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[–] Happywop@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The electoral collage an years of disinformation and latent bigotry plus corporate greed screwing us all over...did I miss anything?

[–] tektite@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Cult of personality?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'll keep investing in K-12 education

The bulk of elementary education funding comes from the states. So this doesn't mean much in practice.

One place where a federal official (like the President) would be able to help out immensely is by immediately cancelling some (or, fuck it, all) of the outstanding federally held student loan debt. This could be accomplished via the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003, which authorizes the secretary of the DOE to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to” the Title IV loan programs “as the Secretary deems necessary” to ensure that individuals adversely affected by a Presidentially declared national emergency “are not placed in a worse position financially.”

A number of Presidential contenders promised just this back in 2020 (Warren, Sanders, even Biden himself). Sadly, Harris hedged on this pledge even back then and has not made any attempt to renew it now.

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[–] scoredseqrica@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because it is against the Democrats material interests to hold and wield power.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Race is close because the news media has a vested interest in it being close, so they are very selective to not report on anything that could crush trump out of the running. because contention and conflict drives viewership and ratings. So does another Trump presidency, and the media has dropped all pretense on who their preferential candidate is for that reason.

Which is why they spent a month harping on the mass hallucination of Bidens supposed mental incompetence, yet havent done so much as very briskly brush by the same topic on trumps very obvious, very public, very recorded decline. or his increasingly nazi-like rhetoric. or him doing anything that would have anyone else out of the race if it was reported on properly

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Or because most major news outlets are owned by the billionaires that want those sweet sweet trump tax cuts?

Fox News is the preferred station by older republican audiences. They're also the most consistently voting. So all the propaganda they push gets swallowed due to the lack of journalistic integrity.

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