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   From: jdr@chi.meh   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 23:25:29 +0100   
   -hh  wrote:   
      
   > Socialism fails  wrote:   
   > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:59:35 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom   
   > >  wrote:   
   > >      
   > >> -hh wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   > >>      
   > >>> pothead  wrote:     
   > >>>> On 2025-12-30, Governor Swill  wrote:     
   > >>>>> …   
   > >>>>>    
   > >>>>> While Republicans may rejoice in the loss of allies, rising   
   > >>>>> inflation and unemployment, Presidential support for   
   > >>>>> dictatorships, disdain for democracies, and the falling value   
   > >>>>> of the dollar, the rest of us do not.     
   > >>>>    
   > >>>> I'm doing fine.   
   > >>>> Hope you are as well.     
   > >>>    
   > >>> Whistling past the “K” shaped economy.  /s     
   > >>    
   > >> Indeed. It's the people at the bottom of the K that get hurt the   
   > >> worst. Any deficit in their finances is proportionately more   
   > >> devastating.   
   > >>    
   > >> Some of us have real sympathy for that situation. Others, not so   
   > >> much.     
   > >    
   > > Chances are good that your "real" sympathy is for your own   
   > > situation.     
   >    
   > How much have you donated to your local food bank this year?   
      
   How your career in virtue-signaling going?   
      
   Get lots of crumpled faces?   
      
      
   > As much as you like to ridicule collectivism, there’s invariably self   
   > interests.     
      
   Of course there are, collectivism is just facsism for the masses.   
      
      
   > Reducing poverty also reduces crime, for example, and it’s   
   > cheaper than hiring personal security guards.   
   >    
   >    
   > -hh   
      
   Cheapest of all...Smith & Wesson.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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