• papertowels@lemmy.one
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    Cute. Presidents making the news every day doesn’t mean they’re helping the common folk, but keep making your assumptions.

        • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          Me either. Glad we got that out of the way. Now let me copy someone else’s comment from earlier in the thread, because I think it’s the point we’re all trying to make that you seem extremely unwilling to understand:

          If the policy outcomes are the same either way, I don’t see why libs are so worked up over whether or not a president is boring.

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            1 year ago

            That’s because I should’ve been more specific - on a spectrum of harmful-> neutral-> beneficial, I’d take neutral over harmful.

            The president shouldn’t be in the news for advertising Goya beans in the oval office. He shouldn’t be conducting diplomacy in 180 characters or less on Twitter. Much of the appeal for the last administration was that he was considered “accessible” due to constantly being in the news, to no real benefit to the American people besides entertainment/feeding the media cycle. It was exhausting to wake up and hear the next mockery of the country on a daily basis.

            Biden fucked up the railway unionizing, it’s true, but I’d take not hearing about fuckups on the daily over the opposite.

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                  1 year ago

                  The most obvious one is that my partner is going to have to start paying down his student loans again. We don’t really have the money for that. But, sucks to be us, I guess!

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                    What’s your ideal endgame?

                    Biden waving his hands to forgive debts is a one-off that only helps a specific batch of folks. For me personally, I’d rather he start an investigation into why college tuitions are so high in the first place, but I don’t know if that’s actually within the presidents power, and if anything actionable can come out of it.