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The Way Forward

Mike 03

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4. Yes. I heard a troubling but fascinating discussion about exactly this on

Reply to somsai (Original post)

Thu Mar 6, 2025, 05:38 PM

Mar 6

BBC World.

There's a great quote in the movie The Color of Money, spoken by Paul Newman's character:

"Sometimes when you lose, you win."

It makes me uneasy to say this, but I think there are a couple of issues where we need to lose in order to win everything else. People like Gavin Newsome and (uggg) Fetterman may be trying to tell us that "sometimes when you lose, you win."

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The One European Country Where the Progressive Left is Winning -- and we could too [View all] somsai Mar 1 OP

you left out the main point of the article (and changed the title to ignore/whitewash it, plus chopped up the excerpts Celerity Mar 1 #1

Happy to see you made it through the first quarter of the article, I know it's a long one and I doubted many would have somsai Mar 2 #2

Denmark is a not socialist country. Neither is Sweden (where I live), nor Norway or Finland. We all use the Nordic Model Celerity Mar 2 #3

Wrong. When Bernie Sanders said Denmark was a democratic socialist country the PM corrected him: betsuni Mar 8 #12

What the hell?! electric_blue68 Mar 10 #18

Thank you Hekate Mar 8 #14

The reality many don't admit is that the progressive model works best... Blasphemer Mar 8 #15

you can say the same thing for most any form of government Celerity Mar 8 #16

Yes. I heard a troubling but fascinating discussion about exactly this on Mike 03 Mar 6 #4

The happiest country to boot malaise Mar 7 #5

So you agree with the Danish social democratic left-led, years-long immigration crackdown? Celerity Mar 7 #7

No one agrees witheverything malaise Mar 8 #8

I am closer philosophically to the Danish model on refugee immigration than I am to our Swedish model Celerity Mar 8 #10

There is a limit creon Mar 7 #6

The indigenous people in the Americas malaise Mar 8 #9

They lacked the military power to do so. Celerity Mar 8 #11

yes creon Mar 8 #13

The lesson from the article seems to be that anti-immigration works in Europe for the Left as well as the Right andym Mar 9 #17