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Making America more like Scandinavia


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2016 Jul 12, 10:28am   48,987 views  179 comments

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/nordic-countries-united-states/490847/

A once powerful demographic group is losing ground in American politics. For most of the countrys history, white Christian Americathe cultural and political edifice built primarily by white Protestant Christians set the tone for our national conversations and shaped American ideals. But today, many white Christian Americans feel profoundly anxious as their numbers and influence are waning. The two primary branches of their family tree, white mainline and white evangelical Protestants, offer competing narratives about their decline. White mainline Protestants blame evangelical Protestants for turning off the younger generation with their anti-gay rhetoric and tendency to conflate Christianity with conservative, nationalist...

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126   AD   2020 Feb 8, 10:39pm  

I like Vanguard Target Income Fund (VTINX). It has returned 5.4% annually since its inception in 2003. Its worst year was in 2008 when it returned -11%.

I think pension funds need to earn about 6% a year. Investing in VTINX gets you close to that.
127   AD   2020 Feb 8, 10:43pm  

Tenpoundbass says


Tenpoundbass, my wife grew up in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and lived in Kiev and Saint Petersburg.

She said Soviet stood for Socialist Workers State. Any one who was able to work and did not contribute to the works state was labeled essentially a traitor. They risked being sent to re-education and work camps in the far regions bordering the southern provinces and China, as well as northeastern Russia.
130   Onvacation   2020 May 3, 1:05pm  

Booger says

Wow 100 years! Too bad half of it was under the occupation of totalitarian powers.

I went to Poland way back in '96. I stopped in Krakow and realized why the Poles let the Germans take it without a fight in WW2; what a beautiful city!

I took a night train to Warsaw. Got off the train at dawn, walked around the soviet architecture, found breakfast, and jumped on a train to Berlin. Never made it to old town but Warsaw was not pretty.
131   Patrick   2020 May 3, 1:13pm  

Booger says


That's a good idea, and should be in Chinese as well.

There are lots of young Chinese who have literally never heard about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
132   Booger   2020 May 20, 4:06pm  

Hungary Votes 134-56 to End Legal Recognition of Trans People

https://nationalfile.com/hungary-votes-134-56-to-end-legal-recognition-of-trans-people/
133   Misc   2020 May 20, 5:19pm  

Voting...imagine that ! ! !

The US never got to vote for legal recognition of Trans people. I think if we brought up the measure for vote the liberals would freak the fuck out.
134   ignoreme   2020 May 20, 5:43pm  

Misc says
Voting...imagine that ! ! !

The US never got to vote for legal recognition of Trans people. I think if we brought up the measure for vote the liberals would freak the fuck out.


Hey!!! The electoral college is rigged!!!!
135   Misc   2020 May 20, 5:46pm  

Try bringing the measure up for a State ballot referendum.
136   zzyzzx   2020 May 29, 6:26am  

https://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/ikea-manager-charged-firing-catholic-employee-who-criticized-lgbt-event

IKEA Manager Charged for Firing Catholic Employee Who Criticized LGBT Event

An IKEA manager in Krakow, Poland has been charged with violating the religious freedom of a Catholic employee who was fired last year for objecting to the company's internal corporate support of homosexuality and the LGBT agenda.

The IKEA human resources manager was charged by the prosecutor's office in Warsaw and, if found guilty, could face a fine or up to two years in prison, reported U.S. News & World Report. The Catholic employee has also filed a civil lawsuit against the company.
137   zzyzzx   2020 Aug 11, 11:07am  

T-Shirt from Poland:
"Don't cry over the black guy"
138   Booger   2020 Sep 9, 7:37pm  

https://neonnettle.com/features/1776-slovakia-bans-mosques-nationwide-effectively-banning-islam-from-country

Slovakia Bans Mosques Nationwide, Effectively Banning Islam from Country
139   Patrick   2020 Sep 9, 8:13pm  

All Western nations should ban mosques.

Every mosque is an enemy military base.
140   NDrLoR   2020 Sep 9, 9:00pm  

ad says
Any one who was able to work and did not contribute to the works
In other words they don't have a generous six months unemployment benefit?
141   Onvacation   2020 Sep 10, 8:39am  

ignoreme says
Hey!!! The electoral college is rigged!!!!

And thank God the founders had the prescience to make it that way.
142   Booger   2020 Sep 21, 1:45pm  

In Bulgaria:
143   Bd6r   2020 Sep 21, 1:56pm  

Booger says
In Bulgaria:

looks like soccer fans, they are the most feisty - I wonder who was the opponent of Ultra CSKA Sofia
144   Booger   2020 Nov 25, 4:33pm  



I'm convinced they’re putting super male vitality in the water over there instead of fluoride.
145   zzyzzx   2020 Dec 19, 1:43pm  

Polish freedom of speech bill: Under its provisions, social media services will not be allowed to remove content or block accounts if the content on them does not break Polish law.
https://polandin.com/51388314/justice-minister-announces-online-freedom-of-speech-bill
147   Patrick   2020 Dec 31, 6:13pm  

Maybe it's time to brush up on my Polish. I took one semester after visiting grandma's town of Tuliszków when I was in college.
148   Blue   2020 Dec 31, 10:41pm  

zzyzzx says


Make it billions and that is for each occurrence make it more effective.
149   BayArea   2021 Jan 1, 6:57am  

I love Poland!
151   Booger   2021 Feb 2, 3:45pm  

Hungary Orders Publisher To Include Warning Label On Children's Book That Depicts Homosexuality As Normal

https://christiansfortruth.com/hungary-orders-publisher-to-include-warning-label-on-childrens-book-that-depicts-homosexuality-as-normal/
153   zzyzzx   2021 Feb 22, 10:58am  

POLAND, how is it getting RICH?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1F1c3osIDg
154   richwicks   2021 Feb 22, 2:15pm  

Patrick says
Booger says
Hungary Orders Publisher To Include Warning Label On Children's Book That Depicts Homosexuality As Normal

https://christiansfortruth.com/hungary-orders-publisher-to-include-warning-label-on-childrens-book-that-depicts-homosexuality-as-normal/


This is a wise decision. Gayness is a life-shortening disease spread through pedophilia and propaganda.


I'd agree on one point, it should certainly not be taught to children. At most, they should be made aware it exists, not that it is "normal behavior".

I've known quite a few gay people, trust me, they're stuck with it, but it shouldn't be promoted. The problem is at 13-15 most boys would fuck anything with a warm moist hole.
156   Booger   2021 Apr 2, 3:19am  

https://rmx.news/article/article/polish-football-players-refuse-to-kneel-for-blm-at-wembley-stadium

Polish footballers refused to kneel in support of Black Lives Matter and instead they pointed to a “respect” label on their jerseys
157   MMR   2021 Apr 2, 10:20am  

zzyzzx says
Catholic employee who was fired last year


Poland is 93% catholic
160   Ceffer   2021 May 27, 11:13am  

Poland looks nice. There's that little bit, though, about being periodically bulldozed back and forth by Germany and Russia when they go after each other.
161   Ceffer   2021 May 27, 7:40pm  

"It was a mostly peaceful bloody conquest."
162   Patrick   2021 May 27, 7:44pm  

Poland is nice, but very flat except in the south. In fact, the name "Poland" means "people who live in the fields".

The problem with being flat and being between Germany and Russia is that it's hard to keep them out.

I really enjoyed visiting my grandmother's village in Poland. I like Polish people too. It's kinda like the US in the 1950's, before the political left turned everything to shit.
163   Booger   2021 May 31, 4:42am  

BASED POLAND WON'T STAND FOR GLOBOHOMO

original link
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