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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: Goofyhoofy ✸✹🐝🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: Civil Service Cynicism
Date: 07/08/24 9:00 PM
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I knew a guy who ran the IT shop at a major US university. He was absolutely convinced that when Y2K happened "the mob" was going to come for him. So he bought a military-grade Hummer, built a bunker at his house, deployed cameras and a remotely controlled set of tear gas cannisters he could fire off when they showed up at his gate.
The end was nigh!
Of course...nothing happened, and this guy ended up spending a ton of money readying his house for the Year 2000 apocalypse.
This thread reminds me of that.
leftists and those who get their "news" from the left wing bubble are CONVINCED that "the MAGAts" are going to go out in the streets and do...something.


This is pretty funny, seeing that there’s a multimillion dollar industry in getting people ready for the apocalypse, and they advertise exclusively on right wing media: Fox Business, Alex Jones, NewsMax, Salem Media, Fox News, and hundreds of prepper websites.

So thanks for your *one* story of somebody from 25 years ago, I’ll offer *thousands* from the last few weeks and months on the other side.

Are Democrats afraid? Sure. Trump has actually said out loud he’s out for revenge, and he uses that word. Last time he wouldn’t send or delayed sending disaster relief to states that voted for Hillary. He took money from the Pentagon budget to build his wall that Mexico was going to pay for, then didn’t build the wall anyway.

“I am your retribution.”

Imagine.
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