• StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Student loans have not been canceled

    Non-Competes are still in effect

    We still have the world’s highest prison population.

    Landlords are still price fixing and rent is still out of control

    Amazon, Google and apple nor any other large companies have been broken up with antitrust

    Despite giving the IRS funding, the rich are still not paying taxes

    Allowing Medicare to negotiate was pretty great. I’ll give you that.

    “In what way (other than Gaza) is he not doing a good job?”

    I don’t know if you’ve been to America or met most Americans, but most of us are really struggling. There’s a housing crisis. Most people can’t afford to live on their own. There’s a ton of food insecurity. Education is abysmal. I mean the whole thing’s just fucked. This pretending things are really good right now and gaslighting Americans and trying to shame them into voting for Biden is part of the problem by the way.

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      And the reason for all of that is the GOP blocking or sabotaging every single effort to improve things, and then blaming the Dems, and it convinced a LOT of people.

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        That’s partially true. But some of the time it was just the Dems holding it up like manchin or Cinema. Also Biden’l has also not put things forward that he said he would. Like when he had the majority in the Senate in the house he did not try to pack the court. The negative things we’ve seen in the last 4 years are from the supreme Court that Biden never tried to pack despite claiming he would.

        I hate the Republicans just as much as you do, maybe more honestly. All I’m saying is the Dems suck too. They’re basically trying to hand this election the Trump like they did in 2016.

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          Oh 100%

          Manchin and Cinema are Dem in name only, their actions are GOP at every turn.

          Don’t forget, 3 of the 5 SCOTUS were appointed by Trump, so everything happening with them now is from that and Biden doesn’t have power to stop that.

          And either way, both Dem and GOP are Right Wing parties and their goals are more or less to maintain the status quo, benefit corporations and elites, keep power, etc.

          Neither party has interests or incentives to truly progress things that benefit people, except in maybe a scrap or two to get votes.

          We don’t really have a government by the people and FOR the people right now. If we did we would have Ranked Choice Voting, no more Electoral College BS, no more Gerrymandering, Voting Day would be a federal holiday, mail in ballots would be universal and accepted, etc etc etc.

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            Friendly stranger. I do not know what we disagree on.

            The only thing I can see is I think Biden should have done more to pack the court and for not doing that. He is now partially responsible for the things we were seeing come from them. I’ve seen people arguing that doing so when he had that slim majority in the Senate wouldn’t have been effective and been political suicide but I disagree. I think a lot more people would be willing to vote for him if he had done it. I would be much more enthused about this candidate if you had done it. I believe the real reason he didn’t is because he didn’t want to. I don’t believe there is a way for us to prove this one way or the other. I respect your opinion. I just disagree with it.

            I believe we want the same things. My original comment was only to point out that a lot of people are acting like Biden is doing all the things we want and is actually good instead of just a less right-wing candidate. I just want more straightforward and honest communication around this.

            My original comment is just saying I do not like this false narrative that Biden is killing it when he is really not doing much good and continuing a lot of evil. Totally agree, he’s better than Trump and I think that should just be the end of our messaging. We’re honestly the Democratic party needs to find a way to make someone else the nominee. I don’t think if we stay coarse the Dems win.

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      Student loans have not been canceled

      Some have.

      Non-Competes are still in effect

      https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

      Landlords are still price fixing and rent is still out of control

      The problem is being worked on, the solution wasn’t instantaneous.

      Amazon, Google and apple nor any other large companies have been broken up with antitrust

      Not yet, these things take time. The final antitrust case against AT&T lasted 8 years, and it was only one of many. The antitrust case against IBM lasted almost 13 years.

      Despite giving the IRS funding, the rich are still not paying taxes

      Again, these things take time.

      I don’t know if you’ve been to America or met most Americans, but most of us are really struggling.

      So… something that has been happening since at least the Reagan years wasn’t turned around in 4, so Biden’s doing a bad job?

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        Most student loans have not been canceled claiming that student loans have been canceled. It’s just ingenuous and again it’s the whole fake Biden is killing it narrative. Be honest.

        Non-Competes are still in effect that ruling does not go into effect until September at the earliest and it is subject to many Court challenges before it will probably not happen. Regardless, it has not happened yet.

        You say the problem is being worked on in these things take time for multiple things. In other words, Biden has not done anything on these fronts. You cannot give Biden credit for something that he has not done lol.

        This is what I mean. Biden is milk toast at best. He’s really just slowing our rate of decline more than he is actually doing a good job. The insistence that he is killing it or doing a good job when he is not and people are suffering is a bad strategy politically.

        This giant list of things that turns out to be bs is the kind of thing making people more disillusioned. Stuff like this lowers voter turnout. Democrats lose when voter turnout is low. Do you see where this gets bad?

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          You say the problem is being worked on in these things take time for multiple things. In other words, Biden has not done anything on these fronts

          What an idiotic thing to say.

          Biden is milk toast at best

          You should look up that expression because you’re misusing it.

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            I don’t think it’s an idiotic thing to say. I think you’re an idiot for dismissing it without reason.

            I’m not going to waste my time with you

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              If you don’t think it’s an idiotic thing to say, you’re an idiot.

              “If something extremely complex and time consuming isn’t already 100% done to my satisfaction, nothing has been done.”

              Do you know that some things take time? Do you know that progress isn’t instantaneous? What are you, a literal baby who has no concept of the passage of time?