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Just one more Project 2025 guy.
Seriously, anyone who still thinks that Trump "doesn't know" or "didn't know" anything about Project 2025 is delusional and in denial.
Of course he fucking knows, that's why he's appointing the people involved! How dumb do you have to be to think that it isn't the case?
Well, dumb enough to allow the fucker to do it.
None of Trumps picks can successfully administer the departments they've been put in charge of. If he thought a person could actually run anything anywhere but into the ground they wouldn't have been chosen in the first place. Trump's goal is bedlam, every decision made, ever decision differed, chaos, all the time, every where, so he can do whatever he likes, with everyone so distracted by the failure of every institution, there's no time to organize to even attempt to hold his government accountable in any way. And he's got the house, senate and supreme court, just to make sure.
I don't think anyone in the world has ever experienced what the Western world is about to go through since maybe the last days of the Roman Empire, or The Third Reich
He's the author of the FCC chapter of Project 2025
Fascist.
I’m curious, what’s this from?
This is a hot fuzz reference
Been too long since I’ve watched it, apparently
Commenting as a radio amateur. Carr is a proponent of handing over any and all public use frequency bands to corporations. This may not be relevant to most people, but it's one more little "fuck you" to the American public.
I know very little about the amateur radio scene and don't quite understand the impact this would have.
When I lived in a Western US state, there was some bad weather and a child went missing. The amateur radio community heavily overlapped with first responders and search & rescue types. Completely on their own, they organized and managed a search, mustering hundreds of people efficiently, while keeping local law enforcement in the loop. Law enforcement simply didn't have the resources and relied on this volunteer hobbyist community for situations like this.
If public frequencies are turned over to corporations, would that eliminate the ability for such a volunteer effort to spring up? Would they have to pay for frequency access and be subject to whatever limits and censorship some corporation inflicts?
Under corporate ownership, I imagine that scenario would have gone more like:
Please donate $10 to help volunteer amateur radio enthusiasts use our frequencies to help search for missing people. For every $10 donation, we will volunteer 10 min airtime.
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That's bigly bad, and another sign that putin's puppets are out to fuck things up any way they can.
Aw man what a dick.
I've been considering getting into ham radios lately, too
I'll answer for 99% of Lemmy users: it's bad
Goes beyond bad. It's going be a horrible time for us all. Our nation is fucked and corporations are going bend us over and fuck us raw in the ass.
removing the Dept. of Education and
In place, consumers should be allowed to choose their own fact-checkers and filters, Carr said.
would be an interesting combo. all the salesmanships await.
Trump's pick to lead the FCC, Brendan Carr, wants Big Tech to start contributing to federal funds.
So they should pay taxes? Agreed.
and to be compelled not to censor content.
Oh fuck off.
and to be compelled not to censor content.
I think we all know that means removing any safeguards against misinformation.
They're absolutely going to ramp up censorship of anything anti-Trump.
They're going to promote "free speech" the same way Leon Musk does on Twitter.
Sounds like 2012 era Reddit is back on the menu.
Nah, this will be much worse as you know they will still be censoring the stuff conservatives don't like. They want free speech for hate and discrimination, like how Musk is handling twitter.
Trump admin gonna let corporate fucks us even harder if that's possible...
Beating will continue
Half of Lemmy would stop drinking water tomorrow if Trump said it's his pick for quenching thirst.
It'd be a lot easier if you just led with "I'm an idiot and my opinions are worthless".
I'm an idiot and my opinions are worthless. No disagreement there.
..but I still feel confident in saying that there's literally nothing Trump could do that would make the haters give him credit for.
You're right, I can't think of anything worthwhile he's done. So why expect anything now?
Some of that didn't age well. Did you read it? I'm curious what you think Trump had to do with this? Aside from stamping his name on things, which is what he does.
Well this is what I mean. Either what he did is not good or if it is, he didn't have any meaningful part in it.
Very few things are all good or all bad but I see this as a net-positive thing, or for the very least, step in the right direction.
I hate Trump as much as the next person, and virtually all the pandemic response was a shit show from the White House, but operation warp speed proved to be an actual good thing during a terrible time. It's very impressive we developed a vaccine so quickly and got us out of the pandemic faster because of it. It's kinda funny how one of his best accomplishments is the only thing his supporters will boo him about, and he largely can't take the credit for because of the backlash.
