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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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Norway's population is 5,000,000. They had one motherfucker go insane and start shooting kids and it took them 90 minutes to bring him down. It's a totally different country with a totally different role within the world.
The US population is almost 310,000,000. It's not possible to micromanage the standard of living for everyone the way a nation like Norway can. And anyway, that has never been the US's stated goal.
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Sounds like we need to break up the union then, eh? I mean, if we're too big to sustain a quality of life befitting the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world then maybe we need to downsize. Most of New England is redundant, as is the Midwest and the South.
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The US's goal has always been to provide equality of opportunity, not equality of results. Whether or not they've been successful, it's a different mindset entirely.
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Gosh, I guess their results are just better than our opportunities then. That's really depressing if you spend more than a fucking second thinking about it.