:biden-rember:
This is the hexbear version of "Today, Trump became the president"
Yeah yeah I’mi lib i get it. Biden still not good. Just trying to compare him to Obama.
Current era/president biden i guess.
I know he deserves to be in a gulag for all the shit he did in congress.
I guess i should have clarified that i mostly meant domestically.
Internationally, the empire is still doing the same things geopolitically and geostrategicly that it has been doing since ww2. I agree with your global analysis. Deciding to stop fighting a losing war in Afghanistan was a good thing that he did, but i don’t he would have done it if the Taliban hadn’t basically won and taken over the country, leaving Biden few options. Empire declines can take centuries, i wouldn’t count on that economic depression anytime very soon. I mean who knows, but it seems far from guaranteed. Other empires have shrank or withered without economic collapse: dutch, Belgian, portugese, Japan, UK, etc
so what happens when re-shored industries (like chip makers) means way higher prices for US consumers/businesses? how does that factor in? the consumers can go on strike as workers, companies can get rid of lots of BS white collar jobs, the government can further subsidize production or capital investment, but in a few decades that creates an upward spiral in wages and prices or the government runs out of money it can borrow with bonds... but that is a long ways away.
it is paltry and should purchase no one's admiration with how the rest of this presidency has gone
Yeah, COVID tho. And kids still in cages. Stealing Afghan monies. Yemen. Oil drilling. $1200. Just...never mind.
I just think it's ironic that the guy who was the very architect of why ppl can't discharge their student loans in bankruptcy is the guy who is forced to means-test forgive a part of some ppl's student loans just to preserve his dying political party in the mid-terms.
i protested families in cages during obama. so that one is a draw.
the student loan thing is very ironic, but he actually did it despite the comeuppance it represents for his bankruptcy policy personally. lol.
Different kind of ghoul. He's from the era before neoliberalism really took control of the Democratic Party. The racist era.
Great Man analysis? In my Hexbear?
It’s more likely than you think.
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Biden has no capacity to ‘analyse’ to speak of. It’s those around him. The Biden Committee, if you will.
Right now there are two big reasons to give a bit of loan relief:
- Midterms; and
- War.
Enjoy the extra 10k, but ffs don’t lionise the man.
You’re right! Great man theory is bullshit.
I was thinking more “lesser man vs lesser man” competition. Lol
idk how anyone could think he's better than Obama after Obama ended racism
it's racist to think that any other president could be better than obama :think-about-it:
It really shows how little the Dems have to do to be better than previous presidents even while still being evil
Obama is one of the most cynical men alive. You can sometimes tell when Biden means something he's saying off the top of his dome. Obama hasn't meant anything he's said probably since 16.
As far as policy goes, yeah seems like it.
i feel the same way. obama shut off all emotion and was like a robot just working toward a goal to prove to everyone how smart he is. psycho shit.
I think he's trying to unfuck his party before midterms by opening the floodgates within people's short term memory spans and it still isn't going to be enough
If the Reps lose it will be because their campaign finance guy grifted the party out of its money and they couldn't run ads and that will be hilarious.
i think roe vs wade pissed off a lot of middle class women.....
Broadly speaking, he's about what you'd expect from a generic Democrat:
- 80-90% "socially a decade behind the curve, fiscally Reagan"
- 10-20% decent incremental/harm reduction stuff
- 100%
reason to remember the namechasing the next election cycle instead of trying to achieve and enshrine material improvements
I think Brandon is simply stuck in a situation where the interests of the party elite differ significantly from party voters, and he’s trying to bridge that gap at least a little to hold the party together.
Republican elites can basically do whatever they want for economic policy since their base is trained to care more about culture war issues (shifting the focus to minority groups is a classic fascist tactic, after all).
The Dem base, on the other hand, cares much more about economic issues and this conflicts with the class interests of those who actually control the party, which makes it a bit more difficult for Dem politicians to suck up to the party elites AND have any kind of actual popularity with voters.
i've been saying for years that neoliberal identity politics creating more uniform mixes of race/gender in each class strata would eventually lead to more class consciousness as the ability to divide by race/gender/etc is lessened. similar to how social democratic politics is easier in more homogeneous european countries.
Maybe the people around him who can take advantage of his senility are less ghoulish than Obama?
I’m using the evidence of the actions biden has taken so far as President to determine that. That’s what the topic question is about.
But of course I’m sure there are some absolute neoliberal demons in there somewhere.
Good point! Like immigration policy stuff. But i think Obama started the kids in cages. Trump made it worse by separating kids and stealing them for evangelical monsters to adopt. But at least biden put it back to Obama levels of cruelty i think. Do you know of specific policies that trump did that biden kept that are worse than during Obama? I’m sure there are some.
The most immediate one that comes to mind is mailing checks to poor people with almost no strings attached except for some bigly gaudy "BROUGHT TO YOU BY
I think most of the ideas for the Covid stimulus came from Congress and not Trump. I do think he had the idea to put his name on it but I doubt he was working carefully to craft details of making PPP loans and all that.
I'm just talking about in terms of who I personally give credit for what decision.
I do think he's from a different era where Democrats had to sort of care about a broad "middle class" that included working people that might own a house and car(s) but were still kind of struggling. It's why he tries to act simple and humble. The new "progressives" see everything as a game of virtue, so all those suburbanites in an economic downward spiral can go to hell if they don't donate to NPR and read White Fragility or whatever.
More important though, the moment calls for it. We're on track for ten percent inflation before the end of the year and some of the most expensive fuel ever. People will be choosing between heating their homes and owning their homes, eating and freezing, working to afford to drive or forgoing both. There's no actual solution that they can give us beyond this, because the other half of the bourgeoisie would rather see us all die, so this is what we get. If they didn't give it to us, we might revolt, but we sure as shit wouldn't vote Democrat.
The new “progressives” see everything as a game of virtue, so all those suburbanites in an economic downward spiral can go to hell if they don’t donate to NPR and read White Fragility or whatever.
i feel like this describes Liberals better. i think the thing that differentiates liberals from progressives is that progressives care about economic issues....
Get your facts straight jack! Nobody out ghouls Joe Biden not even, uh, Raprock, uh my former... you know the thing
