Jesus never said anything about trans people either yet Christians sure act he did

The list of taxes we have is insane.

We can go on and on about this forever. Your opinion is that taxes are too high.

The stop asking me to do it.

To be clear, your position is you would rather many Americans be destitute so that you would pay fewer taxes.

Maybe you missed the platform most candidates were running on. It was the elimination of several government agencies. To me that’s a good start. The budget should also be tied to revenue. We need to balance the budget where expenditures do not exceed revenue.

Trump himself stated, "I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare." He also added ~$8 trillion to the national debt in his previous term. Additionally, he said he would balance the budget prior to his first term and did not do it.

All involve increasing taxation or making it needs based...

Some involve increasing payroll taxes while others involve taxes on corporations or investments. There's also non-tax based proposals like raising the retirement age.

I have zero interest in paying more to a mismanaged program...

The program is not mismanaged.

That’s the problem with socialism. You eventually run out of other people’s money to spend.

This is not socialism. Further, every US president, including Republican, has supported or enacted legislation upholding social security since its inception.

Yeah I agree with the sentiment, use whatever is good for you, but I feel like most advanced linux users are not using Mint. They typically come to the realization that everything is either Debian, Arch, or build it yourself so they use one of those.

Election of 1860: am i joke to u?

It's "running out of money" in the sense that there's a projected shortfall, not that it's going to be bankrupt in the near future. The projected shortfall means covering 80% of benefits in 2034 and covering 74% of benefits in 2097. But there are many proposals to address this shortfall and the Office of Chief Actuary collects all proposals and even provides a summary of each proposal and how much of the shortfall it will cover (PDF). So you don't need to "have it both ways"; we can address the shortfall without reducing benefits.

You're also claiming it's a scam when it isn't. The purpose of Social Security is to alleviate poverty for seniors and it does that. Further, people receive more in benefits than they pay into the program, especially those of low-income who need it most (PDF). Lastly, regardless of your personal situation, the notion that private retirement investments would be better than social security for everyone is disputed.

I CAME IN LIKE A WRECKING BA- sorry wrong artist

Lmao “Vermin Supreme” is a real person:

Vermin Love Supreme (born 1960 or 1961) is an American performance artist and activist who has run as a candidate in various local, state, and national elections in the United States. He served as a member of the Libertarian Party's judicial committee. Supreme is known for wearing a boot as a hat and carrying a large toothbrush, and has said that if elected President of the United States, he will pass a law requiring people to brush their teeth. He has campaigned on a platform of zombie apocalypse awareness and time travel research, and promised a free pony for every American.

Wikipedia

Having legitimate criticisms of the country you live in

wHy Do YoU hAtE aMeRiCa?!?!

It's so cool that ~~we are~~ Capitalism is giving young women the idea that they can make money by selling their body. I'm sure that is great for society.

FTFY

Whether doing sex work, manual labor, or a desk job, you are selling your body for profit. If you have a problem with that then you have a problem with Capitalism.

Increasing the money supply would have been fine if it had gone into working people's pockets, infrastructure, jobs, housing, and other productive uses. But yeah, when it's just pumped into the stock market or funneled through business via PPP then, go figure, the rich get richer while everyone else suffers.

Is there a way to see which instances a Mastodon instance has defederated with? For lemmy instances, for example, you can go to /instances to see a list of other connected and blocked instances.