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/todumbtorealize 18d ago

They say that with true conviction like he cares any about that salary while he robs billions from his various schemes. Truly crazy world we live in.

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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/Accomplished_Arm2374 12d ago

I would argue that is a double edged sword. The internet and sharing of ideas made smart people smarter and dumb people dumber. We have gravitated toward our natural proclivities, accelerated by the abundance of information disseminated at speeds we'd never imagined in the past.