For now, anyway.

I mean, he is for not cracking down on price gouging. Then Trump came and made the crisis worde with his tariff nonsense.

People were killing each other for a reason - it’s hard to just turn that off.

It’s not; it happens all the time. Israel simply doesn’t want to because they never had any intention of honoring the “ceasefire” in the first place, just like they never honored any other ceasefire they’ve signed with a weaker force.

(I just said “yawn”).

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It was a complete stream of articles aimed at discouraging voting based on a single issue while never posting anything showing that the other side was going to be worse on the same issue, let alone disastrous for so many other reasons.

Oh my god, facts! More seriously, nobody this side of Lemmy needs to learn how bad the Republicans are, and that sort of information is everywhere anyway. Nobody needs to be told that Trump is super duper bad, but many need to understand that Democrats won’t save them.

It was selective posting to promote an agenda of not voting.

Or maybe Democrats kept fucking up their campaign in newsworthy ways. If criticism of your camp makes someone the enemy, you should do some serious introspection. Yes, even if your camp is the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy; if you can’t hold your leaders accountable democracy is already dead.

Working to change the horrible status quo should be done outside of an election in which not voting is helping to usher fascism into the highest offices in this country.

That’s been the pitch for longer than I’ve been alive, and guess what? It never happens, because giving up your leverage willingly is a terrible negotiating tactic. Also, given that in America there’s an election every two years, what? Are people just supposed to keep their mouths shut and toe the party line a full 50% of their lives? And specifically the 50% in which they have the most leverage? Starting to smell of free speech zones in here. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Seeing as you’re calling Biden and Harris neo fascist this entire text is lost on you.

Huh? Don’t put words in my mouth; I called them proto-fascist. If they were as bad as the Republicans I would’ve called them fascist.

obviously don’t understand what this country lost by electing dipshit don into the presidency.

I do, but I also understand that kicking the can down the road was going to result in zero improvement whatsoever. You think there wouldn’t have been fascists running with significant support in 2026 and 2028? Fascism never deescalates on its own; the conditions leading to its emergence need to be addressed and neither the Democrats nor Americans as a whole have shown much willingness to do so. Liberal fuck ups are what fuels fascism; if you’re not going to take on the liberals when you can you’ll only get more fascism, not less. Electing Biden certainly did fuckall to stop Trump.

Oh wait, you helped them happen.

I don’t think Ozma had much role in the decades-long neoliberal exploitation of the working class, the entrenchment of inoffensive focus group politics in the DNC, the persistent rightward shift of the Democratic political establishment or Biden and co. gloating about how much they were helping Israel’s genocide.

Apparently it’s been forgotten that Ozma plastered several communities with articles trashing both Biden and Harris running up to the election.

Imagine posting facts that don’t paint ineffectual proto-fascists as the next best thing since sliced bread. Truly a crime against humanity.

It’s a lot to recipient countries because the American economy is whack, but in terms of American tax revenue, yes it is nothing.

The cuts totaled to like 13 billion dollars, so enjoy your 40$ I guess.

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His character is from Montenegro.

I don’t think you should be delivering anything from your ass.

The Afghanistan and Iraq wars were devastating events that killed tens of thousands of people

*Hundreds of thousands for these two wars alone, millions for the broader war on terror. Iraq alone killed 300 thousand.

Biden finished the withdrawal, but according to Wikipedia:

The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar,[7] which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and in return for the Taliban’s counter-terrorism commitments, provided for the withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan by 1 May 2021.

I mean as shitty as Trump is, he does get points for withdrawing from Afghanistan. Given your average Middle Easterner doesn’t give a shit about domestic American politics, it makes sense Blair would get more hate.

Anyone who would be “provoked” by such statements was already looking for an excuse and would find one no matter what Hamas did.

If evil, then why hot tasty?

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I read this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this post. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this post. This is your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

People chose to take out these loans, this isn’t like cancer or slavery.

So what? Would someone who chose to have unprotected sex not deserve to have their AIDS cured? It’s completely messed up that it’s even necessary to take on backbreaking debt to get higher education—to many people their only shot at social mobility. It’s technically a choice, yes, but the fact that anyone even needs to make that choice is a travesty. Telling someone “take on tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands after interests) of dollars or lock yourself out of most social mobility” is messed up no matter what they choose, but partial justice is better than total injustice.

Someone has to pay for the loans. When forgiven that means every tax payer is taking on that burden. So yes a good thing happening to you can be a bad thing for other people.

That’s how society works. You want others to help you you have to help them. This is no difference than child tax credits, food stamps or the myriad of other programs the government runs with the taxes of people who won’t necessarily benefit from them.

Most importantly, forgiving current loans doesn’t prevent more people from falling into the same pitfalls. Meaning you’re just perpetuating the problem

Forgiving current debt and preventing future debt are completely unrelated positions. Current debt needs to be forgiven and future debt needs to be prevented, but there’s no reason to lock one of these behind the other. The problem is being perpetuated either way, just with more human suffering on one side.

Yes, that’s correct and I’m hardly the only person without student loans it would be bad for.

That’s… not how that works. When people (who aren’t already filthy rich, anyway) get money, they spend it, strengthening the economy as a whole and benefiting everyone but the filthy rich. Your logic would apply equally well to wage increases or anything else that benefits people other than you, but in reality a rising tide lifts all boats. Also, rich pricks already have all the money in the world to buy up housing, so it’s not like there’s any shortage for demand for the stuff.

Why do only people with student loan debts deserve help?

The whole point of social welfare is to help people, but different people can get help in different ways. There’s no reason for one policy to help everyone, for the same reason one doesn’t expect food stamps to necessarily benefit prospective homeowners. Also student loans are exploitative and fucked up and shouldn’t exist period.

Why not give everyone a flat 50/100/whatever thousand dollars and let us do with it what we will.

Because it’d break the government’s budget and/or inflate everything to hell and back. If we assume it’s realistic then sure, do that and also forgive student loans. If you want the government to help you, sure that’s perfectly fine and frankly your right, but there’s no reason for that to have anything to do with them helping other people too.

Yes, and I haven’t heard anyone put forth any kind of solution for that.

You haven’t seen corporate media or the corporate-captured political establishment put forth any kind of solution for that. There, off the top of my head. You’ll likely see something similar in your own local progressive politics scene. There are plenty of policies both proposed and implemented that attempt to help prospective homeowners. Rather than push against student loan forgiveness (which wouldn’t help anyway), you can push for affordable housing policies. In the end people eho want student loan forgiveness aren’t your enemies; they’re your allies against the ultra-rich. There’s enough wealth in the world’s wealthiest nation to pay for your home and their student loans, but it’s being hoarded by rich pricks who want you both to suffer.