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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: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A good summary
Date: 09/16/25 1:57 PM
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It's not a big laugh, funnin' - it's a legitimate criticism. But what it's not is a literal claim that you are a member of the actual political organization that was the fascist party in the 1940's. It's not a "blood insult" - it's a rhetorical expression used to signify that you are advocating policies that a fascist government would advocate, but not that you're a member of the fascist party. It's like when you call people a communist - you're not claiming that they are part of the same literal organization that, say, killed millions of people in genocides in the Killing Fields or the Cultural Revolution or Stalin's Russia, just labelling what their views are.

When's the last time I called somebody a Communist?

But for some strange reason, you seem unable to recognize that the exchanges are mutual. There are more "left" posters here than "right" posters, so the volume is different - but you've consistently (and always) given as brutally and cruelly as you've gotten.

The exchanges are NOT mutual. I have stalkers that literally follow me from board to board hurling insults. So do the other righties. That's messed up.

"Brutally and cruelly"? Come on, man. You're overplaying your hand again. This statement is ridiculous on its face.

Again, I don't know why you seem to believe that other people are the ones who throw the first knee/punch.

It's called "lived experience".
I could pull literally dozens of posts and my responses to them, but it's not worth it.

Good day to you.
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