# NEW Stupid Republican Idea of the Day (Part 3)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 4, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588 "2023-07-04T21:42:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day-part-3/986588/1936 "2023-11-05T12:00:36Z")

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Touché and counter-touché. 😁

Now that’s the sort of witty wordplay and repartee that is sometimes missing from our new and more serious SDMB. As lamented over here:

> [@Your thoughts on the evolution of SDMB in time](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-thoughts-on-the-evolution-of-sdmb-in-time/991935):
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> Hi there, if you’d do a synthesis on how the SDMB has changed/evolutioned over the past 20 or 10 years … what would be your thoughts? Here are my gut-anwers: we got collectively old! - I still recall 20 or so years ago, there was a lot more “love/dating” advise seeked … now its mostly old-person-stuff (retirement, medical problems,…) there is a lot less traffic going on (I suppose social media wicked away part of it towards FB/TW/…) related to the traffic: there is less “widths” in posters ……

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