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Disagree, this is a lot of word salad to justify not helping people.

• tivert 3y ago
  > Disagree, this is a lot of word salad to justify not helping people. Come on. It's not no "unintelligible, extremely disorganized speech or writing manifested as a symptom of a mental disorder" to disagree with you. Furthermore, framing this as just about "not helping people" is simple-minded. There are almost always trade-offs between different goods, and maintaining separation of powers is an important good as well. There are serious, serious problems with allowing small provisions of law meant to solve small problems to be re-interpreted to allow the executive to unilaterally make massive policy changes.
  • oddtuple 3y ago
    You’re the one approaching this like it’s some incredibly complex issue, it’s really not. But okay, let’s play your game. Describe the real material harm caused by this forgiveness. Is it inflation? There’s a lot of research saying that’s bogus. Is it an overstretching of powers? Seems pretty minimal compared to existing powers, and it seems like this is right up the executive and DOE alley… what exactly are you upset with in the real tangible sense? What concrete harms are happening that are backed by data and not just a myopic world view? Please, really, enlighten me
• orangecat 3y ago
  The president cannot seize your assets in order to buy malaria nets for Kenya, even though that would "help people".
  • oddtuple 3y ago
    I’m having trouble seeing how student loan forgiveness and this are equivalent. Can you elaborate?