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What's wrong with Allahu Akbar, James? Please tell us.

Her parents have asked over and over, that they don't want their daughter's death used for politics. Especially by Republicans who are against immigrants. She was a immigrant. Any other situation, she would be a target of ICE.

I’ve seen a lot of this after Halloween so let’s just be frank about this: Black neighborhoods are awful and nobody wants to live in one. Including black people. There are tons of black people who don’t deserve being lumped in with the lowlife urban scum. We had black kids too. All polite. It’s the location.

As a black person you always gotta fear that there'll be a single clip that sets off thousands of people across the world to justify their hate and dehumanization of us. White people could do the same thing but God forbid its some black kids without respect

We need to go back to being a society that accepts apologies. She’s very, very young. She’s poisoned by an academic bubble. She deserves a second chance. Everyone does.

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

He's the sitting president now what is he doing about it? Where is the wall? Where are the mass deportations?

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

I've seen so many people talk about how "you were just convinced into being trans" when that's... not how it works??? Your born with it, people!

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

Donald Trump just learned no one is above the law!

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

If we can remove the grifter bullshit and put aside whatever opinion you have of their last 2 games for 2 seconds, this is objectively a fucking awful thing that just keeps happening again and again. 400 people out of a job because the industry continues to cannibalize itself

Who’s ready for some real talk on Social Security? Here it is: you didn’t “pay in” to Social Security, there’s no deposit account with “your” money in it, and every single dime of Social Security taxes you’ve paid in your entire life went directly to someone else or was frittered away by Congress. For many decades after the program was created, there was more money collected in Social Security taxes paid in than money spent on benefits. This was due to the demographics of the country at the time: in 1950 there were 16 workers paying Social Security taxes for every 1 recipient of benefits, whereas today there are fewer than 3 workers per beneficiary. So obviously, all that extra money collected for decades when there were more taxes collected than benefits paid was set aside and invested, right? LOL. If only. Instead of setting all that extra money aside and protecting it for future beneficiaries, Congress spent it. Every last penny. Every dollar that has been collected in Social Security taxes has been spent. What Congress did instead of saving money was create a massive IOU which it dishonestly called the Social Security Trust Fund. Except there’s no trust and there’s no fund. It’s just a gigantic IOU, like in Dumb and Dumber. There’s no numbered account with money in it waiting to be withdrawn. Where does this leave us? Beginning around 2020, payroll taxes collected were no longer sufficient to pay for current Social Security benefits, so money had to printed or borrowed from elsewhere. As more and more money has to be borrowed to pay current benefits, the Social Security Trust Fund balance is reduced. Once it reaches zero—and right now that is expected to happen within the next 10 years—the government is legally prohibited from paying out more in benefits than it collects in Social Security payroll taxes each year. And that will mean an instant cut in Social Security benefits of around 20 percent. By the year 2100, expected benefits will be just 65 percent of promised benefits. As of today, a 75-year-old who worked for 50 years and earned the median salary will have paid close to $100,000 in Social Security payroll taxes over his life. Based on average life expectancy of another 12 years, he will collected more than $500,000 in Social Security benefits, and those payments will come not from a savings account somewhere, but from taxes paid by his children and grandchildren. But when it comes time for the people paying directly for his Social Security checks to receive their benefits, they won’t get nearly as much as he gets, because the Trust Fund will be bankrupt. The people paying for the Social Security benefits of Baby Boomers today will pay significantly more into the system than the Boomers ever did, but will receive a fraction of the eventual payout. Does that seem fair? In light of those facts, is it really accurate to say you “earned” that Social Security payment? Of course it isn’t. Social Security is welfare for American retirees. And it’s a welfare system that is not only a total waste of money designed to give Congress an even bigger budget to fritter away (if you invested your Social Security taxes, your lump sum at retirement would be 5x higher than your expected lifetime benefits from Social Security), it’s also deeply immoral. Because of the current demographics in the country, Social Security takes money from workers today so it can give retirees 3-5x more than they ever paid in AND will pay out significantly less when it’s time for the people currently paying into the system to collect their own benefits. Boomers receive 3-5x more than they paid in, while their grandchildren will receive 35 percent less than what they were promised. They originally called this the New Deal when it was created, but it’s a raw deal for everyone currently being forced to pay into it. So let’s stop with the pretense that Social Security is anything other than a poorly designed welfare scheme for retirees.

H1B is now practically a dead avenue for Indian IT engineers to get to America. Only one country benefits from this. China.

jesus fucking christ why isn't this a national story? they can cover twitch streamers for months but a congressional candidate getting raped in a politically charged assault barely cracks the local headlines??