collapsing, there's microplastics in my brain and balls, the wealthy are actively trying to re-establish feudalism, and the level best the democrats can do is hold up signs and give me downvotes when I say they're not doing enough. There's evidence coming out that microplastics inhibit photosynthesis and cause crop failures, the shit's everywhere, and lol and fucking behold the UN can't even talk about it without getting drowned in a tsunami of lobbyists. Yes, hello, my name is Timothy Thompson, I'm with United Plastics, and I'm here to tell you about how single use plastics are good actually; can I offer you $5,000? I've recently come around to the idea that there's only around 10,000 very specific enormously wealthy, influential, or both people that we'd need to persuade to make the world a better, more livable place for everyone on the planet now and in the future, and right now, they aren't being effectively persuaded.
Friendship ended with centrist democrats. I am now friends with accelerationism.
How many Luigi's do we need to persuade the rest of the 10,000?
More than the one, it seems
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