“This brings the total debt cancellation my administration has approved to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans through various actions,” Biden said in a statement.

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    11 months ago

    Is forgiving $132 billion in student debt the bare minimum of the job?

    Because if that’s your bar, then Biden is the only president in history who has done the bare minimum. If that’s your standard, I’d think you’d be jumping for joy that a president has finally, in the entire history of the US, done the bare minimum.

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      11 months ago

      Sigh, it’s the people that don’t vote. One day, they’ll start reading the articles, and they’ll slowly form constructive opinions, and make a choice that’s actually a choice. But until then they’ll stick to how everyone is bad because it’s easier than learning the truth.

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        “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” is the operating phrase here.

        There’s a lot of people demonstrating a sort of purity cult here in the fediverse, where they think anyone who isn’t the savior of all humanity incarnate is thus no better than the worst possible choice. There’s no nuance, and no consideration for realpolitik.

        Look at the reactions to this post for goodness sake… These same users whine and moane about Biden in every other thread, and then here’s a story about how Biden doing something good that they actually wanted him to do, and they moan and whine about how it wasn’t good enough.