Even a town I used to live in with Donald voters, more than half the town couldn’t get speed over 5 Mbps - they had to use Satellite. And the other half? We had over 800 Mbps. 2 years after Covid, the other town finally has it. Ridiculous.
Funds allocated throughout the years have NEVER actually gone to providing/increasing broadband in rural areas.
Not true, just got 2Gb fiber in rural WI through a federal grant allocated 2 years ago.
Not entirely, my ISP is a family owned regional cable company and they took the grant and have rolled out fiber across multiple counties.
I get what you’re saying about the mega corps, yeah they just pocket a lot of the money. But the smaller ISPs are being smart and investing in their infrastructure to be able to complete.
Frontier took the money and said, “Watch us trounce the big boy monopoly here”
Never say never. There are actually several areas where I’ve seen fiber build out from government grants.
That said, they are EXCEPTIONALLY rare and typically scumbag ISPs pocket the money with no consequences, since nobody who writes these laws sets up consequences for failing to deliver.
Yeah but does Iran have nukes? Checkmate!
“America First” is one of his biggest lies
It was always a damn lie with the Republicans. “wE nEeD to HeLP OuR CiViLiANs FiRST.” They mean rob them first.
chanted by the same people flying “Don’t tread on me” flags. what a joke.
“They say America first, but what they mean is America next!”
Can’t spell America without ME.
Not really a lie, just needs to come with a history lesson. The America First Committee was a fascist political group. Once you know that then it makes a lot more sense.
I got mine, even though it’s 1 gb down 300 mb up, but it’s still rural fiber.
taxes subsidized it and we get to pay extra https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/11/27/americans-fiber-optic-internet/
I would think the tech bros running things would want more people to train their models on.
Capitalism perverts all good intentions. It twists them to make a quick buck.
It’s a cancer on society.
That article has a pretty extreme example: guy on 21 acres atop a steep ridge who doesn’t have phone service or running water or probably any infrastructure. There’s going to be people you can’t reach with fiber and this may be one of them. We can argue about that when the other 99% has fast internet service
Years ago my neighborhood was wired for fiber, well all except for 24 of our houses because it wasn’t profitable, copper still came on our side though… Now that’s been turned off so the 24 of us have the option of cable or wireless.
Having to stare at a coil of fiber across the street on the end of the pole (not even buried fiber, its on the damn poles) while I enjoy overpaying for 48Mbps… so fast it must be high speed (seriously debated a wireless link to the house across the street but I’m a stickler for the rules).
Even in more urban areas …. My ex asked for help getting internet service in her new condo, and I found out the entire town has fiber, except her condo development. They have an exclusive contract with ComCast and she can’t do anything about it
So very glad I got to benefit from this 3 years ago, it is a true shame if it goes away. I get to be rural and work at a company in the city.
All of whom voted for this. So.
Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? No.
It doesn’t matter what rural areas vote for. They’re all gerrymandered to shit just like the cities are.
The political elite on both sides have a good chunk of us fighting each other instead of them. So, congrats on falling for the same bullshit.
Republican (but lets be fair here, most) states basically just threw their hands up and left it up to the “experts” (or their friends in the cable/local phone monopoly) for planning BEAD funds. Really it’s a failure of American politics and a case study on how baseline corrupt the average state is.
The only place that has actually gotten its shit together is, of all places, North Dakota, they have almost universal fiber access across the whole state, if you have power, you probably have fiber. All of contiguous America could have the same, only local politics stands in the way.
Utah has also built out locally owned open-access municipal fiber, despite the best attempts from the Comcast/CenturyLink lobby and state legislature to kill it; among other projects in WA, TN, IA.
Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? No.
I’ve seen more than my share of “red” counties. They’re only gerrymandered when there’s an obvious threat to red state hegemony. Full of good people who fall for stupid lies every goddamn time despite the world of information available to them. The FoxNews miasma that hangs like suffocating humidity in every auto garage and bleak box store parking lot. The fist of Jesus in every lifted truck window.
Take your “both sides” bullshit to someone else.
Why do you think the Democratic party, once well known as the party of the working class, no longer holds that distinction?
Who says it doesn’t?
There’s your answer.
Election results say it doesn’t. Because they’ve alienated a huge majority of the working class. Because blue collar workers overwhelmingly vote against the Democratic party in the US.
You can call them all uneducated buffoons all you want, but in doing so, you are only proving my point that the Democratic Party has alienated them totally.
Blue collar workers overwhelmingly bought Reagans plastic coated flag-waving bullshit and started voting against their interests consistently. By the time Fox News and talk radio rolled around they were completely fucking brainwashed. Still are today.
I don’t see how calling them undereducated buffoons is an argument for or against whether the Democrats have alienated them either way.
And for the record, they were only too happy to vote for flag waving white Jesus over the future of themselves or the country. They alienated themselves.
Tell me again what the voter turnout percentage was?
The vast majority of us are so used to our voices not being heard that we don’t even bother voting. It doesn’t change anything.
You keep talking about how they voted “for” this and that, without even understanding that most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything at all.
because the republican party has split the lower and middle classes with fear mongering and emotionally charged cultural wedge issues. e.g. abortion, gun control, “war on christianity”, immigration, vaccine “freedom”, etc etc.
