• Optional@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Well, here’s one example:

    Biden’s total student debt relief passes $183 billion, after he forgives another 150,000 borrowers

    Since Biden took office, he has forgiven debt for more than 5 million federal student loan borrowers.

    That shouldn’t be controversial, at least not around here. That’s a solid fucking win.

    No it doesn’t end all genocide, save the whales, or ensure anything much in the huge scope of All Things, but it was a long battle won that made a fair few ‘regular’ people’s lives measurably better and it’s a win. We need to be able to see and appreciate them. There’s a lot more in living memory too.

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      He didn’t meaningfully solve the problem. These problems just keep getting worse and unless they’re solved they will continue to. This is a fake attempt to convince people to believe that problems are being addressed when they are really not and we’re not falling for it anymore. Joe Biden was a failure of a president, that’s just a fact. If you doubt it ask who’s the president today and why

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              That’s funny I’ve had the “…but not quite” in my vocabulary for years and I never realized where it might be from.

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                There is a specific brand of terminally online “if it isn’t perfect it isn’t worth doing” contributes-nothing-naysayer that you see all over the internet, and every time I see them I think of this poem.

                Their knee perk reactions are so automatic that I genuinely do not think a single thing could be done to thier satisfaction.

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              It’s not “imperfect”, the problems keep getting worse and these token efforts are to stop real progress

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        He didn’t meaningfully solve the problem.

        For those 5 million people he did. And it bears mentioning many of them were due some form of debt relief under trump, who specifically discontinued student loan relief programs. That’s a fix and a win.

        Do we all get ponies and 40 acres? No. But if you can’t see the obvious win and right direction in this, you must be trying.

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    Pretty sure AIPAC is behind the Dems losing over and over. Russia and AIPAC effectively own the GOP too. They’re using that “captured both sides” approach.

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    Everything tends to make more sense when viewed as:

    Israeli demands > donor demands > civility liberalism > their own constituents > the country > their minority constituents > minority non-constituents > muslims