Something something states rights, lol
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Something something free market
Small government says what?
Something something price of eggs
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Small consolation, but I expect Trump voters will be disproportionally affected.
The states and ISPs need to make noise about this, so MAGA knows what they're missing.
Almost every bit of news regarding Trump is bad. He wants them in the dark.
He= Christian Nationalists. Project 2025 didn't come from his delusional mind, he's just the one with the keys.
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We've already paid for nationwide broadband, and the corpos took the money, did a fraction of the work, and called it done. I don't see what this latest infusion of cash-to-corpos is going to do for the average Joe.
The USA isn't run by or for the average Joe. Average Joes are human resources to be mined, plundered, exploited and discarded as their rulers see fit.
We didn't just pay for it, we also gave up the public TV spectrum in order to make it happen. That's why your old-school TV antennas won't work anymore.
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Release the Epstein files.
This will most likely hurt rural voters, who overwhelmingly supported Donny Dipshit, the most, given the expense of expanding Internet availability to rural communities.
It really is hard to overstate how badly the average Republican voter shot himself in the vote. Not that they care.
Doesn’t matter it will always be Biden’s fault on Fox and they won’t question it
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Trump rapes more than women, now he has a whole nation.
And sometimes even little girls.
You stupid fucks here were crying so hard about "Genocide" and Killer Kamala that you let an actual threat to the world gain the most powerful position in the world. Fuck all of you. This is your fault
Lets not forget the waves of grown-ass men who raged and rallied every time a video game developer like, made a lesbian protagonist with realistic proportions and swore to burn the world down before anyone would tell them what kinds of games they should and should not play...
Who are now utterly and completely silent about porn controls and internet gatekeeping sweeping across the nation as a direct result of the dictator regime they memed into power.
I genuinely would give up video games and internet browsing forever if it meant making some incels shriek in their basement that they can't fap to My Little Pony porn anymore.
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Lmfao or what
Also, this is transparently an effort to push people towards Starlink. They are trying to holistically control the flow of information to as great a proportion of the population that they can.
Aside from being run by an absolute asshole, the realities of the speed and lag will luckily prevent me from ever ever getting starlink.
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REMOVE HIS HEAD FROM HIS BODY
Pay higher so we can be tracked like in FL, where you have to show ID to watch porn?
What a fucking joke
BTW, whats the typical price for internet access these days in the US? Havent been there since 2024.
I pay $140/mo for ~300 down / 100 up. I found another provider with similar bandwidth for $50/mo, but I self-host a couple things, and they wouldn't assign me an IPv6 prefix or allow port forwarding. Also, my son complained because his games had 70 ms ping on the less expensive provider.
Edit: I'm in a big city, I think it's even worse in rural areas.
Wow. I live in Denmark and I pay 150 dollars every 4 months for 1Gb up and down.
You guys are getting scammed in the US.
You guys are getting scammed in the US.
In every possible thing, yes. US citizens are nothing but wallets and wage slaves for the rich.
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How in the world does this clown even still have supporters?
The US education system has created idiots. The religious cult has done everything they can to destroy actual education.
That is unfair. US Public schools are often okay. US Private schools are sometimes okay. US Home schools... I heard one kid was okay.
The more overworked people are the more willing they are to take intellectual shortcuts and not think independently. One of those shortcuts is to mistake a contrarian opinion as independent thought. Throw in a contrarian leader into an economy where people are overworked and this is the result.
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What the cuck authority does he have to do that? None.
An and Trump is in the Epstein files
Turns out if the worst that can happen is a judge saying "Hey don't do that" a few weeks later, you have unlimited authority.
Comcast must have done a shit ton of bribes this year.
It doesn't take a shit ton to bribe Trump. A compliment and a million bucks will get ya anything.
They're probably trying to stop low-income people from having some means of learning about the world (at least until the Trump Administration manages to control their part of the Internet like China does) and reducing their ability to organise en masse.
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I guess its time to start hacking and cloning cable modems again. Gotta fight these fuckers somehow.
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Having lived in the mid level of an NYC apt block: offer your neighbors upstairs and downstairs their own wifi network off your ddwrt/openwrt router, split the fast internet 3 ways and still pay less than any "low price" plan.
Doesn't take much to setup, and just ask them to Venmo or whatever. You're not a landlord, you're taking from the shit-ass ISPs and spreading the wealth while all of you profit equally.
Don't forget to bring your own modem every chance you get. Not only to save a few bucks, but the ISP loses a lot of visibility of your LAN when you do.
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Violence.
This is like comic book evil Jesus.
Good to see internet providers getting what they bought the media for
Back in high school, I learned that the House of Representatives controlled the governments' purse strings. When did that change to the President controlling? Granted that the current batch of republican reprobates in the House would likely do whatever Trump says, but they don't even get asked or vote on it now.
When did that change to the President controlling?
When the president decided that he can do whatever he wants because nobody with the authority to stop him is willing to do so.
Aus we are going to get 2g up 200mb down in sept. Currently its a joke of 1g up 40mb down for $110 a month. But the reaosn for that is 2013 and the coalition being shit heels and the australian voter also being a shit heel
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