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Student Debt Doesn’t Vanish With Age. Older Debtors Protest With a “Knit-In.” (truthout.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With rocking chairs and cross-stitch kits, protesters outside the Department of Education demand debt relief from Biden.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And how many people dont realize Biden tried and got locked out from Republicans sueing debt relief.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

A very large portion of people on lemmy seem to think that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

he did get some things through that improved the situation somewhat.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Use those knitting needles more effectively

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This just in, CEO found with fatal knitting injury

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It was an accident, I swear. He fell into my knitting needle 10 times

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

As chopsticks?

[–] Itsamelemmy 1 points 1 week ago

If that's your preferred method to eat the rich, sure.

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

ironically if should if your younger. last I knew they had it disapear after a few decades of income adjusted payments.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn't progressive, this just alienates working class voters. Obligatory: not American, but as a poor (European) person that didn't get to go to uni because I and my family were too poor I'd be absolutely pissed if now I had to pay my bosses' (and all the other privileged people) debt. Don't get me wrong, student credits are a most predatory and awful thing, you should make it illegal but the debt people had contracted shouldn't be payed off by the taxpayer (read workers, the rich aren't taxed).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"I didn't get any assistance, so people in a country I don't live in shouldn't either! I'd rather no one get assistance than potentially provide assistance to some people I don't think deserve it."

followed by

"Student debt is awful and should be illegal but, while it was legal you agreed to it, so 🤷🏽‍♂️ unless only the rich pay it off."

The first has big "drug testing for government benefits" energy. Are you sure you're not from Florida? This has DeSantos smell all over it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Europe's Florida you could say. So you think that 'people that struggle should struggle even more to aid people that aren't struggling nor have struggled ever as much as them' and you think that's somehow fair and if the struggling people complaint they are just selfish assholes, did I understand your position correctly?

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

That sure is a nice straw man you built there. Real nice indeed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it's not. This debt 'forgiveness' is not Biden telling banks 'you're not getting any money, suck it fuckers', it is the government paying for it. Where do you think the government gets the money from?

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

The straw man is where you made up several points that I apparently support, which I never said or even suggested I support. It's textbook straw man.

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

You support the government paying the debt, a big chunk of this money comes from people that didn't get to go to college, so you support them paying off a debt contracted by more privileged people. Which part did I make up?

You didn't say they are assholes for complaining tho, I got a bit carried away in that part. I've seen that point made here in Lemmy a lot, sorry.