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bucolic_frolic

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1. Will the impact ripple into the private sector?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Nov 5, 2025, 08:40 PM

Nov 5

There's already some impact but more will follow until the shutdown ends.

They are playing with fire. During WWI, Czarist Russia fell because of worker and military strikes. The various units would form committees and pledge support for this or that faction - White Russians, Bolsheviks, the existing Kerensky government. "Peace, land, bread" was their slogan in time of strife. To state it simply, society broke down and allowed the radical Bolsheviks to seize power through propaganda and strong-arming.

Is that the goal here? Make everything dysfunctional so the right can really put a stranglehold on the country?

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Opinion - The government may not open again this year, thanks to Speaker Johnson [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 5 OP

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