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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:43:56 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

   What's insane is how many old men come down into my industry out of retirement. They had very rich careers, but they hit their 60s and 70s having spent all that retirement savings on houses, renovations, boats, car collections, and just idly blowing their time.

   They used to pretend Social sec was like a forced bonus, but now it's their primary lifeline, and it's strange to see. Even old people I knew for a long time have changed their tune, they used to warn me not to count on it, but they haggle and bicker with the government to make sure they get every last cent.

   I wish it would just go insolvent in 5 years

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:46:05 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     send some broccoli-haired bisexual twink over there to mock him and say "awww wahhhh boo hooo my FREE GOVERNMENT BENEFITS aren't enough to live on, wah wah wah I want MORE FREE MONEY because I don't know how to work hard"

     (this guy doesn't deserve it but it bothers me people in 2.3 million dollar homes are pretending he's a perfect avatar for their own self-imposed predicament, and it would get at them through him with its flagrant injustics)

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:47:05 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     Remember how the air force was supposed to be the smart guy branch where you always turn out okay?

   • Clever_Moniker (clevermoniker@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:47:42 JST Clever_Moniker

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot It is mathematically insolvent in less than 10 years. But maybe it will really drag on for the whole 10 years. Also maybe a tech revolution happens and they get the last laugh again but they can't really count on it.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:47:42 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Clever_Moniker

     @CleverMoniker We all think they're going to look retirements w/ taxes, get enough women and millennial browns in and it's a done deal

   • Paultron-3030 (paultron@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 06:52:52 JST Paultron-3030

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot telling the boomers outside the food lion raising money for homeless veterans they already steal enough of my tax money
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   • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield (wgiwf@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:10:23 JST Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot Social Security was instituted to destroy the multi-generational household and profit the real-estate industry and create the retirement home industry by taking Grandpa and Grandma out of the family house for them to live by themselves and depend upon outside resources (and pay a bunch) to take care of their declining health instead of living with children and grandchildren.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:11:41 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Wolfgirl in Wheatfield

     @wgiwf And now we look at mexis living a dozen to a house, and pajeets at three dozen to another, and think we ought to steal that method from them

     It's insane, we help out a lot w/ family and there's a constant drumbeat of outsiders always telling us we're doing too much, that we actually need to just outsource everything so we "arent' so busy"

   • :swastika: Eddie Fucksaw :swastika: (chainsaw_appreciator@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:11:50 JST :swastika: Eddie Fucksaw :swastika:

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     Was it worth it Henry?
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   • vrilium (vrilium@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:12:25 JST vrilium

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot "God save the holy land, Israel, semper fi, peterbilt proud"
     What was he doing with the money from working for the Air Force all this time? He could have gotten into property for nothing in the 70s/80s. Spent it on Liquor and Hookers amirite?
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 07:13:59 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • vrilium

     @vrilium This guy probably had to operate as the lynchpin of the family, likely not much fault of his own - he burned his own life at the altar to care for his wife & kids. If anything, his work today is an indictment that they haven't rescued him to return the kindness.

     But some of the olds prefer this, they bought into the scheme and they refuse to move in w/ the kids, actually BE a grandparent - this bachelor life might be his dream, he may beat them off with a stick every year saying "I'm not gonna be listening to a bunch of squealing kids all day I have my own life!"

   • 「Under Divine Advent」 :gentoo: (teatootler@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:28:43 JST 「Under Divine Advent」 :gentoo:

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     • vrilium
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @vrilium this poor bastard looks like a fallout ghoul
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   • 「Under Divine Advent」 :gentoo: (teatootler@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:29:22 JST 「Under Divine Advent」 :gentoo:

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot okay good, so when are the feds going to give me the hundreds of thousands i put into it over the years back?
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 08:29:22 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • 「Under Divine Advent」 :gentoo:

     @TeaTootler Literally never, remember? They've been telling us that since 5th grade.

     "well you kids will pay in to it, but you probably won't ever draw from it, too bad"