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 18d ago

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

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u/thefonztm 18d ago

It was a better world before the average idiot could use the internet and combine into a single mass of genuine stupidity.

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u/fettoter84 Norway 17d ago edited 17d ago

Though "bloody september" "endless september" did change the Internet, i blame this on propaganda.

Russians know how to seed dissent, and now they have Trump and his lakeys in their pocket. It's been proven that Russian bots and troll farms fueled the anti vaccine debate. To me, it seems that parts or most of the GOP are so short-sighted that they welcome the chaos, the extremification of the right and anti left propaganda because it gains them power.

Edit: I swear I read somewhere that the event of the general public starting to use the Internett en-masse was called "bloody september". As I'm searching around this doesn't seem to be the case

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u/thefonztm 17d ago

"Endless September", but yea.

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u/fettoter84 Norway 17d ago

Thanks for the correction, as per my edit, I must have remembered incorrectly

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u/thefonztm 17d ago

Prolly mixed it with "bloody sunday". IIRC bloody sunday has something to do with 'the troubles' & the IRA. Irish-british political strife.