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in my country, the oligarchs already took retirement away for the younger generations. there was talk here and there by the fascists to remove it for everyone. i don't think they would afford to lose their numerous older supporters, but they discarded plenty of them during covid so who knows.
worldwide trend, regardless of the truthfulness of the pasta here.
MuskRat would call her a parasite for accepting Social Security.
If it makes you feel any better, just think of all the libs that have been owned.
She's probably one of them.
American dream: 80-yo hobbling upstairs with a cane delivering food to an unemployed 25-yo with $200 in the bank who spends $25 of it to get Wendy's from Doordash. I just want an economy that makes sense.
America is increasingly becoming third world. It reminds me of my home country, where many elders still work to the bone.
At what point is it stopped being called capitalism and start being called slavery again?
More like techno-feudalism or techno-sharecropping than slavery...
Well it's not slavery - you still get paid.
It's just that everything you're paid and probably more will get sucked back into the economy to pay for necessities to live, and if you don't make enough money to afford that then you die.
But they aren't killing you directly, so not the same thing.
"You load 16ton what do you get?"
Once we are living in Freedom Cities and essentially serfs without the protection of federal law.
They are going to sabotage any people outside these city-states to force people to submit and live there as slaves rather than starve
Look up Dark Enlightenment, and Network States. This is not conspiracy, the VP is vocally in favor of these ideas
guns
What kind? Asking for a friend.
dunno, but you're gonna want support stuff too, not just guns.
Pump action shotguns are under $200 often if you keep looking through /r/gundeals on reddit.
Pay for a class or two to learn the basics of firearm safety. Hunter safety was free for me but I was 14 at the time so maybe it's not like that anymore.
If you're really against firearms you could go with a crossbow. It used to be that you had to be handicapped to use them for deer hunting, but some states are letting non handicapped people use them now.
Venison jerky ain't so bad.
i'm not really the guy to give you an in depth overview of the right weapon for you. i have average redneck knowledge of firearms. a good handgun is probably a great start. take what you can get. anything is better than nothing.
The pew kind
When they stop paying
You have to work for your retirement if you want to have it. (/s)
Become? Always has been.
People really fall for the "America used to be great" propaganda, huh?
Did no one learn anything in middle school history? We definitely covered ✨the 1900s✨, which featured multiple world wide depressions/ressessions that the US was not exempt from, two world wars where millions of people died, the great dust bowl and famine, and plenty of corruption. Most of which happened just before or during our grandparents lives. It's not like we're talking about the colonial era of this continent or something.
At least part of my education starting at the turn off the century, we were taught these things happened but that once they were over it was a solved problem, never to happen again.
For me there was a narrative that post 1950 the US was the pinnacle of humanity, the best place on earth. Cold war, Vietnam, Korea, all things on the other side of the world from our walled garden. Civil rights was just a few people in the south having disagreements and 9/11 was either swept under the rug or passed off as some dumb dirty Arab who was irrationally angry and lashed out.
It took me moving to the big bad city for college, where I was supposed to be shot every 5 minutes and robbed of everything including the clothes on my back, to have that world view crack enough to begin questioning what I was told. When I did, I was instantly ostracized from my rural upper midwest hometown and became barely tolerated by my family.
The blinders are very real and it's too easy to ignore uncomfortable truths
They're entrepreneurs! They're being their own boss and improving their lives through freedom!
I can see a "feel good" headline
80 Year old woman still hustling - you can't slow down this granny!
Post Mortem Stage Cap