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   pothead to J D   
   Re: What the buck? NYPD finally nabs bru   
   03 Sep 25 16:36:50   
   
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   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2025-09-03, J D  wrote:   
   > On 03 Sep 2025, pothead  posted some   
   > news:1099d74$14hs4$5@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-09-03, chine.bleu  wrote:   
   >>> Governor Swill wrote:   
   >>>> On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:20:17 -0700, "chine.bleu"   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Governor Swill wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> Communisim doesn't work.   
   >>>>>> Of course it doesn't.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Unless it does.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I recall something very wise being posted here many years ago.   
   >>>> "Communism only works when every member of the community knows every   
   >>>> other member of the Community."   
   >>>   
   >>> If New York wants to try, they are the ones who have to live with the   
   >>> decision.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Russia tried it.   
   >>>> Cuba tried it.   
   >>>> China tried it.   
   >>>> Vietnam tried it.   
   >>>> Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany   
   >>>> and Hungary all tried it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The operative word being "tried".   
   >>>   
   >>> So.......too Republican?   
   >>>   
   >> I agree.   
   >> Let the voters decide and if it works, well then maybe it will help   
   >> things. If not, move on to something else.   
   >   
   > Voters did that in California with Prop 36 and Democrats flat out   
   > refused to fund it.   
      
   Yep.   
   I remember that one. And similar can happen in NYC as well.   
      
   --   
   pothead   
      
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