Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 9, 2025
Your tax dollars are being stolen. https://t.co/hSZdNY4wxf
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Do you think he's really this dumb or his zoom-zooms are telling him nonsense because the only database they've ever used is dynamoDB?
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@JimieWhales love sucking peepee more than @JimieWhales love locking prod trying too rebuild the index
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its deliberate and meant to give rightoids false confidence that the government is broken and that what musk is doing is good. its all a smoke screen for him robbing the nation.
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Someone wrote this unironically
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the US is rich and powerful because of its strong federal government not in spite of it.
lying to proles about systems you do not understand is risking further pollution of the lower 83.7% of the population for whom abstract thinking might well be the same as an ultramarathon in programming socks
BIPOCs say the government is broken but do not specify what in the frick they're talking about, because the government works fine. The majority of lower-income households or those earning less than $50,000 a year voted for Trump this election.
Government does what it is designed to do, if it is fricked up it is because of their elected representatives both democrat and republican. The government is protected by laws keeping it from being victim to the spoils system, and specifically what Jimmy Jewtron is doing here, because we already did that in nations past and it was bad and ineffective and we found that we could not administer laws without a professional base.
These stupid fricking goblinos don't seem to realize that they pay no or very little tax. They see money taken out of their Bass Pro Shop check and think it disappears, then they get their 8000 dollar income tax refund and buy new mickey thompsons for their Ram and that is just a natural event to them. It just happens to everyone. So they don't see themselves as getting any benefit.
but yes please please please kill social security because I want to accelerate
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My net tax contribution is well over 20% of my salary
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SS wasn't even the target.
Do shitlibs ever not operate on hyperbole and made up panicky shit invented by reddit?
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i'm not a shitlib so I don't know or care what they operate on but put your big boy thinking cap on BIPOC and look at the government expenditures and tell me exactly how you're going to significantly reduce the national debt.
What would you cut? what would you justify destroying? Because there's 3 real big fricking line items on there that are sucking up most of the fricking money and they aren't politico subscriptions
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If only you did because now it sounds like you're flip flopping. So are you pro cutting SS or are you a
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Like you can't panick both ways and call whoever an r-slur, not going to fly by me. That's lazy grillerism if I ever saw it.
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the people hes pandering to are the chuds at my job who bought dogecoin because they thought he was going to replace the us dollar with it
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False equivalency
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Good goy just watch all the money flow to Israel while your country is sold bit by bit into private equity to stop "woke"
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Also
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Hes fricked up his brain a lot with drugs, so I believe hes lost it.
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No joke: I heard through some friends that they're mostly pulling flat files into Postgres.
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https://postgresforeverything.com/
Unironically PG is a better document DB than most document databases.
@JimieWhales love sucking peepee more than @JimieWhales love mongo.
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Truth!
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