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This brings the total under this administration to $167 Billion in relief for 4.75 million borrowers.

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[–] Ensign_Crab 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Centrists didn't want him to relieve student debt. Pretended his hands were tied. Said that we shouldn't try it on the grounds that it was an incomplete solution. Were content to abandon incrementalism entirely and let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Then Biden started forgiving student debt. Then the Supreme Court ruled in centrists' favor. Biden could have announced that he tried and abandoned it forever with some vague insincere horseshit about the fight not being over. To Biden's immense credit, he had a contingency plan ready to go. He has kept forgiving debt. It's been the high point of his presidency. He did exactly what I hoped he would do on this issue and this issue alone. He listened to progressives and ignored centrists, and he persevered instead of immediately giving up forever when he encountered the first setback. He did what he could with the tools at his disposal instead of pretending they don't exist.

I will not fault him on this. If only he acted this way about any other issue.

[–] simplejack 26 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Centrists?

Most polling shows that student debt relief is highly popular, a boring centrist Democrat has been leading the charge for it, and centrist judges have been voting in favor of it.

It’s the extreme right that been pushing back against debt relief. The center of America wants it.

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[–] someguy3 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

But but but Biden isn't doing anything!1!

[–] zeppo 30 points 1 month ago (142 children)

JOR BIDEN GENERCIDEs SO I VOET 3rd Party BRO IM COMMUNISM

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[–] unreasonabro 14 points 1 month ago

lol if trump wins after this, this is never happening again

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Love to see it. You know that every month until now until the election there will be more. Can't wait

[–] toiletobserver 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ITT: people who largely agree arguing

[–] CharlesDarwin 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My favorite thing is when someone on the left uses "centrist" to label others on the left they disagree with. You see the right doing this all the time with "RINO".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboggjN_G-4

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Straight up no-true-Scotsman-ing it up in here

I've had people getting pissed at me in some comment sections calling me a centrist because I think we should vote for Biden to keep trump out of office. Nothing at all related to my political views other than telling people that they need to vote (which is apparently another cardinal sin to some "leftist") if they want to change happen in this country. Especially in their local governments.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Im pretty certain those are right-wing trolls here to convince people to not vote. They show up every election year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And tankies. Way too many tankies, which is to say more than 0.

Eat me, .ml

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[–] CharlesDarwin 8 points 1 month ago

The repub party will be like oh noez, that is so unlegal!

[–] simplejack 6 points 1 month ago

These discharges are for three categories of borrowers

  1. Those receiving Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)
  2. Those who signed up for President Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan and who are eligible for its shortened time-to-forgiveness benefit
  3. Those receiving forgiveness on income-driven repayment (IDR) as a result of fixes made by the Administration
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