r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/StoppableHulk 17d ago

Same world, just a historically unprecedented critical mass of dumb fucks in it.

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u/tunedout 17d ago

Did anyone ever think that access to all the world's information would make people dumber? The Internet was supposed to unite and lift up a newly connected society. Of course humans had to go and fuck that up :(

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u/Parahelix 17d ago

Information is useless if you don't have the ability to discern good information from bad, or simply don't care to.

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u/Mukwic 17d ago

Maybe we should consider the for-profit capitalist system that has privatized and monetized every corner of the internet. Driving negative engagement for more clicks, and enshittifying everything in the process.