• MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    Dude, no. Just no. You don’t seem to know what words mean, and you’re getting frustrated by that.

    Biden didn’t “give handouts to his rich friends” when he bailed out a collapsing bank to save the financial security of the everyday people who banked there. He prevented a cascade of bank runs. You would understand that if the read the article. But you’re free to disagree with the actions he took; what would you have done differently?

    It’s not a “handout” if it’s a loan that gets paid back plus significant interest. A “bailout” yeah, sure, but that’s not the same thing. That was my point there. And again, what would you have done differently? Let the economy collapse to spite those who made it happen?

    You say he could’ve fast-tracked money, but when he tried he was stopped by the courts. I know you want it to have been possible, but he wasn’t willing to be a dictator. He (perhaps naively) believed in preserving the separation of powers.

    As for wasting time, I’m not the one who linked 7 goddamn articles and then didn’t bother to understand them before pretending that they supported my argument.

    It’s like there’s a kid dying in the OR and you’re focused on a worrisome mole while I’m saying “hey fuckface, let’s worry about that melanoma after we deal with the gunshot wound.” Yeah, there are corrupt Democrats and they cling to power, and yeah we should do something about that, but demonizing the entire party over a couple of less than perfect incidents is a mind-blowing way to take up space during a fascist takeover by the other party, led by a rapist conman who is in the news every day for egregiously fucking over everyday people to help his rich buddies. He’s turning the white house into a gilded palace. He’s ordering all Latinx to get raided by ICE. He fucked over the farmers AGAIN to enrich his VP. He’s accepted a luxury private jet from Qatar. He very obviously raped children with his bff for years. Thanks to these dumb fucks, I now need to get a prescription to get a covid vaccine in my state, and I’m calling it now, there will be a shitload of measles and covid outbreaks in the next two years.

    It is fucking silly to criticize how Obama and Biden handled those crises as fucking over the working class to help their rich buddies when the actual policies they worked for and the bills they signed did the opposite, and Republicans undid as much of it as they could. Capitalism fucking sucks, and it’s doomed to result in massive wealth inequality, and I’d love to shift away from it, but that’s just not happening without a lot of violence. The Democrats are compromising to ensure that everybody gets crumbs today and morsels tomorrow and small bites the next day, and it’s damn sure not enough, but it beats intentionally starving everybody and punishing them for not fattening up enough ahead of their slaughter.