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I wonder where Ruth is?

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Still better than jazz. I have spent many a happy afternoon in Germany or Austria drinking beer and listening to oompah music.

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He said that he's still going to try the experiment, even after dropping his presidential bid. $500,000 could provide basic income to several people for several years.

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Joe Biden will also be attacked as a socialist or even a communist. Also they're gonna attack his son for being a capitalist. If Bernie were the nominee they'd also attack him for his occasional capitalist tendencies, like owning a home or flying in a plane..

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Lol, Bernie sure goes all out dressing up for Chinese food on Christmas.

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He also came up with "Death Panels" for advanced medical directives and living wills, which was morphed into the functional definition of the ACA (and now 'socialized' medicine).

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Are we talking about Mormans?

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Grateful Dead, so close in a sense.

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My sides still hurt, all these years later, from laughing so hard at GOPers trying to label the Clinton/Gore agenda "radical" and "liberal."

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To republicans, anything that doesn’t fuck worker Americans sideways with out lube is radical socialism.

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That's my husband. Of course, his stocks have taken a nosedive. Maybe this will change his perspective, but I doubt it. I asked him today if he's ever eaten cat food.

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Average and median aren't the same thing.

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It'll be dips all the way down.

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Some of us are in our 70's and have been Socialists since we were 18 or so.

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Bullshit definition for Socialism.

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In '62 people were still reading.

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