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Null User Object@lemmy.world to Orphan Crushing Machine@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 个月前

88-year-old veteran who was working five days a week can finally retire after crowdfunding raises $1M for him

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88-year-old veteran who was working five days a week can finally retire after crowdfunding raises $1M for him

www.independent.co.uk

Null User Object@lemmy.world to Orphan Crushing Machine@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 个月前
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Crowdfunding raises $1M to allow 88‑year‑old veteran to retire
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A viral video helped raise over $1m for Ed Bambas in under 48 hours
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    How many more out there like him? We gonna crowdfund all of them too? Seems like a decent retirement system would be more efficient. Too bad we’re fresh out of taxpayer benefits. Plenty of money for harassing and kidnapping civilians though.

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      Where the fuck all that social security money go?

      • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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        The Republicans keep robbing it and refuse to actually have rich people provide their share?

        Bezos and Musk pay their entire share which they will likely never need in a few minutes at the start of each year.

      • Dionysus@leminal.space
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        Payton?

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    America is broken.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      Working as intended.

    • xploit@lemmy.world
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      Whole world at this point

    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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      The purpose of a system is what it does, or something

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    Awesome, now do my eighty year-old parents, who’ve been “borrowing” my car since March 2024 to work for DoorDash.

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    Hope he’s not a right-winger (pretty fucking rare for those of that age), or he’ll be complicit in being supported by socialism. They’ll fry him for that.

    • FoxyFerengi@startrek.website
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      I had a very animated discussion with a Vietnam vet a couple weeks ago. He saw the disabled veteran license plate on my car and asked me about it. We somehow very quickly got to bitching about Trump and idiotic MAGA policies lol

      I know it’s rare, but they do exist

      • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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        Not enough, unfortunately. Too many elderly people, vets, and other groups just support the same tire and old b******* each year.

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      For this take I sentence you to go have lunch at the nearest senior home and actually talk to your fellow human beings living there

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    Bunch of younger people paying for the older generation’s retirement. I think I’ve heard of this before…

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      I mean, even ideally thats technicaly how the legal ponzi scheme that is pensions works, but I know exactly what you’re touching on (housing, free education, etc all the necessaries to make a decent AmericanDream style life they enjoyed and many voted to pull the ladder up after) but yeah

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    Wonderful. Now he can live in peace for 2 years. The American dream.

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    Orphan crushing machine has never eaten this good before

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    I have seen this on the news today and they were fucking cheering ☹️

  • Bappity@lemmy.world
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    dystopian

  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
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    suicide sounds good right about now. I honestly thought I was turning a corner until I read this.

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    Look out which country you risk your life for.

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      Or are forced to risk your life for.

      • RockBottom@feddit.org
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        Yeah, stupid is more common than brave.

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        I can’t believe they make me kill children and rape their parents. Well nothing i can do.

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          Yes, because every single soldier is a rapist. Every last one.

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      It’s idiots that think murdering and stealing resources in countries far away is doing something ‘for your country’.

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