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The 63 Years of the US Blockcade, Cuba Still Educates International Doctors For Free (sfbayview.com)

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[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

would be nice if Biden uses his lame duck status to revert it. FL isn't much of a purple state anymore anyway

[-] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 37 points 11 months ago

Biden has never supported any leftist policies. Why would he start now?

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Is lifting the embargo on Cuba really a "leftist" policy? Didn't Obama try it?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Would certainly be a Leftist victory, arguing whether or not an action is leftist is semantics.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

Nothing good ever came from genocide joe

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Tell that to the millions of people who no longer have student loan debt.

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/as-clock-ticks-down-biden-abandons-student-loan-relief-proposals-he-lauded/ar-AA1wfvfi

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Trust me, as someone who's aid was blocked by the Supreme Court, I am well aware of what's happening with this.

That said, why don't we actually talk about what he was able to forgive before Republicans shut it down?

https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/biden-harris-administration-approves-additional-428-billion-student-debt-relief-nearly-55000-public-service-workers-0

brings the total loan forgiveness by the Administration to approximately $180 billion for nearly five million Americans, including $78 billion for 1,062,870 borrowers through PSLF.

Pretty significant. Want to compare it to the President with the second most student loans forgiven? Good news, you don't need to. The rest of the list is empty.

I'm not one of those, "wah, other people got something and I didn't" people. I'm glad people had their loans forgiven.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I think the chips and science act was one of the few things he did that was good

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

It wouldn't really mean that much since Trump would reverse that decision immediately.

Basically just giving Trump a free win with the Latino block in Florida for no discernable benefit.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago

Trump got 56.1% vs Harris’s 43% in 2024.

That means nearly every other person isn’t Republican.

That’s pretty purple.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

By that logic, every state is a purple state and the classification isn't useful anymore.

Instead, the criteria that actually matters is the degree of uncertainty about which side of the 50% mark it'll fall on in any given election. Florida is no longer all that uncertain.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Considering every state to be a purple state would probably be good for Americans as a whole.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

It's almost like every state isn't a monolithic political entity

[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

So would ending the first-past-the-post voting system, which is what amplifies marginal changes in public sentiment to extreme changes in government policy in the first place.