• frozen
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    Yesterday they made higher education less accessible to non-whites, today they made it harder for the poor…

    I wonder if there’s a pattern here.

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      Yes, higher education is now less accessible to non-whites. Which is good, because affirmative action was never a fair solution to the issue and was simply unfair in principle imo. We shouldn’t raise the eligibility of people based on their race, college admissions and race should have nothing to do with one another. Class-based affirmative action actually makes sense instead of deciding off race.

      • frozen
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        I agree with you in theory, but striking down AA without a better solution in place is bad. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

        • @[email protected]
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          Fair enough, I agree that in reality removing AA and not implementing a better system in it’s place will only lead to worse outcomes.

      • @withdrawn
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        Yes, higher education is now less accessible to non-whites. Which is good,

        Jesus H. Christ. Either stop being a racist or learn to organize your thoughts.

        • @whatsarefoogee
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          You literally cut his quote in the middle of the sentence. He says its good specifically because it was not a result of fair treatment, right after you cut him off.

          The world is upside down when you can someone saying “it’s unfair to judge people by race” a racist.

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            I think you can call someone saying “it’s unfair to judge people by race” a racist when they’re using that line to applaud the removal of protections against institutional racism. We can argue the merits of AA as a form of protection, but it was protection nonetheless. To say that it was unfair is to entirely ignore the unfairness which necessitated its existence.

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          Lmao is reading comprehension not your thing? Because my meaning was very clear and not at all racist.

          • @withdrawn
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            How was it not? How is non-whites having less access good?

            You follow what I quoted by claiming it wasn’t fair (“imo”) because, as you say, “we shouldn’t raise the eligibility of people based on their race” which is great if you ignore the fact that nearly every institution in the US treats people differently based on race, whether intentional or not. It is exceedingly rare for that bias to swing in the favor of non-whites.

            With no meaningful alternative to AA, what exacxtly is the win here?

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              Non-whites having less access is good in this context, because they were being unfairly given an advantage before. I agree with your premise about bias, but why should the solution to that be to artificially inflate the people being discriminated against, instead of trying to provide a system that doesn’t have room for discrimination?

              Class based alternative action, along with anonymizing applicant details pertinent to their race is a meaningful alternative to AA.

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                I agree on the last point, but there isn’t a class based system in place, nor is there a plan to implement one (that I can find).

                That, I shall continue to argue, makes this very not good.

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                  I agree with no proper replacement this will overall have a negative effect. I think the method race-based AA uses was very flawed.

      • @planetexpress
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        Your whole argument could have been just that last sentence and I’d bet you’d have significantly less downvotes.

        Although I’m disappointed by the courts decision I do believe class basis is a better measuring stick for AA. That said, I think there would be a pretty close correlation between the people who benefit now and the people who would benefit if the system was based on socioeconomic class.

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          I wholeheartedly agree that minorities are often at a disadvantage in our society, and that there is a correlation between race and socioeconomic status in the USA. I think that if true equality is to be achieved, we need to stop separating people (at least in important processes like legal proceedings, college admissions, etc.) by their race at all. It sets a bad precedent, and I hope for a future where no race has any connotation with any socioeconomic class.

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            I appreciate your thoughtful response and for taking the time to write it.

            I don’t fully share your optimism, but it’s great this conversation didn’t devolve into a shouting match just because we are at odds.

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        We have class based affirmative action. Rich people buy their kids into school all the time.

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      Why does this make it harder for the poor to access higher education? A debt forgiveness will make current debtors less burdened but will probably make it more expensive for new applicants. Isn’t it the other way around?

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        Relieving debt for the poor would allow them to spend their money on other things, or save it. Best case scenario, they’re able to support their kids’ educations and help break the generational cycle of poverty.

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        I believe he’s referencing the decision on the Harvard affirmative action case, not the student debt relief decision. Supreme Court has been busy this week!

      • Matt
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        Chances are loan forgiveness would push a conversation regarding tuition fees in general, and would ultimately make university free / affordable instead.

        Maybe.

        • @Empyreus
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          There is 0 chance that would happen with our current political climate.

          • @pinwurm
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            Well, around 20 states right now offer free community college if you’re a resident through first/last dollar programs. Meaning, they will cover the costs after any other financial aid. Other qualifications vary.

            Some States schools offer debt relief if you hold a regional residency for X-years (usually 5) after graduation. So for example, if there’s an area of a State that needs more investment (like Upstate NY versus Downstate), these programs are designed to increase GDP and strengthen the talent pool.

            Of course, you can get a tuition waiver in like half the states if you’re over 60. 🙄

            I’m not saying any of this is ideal by any stretch if the imagination. Just saying there’s some headway here and there in terms of precedent for tuition-free college education.

      • @FinnFooted
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        Honestly, this decision wouldn’t probably impact future college attendees. But, there are other changes coming to federal borrowing that likely will. Income based repayment is being restructured and it’s looking pretty good.

        However, this will probably hurt the economy. A lot of people are about to hit repayment at a period of high inflation. It’s not a great economy. And, if a lot of people decide to ignore their student loan bills a la 2008 financial crisis, were in for a global economic doozy.

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          The US has historically low unemployment, but real wages have stagnated for more than 50 years.

          The economy is actually pretty great – for those at the top. Not so much for those doing the real work:

          unemployment chart

          real wages chart

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            I assume the second graph is basing inflation on CPI as well and if I’m not mistaken that would mean dollars spent on mortgages are equivalent to dollars spent on rent.

            I would argue that as home ownership goes down inflation would become more impactful as you do not build wealth with rent but can with a mortgage.

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          It will impact future college attendees insofar as being more poor impacts your chances of going to college. It won’t directly impact future college attendees, but there is a knock on effect which will to some extent.

          • @FinnFooted
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            True. We’re all going to be a lot poorer after the incoming financial crisis this will help start.

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        Can’t believe this was down voted for asking a legitimate question related to the topic. This isn’t reddit.

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          Support for Biden’s student loan cancellation is for most a political calculation, where people who would be for more robust measures to make college affordable support it as a partial measure, a step in the right direction. A common right wing tactic is to stymie left wing political priorities to the point where asking questions like this seems reasonable, even though the asker is often being disingenuous and would be against any affordable college plan that increased government spending or in which the government played an otherwise larger role. If this commenter wasn’t being disingenuous, they had the unfortunate plight of absorbing a lot of built-up frustration over this tactic haha

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          yeah for real. dude didnt say anything offensive, just didnt fully undetstand the context stated and he got drown in downvotes

          • @givesomefucks
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            So…

            Because he didn’t understand but still commented it got downvotes for not being relevant?

            Sounds horrible!

    • @SENEX
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      On top of that 1.7 trillion in tax breaks for the rich over ten year. Benifits like 600 people. The same 1.7 trillion could wipe out debt 43 million people and that is debt accumulated over 40 years.

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      Der djerb creators rabble rabble rabble

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    Fuck Trump and his supreme court. We’re going to be suffering the effects of Republican stupidity for the next 40 years.

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      If you need any reason not to believe in god, it’s that Trump got to appoint THREE FUCKING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

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        I don’t know enough about US politics, but can’t Biden change the court justices? If the answer is no, how did Trump change?

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          Justices need to die or retire in order for there to be a vacancy for a President to appoint a new Justice to. There was a vacancy at the start of Trump’s term due to a death during Obama’s that the Republicans refused to confirm an appointment for, and then there was a retirement (Kennedy) and death (RBG) during his term as well.

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            For anyone who isn’t familiar, RBG was a liberal Supreme Court justice that was getting very old, and a lot of people thought she should have retired during Obama’s term, where she could have been replaced by him. Some accuse her of stubbornness/hubris for not stepping down when it was “safe”, and point out that her whole legacy is now being undone.

            Others point out that common wisdom at the time was that Hillary was going to he a shoe in as the next president, and nobody expected a Republican to win, including RBG.

            Anyway, I’m not taking a stance but just fleshing that out for anyone who is interested in the controversy.

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              Others point out that common wisdom at the time was that Hillary was going to he a shoe in as the next president

              Just to also point out. This “common wisdom” is part of why Hillary lost and why a lot of people argued that RBG should have resigned during her term because the next Democratic President wasn’t a shoe-in, and people couldn’t just rely on that.

              People also seem to forget that both a Bush and a Clinton were running in 2016 and in a way, Trump being elected was a initially a rejection of “political dynasties” as Presidencies (which then immediately turned to his followers wanting him as a forever king, but that’s a different issue entirely). I had a Bush or a Clinton as President for twenty years of my life (roughly a third of the average lifespan for a US citizen). From my youth until I was no longer considered a youth, well into adulthood. I remember being frustrated at being faced with both a Bush and a Clinton in the primaries. I know lots of other people, on both sides of the aisle, did too. Nobody wanted more of the same (I know Hillary didn’t view herself as “more of the same” of her husband, and for good reason, but that wasn’t common opinion).

              The entire thing about it being “common wisdom” was spoken from a position of privilege by elite Democrats and ignoring that common people weren’t every excited about either Bush or Clinton but Clinton got shoehorned in anyway while Bush had his “please clap” moment. It’s not a shoe-in if you have to use a shoehorn, mind you.

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              I think that by the time Ginsburg’s health prompted discussion of strategic retirement McConnel had already established that he could block Obama’s nominations indefinitely. It didn’t start with a Supreme Court nominee. There were over 100 vacant bench seats by the end of Obama’s presidency.

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      It’s Republican moral bankruptcy and cruelty that we will all suffer. If anyone’s stupidity got us here, it’s the Democratic Party’s stupid leadership since AT LEAST 2000, if not earlier. Republicans have telegraphed their intentions for 50 fuckin years and Democrats continued over and over to attempt reaching across the aisle, trying to pass bipartisan wins, “take the high road,” … all the while the Republican party continued putting their racist, xenophobic, mysoginistic, jingoistic, classist platform out year after year, abandoning all sense of decorum and norms, gerrymandering the fuck out of every district possible, blocking every bill that helps anyone aside from billionaires and corporations, and generally lying and cheating their way to what we have today.

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        since AT LEAST 2000

        Democrats: It’s just a coincidence that two lawyers who worked on the Supreme Court case that handed Bush the election in 2000 happen to be Supreme Court Justices today!

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        I think, if there’s independent historians in the future looking back, they’ll be mentioned in the same sentence as Neville Chamberlain often.

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      Maybe Hilldawg could have campaigned in Wisconsin or taken seriously that even if she won the popular vote, that the Electoral College actually mattered.

      Reminder, she did win the popular vote. The majority did vote for her.

      Or maybe Obama could have kept his campaign promise that codifying Roe vs. Wade in law was his first order of business.

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        This has been the Democrat strategy for a long time now: make wonderful promises they don’t intend to keep, then blame everyone else when they don’t come to fruition. People keep voting for them despite this obvious fact, because Republicans make terrible promises that they actually try to keep.

        We’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t. The only winning move is to not play flip the table and play a different game.

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          I just posted this thought before scrolling to see yours. Absolutely their strategy. They don’t actually give a fuck about us or the promises we expect them to keep.

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        The dem politician’s tactic. Pretend like you give a fuck (pretending bc they dont actually do the things to solve the issue), and then hold your constituency hostage during elections. Then continue to pretend like you give a fuck.

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        Or maybe Obama could have kept his campaign promise that codifying Roe vs. Wade in law was his first order of business.

        I don’t disagree that Democrats should have done this, but I doubt any Senate during his presidency would have passed it. The Democratic super majority lasted only a few months and he used that to pass the ACA. I don’t think it would have passed if it had codified Roe.

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          Right, he spent his political capital on… *checks notes… Romneycare.

          While it has helped out many who are destitute, it has still resulted in many, many people struggling with their health insurance, paying monthly bills that are so high and deductibles so high that they literally can’t afford to use their healthcare.

          He also promised a public option but I guess forgot about that too, when push came to shove.

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        I fail to see why you’re turning this around on her. She simply stated a fact that became reality.

        • @[email protected]
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          This happens every election cycle. We do our job by electing them. They are privy to what will happen and fail to act when they have the power to do so. Who else do we blame? The universe?

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            If Hillary were president instead of Trump we wouldn’t see this stacked court.

            That has nothing to do with Obama’s promise or whatever.

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              It has everything to do with Obama’s promise. By not following through on his promise to legislate it into law, the opportunity to reverse the previous court decision was always a thing that could happen. Acting like them not taking the opportunity when they had it means its the fault of the voting public is pure bullshit.

              Instead, Obama used his political capital to pass Romneycare, which while it helped a lot of poor people, has made the insurance market even worse for many, who still have insurance that they can’t afford to actually use.

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      If there is a minimum age in government, there needs to be a maximum. I’m over these 70 year olds running things.

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      Downvoted by people who refuse to look at when Democrats make stupid decisions that fuck us.

      I thought Lemmy was supposed to be full of tankies, not milquetoast centrist capitalist apologists…

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        Just like when Dems had congress and the presidency but refused to make law to defend abortion saying the supreme court wouldn’t overrule it. Oopsy poopsy.

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        They’re citing Hillary Clinton tweets up in here. As an anarchist, I thought the only bonus to tankies was their ability to silence the center and right in tankie spaces.

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        I downvoted because they suck at hyperlinking.

        EDIT: They were quick to fix it so I revoked my downvote.

    • @_number8_
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      such a stupid fucking system. they should just mail out little ballots to everyone on these cases. ask the question in plain english, all the legalese bullshit is designed to distract and make it seem like their jobs are hard

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      for some fucking reason

      The reason is that she expected Hillary to win and the satisfaction of the first female president appointing her replacement.

      It’s a great example of how these justices aren’t as wise or smart as they seem to think they are.

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        Expecting Hillary to be a shoe-in was just so naive. I know hardly anyone democrat or republican that actually liked her.

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    • @butwhyishischinabook
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      Lol I made the mistake of going back to grad school, so more like $2500-$3000 a month for me

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    Vote! Encourage those around you to vote. Help drive someone to the polls. If you know a young person who’s never voted, get them to vote.

    Don’t care who they vote for, just get them to the ballot box.

    The more people vote, the better things turn out for the majority.

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      I know this will likely upset many Dems but:

      Dems have the Senate and the Presidency and are completely within their power to pack the Supreme Court and basically alter all of the terrible rulings the Supreme Court has made lately. The problem is that many Dems do not think it is worth packing the court for women, students, or the environment. You can’t just vote your way out of this as you would literally have to pack up and move to West Virginia to vote for a Senator who would be ultimately determining this.

      The system is ultimately flawed and just voting isn’t enough.

      Addition after some research:

      It looks like the Supreme Court is set in size by law and FDR had some of the same problems so it would be likely that this would take an act of congress and not just the Senate.

      Ultimately I feel this is certainly more difficult and makes my criticism of inaction now invalid as Dems do not hold enough of a majority to pass legislation; however I do still see them as responsible for inaction when majorities have been held throughout my lifetime.

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        A) They need 50 senators willing to entertain that notion. They only have 49. B) If there were one action that I think would be most likely to kick off Civil War 2, it would be packing the court.

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          That’s a very selective way of saying the Dems aren’t responsible because Dems wont support students, the environment, or women’s rights.

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          Civil War 2 is already happening, you must not be paying attention.

          It’s time to rip off the fucking band-aid and do something about it instead of letting the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, and others run around terrorizing the country through wanton violence and death.

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        With that being said, you’re also correct that voting is NOT enough. Protesting and direct action, mutual aid, and more are all required!

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        They are not completely within their power to pack the court, sadly. They would have done so already if this were the case. They need 60 in the senate as well as a majority in the house and the presidency. Then they could.

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          I like how when Democrats are in power, they’re unable to do anything…

          But when Republicans are in power, they break the law at lightning speed, do things they’re not supposed to do, and nobody stops them because actually the only thing staying in their way are “rules” and “decorum” and not “laws” and yet mysteriously the Democrats are always beholden to “laws” that prevent them from doing the same. Also it seems like Democrats hands are tied at actually bringing criminal charges against Republicans because that would be “partisan.”[1] Just look at how they’ve slow-walked Trump’s prosecution and only went for it when it became clear he would never comply.

          It’s a fucking farce.


          1. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/19/politics/fbi-doj-trump-investigation-january-6/index.html ↩︎

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          Yeah 3 million fewer votes too. Just vote your way out of an oligarchy guys! The ruling class totally will let you and wont gerrymander or make constitutional amendments to give term limits to only Presidents…

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        Wouldn’t the Rs just do the same thing next time they have power? I get what you’re saying, but isn’t setting that precedent dangerous?

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          You’re saying that as if the Rs won’t do the same thing anyway without prior provocation. They’ve literally already broken the law to pack the court and the Democrats sat on their hands. They denied Obama picking a justice because it was “too close to an election” when the election was like six months away, but let Trump pick one when an election was already underway.

          Take off the fucking blinders, the Republicans already do these kind of things.

          They already set the precedent, motherfucker.

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          Republicans are channeling full fucking fascism and you think the only thing keeping them from packing the already packed republican court is because Dems haven’t done it first?

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          Yes- the court is an illegitimate anti-democratic institution and the long-term goal should be its abolishment.

          It is the final tool of the American oligarchs to prevent needed structural change in the country.

          Anything to highlight this is a good thing. Playing ping-pong with court expansion would be great to accelerate its necessary demise.

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          R’s don’t care about precedent. That’s why they actually get what they want. If Democrats actually got things done, they would consistently win elections and it would be be an issue anyway.

          It’s not going to happen anyway, though.

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        Of course it upsets the Dems knowing that they’re on the only side that has to govern well and we honest.

        But the alternative is for our side to be as much of a malignant tumor on the country as the other side is.

        I’ll take this version of the Democratic party, despite the fact the Republicans are trying to destroy the US and rebuild it in their own image.

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            I don’t side with oligarchs.

            Joe Manchin sure does. Nancy Pelosi sure does. Chuck Schumer sure does.

            Oopsie poopsie.

            EDIT: I triggered some Democrats by reminding them that the same hands that feed the Republicans feed the Democrats, apparently. Get over yourselves.

            In Nancy’s Own Fucking Words

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        The only way to remove a SCOTUS Justice is for Congress to impeach and convict them.

        What could be done without that is court packing (increase the number of justices to dilute the influence of each one) or possibly adding term limits (there is an argument to be made that the “lifetime term” they currently have isn’t actually mandated by the Constitution) but that one’s trickier and more controversial.

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          Well, there is another way…

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      Without a socialist party (as in, completely purged and free of all bourgeois influence), there’s isn’t a whole lot worth voting for at the federal level. Democrats repeatedly show that they are incapable of resisting the Republicans and take L’s constantly (see here).

      I encourage everyone to instead organize with local political orgs that can eventually build this power. The DSA being the largest currently available (and just as flawed as the other options one may have, ofc)

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        If you don’t feel it’s worth keeping as many Rs out of Federal roles, then no amount of examples are going to change your mind.

        You can’t ignore the federal level because the Dems aren’t liberal enough.

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          Here’s an example. More Rs can make it a whole lot more difficult to organize any counter movements, labor, political or otherwise.

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          I agree with your assesment of the DSA, but our audience here isn’t ready for that. I want them to get into the DSA where we can continue trashing on them until they do something more useful.

          They aren’t going to go from defending Democratic Party failures to Maoist Third-Worldist guerilla fighters (the correct sect of socialists, of course) overnight.

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        Your see here link is empty and you accidentally double-posted this comment, friend.

        • OrangeSlice
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          Yeah just fixed that, “see here” was meant to refer to this student debt situation in the OP

          • Hot Saucerman
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            Damn, I was hoping for a well documented compendium of Democrat L’s that have been taken because they’re too cowardly to stand up for their constituents.

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              (in case anyone wants a summary off the top of my head)

              • Failed to protect gay marriage (until the Supreme Court stepped in and did it for them, could be easily reversed any time by those dipshits)
              • Failed to protect abortion rights (left it to the Supreme Court, and here we are)
              • Failed to abolish any student debt
              • Failed to reduce wealth inequality by any meaningful measure.
              • Failed to promote a peaceful foreign policy (Obama and Biden)
              • Failed to implement card check
              • Failed to win elections with obvious unforced errors like running Hillary Clinton, probably the only political figure more despised than Donald Trump.
              • Failed to deschedule marijuana, and other drugs that aren’t particularly harmful
              • Failed to meaningfully reduce healthcare costs, instead implementing a rebranded “Romneycare” access to insurance reform.
  • @ramblechat
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    331 year ago

    I don’t have kids but am perfectly happy to pay more tax to make education free or cheaper. How can anyone argue that a less educated society is better? The more people that can experience higher education is plainly a good thing. There could be someone out there who could make a medical or technological breakthrough but doesn’t get the chance because they can’t afford to go to college.

    • Lev_Astov
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      91 year ago

      I think the main argument is that this isn’t the way to go about that. The universities are totally out of control and need to be forced to curb their spending to make things more affordable before we just start handing them public funding like this.

      • Hangglide
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        71 year ago

        We pay for primary and high-school just fine. 4 more years for some of the kids isn’t going to break the bank.

      • @DontTreadOnBigfoot
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        51 year ago

        Well I think this move is only going to hurt people in the short run, it was just asking for further dive in a recession, I do agree with this sentiment of it.

        Tuition prices are absolutely insane. Colleges and universities are spending money on ridiculous nonsense, and that needs to be reigned in severely before Just throwing billions more taxpayer dollars at them.

        That said, these funds weren’t going to the universities. They were going to the banks, so cutting this off isn’t going to influence tuition rates in any way.

      • @wslack
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        21 year ago

        need to be forced to curb their spending to make things more affordable

        How? Students are choosing more expensive places. The market is driving this.

      • KairuByte
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        21 year ago

        I don’t really think anyone in the government has a good solution for this, do they?

        Remove the available money? Only the rich go to college. Add more money? The prices go up.

        You could try regulating it, but then you just get colleges that refuse to accept government money, while simultaneously asking for the same amount.

        I’m sure someone has a solution that would work, but it’s not anyone with the power to implement it, that’s for sure.

        • @freo3579
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          51 year ago

          just make public universities cheaper, private sector will feel the competition and lower prices.

          • KairuByte
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            01 year ago

            I honestly don’t think so. Private universities are already more expensive, why would they care if that gap widened more?

  • @Raphael
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    281 year ago

    Another W for capitalism, another L for the worker class.

    • @zombuey
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      111 year ago

      most of what’s happening in todays world is not a W for capitalism. Modern conservative thoughts on capitalism have long abandoned the necessary regulation of free markets we enforced for 2 centuries. capitalism only works if markets continually divide winners at the top. If you don’t bust monopolies then capitalism begins to rapidly break down. We’ve known that for a long time and only recently stopped. You lose all the benefits of capitalism without that feature. What we have in America isn’t capitalism really at all anymore. This whole concept that the government has no role in capitalism and free markets will always correct themselves is a myth and we’ve known that since before America. John Locke knew that he was a tax collector for the english crown.

      • @iatentdead
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        21 year ago

        I’m no political scientist, but it seems to me to be heading more towards oligarchy.

  • @GiddyGap
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    1 year ago

    I always vote for Democrats up and down the ballot. But this just confirms my choice once again. Hopefully the 26 million people the Republicans screwed over will come to the same conclusion.

    • @zombuey
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      71 year ago

      they won’t they don’t care to go anywhere near reality. It would never fit their perception of the world.

      • @ChickenWings
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        131 year ago

        I disagree. I was raised in a strongly Republican family. Fox News was perpetually on in my house, and Rush Limbaugh was a staple in the car. It took me until my 20s to start thinking for myself politically, and many years later, I now despise the Republican party and have gained the confidence to be outspoken about it. (I’m quite introverted, so that’s kind of a big deal for me.)

        For example, I grew up praying in Catholic churches for an end to abortion without really understanding its need as a medical procedure. It was only through education that I learned it isn’t the horror show I had been told it is.

        I’m just one person, but I know there must be more like me. People do change their views, and I hope more formerly brainwashed people like myself can be encouraged to change as well. There’s still hope. Encourage people through education, not insults.

        • @DTFpanda
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          51 year ago

          Same here. Born into Christian household, went to Christian elementary school, worked at chick fil a all throughout highschool (lol). I wasn’t political myself as a teenager, but I was certainly headed towards the right. Wasn’t until I went to college that my perception of the world changed, and I haven’t looked back since. I’m still repaying that college debt 10 years later, but I wouldn’t be me without that experience. I’m extremely upset about the results of this SCOTUS ruling, but I’m probably the only one in my whole family who feels this way.

        • @wellsley051
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          51 year ago

          I am like you! My dad_loved_Rush Limbaugh. But I was raised nondenominational. Became a Calvinist for a little while, worked at a Christian summer camp. Then got my first job at a U-Haul where my coworkers mostly POC. I met my future husband there, who helped me see how fucked up my upbringing was. Honestly it’s been twelve years and I’m still uncovering shit.

          But yeah, change is possible, just difficult. It’s difficult to leave your tribe because they’re fuckwits.

        • @Pixiedust
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          21 year ago

          You and I have a shared experience! Welcome to the team! 🎉

  • @spiphy
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    241 year ago

    The dissent is worth a read. It really highlights how bad a decision this is.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    Wow. The SCOTUS is firing through all sorts of shitty changes this week. They’re like the koolaid man on meth.

  • @zipdog
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    121 year ago

    Can anyone clarify if this strikes down Biden’s plan in it’s entirety or just the lump s forgiveness? TBH I always considered the rest of the plan that fixes ballooning interest and unaffordable monthly payments the meat of this plan. The 10k is just meh and isn’t really fixing anything long term. Would be really unfortunate if the former got screwed by the latter

    • @wslack
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      31 year ago

      I think its specific to the cancellation, but not sure.