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I can't get over how sad and pathetic the protesters are. They have 0 money behind them now and it's just the unemployed speds and college faggots with no social life.
Unemployed speds and also unemployed feds.
Didn't learn their lesson from not taking the buyout and instead wasting their time seething about being fired.
Well if they understood the concept of things not working, they'd understand why they were fired.
 
These numbers can't be right. Maybe they're right as for the number of people that are technically on the books, but not the number of people receiving payouts. The SSA releases data on how many people are receiving Social Security and Social Security Disability payments each month. For the month of January, the number was a little over 73 million.
Correct - these seem to be the numbers on the books. What's interesting to me (just eyeballing the total, don't sperg out on my math) is that these numbers add up to +110% of the current US population. Fuckery is afoot.
 
I like how all of the protesters are now doughy clean cut college soys.

The tattooed drugged up ANTIFA types are absolutely nowhere to be seen.

It could not be more obvious that the previous protests were augmented by paroled criminals paid by USAID.
 
These numbers can't be right. Maybe they're right as for the number of people that are technically on the books, but not the number of people receiving payouts. The SSA releases data on how many people are receiving Social Security and Social Security Disability payments each month. For the month of January, the number was a little over 73 million.Ver archivo adjunto 6994426
"Social Security" is a big umbrella. SSI is but one piece of "Social security checks".
 
Reddit users are mask off, openly against free speech now. I know some will say, "Now?" But the website wasn't always this way. They would at least pretend to defend free speech. I remember seeing "I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It" quoted frequently. At this rate we need 12 years of Republican power to undo all the damage that has been done.
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On the other hand, their arguement that if everyone were allowed to say exactly what they thought, the end result would be rounding up all the Jews is kind of fun. It's like rednecks and Blacks both loving guns and barbecue, there's more common ground than people like to admit.
 
To be honest, I did the same thing in college. Keep your head low and get work done.
They keep sharing this stuff like it make him look bad, I don't think they realize it just makes him more relatable to a lot of us.
Tells you a lot about the kind of people they are.

The original article, by the way, was in The Independant and had a different title:
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This is the author
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And here's her old Buzzfeed work:
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So I don't think I'm that far off. Not shitting on Kelly here, she just doesn't seem like the type of person to get it, you know?
 
@Lord Atem Can't quote so have to tag.

Germany's sin is murdering millions of people, Germany's sin is plunging the world into a second world war when it was only just starting to recover from the First World War which Germany is also at least 50% responsible for, Germany's sin is ruining Europe, Germany's sin is ensuring that no western nation can ever have a strong nationalistic government hell we can't even have slightly right-wing governments anymore because that's too Naziesque thanks again to Germany.

But silly me I forget, DA JOOZ DA JOOOOOOOOOZ!
 
@Lord Atem Can't quote so have to tag.

Germany's sin is murdering millions of people, Germany's sin is plunging the world into a second world war when it was only just starting to recover from the First World War which Germany is also at least 50% responsible for, Germany's sin is ruining Europe, Germany's sin is ensuring that no western nation can ever have a strong nationalistic government hell we can't even have slightly right-wing governments anymore because that's too Naziesque thanks again to Germany.

But silly me I forget, DA JOOZ DA JOOOOOOOOOZ!

World War 2 was 80 years ago. Nobody relevant to that is still alive, so seriously shut the fuck up and move on already. Leftists love to smugly repeat that you must "learn from history" or you'll be "doomed to repeat it", but almost every atrocity ever committed was justified by historical narratives that outweighed clear-eyed perspectives on the present. Understanding real life is complicated with life experience, so how does anyone expect to understand a historical world with basically no context other than reading stuff? """History""" buffs are just useful idiots. Please fuck off to some historyfaggot containment zone and crank it to your LARP there.

Also probably applies to @Lord Atem , but I can't find the quoted post.
 
"Social Security" is a big umbrella. SSI is but one piece of "Social security checks".
No you don't understand, this is the total number of people receiving money from the Social Security Administration. That table is literally from the Social Security Administration and they're required to post the number of people receiving checks. You can argue that it's possible some portion of the 73m are fraudulently receiving checks, but Social Security is only paying out to 73m people.
Correct - these seem to be the numbers on the books. What's interesting to me (just eyeballing the total, don't sperg out on my math) is that these numbers add up to +110% of the current US population. Fuckery is afoot.
I don't know. The SSA isn't responsible for tracking the population of the United States, so I imagine there's plenty of people on the SSA books that are dead and nobody bothered to send in a death certificate. I also imagine that the accuracy of the numbers increase as time goes on. For instance, I think it's a lot more likely someone dies in 1948 and nobody bothers to tell the feds than in 2025.

Honestly, I don't really give a shit if the raw numbers are off, as long as the actual payments going out are going to deserving people. So far all he's posted is some fucked up excel numbers to catch headlines, and he needs to provide some actual, in depth audit numbers for who is receiving the money and how much. Frankly I'm tired of the political points scoring and posturing, do the fucking audits.
 
I imagine there's plenty of people on the SSA books that are dead and nobody bothered to send in a death certificate. I also imagine that the accuracy of the numbers increase as time goes on. For instance, I think it's a lot more likely someone dies in 1948 and nobody bothers to tell the feds than in 2025.
Very likely, yes.
Honestly, I don't really give a shit if the raw numbers are off, as long as the actual payments going out are going to deserving people.
Same here. I'll however add that since SS#s are used as de facto national IDs in the US, having a large number of them still on the books and therefore presumably still active, the potential for their fraudulent use (bank accounts, loans, credit cards, employment, etc., etc.) should be a cause for concern.
So far all he's posted is some fucked up excel numbers to catch headlines, and he needs to provide some actual, in depth audit numbers for who is receiving the money and how much. Frankly I'm tired of the political points scoring and posturing, do the fucking audits.
Agreed again.
 
They keep sharing this stuff like it make him look bad, I don't think they realize it just makes him more relatable to a lot of us.
Tells you a lot about the kind of people they are.

The original article, by the way, was in The Independant and had a different title:
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This is the author
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And here's her old Buzzfeed work:
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So I don't think I'm that far off. Not shitting on Kelly here, she just doesn't seem like the type of person to get it, you know?
Barron is going to school in his hometown. He already has a social circle and doesn't need the university to provide it for him. He's behaving exactly like every other commuter student does.

In contrast, the journo went to school in Upstate New York (LinkedIn):
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If you're going to school in small college town like Poughkeepsie, of course you're going to spend a lot of time on campus. You know nobody there and there isn't much to do in the city (if you're a liberal college student who will later move to Chicago and New York).
 
God, the Nazi Schtick is getting annoying.

At a certain point people are just going to stop caring about being called Nazis.
Nazi has been a joke since like the 70s. After all the actual Nazis died out. Nazi= National Socialist German Workers' Party. As the party no longer exists, and we aren't German it's a ridiculous insult used by people too stupid to actually eloquate their point or for a laugh. Call me selfish? Bigoted? Racist? Close minded? When it was still possible to have a conversation in good faith I might be compelled to defend my position or consider my views. Nazi? No I'm not a German in the 1900s that wants a union with Austria and half of Poland.
 
They keep sharing this stuff like it make him look bad, I don't think they realize it just makes him more relatable to a lot of us.
Tells you a lot about the kind of people they are.
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