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It's literally why I voted for him.
In 2005, George W. Bush proposed partially privatizing Social Security. His plan would have had partial Social Security deductions going into personal retirement accounts, so young workers would be guaranteed at least some money. Congress would not even vote on it.
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"Neurotic?" Not promised? It's literally fraud to take something for a defined purpose--by force no less--maintain it belongs to someone, and give them an "account" they can check online and everything, and then say "Actually, nah, not yours."
Also, our generation voted more consistently to do something about this insolvency when we were young--something designed to protect old people too (privatization and gradual reform) and the millennials and GenZ asshats freaked the fuck out about ANY cuts to entitlements, and demonized privatization--they're the ones who want full blown socialism.
You want to see "neurotic" people? Wait until they're old and realize the socialism they asked for doesn't deliver all the goodies they think they're "promised."
Wtf is with people over 50 getting neurotic over how social security was “promised”? Did you sign a contract? No? Then you weren’t promised anything.
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Sure , he should have used his OTHER pile of cash-- the imaginary one the government didn't steal.
Whut?
The point was the money stolen by the GOVt could have been invested. But even then, Sir Snarksalot, these demos DO invest as much as they can, but how much MORE would they have in their portfolios for later life if they hadn't been forced at gunpoint to give the government a no interest loan for 50 years?
Nobody stopped you from investing in the stock market. If you never did that at any point in your life, that’s on you. You’re a grown adult. Take some responsibility. You have golf clubs as your profile pic and “real estate” in your handle. Hard for me to believe that you’re impoverished. If you admit that it’s a “shit system” then you should want nothing more than to fix it for the sake of your descendants. But instead it sounds like you want to get whatever you can out of it and leave your grandchildren holding the bag. That’s actually a despicable, selfish mentality, and it’s about time we start calling it what it is. I’m floating some ideas to fix the problem but you’re making it clear, as so many of your peers have made it clear, that you do not want it to be fixed if the solution will inconvenience you in any way at all. Meanwhile, your generation spent decades voting exclusively for politicians who would prop up the very “shit system” that you’re now complaining about. Again, where does personal responsibility factor in here? If you want young people to stop bitching and take ownership of their own lives and choices, when will you do the same?
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What he said.
Couple things have become apparent in the “cut boomers social security” nonsense. There’s a large and growing push to dehumanize the boomer generation. It’s fairly common when a group is trying to take the property of another group. Every common thief convinces themselves that their victim “doesn’t deserve” the property being stolen. The people who are pushing your buttons and funding this op have convinced you that’s it’s your tax dollars that boomers want. It’s not and you are being manipulated. The second issue is that you are trying to bully a subset into having their money taken away and they are not allowed any objection. This is odd because normally a bully is good at choosing their victim. This time you’re not. The boomers have resources and they vote. The means testing part of the discussion is the exact same as the “tax unrealized gain” argument. You think it’s up to you to decide who needs how much to live the life they want. We will fight you in that. Rich people are way better directing their capitol then the government is. If you just step back you’ll allow for the possibility that you are being manipulated.
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Might be a wildly unpopular opinion, but the organizations making AI videos of the October 7th victims are making a HUGE mistake.
I think it's creepy, invasive, traumatizing for their relatives, exploitative, and will ultimately be unsuccessful if the goal is to humanize the victims to people who are screaming "genocide."
They reflect a DEEP misunderstanding about what motivates the haters and naysayers, and tragically plays right into their narrative. Why? They don't look like victims to people whose worldview is "victims look poor, pitiful, and third-world, not beautiful, successful, and full of life."
SHAME is the only way to go, and I hate to say it but that means RAW footage, over, and over again. That was the biggest mistake Israel made--withholding footage--and that's why the cult of "It's ok to murder Jews" took off: Hamas has an entire industry devoted to making FAKE footage of their own suffering, while Israel has hours of footage from Hamas GoPros!
I just had to say something because today is a hard day and seeing these on social media makes me cringe. Using obviously fake videos won't get people to see the real people who were slaughtered.
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Not sure who needs to hear this, but...
GenX are not "Boomers" AND
Most of us work full time, so yeah, we can't just drop what we're doing to babysit, even if we'd like to (and unless you're one of the little shits constantly blaming us for your woes, or cutting us off for how we vote, or talk about individual rights, we would love to help)
We've been told since we were KIDS we were paying into something we were unlikely to get when we were old.
We have paid for "boomer" retirement benefits AND millennial college loans AND "stimulus" packages AND bailouts AND Medicare Part D, and SNAP and SCHIP AND Obamacare subsidies.
AND we aren't walking around expecting our kids will take care of us when we're old (in part bc they're constantly reminding us that they can't/won't and we better have a plan) so we're trying to work as long as we can and stay as healthy as possible so they don't even have to worry about it.
We are also the generation that had kids later, couldn't afford to buy a house until our mid to late 30s, and has kids who are more likely than any prior generation to not even want kids, so worrying about grandkids we may or may not have isn't as top-of-mind as one might think.
Worrying our kids' generation will adopt MAID and make it mandatory for us once we hit 72 "to combat climate change" or some such, *is*
But tell me more about how "selfish" WE are.
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Owl of Athena 🇮🇱🎗️🐿️ retweeted
October 7 is the most documented war crime in history. All the evidence is out there, most of it filmed in real-time by the perpetrators themselves as they butchered people into pieces with primordial glee.
That’s why there’s so much disinformation to combat. It started the moment we first saw that white ISIS-style Toyota with machine gun-toting Hamas men yelling like hyenas while shooting people dead in the streets of Sderot.
The evidence was so great that people started working immediately to discredit it and blunt any morsel of sympathy or compassion for the Jews.
Their good fortune was that so many useful idiots were happily willing to believe the lies and distortions, so willing to fall prey to the propaganda that would relieve them of any moral duty to stand with the Jewish state.
Their misfortune is that we refuse to let them. The truth is still out there in all its horror to see—use this site generously and make sure people see it.
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This. Whatever you think of the one case, this is true.
There’s two very dangerous narratives being pushed on this app. Mainly by incel men, but some who know better go along with it.
1. False rape accusations are abundant (they’re not, they’re a tiny fraction of substantiated rapes)
2. Women lack accountability. Which they will say while telling you women need to be responsible for their own rapes and while they commit the majority of violent crimes the world over.
All of this is to feed in to the idea women shouldn’t be believed and that’s to deflect away from the actual problem.
If you feed in to that very stupid narrative, you’re very much part of the problem.
It’s not men v women. It should be everyone vs rapists. We’re not trying to berate innocent people, we’re asking for your help.
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Yes this is all part of an organized attempt to push young people to vote anger against the "olds," and ironically choose policies that actually double down on taxation and spending, just as young people have always done.
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This is the answer...specifically from Islamist donors,
A student notices a curious gap in the discourse at Harvard:
“Examining the public comments of Harvard’s last four presidents, I was unable to find one reference to radical Islamism, even while they addressed major attacks.”
“In my searches of Harvard’s course catalog, I found just one class mentioning either ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist.’”
“Or take the offerings outside class…. When I searched for ‘Islamism’ or ‘Islamist’ in the Harvard Gazette, I found only a single event described across all of campus in the last two years.”
“Why aren’t we talking about this?”
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Owl of Athena 🇮🇱🎗️🐿️ retweeted
A black person speaking with articulation
is not a “white person thing”.
Articulation doesn’t belong to a skin color.
Black people actually degrade themselves when attacking other black people for “sounding white”.
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Owl of Athena 🇮🇱🎗️🐿️ retweeted
This was Bernie Sanders in 2015, saying that open borders is a Koch Brothers scheme to make the country poorer by flooding it with illegals.
Today, he would call you a “far-right extremist” for having that same view. But it used to just be called “common sense”.
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