Newsthump is satire but soooo close to the truth.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      81·
      11 months ago

      I’m so tired of disabled people not being believed. It sucks so much.

      Especially since nobody is immune to becoming disabled in the future, even if they are healthy now.

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there. And the conservatives (in my country at least) latch onto that and ignore the vast majority that they hurt whole trying to avoid that tiny minority taking advantage.

        And I’m 100% convinced it’s because they would scam the system themselves.

        • DessertStorms@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          There are a tiny tiny number of scam artists out there

          That number is nearly zero, yet they continue to make the benefits system harder and harder to navigate each passing year to “protect” the tax payer from this “fraud” (causing deep distress to, and even the deaths of thousands of disabled people), while significantly more rich people are scamming the tax system for billions and no one bats an eye.

          None of this was ever about fraud, or concern for the tax payer, it’s about ableism and control (mostly to show the worker cogs what will happen to them when they can’t work any more, so they better work extra hard to make sure it doesn’t. Hint: working hard doesn’t protect you from disability or old age, it just makes the owner of your work place more money).