88-year-old veteran who was working five days a week can finally retire after crowdfunding raises $1M for him
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ed-bambas-veteran-crowdfunding-michigan-b2877262.html
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frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 80 pts · 263d
How many more out there like him? We gonna crowdfund all of them too? Seems like a decent retirement system would be more efficient. Too bad we're fresh out of taxpayer benefits. Plenty of money for harassing and kidnapping civilians though.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 263d
Where the fuck all that social security money go?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 263d
The Republicans keep robbing it and refuse to actually have rich people provide their share?
Bezos and Musk pay their entire share which they will likely never need in a few minutes at the start of each year.
Dionysus@leminal.space · 7 pts · 263d
Payton?
andyburke@fedia.io · 54 pts · 263d
America is broken.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 263d
Working as intended.
xploit@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 263d
Whole world at this point
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 263d
The purpose of a system is what it does, or something
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 263d
Awesome, now do my eighty year-old parents, who've been "borrowing" my car since March 2024 to work for DoorDash.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 17 pts · 263d
Hope he's not a right-winger (pretty fucking rare for those of that age), or he'll be complicit in being supported by socialism. They'll fry him for that.
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website · 19 pts · 263d
I had a very animated discussion with a Vietnam vet a couple weeks ago. He saw the disabled veteran license plate on my car and asked me about it. We somehow very quickly got to bitching about Trump and idiotic MAGA policies lol
I know it's rare, but they do exist
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 263d
Not enough, unfortunately. Too many elderly people, vets, and other groups just support the same tire and old b******* each year.
moonshadow@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 263d
For this take I sentence you to go have lunch at the nearest senior home and actually talk to your fellow human beings living there
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 263d
Bunch of younger people paying for the older generation's retirement. I think I've heard of this before...
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 51d
I mean, even ideally thats technicaly how the legal ponzi scheme that is pensions works, but I know exactly what you're touching on (housing, free education, etc all the necessaries to make a decent AmericanDream style life they enjoyed and many voted to pull the ladder up after) but yeah
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 262d
Wonderful. Now he can live in peace for 2 years. The American dream.
Auntievenim@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 263d
Orphan crushing machine has never eaten this good before
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 262d
I have seen this on the news today and they were fucking cheering ☹️
bappity@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 263d
dystopian
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d
suicide sounds good right about now. I honestly thought I was turning a corner until I read this.
RockBottom@feddit.org · 1 pts · 262d
Look out which country you risk your life for.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 262d
Or are forced to risk your life for.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 1 pts · 262d
I can't believe they make me kill children and rape their parents. Well nothing i can do.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
Yes, because every single soldier is a rapist. Every last one.
RockBottom@feddit.org · 1 pts · 262d
Yeah, stupid is more common than brave.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
It's idiots that think murdering and stealing resources in countries far away is doing something 'for your country'.