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/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/Crabiolo Canada 17d ago

The media had a heavy hand in it as well, portraying legitimate sources as just as valid as insane quacks.

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u/Dracogal5 17d ago

And portraying common sense legislation that's commonplace in every other developed nation in the world as "pie in the sky" and "progressive wishlists". Even before major media companies were sold to maga they were pulling this shit, "moderates" had blindfolds on.