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This is without a doubt to benefit daddy musk…the true president.
His boyfriend must be complaining because it doesn't benefit Starlink or something
Did he just look at the word "equity" and assume it somehow helped minorities? That's the only reason I can imagine him calling it racist.
He read "equality" and that was that...
Yes, yes that is exactly what has been happening. This is not the only example of them doing Ctrl+f and ending grants.
calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”
I don't see why he would kill anything over that. Those are like his two favorite things.
And this predominantly benefits poor white people. I think he just saw "equity" and assumed it helped brown people.
I suppose this means he hates the Rural Electrification Act and wants to retroactively rip out the bumpkins' power lines. I should probably shut my pie hole before I inadvertently give these malicious assholes ideas.
Or do give them ideas, so the rurals can have the day they voted for and maybe, just maybe, figure out billionaires despise them.
In Canada, we just give them the money, they twiddle their thumbs for a few years then say they're abandoning the project and keep the money. Then we wait a few years, and decide to give them more money for the same thing again.
They’ve already done that here once before in the US, too.
10 billion dollars to redefine 5g as 1/10th it's original bandwidth and then not meet the standards of providing it anyway.
Heh, and here I thought it was just the 5g in my town that was wonky
Does this create communication blund spots? Because that's dangerously good preperation for gulags or something
Just a couple weeks ago, with the announcement of orders being opened to the public, people in my (pretty red) area were celebrating the expected arrival of broadband from these grants,
Wonder if its going to happen now. 🤦
But... but... rural is white Trump country. They need the interweb tubes.
Musk is rolling out a new tier of cheap starlink, lower bandwidth but also zero-tiers certain providers (think Fox News).
I wish I was being sarcastic. They're worried they need to bridge the gap from talk radio.
Have fun watching diabetes commercials on cable while the rest of us enjoy what we want on streaming platforms.
Not even going to bother addressing the veteran stuff. Trump hating the military and its personnel is old news and his voters couldn't give a flying fuck.
It must literally just be the word "equity".
Giving rural old white farmers broadband is racist?
Stupid is as stupid votes.
GodDAMN! This has been getting a shit tonne of mileage lately!
let them eat starlink!
This should be written down for the saying of this time in history
This is probably the whole point.
So it went from socialist to racist to offer incentives to companies to put broadband in rural areas. Boy sure I'm glad there's somebody at the top to tell us these things. Here I thought it was just a sensible thing to do all this time. Silly me.
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