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[–] 89 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Don't forget the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed for the mass media consolidation we see today.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Also working to repeal glass-steagal for his Wall Street buddies which set in motion the collateralized debt that created the 2008 recession

    Also DMCA which led to weaponizing copyright against fair use with basically no recourse (and even a path to easily dox people by invoking it, though this was unintended)

    And wrt the op shifting the welfare burden onto the disability system. Since the changes in 1996 disability claims have significantly increased year after year (especially claims related to mental health, which are impossible to quantify objectively) which has led to it becoming substantially more difficult in most states for the disabled to receive benefits.

    At this point in my state it is basically well understood that if you are claiming disability for any mental illness (including things like autism and intellectual disability) unless you’ve spent years in residential inpatient you should anticipate being denied and having to do a lengthy appeal. It’s also highly recommended to get a lawyer involved which is either costly (typically they take 25% of back pay, max $7200, so if the appeal took two years and payments would’ve been $1100 a month they get $6600 of the 26,400 that is owed to you and you likely desperately need as someone who has had no income for at least 2 years (possibly ever). Or you can get legal aid but qualifications for that are very strict and you’ll likely wait awhile as they’re always slammed

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago*

    I have one of these lawyers for my cancer disability claim.

    Also that amount that is owed to you is disbursed into small quantities at first. Initially a check for around $2000 every six months and then a final lump sump payment a year after the initial payment. Basically so the Fed can continue to get interest on it for a year.

    I learned that from my ex's mental health disability claim which finally went through.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You mean the Act that came after 12 years of GOP attacks on the Fairness Doctrine and the FCC? The one that passed after the GOP retook both Houses?

    Yes, that was all Clinton's fault.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    He signed it. Hell, I guess he had to sign it, because they had the votes in the Senate to override a veto. Because lots of Democrats supported it, including Al Gore. And ol' Bill had plenty of praise to heap upon it.

    Yes, it's as much his fault as anybody's.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I can’t believe Clinton wrote and passed that legislation.

    40 Senate Democrats and 97 House Democrats seemed happy enough to put their signatures on it.

    He also wrote a lot of blue MAGA pro Trump stuff

    Unironically.

    Former United States President Bill Clinton asserted that the legislation strengthened "the rule of law by cracking down on illegal immigration at the border, in the workplace, and in the criminal justice system—without punishing those living in the United States legally". However, IIRAIRA has been criticized as overly punitive and intensifying border militarization. With IIRAIRA, all aliens, regardless of legal status, were liable to removal and it expanded types of transgressions that could lead to removal.

    Hardly a secret that the 80s/90s was the peak of "Both Sides" politics, given that both parties seemed to be marching in lockstep to send the whole country over a cliff.

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    Don’t pretend that Clinton didn’t write this

    I doubt Clinton wrote it. Why would he need to when Congress had an army of lobbyists to write it for them?

    Please vote R to support Bernie

    I mean, you say this, but if the hard left turn in NYC is any indication, it really does seem to help the Socialist cause when you've got fascists running things. Neoliberals like Clinton, Obama, and Biden can tread water for a minute and keep the lights on. But it takes a failson reactionary like Bush or Trump to really fuck up the imperial core hard enough to spur a revolution.

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