Notices by BlueDotAZ (cujobyte@mastodon.social)

@georgetakei Or the appearance of anonymity. People are completely stupid. We had an old lady making horrifically racist comments on NextDoor of all places. My husband responded to one comment by telling her that her racism may have gone over well in Georgia, where she had just moved from, but not down here on the border. The lady went to ground super quick and we haven't heard a peep from her since. She clearly had no idea that people could identify her even though we had her name. Morons...

@noturtlesoup17 You are an incredibly brave person. Thanks for the article and thanks for your efforts to save democracy!

@inthehands @dabertime I ran into a moose once walking my dog in Maine. Everyone froze, me, the moose, and thankfully the dog. We all stood frozen for a good 30 seconds. I said to her, I’ll go this way if you go that way and we all did. I was very lucky.

@dheadshot @syllopsium I have heard that argument, but is it really true? If you look at the generational breakdown, it is fairly consistent. I’m not by any means a statistician, but it seems that the Boomers are currently retiring and have been for a while. GenX has borne the brunt of them. Millennials outnumber GenX by quite a bit. I see maybe GenZ may have a hard time, but no different than GenX vis-à-vis Boomers. What am I missing here?

@syllopsium It is funded by my direct payments from every single check I have received since I started working at the age of 14. That is true of every single one of us. So the paying for it part has been done. It's the collecting it back part that they seem to have issue with. The fact that they have raped it for their own purposes doesn't mean I should have to wait x more years to collect my own money. We can come up with trillions for the military budget which means they can fund SS.

Anyone else pissed that they want to raise the retirement age at the same time the average lifespan of Americans is falling? We now live an average of 76 years and they want us to retire at 70. So yeah, thanks, I worked for effing 50 years, put in my money every week to the system, and I get a whopping six years back. Go screw. #fascism #retire #socialsecurity