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Trump kills rural broadband grants, calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”
(arstechnica.com)
internet access is woke too now 😎
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This will be just great for the Appalachian region J.D. Vance was playing up as his homeland.
They could have really used that money to get some broadband deployed and a workforce trained up: https://communitynetworks.org/content/connect-humanity-project-aims-bring-broadband-rural-appalachia
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This is the guy who just recently, through overt, barely coded dog whistles, called Buttigieg a "f@**0t," riding with his husband on a bike, and Crockett a "uppity n1@883r b1%&h" from the Oval Office. I'm a 53 year old white male from the rural South. The message was loud and clear. Believe what I'm telling you. I've heard this garbage my entire life, and hear the shit that's said when it's just us white males. The real hateful shit.
This is real. This is serious. They're starting with "Illegal Immigrants," and to them, deviant "Transsexuals." RFK Jr. is reported to be compiling a database of Autistic people. Before that, it was the homeless. Remember what the Nazis did to those "Undesirables."
Just like the Nazis of 80 years ago, they're starting with the defenseless, and the poorest.
Trump dropped a hard-r when it comes to Jasmine Crockett? Honestly, given the good work Crockett has been doing, I kind of love that it's pissing off Trump so much, and making him show his true, obviously racist (and homophobic, etc.) colors.
What I don't like is that this is probably going to make the hard-r "more acceptable to say" for MAGA folk, not that they didn't already say it in more private settings already.
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Internet access is racist and illegal! Thanks conservatives!
If they only know twitter then you could understand a bit the confusion.
Racist? His main voter base are right winged fucks in the rural areas
And they'd happily get starlink.
"At least he's hurtin' Them People worserer! Git me another beer, Darla!"
All those red counties can keep enjoying paying over $100 a month for terrible local cable company "100mbps" (20mbps in reality) download speeds with 56k upload. That's the great America they wanted after all. Meanwhile in my very blue city I pay $60 a month for symmetric gigabit.
How quaint.
I take care of my Mom who has dementia.
She has to have cable. For her "stories." The Comcast bill for her cable and internet access is TWO HUNDRED AND 60 FUCKING UNITED STATES DOLLARS. For dogshit megabyte speeds. Which I pay the majority of.
But hey, for $15 more, we could have "free" Peacock, Spotify, and Apple+!
What a bargain...
And there are literally no competitors except for the town municipal service, which is the same price, since they're buying bandwidth on cable, and internet.
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I really hope that someone is collecting all the laws that Trump is making up on the fly so that we can compare the documents; at least do a word count of Trump's collected laws and covfefe vs the Constitution.
Probably shouldn't have called it Digital Equity Internet. I could see where the confusion comes in.
They need to keep their base stupid.
They already are, but they want the future generations illiterate, and absolutely desperate, via no education.
Doesn't seem like they need to work very hard at it tbh.
Fair point
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The goal seems to be to keep people in rural areas ignorant and/or sell more starlink terminals
Deny social security
ding, ding, ding! close rural offices, make phone support unworkable with additional staff cuts and deadend "AI" phone IVR and finally ensure that online interactions are impossible.
hundreds of billions will be saved on the bodies of dead Americans to help pay for those trillionaire tax cuts.
Yeah it's 100% just a Starlink scam. The internet does not make people less ignorant, I promise.
I think it's much more likely that they want their base to keep watching cable TV
It's easy to funnel money from the rubes. It was only 2 years ago that I learned some churches will automatically withdraw tithes from your bank account and they encourage you to set up "direct deposit" with them.
The entire economic model of these loons is built on the same principle: anything you use regularly, for "free" or built with taxpayer money, should instead become a subscription service you have to pay for, to a cabal of rich sociopaths. In the meantime, the actual free option is brain rotting propaganda to keep you voting for the rich sociopaths so they can repeat step 1. See: Fox News.
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