• throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    In a fascist’s mind, giving money to poor people is “classist”, giving a wheelchair to someone who can’t walk with their legs is “ableist”… 🙄

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      Trump is notoriously a zero sum true believer, despite it being routinely mocked, disproven, and sociopathic. He fully believes that help given to people who are not him is wasteful and harmful to him, at least indirectly.

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        He’s not zero-sum with Putin, though. He’s Putin’s lackey regardless of what it costs him or his precious reputation.

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    “massive broadband rollout” but they fail to mention that that rollout cost $200 billion and was thirty fucking years ago.

    If it wasn’t for the grants given I’d still be on Comcast paying $80/mo for 325Mbps on a 400 plan that was recently “upgraded” for an additional $10/mo without my consent (the upgrade was replacing 300+mi of lines that were destroyed in a winter storm, lines that were installed in the 90s). Now I have fiber for $50/mo, and Comcast can fuck off on their monopoly. Also, funny thing - their save attempt was to drop my speed to 300 and still have me pay $80/mo.

    Also, kudos to the reporter for calling him Mr. Trump as accolades are for those who earn them.

    • forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works
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      my tiny rural hometown in the middle of fucking nowhere southwest United States got 10Gbps fiber to every home in the town last year, and 1G fiber in 2021 as a result of Biden’s infrastructure bill. that fiber cost $45/month for 1Gbit with no data caps - before that, the best we could get was 50Mbit on rickety wireless service. Genuinely changed my life - being able to homelab (more) reliably got me into networking and pays my bills now. I hate how this new admin is so fucking myopic, or worse, malicious

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I think he thinks poor white people are evil and defective and that’s why they’re poor.

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        The funny thing is at this point it is pretty clear that rich people are rich because their empathy is defective.

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        suckers and losers, its the same thing he applies to veterans. the day after the 1/6 INSURRECTION, he called all of them Low-class.

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    This headline has come up a few times. Everyone seems to miss the glaringly obvious point that calling a program racist because it targets low income families is… racist.

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    He simply does not like it because it does not fill the billionaires pockets. Whether he calls it “racism”, “terrorism”, or “gobbledigook” does not make a difference.

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    Though Mr Trump called it racist, the words “race” or “racial” appear just twice in the law’s text: once, alongside “color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability”, in a passage stating that no groups should be excluded from funding, and later, in a list of covered populations, along with older adults, veterans, people with disabilities, English learners, people with low literacy levels and rural Americans.

    So it had nothing to do with race. But we need to cut waste. Nevermind the several trillion dollars just approved for the military, after we were already spending more than the next several countries combined.

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      He doesn’t actually know what the team ”racist” means, he just knows energizes his base to hear things called that. Whatever shocks his voters into action and belief is good publicity for him and his cronies.

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    tRUMP is a fucking idiot, proves it once again by making noises with his fat fucking pie hole.

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    I will down vote any and all news that referes to something that the Weird Cheeto in command said.

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      If you go to PieFed afaik you can filter posts by keywords and you even get asked if you want to see no posfs related to him or Muskolini, no need to troll downvote posts

      • Quazatron@lemmy.world
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        Sorry, I was having one of those days, I guess.

        I haven’t found a good way to filter by subject, so thanks for the tip, I’ll have a look.

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          No worries, by the way I found out you can filter posts by keyword just not on the default Lemmy interface but in some apps such as: Voyager, Connect, Sync, Summit, Mlem, Boost, Eternity, Thunder, Arctic and on web interfaces Tesseract and Voyager. Lemmy.world has m.lemmy.world where you might be able to use Lemmy with keyword filters