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Oh, heavens, we couldn't do that! That would make businesses suffer. Cancelling the studen loan forgiveness just makes people suffer, so that is okay.
Another great day for American Exceptionalism, huzzah!
Do you think we could convince them that businesses are made up of individual people working, or nah?
This isn't a court making a ruling.
These are members of the owner class asserting dominance over their capital batteries.
Who could have expected that a bunch of rich assholes in the pockets of other rich assholes (and so on, it's rich assholes all the way down) would screw over the peasants?
One option for Biden is to simply ignore the Supreme Court's ruling and continue with student loan forgiveness. Likewise, universities should ignore the court and admit who they want. SCOTUS has no enforcement power in these areas.
SCOTUS has no enforcement power period. They've shown themselves to be an illegitimate body incapable of performing their duties so I don't see why in the flying fuck we should listen to a damn thing they say. We are in a constitutional crisis right fucking now and by accepting their rulings we only make it worse.
Honestly this is what they should do. They've shown that the court is completely invalid and not actually going towards the will of the people. So it's time we start ignoring the supreme Court.
This is the kind of hot take I expect in r/Politics. You think civil war is the appropriate response to executive overreach getting slapped down? Do you not realise this ruling also reins in future Republican presidents who want to do insane things like build walls by executive order?
No one arguing this court would adhere to even its own precedent is doing so in good faith.
Who mentioned Civil War? The Supreme Court doesn't have any ability to enforce laws.
My greater concern here is less how they ruled, an more that they ruled along "party lines". This isn't a situation where the court is reaching outside its mandate (as some could argue with social rights issues) - they are adjudicating a fundamental check and balance between the Legislature and Executive. There really should be some consensus on how this works.
The court is a sham at this point. Damn near every ruling these days is a party line vote and it's disappointing. Why even haven them hear cases if we already know the outcome?
The odd thing is that when they do agree, they still get it wrong: their ruling against faithless electors was unanimous, but in their statements they justify the decision by saying that if they ruled based on the text there would be chaos. Folks, that's not your job. If the constitution needs to be fixed it needs to be fixed through proper channels. You don't get to decide something is constitutional (or not) just because you like it (or not).
I wish we'd stop complaining that SCOTUS judges have opinions, because they do, and they will along party lines.
So we have to elect judges that don't think the only non-dirtball people worthy of dignity, are hedge fund owners.
It also is important to note that Biden's plan was insufficient to begin with. As with the $15 minimum wage, it's too little too late and they still aren't able to do it.
If you're saying it was insufficient because it was "just" forgiving $10-20k per person, that's never been true.
There was also a lot about restructuring the repayment system. Cutting how much "discretionary income" borrowers owed every month, changing how "discretionary income" was calculated to make it more generous, loan forgiveness after 10 years instead of 20, removing monthly interest under income-driven repayment plans so the balance won't grow because the borrower doesn't make enough.
The focus has been on the bulk forgiveness but all the other reforms are badly needed as well.
Probably that Biden took the route that he knew would be challenged and struck down because like any establishment democrat, he loves pretending he's working on issues but in reality it's all a dog and pony show. What are the odds that one of the main proponents of making student loans non-dischareable through bankruptcy would be the one to fix any part of the student loan crisis?
The republic fell decades ago to the owner class.
All economic policy has been dictated by the oligarchs in the name of trickle down lies since Reagan, political bribery has been effectively fully legalized since Citizens United, all branches of our government have been completely captured by the wealthy interests the government was supposed to keep in check for the societal well being. Social wedges are being clicked on and off to keep the capital battery peasants, us, at each other's throats so we won't fight back, and they own all mass media for propaganda and all means of institutional violence to protect themselves from any retribution for running the table ans dehumanizing the non-wealthy.
This is all history. Without revolution or collapse, things will not be allowed to improve. Any scientific/technological advancements will be used solely to further enrich those that have almost everything and whose unquenchable greed cannot be satiated.
Automation could be used to free humanity from menial labor, instead it will be used to increase capital output whole causing mass homelessness and threaten people into lower wages with zero governmental pushback.
AI could be used for the same, but will be used for the above, and also used (its already starting) to monitor the humans doing things AI cannot and report any facial tick, posture, hand motion, that indicates less than optimal productivity to the owners.
I wish we'd fight back, but as I said, their first defense is division through stoking wedge issues. Everyone fixated on social issues that are caused by, exacerbated by, or intentionally stoked by our economic prison. Peasants raging at peasants over symptoms inside an economic prison as the wardens, the people that own you, laugh at their battery's lack of recognition.
They learned a lot from slavery and jim crow. It's far easier and more effective long term to manipulate us into undermining one another with false promises and propaganda than any chain or ordinance.
Republicans did this! Where is a sticker we can put on these rulings that go against the workers, poor students, and the LGBT?
Basically any 6-3 ruling. That’s the stamp of infamy for this billionaire bought court.
Thank goodness. This action was simply forcing debt from the person who accrued it to somebody else.
Biden using the HEROES act to justify this action was bullshit. And the President can’t just allocate billions of dollars for this - this expenditure needs to go through Congress.
Even former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) once said, "People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress."