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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: koan who wrote (1054507)2/13/2018 4:56:22 PM
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"You should know the right wing bandies about the word socialism all the time referring to European countries"

Maybe that's cuz they have socialism.
Top 10 Most Socialist Countries in the World

"they have no idea that all western democracies are simply a variation of a democratic welfare state."
That's called socialism, as in "sociaized medicine" and "socialized education".

"that was the jest of the discussion which you apparently could not follow"
Now that's the best jest of all. Here's the word you are searching for...

gist

jist/

noun

1.

the substance or essence of a speech or text.
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