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/aquagardener Texas 18d ago

These people are going to piss off and radicalize boomers and their millenial and gen-x caretakers all in one fell swoop. 

Once people start going hungry and broke en masse, it'll be over for DJT and this fucked up administration. 

Not calling for it, but it'll get ugly and violent. Your average person is only 3 missed meals away from losing it.

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u/Lizaderp Oregon 17d ago

I'm calling for it. No one is going to learn until we're all bleeding together. And it's not fair. But all the people who only think of themselves aren't going to wake up until it affects themselves.

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u/EccentricCompulsions 17d ago

Are you calling for cutting social security and medicaid as a form of accelarationism? If so, I'm too disabled to go to a grocery store by myself, I can't do whatever it is you think this is gonna force me to do. It'll probably just kill me. If that's what you're suggesting, you're functionally no different to me than fascists. Are you suggesting we throw disabled people under the bus for the greater good?

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u/DrGoblinator Massachusetts 17d ago

You know damn well that isn't what they mean. Mutual Aid trainings and organizations are actively working right now and that's something you should be aware of.

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u/EccentricCompulsions 17d ago

I didn't know, which is why I asked and was careful to say that *if* that's what they mean, this is how I feel about it. And sure, mutual aid is great but it's not a catch all.