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.

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.

They aren’t as annoying as people who police anti genocide language. Somehow these same people are gone when the pro genocide crowds makes an appearance on lemmy.

But married heteros doing oral, anal, mutual masturbation, or sex during a period is all forbidden. Yet all queer hating Christians don’t speak out against any of that hetero/married sin.

Capitalism was better for more workers in 1950s America compared to now, but America was at the height of its overseas power and the country was competing against communism. But capitalism never stopped sucking. Let the capitalists earn their own wealth.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

The GOP had a dog catch the car moment when they overturned Roe v Wade. Can’t let that happen with immigration as well.

Students aren’t actually borrowing from lenders. The Federal Reserve types in keystokes and the bursar’s account goes up by that amount. Lenders get the privilege to service all that newly minted debt. If the borrower dies before the debt is paid off, the lender gets that forgiven because they write the rules. This is fantasy land banking dreamed up by lobbyists. People need to stop pretending student debt industry is in anyway legitimate.

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And you accused me of a bad faith argument. Whatever…

When I see memes blaming the powerless for a humanitarian disaster, I’m going to speak up.

If a rando has a bad take on Ukraine, tell them. But these strawman memes are designed to pull our attention away from what’s actually happening. Are you averse to challenging power, because it feels that way to me.

Then why are you bringing that up to me? I wanted Ukraine to win, I wanted Russia expelled!

The meme is fucking stupid, the US military has been leaking to the press for while now. Ukraine will have to give up territory, aka compromise. And all users like you can do is complain about other users on our social media platform.

There are a lot of dumb takes online, and it’s easy to misunderstood users on social media platforms. So if you are serious, and want to have a good faith conversation with me about geopolitical events, debating about what fediverse randos are or aren’t saying isn’t a good starting place.

The meme is a strawman and there isn’t a contingent of leftist leaders shaping NATO’s Ukraine policy.

If you care about Ukranians, why not focus on the actual power dynamics in the region?

As a Ukraine supporter since the beginning, it’s Biden and congress who deserve criticism. They should have given Ukraine all the tools to win. They also should have protected Ukrainian airspace and her coast along the Black Sea. With full support, I think Ukraine had good shot of expelling the Russian invaders but that window is over. US leaders are now saying it was about hurting Russia, it wasn’t about Ukraine winning. That tells me meaningful US support is over.

The West is a failing system unable to reverse it’s inequities. It’s supporters can only attack critics for pointing out the warning signs. What a sad ass meme.

I thought he performed well during that debate. But in fairness, I only saw clips.

edit: I’m not a huge fan of Newsom’s neoliberal policies. But the man seems like he can communicate effectively with Americans. He’s a candidate for 2024 not 1994. With Trump on the ballot, I will take that.