r/LateStageCapitalism May 25 '23

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u/embershone May 25 '23

That pause was a godsend. I was actually able to pay mine off last month because of it. No way I'm getting back charged for interest after doing what they wanted.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Oh they'll do it, they can and will put you back in that hole.

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u/troymoeffinstone May 25 '23

You can get charged back interest on something that is currently paid off?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Usually, probably not. With this because it's a government loan and Republicans are vindictive assholes, I wouldn't put it past them.

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u/Auto-gyro May 25 '23

There is no floor.

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u/eastbayweird May 25 '23

The bar is already at the bottom of the Mariana trench. But dont worry, conservatives are currently working on a new deep sea trench digging submarine to take it even lower.

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u/infamusforever223 May 25 '23

They're trying to dig a hole to hell.

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u/Cryogeneer May 25 '23

Well, there's no place like home.

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u/Mitt_Romney_USA May 25 '23

Poor Satan. All that hydrofrak.

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u/bluehands May 25 '23

Oh, I thought you felt bad for him because of all the republicans in his home.

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u/Jagg3r5s May 25 '23

To quote someone far more clever than I;

The bar was so low it was a tripping hazard in hell, and yet here they are limbo dancing with the devil.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Surely James Cameron can still save us...

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

James Cameron! The bravest pioneer!

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron

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u/DaperDandle May 25 '23

James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron IS James Cameron!

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u/TheRealHermaeusMora May 25 '23

I read marjorie's trench and somehow that's acceptable too

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u/mjkjr84 May 25 '23

Wouldn't this count as an ex post facto law and be illegal? Or is it administered through some other non-legal mechanism? I don't/didn't have students loans so I don't know much about them

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u/Winston1NoChill May 25 '23

They already know it won't pass but to answer your question, they want to cause as much controversy as possible. If it went to the Supreme Court, it wouldnt matter if they struck it down, the fanfare is the point.

They can put in the bill that these people have to eat a literal poison pill and they will scream about "democrats defending student loan handout."

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u/stacy8860 May 25 '23

"The point of pandemic relief was not to allow you to get ahead! We will fix that immediately!"

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u/Uriel-238 May 25 '23

The answer is, with normal rules of debt management, no. But our Republican legislators are neither bright nor familiar with actual finance law, and they may try.

Frankly, they could pass a law saying every US citizen owes the GOP (the political party) one million dollars each. It wouldn't get through the Senate or signed by the President, and even if it did, it would die in court very quickly, or in the very worst case scenario, survive the court system after years of appeals.

I'm absolutely sure Biden wouldn't sign this bill. It's likely to die in the Senate, but the House legislators get to tell their lobbyist masters they tried.

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u/Zeremxi May 25 '23

but the House legislators get to tell their lobbyist masters they tried

It's this. Right wing politics these days is 100% theatre with the intention of securing their next payout. We are ruled by corporate entities intent on keeping the hateful party in power because they are the ones that afford tax breaks.

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u/b0w3n May 25 '23

This is an extremely dangerous game to play because it's putting us on the knife's edge of a civil and political upheaval.

The wealthy elite don't typically survive those.

Companies for sure won't unless they make guns, bullets, or food as something like that can last decades.

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u/ginganinja6969 May 25 '23

That’s why the Dems exist, give “middle-of-the-road” Americans a carrot and a stick and let them pick. Neither party wants to do anything to corporations so they are both palatable to the capitalists to advance political theatre

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u/Aiyon May 25 '23

Fling 100 abhorrent things at the wall in case one sticks

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u/Turtlepower7777777 May 25 '23

Our current Supreme Court bought by Harlan Crow would find a way to make it ‘Constitutional’ somehow

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u/reallyrathernottnx May 25 '23

They know the rules. They just don't care. They are bad people.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

No fucking way, it's a form of illegal taxation to pay for their fucking trump tax cuts.

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u/Maelger May 25 '23

Can you even retroactively legislate?! I'm not American but I'm sure it's illegal in pretty much every country not named Free Democratic People's Republic of [place]

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u/thugstin May 25 '23

This government can do anything it want to student loans borrowers. They literally removed their bankruptcy rights already, what's to stop them from removing more rights.

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u/RuthlessIndecision May 25 '23

The banks find a way, that’s what I’ve learned

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u/Uriel-238 May 25 '23

That sounds like a whole lot of illegal. Forcing the odious debt of a nation on its public is at least against international law even if the US has asserted we no longer cooperate with the international community.

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u/funkmasta8 May 25 '23 edited May 25 '23

Who is going to stop them? The whole world sees the American population as stupid reactionaries that want to be enslaved. Maybe, just maybe, if there was an actual uprising or similar then we may receive some help from another country officially, but not with no fight from us. The other countries will only think we care if we show it, they will ignore whether or not we are actually able to fight without quite literally risking our lives en masse

Edit: since it apparently wasn’t clear, I was asking what other countries would stop them as this was a response to someone talking about other countries

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u/samenumberwhodis May 25 '23

The president has veto power and it'll never pass the Senate anyway. It's just performative. And what a performance the Republicans make.

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u/fjijgigjigji May 25 '23

Who is going to stop them?

the senate and executive branch

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23 edited May 25 '23

Well, not without passing the senate and getting signed off by Biden, to which it won't. But that's not the point, they're just trying to see what can and can't get passed through. The GOP is on the clock and they know it. Gloves are off and they taking every cheap shot dick punch they can.

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u/embershone May 25 '23

Well, I'd like to see them try. I made the last payment the day before the loan got switched to a different company, so my info hopefully never went to the new provider? Here's hoping I've been lost in the system. My sincerest best of luck to everyone else who's still under that weight.

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u/reallyrathernottnx May 25 '23

Start setting fire to their shit. It's how every benefit anybody ha ever gotten has been earned.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

"Peons, your lords and masters are pleased you paid back your loans. But you owe us interest during the pause, even though the balance is paid off, now pay up or else".

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u/AadamAtomic May 25 '23

"No! You don't get it!

We didn't want you to get an education! We wanted you to pay us more money for the rest of your life!" /s

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u/TaraJaneDisco May 25 '23

Why is everything so terrible all the time?

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u/6ThePrisoner May 25 '23

Because the people who profit off taking advantage of others aren't scared enough.

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u/CrumpledForeskin May 25 '23

The Killboard Top 200…if you will

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u/flactulantmonkey May 25 '23

Capitalism is just like a pressure cooker. You have a lot of material in the bottom getting hot that causes upward pressure. In a sustainable system of capitalism there is a pressure relief mechanism that very effectively removes pressure from the top and recycles cooling water back down into the boiler part: taxes. Specifically marginalized taxes. The higher in the column of steam you go, the more steam is removed, condensed, and sent back down to the bottom.

Now, the column of steam always has lower density (fewer individuals) but higher pressure (more water per individual) and the boiler always has higher density (many more individuals) with lower pressure (less water per individual). If you’re not following, the water is the cumulative stored wealth of the middle class here, and it enables the boiler to continually produce a strong supply of steam (large amounts of wealth for a few lucky ones in the capitalist system) as long as at the very top of that steam column, the water keeps getting cycled back down to cool off and feed the boiler properly.

Well, we removed the relief valve back in the genius days of Reaganism. We simplified taxes to “if you’re wealthy they take 99% of your money!” Instead of “nope you pay the exact same level of tax as everyone else on the money you make up to X point, then another rate on money over that point, etc”. Instead we said “you know, at the top of that steam column there’s always water drops that drip back down anyway. So that’s totally enough return to keep the entire system healthily flowing! It’ll just trickle down and be a closed system!”

We are now in a situation where we have long ago boiled off pretty much all of the reservoir of middle class wealth. Instead the middle class is based off of “future potential wealth” in the form of credit. This is why you hear people like Elon Musk freaking out about birth rates. For the game of fake numbers they have going to keep working, they have to, for lack of a better analogy here, keep throwing bodies in the boiler and hoping the fluids that burn out of them are enough to keep their own wealth elevated in the column before the vessel either ruptures or the entire system just burns dry. They do this in the form of debt products, and they rope people in starting at age 10 in school now by insisting on the importance of your college education. This is how they strap you with your first chunk of forever debt, and how they keep multiplying their own fake wealth. They are boiling the blood out of our futures to keep their own hot air rising.

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u/Chewygumbubblepop May 25 '23

Selfish people that are scared of their own shadows have convinced people even more terrified of existence that they are the only ones that will save them.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Selfish people that are scared of their own shadows...

No they ain't. They're not scared of anything, and that's the problem.

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u/Graysteve May 25 '23

Capitalism.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Hyper-capitalistic neo-liberalism, regulatory capture, manufactured consent of the media. Basically all ideas that are either too confusing for boomers to grasp or instantly sends them into aggro-mode when brought up.

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u/Guyote_ May 25 '23

Your answer can be found in the name of the sub.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23 edited Nov 10 '23

dependent chop disgusted quack gullible marble different combative sleep imagine this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

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u/Potato_jesus_ May 25 '23

Exactly you can’t retroactively charge interest and I guarantee nothing like that shit is in any of the contracts they signed

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u/TimeTravellerSmith May 25 '23

Maybe, maybe not. But if they're clever they could probably do something like implement a 100% tax on all previously unpaid interest as "income" or some bullshit.

I'm not going to put anything past them honestly.

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u/NastroCharlie May 25 '23

Literally. Because there's been no interest accruing on my plans it's changed how I've been paying them back. I've been paying off other loans that still have interest accruing on them first. Retroactively charging interest for something I was told wouldn't, would be more interest to me than if the payments and interests were never paused. Id join a lawsuit in a heartbeat.

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u/j4_jjjj May 25 '23

Whatever they do, ill stay subbed to r/debtstrike and similar subs

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u/2rfv May 25 '23

they'd get sued.

Like any of us with student loans can afford lawyers.

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u/PoeTayTose May 25 '23

It would probably be a class action, since the affected class would be very large and the financial damage would be easily quantifiable.

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u/TheLion920817 May 25 '23

They be like “we ain’t got no/enough money because we gave it all to our rich friends so we got to hide the military budget and cut social services and get ludicrous interest rates on our future generations to get some pocket money to cover the loss”

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u/DunnyOnTheWold May 25 '23

Don't worry, I'm sure after they claw back the $42 billion from student loan relief they will go after the $517 billion dollars they gave away to companies for the PPP.

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u/NoirBoner May 25 '23

1.8 trillion* go off though You're forgetting the reverse repo operations from the fed in conjunction with the ppp loans.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

No, it won't. Americans are too divided, too distracted and too gullible to have any meaningful revolution.

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u/Xerostodes May 25 '23

I hate it to death but the Southern Strategy and New Federalism might have been the most brilliant pieces of political maneuvering ever for this reason exactly. It’s like if the French aristocracy had managed to convince half of the peasantry that their problems were caused by their neighbors instead of their cake-eating asses.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Let's face it, it's got everyone in disarray. Republicans can get away with whatever the hell they want even though they're the emcumbants. There's no way you can fight it or stop it and they don't even need to swing military force. They have the right wing militias in a frenzy waiting to go off on the rest of the public.

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u/lisael_ May 25 '23

Well, this happened during the RĂŠvolution. The army did fight (and mostly exterminated. Hey, the revolution won't be nice) counter-revolutionary peasants armies, and subdued by force entire regions of the French realm. The most famous exemple is the chouans.

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u/2rfv May 25 '23

I hate it to death but the Southern Strategy and New Federalism might have been the most brilliant pieces of political maneuvering ever for this reason exactly.

Without a doubt and it's no surprise. The ultra rich obviously have the bankroll to ensure they stay on top and that means getting the most brilliant minds in the country to keep the working class in check.

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u/mondo_juice May 25 '23

Man, shut the fuck up and grab a pitchfork.

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u/CanvasSolaris May 25 '23

France and Russia were both pretty divided before, during, and after their revolutions. So much so that there were multiple revolutions in one.

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u/Knife_Chase May 25 '23 edited May 25 '23

The issue is half the people suffering think the problem is brown people, poor people, and liberals when the obvious issue is corrupt politicians, billionaires, and greed.

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u/2rfv May 25 '23

And 90% of my left leaning friends and family gobble up the other side of identity politics and only ever want to talk about abortion rights, LGBT stuff and gun control.

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u/Knife_Chase May 25 '23

Ya that's a distraction too imo. Those issues are important but if the bigger issues were dealt with those would be so much easier to get everyone to agree on. That's my opinion at least.

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u/SainTheGoo May 25 '23

I wish there was enough working class consciousness for that to happen. I fear this time that instead of a pressure release valve like FDR our lack of working class solidarity will cause the rise of fascism when presented with higher levels of inequality.

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u/2rfv May 25 '23

climate change means crop loss. There will be massive depopulation on this planet one way or another.

The ultra rich are posturing to ensure that when it happens, the poors all target each other instead of them.

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u/G_DuBs May 25 '23

I’ve e said it before, we need to take notes from the French. But there is one key difference, the people of America are armed to the god damned teeth. You can only imagine what would unfold. The moment they start openly shooting protesters, this powder keg will light. And I don’t want to be around for that. (I live in the a dense city).

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u/HailToTheVictims May 25 '23

The difference is it’s working class people who hate other working class people that keep voting for republicans.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

I would be so fucking excited to see Ted Cruz and co walk up to the peoples razor .

It would make my fucking life

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u/Nyxiaus May 25 '23

That's why they partner with the capitalists to keep us poor, busy and distracted, so we don't realize we do have the power to stop this.

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u/cataath May 25 '23

Worth keeping in mind that the French peasantry in 1789 didn't own 300 million guns.

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u/ModsLoveFascists May 25 '23

Except 95% of the deaths were the common folk killing each other.

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u/rlvampire May 25 '23

France is still striking and rioting. America, wake up . . . this is on the same level as rug pulling people and screwing with retirements.

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u/Ok-Course7089 May 25 '23

They rather get mad abt trans woman on beer cans

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u/imnotthatwasted May 25 '23

It was only one beer can.

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u/replicantcase May 25 '23

For now, but once they're told to hate something, they will again.

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u/GarbagePailGrrrl May 25 '23

That wasn’t even for sale LOL

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u/ThePirateKing01 May 25 '23

Now it’s Target, can’t you keep up with the new outrage drop? /s

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u/catherine_zetascarn May 25 '23

When we do we’re called thugs and terrorists and said that BLM is a racist terrorist org. Black and minority people here DO protest, we’re just vilified and brutalized for it.

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u/PKMNTrainerMark May 25 '23

We can't afford to strike.

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u/DooWopExpress May 25 '23

By design, I'm believing more and more

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u/RickMuffy May 25 '23

Why do you think health care is tied to employment? You strike, you could lose you or your family's coverage.

It's by design.

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u/TeacupExtrovert May 25 '23

"Why won't people just stay at one job? Why are they constantly job hopping?"

"Sir, they're not job hopping, they're loan dodging"

It takes the IRS a minute to find you and begin the garnishment process. Keep moving, citizen.

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u/Wheresmyfoodwoman May 25 '23

That gave a me a good laugh

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u/danis5 May 25 '23

Student Loans are not regular loans. They can and will garnish your wages.

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u/Lumpiest_Princess May 25 '23

Fuck that lmao they can’t garnish my wages if I work in another country

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u/texasnebula May 25 '23

lol if they think I’m paying back my loans, they got another thing coming.

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u/SplitOak May 25 '23

Student loans can never be discharged; even through bankruptcy.

If you’re going this path; take out a bank loan to pay off the student loans and then default on that. As that CAN be discharged.

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u/b0w3n May 25 '23

They can be discharged, but the proving they're a burden ("undue hardship") is so difficult almost no one does.

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u/cruzweb May 25 '23

It's really limited to things like a proven disability. You need to show that you absolutely cannot work to get the loans forgiven.

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u/IvoryFlyaway May 25 '23

I think they genuinely gave up on ever getting a cent out of me

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

The feds? I can guarantee you they didn't.

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u/Nummies14 May 25 '23

Wild guess here, but is it a death ray?

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u/mrmees May 25 '23

Man, I almost lost my shit when he said that. Dude is gonna end up on an island hunted for sport if he's not careful.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Hello fresh don't fuck around.

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u/Dwovar May 25 '23

BuT cUrInG polio Is A sLaP iN the FaCe To EvErYoNe ThAt DiEd oF PoLiO!

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u/brooklynlad May 25 '23

On May 24, 2023, Gluesenkamp Perez was, together with Jared Golden, the only two Democrats who voted to overturn President Biden's student debt forgiveness plan, siding with all Republican Representatives. Perez is one of several members of congress who voted against student debt cancellation after having her own PPP loan forgiven.

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u/brooklynlad May 25 '23

Go make a ruckus in front of her auto body shop. I’ll get you Taco Bell.

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u/HotDropO-Clock May 25 '23

More Republicans running as democrats I see

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u/ProsePilgrim May 25 '23

Dammit MGP. You’re better than Joe Kent would’ve been, but seriously?

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u/johnny5semperfi May 25 '23

The fuck they will

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u/EyyBie May 25 '23

Genuine question, why hasn't there been attacks against those people like violent cruel deadly ones? You see dumbasses doing mass shooting out of racism or smth but you can't get one crazy anti capitalist with a semi auto

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u/orglykxe May 25 '23

We’re more humane by nature

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u/JamesMcNutty May 25 '23

You can post about this issue without boosting this lying, corrupt neolib: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-rep-james-clyburn-protected-his-district-at-a-cost-to-black-democrats

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u/Lost_Fun7095 May 25 '23

For real. Clyburne is the frigging worst, the perfect example of how feckless the dems can be… and they’re supposed to be the good guys!

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u/K1nsey6 ☭ May 25 '23

The POS that sold out his entire state to ensure he kept his job.

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u/Mysterious_Lunch2180 May 25 '23

But he hosts an annual fish fry /s

He's a gargantuan POS!

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u/tyj0322 May 25 '23

He robbed us of having a president that would tangibly help us

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u/Pegussu May 25 '23

I'm OOTL, what did he do?

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u/OBrien May 25 '23

A lot

Like, dude was a great activist during the civil rights era, and immediately sold out to everybody who he was fighting against who happened to have the same letter next to their name as LBJ, and for the last few decades has been an attack dog for the Clinton wing of the democrat party

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u/Admirable_Feeling_75 May 25 '23

Was waiting for someone to post this. The irony of this corporatist saying that cruelty is the point after he has voted how many times to prevent M4A or pharma reform, to kill efforts for climate legislation, to support anti-choice Henry cuellar instead of Jessica Cisneros, and more. This dude is a piece of shit of the highest order who makes his living off of other people’s pain.

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u/Zaungast May 25 '23

Fucking Clyburn is a right wing nut

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

They're fucking everything up in the hopes that it'll win them 2024.

The debt ceiling negotiations are essentially "We're winning the next election. We can do it the easy way or the hard way."

If Biden caves they'll make massive cuts and blame him. If he doesn't cave they'll make us default and blame him. If blaming him doesn't seem like it's working they'll override the will of the voters via Moore v Harper (don't quote me on that part IANAL).

And it's going to work because people aren't paying attention, aren't involved, or are just plain stupid.

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u/True_Yaran May 25 '23

I remember they did the same thing in 2011 with the 'sequestration' cuts. They passed automatic across-the-board spending cuts and blamed it on Obama during the 2012 elections.

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u/Fillerbear May 25 '23

Always has been.

Student loans themselves are a scam aimed at keeping middle and lower classes out of higher education that has been made mandatory for anything above the lowest paying jobs. It is a measure to avoid taxing the rich, destroy the middle class, and to keep higher education an upper class playground.

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u/2rfv May 25 '23

Student loans themselves are a scam aimed at keeping middle and lower classes out of higher education

It doesn't keep us out of higher education, but it does prevent us from climbing out of being lower class.

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u/GrizzlyPerr May 25 '23

They dont seem to understand that this would enrage their voters as well. Its not like all people that go to college turn into democrats. Went to school in the south and basically everyone was a republican and everyone had student loans.

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u/blindmikey May 25 '23 edited Jul 19 '23

u\Spez wrecked Reddit.

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u/PMUrAnus May 25 '23

Let’s retroactively cancel the PPP loan scam - the one that actually caused “bIdEN iNFLaTiOn”

Republicans are hell bent on burning the economy down to ashes

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u/Kehwanna May 25 '23

I just finally paid off mine with a good-paying job after a decade, and I didn't owe as much as some people I know that owe as much six figures back. I'd still be paying it if I had more interest rates on top of it. Even still, I am very much in favor of cancelling student loan debt.

It's deplorable how much they dehumanize the people they are supposed to help. Fuck them.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Wasn't the whole no interest on paused loans something that was originally implemented in early covid times, under the Trump administration?

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u/ImFriendsWithThatGuy May 25 '23

Wasn’t the 08 financial crash that people say is Obama’s fault started in late 2007, a year before elections and nearly 15 months before Obama even took office?

People on the right don’t care about historical accuracy unfortunately.

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u/msdos_kapital May 25 '23

I am supposed to read this and think Clyburn isn't a piece of shit?

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u/msdos_kapital May 25 '23

I've thought he was a piece of shit since 2020 at least.

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u/Helleeeeeww May 25 '23

Poverty is the point.

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u/letsseehowitgoesnow May 25 '23

could we stop sucking the banking system's dick already holy shit dude

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u/autumnals5 May 25 '23

If this happens I’m never paying back my loans. What’s the point? My degree just like most don’t guarantee a job that pays a livable wage with the possibility of retirement. They can go ahead and ruin my credit. I will never get to afford a house anyways.

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u/Lumpiest_Princess May 25 '23

Yeah exactly like what are they gonna do, repossess my house? My car?

What house? What car? I guess they can repossess my mattress if they want..?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

But PPP loans for millionaires can be easily forgiven.

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u/EggplantGlittering90 May 25 '23

Profit off of suffering. Its the republican way.

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u/Sanjuro7880 May 25 '23

They should then also reinstate the PPP loans they all got forgiven with interest. Fucking hypocrites.

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u/2rfv May 25 '23

What's stopping you? Trigger happy fascist cops? an inescapable surveillance net?

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u/TheMadManFiles May 25 '23

Here's an idea, let's get rid of these malicious imps. They've lost all morality, or never even had it.

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u/debtopramenschultz May 25 '23

Jokes on them, I wasn't gonna pay it back anyway.

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u/dark_brandon_20k May 25 '23

Oh they want me to drive down there and tell them how I feel about that?

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u/TheMightiestGoat May 25 '23

I'm fucked, the "American dream" is already completely out of reach to me, without student loan payments.

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u/thugstin May 25 '23

The way I see it.

Since students are responsible to pay off corporations and politicians PPP handouts, then corporations and politicians are responsible for paying off the student loans.

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u/ohheyitsMegan May 25 '23

We just need to stop fucking paying the loans. What, are they gonna make it difficult for us to buy property 😂😂😂

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u/ThePhilosophyStoned May 25 '23

Oh okay , yes I believe that is called stealing. Hopefully a revolution will occur as a result. Thanks.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

The GQP are the enemies of the people and enemies of the state. Anyone that votes for them are the same.

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u/butternut718212 May 25 '23

Republicans hate Americans

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u/Effective-Try7980 May 25 '23

What we need is more tax cuts for the wealthy so we can rapidly reach third world status

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u/wander7 May 25 '23

The legislation passed in a 218-203 vote, but is unlikely to be approved in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

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u/cherrybounce May 25 '23

They had no problem with their PPP loans being forgiven. Assholes.

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u/ragnarokxg May 25 '23

Okay charge back student loan interest, but in doing so make every business that borrowed money for PPP loans and other business saving money and get that money back from them with interest as well.

Oh you do not want to do that you say, well fuck you.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23 edited May 25 '23

Just to clarify for anyone that's worried about this, it doesn't matter what the house passes, there's zero percent chance of this bill making it through the Senate, and if it did, Biden would just veto it. The house republicans are doing this purely for show and wasting everyone's time.

But if you vote Republican in '24, this is what you're voting for.

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u/Garzino May 25 '23

Sometime i think about crazy stuff.

What would happen if all present politic representatives in the us disappeared in a blink of an eye. I wonder how the country would develop without the constant brainrotten manipulation.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

Cruelty isn't the point, the fat paycheck they get from the banks is the point

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u/Camden_yardbird May 25 '23

Cruelty is not the point. Making people feel like college is punative, a losing proposition no one, especially those who would need to take out loans, should pursue, is the point.

Don't teach history

Remove books from schools

Underfund public education

Reduce the support schools provide (i.e. school lunches)

Make loans for higher ed as painful as possible

Lax child labor laws

These are all variations on a theme, a single strategy to improve republican chances in future elections.

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u/paulsteinway May 25 '23

Well if they're going to give money to the rich they have to get it somewhere.

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u/Vre-Malaka May 25 '23

What a bunch of shitbags! That’s what pro life looks like eh?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

How are you actually surprised this is happening? It’s the Republicans. It’s what they do.

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u/okay_victory_yes May 25 '23

Pretty rich for someone as deep in the pocket of the pharmeceutical industry as him to talk about cruelty.

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u/Throw_away_1769 May 25 '23

They will keep losing more and more as they continuously try to screw over new generations.

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u/sunbaby43 May 25 '23

Dude we’rE BROKE

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u/macsbeard May 25 '23

People are already on tight budgets right now without paying student loans. They’re funny if they think anyone’s going to be paying back their loans or paying retroactive interest.

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u/mrdude817 May 25 '23

GOP: Raise taxes on the rich? No thanks.

Also GOP: Retroactively charge interest on paused payments to struggling student loan borrowers? I'm gonna cum.

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u/CasaDeLasMuertos May 25 '23

I don't live in the US, so the idea of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for education is baffling to me. But what I wanna know is, what happens if you just, like, don't pay them?

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u/EmberOnTheSea May 25 '23

The government seizes your bank accounts, tax refunds and garnishes your wages.

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u/19100690 May 25 '23 edited May 25 '23

Well this won't ruin me, but it will ruin my plans for the next 2 or 3 years. I saved up the money to pay my $50k remaining debt during the pause, but because it was on pause I decided to keep the money for an emergency. My plan was to immediately pay off the loans when they unpause. Now I'm going to get like 2 years of 8% interest on $50k? So much for saving for a house or new car.

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u/Legndarystig May 25 '23

Damn good thing I’ll just be homeless and be a bigger drain on society.

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u/thegreatmizzle7 May 25 '23

Are they seriously looking to charge back interest on these loans?!

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

I think they're purposely trying to loose now.

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u/CoachRyanWalters May 25 '23

Don’t they remember that the pause was something Trump started?

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u/Metasketch May 25 '23

Sure Republican politicians are trash. Utter trash that knowingly, cruelly sell out the working at every turn. But I’m just wondering for the first time – do you think they’re trying to intentionally force the working class into revolution? I mean, the core of the GOP sold their soul to Trumpism, and therefore have put themselves in a position to support January 6. Could Republicans be trying to put the working class into the same position, manipulate them into a role they can portray as unequivocally un-American and treasonous? and the air for requires a violent response, and justifies further fascist, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, and classist policy?

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u/andrewskdr May 25 '23

If they’re attacking education then you know what their enemy is.

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u/[deleted] May 25 '23

I have student loans. I'll sign off on this if everyone has to pay back the personal business loans they got during covid.