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@georgetakei musk-trump using courts? there's no (self)control. go to social medial, you control who says what, where, and how. only people that agrees with them can talk, opposition forbidden, make final decision. in court - must accept court restrictions, listen to opposing side, accept court's decision.

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@georgetakei The Christian right is purveying the story that Musk has found millions of people having unbelievably high ages in social security databases "with the death field set to false." Buried in one such article (linked below) is the following disclaimer: "Musk did not reveal whether those supposed senior citizens are still receiving payouts."

So if this is true at all, it is about some unused or misnamed field that is of zero significance. But these articles, with headlines implying that dead souls are receiving payouts, are paving the way for cuts to social security recipients who are very much alive (something that Musk seems to also be trying to remedy).

https://www.westernjournal.com/social-security-fraud-nearly-1-5-million-americans-listed-150-years-old-1041-220-years-old

Author info: "Ben Zeisloft is the editor of The Republic Sentinel, a conservative news outlet owned and operated by Christians. He is a former staff reporter for The Daily Wire and has written for The Spectator, Campus Reform, and other conservative news outlets. Ben graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with concentrations in business economics and marketing."

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@georgetakei If it’s not the 150-year old folks that result from missing birthdates, my guess is his DOGE hackers have found the records of deceased parents whose accounts are paying a death benefit to their living disabled children as codified in social security law.

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@georgetakei

He's a drug-addled moron, and knows even less about computers than he seems to know about cars or spaceships.

Those allegedly ancient records that he thinks are fraudulent claims are almost all down to COBOL having a default for an empty date which happens to be in the 19th Century.

Sheesh. Stop asking 19yr-olds about computer shit that was written before their parents were capable of conceiving. Instead ask the people who actually fucking understand it.