-Protests are working. Speaking up is working.

unfortunately, protesting and speaking up are only effective if the power structure believes it's a precursor to upcoming elections.

If they aren't afraid protests are clue as to how a future election will turn out......they aren't terribly affective in driving change.

You think the republicans in Florida are worried they have screwed up their political careers over this detention center?

If they are, then the protests are working....if they're not......then they aren't.

-What was Jan 6, then?

an insurrection. At attempted coup of our government.

not a mere protest....

-Protesting has become wholly ineffective because liberals have turned it into a circus.

Fair point which is why this particular protest won't have the impact it should. This situation is a good reason to protest, IMO.

-Voting was supposed to be how Americans let their voice be heard.

Too many folks are uninformed and ignorant. Some are so ignorant they believe elections occur every 4 years rather than 2 years.

"We could provide taxpayer funded state and city college for America citizens to attend for free. But then, Black and Brown people would benefit."

That's basically what we have to a degree in Kansas. We have a lot of community colleges spread throughout the State and the tuition is practically free to those students who live closest to the school.

It's funded heavily by property taxes. That's good for your first 2 years (if you didn't get a lot of credits in high school which is easy here as well)

We have some D2 universities in this State that offer very low tuition, scholarships, and much of the curriculum can be done online, and in the evenings allowing for folks to work, etc. That's for the other 1-2 years.

IOW, it can be done relatively cheap in Kansas.....FWIW. I can't speak for other States of course but I suspect it's not only in Kansas.

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I don't know what the guidelines are but I believe they have been shrunk down to a point where many middle class households do not qualify.

So no, I don't think no middle class kids qualify but it's designed to be based on need so it's skewed to lower income/net worth households only being in these calculations

"come from homes with lower household income/networth"

that's the qualifier for these loans in the first place.

It's hard to believe there is a significant difference between blacks and whites on this issue because every household who takes out a student loan is of lower income and net worth.

But the real reality isn't a surprise.

-I only spit facts -------.

LOL

"The stats are this: 20 years after starting college, White/Asian have repaid over 94% of the loan amount (median, not average).
Meanwhile, 20 years after starting college, Blacks have 95% of the loan amount still outstanding (median, not average)."

nobody is challenging this? Meaning this is agreed that it's true?

-This sharp rise in delinquency comes less than two months after the education department resumed collections on defaulted federal loans.

The decision to stop collections will be scrutinized forever.

Because this is what happens. People think their loans were forgotten about or forgiven. Whooops....looks like they weren't.

Higher education is a mess in so many ways and this is a good example of it. This shouldn't be happening. Universities need more skin in the game with student loans. They should be forced to bet on themselves. Not entirely but at least in part. If their education is worth the price then they should finance it for a % of their student base.

Let's say a university has 25,000 students. half of them borrow $8K a year....that's $96 million a year in student loans. I'm making this number up but this can be easily calculated.

The university has to finance 40% of that number. Make them bet on themselves.

"Thankfully the Democratic Party is changing. It will represent working class Americans again and this scares the oligarchs. "

It will once candidates like this win general elections.

Don't get ahead of yourself.

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Jesus, you're as desperate for my attention as Snoofy.

I have zero problems with this guy.

The knee jerker here is you, little fella.

Go smoke something to calm you down.

-What's a democratic socialist and why should Americans be so afraid of them?

I'm not afraid of them.

-Did you have a point?

That people had 2 options and the non disgraced ex governor was one of them.

Shouldn't be too shocked people voted for the other guy.

"Democrats say they oppose Communism and then go full in for a Communist."

They voted for a democratic socialist vs a former disgraced governor.

It's not like New Yorkers WANT a communist as mayor.

-Yeah. Only in crazy, far-out New York City could somebody get elected through hugely popular proposals like these:

your words, kiddo. Not mine.

"Self-described Democratic Socialist"

doesn't really play in most cities in America.

"Crazy just ------- crazy."

Well, it's New York City. This is where a guy like this can get elected.

Let's see if he can win a general election and govern responsibly.

-You have nothing to add to the conversation.

not this conversation anyway at this particular time. When I want to contribute, I will.

I've done my part to hurt your feelings, I guess.... but I haven't done anything to enable America to do anything you're crying about.

Stand up to 5-6 anonymous posters on a site with 20 posters? Which, BTW I do often even if you can't see it. And I don't attack you for something based on lies or misinformation and quote ridiculous sources. And you know it.

Surely you have something better in mind that has actual impact.

The only thing this ----- hedgefund ------- wants to accomplish it to profit from whatever he's trying to make happen.

He's shorting precisely what he wants to fall in value.

"this is caused in part by the wage suppressing nature of the illegal aliens."

I've never believed wages have been suppressed by illegal immigrants. At least not significantly.

That's an oversold victimization ploy by politicians to garner support and to drive a wedge between voters and political parties.

"you're broke but it's not your fault....it's the fault of those ---- illegals...and the political party that wants it to happen"

But it's --------. nobody is broke because of an illegal immigrant.

"In second grade he came in fourth place in a spelling bee,"

I took fourth as well.......but there were only 4 kids in the class.....

"Its enablers like you who..blah blah blah"

It's whiners like you who blame winners like me for your lot in life.

Personally, I'm not a fan of the courts determining medical care at any level.

Neither am I. I'm especially not a fan of state legislatures determining medical care either which is why the courts get drug into these issues.

the difference here is that these guys were convicted of a crime. OJ was not.

OJ's personal lines insurance had to defend and pay on his behalf...all the way to the policy limit, which I believe was $2 or $2 million.

These guys won't have that and unless they are otherwise wealthy people.....this lawsuit might generate an award......but it won't get paid out. These guys will be defending themselves on their own dime.

Blood from a turnip more than likely.

"This is a perfect example of it and why you're the center of attention here."

FT

When you see pictures of anybody from the 60s or 70s, even 80s....pictures of people at parties, at their home, vacations, etc.....what do you see?

a cigarette in 1 hand and a drink in the other.

It has to be challenging to determine how much alcohol generates a greater risk of disease such as cancer, etc. when it's hard to separate alcohol from tobacco, poor diet, obesity, other drugs, lack of exercise, etc.

It has to be very difficult to isolate alcohol from those other factors.