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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lets be honest - the plan was an overreach. This had to pass through congress. So SC is not wrong.

But it couldn't pass through congress because of lobbying. Which was bribery made legal by SC. Which was a very controversial decision. But if Roe could be overturned, we should focus on getting Citizen United overturned. And America will be great again.

But for that US should be united. And that will not happen because all the oligarchs domestic and abroad make sure of that and they lobby secretly and hard. You have Saudis, Chinese buying corporations influencing US decision making. You have Russian interference. European banks also service these oligarchs, so its in their interest too. Now other countries with oligarchs are jumping in too. And they put smokes and mirrors in front of you to keep you off from the real goal - creating issues where there should be none. To keep America divided.

So its a long attrition based slug war which can only be fought when we love our fellow Americans and stop listening to hate everywhere around us. And realize that all politicians are evil, so you have to keep them pressed. They will not share power, we the people have to be strong and take the power from them.

No one can destroy US. Only US can destroy US.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Jfc we can't have anything can we?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm so pissed that it seems like Congress doesn't do jack shit and when the president wants to do anything good for people the supreme court can just shut it down.

The supreme court is legislating from the bench and it just shows how broken our system is.

They'll give unlimited tax breaks to the rich but deny any sort of help to people struggling to pay bills.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Core holding:

The HEROES Act ... does not allow the Secretary to rewrite that statute to the extent of canceling $430 billion of student loan principal.

The authority to “modify” statutes and regulations allows the Secretary to make modest adjustments and additions to existing provisions, not transform them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the exact wishy washy stuff that would let one supreme court uphold and another strike down. You can modify it, but not that much! Stuck down! Lol our legal system is a joke.

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

Especially since the language of the HEROES act explicitly states that they can waive or modify. According to the majority forgiveness is clearly not equal to waiving, since you know, they're different words and it's impossible for different words to have the same meaning. If congress wanted to give the secretary the power to forgive, they should've written forgive instead of waive in the act /s

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

then can the dept of edu/biden admin modify the loans to $1? or something more "modest" like $1,000?

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

well fuck them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Ok, I think I lasted about 10 minutes on Lemmy. This place is full of leftist Redditards. Not quite what I was expecting. I was hoping for more that 80s BBS style of discourse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ITT: A bunch of people "WELL ACKSHUALLY-ing" technical justifications for this decision. Pretty gross.

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

Well something needs to be done then because I am not looking forward to yet another financial crisis this fall when payment resumes....

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

"Fuck students, hail corporate! Hail Hydra!" - no one in their right mind, ever

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