• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The DNC has had multiple opportunities to tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs during my lifetime and they have not done so once. I don’t believe them anymore when they say it’s their platform.

    Being anti-Republican isn’t enough anymore. This shit will keep happening for as long as we allow private ownership of the means of production.

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      3 hours ago

      They have actually. They do those things literally every time they enter power. Maybe try searching if a statement is true before you post it.

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        1 hour ago

        The last legislation I can remember is the pro act, which failed. There have been progressive executive orders, progressive agency moves in the executive, progressive judges appointed, but all of this was destroyed by sleeper agent dinos. I’m also not remotely naive enough to believe that Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman are the only ones. Legacy fossils like Dick Durbin was literally the leader and he betrayed us recently upon retirement. They’re largely career-minded capitalists through and through with few exceptions, the rotating villain shtick is fucking old. We’re dying, it’s not enough.

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          46 minutes ago

          Biden Administration:

          • expanded overtime pay eligibility to millions

          • forgave $186 Billion of student loans despite constant pushback from Republican AGs and courts

          • increased audits for the rich, which payed for itself and more

          • allowed over-the-counter birth control to hit the markets

          • pardoned thousands of marijuana convictions, commuting 2500+ sentences

          • awarded $286 million for schools student mental health programs

          • replaced more federal vehicle fleets with all electric

          • expanded solar and wind power across the nation

          • drafted new anti-redlining predatory mortgage regulations which went into effect in January

          • a crackdown on hidden fees from service providers, ticket sellers, and banks

          • forced Chinese companies to properly report SEC Filings in order to remain publicly tradeable

          • expanded less carbon intensive farming practices in the USA

          • expanded nature conservation and national parks more than any past president, including $4 Billion for the preservation of the shrinking Colorado River

          • cut federal funding for career training programs which trap their students in more debt relative to their post-graduation earnings

          • brokered a peace deal in the Congo

          • strengthened alliance with Japan and South Korea over countering potential threats from China and North Korea

          • funded medical research for things like cancer, countering the previous cuts by Republicans

          • helped Class-A railroad workers to have industry-wide paid sick leave, albeit after he undercut their strike he still aided them in getting all of their demands in the following months

          • literally penned the first and then only AI oversight and regulation with his AI Executive Order

          • investigated grocery store price gouging and blocked mergers such as Krogers-Albertsons

          • The Respect for Marriage Act which protects gay marriage

          • protected LGBT+ Service Members and Veterans

          • signed multiple executive orders protecting lgbt+ throughout the federal government including “prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation” and “advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals”

          • appointed the first openly LGBTQI+ Cabinet Secretary, White House Press Secretary, and White House Communications Director, the two first openly transgender people to ever be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the first out lesbian to achieve the rank of Ambassador.

          this list goes on, and Biden wasn’t even particularly powerful given his only senate majority was 47 DNC and 3 Independents with VP tiebreaker, and only for 2 years.