almost there. I’ll lend you the money to buy it back from me and we keep lending each other money to buy it back from each other until we win capitalism. HAY HYNIX, YOU WANNA GET IN ON THIS!?

The US taxpayers literally paid TWICE to privatized telecom companies (telco) to run fiber optic to the home, once in the 90s and again that last early “surge” of FTtH(fiber to the home aka “last mile”) when google started competing direct against telcos that would not get the lead out so they all buried a fuckton of (dark)fiber that they then kept artificially turned off and sat on their excess bandwidth instead of releasing that excess supply to the market to do bare standard minimum of using their good taxpayer funded fortune AND their privatized, ridiculously gained profits from the calculable increase of use in the information age YOY to offer it for reasonable prices. We could all be on $25 a month or less no cap 1GBps fiber in many places but again, the market forces at work at this point seem more actively just hostile to the rest of us on ground level here now. It’s a fascinating and also infuriating subject as an ex-IT person that helped build out this infrastructure that only could watch as it all remained dark. I was stuck in rural nowhere where we still had a small local telephone cop-op. They took that money, laid fiber and sat on their asses with it while they charged exorbitant rates for 56k dial up service while Netzero and the such took dome of that broadband at a time when independent local ISPs were cropping up, teaming modems and some fiber to offer a service with a saner price structure and this was all before data caps and bandwidth throttling was evenr a thing because all you needed was single rack in strateic locations , set the equipment up and basically forget it with the only fixed costs was your mainline fiber, equipment, colocation etc and such yet they STILL offered 100% FREE dial-up internet, co caps off those systems(of course subsidized by ad networks).

htps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund

The DNC have put up competent leaders against an increasingly incompetent voting public. Is that “tampering” to you? DO you mean when they switched midgame to wedge in Kamala midstream because they saw the writing on the wall with Biden and didn’t whole-hog with him and you stayed home because she wasn’t primaried? ARe we really doing this? BIllionaire social media megamachines then amplified manufactured dissent online disproportionate to real discussions with real people? Your broad opinion parroted by others many places online but not in the same frequency of discussions in any real life discussions I’ve had as well is not entirely wrong and I’m not dismissing it was unprecedented but the general reaction of revolt our only chance at opposition party to burn it down mid fucking race in the last leg of election year did amplify to give us Trumps 2nd term too! Think about this. Congratulations, you played yourself.