• empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    but they sure fuckin took out them loans to build millions of houses in a swamp at 4 feet above sea level

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      1 year ago

      Would you say the same for homes bought in tornado alley? How about buried under mudslides? They bought that house on a hillside. Would you say the same for homes buried in snow storms? Those bastards chose to buy a house in North Dakota.

      People live everywhere and natural disasters occur everywhere but we shouldn’t help them because they bought a house where that disaster occured? Stop it.

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        1 year ago

        you completely missed my point.

        people live where people live. people go to school where people go to school. both are active life choices leading to a set of risks- either you choose an area prone to natural disasters, or you enter into a workforce with no jobs for you to work. What is the difference between assisting a hurricane victim whose mortgage collateral is now a soggy pile of driftwood, or assisting a student who can’t repay their loans on a middle management salary in a high cost of living area? Both are the same concept at heart- the socialization of losses as to prevent excessive economic damage to the country and promote further growth.

        The only problem is, politicians and corporations can’t grift off the top of student loan forgiveness, so it never gets done. But they sure fuckin can from disaster relief, so pave that damn swamp!

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          1 year ago

          It seems you and everyone else missed my point.

          I didn’t even mention student loans. Kill em off. I’m fine with that. Universities and even community colleges have gotten so stupid drunk on federal money they don’t give a shit if you get buried in the debt. Fuck em. Trade schools aren’t much different. I’m for student loan relief and education reform.

          My whole point was this meme is stupid. You can’t fault the guy for accepting disaster relief cause you don’t like him. If he didn’t accept disaster relief then the everyone would be shouting how he doesn’t care about the storm victims and he should be hung in public for it. Accept it or don’t, it’s a lose / lose.

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              1 year ago

              Well yes and no - if accepting the relief money wasn’t a point of criticism it wouldn’t be there.

              When I look at this comic I see a weak whataboutism that should be avoided. “Student loans shouldn’t be forgiven!” - “But what about the hurricane relief??” - it’s a really bad rebuttal. And the fact that it’s depicted as a sly, behind the back transaction is further ridiculous. You know full well that people take this Facebook level shit out into the world and argue hurricane relief vs student loans just the same as the dumbasses that read a headline and trumpet the end of the world without actually reading that the meteor will pass by 760,000 miles away - all they read was “mEtEoR hEaDiNg fOr eArTh!!”

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                He is railing against the government giving certain people aid when it doesn’t benefit others, while accepting government aid that only benefits those in his state. Both situations are a financial crisis facing only one portion of this nation’s population. It’s blatant, textbook hypocrisy.

                There, I’ve spelled it out for you.