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Elon Musk Spreads Falsehoods About Social Security, Including Calling It a “Ponzi Scheme” (truthout.org)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social
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Musk pushed the repeatedly debunked claim that Social Security was making payments to “dead people.”

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[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Elon Mush is a dumbass Nazi

[–] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yup.

Billionaires will never allow you to vote away their power.

Never

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 37 points 5 months ago

Meme coin entrepreneur says social security is a Ponzi scheme, more at 11

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What a douche nozzle.

Who the fuck wears sunglasses indoors? Unless you’re high as a kite and hiding your dilated pupils.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wore sunglasses inside for a couple days once due to a scratched cornea making my eye very sensitive to light.

Even though I and everyone I was with knew I had a good reason, I felt like an enormous douchecanoe the entire time 😄

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Lol. Good stuff.

Elon is so cringe. You just know he thinks he’s a badass. Reminds me of my dipshit neighbor.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lol he doesn't know what a ponzi scheme is.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

Her does know, but he is a fucking liar.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh i look forward to seeing that man writhing penniless in a gutter.

There'll be a robust social security system to catch him, but he shall writhe nontheless

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

You have to pay social security tax in order to receive benefits.... you think he pays his taxes?

[–] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks non-voters! Oh, and the “I dunno about a woman for president” voters. And of course the $hill Stein voters…

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How do you know who non voters would have voted for? I find it much more productive to blame the people that actively voted for this.

[–] ModestMeme@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

I don’t know who they would have voted for. The point is they sat on their hands while the nation fell.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Also all the people who were purged from the voter rolls and all the other people who were the victims of voter suppression.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It's been established Trump and Musk are doing nothing but illegal shit. Can't we just do citizen's arrests? And then oops... we lost the prisoners... must've fallen out of the car (and off the side of a building) on the way to the station.