• hOrni@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Imagine how bad it would be if Americans didn’t have guns to defend themselves.

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      19 days ago

      Alternatively, Louisiana is the Latvia of the United States. But with fewer social programs.

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    19 days ago

    Not to brag but at least Illinois isn’t the worst. That, as usual, goes to the Worst State in the Union in over 90% of all categories, Louisiana.

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      20 days ago

      The leading cause of homicide in the Baltic countries is alcohol. What is interesting is that the victims are usually family members and friends, because you drink at the same table and when you argue, you get angry and it ends badly. It is rare that a person is killed without a connection to the killer, and if it does happen, it makes the national headlines.

      During the multiple occupations of the Baltic countries, alcohol was used to control the population. The tsar used it, Stalin used it and now Putin uses it. Alcohol helps to escape from reality and provides comfort. It will take time to overcome the alcoholic generations, measures are being taken to help solve the problem, but you can’t change a country where for more than a hundred years alcoholism was the norm.

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        19 days ago

        I’d just like to interject and say we cause our own alcoholism, thank you very much. No help from our “friend” in the east needed.

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      20 days ago

      Really? wildly waves hands at history

      You gotta be extremely ignorant of even basic history to not see why.

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        20 days ago

        Maybe you’re right. I know very little about the history of the baltics, it never came up even once at school. Also news coverage about it is lackluster at best.

        Do you have any specific events/timeperiods I should look into?

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    20 days ago

    Im a bit suprised where New Hampshire is on the list. They are the little texas of new england and you can not tell anyone from that state what to do.

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    20 days ago

    There are some surprises among the best us states, or maybe I’m just not as familiar with them as I expected

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      20 days ago

      Europe sits further north than the US does.

      The homicide rate seems to go down as you move north.

      I am willing to bet if you take the most populous cities in each state they’d fall in a similar organization.

      So we can reasonably conclude that hot summers make you want to murder a motherfucker.

      Obviously. Nothing else could cause this. Nothing.

      Clearly thoughts and prayers aren’t helping. So it must be the weather.

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        19 days ago

        We need a National crash funding program for air conditioning. That’ll solve it. /s