• Chomsky [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Fending off Republican voter suppression that benefits Republicans to the detriment of his own party and is just sort of blatantly immoral. Radical.

    The vaccine thing is hilarious because he just literally became president around the time that vaccines were starting to roll out all over the world and then ends up taking credit for the fact that the US has a large pharmaceutical industry.

    It is very nice of them to give 4 billion dollars to black farmers, but from what I can see US farmers got 22 billion in subsidies in 2019, so an extra 4 billion in subsidies for black farmers isn't exactly revolutionary. The 1400 dollar payments. Again, nice, but it is 200 dollars more than the old payments, not exactly radical or revolutionary. Actually, it seems a lot more like the bare minimum to prevent economic collapse.

    As for the proposed infrastructure spending, if you live in a country where preventing the bridges from collapsing is a radical idea, you have some serious problems with your government.

    • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      if you live in a country where preventing the bridges from collapsing is a radical idea, you have some serious problems with your government.

      This sentence is a great summary of the crisis that's happening in the US and Europe.

    • quarantine_man [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Again, nice, but it is 200 dollars more than the old payments

      and $600 less than it was originally going to be