Well I have never been robbed by a crackhead in the USA or anywhere else so far so this is all just theory, but the % of Swedish-Americans in jail is likely very low. I have also noticed that the rates of most crimes OTHER than murder are lower, sometimes a LOT lower, in the USA vs. other 1st world countries. Also as much as I would be sad if crackheads DID start breaking into my house, they will only do it once.
There is a *lot* to this. ALL of the original colonies had a bedrock foundation value that a central far away government was no-fking-way showing up and taking their right to self defense away. Especially after the British egged on Indian tribes to attack the 13 colonies during the Revolution. Then add in westward expansion that had people far away from any government authority relying on their guns for defense - or offense as the case may be - against Indians and sometimes each other. On top of THAT the North and South were very different places. New England looked like a modern country. They had science, industry, railroads, manufacturing, and a tradition of excellent free public education. Someone living in a New England town in 1830 likely had no more need of a firearm for routine self defense than they do now in 2013. The south was...ah. not quite like that. They had a more feudal society where rich whites were very far above all others. They educated their children with private tutors. WAY under them were what we call now "rednecks or hillbillies or white trash" who had not a lot of econimic opportunity. The way up was very much blocked by lack of education and money to buy slaves and those slaves also filled all the low budget niches too. The people at the top made SURE to keep the poor whites stirred up against the slaves. To make it even worse, this element was usually Scotch-Irish and were poor, violent, and always suspicious of central authority even before they GOT to America.
You cannot really compare a homogeneous Scandanavion countrty with the USA. Not saying we are perfect or anything, but we are assembled out of states that had incredibly diverse interests. Old joke that may be true- Swedish ambassador is touring Minnesota (USA state home to many Swedes). He is talking about how the socialist Swedish government has eliminated poverty in Sweden. The state official from Minnesota observes they have no poverty among the Swedish in Minnesota either!
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This is actually true in real life. To get a job as a ship's pilot*, you pretty well must be invited to join their union/guild and relatives get first pick.
* FYI, ocean going ship's captains are not expected to know the details of every port they come into and hire local pilots for this.
This fail has many parents. Fail 1 is the total inability of a large part of the USA population to consider ANY of the ways the entire rest of the civilized world runs their healthcare without collapsing into an epileptic fit screaming "OMFG commie pinko socialism death panel grandma waits years for a bandaid end of the word HELP" and then off to find an Ayn Rand poster to whack off to. Fail 2 is the desire of around half of the Board of Directors of this enterprise for this project to fail in the most spectacular way possible. You can't run CAT 6 cable around a building if half your bosses hate ethernet cables and try and cut them every night, let alone roll out something like this. Fail 3 is the usual political apointee level types ignoring all the worker bee feds who no doubht told them about 10,000 times this was going to be a disaster and who also prolly gave the "scum sucking contractor weasels" about 101 change orders and apparently cut their requested load test time by about 90%.
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Well I have never been robbed by a crackhead in the USA or anywhere else so far so this is all just theory, but the % of Swedish-Americans in jail is likely very low. I have also noticed that the rates of most crimes OTHER than murder are lower, sometimes a LOT lower, in the USA vs. other 1st world countries. Also as much as I would be sad if crackheads DID start breaking into my house, they will only do it once.
There is a *lot* to this. ALL of the original colonies had a bedrock foundation value that a central far away government was no-fking-way showing up and taking their right to self defense away. Especially after the British egged on Indian tribes to attack the 13 colonies during the Revolution. Then add in westward expansion that had people far away from any government authority relying on their guns for defense - or offense as the case may be - against Indians and sometimes each other. On top of THAT the North and South were very different places. New England looked like a modern country. They had science, industry, railroads, manufacturing, and a tradition of excellent free public education. Someone living in a New England town in 1830 likely had no more need of a firearm for routine self defense than they do now in 2013. The south was...ah. not quite like that. They had a more feudal society where rich whites were very far above all others. They educated their children with private tutors. WAY under them were what we call now "rednecks or hillbillies or white trash" who had not a lot of econimic opportunity. The way up was very much blocked by lack of education and money to buy slaves and those slaves also filled all the low budget niches too. The people at the top made SURE to keep the poor whites stirred up against the slaves. To make it even worse, this element was usually Scotch-Irish and were poor, violent, and always suspicious of central authority even before they GOT to America.
You cannot really compare a homogeneous Scandanavion countrty with the USA. Not saying we are perfect or anything, but we are assembled out of states that had incredibly diverse interests. Old joke that may be true- Swedish ambassador is touring Minnesota (USA state home to many Swedes). He is talking about how the socialist Swedish government has eliminated poverty in Sweden. The state official from Minnesota observes they have no poverty among the Swedish in Minnesota either!
That dog and monkey had to set some world record for being stoned as fck!
No - he is not suicidal AFAIK ;)
>> This is actually true in real life. To get a job as a ship's pilot*, you pretty well must be invited to join their union/guild and relatives get first pick. * FYI, ocean going ship's captains are not expected to know the details of every port they come into and hire local pilots for this.
This fail has many parents. Fail 1 is the total inability of a large part of the USA population to consider ANY of the ways the entire rest of the civilized world runs their healthcare without collapsing into an epileptic fit screaming "OMFG commie pinko socialism death panel grandma waits years for a bandaid end of the word HELP" and then off to find an Ayn Rand poster to whack off to. Fail 2 is the desire of around half of the Board of Directors of this enterprise for this project to fail in the most spectacular way possible. You can't run CAT 6 cable around a building if half your bosses hate ethernet cables and try and cut them every night, let alone roll out something like this. Fail 3 is the usual political apointee level types ignoring all the worker bee feds who no doubht told them about 10,000 times this was going to be a disaster and who also prolly gave the "scum sucking contractor weasels" about 101 change orders and apparently cut their requested load test time by about 90%.