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spooky3

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9. Agree. I live in VA--not perfect--but when Amazon (also not perfect) was

Reply to RKP5637 (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 4, 2021, 11:10 AM

Feb 2021

shopping for a new site from their second headquarters, they were looking for places with good schools, lots of cultural things for their techies to do, etc., not places with the lowest taxes and nutcases in office.

People like the Kochs get away with their contentious politics because they sell so many consumer products, it’s harder to boycott them. I feel sorry for the employees of My Pillow (which is produced in Minnesota) because (a) they work for that jerk, and (b) I think many will lose their jobs.

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