There is a grain of truth in all of that.

It was essentially an IT department under the executive branch, that I don’t think anybody had even been staffed at since September. Trump basically renamed it and gave it a new mission statement.

They picked a department, and converted it into Doge. They did this essentially to bypass congressional approval, because the department was already there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service?wprov=sfla1

Sounds like Elon is a good candidate for addict camp.

I’m not arguing we don’t have a communication problem. Or that we don’t have an education problem in this country.

My point stands, the poverty rate for black households in Alabama is 150% greater than the white poverty rates.

Clawing back LIHEAP funding and other social services are going to hit vulnerable populations first.

Yes, some Trump voters are likely to be hurt by this. But far more single black mothers will statistically be affected.

So comments like yeah if they could read, show the commenter did not read the room. Or maybe they did, and we as a community are so happy to watch leopards eat people’s faces, we’re forgetting about who this is most likely hurting the most.

Consider that this is likely hitting single black mothers, as it’s the low income energy assistance program that’s being affected.

Maybe not a great comment hey?

It’s the low income energy assistance program that is not paying its grants. And when we look at poverty rates in Alabama, it’s statistically likely that this is hitting single black mothers rather than Trump supporters.

Let’s not all have such a hard-on for leopards eating faces that we lose sight of who is actually being affected.

The state received $53 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal year 2025 as part of the regular yearly allocation for the LIHEAP program.

LIHEAP is the low income energy assistance program. Just to give y’all an idea of who this is affecting.

So you got banned for making a bad faith argument rooted in western brainworms?

Yeah that sounds like hexbear.

Y’all have such a hate hardon for hexbear you can’t hear the irony.

And if they did change it to something like tanki.cn, it would be an ironic jab at y’all who already think that anyway.

And that’s not what the article says. It says that there is a correlation between the two.

I’m trans and not autistic. But I do see that correlation in a number of my trans and autistic peers. Up thread there were some very good comments on why this might be from posters that I assume are both trans and autistic.

Well that’s what Trump is trying to do so.

I guess you and the fascist are getting your wish.

Seriously though, gender is older than Homo sapiens. It’s about division of reproductive labor and the classes that humans form around that

The gender binary needs to go. Gender inequality needs to go. But people are going to have gender as long as we have class distinctions and we are a long way from outgrowing that.

Yes, I literally feel the pain of others. Not as though it happened to me but enough to wince if I see most animals get hurt (aside from insects).

I’m more sensitive than normal though. Hyper-awareness from abuse. It’s also isolating and lonely, even though I’m not on the spectrum.

They voted to hurt me. If they hurt themselves in the process, I’m allowed to enjoy it.

I said it isn’t law yet. And the article states that the law is forthcoming, and that Google does not intend to follow the forthcoming law.

Assuming you’re asking in good faith, the code is here.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-disinformation

Paid fact-checkers spread across all member states.

“The new Code will extend fact-checking coverage across all EU Member States and languages and ensure that platforms will make a more consistent use of fact-checking on their services. Moreover, the Code works towards ensuring fair financial contributions for fact-checkers’ work and better access to fact-checkers to information facilitating their daily work.”

Essentially, everything will have Snopes attached to it. Including political ads and other forms of advertising. As well as more blatant propaganda.

It’s set to become mandatory, i.e. law. According to the article.

And this isn’t a free speech issue. It’s about disinformation. Folks can say what they want, but a political ad needs to clearly be a political ad. And disinformation can’t be profit motivated.

It’s all in the article you just linked. You can say what ever you want, but if it’s bullshit, Google will need to flag it or face fines.