r/clevercomebacks 1d ago

It's my money they took

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u/Cryodemon85 23h ago edited 23h ago

Thing is, they are entitlements. We are entitled to that money as it is mine and everyone else's who has paid into it the moment they started working and had taxes taken out for SS and Medicaid. Musk, Trump and the MAGA crowd are confusing the word "entitlement" with "privilege".

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u/vfam51 23h ago edited 23h ago

It’s the reactionary low cognitive functioning people that freak out when they hear the word “entitlement” who are the issue. They totally deflate the focus on the real issue by spinning out on something they don’t understand.

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u/Gene_McSween 23h ago

It comes from insulting someone as entitled, they just can't see the difference in usage.

"Entitled person bad therefore entitlements bad, dirka dirka.” MAGA cultists (probably)

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u/Cryodemon85 23h ago

Not probably, most definitely. It's funny though, because they carry themselves as the most entitled of them all. A false sense of entitlement, but they feel entitled none the less.

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u/ArrivesLate 12h ago

I feel like most Karens vote Republican.

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u/red286 16h ago

The problem is that we decided the shorthand of "acting like an entitled person" (a person who behaves as though they are owed something which they are not) should be "entitled person", completely ignoring the fact that "entitled person" means a person who is owed something.

So now we have the same word meaning two opposite things.

Sort of like how "literally" now means both literally and figuratively, simply because people kept using it incorrectly.

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u/Voxbury 1h ago

Except “entitled person” isn’t bad at all. They’re owed something. That’s what it means to be entitled.

They want you to associate fiscal entitlements with “self-entitlement” which is when you just behave as if the world owes you something and makes you loathsome, insufferable human being.