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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 31 Jan 2020
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      It's absolutely true that to create true equality of opportunity you'd have to have a rigorously socialist society -- indeed something far beyond what Bernie or anyone else has imagined.

      5:56 PM - 31 Jan 2020
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        2. mariska hargitaylor swift‏ @wspieler 31 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          "anyone else"?

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        3. Angola Maldives‏ @Angola_Maldives 31 Jan 2020
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          I was under the impression that Plato had explicitly proposed this with his guardian class where children would simply be taken from their families and raised by the state. Not a big leap to expand that to all of society, I'm sure someone has suggested it in the 2000 years since.

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        1. Ash (Solidarität mit  🇺🇦)‏ @neuash92 31 Jan 2020
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          Dunno how to measure opportunity. Do know how to measure outcome.

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        1. Stillwater‏ @StillwaterCol 31 Jan 2020
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          True equality of *economic* opportunity would be impossible to achieve.

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        2. Gabriel Mathy‏ @gabriel_mathy 31 Jan 2020
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          Broke: Bernie's policies can't work because they're too radical Woke: Bernie's policies can't work because they're too moderate

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        3. and my time is a piece of wax‏ @ithinkitsjones 31 Jan 2020
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          Freaky Friday: Bernie transfers all the IRS and CBP agents. Immigrants get footrubs and tax evaders bunk 50 /room until their hearing

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        1. Mike Mitchell‏ @MikeMitchNH 31 Jan 2020
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          Yup. You’d have to really police and confiscate virtually all means of wealth transfer to one’s own children. No shot.

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        1. Ben Pike‏ @_benpike_ 31 Jan 2020
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          https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/02/the-radicalism-of-equal-opportunity …

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        1. Hey Progressives, STAND WITH UKRAINE  🇺🇦!‏ @HeyProgressives 31 Jan 2020
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          If we instill the power to ensure equality completely in the hands of government and socialist programs are we not, what happens when those interested in “less equality” have power? Is the socialist state you’re imagining no longer a democracy?

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        2. Make America Thin Again‏ @antiplutocratic 31 Jan 2020
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          I mean, it's not, not really. Not if socialism means "giving the government the means of production" in order to benefit the most people. You can achieve equality of opportunity while also nurturing a vibrant free market.

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