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The concerning thing about this is in Conservative circles, now it’s essentially a “fact” that Social Security has been paying 150 year olds, and they use it to
by ModernMech 2y ago
The concerning thing about this is in Conservative circles, now it’s essentially a “fact” that Social Security has been paying 150 year olds, and they use it to justify DOGE’s existence. They are incentivized to lie.
Has Musk made a public retraction on this? We know a lie spreads faster than the truth, and given how loudly he crowed about finding 150 year olds, he should be at least as loud correcting himself.
- rasz 2y ago>now it’s essentially a “fact” that Social Security has been paying 150 year olds From yesterdays submission "The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oli... : > To this end, Hugenberg practiced what he called Katastrophenpolitk, “the politics of catastrophe,” by which he sought to polarize public opinion and the political parties with incendiary news stories, some of them Fabrikationen—entirely fabricated articles intended to cause confusion and outrage. According to one such story, the government was enslaving German teenagers and selling them to its allies in order to service its war debt. Hugenberg calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse. mmm sounds familiar