$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk (www.techdirt.com)
from PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to technology@beehaw.org on 12 Mar 2025 14:53
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Asafum@feddit.nl on 12 Mar 2025 15:40 collapse

“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…

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 12 Mar 2025 16:10 collapse

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

Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de on 13 Mar 2025 05:09 collapse

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@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2025 05:19 collapse

Which form of government does not have money?

within_epsilon@beehaw.org on 13 Mar 2025 09:26 next collapse

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@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2025 09:38 collapse

Ok. Which government was that?
Not a hypothetical government, an actual functional government that exists

kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 13 Mar 2025 09:56 collapse

Money does not equal capitalism. Money existed a thousand years before the invention of capitalism.

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2025 10:02 collapse

Exactly.