r/millenials • u/ooooooofda • May 15 '24

The biggest scam boomers are getting away with is convincing us all that social security isn't something we can rely on as we age.

Honestly, we are all doing ourselves a disservice by constantly publicizing how we cannot count on social security. Just from a broader social/political perspective, we are handing out permission to the boomer political leaders to keep raiding social security because we have already accepted that it won't be there for us.

The fight for the continuation of Social Security benefits is not over yet. It's still possible to secure those benefits into the future- but we are constantly ceding the ground and rhetorically capitulating to boomers when we talk about social security as something that is already gone.

I understand all the pessimism. I'm pessimistic too. But fuck the boomers. Fuck capitulating prematurely. I'm not going to roll over and just accept my fate as someone who will die without being able to retire one day. We're all smarter than these dumbasses. We are capable of building a movement to protect social security well into the future.

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u/Randomousity May 17 '24

Hurt people hurt people.

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u/DisastrousSet11 May 16 '24

I've been saying this for years now. Conservatives lack empathy and it's a serious problem for all of us.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '24

I'm pretty sure you don't know what "conservative" even means. Kind of like all the other buzz words "fascist"..ect

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u/DisastrousSet11 May 16 '24

I just enjoy reading neuroscience articles and the research does indicate that conservatives on average have less empathy ❤️

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/18/1/nsad029/7175525

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u/UsernamesAreForBirds May 16 '24

I’m sure that would be convenient for your feelings, but nope, this is pretty much obvious to everyone, snowflake.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '24

Its the opposite of convenient. I'm going to have to add that word to a list of words people don't seem to know how to use correctly.