It’s exactly for these kinds of anachronistic things that when I see someone right now agitating to have some kind of age cutoff for people in office, I have a lot of skepticism.

It’d be ironic for government to put a cap into place for age of 65 (say) and then soon after, humans often start having longer and longer healthspans, extending over 100 and possibly beyond.

For that matter, it’d be interesting to see how the Social Security system responds to longer and longer healthspans. I have a feeling that cons would be quite quick to start agitating to raise the retirement age because they always seem very keen on having people working more, even when they don’t want to. They also love to take away services and benefits from the average American.

It’s easy to see how slow our system responds based on the realities going on around us.

And those special snowflakes should be told: with great power, comes great responsibility.

I cannot believe how many boomers I heard express doubt as to whether they’d ever collect it, since they thought it was going to be Greatest Generation/Silent Generation taking it all.

I don’t want to diminish the experiences of those with legit chemical imbalances that modern chemistry can do wonders for. The closest I’ve had to something like that is maybe SAD in the winter months of locations that have less sunshine.

This is not about that. But I do think quite a bit of medication is about making people functional under a very dysfunctional system/environment.

If someone is feeling depressed because of being mostly inside, working long hours and/or more than one job, shoveling in poor substitutes for food, but high in caloric content, between one obligation or the other, and having sleep disrupted by doomscrolling late at night, stressed out about how to make ends meet, well, it’s no wonder, honestly. Trying to reverse that is no small task.

Yup.

Social security is one of, if not the most popular, government program with Americans.

Looking at Social Security and the constant gaslighting about how it’s a “Ponzi scheme” and it’s “going to fail at year X” demonstrates not only how out of touch the Epstein class we have for politicians are, but also the extent they and the corporate media is willing to go to give a false impression about things.

It could easily be made solvent with just a few steps, all of them quite popular with the American people.

People already have a shocking lack of saving. We have had the cons trying to destroy Social Security since its inception, and now we get fElon telling people they won’t need to save for retirement, FFS:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-retirement-saving-ai-abundance-anthropic-dario-essay-ubi-2026-1

I’m picturing something like:

I’m so done with this guy.

Also, can you imagine how the wingnuts would be reacting if this was being done on behalf of the Obamas?

LOL, they totally lost their shit at the notion of planting a garden, suggesting kids should (gasp!) exercise and eat better, that schools should serve up healthy food (the horror!) or that maybe Big Gulps were not a health food.

I mean, when the Obama’s name is attached, that’s some woke DEI elitist shit from uppity arrogant CLANG!ers who don’t know their place.

If RFKjr and Kid Rock put together some unhinged regimen for them, they’ll eat it up, because they are endorsed by the fat orange slob.

He might be ridiculed, but he’s still not in prison and still holds his job. In spite of having no qualifications, no education, and no experience.

Classic DARVO shit.

It’s rampant these days, from assholes like Tucker saying if he turns fascist, it’s because the mean liberals made him do it, to the Murc’s Law media and the reactionary centrists blaming all of the excesses of the radical right wing/Republicans on liberals/Democrats.

Well, I saw fElon say people won’t even need to save for retirement, because, well, reasons. Because that dumbass can see the future.

Social Security would be the easiest thing to fix, and honestly, it’d be hugely popular, too.

That is, it will be hugely popular with everyone but the Epstein class and those that do their bidding.

Just raise the cap.

Gen X here. You’ve nailed the aesthetic of being Gen X very, very well.

This definitely tracks on a personal level (though I’ve never been diagnosed with depression and never tried meds) - if I get outside and do something - almost anything - I feel 100% better.

Okay, who is going to go to prison over this, though?

Imagine anyone else reading this, being to be able to just ignore a court order.

Where was that?

Oh my god I wish that actually becomes true.

In a just world, most of this administration would be behind bars. Same with fElon and Bannon and Stone and other people not necessarily in the administration.

Everything else must be means-tested, but the Mad Pedophile King gets whatever he wants:

ballrooms, arches, billions of dollars for concentrations camps, kidnapping and flights to countries for immigrants, lawfare against all the non-loyalists, and now repainting his plane…

In other words: these people are exactly the people you probably already thought they were.

Family values!