"Polling conducted by YouGov for The Economist shows that 71% of Americans believe Social-Security spending should be increased, more than for any other category of government spending. In the same poll, 45% say it should be increased a lot. The proportion who wish it to be reduced is just 5%, slightly less than the share of Americans who believe that covid-19 vaccinations were used to microchip the population." https://t.co/rKlX3bQAnP
but most people don't have an immediate understanding of how many Americans have PhDs. if you ask a random person how many people have a PhD, their guesses will be all over the place.
using "covid shots had microchips" as the metric is something everyone can immediately understand. it's an obvious fringe belief. people can intuitively understand that there are very few people who think that.
that's not suggesting "these are basically the same types of crazy people." It's just highlighting the lack of support for cutting spending.
I think you're misinterpreting emphasis of the fact of the matter (that any cuts to SS are effectively a non-starter and will be for the foreseeable future) as an ethical/moralizing dig to imply that anyone who wants to cut SS is insane.
(fwiw I'm very much in support of phasing SS out. my only reaction to the covid comparison was "holy shit, that's so much less people than I would've expected, fuck, that's really bad")
@Th_Angelopoulos@ThomBrady5@angloid0 you mean the family whose son was arrested as he bled to death under the assumption he was being racist is not making statements that would be arrestable offenses in your orwellian nightmare of a country?
fuck you.
@moginstall@SteveRob you're gonna care a lot more when the receipts of him serially sexting with minors drop.
will you admit to poor judgment when that happens?
@MikeASperrazza Let me ask you a question Mike- if I’m telling you I smoked crack, why in the world would I lie about snorting it? There’s plenty of pictures of me smoking crack doing all sorts of stupid things, with all sorts of people and rarely with clothes on. But not snorting cocaine.
@ThomBrady5 jesus christ I can't read. was just checking out the mayoral race (which did find those votes I mentioned) but my stupid ass saw a map and went "hurrr mayoral race"