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You cut social security and you get riots with folks who have nothing left to lose.
Well, people will not be using silencers.
I would love to be wrong about this but I just don't see it happening.
People in the US just roll over and take it when this stuff happens. Either its because they have been sold a line of bullshit from their preferred propaganda source about how its actually a good thing because SoCiAlIsM bAd or because they can't engage against riot police or protest because they have to work to stay above the water. There is no safety net in the US and that is working really well to keep us toeing the line.
Its going to take something really massive for the citizens of the US to actually group up and make change, as massive as shitcanning or changing Social Security is, it impacts elderly and disabled folks moreso than the healthy and able bodied who could actually fight this if it directly impacted them at this time.
They won’t cut it. They’ll privatize it/enshittify it. It’ll be a slow boil until it’s worthless after the grifters have skimmed off the top.
Let them fuck around and find out.
Yup, that’s my line in the sand for rioting. I’m comfortable, but if they take away something that I’ve paid into my whole life and fuck my retirement over, I won’t stand for it.
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solidarity motherfucker, develop it.
if the old folks are rioting, get between them and the police with your young body
Are you under the impression that every tax paying citizen hasn't paid thousands into social security?