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slightlv

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7. I love the ones screaming about welfare queens and socialism

Reply to Bengus81 (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 08:19 PM

19 hrs ago

all the while yelling "hands off my Social Security!" I'm right there with them with the Hands Off message... but at least I recognize it's a social insurance program. They have no idea WHAT it is, what it started out being, how it's changed through the years, or what the republicans are trying to do to it right now. I've lost faith in people, as a whole.

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