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Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing.
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They aren't doing anything? I recall some student loan forgiveness that happened recently that sure as hell wouldn't have happened under a republican. I dislike Biden too, but he is doing some things. Say it's not as much as we'd like, but stop spreading the bullshit nothing is happening.
Also, the Biden administration is enforcing anti-trust laws like we haven't seen in decades, which I'd say is a pretty massive step. Sure, yeah, not far enough yet but it's a step.
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.
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?
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."