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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jan 15
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      Just a word of advice to conservatives: you might want to develop rebuttals to Democratic Socialism that don't rely on hackneyed Venezuela comparisons, because that'll get real old, real quick

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    2. Foggy Anabasis‏ @foggyanabasis Jan 15
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      Given that no democratic socialist country has ever existed, the only examples we have are the failed states that tried it. Is it our fault that they don't have a long shelf life?

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jan 15
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      Scandinavia doesn't exist?! Wow!

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        2. Foggy Anabasis‏ @foggyanabasis Jan 15
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          Scandinavia is not socialist it has private ownership of capital and financing of investment via capital markets. You can ask what the actual socialist countries, like CSSR, thought of Sweden -- we all considered it a capitalist country.

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        3. Foggy Anabasis‏ @foggyanabasis Jan 15
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          These people that think that as soon as you have paid maternity leave you become a socialist country are tiresome on both the right and left. Did you know Sweden has legions of for profit charter schools? Billionaires? Privately owned Companies listed on global stock exchanges?

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        2. Chandler  🌏‏ @toffachandler Jan 15
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          That’s a myth used in North America to sell socialism. They’re not socialist. Just sayin’ .Central control/planning of any kind, socialism or communism, leads to rampant corruption and mass death to humans and their environment. The closest contemporary is technocratic China.

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        3. Foggy Anabasis‏ @foggyanabasis Jan 15
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          I wouldn't call china democratic. China does have large numbers of State Owned Enterprises, but they at least compete for funding from banks. In reality, debts are often forgiven, but even that partial competition is enough to drive productivity gains over their Mao baseline.

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        1. Evan reymond‏ @evan_reymond Jan 15
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          Scandavians could go for either a true anarchic society or a true Communist society and be fine while America's overarching culture is not well suited to sustain large social wellfare programs or central planning. Less is more for us. Our gov is a better referee than a caretaker.

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        2. Foggy Anabasis‏ @foggyanabasis Jan 15
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          Taleb often says things that sound reasonable until you think about them. Most people never get to step 2. What he is talking about are areas of concern and redistribution, but socialism is about _govt_ ownership of capital, so it doesn't make sense to be socialist at the X level

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        1. 1Nation‏ @of4NByThePeople Jan 16
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          Scandinavia isn’t a country. Norway’s GDP is lower than Walmart’s annual revenue. Its national defense is insufficient. It is being hit hard by the decrease in petroleum prices as this makes up nearly 25% of GDP.

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        1.  🌸 🧢 💰Tulsi/Yang 💰 🧢 🌸‏ @realpaultyler Jan 15
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          Big if true.

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        2. Foggy Anabasis‏ @foggyanabasis Jan 15
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          Sweden had problems in the 1980s, yes, it started down the path of socialism by having unions buy up shares of firms. It reversed course.

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        1. Jeffrey Allen‏ @Jeffrey48093757 Jan 16
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          Read and weaphttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden …

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        2. Trading Everything‏ @TradingEveryth1 Jan 16
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          Scandinavia is not a country. Also market economies. Also homogenous White postage stamp countries with very little in common to US. I’m all for adopting their healthcare, the rest is probably not transferable.

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        2. CathoPup  🇺🇸 🇻🇦‏ @1EpicPug Jan 15
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          Sweden abandoned socialism thirty years ago...

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        2. Dainon Jensen‏ @duckinfantry Jan 15
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          The policies pushed by the dem-soc crowd have very, very little to do with Scandinavia.

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