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I’m pretty sure they did originally mean $1400 + $600 but, first of all whocare $2600 total is better, and secondly they’ve taken so goddamn long that we should be getting $3400 checks. $2k a month
Let’s be real, a one time $2000 payment was insufficient anyway. The pandemic hasn’t been a one-month hit to people’s jobs and finances.
I think focusing on what they meant and whether they’ve been dishonest or not sort of misses the point—because even if they *were* honest, that doesn’t change our demands, or shouldn’t anyway. Hypocrisy/dishonesty is really a minimal issue compared to the material outcomes
At this point it feels like a red herring, and that focusing on it actually plays into the hands of of the neoliberals. It makes the debate about whether or not a promise was broken, which you can go around in circles about forever because it hinges on what people “meant”
That’s a debate that you can never conclusively win because it hinges on internal states of being. It’s ultimately subjective.
Plus, you could be wrong! You literally can’t know what they meant conclusively, only infer it. Why rest your argument on that?
Plus, you could be wrong! You literally can’t know what they meant conclusively, only infer it. Why rest your argument on that?
Demanding $2k/month, or however close we can get to that, is a good, righteous argument *regardless* of whatever the fuck Biden meant while campaigning in Georgia. Literally doesn’t matter.
I really feel this is a rhetorical trap that only benefits the neoliberals. Getting mired in this debate is us already accepting a limited framing of the issue where the choice is between $1400 and $2000. Fuck that. Make the framing of the issue around $2k/month.
Fighting about what the Dems “meant” in December is exactly the fight they would rather have. It’s fighting on their turf. Reject their framework, make your own. Make them play on your turf.
