• BradleyUffner@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    And this is why we lost. People are screaming for help, and Democrats just said “you’re wrong, everything is actually fine. It’s all in your head. Biden actually did help you! You were just too uninformed to notice it.”

    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      People act like Democrats were just ignoring what people wanted, while Republican politicians and judges were blocking them every step of the way. Just look at how many ways Biden’s school debt relief plans were defeated.

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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        4 minutes ago

        Just look at how many ways Biden’s school debt relief plans were defeated.

        Because Biden did it in ways the judges could block. Per the Department of Education, the executive has the authority to simply delete the debt and dare the judges to create new debt out of thin air.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      5 hours ago

      Absolutely fucking right.

      "Your doctor won’t be able to offer you prenatal care or freeze your eggs for fertility treatment!

      “I can’t afford rent or eggs and you think I have a DOCTOR? You think I can afford to even think about having a kid?”

      “Look at the stock market though!”

    • KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 hours ago

      They are not really lying, which is especially frustrating. But it wasn’t enough by a long shot.

      Telling someone that can’t get out of a bog that you moved him a centimeter into the right direction will probably earn you some insults, despite the help.

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        The thing is that people somehow don’t seem to realise there’s a bog monster pulling in the opposite direction. Yes, it’s a problem that they only got pulled 1 cm in the right direction. Yes, it’s well worth criticising that it could have been 10 cm if the person doing the pulling hadn’t tied a hand behind their back. But 1 cm of movement in the right direction is still far better than 2 m of movement in the wrong direction because the bog monster gained the upper hand.

        And the people standing on the sidelines saying “let go of their hand and grab mine! I’ll pull you in the right direction with both hands!” are also acting in bad faith, because if they actually had an interest in doing that they’d be grabbing onto the person who’s currently doing the pulling and pulling helping them pull rather than expecting the victim to release and flounder around for their hand.