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DOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administration (www.semafor.com)

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[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago

This is a PSA to American users. Log onto SSA.gov and download a full record of your social security contribution history. If you have or have ever had a student loan, log on to studentaid.gov. You can export a full record of any loans you've ever taken out, your balance over time, and any forgiveness you've received. Do this for any interactions you've had with the federal government. Make sure you have copies of your old tax returns as well. The federal government can no longer be considered a reliable steward of official records.

Your student loan balance is unlikely to go "poof," but any forgiveness you received or past payments just might.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh look, the world's richest man being even more direct than most billionaires about taking what little the poor have away from them. There is only one of him and there are lots and lots of poor people. Maybe it's time to remind him of this fact.

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line."

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Americans only enjoy the truth if you disguise it as fiction. So many movies about people coming together to solve problems for the sake of the greater good. So little of this in life.

Maybe we could advertise for extras in an epic movie about Americans revolting against fascism, and then stand by with cameras shouting "action!" while the people get the job done.

[–] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah! That sounds like a fantastic idea.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Hence the reaction to Luigi from the establishment.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hmm, what did you have in mind? I think we are all about to have a lot more free time when we lose our jobs.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 11 points 2 years ago

Don't be ridiculous, we're not all about to lose our jobs.

That would be way too many protestors to kill.

They'll do it far more slowly, or wait until the ai killbot factories are scaled up.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Cops and fellow bootlickers will always be employed

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, take away actual mercenaries money and then make sure their mother's end up on the street.

Real smart.

Play Mario kart games win Mario kart prizes.

[–] refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Someone needs to blue shell all of his money away and deport him back to South Africa.

Would be a shame if Elon's hack on the treasury left a backdoor open that any good hacker can access, because then it could be used against him and his billionaire/robber baron friends.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let's be honest. This is treason. This is a capital offense. He's never getting deported. The only scenarios for Musk are "he gets away with it completely" or "he gets the Mussolini treatment."

[–] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I've been waiting for the Mussolini treatment on my Elon bingo card.

[–] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Mussolini treatment it is!

Italian students have made that message already.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Leon ‘bout to touch the third rail

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if only... the administration is run by greedy power-hungry asswipes that don't and never will need social security, they just want to drain the coffers--for themselves. the republicants in congress and sitting on high benches mostly don't, either, and are also accomplices or too scared of their own fucking shadow to do anything to stop even this.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Maybe not, but trying to fuck over the CIA, and then their folks, thats sure to end well.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Except he’s not an elected politician so I doubt he cares

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 8 points 2 years ago

Lead was a problem for the boomers, but musk has a lead deficiency

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Honestly at this point, I hope he fucks all the boomers and takes all their social security for himself. They don’t deserve it, and I was never gonna be able to get it either. Fuck em all 2025

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, that's a very stupid take. This is what the elitists want - getting people to turn on one another, including one age range against another....

Don't fall for it. The boomers paid into SS and are completely entitled to it, just like everyone else after them, too.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Dude, I’ve got another 30 plus years before I could start to collect. There’s not a chance in hell that it’s going to exist when I’m eligible. It’s all these old fucks that dug the grave for us all, they all get a nice golden parachute to ride out the rest of their short lives. We are the ones that get left with the mess. AmeriKKKa deserves trump and musk 100 percent.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the cons don't fuck it up (and they want to do that), you absolutely would collect. And any "shortfall" would be easily remedied by lifting that regressive cap on it.

I've been hearing all of my life that it won't be there when I retire. And the way the cons are gunning for it, I now do doubt I'll collect. But if it wasn't for people trying to ACTIVELY destroy it, it would be just fine.

[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey I’ve done my best, voted for the not cons, voted in my local elections. I’m heavily outnumbered here in FL. I’ve just lost all faith in this country. Honestly prefer it to see it burn now so the people that voted for this shit get punished before they die and leave it purely on our shoulders.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hey, believe me, I understand the sentiment. We are all quite worn down. I just wouldn't give up on humanity or the country. That's what the fascists want.

Don't give them that power.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should fight to get the money you paid back instead of just rolling over and letting them rob you.

[–] echutaaa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lol it was always just extra income tax to anyone under 40. Only fools expected to see that money come back.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was always a substitute for paying to maintain your parents or grandparents in retirement. Unless you're an immigrant, you've already been getting it back.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your parents and grandparents also paid contributions, didn't they?

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The money they paid was so that their parents and grandparents had a little something going into retirement.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly. It's a system that works almost entirely as a pay-as-you-go system, with each generation paying for the retirement of their elders.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are your parents paid out according to your contributions or their own?

[–] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They're paid out according to their contributions. But they're paid with money current workers are paying in. It is technically a ponzi, but was designed to be sustainable instead of promising reckless profits.

[–] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's technically not a ponzi, it's just a standard pay-as-you-go system which requires some sort of growth in revenues (such as population growth or changes in taxation) to be sustainable.

A ponzi scheme is fraud that can never pay out what it promised.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

It can also be sustainable if the surplus during population growth are invested and not spent.

Somehow with these systems governments are very silent when they can skim off the top because more people are paying in and they can use that money to patch other holes in the budget, but they somehow become very critical of the system once that money would need to be paid back from the budget.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 years ago

dorks.

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Nazis bepo man baby want to be the xeo of the world.