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Trump administration pauses student loan forgiveness with no explanation
(www.independent.co.uk)
They want the poors to suffer.
There, I explained it.
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I give no fucks about my debt or credit. Let's all just stop paying back our debts to the idiot skyscraper-builders who forked their cash over.
Just increases the demand for immigrants to do white collar jobs.
They still want rich write immigrants.
And they want liberal arts grads to assemble electronics with tiny screws in Arizona. Or pick oranges in Florida.
Brace for debtor's prison camps.
We don't need him to give an explanation. The reason is that he wants everyone to stop talking about how much he hung out with his best friend that trafficked underage girls for sex.
This one comes with the added bonus of keeping potential dissenters (i.e. the educated) too busy being wage slaves to focus their energy on him.
I still can't believe the folks talking about not voting kamala because they are all the same and biden did not do enough.
Most of those people were more concerned about the genocide.
How many of them are astroturfing, and how many are delusional?
Lot of accelerationist takes on Lemmy, tbh. Literally "some men just want to watch the world burn" energy because they think they'll somehow emerge on top of the ashes.
Yeah I often wonder that. Was any of it real or attempts to encourage infighting?
I have no doubt that some of it was real, but it wasn't significant enough to swing an election.
Im not so sure of that. It would only have had to swing 3 very close states. It does not take much.
It wasn't all that close. Maybe it made a difference in Wisconsin, but I seriously doubt it would have swung any others.
wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania is what it would have took.
Unfortunately, to qualify for loan forgiveness under Harris, you'd need to be a woman of color who opens a Waffle House that operates for 3 years in a concentration camp.
Just say you believe genocide is an acceptable price to maintain the status quo and spare us the tiptoeing.
Thank god Donald “clear that whole thing out” Trump won then. Surely his aspirations for Palestine as “great beachfront real estate”, placation of Netanyahu, or the distractions provided by disruption of the entire world economy havent prompted a worse situation for Palestinians than was already occurring. Rest easy knowing this would all be so much worse under Harris, if it werent for the genius actions of the anti-Kamala keyboard warriors
I understand you're struggling to come to terms with your new historical status as a Good German, but it's actually not the fault of the powerless people with a moral compass that the "antifascist" candidate explicitly ran on genocide, refused to stop supporting genocide, and sent the riot cops to bash our heads in for protesting against genocide. They had every ability not to, and they fucked it for themselves instead, and now their most servile little jockeys (you) are capering around insisting that things would be fine, if only all of us had agreed to throw Palestinians under the bus as eagerly and viciously as you did. You pseudoenlightened brunch freaks will make excuses for any fascist atrocity as long as it's not an orange man doing it 1% more rudely. You will hate and blame whoever you're told to hate and blame for your own lack of moral fortitude and strategic forethought. and have demonstrated yourselves incapable of understanding even basic solidarity, unfit for any resistance organization. Who's going to want partisans and saboteurs who go full nazi the moment they're told to? Nobody, that's who. They can just hang out with their new Israeli friends and talk about their newfound interest in ethnic cleansing.
It's real simple dawg. Either genocide is a dealbreaker for you, or it isn't. You chose the Hitler option, in front of god and everybody, and now you wanna run around trying to 
it away. Have a spine for once liberal, face the consequences of your nazi support. You've rotted your soul and it's not coming back.
Lmfao dude get your head out of your ass. I hope tanking this entire country was worth it just so you can play pretend when it comes to your sense of ethics. Im so glad people will be starving in the street here next, while genocide in Gaza goes on unfettered, thanks to holier-than-thou dumbasses like yourself. Congratulations on everything youve accomplished
m so glad people will be starving in the street here next
will be starving in the streets? Where have you been for years lol. You reek of "comfortable white liberal who thinks bad things just started happening." You think people aren't starving in the streets here? I can't take your goofy, out of touch bullshit seriously
just so you can play pretend when it comes to your sense of ethics
Man, ever since the election you guys have been coming up with some wild ways to try and frame people who actually understand things like solidarity, precedent and normalization as somehow unserious and impractical, while you supported a doomed fascist war of extermination and still lost the election
while genocide in Gaza goes on unfettered
The genocide was unfettered from day one. See what I mean? You're so servile and housebroken, so disturbingly ready to obey without thinking, that you'll take any line to attack the powerless of behalf of the powerful, up to and including voting for a genocide, and still think of yourself as the good guy here. How are you different from MAGA? We know you're cool with concentration camps, because you presumably voted Biden in 2020. Again, I've had this conversation many times, and every single one of them ultimately ended with the newly-minted nazi lashing out defensively when it was pointed out that they gave away their humanity, forever, in exchange for absolutely nothing.
You got tricked into ripping your face off and becoming a grinning demon, don't make your buyer's remorse everyone else's problem.
Also, yes: I am holier than thou, whatever that means, by virtue of your having embraced the unholiest possible position, the crime of crimes. Anyone who hasn't done that is holier by default.
They seem to be really quiet if not not n existent these days.
I think you’re just not seeing them. I see a ton of them.
Some said they don't regret their vote or lack thereof
Mostly they are doubling down on it.
No shit. People spent months trying to "convince" them by shaming and berating them. It's just human nature to harden ones stance when met with that sort of onslaught. Especially when, lets face it, they had a point with Gaza. I don't agree with them, but the people who still won't shut up about it aren't helping.
Anyways, those (non)voters didn't swing the election. It was just the usual American voter apathy because of the usual pathetic Democratic candidate. Only Biden and Harris had it in their power to do something that would have made a difference.
You still can't believe that other people have correctly analysed the situation? Sounds like you need to study things like history a bit more.
Why do all lemmy dipshits see fascists consolidating and exercising power and still get mad at literally everyone else? You’re all useful idiots for this admin
It’s another distraction from his having raped kids.
You know it's not only possible but very likely that the fascist wannabe dictator is simply doing two bad things at the same time, right?
I know plenty of people with Student loan debt who are on these assistance programs. For them, this is not a "distraction."
This was always what was going to happen when they rolled out the SAVE plans. The entire thing relies on the government never once deciding to reneg on their end of the deal, and the second they do you're left with a fuckton of principal on the loan still with no recompense because you were assuming that regular payments would result in forgiveness decades down the line.
This is also why the only real method for fixing the cost of college is immediate forgiveness of all federally owned loans followed by mandating cost reduction for all public universities, but then porky can't print trillions in interest and administrative fees over the next 50 years so it was never on the table.
Yeah, I wonder if no one remembers the bragging about how much government revenue was gonna be generated by student loan repayments when they were turned back on. It was one of the things even the DNC agreed on until everyone looked at the math.
The whole income driven repayment plans have actually just been a cost to the US government cause no one makes enough to actually repay. Everyone is losing here while the cost is so high and the debt hangs over everyone's head.
Hold on the parliamentarian has something to say
Wait….where’d they go
She looks like something you’d find in a Skyrim crypt
I'm trying to pay them back. I went to get them rehabilitated like they told me to. However the income info they had on file was from a higher paying job I was laid off from. So I sent in a letter for redetermination over 2 months ago. I haven't heard anything, and I'm getting worried that they're going to garnish my wages. They already clawed away my tax return this year.
Unpayable debt accruing interest. What a fucking joke.