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[–] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can’t wait until this hits. I’ve fully accepted that I ain’t getting shit out of Social Security, but there are a shitload of boomers and other retirement aged people who are not going to understand this (or will refuse to understand it) until it punches them right in the taint (and the wallet)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The whole thing goes away as soon as you have rich people pay their share. It's not a complicated issue at all.

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  • It’s not.

    And yet look at CA prop 40. That was the most “you have to be genuinely incompetent, or a billionaire, to vote no on that”. And it failed. Because humans are fucking stupid and emotional and impulsive and easily manipulated and susceptible to propaganda.

    I wish people would think more.

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