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I weigh into the "common-good capitalism" wars. A movement that looks at our national problems and says "less economic freedom and less personal responsibility" is set to compound the very problems it seeks to solve: frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/nationalist-…
I also briefly discuss the Democratic debate:
I also talk about what is -- and is not -- the "Russia hoax":
But the bulk of the newsletter deals with "common-good capitalism" and personal responsibility:
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David French
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The Sunday edition of the French Press is out, and we ask, did God choose Donald Trump to be president, and if so what does that mean?

Also, a bonus shout-out to Mike Pence for his spiritual analysis of impeachment, from a very different time . . .

frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-lord-hat…
Is it strange for Christians to believe God chose Trump? No. frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-lord-hat…
But that's not the end of the analysis. Not by a long shot. frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-lord-hat…
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David French
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It's an all-politics French Press today (with bonus Duke content). The lineup:

1. Mayor Pete could win. He really could. Here's why;

2. Or . . . maybe not. The perils of being a rising unknown; and

3. The S.S. Elizabeth Warren is listing to port: frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/how-mayor-pe…
If this is a change election (it may not be), could Mayor Pete be the change the suburbs are looking for?
But then again . . . He's on a roll now, but his rivals really, really don't like him:
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David French
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Today's lineup:

1. With military pardons, Trump doesn't rightly free troops from bad ROE, he wrongly frees them from the law;
2. Bloomberg hates the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 14th Amendments;
3. SCOTUS hints at a bright future for the separation of powers: frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/the-worst-ca…
On Trump's recent pardons:
Bloomberg will see your soda ban and raise you a dose of anti-religious discrimination:
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Boason Omofaye
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Lars Pellinat
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@AsselbergsSimon @purpleline @BlackwaterRive2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @BankersRock @mostcertainty @RussPurdie @jbhearn @janineyve @RalphMusgrave @Gforse1 @SublimeNikita @FawkeEU @Gravity_v20 @chilbaric @Ellis_Greenwood @DMcWilliams_UK @helgy2 @shuma0963 @iq69fund @GrubStreetJorno @I_dont_know_but @WyeLea @StewartButton @askeamonn @DilipShah_ @takeitwithsalt @Mikethefilm1 @tinmantc @ian_jones64 @hyppi737 @JoeBlob20 @KillianConnolly @AlanEngland4 @GaryShieldssage @Colin00007 @soclose2me @owsi1968 @worknotpoverty @scientificecon @sebseb7 @PeterZobel4 @Futureworldxxl @notayesmansecon @anty_ue @bill1303 @financialeyes @GretaThunberg @UNICEF Disagree: Greed is human & certainly can thrive very well in unchecked #capitalism.

The other issue with modern capitalism: #Globalization, which allows to exploit #labour in Country A (low wages, child-labour, no workers rights) & sell high in Country B =The New #Slavery!
@AsselbergsSimon @purpleline @BlackwaterRive2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @BankersRock @mostcertainty @RussPurdie @jbhearn @janineyve @RalphMusgrave @Gforse1 @SublimeNikita @FawkeEU @Gravity_v20 @chilbaric @Ellis_Greenwood @DMcWilliams_UK @helgy2 @shuma0963 @iq69fund @GrubStreetJorno @I_dont_know_but @WyeLea @StewartButton @askeamonn @DilipShah_ @takeitwithsalt @Mikethefilm1 @tinmantc @ian_jones64 @hyppi737 @JoeBlob20 @KillianConnolly @AlanEngland4 @GaryShieldssage @Colin00007 @soclose2me @owsi1968 @worknotpoverty @scientificecon @sebseb7 @PeterZobel4 @Futureworldxxl @notayesmansecon @anty_ue @bill1303 @financialeyes @GretaThunberg @UNICEF 2. If you have a high degree of inequality, or within a country or within a globalized setup between states, the system will exploit the weak (low wages, no workers rights) & benefit the rich.

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@AsselbergsSimon @purpleline @BlackwaterRive2 @TIMGOLDFINCH @BankersRock @mostcertainty @RussPurdie @jbhearn @janineyve @RalphMusgrave @Gforse1 @SublimeNikita @FawkeEU @Gravity_v20 @chilbaric @Ellis_Greenwood @DMcWilliams_UK @helgy2 @shuma0963 @iq69fund @GrubStreetJorno @I_dont_know_but @WyeLea @StewartButton @askeamonn @DilipShah_ @takeitwithsalt @Mikethefilm1 @tinmantc @ian_jones64 @hyppi737 @JoeBlob20 @KillianConnolly @AlanEngland4 @GaryShieldssage @Colin00007 @soclose2me @owsi1968 @worknotpoverty @scientificecon @sebseb7 @PeterZobel4 @Futureworldxxl @notayesmansecon @anty_ue @bill1303 @financialeyes @GretaThunberg @UNICEF 3. Currently the number of billionaires in the West grows fast, but the middle class crumbles & the lower classes live more and more in a state of managed poverty (just enough crumbs not to rise up).
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Denise Hearn
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Thread: Recently I was asked to appear on a conservative TV news show for their "capitalism vs. socialism" week. After explaining the basic premise of my argument, I was rescheduled & then canceled.

Here's why #capitalism vs. #socialism is an entirely wrong debate & dichotomy:
First off, no one agrees on (or even seems to understand) definitions of both systems. To quote @MikeBloomberg recently: "Anyone who believes that unfettered capitalism works hasn't read history."
I would add that anyone who believes socialism works also hasn't read history.
I'll spend more time debunking free-market capitalism as a reality (regardless of whether you actually agree with it or not), as that seems to warrant more explanation.

KEY POINT: No country in the world exercises totally unfettered, free market capitalism. Let me explain why:
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Filomena Rocha
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7. Attempted coup in Venezuela with support from the US - 2019

#Venezuela #AttemptCoupInVenezuela #War #Warlords2019 #TheWorldWithVenezuela #ElMundoEstaConVenezuela #ElMundoEstaConVzla #Democracy #HumanRights #dignity #Peace #Love #Freedom #UNCharter
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#RWO Real People with Real Values rising up for Real Democracy
"People in 150 cities around the world oppose US intervention in Venezuela"
#HandsOffVenezuela
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David Eil
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New Year, new thread. I'm almost surely not going to read as many books as I did in 2018, both because I'll have two semesters of law school this year instead of one, and because, God willing, I'll have an actual job this summer. But whatever I read, I'll post here.
1. Mark Twain, Roughing It 4/5

More of a standup routine than a novel - it's episodic rather than thematic. But Twain's verve provides the entertainment. You can skip the whole section in Hawaii imho. More in the thread:



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2. Bill Goldstein, The World Broke In Two

Tracks lives and works of Eliot, Lawrence, Woolf, and Forster in 1922. Only Forster sympathetic, tho pathetic. The rest impossible, insufferable, or both. Recommend iff you have strong attachment to these authors

amazon.com/World-Broke-Tw…
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Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷
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You want to get cute, Paul? You seriously want to start going on about how the Left doesn't do freedom here in the UK? OK, let's go...
Let's go back to the early 19th century. The UK Left claims the Todpuddle Martyrs as part of their 'origin story' - swearing oaths to organise as a proto-trade union. They were transported for exercising the FREEDOM to organise.
tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/story
Another defining moment for the Left in Britain was the Peterloo Massacre where 18 were killed and hundreds injured during a rally in Manchester calling for political reforms. They were exercising their FREEDOM of association, and to protest.  theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/…
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