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800K Oklahomans stressing over Social Security — as insiders warn of ‘system collapse’ within 90 days (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
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Just enjoy the day you voted for there Oklahomans.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This article is taking about boomers in Oklahoma. I guarantee 90+% of them voted for Trump.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I don’t think my younger brother on SSI with a severe genetic condition voted for Trump.

My family had to fight for about six months to even get him on SSI a few years ago. (He’d probably be actually dead if not for the ACA - he had “capped out” on insurance shortly before it passed).

Oklahoma is a shithole people can’t escape. We imprison and kill mentally ill people, the conditions we keep foster children in are inhumane. The people who don’t get to vote need protection from the people who are. This “let Oklahoma drown in its own shit” approach forgets that they’re doing it to hurt people like me or my brother.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Exactly. Gloating about the demise of a major safety net of the United States does not belong in the Leopards eating faces community because it affects everyone in the country and especially the elderly and disabled, not just trump voters. People in every state are upset about it, not just people in Oklahoma/red states.

Best wishes to you and your brother.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Social Security is a federal program. It going under will not only affect boomers in Oklahoma, and the 65+ demographic voted for Trump at the same rate as 18-29s (51%).

Age is not a determiner of morality, and gathering to point and laugh while the elderly and disabled die due to eliminating government safety nets sure fits in with the Nazi zeitgeist, but probably not the way y’all want it to.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you for getting it, both on the age group voting stats and that the leopards+faces meme/community is about trump doing things that hurt his voters specifically, not things that harm our most vulnerable people throughout the whole country regardless of their politics.

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