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Laterite posted:Here's an NPR article as well, but, yes. In at least one of the articles on this it's later clarified that 800k would potentially be affected by this (assuming that each and every one of those people had not already consolidated their otherwise-ineligible loans), not 4 million, which is a little better. The bigger problem here is how incredibly confusing and convoluted this whole thing is. Everything else about student loans is, though, so I guess I can't expect forgiveness of them to be different.
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Kalit posted:It's probably a large part of the reason why Sanders' campaign in 2016 was so popular and didn't flop like Kucinich's 2008 campaign/etc You mean Howard Dean. Kucinich flopped because he's not exactly charismatic (especially compared to Obama, Edwards, even Clinton), and because  was already taking the role of Internet Candidate. Dean had that in 2004 but 2004 internet lacked the penetration to carry a campaign. In 08/12 Ron Paul got far more votes than he otherwise would have thanks to social media presence/spam. His campaign failed because he was Ron Paul and not because his message failed to reach people.
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Staluigi posted:Hasidic communities, especially recently with the new york area courts, are vehemently insular and so strictly observant that the majority of their practices are intentionally isolating. The leadership has doubled down on intentional isolation from the perverse secular world by banning internet access, cellphones, and any non-religious books from family homes. Men have to devote so much of their waking hours to religious study that they almost can't do anything else. Women are put under practically medieval restrictions and obligations as servants to their husband and have to pump out kids endlessly while handling all domestic tasks AND have to do a lot of the money earning so the father can stay doing endless religious study AND have a bunch of rules enforced on them to make them as invisible as possible AND have to follow a bunch of rules that make the mundane domestic tasks very time consuming. Kids get beaten like It's going out of style. Poverty is rampant because of the religious obligations mentioned above. Married women are frequently in need of very complex escape and sheltering needs, because leaving marriage is something that gets discouraged in nearly all cases, including ones with substantial abuse, and divorce is heavily shamed. So a lot of the women who leave are fully and vehemently cut off from support in the only community they've learned to survive in (by designed isolation). Marriages are usually arranged and happen as early as possible, and the hasidic community was one of the most strongly opposed to be laws banning child marriage. The level of isolation/treatment of women differs greatly between Hasidic sects. Chabadniks/Lubavitchers send their kids to ordinary colleges, use the internet/social media and interact frequently with the secular world. I have a Lubavicher aunt, granted she's baal teshuvah (grew up in a secular family and became more religious over time) so had received a full education herself but she's a public school teacher and managed to raise their nine children in between the two worlds, with some going to college (one to a PhD) and others pursuing trades or other work within the community. Satmars are the most extreme, they have the most stringent codes on modesty and try to keep totally separate and out of view of the outside world. For anyone interested in this I strongly recommend Frieda Vizel's blog and youtube channel, she is an ex-Hasid who does tours of Boro Park and Williamsburg (it sounds weird, but it's no different than tours of Amish country) and has a ton of insight into the idiosyncracies of everyday life within Brooklyn's Hasidic communities. https://friedavizel.com/blog/ She has an interesting perspective on the issue, basically agreeing with the overarching point but says that government interference is going to make the community fight harder against change and hurt the preexisting movement for change because it reinforces the message of government as the enemy trying to take X thing awayhttps://friedavizel.com/2022/09/13/thoughts-on-the-nyt-expose-on-hasidic-education/ I do disagree with her point about the Hasidic economy as an acceptable alternative to higher education, I think she paints too rosy a picture and is downplaying how many families are living in poverty.
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azflyboy posted:Does Connecticut have a law similar to the Texas one that caps what the families can actually be awarded, or is he (theoretically) on the hook for the entire $1 billion if the amount doesn't change on appeal? That is a Texas-specific law enacted by Abbott to be an rear end in a top hat and pull the ladder up after himself after he got his big cash damages.
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Taco Bell is good at brand twitter have they commented on this important issue?
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Fart Amplifier posted:That's not the only thing that makes sense. Anything could be national security that he could be scheduling a press conference about. Taking bets on "one or more senators is actually a killer robot in a human suit" vs. "Joe Biden misplaced the nuclear football if anyone finds it please call 202-647-6575"
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Oct 24, 2022 17:34
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When does the re-Trumpening of Twitter happen? Sure was a nice time without him for a while.
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Oct 28, 2022 02:22
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There are thousands upon thousands of men (always men) exactly like this on social media. They're the base of the Republican Party.
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Oct 28, 2022 19:34
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ManBoyChef posted:The Supreme court has been illegitimate since George W Bush was president. Nothing we do now beyond impeaching and replacing the justices he installed as well as the justices McConnel blocked will change that. It is deeply disturbing that we have a court that is pretty much legislating from the bench and they are unelected as well as the fact they are going against the will of the plurality of the people. Technically the Supreme Court has been illegitimate since the notorious Half-Breed RutherFRAUD B. Hayes appointed two justices.
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Gatts posted:What will the vacuum of a Twitterless media/social-verse create in its absence to take its place? Comedy option: Mastodon (they apparently got >70k new members in the last week due to Elon's bullshit)
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Nov 3, 2022 02:20
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Honestly, the team of people who are enabling him, creating Jew lists for him, arranging the NDAs and settlements, and working with media companies to prevent his rants and abuse from going public are basically putting in an incredible amount of work to get money from a messed up person. Well, there was one person who said something long before anyone else https://twitter.com/Pink/status/3967674746
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Nov 3, 2022 21:43
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BRJurgis posted:Even knowing both the antisemitic bent of online conspiracy theorists / alt-right folks, and Kanyes obvious instability, I still would have assumed this was just a detached celebrity pulling the "no bad publicity" thing trump and musk have so much... "success" with. A cynical move to get attention and tap a demographic. The opposite seems to be happening, with Musk taking Kanye's side and people like Kyrie Irving broadcasting their own anti-semitism to legions of fans who are now loving everywhere on tiktok and twitter going unchecked.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Ye has been best buds with Candace Owens for years now, can't say I find the anti-Semitic stuff too surprising in that context Kareem Abdul-Jabbar made note of this in a substack post today quote:Kareem Note: The problem of antisemitism is much bigger than Irving or Ye. They are merely the unwitting spokesperson for the right-wing political movement that is blatantly taking over the GOP. (For the full story, read “Jewish leaders call on GOP candidates to reject antisemitic comments”). Many Republican candidates running for some of the most powerful positions in their states and in the country—such as Pennsylvania’s GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano—feel perfectly free to publicly spout antisemitic statements without fear of reprisal from their own party or the voters. That should be a very troubling sign for all marginalized groups because fascists always start by demonizing one group—right before they go after the others. "The Jews control the world" has been right-wing mainstream belief for several years now. They're just starting to not bother hiding it behind "globalists" and "Soros" anymore. Kanye's a MAGA-hat-wearing Republican, and the connection to hotep "Blacks are the real Jews" nonsense just adds more appeal to him.
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Nov 3, 2022 22:01
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Oprah has turned against her creation: She mentioned a bunch of Dem candidates she would vote for (Val Demings, Stacy Abrams, Beto O'Rourke, among others) at the event. I don't know if she has as much clout now as in 2008 when her endorsement gave Obama a significant boost, but I guess it doesn't hurt.
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Main Paineframe posted:The new owner of Twitter is dispensing voting advice now. I feel like a Musk endorsement actually hurts the Republicans at this point lol. Everyone except for Musk's weird fanboys hate him, even the chuds hate him for not giving Trump's account back yet.
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:Saw this posted earlier in the Midterms thread. Which is obviously not a confirmation or anything but Swan/Axios ain't nobody. Or it's just a ploy to make people watch his dumb rally, since everyone not in his cult has lost interest otherwise.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Trump gives the date he will (most likely) make it official: He's gonna string everyone along again and just announce his own new book.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Musk is essentially just Lowtax with money except SA was actually profitable even with Lowtax at the helm (he just claimed it wasn't so he could get cookie money)
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Nov 8, 2022 18:55
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DeSantis using his weather machine to go after Trump. https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/1590469987806109696
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God punishing Florida for its election sins.
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Charlz Guybon posted:
You forgot this banger https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1590904325169369088
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Heard rumblings that Governor BIG JIM Justice might be interested in Manchin's seat. He is a living caricature of a 19th century coal magnate but he'd be a shoe-in for Senator if he runs. On the other hand he is old, and fat, and probably 40% coal dust and industrial chemicals by volume, so the WV GOP might just opt for someone more likely to survive through their full term.
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The fact that Fox News and CNN both cut out halfway through the speech isn't a great sign for Donnie keeping the spotlight on every word he speaks like in 2015-16. He's old news.
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https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1593258060771827713 I think this is supposed to be about Hunter Biden? It just sounds like the House Republicans are impressed by Joe's superior size and physique though. edit: so this is really the messaging they're going with, huh https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1593253229747265545 Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 17:35 on Nov 17, 2022 |
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BonoMan posted:Can't wait for the "what is Pelosi hiding?!?!" Hot takes now that she's stepping aside. I feel like "people are trying to kill me and they came close to killing my husband" is a perfectly valid reason to step away from the political spotlight, along with being old as hell.
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Make Hillary Clinton the special counsel. She advised the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate so she has experience and she's very familiar with procedures around classified documents 
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Main Paineframe posted:Trump doesn't really need a Twitter account. Reporters, superfans, and incredibly mad liberals will happily copy every Truth Social post he makes over to Twitter anyway. Moreover, him not being on Twitter drives those mad libs to go log into Truth Social regularly (and see ads in the process, putting money into his pockets) just so they can watch Trump tweets. Trump posts sooo much more on his site than any libs are reposting on twitter lol. Those long text diatribes are sandwiched in between dozens of memes and one word shitposts.
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stop arguing and look at this vague bullshit our Governor shat out. Couldn't bring himself to use the word "shooting" or even "killing" or "deaths" or "victims". Coward. https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1595375949759262720
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He's just doing some weird publicity/martyrdom stunt. Trump's endorsed him, naturally. Trump will probably throw a hissy fit and accuse everyone of being disloyal to him, which he probably would do anyway but the Lindell factor makes it funnier.
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Rigel posted:Bernie Sanders is trying to pull off a miracle. Would be amazing if he could rally the GOP against Biden on this one issue. This might actually be the only way to get the railroads to actually agree to give them the loving sick days. The unity of messaging on the part of Senators in favor of the workers is encouraging. I don't think Biden is playing reverse psychology bad cop on purpose, I just think he's poo poo scared of capital leaving him out to dry, but if (major if) it ends up working out it'll be another "Biden stumbles into a good thing happening" moment.
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Jaxyon posted:So Kanye west is currently doin an interview on Info Wars and he's boosting Hitler and being so openly antisemitic that Alex Jones is pushing back on it. The House Judiciary GOP twitter finally took down this tweet 
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:D.C. revealed a new transit plan that was developed by transit advocates. Richmond Virginia doesn't count as a major city I guess but we've had free fare for the past two years. To be honest the quality/reliability of service has gone way down in that time but I'd pin that on the continued shortage of drivers that's happening in every city.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The interview is completely wild.
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Can Bernie gently caress their poo poo up now?
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Mischievous Mink posted:As an asexual goon I'd love to not see that awful podcast tied to these forums because those people think asexual people being raped is a funny joke; Alice just tweets every random thought that comes into her brain and has been canceled about 20 times over for various tweets but I honestly can't be bothered to be bothered by them. She's funny and a good podcaster and that's it.
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Verus posted:Israel is an apartheid nation and should be an international pariah state. Yes. And Biden making a statement denouncing anti-semitism isn't a secret message about supporting the Israeli state, which is what Elephant Ambush was implying.
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Rigel posted:She is in Arizona, which is all that matters. Manchin is immune to getting primaried (and immune to national pressure) specifically because the WV Dems love him. Sinema failed to ensure that she would win a primary at home, or just carelessly assumed people would calm down over time. They didn't, she now apparently has concluded that she will get primaried, so she's doing.... well whatever she ends up doing. I'm hoping she goes away in 2024 and just accepts whatever bag of money she can get as a lobbyist or something. WV Dems don't really love Manchin - many of them fall to his left - they just recognize he's the last Democrat capable of winning the seat. Manchin seems to be a little smarter about how he does his maverick shtick. I've seen fawning press on him from various conservative outlets, portraying him as the guardian against the woke anarcho-bidenist far left, that I don't see for Sinema.
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Last city-owned Confederate statue in Richmond is getting taken down Monday. Good riddance to AP Hill. His body and statue was moved from Hollywood Cemetery in the 1920s as a sales tactic for the new Northside neighborhood ("look how white we are"). His descendants are still trying to delay poo poo with appeals but gently caress 'em. https://www.nbc12.com/2022/12/09/ap-hill-statue-removal-start-monday/
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aBagorn posted:The NYT just put out a piece that said that he had been ill for part of his time covering the World Cup: On his podcast he mentioned he had suddenly gotten bronchitis/chest discomfort and had went to a local medical center for it. There are a number of poisons that can cause similar symptoms. Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Dec 10, 2022 |
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Zero_Grade posted:I hope Barbara Lee wins, she rules (only Congressperson to vote against the Iraq war, and her reasons for doing so turned out to be 100% correct). She'd be a great voice to have in the Senate, it's a shame she's in her mid-70s. Katie Porter would be my pick, besides her being cool and good I'd rather the Dems not play actuarial table roulette with any more senate seats than they have to.
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