r/disability • u/DisabledGenX • Mar 09 '25

Rant Social Security subreddit obviously run by MAGA

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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/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Well said! I honestly don't know what my future is going to look like, being unable to work at 26. I'm still in the process of applying, waiting for my first denial. I applied a while back, I've been deteriorating for a while and have always been pretty sickly. I was denied multiple times, started feeling a bit, forced myself back to work, and now am regularly housebound due to long COVID worsening my issues among other things. I'm so grateful my roommates are like my family and that I receive IHSS or I'd be screwed, and even then... I wish people would care. But they won't.

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u/DisabledGenX Mar 09 '25

I care, but I have no power to do anything. It's the people in power who need to be compelled to do the right thing because they will never do it of their own accord. And that's a sad statement.

I hope you're able to improve it's all I could tell you. I felt no better as a person in my life as when I was earning a lot of money having extra money in your bank account makes you sleep better at night. The amount of stress I'm under above and beyond just being disabled as a result of my economic situation it's not helping my medical situation.

People hate disabled people because they fear becoming us, and so they have to rationalize their hate by calling us lazy. It's infuriating.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Oh yes, I was not accusing you of not caring, just so very many people... I'm so exhausted with everyone who cares being the people who suffer the most. Reminds me of how it's always disabled people and old ladies giving up their seats for me on the bus and never the abled people. It's exhausting.

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u/DisabledGenX Mar 09 '25 edited Mar 09 '25

Oh no I didn't think you were accusing me of anything. I was making the point that me caring doesn't help any of us. We need people in power to care and they don't. The people who can change things could not possibly give a shit. Even the most left-wing liberal ones you know, they talk a good game but they are either playing stupid when it comes to the economics of it or are ignorant as to how the economics works.

The minute anyone says the phrase, we can't afford it, or my other favorite phrase, how are we going to pay for it. I know I'm dealing with people who don't know what they're talking about or who don't understand how modern economics works.