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Student Loan Forgiveness: Supreme Court Rejects Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan (www.nytimes.com)

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Of course they did. If you're rich, you get a bailout. If you're not, then fuck you.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The lesson I get from this is that forward progressive movement is not be expected from government, it must be done via direct action. At best government (and by extension, voting) can blunt the regressive movement from other more extreme parts of itself.

tl;dr Vote to keep the fascists at bay, not expecting change.