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Another great fuck you to the less financially able citizens of this country by the GOP. When the hell will we learn?
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
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Never. Have you seen how small our public education budget is!?
When Fox News stops doing things like telling those citizens that shutting down this program is Biden's fault.
Impoverished people are easier to lead and the GOP can't lead themselves out of a brown paper bag, so...poverty it is.
“Fuck you lower middle class. Don’t forget to vote for GOP!” - GOP
Lower middle class: "See? Both sides are the same!"
It doesn't work unless you wave the flag.
Except you know they'll just turn around and go "ThIs HaPPeNeD uNdEr BiDeN!"
I'm completely for shutting down the affordable connectivity program
The ISPs should have to provide the service at a minimal rate to same said families and also offer 100/100 minimum service to anyone in the regions they operate. It shouldn't be subsidized by the government, it should literally be the cost of doing business for the business. Write up a bill, make it law, giant fines for not keeping a certain level of 9s in terms of availability and capacity.
Fuck government subsidies to big companies with huge profit margins. I work in IT, I know how the technology works. I know what it costs. I know that they do not need to charge anywhere near as much as they charge and they'd still make a killing, even with all the boots on the ground collecting paychecks.
I’m completely for shutting down the affordable connectivity program
The ISPs should have to provide the service at a minimal rate to same said families and also offer 100/100 minimum service to anyone
Maybe reverse the order of those ideas, so as not to make the lives of people who are already struggling even harder.
in the regions they operate.
ISPs would then have an incentive to avoid operating in poor neighborhoods. Mitigating that could be tough, given that internet service deployments are already patchy in many places.
Another approach might be municipal broadband, which big ISPs have been lobbying against for ages, often successfully.
Come on, man! I just applied to it!
I was going to get denied anyway, but you miss 100% of the shots you don’t…yadda, yadda…
Finishing the quote was less words.. it was just "take" lol
It’s the principle of the thing!
The principle of the yadda yadda yadda, you mean!
What a bunch of assholes...
Dems when in power: There's is nothing we can do.
Dems when out of power: we aren't in power There's nothing we can do.
Republicans are like hitting the gas to the right and fascism, and dems are like switching to neutral and coasting.
D's when controlling govt: Create stuff like this (plus terribly advertise it). R's when controlling govt: Kill stuff like this (plus tax cuts for wealthy, destroy govt). Very predictable. Easy choice.
I get that people want to see D's fight harder and not be a bunch of weak cowards, though.