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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: commonone ✹✹ HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Regional and Small Banks
Date: 04/04/23 6:13 PM
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WiltonKnight: America and the world are more and more controlled by the Woke, the NeoCons the Liberals who love their advanced degrees, their overprices colleges, their cushy lives, and the dominion it gives them over people - - -and they want MORE. They want to control what we eat, think, say, drive, even the flush in our toilet or water in our laundry. The meat we eat or don't. What we drive.

Umm, huh?

--Republicans want complete control over every woman's body.

--GOP-controlled states have passed laws imposing new restrictions on voting.

--GOP-controlled states are pursuing laws to roll back LGBTQ rights.

--Republicans are censoring how public-school teachers can talk about race, gender, and sexual orientation.

--Red states are making it impossible for women to receive medical care after miscarriages.

--Republicans are banning books -- books that make as their primary subject the study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender issues or any form of non-procreative sex -- including titles by Nobel Prizing-winning authors.

--Republican representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, along with several dozen co-sponsors, recently introduced a federal version of the 'Don't Say Gay' legislation.

--Republicans want to criminalize gender-affirming care.

--Republicans want to criminalize any negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States.

--Republicans want to ban diversity training.

--Republicans in some states want to eliminate birth control at federally funded clinics.

--Because of the indictment of former president Trump, Jim Jordan wants to defund the DOJ and the FBI (which is interesting because neither is involved in the state-run indictment of Trump).


In addition, you don't know what you're talking about: the low-flow limit on toilets was instituted with the 1992 Energy Policy Act, signed into law by George H.W. Bush. George Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act which included new standards for household appliances and incandescent lamps.


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