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Denmark = Venezuela?!

 
theprestige is able to listen to the lies of Fox and Trish Regan and consider Europeans nationalistic for objecting to them ...

ETA: Germans love Shakespeare, and I love German translations of Shakespeare. They are usually done in the language of Goethe, which makes them sound old-fashioned but still much easier to understand than actual Shakespeare in English if your proficiency in the two languages is approximately at the same level.
There are French and Spanish translations of the hilarious German graphic novel Iago about the (closet) gay Shakespeare, but unfortunately no English translation.
 
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Just for the benefit of the prestige: a few more nationalistic comments from Europe ... and India?!

She’s completely cognizant of the fact that nothing she’s saying is true.
But Regan is doing really, really well working in the propaganda matrix that pumps money feeding the Trump Base, which ecstatically embraces every crumb of crazy. The Base desperately wants to believe that “socialism,” even Christian Socialism as in Denmark, turns countries into Revelations-worthy pits of Hell.
They don’t want to know that their own infrastructure is crumbling. That Trump didn’t have the largest inauguration crowd in history. That they are working for minimum wage and no benefits while Danes are guaranteed livable wages. That they’re paying the taxes the 1-Percent avoid. That more than 80 percent of Danes are middle class while less than 60 percent of Americans are middle class.
Fox News: Denmark is a country full of lazy cupcake socialists (sad) [DispatchesEurope, Aug. 14, 2018]
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Half of the top 10 list were European countries, including the three Scandinavian countries. The top 10 countries include: Switzerland, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Canada, and Hong Kong.
So an appropriate question that Trish Regan ought to ask is, what happened to America, which was ranked number one in 1988? America was ranked 16th in this index.
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First of all, egalitarian societies with a better distribution of wealth are happier, America has become a more unequal society, and the American dream is dead.
80% of the population is living from pay check to pay check, according to the economist Robert Riech. Tensions are high leaving room for populists to gain ground. It is America that needs a taxation system that would create a fair distribution of wealth.
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The goal everywhere should be, in the words of the Danish poet NFS Grundtvig, a country “where few have too much, and even fewer too little”.
Should America Be More Like Denmark? (The Times of India – blogs, Aug. 16, 2018)
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Fox News host compares Denmark to Venezuela in sneering rant - and Denmark's response is amazing (Mirror, Aug. 17, 2018)
Danish politician has pretty much had it with Fox Business News making stuff up about his country (metro.co.uk, Aug. 18, 2018)
 
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dann said:
”But you see, not only is school free, …” – the HORROR!!! – ”… but they actually pay you.”

They do?! Yes, in high school and college they do, but not much. (And again: What’s the problem?!)

”But you know what happens? Nobody graduates from school, they just stay in school longer and longer and longer. What’s supposed to take you five years just takes everyone 6+ years. Because that’s the reality of socialism.”
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Regan also claimed "nobody graduates from school" because the government "pays" students to go to school; according to the Washington Post, while direct comparisons are difficult, less than 60% of US college students finish in six years, whereas in Denmark 79% of undergraduates finish their coursework--and the paper noted that this includes American students who can't afford college in the United States.[13]
Trish Regan: False claims about Denmark (Wikipedia)
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The controversy has earned Trish Regan a Wikipedia article in Danish. :)
Alternativ fakta om Danmark
I et tv-indslag beskrev hun Danmark som et dovent land, hvor alle ville arbejde for staten, ingen ville færdiggøre deres uddannelse, alle ville åbne cupcake-restauranter, og ingen havde lyst til at arbejde. De påstande, hun fremførte, står i diametral modsætning til internationale statistikker.
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By chance, I just watched the Danish rebuttal on YT. Good work :) How can anybody be so stupid, or so shameless, as Regan? While keeping a smug smirk on her face, I mean. Or maybe the smirk was just her reflection of how much one can be paid for talking mindless crap?
 
dann said:
Just for the benefit of the prestige: a few more nationalistic comments from Europe ... and India?!
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Dude, you've now spent waaay more time thinking about this than Trish Regan ever did. How close do you think you are to setting the record straight about Denmark? Another week? Two? Have you considered conducting a survey? Maybe nobody takes Regan's claim seriously, and your work is already done.
 
theprestige said:
Dude, you've now spent waaay more time thinking about this than Trish Regan ever did.
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Don't underestimate the hard work it requires to achieve the level of convoluted thinking that she exhibited in her comparison of Venezuela with Denmark.

How close do you think you are to setting the record straight about Denmark.
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It's not in my power to "set the record straight" since this thread may have a hundred readers. Trish Regan probably has a million viewers.

Another week? Two? Have you considered conducting a survey? Maybe nobody takes Regan's claim seriously, and your work is already done.
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I know that it annoys you whenever U.S. American nationalism is criticized. You'll have to learn to live with it.
 
theprestige said:
It's almost to the point of giving too much importance to Denmark, which is kind of a weird problem to have.
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Denmark is important. Fox News is an irrelevant local news service. Denmark officials addressing what a cat in Fox News said is like Donald Trump logging in here to address what dann has to say about him.
 
dann said:
Don't underestimate the hard work it requires to achieve the level of convoluted thinking that she exhibited in her comparison of Venezuela with Denmark.




It's not in my power to "set the record straight" since this thread may have a hundred readers. Trish Regan probably has a million viewers.




I know that it annoys you whenever U.S. American nationalism is criticized. You'll have to learn to live with it.
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If the purpose of the thread is to criticize "U.S. American" nationalism, then all of your posts have been wildly off topic.
 
aleCcowaN said:
This thread gives too much importance to Fox News and its paid minions.
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Fox News and its minions effectively control the policy of the most powerful nation on Earth. If anything their importance is underplayed.
 
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