Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program
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Thune, Cruz complain that $30 discounts go to people who "already had broadband."

And pull themselves up by their bootstraps as usual?

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Both parties are the same!

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Just take it out of the oil and gas subsidies.

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Fucking poor people!! Have they tried NOT being poor!? Bunch of lazy entitled poors!! /s

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Imagine living in the 2020’s in the developed world and not realizing that internet access is a basic necessity.

Then imagine being the sort of person who would deny poor people basic necessities

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Trump 2024, lol

(Edit: just to clarify–if you want all that bullshit, Trump is your man 🙌)

(Edit 2: /s would apparently have been the appropriate indicator of my lack of seriousness. TIL!)

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if only there was a way to indicate sarcasm…

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I can’t believe I’ve done this

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cough healthcare cough

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Might want to get that cough checked out. …unless you’re in America, in which case you probably couldn’t afford it.

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Damn 30$ discount. How much do you pay in the states for broadband access. I pay about 40$ each month for a 500/500 connection.

I pay $100 a month in a rural area for 12down/500kup by bridging two DSL connections, the only thing I can get in the woods. I can’t watch Hulu and browse the Internet at the same time.

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just so i get that right, you pay 100$/month for 12mbit/s down?

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Correct. Insanity, right? Welcome to rural America.

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Always have money for war and bloodshed

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And whenever they have control, more tax cuts for the rich.

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It’s what Republican Jesus would do, fuck the poor. We could fund Israel’s war with all that wasteful spending!

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brainrot-level take incoming: jesus was a jew, it’s obvious

referring to tax cuts for the rich

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We’re is this technology related? It’s completely political - something I don’t want to see, but now also technology cannot be followed anymore, as most things here are political news with a tech keyword in the headline sadly :/

…broadband Internet has nothing to do with technology?

But isn’t broadband access one of the main requirements for using technology? I understand not wanting to interact with politics, but nothing in our life is truly separated from it.

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