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Goatse James Bond posted:An absolute goddamn shitload of people have gotten their student loans forgiven and more have had their payments reduced to 5% of discretionary income (read: nothing), and yet we still have this talking point. Even on this specific case, not getting into the polling someone else noted (and people constantly notes) where there's a massive disconnect between perception of personal situation and perception of the economy, your constant refrain of "their lying eyes" is completely ignoring an actual, genuine, serious improvement in people's individual, personal material conditions. Perhaps you are correct, and the people rating the economy as bad are as wrong as you claim that I am. I'm very glad that Biden has resurrected the PSLF program, especially retroactively. But here's the current outstanding student-loan debt as of a few months ago:  https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/politics/student-loan-debt-forgiveness-biden/index.html Yes, it's an "actual, genuine, serious improvement" in the material conditions of those ~9 percent of loan-holders whose loans were forgiven--and yet still a burden to those with private loan debt and/or who don't qualify for PSLF. Same for those formerly on Medicaid who now have Obamacare subsidies yet who still can't afford to meet their deductibles. eta: CNN's piece was published on March 29, 2024 and used Q4 2023 numbers for its chart. I know that there have been additional loans forgiven since then. etaa: As far as (publicly financed) student loans being limited to 5 percent of one's income, I would point out that that's still considerably more than people paid during the forbearance period in which interest didn't accrue; that interest is capitalized so that the loan amount grows in proportion to the lesser-amount payments; and that, like the 8.5 percent limit of income permissible toward insurance premiums (but not toward insurance deductibles) it is based on gross income, rather than net income, which makes a considerable difference in people's economic burdens. Willa Rogers fucked around with this message at 05:22 on May 1, 2024 |
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PhazonLink posted:selling TB is legal in LA? Only on the DL.
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As far as the disconnect between people's own economic situations & their views of the economy, as I understand it a lot of it is based on the longstanding tradition of partisan sentiment (democrats rating the economy as poor when the gop holds the presidency & vice versa) and a lot of it is based on where one falls on the economic scale. Unsurprisingly, those earning less money find the current costs of shelter & food to be burdensome while those earning more money might say they're able to meet their needs financially while also thinking that the economy sucks because those costs are now higher than they've been, according to Gallup: quote:As has been the case in previous readings, Americans’ reports of high prices as a hardship have differed significantly based on annual household income. Those in lower-income households (76%) are more likely than those in middle-income households (64%) and higher-income households (54%) to say price increases are causing them hardship. However, income differences are even more pronounced when looking just at those saying the impact is severe. Lower-income Americans (30%) are three times as likely as high-income adults (10%) and almost twice as likely as middle-income adults (16%) to characterize high prices as a severe hardship.  A NYT piece last November about the disconnect: quote:Many said their own finances were good enough — they had jobs, owned houses, made ends meet. But they felt as if they were “just getting by,” with “nothing left over.” Many felt angry and anxious over prices and the pandemic and politics. https://archive.ph/kMTr8#selection-1591.0-1611.1
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Boris Galerkin posted:Yeah and THCa weed is like legit actual real weed. I don't live in CA but from what I hear these days even in a fully legal place like CA the weed you're buying at dispensaries are high in THCa and less so THC. Probably because earlier in the grow cycle plants are high in THCa and low in THC and the THCa slowly changes to THC as it matures. I would imagine the growers are harvesting early so they can get more yield per year knowing that it doesn't matter all that much since everybody is going to smoke it and it'll turn into THC anyway, at least with their plants destined to stay flower and not be turned into edibles.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The NYPD is currently raiding a building on Columbia’s campus occupied by peaceful protesters https://twitter.com/wawog_now/status/1785526362171691094 This is horrible, but not unsurprising To think all of this could have been avoided if the colleges either did nothing at all and let the protests run out of steam or divest from Israel. And Biden isn't helping things either by continuing to support Israel. All of this pain and anguish and the suffering happening in Gaza is occurring for the benefit of Israel. It's madness
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The NYPD also raided a similar protest at CUNY https://twitter.com/jeannetheoharis/status/1785520699022483482?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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https://x.com/WKCRFM/status/1785475618991489186 I guess that whole "Vote Dems to stave off creeping authoritarianism" thing is out the window. Fuckin' Triumph of the Will poo poo going on in NYC. What the hell, Eric Adams, are you trying to get Trump elected? This feels like somebody hired a consulting group to figure out how to keep Chicago PD supplied with fresh young idealists to beat to a pulp as some kind of cosmic price that must be satisfied to hold the convention there, because this is only going to make these people more militant, and more ready to go to the mat.
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lobster shirt posted:so texas is in kind of a weird spot with weed, they did some ag bill in 2019 that legalized hemp below a certain thc percentage. they later outlawed smoking hemp altogether but there are dispensaries everywhere and you can buy all kinds of gummies and edibles. delta 8 is also legal here. Yeah, that's the case until someone gets a bug up their butt about it. I'm in Louisiana. THC gummies, seltzers and whatnot are currently legal except now it might be taken away because of a bill that's sponsored by leaders of the alcohol industry. People who struggle with alcohol addiction are finding help through edibles and it's eating into the alcohol industry profits, you see.
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theCalamity posted:To think all of this could have been avoided if the colleges either did nothing at all and let the protests run out of steam or divest from Israel. this has really struck me, seems like a much quicker escalation than i would expect given how often (relatively) these kind of large protests and sit-ins tend to happen on college campuses. either donor pressure, congressional public scrutiny, or personal ideology has to be driving the response forcibly breaking up and expelling students for a sit-in that's lasted for less than 24 hours is something i don't recall ever hearing about
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:forcibly breaking up and expelling students for a sit-in that's lasted for less than 24 hours is something i don't recall ever hearing about i am gonna assume it has powerfully unsavory parallels with the forcible breakups of civil rights era protests and nonviolent demonstrations in fact i bet that just in general you could read up on the columbia protests in the late 60's and tally up how many "time is a flat circle" vibes it throws out
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Staluigi posted:i am gonna assume it has powerfully unsavory parallels with the forcible breakups of civil rights era protests and nonviolent demonstrations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Columbia_University_protests according to the wiki, in '68 students occupied hamilton hall on april 23rd, and weren't removed till april 30th, so this time around is much quicker. though the scale of previous sit-in was larger, which might have given nypd more pause actually i'm not sure, in a situation like this would moving on the sit-in by the administrations call, nypd, the mayor, or who knows?
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:[ According to Twitter the columbia president is supposed to have tonget faculty permission to bring cops on campus like this, but that was ignored.
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violent zionists are now attacking the UCLA encampment: https://x.com/TeresaWatanabe/status/1785575610469007471 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlPajDiGJKU edit: https://x.com/dailybruin/status/1785551273930133918 https://x.com/mel_buer/status/1785560079368130702 Carew fucked around with this message at 10:14 on May 1, 2024 |
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America is such a disgusting and insane country goddamn. E: looks like the pigs are moving in to tear-gas the UCLA protesters out now that theyve given the Zionist fash enough time to go hog-wild https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1785617347778404753?t=fcO6-urqjM5mHOVwWxvlOw&s=19 Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 11:38 on May 1, 2024 |
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I'm sure we'll hear a swift condemnation of these Zionist thugs screaming about a second Nakba while they beat peaceful protestors from the white house right?
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Yeah at this point I hope the DNC is ruined. I hope they have to shut it down and hide in a tiny conference room and just hustle out a side door after they vote hastily for Biden to be the nominee. I hope every single Chicago cop has a camera pointed at them 24/7 and Brandon Johnson has to go up there and make a choice he doesn’t want to make. gently caress the spectacle, you don’t deserve a stage managed festival to throw a rapist like Bill Clinton up there to lecture us all. I hope this poo poo haunts them and ends up a bigger disaster than ‘68. They have betrayed their principles and the young people in this country who can see what is being done in their names clearly and speak about it honestly, and get the jackboot in a city run by a democratic council, with a. Dem mayor, under a democratic state house and governor and a dem in the White House. Top to bottom what is happening to peaceful protesters in our campuses is a racist, fascist crackdown being carried out by the Democrats and they need to own it and eat that poo poo until they either did their hearts or the party crumbles, idgaf which. They own this now. gently caress Newsome, gently caress Hochul (that fraud has the nerve after she herself protest SA apartheid) gently caress Eric Adams and fuuuuck lifelong apartheid lover Joe Biden who would gently cup Netanyahu’s sack to prevent him getting a hernia trying to throw an entire people into the waste bin of history. gently caress them all, forever. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) selec fucked around with this message at 13:59 on May 1, 2024 |
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:this has really struck me, seems like a much quicker escalation than i would expect given how often (relatively) these kind of large protests and sit-ins tend to happen on college campuses. either donor pressure, congressional public scrutiny, or personal ideology has to be driving the response The American establishment really, REALLY wants you to know it’s not okay to not love Israel with all your heart and soul.
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In election news Democrats won the special election for New York's 26th congressional district, increasing their share of the vote since the midterms by +4.2%, putting another small hole in the polling doom and gloom.
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Staluigi posted:i am gonna assume it has powerfully unsavory parallels with the forcible breakups of civil rights era protests and nonviolent demonstrations You can read about it on Columbia's own website! They have a whole section dedicated to it, and how they've all learned and grown from those turbulent times  https://news.columbia.edu/content/new-perspective-1968 quote:Columbia is a far different place today than it was in the spring of 1968 when protesters took over University buildings amid discontent about the Vietnam War, racism and the University’s proposed expansion into Morningside Park. After a weeklong standoff, New York City Police stormed the campus and arrested more than 700 people. The fallout dogged Columbia for years. 
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Fister Roboto posted:You can read about it on Columbia's own website! They have a whole section dedicated to it, and how they've all learned and grown from those turbulent times Lmao when you open it the page header has a notice they've totally locked down the campus 
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Yiggy posted:Yes and no. Some of the smell is from the terpenes in cannabis which are often desirable and bred for. One of the popular genetic breeds which I find in the lineage of many strains present in dispensaries is GMO named for the garlic mushroom onion smell and terpene profile it gets from myrcene. Cannabis consumers and producers are often not going to want to remove this aspect from their cannabis. We like it. Oh god yes please, the entire lower east side smells like someone ran over a skunk even through an N95.
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Oracle posted:Oh god yes please, the entire lower east side smells like someone ran over a skunk even through an N95. Spring is here lmao
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Pleasant Friend posted:In election news Democrats won the special election for New York's 26th congressional district, increasing their share of the vote since the midterms by +4.2%, putting another small hole in the polling doom and gloom. It's going to be interesting in that the most likely outcome given polling is that the Dems take back the House, lose the Senate, and lose the Presidency. There are a number of polls showing states with a noticeable gap between the Senate race and the Presidential.
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Police moron goes on morning Joe to claim that the protests are professional outside agitator (probably russian, Hamas, or both!) because they have unlocked....chain technology. Morning Joe crew nods sagely with concerned expressions, Biden presumably watches his favorite show and frets about how far up the tech tree the terrorists are. https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1785636351330713667 Said chain is sold by the university itself for campus safety.  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I like the skunky smelling weed ._. https://twitter.com/JulieNBCNews/status/1785658807135117707 https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1785658032199983191 https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1785659036181946804 The way the national press wearily notes that they're just powerless not to cover an obvious media stunt is one of the most frustrating things in political journalism. Simply do not attend the press conferences, do not surround MTG like she's in BTS every time she does another crazy thing.
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https://twitter.com/c_sommerfeldt/status/1785627196314292288 https://twitter.com/c_sommerfeldt/status/1785629008165544235 Eric Adams going full thought police. It’s vaguely similar to right wing rhetoric about college campuses being hotbeds of communism. Cant let the students become radicalized against genocide, I guess.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/c_sommerfeldt/status/1785627196314292288 It’s the same stupid bullshit we heard about the BLM protests, the anti-Vietnam movement, the Civil Rights movement, and every other mass protest in this country’s history.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/c_sommerfeldt/status/1785629008165544235 What gets me is the infantilization. "These are our children" They're college students, not kindergartners! They are young adults that are able to have their own opinions based on their observations and experiences. Nonsense posted:https://x.com/joeyneverjoe/status/1785553171353575620 punishedkissinger posted:The Outside Agitators appear to be Zionists lobbing fireworks at the peace protesters Of course, the cops took their sweet time responding to this violence. volts5000 fucked around with this message at 14:57 on May 1, 2024 |
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As we all know, witnessing or being subjected to a brutal police crackdown on a peaceful protest has never radicalized anybody. 
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https://x.com/joeyneverjoe/status/1785553171353575620 This happened at UCLA, I don’t think Morning Joe or any of these sick freaks on tv are going to condemn their actions. They also began throwing fire works into the encampment to start fires. This nations media and leaders handle protest no better than China, but were quick to condemn the crackdown on Hong Kong protests. We don’t need to emulate China even if it doesn’t approach their level. Not that these kids need to be charged with anything, many I hope will be released. Nonsense fucked around with this message at 14:58 on May 1, 2024 |
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Nucleic Acids posted:It’s the same stupid bullshit we heard about the BLM protests, the anti-Vietnam movement, the Civil Rights movement, and every other mass protest in this country’s history. The Outside Agitators appear to be Zionists lobbing fireworks at the peace protesters https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1785615897903718690
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Biden needs to come out against the Zionist agitators, Israeli leaders have been threatening violence against students since this began.
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Nonsense posted:Biden needs to come out against the Zionist agitators, Israeli leaders have been threatening violence against students since this began. Might be tough for him. He's an admitted super Zionist.
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punishedkissinger posted:The Outside Agitators appear to be Zionists lobbing fireworks at the peace protesters I guess Ben’Gvir got those America based militias he wanted.
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theCalamity posted:https://twitter.com/c_sommerfeldt/status/1785627196314292288 Look the student protests may have been right every single other time, but *this* time it's the storm troopers flooding in who are the good guys
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https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1785622283161067568 The odds of the president condemning this riot are basically zero, at least without some asinine “both sides” equivocation (and even then the odds aren’t great).
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the DEA taking 60+ days to reschedule cannabis as Prescription Only 28 years after Legalization
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Man I sure do love unchecked Zionist paramilitary violence being exported to our cities and college campuses, by democratic mayors, city councils, governors and state legislatures.
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