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PhilippAchtel posted:2016: A New Hope
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:38 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 07:57 |
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LeeMajors posted:morning news is wall to wall Dems vowing to “reinstate Roe v Wade” (which doesn’t make sense). How would they even do that? Pack the court? Are they saying that's what they'll do?
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:39 |
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this explains that cringe boomer dance:quote:Biden’s campaign hopes to reach those people through their own social media and what is known as relational organizing. The strategy relies on an army of volunteers and paid campaign staffers not just to knock on doors and make other voter contacts but also to tap into their own personal networks, especially online, to share information — news articles, images and videos — that carry the campaign’s message to people otherwise tuning out political outreach. but the cringe boomer dance will have the opposite effect on voters, same as the cringe jo from jerz & the cringe crazy-eyed lady & screaming from behind the wheel.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:39 |
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lmao: If those below-the-radar conversations are to make a difference for Biden in the election, giving supporters things to talk about is paramount. That’s why an arm of the Biden campaign digital team has been traveling with the president for weeks, recording planned, intimate voter encounters with him focused on particular issues while keeping watch for golden unscripted moments to amplify.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:40 |
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Willa Rogers posted:"A visit to a Milwaukee campaign office offered him a chance to connect with a young boy who’d written to him about dealing with a stutter, an unscripted interaction that made its way to TikTok." if it made it's way to tiktok it sounds like that's chicom propaganda.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:42 |
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spacetoaster posted:How would they even do that? Pack the court? Are they saying that's what they'll do? All you need to know is that the vibes are pro-choice
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:44 |
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spacetoaster posted:How would they even do that? Pack the court? Are they saying that's what they'll do? I think they're trying to say "codify" but think the actual word is confusing? I dunno, it's inexplicable. Maybe it's that codifying Roe would be a new scary thing and they only ever want to promise to undo the other team's bad new scary things so they have to say they're bringing Roe back even if they'd do it legislatively rather than judicially I think if pressed they'd probably say they need 60 senators to do it which will never happen (by design) so maybe they're just being vague on methods on purpose
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:54 |
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its vague on purpose because they dont want to bring back anything its a useful cudgel for them and probably the only remaining one the dems have
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 16:55 |
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Uncle Wemus posted:“There’s an unspoken consensus about the stories we should pursue and how they should be framed. It’s frictionless—one story after another about instances of supposed racism, transphobia, signs of the climate apocalypse, Israel doing something bad, and the dire threat of Republican policies. It’s almost like an assembly line. “ The only thing I learned from clicking that mess was this is from Bari Weiss's site (took me a minute to figure out why there were so many "woke!" and blood sobberingly genocidal posts written up like school papers). gently caress Bari Weiss. She killed Palestine's greatest poet.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:26 |
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VitalSigns posted:I wonder if there will be any resistance at all. They are going to send out fundraising emails so hard You thought democracy was on the ballot before? You haven't seen "Can you donate $25 to preserve freedom?" yet.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:26 |
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spacetoaster posted:Are the Democrats floating student loan forgiveness? I'm seeing a lot of FB chatter about how it's theft of our precious dollars. The democrats just inserted and will pass a law banning any presidential administration from forgiving loans lol quote:But in exchange, the current FAA bill includes a provision that says that, regarding flight education and training loans, the government “may not take any action to cancel or forgive the outstanding balances, or portion of balances, on any Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, or otherwise modify the terms or conditions of a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, made to an eligible student, except as authorized by an Act of Congress.”
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:34 |
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Shageletic posted:The democrats just inserted and will pass a law banning any presidential administration from forgiving loans lol lol
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:35 |
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Nichael posted:https://x.com/chenweihua/status/1777759170969674238 Chen is half right.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:37 |
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Shageletic posted:The democrats just inserted and will pass a law banning any presidential administration from forgiving loans lol A great example of how congress is perfectly capable of governing via legislation when they actually want to.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:40 |
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this is the loan chatter you're hearing about : https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-seeks-cancel-some-interest-student-loans-aiding-23-million-americans-2024-04-08/ quote:The plans, which the Democratic president detailed in Madison, Wisconsin, include cancelling up to $20,000 of accrued and capitalized interest for borrowers, regardless of income, which Biden's administration estimates would eliminate the entirety of that interest for 23 million borrowers. it's just like the rest of what he's done so far on loans: not nothing, but not nearly enough and they're obviously slow-rolling it. Also, last year the negotiated rulemaking thing they're doing settled on some pretty strict guardrails for loan forgiveness: quote:The proposed regulatory text released today provides more information on ideas discussed in early November around separate types of debt relief. The updated text reflects suggestions from negotiators and continued review by the Department. The text proposes to provide relief in the following circumstances: basically, unless you went to a predatory diploma mill or you were owed forgiveness anyway because of PSLF, you're not getting that loan forgiven by this administration. the best they can offer you is that if you were only making minimum payments and the interest went out of control, they'll waive the interest so you still only owe the principal.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:42 |
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Nichael posted:https://x.com/chenweihua/status/1777759170969674238 A t-shirt I had in 2006 agrees
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:42 |
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Thoguh posted:A great example of how congress is perfectly capable of governing via legislation when they actually want to. Look, it's called compromise. By loving over us normies by continuing to not do a thing they don't want to do, it accrues political capital to allow them to gently caress us over in more entertaining ways.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:43 |
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ArmedZombie posted:Chen is half right.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:44 |
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SixteenShells posted:this is the loan chatter you're hearing about : it already got sued by the same states that scrotus backed the first time
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:45 |
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does biden have a searchable twitter archive that doesnt require an account at twitter.com? trump had one but he's cooler
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:45 |
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https://twitter.com/PplsCityCouncil/status/1778065971443556359
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:55 |
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SixteenShells posted:basically, unless you went to a predatory diploma mill or you were owed forgiveness anyway because of PSLF, you're not getting that loan forgiven by this administration. the best they can offer you is that if you were only making minimum payments and the interest went out of control, they'll waive the interest so you still only owe the principal.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:56 |
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Willa Rogers posted:that stupid p.o.s. chait nymag piece proves me correct on everything I've ever said about secret government control of social media bc he's making the case that petitioning the government for redress is not only breaching but comes close to what he defines as domestic terrorism. Yep, the internet is pretty much dead at this point. Pretty sad tbqh.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 17:58 |
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PoundSand posted:It's wild to me student loan interest is a thing anyways. Like obviously education should be free to begin with but if you absolutely must make it a loan that's essentially functioning as a tax meant to fund education by the people utilizing it, then there's no reason to slap interest on that, the gov is already benefiting from a more educated population, the "interest" is the higher earning potential that can be taxed. I mean public private partnership babey. You'd be correct if the government were directly handling loans, but since this is all handled through private banks and loan servicers, there's profits to be had!
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:07 |
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PoundSand posted:It's wild to me student loan interest is a thing anyways. Like obviously education should be free to begin with but if you absolutely must make it a loan that's essentially functioning as a tax meant to fund education by the people utilizing it, then there's no reason to slap interest on that, the gov is already benefiting from a more educated population, the "interest" is the higher earning potential that can be taxed. The interest is meant to act as a penalty for those who climb above their station, op
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:08 |
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loquacius posted:meet the new slit (extremely marilyn manson voice) this is the new slit
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:08 |
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Willa Rogers posted:that stupid p.o.s. chait nymag piece proves me correct on everything I've ever said about secret government control of social media bc he's making the case that petitioning the government for redress is not only breaching but comes close to what he defines as domestic terrorism. Saw this the other day: https://x.com/SoundInvestig/status/1777697750764658927 I do love this gay catfishing format of journalism btw
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:09 |
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not fat enough
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:09 |
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Jimong5 posted:Saw this the other day: I can tell this is fake because the fbi only sets up white people if they are vaguely leftist
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:12 |
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PoundSand posted:It's wild to me student loan interest is a thing anyways. Like obviously education should be free to begin with but if you absolutely must make it a loan that's essentially functioning as a tax meant to fund education by the people utilizing it, then there's no reason to slap interest on that, the gov is already benefiting from a more educated population, the "interest" is the higher earning potential that can be taxed. i know basically nothing about how finance works at that level, but I assume allowing interest to accrue helped get lenders to offer education loans in the first place? like, they do subsidize the interest on some loans, but most of the loan debt is unsubsidized (the amount of subsidized loans you can get is capped at $3500-$5500 per year, but the median tuition for public universities is around 12 grand). So I imagine "don't worry, loan companies, you'll get plenty of interest payments from High School 2.0" was a big part of getting them on board. okay soapbox time since I'm reminded of something i'm still mad about. The only way to get subsidized loans is to submit a FAFSA, where they ask questions about how much money you and your guardians have and make, and then they calculate your "expected family contribution". Then, you're offered a mix of loans equaling the difference between your expected family contribution and your tuition and expected costs. Let's say you're a go-getter, and you decide to support your education by getting a scholarship from a charity or NGO or whatever. Legally, you're expected to report that scholarship, which will then be added to your expected family contribution, lowering the amount you will be offered in loans. Unless you get more in scholarship money than the difference between your EFC and your tuition, you're still expected to contribute exactly as much money as you were before. Granted, it does reduce your overall loan burden, so getting that scholarship might have a discernible effect 10-15 years down the road if you did the math on the counterfactual where you didn't get the scholarship. It might not even be a meaningful difference - those scholarships will be a few thousand bucks at the very most in my experience. But yeah. Getting scholarships doesn't do anything to make college more affordable in the moment for you and your family. Your budget is still hosed by those tuition payments.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:21 |
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SixteenShells posted:basically, unless you went to a predatory diploma mill or you were owed forgiveness anyway because of PSLF, you're not getting that loan forgiven by this administration. the best they can offer you is that if you were only making minimum payments and the interest went out of control, they'll waive the interest so you still only owe the principal. It might benefit me specifically because lol old, but I have learned not to get my hopes up
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:21 |
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https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1589366732212555776
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:23 |
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1glitch0 posted:Yep, the internet is pretty much dead at this point. Pretty sad tbqh. but it goes beyond the internet bc chait is talking about the NERVE of protestors to interrupt high-dollar fundraisers & the important business of legislating & then he attempts to link the anti-zionist actions with Jan. 6 protestors--er "insurrectionists"--which as I've pointed out was a fortuitous op to criminalize & punish all protests & brand them as "domestic terrorism."
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:24 |
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His brain is complete pudding but he's right. Dobbs is awesome for democrats.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:24 |
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ArmedZombie posted:I can tell this is fake because the fbi only sets up white people if they are vaguely leftist I guess you forgot when the FBI tried to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer lol
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:26 |
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Jimong5 posted:Saw this the other day: Dang, too bad the siloed media mean that it's fake news bc rachel isn't covering it.
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:28 |
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fetterman's right
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:32 |
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Jimong5 posted:I guess you forgot when the FBI tried to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer lol Lmao that was so loving funny. They had an underground hideout where they discussed the plan and like 80% of them were informants if I’m remembering right Also they like to set up right wing militia types from time to time too, certainly there’s an ideological quality to it but more than that busting a terrorist plot if good for your career and there’s no easier plot to bust than one you set up in the first place, so if your stuck out in some remote field office without a lot of anarchkiddies the militia guys are the low hanging fruit
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# ? Apr 10, 2024 18:34 |
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saying it out loud
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