The GOP will see this is a horrible blow to the economy
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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Clean air is bad for business
Depends on the business. Hospitals? Yes. Tourism? No.
And overall a healthy population tends to be a lot more productive than an unhealthy one.
It is! Not only does the coal processing plant no longer increase GDP, but all the sick people have to pay doctors, the medical companies and so forth. /s
We can't poison people while taking their labor value and then collect the fuck you haha you're sick and can't pay tax? Communism bad librul tardz
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Possibly because I was using VPN?
A VPN which shares an endpoint with a lot of bots might do it, as will running a "privacy" browser extension which strips the gift token off the URL, or disabling Javascript