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[–] pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee 61 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I stopped paying mine. It was homelessness or student loans. Fuck em. If they can write off billions of small business loans, they can write off my student loans. Fuck that game.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 hours ago

Just remember the two pieces of shit that sued to stop student loan forgiveness. I think one of them had PPP loans forgiven.

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I agree with you in principle, but they won't do it and you're likely going to end up struggling. There are other payment plan options that I encourage you to research before you end up in more debt which you can't offload. It's fucked up, I know. And I'm sorry you're having to decide between a payment or shelter. Obviously shelter comes first. But there might be other options to allow you to have both.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

My student loans were private, not federal, which actually worked out great when it came to discharging them.

Defaulting on them fucked my credit for a while, but then it left my credit report after 7 years. And my debt to income ratio was so fucked from them anyway that it really didn't hurt that bad, and it was okay in 7 years, whereas paying double my rent every month would only cover interest and keep going indefinitely.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

NO we should all stop paying. If everyone of us who have student loan debt stop paying we crash the system. It needs to burn like Elon dealerships.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

Consider killing a CEO

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 93 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

These fossils still think that Millennials are kids. Bro, my kids are almost in high school, my back hurts, I feel this flesh prison decaying around me. I'm entering the part of my life where I'm traditionally supposed to be the most economically advantaged, and this bullshit is going to basically nuke my generation's ability to participate in the economy, because we were all told that we need to go to college to have a good life.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago

At this point I pray for an afterlife so that I actually have a life I can enjoy

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 13 hours ago

My student loans should be paid off around when I retire, according to their amortization chart.

[–] ansiz@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

It's messed up how low my federal student loan interest rates were. I was paying my loans off in the early 2000s and I swear my interest was only like 2%!

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 147 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Last month, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration-era SAVE plan, an income-driven student loan replacement program with 8 million borrowers, claiming it lacked the authority to forgive millions of dollars in debt.

It's almost funny how when Biden was President he had no authority to do anything, however trump doesn't seem to have that issue as much. Almost funny.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Trump has support in all levels of government, and a great amount of it too. This didn’t happen just overnight in Jan of 2025. Biden had opposition who would hold him accountable for dictator stuff (as well as supporters who would hold him accountable depending on what he did) but Trump now has a larger support base to pull off his shit because control at the top is across his party.

That’s why Biden couldn’t do it but Trump can. It’s bullshit and we know it, but no one (including myself) is willing to revolt the way we should yet. We’re all worried about covering our own butts because the system we’ve grown up with is still mostly here so there is still hope that we can change it via our system. We may very well regret this later though.

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