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More of us voted for her than for him. But the system we use is broken.

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yeah, I bet the millions of Americans who voted Democrat and then had their votes functionally overturned by the archaic electoral college are just thrilled that student loan forgiveness was blocked

get a grip dude

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Lashing out against all Americans is misguided. I didn’t vote for Trump. You gonna yell at me too? Maybe show some empathy for those of us affected rather than talking trash to a group of people who are now disadvantaged by these recent SC decisions. Especially the one about discrimination.

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I absolutely defended her and rallied folks to vote in that election. I live in Missouri, though, which means we are constantly outnumbered. I tried, though.

Advice for you: drop the internet virtue signaling and assumptive behavior.

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Same here, didn’t vote for Trump, held my fucking nose and conformed and voted Hillary in 2016 because I was still a socdem back then and I was scared. Then 2020 rolls around, centrist democrats backstab Bernie and simultaneously rally behind Joe Biden’s lukewarm corpse to stop a progressive from gaining any more momentum. Now they sit on their hands every step of the way, no effort to remove the filibuster, Biden and congress come together to stop the railroad strike, no effort to pack the court, nothing.

I’ve voted in every fucking election (local, state, national, midterms, etc.) since 2008 when I turned 18. It doesn’t fucking make any difference. Candidates are chosen and corporations always win. The system is working as intended for those who it was built for. Hint: It is not me or you.

I keep seeing these annoying libs lash out towards leftists for the mistakes of the Democrat party. Democrats back some of the most unlikable candidates, backstab their own, don’t exercise their power when they do have it, are condescending, overly worried about optics and decorum, and do almost nothing to combat the broken hydrant of lies and vitriol coming from Republicans.

Almost 100 million eligible Americans didn’t vote in 2016. And yes we know the electoral college, gerrymandering, voter id laws, material conditions, etc, impact that number. Yet libs don’t seem to have the mental capacity to ever look inward and analyze the conditions that resulted in these outcomes. They are so fucking dense.

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I do not get how these 6 states were determined to have standing in the first place? Isn’t the whole US justice system predicated on the fact that you need to experience direct or indirect harm, be an actually involved party for you to be able to sue? They’re federal loans, so federal money, where does their standing come from?

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You think any of this matters to fundamentalists in robes? They’re the scum of the Earth, and Biden is too gutless to take them on, and had the gall to say he has a ‘fear of politicizing’ the court.

The US is beyond redemption.

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I mean, fuck Reagan – he’s the reason why we’re in this mess in the first place.

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

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When I got engaged to my wife and we were going over our finances, her student loans blew my mind. The way they set up her payments, more than half of her loans were growing despite making monthly payments. The freaking interest was higher than she paid in every month.

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I have a friend in the same position. It’s actually pretty sad to see. They will never be out from under the crushing weight of this debt.

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