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gastationsushi ,

The problem with this debt forgiveness by a thousand cuts is spending hours researching it then finding out you arbitrarily don’t qualify because some highly technical reason.

This technocrated BS isn’t helping any but the lucky few that end up qualifying.

gastationsushi ,

Are you defending a politician’s fix to a broken system with dozens of highly specific and hard to understand reforms?

If Biden had the choice between one broad fix that was easily communicated vs dozens of micro reforms; I’d prefer the broad reform even if I didn’t personally qualify. Democrats are our only hope and if they stop tripping over their own feet it will be better for everyone.

gastationsushi ,

The president is the most powerful person in this country. He is explicitly empowered by Congress to forgive student debt. The only actor here that is limited in power is our SCOTUS who constantly over step their bounds, make up judicial theory out of whole cloth, or ignore their own rules.

How come I never hear the experts say they are limited power in these executive vs judicial debates?

gastationsushi ,

Do you want debt reform or not?

Congress empowered the president to forgive debt. The courts ignored standing rules to even take that case and SCOTUS has no power to overrule both congress and the president.

President’s have ignored SCOTUS before but Biden doesn’t even have to do that. He can forgive debt like he’s doing now but do it broadly and instantaneously.

If SCOTUS later rules against that broad forgiveness, there’s nothing administratively they can do. No politician D or R would reinstate $.5 trillion in voter debt just to appease the unelected SCOTUS. You can’t put that genie back in the bottle.

gastationsushi ,

Funny you bring up a king. Biden is empowered by congress to forgive debt, people broadly support student debt relief. How is forgiving debt acting like a king in this circumstance?

I think you are confusing the actions of the unelected SCOTUS who routinely takes actions against the will of the people. If Biden wants to stop unilateral actions, he literally needs to fight against this far right SCOTUS.

Why are you arguing about student debt relief if you don’t know the law that empowers POTUS? It’s cited by Biden himself, but you can google yourself, you might learn something.

gastationsushi ,

When the trifecta of the president, congress, and the voters all disagree with the courts, why can’t they act against them? And who exactly can act against SCOTUS?

No liberal or progressive should spend time defending this deeply undemocratic judicial branch.

gastationsushi ,

If you believe forgiving the debt 100k students here and there is reform, then we are in disagreement.

I think over 100 million student debt holders will need some type of debt forgiveness to actually reform things. That why I push for broad forgiveness.

And yes Biden can! It’s his administration and admins forgive debt all the time. We are so many liberals in this thread defending SCOTUS?

gastationsushi ,

What are you saying? Biden himself says the ruling is wrong and will do any means possible to forgive student debt. He’s doing that on a minor scale, he can by his own account, do it at a larger scale.

gastationsushi ,

As I said before, congress passed a law that allowed presidents to forgive debt, are you saying congress didn’t support that?

Go read Biden’s own citations, on where he gets power if you are interested.

Stop ignoring SCOTUS, where did they get their power, it certainly wasn’t our constitution. You are out here with a white glove looking for faults in everything but the Roberts court. The most corrupt court we’ve had in my lifetime.

gastationsushi ,
  1. The ruling is extremely specific, it doesn’t ban all forgiveness
  2. Biden is doing forgiveness right now and no one says that’s illegal
  3. He can do more forgiveness, I don’t get what your hangup is. SCOTUS is not his master.
gastationsushi ,

Just look up the law the Biden administration cited in his original debt relief and his response to SCOTUS.

Why would you argue with someone online about student debt forgiveness when you don’t even know basics like the law Biden cited.

gastationsushi ,

Are you a Biden supporter who is also defending the legal opinions of the conservative supreme court? You might need to step away from politics.

gastationsushi ,

I highly recommend this podcast. He does a great job of differentiating what the different authors say and what are his own opinions. And he adds corrections to the episode when listeners point out his mistakes. The French, Haitian, 1848, and Russian revolutions really changed how I see the world. Be warned, they can hit dozens of episodes each.

The American and English civil war are OK, not Duncan’s fault, it’s just the non Anglo revolutions were better material IMO.

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...

gastationsushi ,

I could of sworn I’ve seen other CSM PDF files getting over a decade in jail. Pays off to be a criminal cop.

gastationsushi , (edited )

I pay over $12k in insurance premiums a year. My child has to spend the night on the general floor because the ER wouldn’t let him go home after what ended up being a minor pneumonia. We only saw the nurse once, low acuity, respiratory techs only giving him inhaler puffs, probably the healthiest kid in the hospital. Got a $17k bill and they wanted over $4k from me after insurance.

Also found out if they didn’t charged my insurance first, my total bill would qualify for 90% off. But that is a double edge sword because my insurance has a max out of pocket each year. The US is broken y’all.

gastationsushi ,

Public opinions ain’t censorship bro.

gastationsushi ,

J Aubrey is a very entertaining long format YTer that explains many of the internet’s worst villains. His take down of grifters don’t target Joe himself, but help inoculate people from the “natural” hierarchies that dominate conservative thought.

m.youtube.com/

gastationsushi ,

The same Destiny that has alienated his personal relationships with everyone who’s ever cared about him?

The same Destiny threw a debate with shithead Ben Shapiro because he wanted to get invited back?

At least Joe Rogan believes the shit he shovels, Destiny is a pure grifter searching for more and more fame.

gastationsushi , (edited )

most cringey clickbait thumbnails I’ve ever seen.

My man, is this the first YT thumbnail you’ve ever seen?

he’s for sure not someone the Joe Rogan crowd would be interested in watching.

Why, because popular YT formats are something the millions of normie Joe Rogan viewers all despise? I don’t know man, you do you. But popular formats by definition are something the masses are comfortable with.

gastationsushi ,

twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1786481491939058131

Did you see the cookie rocket debate? Very entertaining stuff.

gastationsushi ,

It rubs the genocide on it’s skin or else it gets the trump again.

Palestinian released from Israeli prison describes beatings, sexual abuse and torture (www.haaretz.com)

Among candidates for U.S. sanctions, Israel’s Prison Service should be next on the list. This is apparently the realm where all the sadistic instincts of the minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, find their outlet....

gastationsushi ,

It’s well known the Israeli government moved troops to the west bank to help settlers and many Israeli allies warned of chatter of an impending attack.

Here’s one story but it’s behind a paywall: haaretz.com/…/0000018b-ed76-d4f0-affb-eff74015000…

Also Israel has delivered cash to hamas to prop them up to justify further violence against Palestinians: nytimes.com/…/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.ht…

gastationsushi ,

Instead of writing paragraphs complaining that users and sourcing widely understood facts, you can spend a few seconds searching yourself.

gastationsushi ,

Neoliberalism y’all, TSA’s equipment and all the services that go along with it are actually revenue streams invented by mega donors. The “free” market in action.

gastationsushi ,

It’s not Israel, it is Western leaders, who act more like a Mafia boss that doesn’t get their hands dirty.

Our leaders aren’t politicians, they are a class of cosmopolitan billionaires from all around the world. Genocide is bad for business so they are trying to suppress the coverage. As that fails, I think a reckoning will happen to the Israeli leadership. See South Africa.

gastationsushi , (edited )

Younger voters views are a reflection of their media diet, no different than any person.

How much do you want to bet this young person has the exact same views as older Republicans? The problem with conservative families is they raise their young not to question authority, so it’s especially hard to deprogram the rot.

Don’t mock the young when it’s old cranks grooming the youth to believe GOP propaganda.

gastationsushi ,

Ramsey is allowed a large platform because he kept to the script of never blaming real power for societies woes. But I wouldn’t even call this propaganda, it’s just older generations being assholes to younger ones. Nice world he’s leaving his family.

gastationsushi ,

You have a shitty memory. Israelis themselves make the argument that Netenyahu started this by weakening the Gaza border before Oct 7th to reinforce troops in the West Bank. Do Palestinians in the West Bank have the right to defend themselves?

And bombing a diplomatic building is a war crime, which Israel did when they targeted the Iranian consulate.

gastationsushi ,

Netenyahu allowed the deaths of over a thousand Israelis because he weakened the border. In ancient times, if any leader had a collosal fuck like this, they would be killed for treason.

Now idiots like yourself concern troll online so you can keep this fantasy that Netenyahu protects his own people.

gastationsushi ,

She was killed. The IDF fired three separate missiles and each one hit a vehicle in the convoy.

gastationsushi ,

Imagine a gradient bar of red, green, or blue on a display. The latest displays show so many colors that the 256 shades in an 8-bits channel will show banding.

Banding is horrible for photo/video editing hence 10 bit displays that can show 1024 shades in a single channel which is more shades than our eyes can see.

HDR in gaming also uses 10-bit per channel, but it’s often a gimmick with current cheap gaming displays and might show banding even if there are technically 10-bits. OLED gaming monitors should be able to display 10-bit accurately though.

Youngkin vetoes Virginia bills mandating minimum wage increase, establishing marijuana retail sales (apnews.com)

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail salesof marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a minimum wage increase....

gastationsushi ,

I don’t know much about Youngkin, did all consultants that jumped ship from the Desantis campaign land with him?

gastationsushi ,

Normally Biden wouldn’t have much incentive to listen to millions of his voters during an election year?

DC brainrot has entered the chat.

gastationsushi ,

Worthy and unworthy voters…

gastationsushi ,

You understand there is no such thing as a median voter. They are only issues and most voters have one or two issues they won’t compromise on. Biden is alienating younger and Muslim voters. If Biden was converting 1+ Trump voter for every voter he loses, you might have a point. But there is no evidence he is netting votes from this. That makes no sense in an election that’s fighting against authoritarianism.

Why can’t we agree Biden that needs to go all out to win this thing?

gastationsushi ,

But Israel has always pushed the envelope and always been rewarded from daddy USA. Netanyahu, thinks he can do what he wants and he’s never been wrong.

gastationsushi ,

So many people on lemmy and reddit lambasted ignorant social media posts for not waiting until the facts came out, only to repeat false IDF claims like it’s the gospel.

Where are those IDF shills now?

Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border (www.nbcnews.com)

“You know and I know it’s the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country’s ever seen,” Biden said. “So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done?”...

gastationsushi ,

You can’t negotiate with a cult leader and his cult.

gastationsushi , (edited )

Regular voters hear headlines like “Millions Illegally Crossed” and “Undocumented Crime Wave”; they naturally blame Biden because he’s an incumbent. The recent Gallup polls are alarming.

Biden should have focused American businesses that hired illegals, not punishing migrants for wanting a better life. Trump along with many GOP donors have hired illegals in the past, go after them and you win the debate.

gastationsushi ,

Yes, Biden should communicate to independents how he can solve the problem.

gastationsushi ,

I have almost qualified for student loan forgiveness so many times I lost count. Same as my wife, same as a lot of borrowers.

Biden is edging forgiveness at this point. Seriously, fuck means testing, fuck neoliberalism.

gastationsushi ,

If they wanted to help people the government would pay for college like they pay for the military. But they would rather prop up this lie where students are led to believe they are borrowing money from banks. When in reality, they are paying money to servicers who lend no money and these same servicers have no obligation to repay student debt back to the treasury.

It’s a really hard system to defend the more you learn where this money comes from.

gastationsushi ,

Is anyone even investigating her? The police are on her side.

gastationsushi ,

Tax payers aren’t the customers. Intuit is the customer here and they are buying income streams from politicians. It’s an artificial and unnecessary system.

gastationsushi ,

DC brain article. The GOP position is a goal post attached to a high speed train. The Democrats can’t “win” by chasing after it.

gastationsushi ,

To who, the political sickos who pay attention to this stuff or to the masses that hate US politics so much they avoid it like the plague?

gastationsushi ,

How will it kill any talking point? The media will keep inviting GOP politicians to lie on TV.

gastationsushi ,

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