LaffyJan 23, 2024
AFP- Europe saw 30-fold increase in reported measles cases in 2023: World Health Organization #GetVaccinated đź’‰
Gerry GambinoJan 23, 2024
Show threadNicole Parsons

@GottaLaff

Billionaires funded anti-vaxx disinformation campaigns to bring humanity's scourges back again.

Vaccines doubled the human lifespan in a century and billionaires hate the elderly.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/billionaires-hate-social-security

https://theintercept.com/2023/04/09/elon-musk-social-security-cuts/

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/06/billionaires-bet-big-on-nikki-haley-the-stunning-motive-behind-her-sudden-surge-in-wealthy-donors/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2023/03/09/tax-on-social-security-disappears-for-millionaires/11421344002/

https://www.thestreet.com/personalities/billionaire-investor-has-a-controversial-take-on-social-security-medicaid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2023/10/10/how-four-aging-billionaires-are-making-sure-their-money-doesnt-go-to-uncle-sam/?sh=5119852942cd

Billionaires want the 19th century, when people died at 45, dying still in the traces.

Why Billionaires Hate Social Security

The real goal of billionaire-funded Social Security rhetoric is to prevent the public from drawing a connection between Social Security’s finances, the working-class retirement crisis, and the ludicrous amounts of wealth held by America’s billionaires.

Common Dreams
Jan 23, 2024 at 4:00pmWeb
Show threadDoug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦Jan 23, 2024
@Npars01 @GottaLaff Unless you own a LTC facility, the old are a VERY poor investment. They don't buy much, they tend to stay at home.
Show thread12foxfireJan 23, 2024
@SonofaGeorge @Npars01 @GottaLaff Yes. We cook. We take care of what we have. We buy what we need. And most of us think of others. BYE.
Show threadJBJan 23, 2024
@Npars01 @GottaLaff if they succeed at lowering the average lifespan by reintroducing plagues, then the rich will need more robots and AI systems to pick up the slack. Ahh…
Show threadGinny Bee (she/her)Jan 23, 2024
@Npars01 @GottaLaff đź‘€
Show threadGinny Bee (she/her)Jan 23, 2024

@Npars01 The article mentions Mike Bloomberg, who I admire for a number of reasons, so I looked up his position on Social Security and was disappointed to find this 2020 article which confirms, he's advocated for cuts for years:

https://theintercept.com/2020/02/19/mike-bloomberg-social-security/

cc @GottaLaff

Bloomberg Spent a Decade Demanding Cuts to Social Security. His Campaign Plan Doesn’t Rule Them Out.

Mike Bloomberg spent a decade demanding cuts to Social Security. His campaign plan doesn’t rule them out.

The Intercept
Show threadNicole ParsonsJan 23, 2024

@fixiemama @GottaLaff

Social security is financially secure.

Billionaires just hate the principle of a financially secure senior.

They like the idea of millions paying into a fund then not getting the promised outcome.

They want Social Security privatized so they can play with those funds on Wall Street, as they do with people's IRA's

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-10-31-debunking-latest-attack-social-security/

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/6/28/voters-overwhelmingly-oppose-the-creation-of-a-commission-to-cut-social-security-and-medicare

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/supreme-court-corruption-2665809744

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/595260-make-this-the-last-year-that-millionaires-stop-paying-into/

Debunking the Latest Attack on Social Security

Warmed-over arguments claim that the old have it too good at the expense of the young. But the real division in America isn’t generation—it’s class.

The American Prospect
Show threadSteveJan 23, 2024
@Npars01 @GottaLaff
None of those links have anything to do with anti-vaccination disinformation. All of the articles would be reasonable arguments for assertions that billionaires want people to starve to death upon retirement, unless they have investment income. But none say anything about vaccines.
Show threadNicole ParsonsJan 24, 2024

@Steve98052 @GottaLaff

There's a connection between funded anti-vaxxers & narratives to kill off the elderly prematurely.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents

Dan Patrick said the elderly should volunteer to die (to preserve the wealth of his donors).

If seniors die, the pressure to preserve Social Security lessens.

Anti-vaxxer public sentiment was manufactured deliberately. Tim Mellon is just one.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/02/robert-f-kennedy-jr-republican-donor-super-pac
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/15/amazonsmile-donations-anti-vaccine-groups
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/24/anti-vaxxers-political-power-00116527
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/struggling-anti-vaccination-groups-enjoyed-pandemic-windfall-rcna14402

Texas Lt. Governor: Old People Should Volunteer to Die to Save the Economy

According to Dan Patrick “lots of grandparents” are willing to sacrifice themselves for the cause.

Vanity Fair
Show threadMichael GemarJan 24, 2024
@Npars01 @Steve98052 @GottaLaff How old is Trump…?
Show threadNicole ParsonsJan 24, 2024

@michaelgemar @Steve98052 @GottaLaff

Tim Mellon is 80...

Show threadNicole ParsonsJan 24, 2024

@Steve98052 @GottaLaff

One of the pernicious threads buried in a fascist movement is the amoral one of utility. It's sometimes described as functionalism.

In other words, if you're no longer of utility, your value as a human being should vanish. Efforts to preserve human life ends once your utility ends.

Billionaires funded anti-vaxxer public sentiment because fascists have beliefs about "useless eaters".

The billionaire set never says useful to whom.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.36019/9780813546520-005/html?lang=en

3. Eugenic Conceptions II: Useless Eaters

3. Eugenic Conceptions II: Useless Eaters was published in Doctors of Deception on page 28.

De Gruyter
Show threadJL RobersonJan 24, 2024
@Npars01 @Steve98052 @GottaLaff Sure would be nice if, when you include a link, it's not one that's closed off to most people.
Show threadNicole ParsonsJan 24, 2024

@jlroberson @Steve98052 @GottaLaff

If you possess a public library card, none of these links are inaccessible.

Mine uses PressReader.

I access these links via my taxpayer supported public library system.

Show threadJL RobersonJan 24, 2024
@Npars01 @Steve98052 @GottaLaff
1. I detect an implied accusation I am somehow against public libraries. And here's me with a Hayward Public Library card
2. I just tried to do that but golly, it's telling me it needs to be a university
3. I'm not going to spend the evening trying to find a way that works
Show threadSteveJan 24, 2024

@Npars01 @GottaLaff
Those articles do include the Texas politician who told old people to catch COVID and die to save Social Security. And they do include evidence that some right wing rich people are financing anti-vaccine disinformation.

The ones you linked before were about rich people who wanted to cut Social Security by buying politicians, not by telling old people to die.

Sure, cut Social Security and Medicare and old people _will_ die. But that's because they can't afford medical care, or housing. Not because a politician told them to get themselves sick.

Yes, there's a link. The multiply-indicted twice-impeached racist misogynist fascist idiot mobster's maladministration probably had people trying to aggravate the pandemic so old people would die and save Social Security money. But your first set of links weren't about what you said.