88-year-old veteran who was working five days a week can finally retire after crowdfunding raises $1M for him
10 months ago by Null User Object to c/orphancrushing
Where the fuck all that social security money go?
The Republicans keep robbing it and refuse to actually have rich people provide their share?
Bezos and Musk pay their entire share which they will likely never need in a few minutes at the start of each year.
Working as intended.
The purpose of a system is what it does, or something
Awesome, now do my eighty year-old parents, who've been "borrowing" my car since March 2024 to work for DoorDash.
Hope he's not a right-winger (pretty fucking rare for those of that age), or he'll be complicit in being supported by socialism. They'll fry him for that.
I had a very animated discussion with a Vietnam vet a couple weeks ago. He saw the disabled veteran license plate on my car and asked me about it. We somehow very quickly got to bitching about Trump and idiotic MAGA policies lol
I know it's rare, but they do exist
Not enough, unfortunately. Too many elderly people, vets, and other groups just support the same tire and old b******* each year.
For this take I sentence you to go have lunch at the nearest senior home and actually talk to your fellow human beings living there
Bunch of younger people paying for the older generation's retirement. I think I've heard of this before...
I mean, even ideally thats technicaly how the legal ponzi scheme that is pensions works, but I know exactly what you're touching on (housing, free education, etc all the necessaries to make a decent AmericanDream style life they enjoyed and many voted to pull the ladder up after) but yeah
Orphan crushing machine has never eaten this good before
suicide sounds good right about now. I honestly thought I was turning a corner until I read this.
Look out which country you risk your life for.
Or are forced to risk your life for.
Yes, because every single soldier is a rapist. Every last one.
Yeah, stupid is more common than brave.
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How many more out there like him? We gonna crowdfund all of them too? Seems like a decent retirement system would be more efficient. Too bad we're fresh out of taxpayer benefits. Plenty of money for harassing and kidnapping civilians though.
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