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1. Will 🌹🏴 (datatitian@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2017 02:24:03 UTC Will 🌹🏴

   From https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
   https://social.coop/media/tq4XYocEFG-X1WEEIq0

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   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2017 09:55:27 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @h @datatitian Isn't he talking about fully subsidized tertiary studies and things like that?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2017 11:16:46 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @h @datatitian
     
     > First, Sanders is not a socialist, but a social democrat.
     
     Let me quote one of the most famous Swedish social democrats:
     
     > I am a democratic socialist, with pride and with joy. [ . . . ] I got that conviction when it became clear to me that it was the social democratic movement that brought democracy to Sweden, when it became clear to me that it was the social democratic movement that had lifted the country out of poverty and unemployment with its politics of the 1930s.
     
     https://social.heldscal.la/url/689910
     
     He used the phrasing because the leader of the liberal Center Party had asked him why he was a socialist, but he didn't shy from it, he owned it.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2017 11:46:59 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @datatitian @h He has been calling himself as a socialist for decades. This Presidential election was probably the first where it was opportune to do so.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2017 11:50:31 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @h @datatitian The Young People's Socialist League, the Socialist Party of America and the Democratic Socialists of America sounds like pretty left-leaning things, but I don't know anything about their policies. Congressional US politics certainly doesn't have a left, with the broken electoral system that's in place.