The GOP thinks poor = lazy. They are completely out of touch with reality.
No, the GOP knows that in order to sustain their own laziness, they need a hard-working, desperate class of poor people, and anything that elevates them might mean that they might need to contribute closer to their fair share.
“There are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed to exist and to work. These landowners are idle, and I might therefore be expected to praise them. Unfortunately, their idleness is only rendered possible by the industry of others; indeed their desire for comfortable idleness is historically the source of the whole gospel of work. The last thing they have ever wished is that others should follow their example.”
― Bertrand Russell
They do keep causing fights to protect their way of life at the expense of everyone else.
Only the well-off republicans do. The poor republicans think that they’re poor because of immigrants.
Yeah, no good lazy immigrants that just want to steal our jobs and also never do any work and just steal our welfare money somehow and also… just, like, steal? I think? They’re bad.
/s
good ol’ Schrodinger’s immigrant : both lazy and hard-working until you actually meet one in person and the wavefunction collapses
Look at it this way: if we let Congress use our tax money for our benefit, then there would be less available for them to plunder, misappropriate, and generally hand out to their rich buddies.
No internet means the gullible masses will remain uninformed and vulnerable to manipulation.
The GOP wants a solid foundation of uneducated poor to exploit as the base workforce and voter base.
Cheap idiots to fuel their companies.
Not that I disagree with you, but the internet has also made a massive amount of people uninformed and vulnerable to
the internetmisinformation. See: any point in the last 20 years.Yeah “cheap broadband internet to rural America” basically means increasing the market for Fox News in HD.
That can’t be right, otherwise they would back it.
their conceit here is they spent 40 years saying the government can’t do anything so even if it helps them in the long run they’re opposed to the government doing anything but wasting money on an ideological level.
Fair.
Smartphones are more responsible for the widespread distribution of misinformation than the internet itself.
It seems that this is more about killing a popular program that Dems are responsible for, and could point to during election season as a reason to vote for them again.
The opposite thing happens more often
Gaslight
Obstruct
ProjectI have complicated feelings on this. On one hand, I believe internet access, like all utilities should be affordable, if not considered an entitlement.
On the other hand, this is just a subsidy program. The government is indirectly forking out cash to ISPs in a way that temporarily helps poorer customers. To be blunt, I find the idea of giving an industry as notoriously corrupt as telecom more government money to be insane. There should be price caps.
no fuck price caps
if theres a government, they should just be the network.
its not like the isp’s dont immediately hand every packet over to the NSA anyway.
Indeed, we should regulate the prices of necessary utilities, and internet has become one even if it’s not officially recognized as such. That alone wouldn’t be enough to cover people with the lowest of incomes, though.
The program discussed here does cap the subsidy, and at least some (maybe all?) internet providers that accept it now have service plans that stay within that amount. The result is effectively a price cap for people who are eligible.
. . . Amongst a boatload of other useful and good things the GQP is blocking.
Honestly, let’s stop acting like it’s even newsworthy. It only serves to extend the time they get away with it.
Why would NOT talking about it help anything…?
It helps remind the voters with goldfish memory and gives sources to use in discussions with people who keep on with the “Both Sides” bullshit.
Let’s keep it like that? Usually those people are people you wouldn’t want to have a conversation with?
Poor people? Are we gatekeeping the internet now?
I genuinely hope this is some twisted sense of humor. Otherwise, you can fuck right off.
It’s twisted humor.
It’s hard to tell these days. There are people out there who would say this unironically
I know, but just imagine, these remote places are where republican strongholds tend to be, they had 4 years of strong holding and more but didn’t do anything about it. Instead they focused on diminishing reproductive rights.
yeah but silicon valley has pretty good connections, and you dont seem to care, so maybe youre just being classist here?
