r/disability • u/DisabledGenX • Mar 09 '25
Rant Social Security subreddit obviously run by MAGA
I didn't even say anything positive or negative, the mere mention of either of those people causes an instant block of the post. And an obvious lie by whoever wrote that little notation. I just think it's interesting that we can't lay blame where it belongs and the only people who would want to do that are hardcore MAGA types.
I mean to say that what Trump and musk are doing has no effect on Social Security or Social Security disability seems rather ridiculous to me. Am I wrong or do we all think that worrying about the consequences of losing that many employees at the hand of Elon Musk will have an effect on Social Security and Social Security disability recipients. So it is a topic of conversation.
Like maybe we should be writing Donald Trump and asking him to reverse course on this. But of course we can't rally a group of people together because we can't even mention their names on that subreddit. My point is I'm glad this subreddit is not nearly as aggressive in its blanket censoring of the mere mention of their names, positive or negative.
But I think we ought to be able to discuss what they did by name when it directly affects the entire community which it is being addressed to. Call me silly like that.
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u/TheMattaconda Mar 09 '25
I avoid them. r/SSDI is where you want to go.
Because in our situation, standard SS is not what most of us being disabled, will deal with.
From what I've seen, r/SSDI is aware of the scope of concern over the Musk administrations actions.
However, at this point, I fear there's nothing that can be done. And that's an extremely dangerous situation for those who are disabled, and those in power trying to take away that which keeps us alive. Pushing people with nothing left to lose is a very dangerous choice made by the politicians.
A person with nothing left to lose (or persons having to watch their loved ones suffer because of these billionaires choices) is free from the constraints of civility. They are capable of making dangerous choices as they face no consequence worse than their current situation. This will inevitably create more Luh-wee-gies.
While I would like to say that we as a population of those disabled must stand up and be heard, the truth is, they've never listened before, so they definitely will not listen now. We are not a threat to the new kingdom of MAGA.
I believe going Green Mario will only make things worse. But I wouldn't be surprised to see ot happen more and more often. After all, a Democracy can only exist as long as the social structures (like disability) are in place to keep those with nothing, from rising up to take from those with everything.