• mozzOP
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    1 year ago

    Biden has forgiven about $150 billion in student loan debt, has passed some big economic reforms which led to wealth inequality falling for the first time in quite a long time, wages at the bottom 10% of wage earners are going up faster than inflation even under fairly historic levels of inflation, his climate bill put the US on track for a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and he’s been raising corporate taxes by quite a lot in order to pay for all that stuff. Given how unified most of the US government is against things like that happening it’s actually fairly impressive.

    There’s some other stuff but those are the big ones I’m aware of. It’s just that the news media doesn’t have any reason to report on that type of boring progress stuff, and actually has a couple of big reasons not to report it in favor of some other more titillating types of stories.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      That’s cool. I notice your taking credit for state minimum wage laws now. And they’re already talking about pushing back the climate change stuff.

      But none of that is what I was mentioning. What is he doing to protect women and minorities from the conservatives coming after them? He doesn’t have to be hands off. The 14th is incorporated against the states and Presidents have used that in the past. Or have we just given up and decided we can have climate change as long as it’s evangelical Christian climate change?

      • mozzOP
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        31 year ago

        I’m just gonna sit in quiet contemplation of how you’ve managed to make it sound halfway sensible “Yes, Biden’s done some substantive good things even though the majority of the rest of the government is against those things, but they’ve been too effective at making sure he can’t do more, so I oppose him.”