The only meaningfully sympathetic slice there are people who are public servants. Like if you’re a social worker or a public defender. I also have some sympathy for people who attended HBCUs but even then, that was a choice open to me and I looked at the tuition and ... noped out. Gonna have to deal with white people…

If you attended Johns Hopkins to study without a scholarship what you did was make an entirely voluntary choice that taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for covering. There’s absolutely zero country on the planet including that foot that kind of bill for their citizens. University costs in Europe are much lower, and…

I did a little bit of a deeper dive (because I’m a sucker for punishment) and this troll also has comments about how their stock portfolio made them so much money they feel guilty about it/ had recently got a new job and consider themselves affluent.

“And it only applies to those making less than $125,000 per year.”

According to your other comments your stocks are doing great and you're making lots of money.

I’m a lawyer and my wife’s a doctor—10k apiece isn’t going to meaningfully change anything for us, but, usurious as our loans may be, we’re also not crippled by them like some. The people who will be significantly helped by this REALLY need the help, and I'm glad they're gonna get it.

Sure, those with massive debt and big salaries are still in a bad place

Yeah I know this is just par for the course with Jez at this point and I shouldn’t be surprised but still it annoys me to see this BS. Especially when it’s so blatant. Absolutely no mention of anyone who’s in a situation that a large chunk of borrowers are in.

Don’t underplay this.

10k is a fucking pittance in general, but had we not sold our old house and used the proceeds to finally finish paying my loans (stood at about 8.5k at that point), this would’ve wiped my debt clean and we’d have used that money otherwise. instead biden spent all that time hemming and fucking hawing, playing fucking…

It’s idiotic, she’s not going to be struggling at all as an orthopedic surgeon. She could buy a used car with her first real paycheck.

What long lines? That sounds bogus. 

Let’s get real for a minute here. If you can’t make it on $125k a year, that’s on you. Oh, but NYC rent is expensive? Then leave of you make $125k in nearly any given line of work, you can move and make decent money elsewhere. You aren’t trapped with no means to leave, you choose to stay for reasons and that’s on you.…

I’m sorry but using an orthopedic surgeon as an example in this article is just mind bogglingly dumb, not to mention irrelevant to 95% of all people who have student debt in the this country.

I’m 100% onboard with student loan forgiveness, but I don’t get why Handcox is “struggling to make ends meet”. Even if she makes the minimum for an orthopedic surgeon, $150,000, that’s $12,500 a month, ignoring that her husband may have an income, and she says she’s paying $1,800 a month minimum on student loans. If I…

I’d honestly say it’s proving himself via passage of time as much as anything. Whatever demons he was clearly battling earlier in life seem to be under control and since leaving prison 25+ years ago he’s been a law-abiding citizen. Whatever he says, he was convicted, served prison time, and hasn’t re-offended.  That’s…

Didn’t Tyson do prison time for his crimes? And isn’t people seeing ex-cons as nothing but criminals a big problem in society? I feel like I have seen several Last Week Tonight about that issue. 

mike tyson is a human being.. if you appreciate humanity and all an individual is capable of then you can see that what tyson has done in his life and where he is now is remarkable. he was brash, brazen, beautiful, scary, and human all the same. he is a very interesting individual. he wasn’t supposed to see the other…

I realize that Mike Tyson has had a VERY troubled past, and he’s done a lot of truly horrible things. I can’t claim to be an expert on what he’s been like in recent years, but by outward appearances he seems to have learned a great deal of humility in his later life. He went to prison as punishment for his crimes. We…

Country music, as well as rock and roll were also black music.