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Originally posted by JimL View PostIf you'd actually like to understand the difference, look at Denmark.
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostI dunno. Let's see how Super Tuesday plays out after people have had a chance to criticize him. As has been pointed out, Sanders pretty much has the leftist vote sewn up, while the non-Sanders/Warren voters split the remainder. Bloomberg is mostly a threat to the Buttigieg/Klobuchar campaigns, and taking votes from them may give Sanders the edge he needs to run away with it all.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostEven if he wins a majority of the delegates, if it doesn't cross the 50% threshold then it goes to a second round of voting, and that's when the knives really come out.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostDenmarkbegs to differ with you.
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So many on the right like to say "those countries aren't socialist!" - but the moment anyone suggests adopting even just a small part of that non-socialist "Nordic model," the right almost instantly starts screaming "...but socialism! Move to Venezuela if you love socialism so much you pinko commie liberal socialist!" It's getting kind of ridiculous.Last edited by CMD; 02-20-2020, 01:07 PM.
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Originally posted by CMD View PostReminds me of this image:
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So many on the right like to say "those countries aren't socialist!" - but the moment anyone suggests adopting even just a small part of that non-socialist "Nordic model," the right almost instantly starts screaming "...but socialism! Move to Venezuela if you love socialism so much you pinko commie liberal socialist!" It's getting kind of ridiculous.
It was a Democrat fanboi who labeled Denmark "Socialist" in this case, and what is typically suggested for adoption (and objected to) is the socialist part of the generally non-socialist "Nordic model".Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostWell....
It was a Democrat fanboi who labeled Denmark "Socialist" in this case, and what is typically suggested for adoption (and objected to) is the socialist part of the generally non-socialist "Nordic model"."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostI'm not so sure your average American is willing to make that distinction, and there does seem to be an awful lot of convenient conflating of concepts. I saw a conservative the other day argue that even public police forces are socialism, using the logic that if they're government funded... Fortunately, most wouldn't go that far.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by CMD View PostReminds me of this image:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]42916[/ATTACH]
So many on the right like to say "those countries aren't socialist!" - but the moment anyone suggests adopting even just a small part of that non-socialist "Nordic model," the right almost instantly starts screaming "...but socialism! Move to Venezuela if you love socialism so much you pinko commie liberal socialist!" It's getting kind of ridiculous.
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostI saw a conservative the other day argue that even public police forces are socialism, using the logic that if they're government funded..."I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostThe US military is perhaps a much better example of a communist organisation within the US, as the members of it are housed by the government, fed by the government, given healthcare by the government, paid by the government, etc.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostThe US military is perhaps a much better example of a communist organisation within the US, as the members of it are housed by the government, fed by the government, given healthcare by the government, paid by the government, etc.Last edited by lilpixieofterror; 02-20-2020, 01:53 PM."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostI dunno. Let's see how Super Tuesday plays out after people have had a chance to criticize him. As has been pointed out, Sanders pretty much has the leftist vote sewn up, while the non-Sanders/Warren voters split the remainder. Bloomberg is mostly a threat to the Buttigieg/Klobuchar campaigns, and taking votes from them may give Sanders the edge he needs to run away with it all.Last edited by seanD; 02-20-2020, 02:21 PM.
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Originally posted by seanD View PostHe only has the popular vote "sewn up." Everyone thought he was a lock before Iowa and NH, but so far, he's not leading with the delegates. As we all know, the popular vote and polls mean nothing in the end.
The popular vote and polls aren't irrelevant. The DNC's superdelegates can massively sway the outcome, but there's got to be something else to work with for a candidate to get the nomination.Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostI don't know if anything exemplifies our modern age of sound bite politics more than Trump tweeting about how Bloomberg was racist for his stop and frisk policies; despite the fact that he himself campaigned in 2016 to expand stop and frisk beyond New York City. His tweet still remains effective because the factual basis is beside the point.
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