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this doesn't really strike me as a 'leopards ate my face' moment, unless we're just meant to assume everyone living off of social security voted for cheeto hitler. or is this community just becoming a place for laughing at the misfortunes of united statesians in general?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Oklahoma
66% of Oklahomans voted for their own misery and for that of the others.
closer to 25%, actually. about a million voted for trump, out of about 4 million total oklahomans. regardless, this article isn't about trump voters specifically getting fucked over, and rueing their own stupid actions and choices, this is about elderly and disabled people throughout the country, regardless of their voting history, getting fucked over. seems off topic for the sub.
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
And ... ? This affects the whole country.
I don’t think this is the place for you
It might be, if you weren't here.
Honestly? I'm fine so long as those who support him suffer, and suffer grievously.
We will pick up the pieces once the filth have destroyed themselves.
Yep, I'm seeing more and more blaming all Americans no matter that almost as many voted for Harris as for trump and no matter how hard so many worked to defeat him. So no surprise they're fine with innocent people losing their social security.
This article is taking about boomers in Oklahoma. I guarantee 90+% of them voted for Trump.
I don’t think my younger brother on SSI with a severe genetic condition voted for Trump.
My family had to fight for about six months to even get him on SSI a few years ago. (He’d probably be actually dead if not for the ACA - he had “capped out” on insurance shortly before it passed).
Oklahoma is a shithole people can’t escape. We imprison and kill mentally ill people, the conditions we keep foster children in are inhumane. The people who don’t get to vote need protection from the people who are. This “let Oklahoma drown in its own shit” approach forgets that they’re doing it to hurt people like me or my brother.
Exactly. Gloating about the demise of a major safety net of the United States does not belong in the Leopards eating faces community because it affects everyone in the country and especially the elderly and disabled, not just trump voters. People in every state are upset about it, not just people in Oklahoma/red states.
Best wishes to you and your brother.
Social Security is a federal program. It going under will not only affect boomers in Oklahoma, and the 65+ demographic voted for Trump at the same rate as 18-29s (51%).
Age is not a determiner of morality, and gathering to point and laugh while the elderly and disabled die due to eliminating government safety nets sure fits in with the Nazi zeitgeist, but probably not the way y’all want it to.
Thank you for getting it, both on the age group voting stats and that the leopards+faces meme/community is about trump doing things that hurt his voters specifically, not things that harm our most vulnerable people throughout the whole country regardless of their politics.
OK boomer
edit: I'm actually glad to see the downvotes on this comment because I'm sick of people using "boomer" as an insult (which is why I replied with this as a retort to the poster who did that). Thanks for those recognizing we're in a class war, not a culture war and downvoting it!
I wasn’t using boomer as an insult, I was specifically referring to the generation that is currently either retired or in the process of retiring and is most affected by SS cuts. Like it or not, that generation voted overwhelmingly for Trump, especially in Oklahoma.
Men 65+ voted for trump (55-42), women 65+ voted for Harris (53-44).
Also BTW men 18-44 voted trump (52-44) and women 18-44 voted for Harris (52-42)
https://navigatorresearch.org/2024-post-election-survey-gender-and-age-analysis-of-2024-election-results/
Obviously in Oklahoma, trump won among both men and women. The point is you could substitute the name of any other state, red or blue, into this headline and it would still be true.
Because if we don’t do anything about it we deserve it. That’s the logic. I’m not agreeing with anything. I’m just a leaf in the wind.