In pulling the rule, the Biden administration acknowledged what most businesses expected: the plan to make companies mandate vaccines-or-tests is over.

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The president of the united states is a corpse flopping around on the table of Capital.

  • Mike_Penis [any]
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    3 years ago

    don't understand this comment. you can easily argue that even though the mandate was struck down, it still resulted in harm reduction because it was in place for a bit, resulting in probably a decent amount of people getting vaccinated. where if it were trump this wouldn't have happened in the first place. again i know that being better than trump is not exactly a good goal but it is technically still harm reduction.

    • UlyssesT
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      18 days ago

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      • Mike_Penis [any]
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        3 years ago

        it's not about giving him points. it's about achieving the least bad outcome when given the choice between biden and trump. even being just 5% less bad is still less bad.

        • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          1. When you think in terms longer than the next election, the difference disappears because Bidens ensure ever-worsening fascists as their successors. This applies particularly under deteriorating conditions - conditions that deteriorate heavily under libs.

          2. I'm not sure how you compare the shittiness in outcomes between the two numerically, but it seems about the same to me. Biden has continued most of Trump's policies, made several worse, and abandoned many that were helpful to the poor and precarious. He ended the official war in Afghanistan (good) but replaced it with a starvation sanctions regime (Jesus Christ). Libs have committed to Blue MAGA. Inflation is going up while wages stagnate. Pressure to form unions is rising but filings are dropping. Every policy that was keeping the working class afloat during the pandemic under Trump is slowly fading away without any national fight. New Cold War policies are continuing and the decreased soft power was accelerated by Trump, not Biden - Biden is trying to pull the same sociopathic levers as in the pre-Trump era, to varying success.

          3. When the status quo is so horrendous I can't help but say that 5% is incredibly generous. Let's say 1% tops if we're being myopic.

          • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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            3 years ago

            I think the point is that while you're actually right, the smug liberals in this case are technically right, which means you will never convince them