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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: The gov can open now + GOP beating
Date: 11/05/25 12:12 PM
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Interesting, would you mind delineating the structural problems?

Here's one, the lack of acknowledgement of reality by one of our political parties.

As evidenced by statements like this:
The largest one, the National Debt, the Repubs have been adding to for some time.

Why, it's as if democrats never govern, never spend money, never propose any legislation! They never pass massive programs that pump more inflationary money into the economy. At all.

And here's more delusion disguised as posting:
All we ever get in response isn't a real discussion, just sloganeering, posturing,

...a statement that came right on the heels of
give the rich tax breaks, and pretend everything is fine, except the government is now much to large, so it needs to be cut in half and drowned in a bathtub, starting with Medicaid, ACA, and SNAP, which will then lead to Social Security and Medicare. The rich get richer and the middle class on down get squeezed

The best part is, you're completely unaware of what you're writing. You toss out the casual slur, fallacy and "sloganeering" just like you were taking a breath. The level of cognitive dissonance and/or outright programming is *impressive*, I'll give you that.

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