President Biden announced Friday that his administration is forgiving $5 billion in student debt for another 74,000 borrowers, marking the latest round of debt cancellation since the Supreme Court voided the president’s student loan forgiveness program.
Mr. Biden said that of the borrowers who can receive relief, nearly 44,000 are teachers, nurses, firefighters and others who are eligible for forgiveness after working 10 years of public service. Almost 30,000 of those who will have their debt wiped clean have been repaying their loans for at least 20 years, but did not get the relief they earned through income-based plans, the president said.
With the latest round of student loan forgiveness, more than 3.7 million Americans have had their debt erased under the Biden administration, Mr. Biden said.
Let’s see if the US public can be bought off to overlook genocide that cheaply.
Only 1% of voters think Gaza is the most important issue in this election.
Even if more did, would it change anything? Most politicians seem to have the same shitty stance. At least most politicians that the average American will vote for. Biden stance sucks but its not something that differentiates him from most other politicians. I wouldn’t expect it to play out much differently with someone else.
All this may be true, but it reflects the American public’s ambivalence on Gaza. Roughly half the country supports Israel right now. That would have to plummet for the US to turn away from them, especially since it would make other allies question US commitment to them.
Compare Palestinians to Ukrainians. The latter enjoy overwhelming support from Americans. They are not fighting an ally, in fact the opposite. So politicians in both parties tend to support Ukraine, with the exception of the usual GOP loudmouths in the House.
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Why do you think the german public looked away? Why do you think the UK and the US took so long to join the antifascist war?
France & the UK declared war on Germany two days after Germany invaded Poland.
That is an absolutely astounding level of historical ignorance, right there.
And that’s when the genocide started is it?
Edit: oh I see where the mistake might have happened, by antifascist war I didn’t mean world war II but the armed struggle against fascism in general.
You expected the 1930’s UK to declare war on another sovereign country due to something that country was doing to their own subjects?
I don’t think there isn’t a single example of that in written history. You should ask for a pony while you are at it.
It’s not like they were doing nothing, they were supporting it. They still were benefiting from the nazi turbo-capitalism that was eating people alive up until that beast started to turn on them. Like the US is doing now with Israel and their genocide of Palestinians.
It’s not like the anti-semitic violence came as a suprise when we attacked Poland. It was clearly already there, so why was there nothing done to reign it in? No sanctions or anything they were very happily, keenly even doing business with Germany which was already stealing and oppressing and heavily militarizing for years prior.
You’re either a liar or woefully ignorant where history is concerned.
https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/the-kitchener-camp/
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/kindertransport/
Along with every other country. See my previous response RE: pony.
And did nothing about it. Besides, that war should have been declare much earlier. When the militarization started, in fact. Big failure on France there (no one really expected the UK to do anything useful, their motto has always been keep the power of balance in Europe, not keep peace)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
https://youtu.be/nZE7YnRIXtg