• @AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee
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    15 months ago

    He certainly paid lip service to the left.

    Still waiting on any semblance of substantive policy regarding healthcare, student debt, income inequality, or labour rights.

    Remember when the rail workers tried to strike and R̶e̶a̶g̶a̶n̶ Biden told them to get back to work?

    Of course, this all pales in comparison to the giant genocide elephant in the room…

    • @Tinidril@midwest.social
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      05 months ago

      If you are unaware of the massive changes the department of labor has made under Biden, then you don’t care all that much about unions. Biden has been great on labor issues.

      He has been forgiving student debt piecemeal to get around Republican obstruction, so far forgiving around 10%. It’s not what we want, but it’s also targeted to the people needing it most.

      Biden isn’t the leftist firebrand I want him to be, but he’s been way better than I anticipated. He is easily the furthest left president since at least Carter, though that’s a low bar.

      Unfortunately the most I can say on Palestine is that Trump would be a whole lot worse. Biden has been putting a lot more pressure on Netanyaho than he gets credit for, but that’s understandable given the rhetoric he uses publicly.