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    He voted to increase loans and grants that made college ever more expensive for decades, and then in the aughts, sponsored the bill to make student debt non-dischargeable even in bankruptcy, effectively handcuffing generations past and future as well to the truckload of bullshit they are fed to get them into mountains of debt and then ensuring they are forever chained to it. https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/111100/documents/HHRG-116-JU08-20201202-SD007.pdf

    Decades in the US government anyone is going to have lots of awful things they did, and I’m not going to argue it’s his worst but it’s one of the most crippling to anyone trying to better themselves and has destroyed decades of millions of Americans lives.

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      Didn’t he also help sponsor/write the Patriot Act? He literally helped out fascists with that one if so. Hard to keep track/memory of all the corruption over there.

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        Well it’s the internet so rather than introducing an idea attributing and condemning something they may or may have not done, we can just look it up rather than up voting with our feels.

        Looks Iike he voted for the Patriot Act, didn’t write it but claims the bill that became he patriot act was based on a bill Biden wrote in 1994 and he was proud of that, which is awful.

        https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/surveillance-joe

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          Biden also voted for repealing Glass-Steagall, directly causing the worst financial crisis in most Americans lifetimes and billions more worldwide.

          Obama, with notable Vice President Biden, also supported and enacted the largest bank bailout in history after said crisis, directly causing an economic spiral that continues into today because nothing was fucking fixed.

          Look, I resist the accelerationist urge every day. But man is it fucking hilarious to watch capitalism collapse on itself, exactly as Marx wrote 100 years ago with no fucking internet.

          The best part? All the brainwashed liberals going literally insane because the world is changing in ways they cannot comprehend.

          What happens when an indoctrinated imperial core faces the real contradictions of their own ideology?

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        Theres also his role with Anita Hill and not believing women, empowering a shithead, and we’ve suffered with that SC justice now for decades.