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Sorry Bernie Bros But Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist

As much as liberals like to use Nordic countries as examples that socialism and successful societies can co-exist, the reality is that these countries are not socialist, or even farther along the spectrum toward socialism than most other developed countries.

forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfma

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Just FYI, Sanders spent more money trying to buy a win in the election Than pete and Biden combined Yet Pete still managed to win the Iowa caucus... If there is one thing Sanders is good at its wasting money yet again. I think at this point Pete is the only one of the democratic candidates I might vote for.

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Gallup: has positive approval rating for 1st time in his presidency

President Trump's approval ratings were positive for the first time in his presidency, Gallup announced on Thursday, a positive sign for the contentious chief executive going into the election season.

disrn.com/news/gallup-poll-tru

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🔁 Michael Knowles Retweeted:
Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug

Congratulations to the Bloomberg campaign consultants

Your plan to have Mike faceplant tonight so he has to spend hundreds of millions more on ads that you get a percentage of worked very well

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NHS staff can refuse to treat racist or sexist patients under new rules

The NHS will soon bar discriminatory patients from non-critical care - powers that currently only cover aggression or violence.

news.sky.com/story/nhs-staff-c

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This should be troubling because as a collective society we should already be past asking questions of "do I need to treat people nicely even if we disagree on one or two topics" or "why can't we kill babies".

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Everyone's different, that doesn't mean we have to hate each other.

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If you define yourself via group identity, instead of finding individual identity in who you are, you will probably live a largely miserable and tiresome life of constantly chasing and living up to the stereotype of your chosen group.

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Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional
contagion through social networks

pnas.org/content/pnas/111/24/8

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Our children and grandchildren may yet curse the day we began hyping race and ethnicity. There are countries where that has led to slaughters in the streets but you cannot name a country where it has led to greater harmony.

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Original: twitter.com/ThomasSowell/statu
#Mises

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Another quote from this book : "many books become more boring the faster you read them." (p 74)

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"It's what you're reading that matters...not the speed with which you're getting truth it. Reading is supposed to be about an encounter with other minds... Americans have enough encouragements to narcissism ; let's try to do without this one." (full quote in attached photo)

On from The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction about bkkeepr, also applies to Goodreads and other alternatives.

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Fact:

The New Hampshire man, Patrick Bradley, who assaulted a 15 year old Trump supporter and fractured the jaw of another has a long history of support for ANTIFA

These attacks won’t stop unless we do something

RT if ANTIFA should be classified as a domestic terror group

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Original: twitter.com/charliekirk11/stat
#Turning_Point_USA #NewHampshire #Trump

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