A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    9 小时前

    That’s so depressing, especially since I just saw a post about the US spending $25 billion already in one month of this pointless war in Iran.

    The level of corruption is so absurd. Can’t even put it into words…

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      1·
      6 小时前

      it was 90bn on luxury vacationing, and dining, likely also included some of the spending on the war machine, but most probably went to that, and contracting.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    46·
    1 天前

    Gotta push them out on the streets, then arrest them for homelessness, and put them in camps with the rest of the homeless. Or push them out on the streets, accuse them of mental illness, and put them in camps with the rest of the mentally ill.

    Once they’re crammed into the these hastily-built camps (minimal facilities for hygiene, nutrition, medical care, or even heating/cooling) – well, we wouldn’t want anyone to have to pay to support them, they should support themselves! I’m sure there are corporations that would live to rent them for a few dollars an hour, and we can use that money to pay for food and stuff - except someone will skim off most of that money. Then between the overwork and the lack of nutrition, hygiene and healthcare, the social murder machine will be all set to run!

    • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
      31·
      7 小时前

      Even the Nazis, the literal ones from the 30s and 40s, were not as inhumane as we treat our homeless, chronically ill, an disabled.

      At least they would outright murder them while here they end up dead behind dumpsters or just outside hospitals. I did a lot of volunteer and community work until I had reached my limit of seeing how fucked up things are at the bottom.

      • lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world
        1·
        12 分钟前

        I really wouldn’t be downplaying how the Nazis treated disabled people. They were literally experimented on, tortured while still alive in some of the most horrific ways until they died. Disabled children were taken from their parents (sometimes willing, sometimes not) and abused until they died. Some of the parents would realize that the situation was not what they thought it was and try to get their child back but couldn’t. There are letters from teenagers writing to their parents - “I am going to die here” (in the institution) because the parents weren’t able to get them out. Those kids did die. And we don’t even have the full scope of numbers because documentation was destroyed and deaths were simply labelled as pneumonia when there were clearly other things at play.

        I don’t think comparison is helpful here. Disabled people have ALWAYS been treated like shit by a large amount of society and people in power. Some of it has changed over time, going back way further than the 1930/40s, some of it has improved but not as much as people would like to think sadly.

        There’s still a lot of deep seated ableism that permeates through society which is why any progress in the way disabled people are spoken to, about and how we’re treated in general, is so incredibly painstakingly slow and often feels like one half step forward, whoaaa that’s a bit too much, shuffle back 3 steps!

    • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
      19·
      24 小时前

      Don’t forget, if they’re young enough and cute enough, sex slavery awaits, just like in the gulags. Republican perverts (redundant I know) and pedos will get first pick, and at low-low prices.

    • lonefighter@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      24 小时前

      We’re spending all this money on detention centers and ICE and we’re going to run out of immigrants eventually. Gotta have the next group of people ready so all that money doesn’t go to waste and we don’t have to lay off our newly hired thugs.

  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    1 天前

    Well obviously, ballroom isn’t just gonna pay for itself. Gotta get the money from somewhere…

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 天前

    This is just going to lead to more parents of adults having to sign them over to the state…

    Which is a lot more expensive for taxpayers, and while normally can be beneficial in certain situations, the system won’t be able to handle a sudden increase from this

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
      29·
      1 天前

      They don’t care about the expense. These guys are speed running Nazi Germany. They plan on “cleansing” the population.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        1 天前

        You know the Nazis “inspiration” was how America treated: Native Americans, Blacks, and the disabled?

        We’re not “speed running Nazi Germany” trump is going back to the shit that we did that inspired the Nazis…

        “Signing over to the state” most likely won’t have the same result it did a decade ago, and once you do it there’s no take backs, it’s for life. So yeah, this is a big deal and may be a way to get more into the control of the state before they go back to aslyums and forced sterilization.

        Again, a thing that the Nazi’s openly said was an inspiration to handle “undesirables”

        But short term to get Republican voters against it, the pressure point is how much it costs. We can’t rely on them having empathy, but we know most of their voters have empty pocket books and hate taxpayer funded healthcare.

        Quick edit:

        We see this also with their weird insisting that Autism rates will go down…

        The only way it can drop like they say, is if people go back to refusing to get kids diagnosed. The reason for that, was if you got a kid diagnosed when boomers were kids, they may be institutionalized against their will.

        If that starts happening again, no one is taking their kids to doctors or agreeing to testing.

        Like, it sounds like ancient history, but I did an internship with a special needs population, and some of our oldest clients had spent their childhood in those places and were still having flashbacks decades later.

        It was a fucking horror show. And almost no parent would risk that for their child, everyone will just hide and deny it

        • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
          4·
          18 小时前

          Yes, but most Americans weren’t taught about the horrors that Americans have experienced. We were taught about Nazi Germany. As most of the world. Its an easier reference.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            18 小时前

            weren’t taught

            Well…

            Someone just did…

            Pass it on, that’s how this whole “society” shit works bro.

            Believe me, I understand it gets tiresome, but that’s why I keep telling other people, so I’m not the only one aware of this shit which keeps getting more and more relevant every fucking day.

        • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
          2·
          18 小时前

          Fascists suck as fascism in general. I mean look at Putin, he had the one oligarch walk his private military all the way to Moscow unopposed because he fucked up so bad in Ukraine.

          Its a problem that will crush itself, but take a LOT of people with it.

    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
      6·
      23 小时前

      Yup. And around ~40% of all homeless were in the foster care system at some point. And another 50% having chronic mental and physical disabilities. (being homeless for over 6 months will make anyone chronically ill BTW.) so look to see homelessness explode as a direct impact of this. Remember everyone, we only have unhoused people in America by collective choice. Our moral decline is laid bare to see.