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Summary

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has issued a memo prioritizing federal funding for communities with marriage and birth rates above the national average.

The directive, which applies to grants, loans, and contracts, also prioritizes projects benefiting families with young children.

A congressional aide criticized the policy, saying, “Considering fertility rates when prioritizing federal grants? We obviously have no idea what the full impact of that will be… It’s absolutely creepy. It’s a little ‘Chinese government.’”

The memo also blocks mask mandates and requires compliance with immigration enforcement.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been using Oligarchy since about 2009. I've been screaming at the top of my lungs since I fucken could that shit like Citizens United would lead to this and here we are. I'm not a fucken reactionary, I am exactly where I have been the last 15 fucken years. Biden didnt do any of this shit except uphold the status quo. This has been building for far longer than you or I have been alive. This is the fruition, the plan of Tzeentchian proportions coming to its fulcrum. And soon we will be nothing more than slaves if Disney State, or McDonald's. You dont have to believe me. Look at our newly enshrined Chancellor raiding the Treasury. Be upset, good. Its how you should feel. But point that shit at the people fucking us up, not me. You dont even know who you are talking at cause my stance on the recent election was always you vote for the genocides or bring the genocide home, too. Thats the shit we were faced with. Shit and more shit because our government wanted to lick corporate asshole for half a century.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago
[-] dx1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If I hadn't then I wouldn't have noticed you repeated yourself. STFU with this childish bullshit.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You can claim morality all you want but at the end of the day I now have to fight a fascist dictator so my daughters dont grow up in it. So thank you. Thank you so much. I just wanted to make games.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

At the end of the day, they attacked you with two hands and you chose to fight one of them and side with the other.

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