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[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

Now imagine if he had done something for student loans, might’ve saved the election for the democrats.

I literally owe interest on my loans almost equal to the loans at this point

[-] TrippyFocus@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 month ago

Charging interest on loans for education is crazy too, feel like the bare minimum they could do is just set the interest rates to 0%.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

What's fucking crazy is there are a million and a half compromises that we could have had that would have ameliorated the extremity of capitalism's depredations but we are denied even the mildest and most milquetoast reform. And people like me are seen as the crazy, radical extremists even though I'd be totally stoked for something as small as a zero interest loan. Something mutualist anarchists were talking about in America in the fucking 1800s. Well, more like 0.5% interest in their case to pay for the administrative wages and shit to service the loan, but still

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