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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 hours ago

The money THEOR PARENTS PAID INTO AND WORKED TOWARDS. They are literally entitled to it. It is their parent money!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Talking about Odious Lusting After Fortunes

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Warning everyone that I could not find a source for this and this Twitter post isn't any evidence in itself. So if you're saying I told you so, then you're just as susceptible as the people who believe $300m was being sent to 11yos without any explanation.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I found two sources for this info.

https://en.as.com/latest_news/bad-news-for-social-security-beneficiaries-this-new-proposal-would-stop-payments-to-170000-people-n/ says:

Who could see their Social Security benefits stopped?

Government Executive reports that the SSA memo proposes ceasing payments that are made to people without Social Security numbers. While people without an SSN are not eligible to receive Social Security benefits of their own, there are scenarios where they can accept benefits on behalf of an eligible person who does have an SSN as that person’s “representative payee.”

A link in that text goes to https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/03/ssa-weighs-axing-payments-170000-beneficiaries/403740/ and it gives an example:

That task could be arduous, as finding payees is already so difficult that at times the agency turns to institutional payees like child welfare agencies, said Romig. SSA staff also have to assess the suitability of payees.

“Say you’re a kid and you don’t have a payee for a while — they stop paying the benefit until they sort it out,” she said of the potential for interruptions to benefits.

It may be that the OP read that and extrapolated it to mean orphans would be cut off ... which may or may not be true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Those are for SSA, not SBA. They don't explain why SBA would be brokering business loans with 11yos. There is likely a valid explanation here, but the media doesn't need to get up in arms until more details are available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I don't see anything about SBA in the articles above.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They've also cut PEPFAR. PEPFAR is a program which, among other things, provides antiretrovirals to people with HIV/AIDS in poorer countries. Approximately twenty million people, including half a million children will now start to slowly die without access to these drugs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

For comparison's sake, Hitler killed 13.6 million people. History is very likely to end up remembering Trump as the single deadliest regime in history.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The best part is how his efficiency improvements will cost the government half a trillion dollars 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Efficiently extracting tax dollars into private bank accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

It'll result in Musk's douchebag billionaire buddies not getting the extra tax scrutiny. It's a feature not a bug.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Elon after labeling orphans as fraudsters and taking away their survivor benefits that they are entitled to and deserve: "God, I just sniffle I don't understand why people hate me crocodile tears"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 hours ago

Please, Smithers, who are they going to complain to? Their parents?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

well then it is settled he is the embodiment of orphan crushing machine

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Need to see a better source than a tweet that I can't find.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

I can't find any sources or reporting on this. Not to say it's not happening but can't even find some dumb Musk tweet about this

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Is there a source for this, I'm genuinely interested in reading more about this but can't find a source.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 13 hours ago

It's a screenshot of a tweet, I don't know what further proof you could want. Did you not see the blue checkmark? /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I can't find much except for a weird indiatoday article and the original Xhit: https://nitter.space/elonmusk/status/1904030373899616736#m

I don't understand the association he's making between Social Security and the Small Business Administration. At first glance I don't see any indication the SBA does anything with children outside of funding childcare centers?

It sounds like they check your credit for a small business loan, so they would presumably take your SSN and I guess check it against the database?

But then they check your credit anyway. It's not like the Social Security database is the safeguard for an unsafe loan. We have ~~identity leaks~~ credit agencies for that. If he had proof of children or 'immortals' actually getting these loans in any numbers he would show it. Why can't a 17 year old run a company anyway? If 20 year olds can dismantle the government...

If an elderly small business owner dies, and the company is still held by his estate... wouldn't his loan still be attached to his SSN?

And if an underage orphan receives ownership of a small business through estate, would their SSN be attached to these loans, even if the company was operated by a third party regency?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

My experience with estates would be you'd need to file for an EIN for the estate and the loan would be a liability against the estate. So to close the estate out you'd need to clear out any liabilities and remaining capital or property given to beneficiaries. You might have heard of cases where people have to sell family homes to clear debt against the estate .

But with Musk is hard to even try to follow a train of thought. And his level of misunderstanding of how anything in the government works is pretty mind-blowingly wrong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Dudes just mashing buttons on a calculator like a toddler. He’s not checking math.

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