most of europe has parliamentary systems where you are voting for a list of delegates from a party, not individuals in a race. it has its own problems
Biden is still Biden but the change in tone (Bidenâs response about multi-millionaire tax breaks to that reporter, the âsemi-fascismâ comment, the White House tweets directed at the congressmen) is welcome as it seems to demonstrate a small change in tone and approach to more populist politics and less hand-wringing about norms. One theory of change in America involves the Dems holding the line against the fascist right for long enough that enough olds die off for cultural change to occur. And even if you donât think that theory of change is super plausible, it doesnât really matter unless you have a better one.
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I went through all my social media canary channels today and across the entire political spectrum this seems like an enormously unpopular decision if the memes are to be believed, focusing solely on the $10k number and not the other stuff.
lol biden.
if anyoneâs interested I can post some
i nearly killed myself through sheer exhaustion and am still dealing with the effects of the burnout working half a dozen jobs at once throughout school to get through without debt. if i can manage to not be mad, everyone else can too, it doesnât make any sense to me when i hear people complaining about this.
to me itâs like, good, no one else will have to die trying, because Iâm sure many have
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Not all. Quite a few use proportional representation.
If he really wants to pull off the Dark Brandon twist, heâs gonna need to legalize weed.
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The PPP werenât intended to be paid back and so arenât really loans so itâs a bit disingenuous to compare them, but rhetorically itâs really good when you get responses like this
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1562959556853972992
Yes little Ben letâs see how many ex CIA or ex local business leader 50 to 80 years olds making 200k a year have student loans.
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Theyâd need to get to like 54-56 Senate seats to do the kinds of reform that you are looking for.
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Fuck Trudeau
Justin Trudeauâs Liberals have abandoned their election promise that the 2015 federal election would be the last to use the first-past-the-post voting system.
In December, an all-party committee released a report recommending the Liberals design a proportional representation voting system and hold a national referendum to gauge support.
At the time, the Liberals refused to knowledge a consensus; two months later, Trudeau directed the minister of democratic institutions to abandon electoral reform altogether.
Trudeauâs new mandate is a total reversal from his promises on the campaign trail.
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I agree this is meaningful. However, while I doubt that a Republican president will add the forgiven debt back, I do expect that the next Republican President will undo some of the income caps.
This is basic âwhen weâre winning we like the rules, when weâre losing we want the rules changedâ garbage. Infuriating.
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And are making less than $125k per year!
At this point Iâll consider that this is a body double or something. This is a different dude!
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1562956261800325120?s=21&t=hb3Dn6ttf-ZMT_TNIDPR5Q
Actually giving people concrete reasons to vote harder!
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1562956563374940161?s=21&t=hb3Dn6ttf-ZMT_TNIDPR5Q
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Lol, she had a 2.7 gpa⌠in highschool??? Lmao. Yoooo, the reason you got into Penn wasnât because you were super smart, it was because your parents had connections.
Eta, yep, she went to a top five private prep school, lmao. Eat a dick.
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At 2.7 after âimproving steadilyâ LMFAO.
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Yes I worded my post poorly. I was aware of this when citing the mixed member system. Iâd assumed lists operated alongside first past the post electorates in more countries than it does. Iâm still unsure this system would lead to fairer outcomes in the USA as, again, the essence is having multiple viable parties that people will vote for (voting â1â on their ballot). In Australia, proportional representation is also applied massively differently, we vote for every party in order of preference rather than the one party voted for everywhere else.
I donât think itâs the general idea that debt should be repaid that is problematic. Itâs that conservatives are skilled at making broad statements that seem reasonable on their face, but then applying them in a way that is intentionally designed to enforce inequalities through power structures. One of the ways that they succeed is to get people that donât agree with their end goals to buy into generalities so that they can then implement their evil specifics. With debt repayment, they will use your acceptance of âdebts should be repaidâ to deepen the power of rich and otherwise advantaged people. They do this, for example, by making expensive school a prerequisite for accessing power structures, and then lo and behold you get stupid kids of rich people in all the positions of power. This is not a good thing. So while âpay your debtsâ sounds reasonable on the surface, stuff like large student loan burdens is very much the fruit of the poisonous tree and should be treated that way.
This is without even getting into the fact that people already in the power structure default on and restructure debts all the time. Because debt is superficially about borrowers obligations to lenders, but it is really about controlling access to power and having power over people. When conservatives say things like âpeople should be punished for their crimesâ, which I guess is a âreasonableâ statement on itâs face, we have become adept at identifying that they arenât really interested in justice. We know in that context they are really interesting in applying the force of the justice system to protect their interests and keep other people from accessing their power. We really should be able to see this dynamic in lending as well. And student loans is an obvious place to start.
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Wow. Must have had a good nap!
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Literally all these same people were praising Trump for gojng bankrupt multiple times.
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