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He’s now a QAnon nut.

I was just thinking that I hadn’t heard much about Qanon lately, that maybe it had been fading out. No?

Ex presidents get protection as much because they are a security risk as for their own safety.

Do you mean on social media overall?

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If this isn’t the definition of “too little too late”, I don’t know what is.

I’m 70 years old. Of course it’s not the first time. Cute meme though.

These are times when I’m ashamed to be an American.

As you know, the current system in America is that we pay into the retirement system. In the present time those funds are used to support present day seniors, and then when you have reached the proper age the people currently paying into it are supporting you but can (supposedly) expect to be supported the same way. I started paying into it at age 16, and now at 69 I am collecting. And additionally, I need to have saved up.

I don’t know how we would transfer out of this system and into a completely self sufficient one. I DO know that this system mitigated the deep deep poverty many elderly used to experience. Because for the working and poor classes, no one realistically makes enough to set aside for retirement.

Of course this is a good thing, but there are still serious negative consequences to a reducing population, which must be mitigated. Primarily, old people who are past working age are an expensive population to maintain. When there are as many or more old people as there are young, the burden is too heavy for young people to bear. And I say this as a 70 year old. Young people today CANNOT hit old age without their own substantial retirement resources.

I want LGBTQ+/Straight people to just shut up about it, and I want everyone to treat them equally and not discriminate against them.

We would if they did. Duh.

The day is yet young.

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I clicked before I realized it was a link to twitter…er…X.

Don’t you use X when you want to cross something out?

Oldie but goodie. As I recently told family, my primary gripe with “progress” is that it’s financed by people whose sole goal in life is to become even wealthier.

401k? I heard about those…

Kind of you thanks :) Actually my health remains solid and I enjoy my work, so it’s not so bad.

Average? I’m not sure. Expected is 65 though. I’m in US, and collecting my meager social security benefits. Recently reduced my work week to 40-45 most weeks

I hope I never reach that - can’t afford to be alive then.

Same. And I’m 69. Got a few good working years left, then…