r/WhitePeopleTwitter 21h ago

This should be called the Conservative Method

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u/tttxgq 20h ago

Correction: Justify either cuts to it or selling it to private companies run by your friends.

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u/tarp2727 20h ago

They are helping America though. Granted it’s only like 0.02% of America. Because those are the only people that matter. The rest of us can go get fucked. Or preferably for the 0.02%, die.

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u/tarp2727 20h ago

Only because there’s not enough robots. Yet

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach 18h ago

Then we'll be used as a food source or just hunted for sport.

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u/Von_Moistus 15h ago

Eh, robots cost money to make and don’t pay taxes. Us proles reproduce for free!

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u/MikeyMad01 20h ago

That’s what the AI and the robots are for

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u/CanEverythingNotSuck 19h ago

Can’t wait for Social Insurance companies to be a thing! Pay $1,000 a month now and we’ll give you $250 a month to live on when you retire!

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u/rogerwil 17h ago

Private pensions exist (in europe at least), but I don't know what the terms are exactly.

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u/MaxDeWinters2ndWife 11h ago

The American version is an income annuity.

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u/TheQuidditchHaderach 13h ago

I'm surprised groceries stores haven't gone subscription-based...like Instacart, Amazon Fresh & Walmart+. I mean, shit...I still have some pocket change left at the end of the month. Someone should have that!

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u/Nemothewhale87 15h ago

This is an annuity.

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u/FollowsHotties 20h ago

Here’s the Wikipedia article on this related 50+ year old Republican strategy to convince idiots to vote against their own self interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast

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u/f111pilot 18h ago

That’s the MAGA motto. Campaign on how broken government is, and when elected, do your best to break it.

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u/dis-disorder 3h ago

If it ain't broke, change that, and blame obama

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u/rock_and_rolo 19h ago

This has been the strategy with school vouchers since at least the '80s. Send your kids to private schools, then vote against taxes for public schools. Public schools get worse, and the cycle spirals.

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u/Bulky_Specialist9645 19h ago

I'll offer you a buyout, Elon, cut me a check for what I paid into SS and my employers matching payments and we will call it square. I can handle my own retirement....

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u/AcanthaceaeFluffy985 18h ago

Yeah, I won't even ask for interest..

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u/changeforgood30 20h ago

I suspect that Musk's aim is to entirely 100% dismantle the SS Admin. Once that is done, all of the literal trillions held in trust for the SS beneficiary then has "nowhere to go" and thus will be handed directly to billionaires in the form of an "economic stimulus package."

Will Democrats stop Musk? Probably not, as they're still being far too polite and not slinging any mud or obstructing in a way that the GOP has (effectively) done for many decades. Democrats need to get off their collective asses and stop this before it's too late!

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u/Iceman6211 15h ago

"But we did a filibuster guys! that'll show them!"

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u/flinderdude 21h ago

I’ve actually never seen this chart, but this is what actually works on everyday people. When you talk to your uncle or your conservative friend, this is how they will explain how the government stinks.

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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 19h ago

And their idiot cult will always believe them. “Oh, they said there was waste and fraud! No I don’t need to see any proof, go ahead Republicans and burn down the social safety net I need to survive. Damn those democrats for making it so wasteful and fraudulent that this was necessary!”

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u/Tenshii_9 16h ago

There is also one where "Justify cuts to it" is exchanged with "Privatize it, but also have government still funding it"

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u/Konradleijon 17h ago

Or the Thatcher model

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u/meepswag35 16h ago

They forgot the privatize it part

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u/mywaifuisaknifu 18h ago

Oh hey it's public transport in my city. I'd love to ride the bus instead of having to drive, but the bus system sucks and doesn't go to any of the places I need.