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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 18 Aug 2017

    Why is NYT printing sentimental nostalgia for totalitarianism? Marian Tupy grew up under Communism, corrects record. http://humanprogress.org/blog/life-under-communism-was-no-liberation-for-women …

    9:13 AM - 18 Aug 2017
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      2. Jeet‏ @meejeet 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        This fantasy with communism and socialism, which resulted in massive waste of human potential, comes from folks who did not live under it

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      1. JR‏ @arjendre 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        JR Retweeted M C M A R V  🇩🇪

        https://twitter.com/McMarvv/status/897507692742414336 …

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        M C M A R V  🇩🇪 @McMarvv
        Poland at it with the alt-centrism pic.twitter.com/mWKQQz7wth
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      1. Richard Cozart‏ @rmc7600 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Times Moscow bureau chief in 30's was a Stalin apologist. You'd think they would have learned something

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      2. Alex‏ @venturewriter 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @Jesse_Livermore

        A year of paid childcare leave, free healthcare, free great childcare and free summer camp for kids. Call me when we have this in the US.

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. jamdev12‏ @jamdev12 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @venturewriter @sapinker @Jesse_Livermore

        Please show me when this happened under communism.Also Venezuela is as socialist as they come. Care to share what their experience has been?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Alex‏ @venturewriter 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @jamdev12 @sapinker @Jesse_Livermore

        I have first hand experience. Let's meet for a beer and I will be happy to tell more.

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      1. kcz‏ @kcz100 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Well then - hundreds of thousands can say the same about turbo-capitalism. But you're not free to write about that.

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      2. Spencer Wells‏Verified account @spwells 19 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @razibkhan

        Why does this exist at all:https://jacobinmag.com/ 

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      2. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        As always Pinker gets his sources from the right. Note: http://HumanProgress.org  is a project of the Cato Institute.

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      3. N.G.McClernan‏ @ngmcclernan 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ngmcclernan @sapinker

        Ayn Rand went to college thanks to the Soviets. But you won't hear that from Koch brothers orgs. From "Ayn Rand and the World She Made":pic.twitter.com/HhEbp2b8aA

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      2. Gray Goods‏ @graygoods 19 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        @CathyYoung63 Fyi - this is a topic you certainly could provide some qualified & well reasoned insights to: http://humanprogress.org/blog/life-under-communism-was-no-liberation-for-women …

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      3. Cathy Young‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 19 Aug 2017
        Replying to @graygoods @sapinker

        Been meaning to!

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      4. Gray Goods‏ @graygoods 19 Aug 2017
        Replying to @CathyYoung63 @sapinker

        Excellent!

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      1. Friderik Klampfer‏ @friderikk 20 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Why contrast 'nostalgic' accounts of the fate of women in communism with another woman's recollections, rather than hard facts and figures?

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