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  • pastalicious [he/him, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    I literally have not followed this story but to float the idea out there this far in advance after being so indifference or outright opposed to it before now strikes me as Biden just going "oh no I hope nobody STOPS me from forgiving all this debt... it sure would be a shame if someone said I couldn't do this!"

    That way he doesn't actually have to do it. The libs get to feel more righteous indignation toward Republicans without ever recognizing the real power dynamic, and Biden gets to pretend he has progressive cred.

    • Mother [any]
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      3 years ago

      Inclined to agree not just with these chud worms grandstanding but the cancellation in general. Dudes just trying to inflate his abysmal poll numbers which are particularly bad among young people.

      Talk is cheap. If Biden wanted to cancel loans he would have done it already, he has the authority to do it with the stroke of a pen. The fact that he hasn’t means he’s ideologically opposed. Even if he did cancel some it would be super means tested or tied to something horrific like $5k for every year spent working for a defense contractor

      I think suspension of payments into perpetuity is a much more likely scenario than outright cancellation, i can see loan repayments turning into something of a political third rail for a solid block of the population

      • ferristriangle [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The fact that he hasn’t means he’s ideologically opposed.

        Ideologically opposed is certainly one way to describe the man who is literally the architect of the student loan crisis via the 2005 bankruptcy reform bill that he championed.

        • Mother [any]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah good point I always forget about that, I tend to tie that in my mind to bush but it was a bipartisan success lol

      • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        They still need money for reelection, this is probably the best political decision they could make, suspend it and let's the GOP undo it, the one that hurt would be the GOP. If senile Joe cancels it or whoever dumb enough to advise to cancel it, in a congress that the dem hold, It's would be one of the stupidest political moves ever. At that point, his approval rating should be worst than Trump, by a yuge amount.

      • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        If they go through with this in a congress that they hold. Even the most lib in r/politic wouldn't able to spin it out of this.

          • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            The propaganda have to block the other side to make the most out of it. How they’re going to spin out of this after years of blasting propaganda about canceling student loan, make the rich pay, corporations and Putin responsible for the economy. Then suddenly turn around and said, yea, we should follow the GOP, lmao. His poll already low among young voters, good luck getting them back

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    2 months ago

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    • FugaziArchivist [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There should be a revolving cast of faker, more imperious, and more British-sounding functionaries who the Dems can blame for their inability to ever do anything. When the parliamentarian doesn't work, they pin it on the next one.

  • ScotPilgrimVsTheLibs [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Biden appeases these dipshits all day every day and they still hate his guts. If I were him I'd just cancel student debt out of spite for them and their corporate overlords.

    "You ruined a generations life, now I'll ruin your gravy train! Have fun going a year without a new yacht!"

  • iwishthiswasicq [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    im only bringing this up bc i was thinking about it earlier, but i use cock sucker as a derogatory term, but i'm also bi and do it/get it

    idk it was on my mind bc i don't think of it as a homophobic/misogynistic slur but it is no? not that that even actually matters to me bc i, nor most ppl get offended by it like that

  • politicsenjoyer [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Yeah but... can't he just veto it? They're trying to do it with a congressional bill, so...