Happy 4th of July
...from across the pond. We still love the USA!
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Happy Independence Day from the Great White North!
In tribute, I hope that 4 of you upvote this comment so that my karma reaches 1776 :-)
In tribute, I hope that 4 of you upvote this comment so that my karma reaches 1776 :-)
Looks like you overshot. I gave you a downvote to help out.
It's OK - I saw it reach 1776 and toasted to it!
thanks. it’s hard to keep the faith, sometimes, but external validation does actually help.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only ... that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only ... that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
The author's identity remains disputed, the idea remains true.
The author's identity remains disputed, the idea remains true.
Happy July 4th. Let's declare this day a declaration of independence against the alien force trying to exterminate us! https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/154391579022682521...
This is truly an amazing country and I am so happy to be here. Happy 4th to everyone!
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While I am not proud of some of the decisions our government has made, I am very proud to be born an American and still believe in the American ideal.
That said, I fired up my grill one day too early lol
That said, I fired up my grill one day too early lol
Happy Good Riddance Day ;p
Happy Independence Day!
Keep thinking independently, Americans.
Keep thinking independently, Americans.
There is so much to love. Happy 4th!
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Speak of the devil there was just a mass shooting at Highland Park, Illinois
Most of the shootings in US towns seem to be gang related.
And what if they are? What difference would that make?
The gangsters aren’t affected by gun control laws.
Is this true? I imagine that if there is easier access to guns in general then there are more sources for criminals as well. Gangs usually do not us guns were I am from.
It’s pretty easy for gangs to acquire cocaine and that’s illegal pretty much everywhere.
Even if you could wave a magic wand and disarm the American populace gangs would still be able to get guns from dirty cops, military arms dealers, or just get them from war zones. There’s virtually no accountability of the military aid that we send overseas to support our side in proxy wars.
Even if you could wave a magic wand and disarm the American populace gangs would still be able to get guns from dirty cops, military arms dealers, or just get them from war zones. There’s virtually no accountability of the military aid that we send overseas to support our side in proxy wars.
That kind of violence is extremely rare, moreover, it happens by extremists on 'all sides' and pales in comparison to the likelihood you will be robbed/killed for all the normal reasons, and, if you live anywhere 'normal' in the US, the likelihood of any of that is actually quite low, almost (but not quite) on par with most other countries.
Despite what the headlines might have us believe.
That this is the second weirdly cynical comment espousing hugely aggrandized mistruths, this is more evidence of something odd going on than otherwise. I think we should be just as much concerned about misinformation as anything else. Unless you are in a really bad neighbourhood, or into some very bad things, odds are you are quite safe.
Despite what the headlines might have us believe.
That this is the second weirdly cynical comment espousing hugely aggrandized mistruths, this is more evidence of something odd going on than otherwise. I think we should be just as much concerned about misinformation as anything else. Unless you are in a really bad neighbourhood, or into some very bad things, odds are you are quite safe.
> On par with most other countries
That's interesting. Do you have a source for that? Would help others appreciate what you're seeing.
That's interesting. Do you have a source for that? Would help others appreciate what you're seeing.
Here's 2016 murder data for Illinois cities.
Really bad crime is fairly concentrated.
Outside of those ugly spots, it's something resembling normalcy.
America has a wicked gang/urban violence problem in 'hot spots'. And then a more 'common problem' everywhere else, of a different nature.
And of course political/active shooter type killings are actually quite rare. Though they are way more frequent in the USA then elsewhere, and are a serious kind of 'civic problem' - they don't actually represent an risk to individuals. There's about 1 'mass shooter' per day in the US, the average deaths per mass shooter is quite small (or 0), and so it doesn't really move the needle. It's something we want to be 'concerned about' not 'afraid of'.
[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
Really bad crime is fairly concentrated.
Outside of those ugly spots, it's something resembling normalcy.
America has a wicked gang/urban violence problem in 'hot spots'. And then a more 'common problem' everywhere else, of a different nature.
And of course political/active shooter type killings are actually quite rare. Though they are way more frequent in the USA then elsewhere, and are a serious kind of 'civic problem' - they don't actually represent an risk to individuals. There's about 1 'mass shooter' per day in the US, the average deaths per mass shooter is quite small (or 0), and so it doesn't really move the needle. It's something we want to be 'concerned about' not 'afraid of'.
[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-...