notacat

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[–] notacat@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not what they’re saying. No one’s going to stop you from living in a suburb 50 miles from your job. But the argument is that maybe a city should stop encouraging people to do so by investing their limited resources in mass transit and denser housing, thus giving some people the option of NOT having to live 50 miles away.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure it’s possible it was “designed to fail” but not because the wrong method was used but because our current extremist supreme court would have used any excuse to stop it. It was based on the same HEROES Act that Trump’s pause of student loans was based on and the act explicitly says “waive or modify” loans so if Biden’s cancelation was illegal then so was Trump’s pause.

Here is a quote from the DOJ: “The plain text of the HEROES Act authorizes the Secretary to “waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to” the federal student loan program, … We conclude that targeting relief towards those individuals who suffered financial hardship because of COVID -19 and who otherwise satisfy the requirements of the Act accords with the Act’s requirement that the waiver or modification “be necessary to ensure that” student loan recipients who are “affected” by a national emergency “are not placed in a worse position financially” with respect to their loans as a result.”

From this law blog

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you effing kidding me? He’s blocking it because he doesn’t like the idea of soldiers getting abortions.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Finally, something at my level.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I hope you found time in your birthday day to do things you enjoy and find relaxing or rejuvenating. Happy birthday.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don’t know how much credit can go to Pelosi specifically but the current indictment is absolutely due to the fact-finding of the congressional Jan 6 committee. If Liz Cheney and others on that committee had not done the work they did, there would not the current court cases. Jack Smith’s evidence is based on the evidence found during the committee hearings.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I think Florida teachers are generally pro-education so would want to teach the real class.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

They’re totally just stealing this idea from the Neighborhood of Make Believe

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, fun fact, your credit can be used to calculate the price you pay for insurance, a required thing even if you outright buy a car or house. So there is no escaping it.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because the corporations you are protesting are the ones who fund the campaigns necessary to get elected.

[–] notacat@mander.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is Houston aware that some cities pay hundreds of millions of dollars to install a rail line to address this exact problem?

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