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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 25 Sep 2017

    "To make a better future, you have to believe in a better future" - Ted Nordhaus on the power of progress. https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/voices/ted-nordhaus/the-power-of-progress …

    2:35 PM - 25 Sep 2017
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      2. Tyler Norris‏ @tylerhnorris 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @TedNordhaus

        2 cents: many are attracted to left candidates precisely due to big positive vision- living wage, affordable ed,single payer, lower inequity

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      3. Tyler Norris‏ @tylerhnorris 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @tylerhnorris @sapinker @TedNordhaus

        Vision of social democracy is often born exactly from place of gratitude & sense of possibility to use incredible assets for welfare of all

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      4. Tyler Norris‏ @tylerhnorris 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @tylerhnorris @sapinker @TedNordhaus

        That the left often combines big position vision w/ sharp criticism of forces that prevent it & excessive apocalyptic rhetoric is also true

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      1. Carl Carl Carl‏ @carlritner 27 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Atheist can learn from religious psychology.Why the"need" for a "messiah"? Optimism. We atheists need to project reasoned progress.

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      2. Magnus Westerstrand‏ @MagWes 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        A better future fore some is not for others though

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      3. RAYfighter‏ @Rayfighter43 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @MagWes @sapinker

        Linked article addresses exactly that, too. Better future for as many as possible is better for me as well.

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      4. Magnus Westerstrand‏ @MagWes 26 Sep 2017
        Replying to @Rayfighter43 @sapinker

        Ment some like forests and some cities... etc

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      2. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        "[Followers of Marx] have long imagined that the immiseration of the poor and working classes would lead to revolution."Gil&Lor make badPornpic.twitter.com/m6OctWHLkB

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      3. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @TallPhilosopher @sapinker

        If you do everything crappily,it'l collapse sooner,so the two guys said"Let's make a bad porno to hasten the decline of society (Al Frankin)

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      1. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        I C a society willing 2 believe N mirage as substance if people think progress N absence of adherence 2 moral precepts is possible long-termpic.twitter.com/G8I7yPFOXo

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      1. Embedded_In_The_Discourse‏ @Ben_Cohen_823 25 Sep 2017
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        When I first read that tweet, I thought you quoted Ted Nostradamus. I had to re-read it, and then I laughed.

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      2. Art Hill‏ @4Art4 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Wow... powerful. Sometimes we need to first convince people that it *could* get better. It is like a type of mass depression!

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      3. John Champagne‏ @TallPhilosopher 25 Sep 2017
        Replying to @4Art4 @sapinker

        Can get better only if we manifest respect for moral principles.Where's the most efficient & fair way to account for economic externalities?pic.twitter.com/4vGUTYdCgM

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