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Australian Opposition Leader gives the business to right-wing Christian lobby

Amazing speech. And its not just because he directly supports marriage equality in his speech. Or the fact that he said this in front of the right-wing, anti-gay Australian Christian Lobby. Or the fact that he quotes MLK and JFK. Or that he directly addresses income inequality and cuts in foreign aid. YES.

via Bill Shorten speech to the Australian Christian Lobby 2014 Conference – YouTube.

“Socialism” as thoughtcrime on the right

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Within the last century, social democracy as an economic model has been thoroughly denigrated by those governments and partisans who used the words "socialist" and "democratic" in an authoritarian, fascist context, be such entities on the right (from Pinochet to Franco to Nixon) or on the left (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot). 

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