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PhilipTheBucket ( PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat )  to Technology · 2 years ago

$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk

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$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk

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PhilipTheBucket ( PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat )  to Technology · 2 years ago
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We’ve often noted how there are $42.5 billion in broadband grants headed to the states courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. The GOP voted against the bill, but have repeatedly turned aro…
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    “It’s also worth noting that in many instances they’re renaming the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) to strip the word “equity” out. Because, you know, racist kakistocracy.”

    So it will be BAD, fitting…

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      kakistocracy is so apt, it might as well have been created for trumps terms in power.

      • Sauerkraut ( Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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        Reminder that this is still capitalism. Capitalism gave Elon Musk the wealth and power to destroy American democracy so the world’s most successful capitalist destroying democracy is capitalism in action.

        • TachyonTele ( TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 
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          Which form of government does not have money?

          • kattfisk ( kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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            Money does not equal capitalism. Money existed a thousand years before the invention of capitalism.

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              Exactly.

          • within_epsilon ( within_epsilon@beehaw.org ) 
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            From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs

            • Critique of the Gotha Programme (1875) by Karl Marx

            I do have disdain for the phases laid out by Marx, but this slogan is wisdom.

            • TachyonTele ( TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 
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              Ok. Which government was that?
              Not a hypothetical government, an actual functional government that exists

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