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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: Umm ✹🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Starmer chooses his side: Iran
Date: 02/20/26 2:37 PM
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"Doesn’t matter.
Starmer is either in China’s pocket or someone else’s."
- Dumbass Dope

Trump: repeatedly harasses and insults our NATO allies and refuses to act like an ally to them

Dumbass Dope: Yeah!!! Finally someone putting America first.

Everyone with an IQ higher than room temperature: You know, we shouldn't treat our allies so badly. If we continue, they will stop being our allies and stop working with us. Furthermore, they will stop doing what the U.S. wants and start working more in their own best interests.

Trump: Continues to harass, insult our NATO allies and refuses to act like an ally to them.

Dumbass Dope: See, it is about time someone put NATO in their place and showed them they needed to stop leeching off of the U.S.

Trump: We are going to attack Iran for reasons I cannot articulate consistently. We are sending all sorts of military hardware to the Middle East.

NATO ally UK: No, you cannot use our bases to attack Iran. We know in the past it was a routine thing that never would have been in doubt, but you wanted us to become more independent of the U.S. so we are now doing what we think is in our own best interests. We don't think it is in our own best interests to get caught up in an American war with Iran.

Everyone with an IQ higher than room temperature: See Dumbass, we told you.

Dumbass Dope: The reason the UK is saying "No" to the U.S. cannot be because of what you "libruls" said, it must be because China or someone else got to Starmer.

What a fucking Dumbass. It is because of people like Dumbass Dope that the U.S. can no longer have nice things.
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