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There's rarely any using trying to respond with logic to a comment filled with insults..
I explicitly blamed the people who set it up, and that account went off about how I'm blaming Biden.
Logic didn't get them to their current opinion, and logic won't help them understand their misunderstanding, they'll just keep throwing insults and not understanding.
I just report and block those accounts, makes Lemmy a lot more civil when you don't see the worst
Dude. You literally blamed Biden in your first comment.
I guess someone else wrote his name in there.
Charging borrowers interest is not illegal. Denying participation in government programs over trivial errors is not illegal. Declining to earnestly help people who are eligible rectify their deficient applications is not illegal. Picking a fight you are going to lose on the merits is not smart. Especially when it detracts time and effort away from the much more immediate and necessary goal of helping the large number of people who are still paying.
I agree with you. There's some nuance that's being missed. Obviously Biden had nothing to do with a program that got signed into law in 2007.
You (and John Oliver, who's rarely wrong) said that Biden paid the extra interest - which shouldn't have existed if things were done right from the start. And this means less money for other loan forgiveness. That's what Biden is being blamed for. Paying extra interest. Nothing else.
The catch here is that maybe Biden couldn't have cancelled or reversed that interest without new legislation, which would be tough in these times due to the strong MAGA hold on the GOP half of Congress right now. Hence he had to work within the framework of existing laws and prioritized ending the suffering of his constituents first. On that basis, I figure it's probably the right call overall, even if it means some scummy for-profits got a little bit fatter.
But the other commenter said,
Which is just highly inaccurate, as it was only one tiny aspect of the cleanup that was being questioned.