cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19578768
“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).
Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.
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When enough people’s lives are fucked up by Musk’s teenage goons and there isn’t a social security office left to go right the wrongs in person, then there’ll be an insurrection. And I for one can’t wait for that to happen. It’s urgently needed at this point.
They’re already looking at ending in-person town hall meetings due to the backlash they’re getting. Which will just cause constituents to seek out their reps in an unmanaged setting
These greedy fucks forget the reason all these compromises are in place is because it was deemed much more palatable than getting mauled to death by an angry mob. They might be betting they put such a big police and surveilance state that they’re immune to the basic political reality, but they’re still gonna need to get real lucky real often at this pace.
When the ira was bombing the uk and thatcher was lucky to not die in a bomb, there’s a famous quote that they only need to be lucky once, she needs to be lucky every time.
“Blah blah, they’re domestic terrorists, saving money, tax cuts, make great, fake news anyway”.
Rinse, repeat when the NEXT outrage will absolutely definitely start the revolution this time, totally…
Exactly, what’s the point of endless work unless you have the mediocre, but guaranteed carrot at the end of the stick of your career?
