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      23 hours ago

      Definitely a normal country full of well-adjusted people. We can see evidence of that on a daily basis.

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      23 hours ago

      This kind of stuff just boggles the mind. I’ve discussed with my american wife how it’s so crazy the volume of insane, violent shit happening in the states compared to the rest of the civilized world and what could the explanation for it be. I’m pretty sure there isn’t such a volume of serial killers anywhere else in the world and almost always the most effed up shit that happens in a somewhat civilized country, it’s the states.

      Incident like this in a european country would probably be the most horrific thing in recent history, lawmakers would scramble to do something about it and it would make headlines for a month. In the states it’s just another tuesday afternoon.

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      21 hours ago

      As a reminder, the cutoff on psychopathy assessment is 5 points higher in the US than elsewhere. You can literally be considered a psychopath by the same assessment elsewhere in the world and be considered just normal in the US