everyone should be calling this what it is, which is murder. every cut to social security, to medicaid, means people who depend on those programs will die, which is the goal. these are the Death Panels the right lied about - ThreadSky

cait.bsky.social • 57 days ago

everyone should be calling this what it is, which is murder. every cut to social security, to medicaid, means people who depend on those programs will die, which is the goal. these are the Death Panels the right lied about

Reposted from makena kelly

SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me.

The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI.
www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

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sanders-2016.bsky.social•57 days ago

Nothing new. Trump is responsible for 500,000 Covid deaths.

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

it is absolutely new

sanders-2016.bsky.social•57 days ago

Yes of course it's new that America will let him get away with it. I meant that trump has always been this way.

lebenzon-brushes.bsky.social•57 days ago

A core of project 2025 is to kill millions of Americans.

And that's just their foundation......................

kobayashimaruu.bsky.social•57 days ago

I'm disabled and on medicare, I'm uh... scared, to put it very very very lightly.

craigisonline.bsky.social•57 days ago

So many people are going to die and if they do, there needs to be rioting at the door or certain institutions of gov.
I know the employees of the SS offices are doing everything they can and we must continue to support them by calling reps on both sides and making our voices loud.

lady8jane.bsky.social•57 days ago

I assume eugenics is absolutely the point here. Elderly and disabled people will die. 100%

princessfiona24.bsky.social•57 days ago

The banality of evil is embodied as the bottom line on a spreadsheet to these people.

alibear27.bsky.social•57 days ago

💯 death panels. Every accusation has been a confession. They have lost all humanity and compassion.

doogie2k.bsky.social•57 days ago

I always thought of insurance companies and HMOs as the OG death panels. This is a new evolution but they've been doing this for ages.

alibear27.bsky.social•57 days ago

Having worked in the industry, I can tell you the folks who are most certainly not running death panels are Medicare and Medicaid. Once you put profit into the picture, all bets are off.

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

i have also worked in the industry, as you would know if you kept scrolling my thread. medicaid is absolutely doing everything it can to deny claims based on clerical errors a baby's mother might have in the hours since she literally gave birth to a human being

alibear27.bsky.social•57 days ago

Agree with the Medicaid part, mainly it's by making the whole process so burdensome that patients and doctors give up trying to get approval for care.

alicedyeforme.bsky.social•57 days ago

They do it to elderly people in nursing homes, too.

They do everything in their power to find a reason to deny initial coverage, then demand mountains of paperwork on a regular basis looking for ways to stop that coverage.

michaelspins.bsky.social•57 days ago

what RFK Jr is doing at HHS is a planned campaign of mass murder as well, we've got an entire administration staffed with psychopaths

michaelspins.bsky.social•57 days ago

people dying because they have no access to severe weather forecasts, people dying from tainted food, etc.
https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3llh4mkbeja2n

yiff.com•57 days ago

how much longer will it need to be before enough people realize the government's seeking to eliminate them and take their capital for itself and its cronies

how much longer before those people decide, it's us or them, and choose to take it to violence because talk and politics no longer matter

badatgender.bsky.social•57 days ago

This is the end stage war on welfare queens and everyone on social security is one of the queens

It’s like a greatest hits of right wing lies

harrymeanwell4.bsky.social•57 days ago

It is

tyranitar14.bsky.social•57 days ago

If I was running for office, I would be relentlessly repeating “Republican policies kill”

seanorange.bsky.social•57 days ago

The SSA codebase is so antiquated because of decades of neglect and a practice of forcing the government to contract with lowest-bid private firms — all things Republicans wanted and fought for.

So what private firm is doing the migration? How were they awarded the contract? We need answers.

cactuarlar.bsky.social•57 days ago

as a generally non-religious, non-spiritual person, one of the primary reasons I still want to believe there's an afterlife is the hope that everyone culpable, eventually, will be forced to face proportionate consequences for their actions, even if it doesn't come in this life

mooiest.bsky.social•57 days ago

I don’t know if there’s a hell, so I hope they get sentenced to life, and I hope they live forever.
If there is a hell, I want them arriving relieved to finally be there.

marissarowan.bsky.social•57 days ago

I've come to the conclusion there is no afterlife... more particularly because the concept of Christians who go to heaven despite very un-Christian behavior while I'd be fated for hell for not believing doesn't sound very comforting to sleep at night.

alicedyeforme.bsky.social•57 days ago

That's why they need to experience hell while they're still here.

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

they are doing the quiet part out loud, which is killing off as many people as they can that depend in any way on government programs. the elderly, the disabled, the poor, especially those with children. they know the media will cover these deaths as "tragedies" and refuse to link them back to DOGE

ellocust.bsky.social•57 days ago

Holocaust by negligence is the vibe.

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

elon sees these people as a drain on the government's bank accounts, even though they paid into this system for their entire lives. their deaths will save the government millions of dollars, which can then be repurposed for contracts with elon's companies.

datafran.bsky.social•57 days ago

Government is not supposed to be cheap, it’s supposed to provide fucking services to its people.

shuchancellor.online•57 days ago

Well. In a healthy democratic society, yes. But we live in an empire that extracts resources. And failing/flailing about, it turns its imperialist eye inward and consumes its own peoples.

datafran.bsky.social•57 days ago

It’s been argued to me that empire does not seek slavery in the imperial core, but that core is no longer geographical, it’s defined by class.

shuchancellor.online•57 days ago

Whoever argued that either read the wrong books, has an incorrect framework, or argues on behalf of empire. The West NATO alliance has always been propped up by lumpenproles and chattel slavery and merely has transformed or exported these oppression.

slack2thefuture.bsky.social•57 days ago

Not just their money. Think of the nutrients that can be extracted from their corpses to nourish the bodies of the rich!

paulfenton.bsky.social•57 days ago

It’s even grosser, the government can literally print money. We cannot “go bankrupt.” These $ are not being repurposed, just taken away.

potato-doritos.bsky.social•57 days ago

If I was a Democrat I'd be so excited, all you have to do is keep democracy going and then you can give the remaining people like a single loaf of bread to get you back on the gravy train. this must be like Gamesmaster Anthony's birthday for them

potato-doritos.bsky.social•57 days ago

Getting that cash for not eviscerating a granny with a roto rooter, just 1.5 more years boys and girls

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

i've worked at 5+ medical, pediatric, dental offices. i have seen the despair in a person's eyes when they realize medicaid is not going to cover their newborn baby because of a clerical error, and i have personally spent hours on the phone begging on their behalf.

datafran.bsky.social•57 days ago

And all because we’ve been railroaded into a world where survival is dependent on the ability to sell one’s labor cheap to the owning class for the privilege of just enough food and healthcare to do so again tomorrow.
There are kinder dystopias than the one we live in.

harrymeanwell4.bsky.social•57 days ago

Anthropologists would say we are a maladaptive society. Any society that refuses to care for one another is going in the wrong direction.

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

this is the final, inevitable outcome of insurance companies being allowed to dispute and deny claims until people run out of appeals because they're dead. there is no one to call. there is no one to beg. they can call it "staffing issues" and "an unfortunate situation" and people are going to die

harrymeanwell4.bsky.social•57 days ago

We need to stop our path under Trump

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

if an 88 year old's only source of income vanishes, they can't get a new job. their life becomes a horrible balance of sacrifices between keeping their power and heat on, and feeding themselves, and paying for their prescriptions, and if they have no family to fall back on they are going to die.

amandak6647.bsky.social•57 days ago

I'm only 35 but I'm also on disability and I didn't receive my payment for this month. They can't tell me why but my worker (who I can now no longer contact) blamed DOGE specifically.

cait.bsky.social•57 days ago

the actual predictor of crime isn't city or race or poverty. it's desperation. if your government builds a system where your choices are steal or die, people are going to steal, and that becomes proof we need more police and more jails and more felons stripped of their right to vote.

6sidedgames.bsky.social•57 days ago

Every accusation by the right is a confession. They accused Dems of death panels.

They are now implementing death panels.

forgethere.bsky.social•57 days ago

my partner has endured a Herculean struggle with BCBS over some bills. he finally got some claims approved after years. then they just closed the ticket without paying him. can't appeal an approved claim. lol, lmao.

ritadespierta.bsky.social•57 days ago

What pisses me off the most is that most of us who pay our premiums into Social Security Insurance want our money to pay claims not only because we have immediate family members who rely on it, but because it's the bare minimum for a functional society for the elderly not to starve.

lollycat-88.bsky.social•57 days ago

Is there any oversight over them at all?

jovialstarfish.bzky.team•57 days ago

So. We pause the tesla protests this weekend and we protest this instead. We need to make it clear to every house and senate member that this is UNACCEPTABLE. Get local dem, dsa, and republican groups in on this too. This is an all hands on deck situation.

jovialstarfish.bzky.team•57 days ago

Hell. Get grandmas bingo club on this. Like they have done horrible things and will continue, but if we can't all get off our asses for this one that will just kill tons of people when will we.

alicedyeforme.bsky.social•57 days ago

Don't pause the Tesla protests. The only way this shit even slows down is by turning off Musk's money spigot.

jovialstarfish.bzky.team•57 days ago

We can do both then. Just throwing out ideas.

no1asseater.bsky.social•57 days ago

greenander.bsky.social•57 days ago

I can’t stress enough how much these dorks who have only ever asked ChatGPT to make them a website will fuck this up.

COBOL is unwieldy and that system is decades old. Once they break it they likely won’t be able to fix it.

mercime.bsky.social•57 days ago

Well that's certainly a terrible idea that will cost many lives & create many more homeless.

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