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    17 days ago

    Off the top of my head, from someone not even in the US, there were the student loan forgiveness programs, or the insulin price limit.

    Both are arguably remedies for symptoms, and the right is far more efficient in undoing anything good. But pretending the liberals didn’t do anything in the past 10 years is disingenuous.











  • English needs a major spelling reform, but there’s no way to actually implement one. In order to match spelling to pronunciation, you would be to have a well-defined “high English” pronunciation.

    But any semblance of uniform pronunciation doesn’t even exist within the UK (or even just England), much less across the entire English-speaking world, including places like Canada, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, New Zealand, India, and many, many more countries.

    And even if you somehow manage to create something (this is basically how “high German” was created, after all), good luck getting all the different governments to adopt the reformed spelling.