cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/19578768
“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”
That’s the biggest difference — my deceased guy turns out to be very much alive. Musk is contending that hordes of dead people are listed as alive in the Social Security databases, and are fraudulently still drawing benefits (which the Social Security director disputes).
Johnson is 82 and still kicking. Yet sometime last month, someone or something led Social Security to both tag him as dead and start clawing back his benefits.
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When enough people’s lives are fucked up by Musk’s teenage goons and there isn’t a social security office left to go right the wrongs in person, then there’ll be an insurrection. And I for one can’t wait for that to happen. It’s urgently needed at this point.
