Elon Musk / Tesla / SpaceX / Twitter / D.O.G.E. | President Musk

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ZenMode said:
I don't think anyone believes that will solve the entire budget issue.
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I don’t think it will even make a dent, but we shall see.

But, hey, if “get rid of 25% of the workforce at random” is the kind of thinking we need to solve the issue, then I can help out as well.

Don’t give Elon Musk any more tax subsidies. I probably just saved the government more money than Elon’s idea and I didn’t need a co-head to come up with that one.

Eliminate Space Force.

How about, reverse the tax breaks Trump installed the first time around? There, the job is over.
But that won’t happen. They are coming with cuts to your social security and Medicare, and then they’ll give themselves tax breaks and our deficit will actually increase. My prediction, anyway. But it remains to be seen.
 
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Post on Bluesky:

"Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and it’s not exactly clear why. Usually it’s not even political, it’s not selling anything, it’s just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces."
 
05C40 said:
Post on Bluesky:

"Twitter is extremely creepy these days because 90% of the responses are bots and it’s not exactly clear why. Usually it’s not even political, it’s not selling anything, it’s just bots pretending to be people. The vibe is like boarding a city bus and realizing none of the passengers have faces."
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So glad I moved over to Bluesky and removed Xtter
 
Mulberry Heel said:
I'd love to as well, but that's not possible for everyone, or even a great majority of people. Depending on the surveys and studies I've read, at least 40% of retirees depend almost entirely on Social Security for their retirement income, and many more need it as a supplement to what other savings they do have. Abolishing, privatizing, or even just significantly cutting it will be a disaster of epic proportions, imo. Not that Trump or Elon or any of their other plutocrat buddies would care, of course.
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If they abolish SS, there will be a replacement plan to deal with the people who lived thinking it would be there and now border homelessness when they are no longer able to work.
 
ColdBlueSteel said:
Typical shocking excerpted byline, but is there not truth to Elon’s framing of the problem?
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Why do you say that? There are plenty of violent people with permanent housing. There are plenty of drug addicts with permanent housing. There are plenty of severely mentally ill people with permanent housing. The through line for those we call “homeless” is the lack of permanent housing. There are also plenty of those people who are not drug addicts, violent, or severely mentally ill. So how is that characterization a “lie.”
 
lawtig02 said:
Why do you say that? There are plenty of violent people with permanent housing. There are plenty of drug addicts with permanent housing. There are plenty of severely mentally ill people with permanent housing. The through line for those we call “homeless” is the lack of permanent housing. There are also plenty of those people who are not drug addicts, violent, or severely mentally ill. So how is that characterization a “lie.”
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It’s not a lie, they are homeless, but if a significant amount of these people are this afflicted, focusing on the “homelessness”, as opposed to the root cause of that homelessness shifts the focus away from what *may* be a failure of policy/government.
 
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