privatize social security

20% VAT.
Privatize Social Security like Australia.
Borjas is wrong.
Sensible center-left™.

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I mapped the 1987 Virginia State Senate election where democrats won 30 seats, a total they've not reached since.

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In preparation for next year's Virginia state senate election which I presume will have democrats winning seat numbers not seen since the 1980s I mapped out the 1982-1987 Virginia state senate districts.

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist I think it could easily be explained by tuition costs, admission tests, legacy spots, etc... None of which are inherently racist.

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist I don't want to talk about it because it can easily go wrong but even for a racially neutral test you'd expect whites to score on average more than current blacks. Now I'm not saying it's genetics I have no idea what it is, but it does exist. No one denies only what the cause is.

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist Admissions tests aren't racist, are you going to call the sat racist?

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist Sending your child to a school(there is no such thing as a segregation academy today) that holds one particular demographic isn't racist only if the school explictly bars one race.

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@DandyGeorgism @mcinthedc @PNWPragmatist There are other factors that determine as admission such as test scores, tuition fees, outside demand, etc...

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist He was a racist because was calling for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever"

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist yes and by racist republicans I mean more republican politicians

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@DandyGeorgism @mcinthedc @PNWPragmatist If you find any evidence of them actually barring black people for the sake of it being black you can do call it that. Otherwise you cannot

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist It's not a segregation academy anymore

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@DandyGeorgism @mcinthedc @PNWPragmatist The actual racist republicans aren't dixiecrats in hiding but newer ones whose racism mostly appears in the form being virulently anti immigrant eg bo french.

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@DandyGeorgism @mcinthedc @PNWPragmatist It was not segregated per your screen shot many politicians send their children to private schools

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@DandyGeorgism @mcinthedc @PNWPragmatist It's probably further back but my point still stands

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@mcinthedc @DandyGeorgism @PNWPragmatist Yeah and if my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike.

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@DandyGeorgism @mcinthedc @PNWPragmatist Words mean things, the last actual segregationist(in a meaningful capacity) in congress was probably in the 1970s. After that they either were just standard conservatives or had dropped it

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@DandyGeorgism @mcinthedc @PNWPragmatist Cindy Hyde Smith is not a segregationist in any capacity today nor has she been in probably 30+ years.

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James Talarico won with the Bernie coalition in the primary and gave speeches about the Powell Memo in the general election

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Did the US really “grow out” of its WWII debt? @AcalinJulien & Laurence Ball find that only a small fraction of America’s post-WWII debt-to-GDP reduction came from growth alone. They argue primary surpluses are needed & caution that the policy mix then is no template for today.

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@atlanticesque nationalism feels like something one believes in to compensate for an otherwise lacking life

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@4xCaliban nationalism is something people have to compensate for an otherwise lacking life, being proud of things yourself didn't do feels like a weak thing to proud of.

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@EthanBWinter would be interesting to compare to some of the last times dem were winning ms statewide(1990s and 2000s to some extent) to see coalition shifts