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Posted: Jul 14, 2025 - 3:15am

 geoff_morphini wrote:

Too many fascists right now for my taste. My relatives fought to get rid of them.



Bit of a global phenomenon. Here in Europe there is a radicalised group of relatively wealthy people who fear their social position is slowly getting eroded as wealth distribution becomes more extreme between the 1% and the 99%. So they hit out at groups lower on the pecking order.. immigrants, the unemployed, other beneficiaries etc. because they still want to identify with the wealthy and are in denial that their position is slowly becoming untenable as wealth accumulates with the mega rich. 


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Posted: Jul 13, 2025 - 8:49pm

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
I love it here.
Warts and all.



Too many fascists right now for my taste. My relatives fought to get rid of them.

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Posted: Jul 13, 2025 - 11:43am

Just saw a news interview with a woman who owns an RV Park on the Guadalupe that is completely wiped out. There's no way she can make any revenue. Yet the Fed directed her to contact the SBA and take out a loan for 4% interest to rebuild, which she and her husband would have to pay back.The implication being: No FEMA funds to help. Nothing. She was shocked and crying. Small Business owners who were tired of paying income taxes while Bezos/Zucks/Musk practically pay nothing will be crushed in this 'you're on your own' ethos.
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Posted: Jul 13, 2025 - 8:40am

 RazzCat wrote:

Observing from outside your USA oven, sure seems to the rest of us that you're in a very serious decline due to your Trump government stripping your assets to enrich the leader and his loyal acolytes while the rest of you can 'eat cake'. 

Too bad so many are still blithely ignoring what's in front of them...


Can't have a Phoenix story without going up in flames. <- optimist

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Posted: Jul 12, 2025 - 4:40pm

 GeneP59 wrote:
I love my country. I just hate the people living in it. NOW GET F OUT!
Now you know why I hide in the basement.








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Posted: Jul 11, 2025 - 5:47pm

I love my country. I just hate the people living in it. NOW GET F OUT!
Now you know why I hide in the basement.


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Posted: Jul 11, 2025 - 3:45pm

 Red_Dragon wrote:


My wife and I would leave if we could. Seriously. This country is fucked.
I love it here.
Warts and all.


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Posted: Jul 11, 2025 - 12:56pm

 RazzCat wrote:

Observing from outside your USA oven, sure seems to the rest of us that you're in a very serious decline due to your Trump government stripping your assets to enrich the leader and his loyal acolytes while the rest of you can 'eat cake'. 

Too bad so many are still blithely ignoring what's in front of them...






My wife and I would leave if we could. Seriously. This country is fucked.
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Posted: Jul 11, 2025 - 12:11pm

Not fun to hear, but perfectly understandable. I'm frightened for the US under Six Bankruptcies, Thirty-Four Felony Convictions, "you speak beautiful english" Gemini Yo Yo.
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Posted: Jul 11, 2025 - 5:16am

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:
Yeah.
It's really tough out there. 



there there even

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Posted: Jul 10, 2025 - 9:04pm

Yeah.
It's really tough out there. 
RazzCat

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Posted: Jul 10, 2025 - 8:57pm

Observing from outside your USA oven, sure seems to the rest of us that you're in a very serious decline due to your Trump government stripping your assets to enrich the leader and his loyal acolytes while the rest of you can 'eat cake'. 

Too bad so many are still blithely ignoring what's in front of them...