• @go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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    -319 months ago

    Because they’re fucking bread crumbs. What you want us to hold a parade over credit card fees while housing, education, healthcare and food continue to become more expensive and Biden’s cabinet works to suppress wages? Neato.

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      109 months ago

      They’re steps in the right direction, but in general I agree with the sentiment. We need much more drastic changes.

    • @greenskye@lemm.ee
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      349 months ago

      Ya, basically Biden is only able to solve minor first world problems instead of any sort of meaningful attempt on any of the several huge issues.

      This isn’t all his fault, he’s not a king and can’t do whatever he wants, but I also don’t often find my own managers all that happy with me when all I can say I’ve accomplished is minor, non-critical tasks and haven’t even started on the major work they want accomplished. Making a report look nicer and fixing the break room coffee machine isn’t going to cover for failing to launch our latest product. Americans are right to be disappointed in their government and we should be disappointed in our media for failing to stick to larger issues.

      • @Daxtron2@startrek.website
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        239 months ago

        I’m more disappointed in the people who keep voting conservative blockers into the senate and house than I am that biden won’t circumvent them.

        • @FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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          119 months ago

          I’m disappointed in them and fucking livid at shitbags like Sinema who run on a platform and gleefully give the middle finger to everyone while they do the exact opposite once in office.

          • @go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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            19 months ago

            This isn’t an accident. The same thing happened during Obama’s presidency.

            People don’t want to face facts: The Democrat party is filled to the brim with pro-corporate trash.

      • @Tryptaminev@lemm.ee
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        -19 months ago

        Especially since Biden was brought into that position to do precisely that. Do some pet projects but not challenge the underlying root issues of inequality and peoples economic situation. Because that would be against the interests of the billionaire “donors” of the Dems and Reps.

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            9 months ago

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal

            Yes. They are pet projects compared to what other presidents have achieved and what is needed to change the country to an economically, socially and ecologically sustainable new status quo. Biden is preventing that change together with his DNC buddies who want to make sure the inequality in the US stays, the interests of the super rich are kept and the white upper class remains in power.

      • @go_go_gadget@lemmy.world
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        19 months ago

        He could have stayed out of the rail strike, he could have not gone around congress to ship weapons to Israel and he could have told Yellen not to make suppression of worker wages her goal.

        You’re trying to deflect blame away from him as if we’re all expecting him to do things he can’t. Biden isn’t acting in our interests and it should come as no surprise that means we’re not interested in voting for him again.

        • @greenskye@lemm.ee
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          19 months ago

          Do you think not voting will make the world better? Biden isn’t perfect and I’ll continue to pursue progressive candidates in primaries, but I don’t see what anyone gains by not voting or voting for someone who’s definitely going to do a lot more that I disagree with. I didn’t disagree that America has a right to be angry with him, regardless of any excuses, but you still live in reality and have to deal with the situation you have, not the one you want.

        • @TheFonz@lemmy.world
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          19 months ago

          Tell us you don’t know anything about how the rail strike got resolved and what the outcomes were…