What the S? 
I think someone’s posting from his phone - it’s almost like English, but not quite.
I’m still trying to figure out who or what “The S” is, and in what way it’s emulating the Soviet Union.
It seems to have something to do with light bulbs that somehow pollute the planet Mercury…
Is this all a big whoosh? Is there anyone who genuinely doesn’t know what the S is?
- stops molesting rabbit. Raises hand *
You just bought crappy toilets. (pun intended).
Seriously… there’s a Kohler model at Home Depot for like $165 that will flush ANY monstrous dump that I’ve produced in the past year, and more toilet paper than my wife can use at a sitting.
I think this thing would flush a softball, and it was dirt cheap.
Beyond that, it’s not “Soviet style central planning.” If it was, the DOE or whatever pertinent Federal agency would be setting production quotas, prices, distribution, etc…
All they’re doing is mandating that some light bulbs can’t be used, or that a car maker’s fleet has to make a certain minimum MPG, or subsidizing certain industries in what they perceive to be the interest of the nation.
If you want to really get pissed off, read about the protectionist sugar tariffs we have in place.
In Soviet Russia, The S emulates you!
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The "Free Market " gave us the biggest financial meltdown in the last 80 years. Not to mention the auto manufacturers bailout.
But you just keep believing the nonsense.
Pull the other one, it has bells on.
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I’m pretty sure it’s a bit more complicated than that.
Change your diet, not the toilet…
Maybe the S is half of SS, or possibly half of the SS.
I see what U did there.
My low-flush toilet can flush twelve golf balls at once. Twelve! They even proved it in the in-store demo!
Now I have to get those golf balls out of my septic tank somehow…
I think the more pressing concern would be to figure out why you are shitting golf balls.
You decide. Is it a woosh, or did I really believe he was complaining about light bulb pollution of the planet Mercury.
Why were you shitting golf balls?!:eek:
Great user name/post combo!
Please explain for the benefit of us grubby unwashed foreigners. 
Wouldn’t that be the “С”?
The thread title is supposed to be “Why Is The US Emulating Soviet Communism?”
The answer of course is that we’re not. Our system is more Maoist.
Ooh, new word. I’ll take it.
I have it on good authority that this is being done specifically to defuse Commissar’s anti-‘Empire’ arguments in GD and The Pit.
Yes, it is a stain on the fabric of the nation. By making our opinions known, however, we the people will scrub the whole deal. No spin cycle will stop it; we will put our elected officals through the wringer until DC is cleaned up once and for all.
Setting aside for a moment the OP’s blatant mischaracterizations of the issues under discussion, I take it the OP likewise objects to things like mandatory testing of new drugs and the process of certificating passenger aircraft. After all, don’t these things cost vast amounts of money and inhibit free market rights?
I hear you, and I fully support your intention to preserve our freedoms by insisting on using as many gallons per flush as you want. To the barricades!
He’s not chewing adequately.
Low flush toilets work fine for those people who can wipe their butt with one square of paper. Incandescent bulbs are being phased out by law (attempts to repeal that are underway), beginning with the 100 watt version scheduled to be gone as of Jan '12.