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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    Social democracy beat both capitalism and communism. You won't find a purely capitalistic or communistic system anywhere in the world. The formula used by all the highly successful nations is similar: a mixed economy with capitalistic and socialistic aspects (e.g., government-regulated semi-free markets, with various social spending policies), with some form of representative democracy and protections of individual rights. The liberals overcame the conservatives in places like the US and the Soviet Union alike, with people like FDR and Gorbachev driving each towards a hybrid system that put greater emphasis on human rights and less emphasis on abstract economic absolutes. They had to overcome the conservatives who pushed for a more hard-line approach, but the liberals won, as they tend to do over any sufficiently extended timeline.
    You're young so you can almost be forgiven, Rana can't be but hey...

    You are denying reality and that is the left supported the failure that is a command economy. In fact that is one of the biggest and most deadly failures of the 20th century.

    You are trying to rewrite history which is understandable but doesn't work when you talk to folks who have even a modicum of an idea about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    You're young so you can almost be forgiven, Rana can't be but hey...

    You are denying reality and that is the left supported the failure that is a command economy. In fact that is one of the biggest and most deadly failures of the 20th century.

    You are trying to rewrite history which is understandable but doesn't work when you talk to folks who have even a modicum of an idea about it.
    Have you read the work of any Soviet dissidents?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    Have you read the work of any Soviet dissidents?
    I have actually but that’s really irrelevant to the point you were trying to make and the biggest failure of the left.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    I have actually....
    Then you're aware of their liberalism?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    Then you're aware of their liberalism?
    And that has what to do with leftists supporting commumism/socialism and being on the complete wrong side of history?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    It's interesting that even with the US VP providing some priceless free promotion for the film, it's managed such a poor box office return. At this point, it's earned only a little over $17 million, total. The problem is that it had a relatively decent opening night (presumably based on the Christian-right hype machine and a relatively wide release), but then dropped like a rock -- in fact, according to Box Office Mojo, it had the 21st largest Friday to Saturday drop on an opening weekend of any film ever.

    Based on the strong opening night, more theaters booked it -- a 43% increase in the numbers of theaters showing it between week one and week two. But they got burned. In week two, its weekly gross collapsed: falling by about half. And at this point, it's only earning $1,845 per screen. It turns out the anti-abortion audience is really enthusiastic, but not terribly large.
    yeah, that's a bummer.

    Oh well, they had a great start.

    You anti-lifers should be thrilled that it tanked, though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Granule View Post
    yeah, that's a bummer.

    Oh well, they had a great start.

    You anti-lifers should be thrilled that it tanked, though.
    I haven't seen it, so I have no idea whether it's a good or bad movie, nor whether it has a good or bad message, so I'm not invested in whether it succeeds or fails. But, I do find the dynamics of the religious right interesting, culturally. I'd characterize them as highly engaged, but small. So, they can "punch above their weight" in short spurts (which is great for them from an election perspective, where they just need to show up on one day in a year), but that energy (and financial heft) can be exhausted pretty quickly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lisasanders1964 View Post
    And the pro-life republicunts in Texas are introducing the death penalty for any woman that has an abortion.
    LINK

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oneuli View Post
    I haven't seen it, so I have no idea whether it's a good or bad movie, nor whether it has a good or bad message, so I'm not invested in whether it succeeds or fails. But, I do find the dynamics of the religious right interesting, culturally. I'd characterize them as highly engaged, but small. So, they can "punch above their weight" in short spurts (which is great for them from an election perspective, where they just need to show up on one day in a year), but that energy (and financial heft) can be exhausted pretty quickly.
    You might have a point here. I mean, who in the hell would be loser enough to toss aside things like personal achievement to help downgrade the US to the likes of Cuba, and still ENJOY it?

    Oh, that's right, you sacks of shit.
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