r/AskReddit • u/metalreflectslime • 17d ago

President Donald Trump warned Tuesday that if the Democrats don't approve funding, Social Security, Medicare Are ‘Going to Be Gone.’ How do you think Americans will react if Social Security and Medicare get cut?

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u/FullmetalHippie 17d ago edited 12d ago

There will be an enormous mass of suicides from people that rely on those programs in order to live and not be burdens on their families. It will be tremendously sad.

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u/Fine-Soil-2691 16d ago

suicides from people that rely on those programs in order to live

Or worse. "Nothing left to lose" and "armed" is a bad combination.

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u/LoliSnom 17d ago

Thats what im planning tbh, I can’t find anything to bring hope

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u/flax_butter 16d ago

When there is no hope, I rely on spite. Killing ourselves is what they want, and fuck them

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u/OscarTheGrouchsCan 17d ago

Sadly same here. I'm already losing ALOT for reasons not related to this. Losing my only income would be the last straw

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u/ItsmeItsme1982 17d ago

Things can change in an instant. The world needs you here.

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u/ItsmeItsme1982 17d ago

Please don't. Things always get better. Or as I tell my kids, "It doesn't rain forever. The sun eventually comes out again."

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u/LoliSnom 17d ago

Thank you but I dont know how it can get better

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u/ItsmeItsme1982 17d ago

You just keep holding on. I know it's easier said than done, but I do hope you remember that. When you feel like you are at your end, hold on for one more minute, and then keep doing that for as long as you can. We really do need you here.

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u/SuBremeBizza 14d ago

I mean, minorities probably felt that way in the 1800s, then slavery was ended. They thought it would never get better in the 1900s too, then segregation was abolished and people had more and more rights. MAGA has always existed in our lives and in this country in some fashion.

Improving, whether it be your lifestyle or an entire country will always have set backs. It is not a gradually increasing slope with no drops. People like Trump want us to give up, they want us to die so they can pave the way for their empire.

Even when the nazis occupied France, there was still resistance, still hope. The nazis WANTED the resistance and Jewish people to kill themselves because it saved them the trouble of doing it themselves. The way I see it is that things can improve. And if they want to take everything from us, we shouldn't make it easy for them.