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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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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 32 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Creatives: produces warnings

Conservatives: Hey check out this cool instruction manual I found!

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel, Don't Create The Torment Nexus

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it -2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Despite whoever is pushing this, doesn't it make sense? Communities with a lot of children need public transport more than others.

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

Said marriage rate too... that shouldn't be a factor, just a bias marker. More kids? Yeah public transit, more people? Yeah public transit. More public transit. This is just cherry picking it.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The money that is cut from welfare programs isn't going to be spent on helping people and we all know it.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 39 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This is going to benefit communities with a lot of hispanic families, lmao.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They'll find some way to draw up a beneficial neighborhood map that excludes black and brown neighborhoods.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe they’ll even draw the lines in red

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

They would probably make the lines blue, because they are trying to continue that, and avoid the possibly negative SEO of Red Lining.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 140 points 16 hours ago (28 children)

Remember how all the protest voters told us how Harris would have been the exact same? Something about the DNC not offering a candidate that would be any better than trump?

Yeah… Don’t believe them when they try to tell you that they didn’t go out of their way to help make this happen.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 62 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Yep. Quite a few of them have gone quiet, I've noticed. Not one of them has apologized for their cloying sanctimony before the election, no matter how wrong it was.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 37 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

They have gone quiet because the project is now wound down. Dufus is in the white house, so they have been moved to a new task.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 13 hours ago

They've moved on to directly attacking trans people and bipoc

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. Well, most of them. Some seem to still be sticking with, and even doubling down, on the stupid and immoral position, although they frame it as being morally superior to everyone else. 🤣

[–] dx1@lemmy.world -4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

You guys sound like the bots to me. Defending the genocidal politicians and the system that keeps them in power. That stain will never wash off, no matter what shit you try to sling at everyone else. Moral compromise like yours is why this world is broken.

[–] confusedbytheBasics@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Palestinian leaders begged US citizens to vote for Kamala Harris. Sometimes the lesser of two evils is the correct choice.

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 176 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Prioritize funding for places with higher birth rates, you say? So... Communities with loads of immigrants. Got it.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 100 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 68 points 17 hours ago

"I was told there would be a medal".

Shamelessly clipped from History.com:

This Day In History: December 16

1938 Hitler establishes Mother’s Cross to encourage German women to procreate

On December 16, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage women of "pure" German origin to increase the size of their families and grow the population of the Third Reich.

The Nazis started such encouragement early. When members the League of German Girls (a wing of of the Hitler Youth movement) turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, gold medals were awarded to women with eight children or more, silver medals to women with six to seven, and bronze medals to women with five. The crosses were distributed between 1938 and 1944.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 34 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Is there some problem with underpopulation? The qons were always saying "America is full" when it comes to refugees.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They're just going to need more people in general, so they can let us die sooner and replenish the workforce.

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

This. They need fodder

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 21 points 15 hours ago

Gotta be the rwhite color...

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 92 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Not gonna fix old broken roads unless y'all fucking and making babies like rabbits. Florida? NO ROADS FOR YOU! Texas? NO ROADS FOR YOU!

The memos of this administration will go down in history as the dumbest shit ever penned. Even worse the nupties who wrote them will get cushy private sector jobs lobbying or something later.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 32 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

dumbest shit since Bush

which was dumbest since Reagan

which was dumbest since Nixon

you'd better believe it can get worse.

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[–] Australis13@fedia.io 66 points 19 hours ago (12 children)

I feel like they've buried the lead.

In addition to its directives related to marriage and babies, the Transportation Department’s memo blocks recipients of federal money from implementing “mask mandates,” a reference to requirements that transit agencies followed to limit the spread of infection during the height of COVID-19.

The memo also requires recipients to comply with federal immigration enforcement in order to receive funding — the latest effort by the administration to target undocumented immigrants, conduct mass arrests and deportations, and deny federal transportation funds to so-called sanctuary cities.

So (1) no ability for public transport systems to implement measures to stop pandemics (which will be important since avian flu is around the corner) and (2) no federal funding for transport to sanctuary cities (of which Washington D.C. is arguably one).

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Both of those are illegal. The president cannot impose extra strings on federal funding.

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