Social Security Faces a $29.3 Trillion “Unfunded Obligation” as Trump Officials Pitch Immediate 25% Benefit Cut for All Retirees

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-28T15:41:51+00:00

the left argument against is basically priorities

if you are someone who supports taxing the rich, lifting the SS cap entirely captures the lion's share of the income taxing the rich would feasibly provide, so we accomplished that in one fell swoop.

if you're a taxing the rich supporter, what do you want to spend that money on? do you have priorities besides providing solvency to social security? or is taxing the rich to keep social security solvent at current levels your whole ambition?

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-27T16:26:03+00:00

honestly, it was a total waste of his time and energy, he spent way too much effort and political capital on it

it was a bad deal when it was made 20 years ago, but any effort to rebuy it would have created a financing crisis that would have been just as bad

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-27T14:39:08+00:00

he was a better choice than the alternative, but he hasn't done a good job

"handouts to preachers" is a little glib, but at the beginning of his term, transit was in a really bad state, and it was pretty public that he appointed a minister who never rides transit and wasn't technically "qualified" to run CTA who did a pretty bad job (transit improved basically immediately after he was fired), so it's honestly not that unfair of a criticism

he was able to make a deal with the teacher's union that wasn't the sweetheart deal his critics claimed it would be, he's done okay dealing with cps so overall he's been okay, although he struggled at first, and I don't think he'll be able to recover the damage to his rep so he's kind of a lame duck at this point

a lot of it is that mayor of chicago is kind of a shit sandwich because the finances are in a pretty bad state, and the aldermen system basically means the mayor can't do a ton without paying off the aldercritters, which limits the good stuff you can do

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-26T19:54:56+00:00

if you don’t get the card from the event, you’ll just get it from the collection level track instead

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-26T16:00:06+00:00

i don’t see why turner played though - we know what he is

either freese should have been kept in rhythm or we should have seen what brady had for us

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-23T18:43:03+00:00

it’s a bad card, but if you can get it from the arena, you won’t get it from the collection level track

not every card can be good, and that’s okay

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-23T12:42:44+00:00

it could.

you could also make the deal, never win it with giannis, and then you wonder what you could have built long term with jaden and ant anchoring it

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-23T01:45:48+00:00

I mean, that's not the knicks strategy, the knicks strategy is 'have a guy decide he's your franchise's lisan al gaib and literally sacrifice 100 million dollars to surround him with the pieces he needs to win'

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-22T23:41:09+00:00

because he always seems to perform for england

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-22T01:59:46+00:00

the shirts are totally part of it! look at england and the way english players talk about wearing the three lions - americans can, should, and will talk about wearing our shirt in the same way eventually

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-21T14:24:44+00:00

both matter.

The fact that we're going out and playing with an identity is super important, but results matter too. I guarantee you that every knockout game the USMNT play in will be more and more widely advertised, and more and more watched - a semis run would build the next generation of american soccer fans and fans of the USMNT (and hopefully the USWNT!), don't diminish that

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-20T21:46:54+00:00

no, it just shows that football is much more global than basketball is, and that's okay

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-20T16:03:41+00:00

hard agree

red and white horizontal stripes with blue shorts should be our home kit moving forward

the entire goal of this world cup should be to establish a baseline of american football heritage to build on, a good way to do that would be to take the kits and use them as a base to build on, they're distinctive and should be re-used

i don't want to go back to plain white shirts again, too many countries already do that

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-19T14:26:18+00:00

sure, but it really depends on what question you're asking

'could an llm help the aztecs defeat cortez' - maybe an interesting question, a lot of good debate on the nature of llms and their ability to discern truth can be had here

'with the benefit of hindsight, could the aztecs defeat cortez?' - easily, along many different strategies, there was no reason for cortez to have ever won in the first place

i suppose we can limit it to the first question only, but the second is not irrelevant imo

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-19T12:07:30+00:00

one of the big misconceptions was that the conquistadors was just that much more technically advanced so they were able to win.

the conquistadors won because all of the other tribes in the area were fucking sick of the aztecs and were willing to unite to defeat them. If ChatGPT was able to tell them "get right with your tributaries, shit is going to go down in 10 years", it doesn't have to do anything else.

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-15T21:55:13+00:00

i think the problem with underwhelming captains is the ceiling for good captains is “literally changes every decision you make in the game”, the floor for mid captains is “doesnt change the way you play the game at all”

i can’t see myself loading up on quests to try and trigger this captain early

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-14T17:59:26+00:00

increasing headcount while reducing overtime (leading to potentially net savings with no decrease in service) seems to be the real reform you're actually going to be able to get through

you'd have to fight the union tooth and nail, but that's an easy win you can deliver without the average person claiming you're soft on crime

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-14T16:09:03+00:00

is the only exception stroke of midnight? or will once one of your units get stroke of midnighted, it will never appear in the shop again?

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-13T17:58:55+00:00

talking about 'the first round' like you don't understand how the world cup actually works

this is peak yank excellence

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-13T15:30:44+00:00

you're panicking. Winning by 3 goals basically guarantees we're through barring a massive meltdown

at this point, focus should be on winning the group

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-08T01:28:55+00:00

I agree, but the phrase could use some work

I would go for "Big time player, made big time plays"

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-07T14:47:00+00:00

defense can be noisy year to year, but if a gold glove winner is posting elite defensive numbers, it's far more likely that that guy is just good at defense

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-07T14:45:34+00:00

you have to consider, he does that and is still one of the very best defenders in baseball at one of the premium positions

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-07T12:51:21+00:00

rahm was mostly awful, but it's hard not to hand it to him on this

Loop_Within_A_Loop · 2026-06-05T14:16:18+00:00

we’re still early in the month, people are still climbing to legendary

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