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Gustaf
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« Reply #25 on: June 20, 2004, 04:11:35 AM »

how did you first get interested in american politics?

which region of the us do you find most fascinating?


2. I find New York quite fascinating but haven't really a favorit. The regions that I find hardest to grasp is the deep south and the prairie.

Why is so hard to grasp the deep south and prairie? We are mainly just good hardworking blue collar types who earn a honest buck and work for our families. I'm sure you have the type in Denmark. Smiley

I was waiting for your reply Wink I'm sure that most people in the deep south is quite nice. It's just that a lot of what is "comme il faut" like the right to have a gun is very different from Denmark. It the things that seems like obvious and absolute rights that are very different. I'm sure that many Americans would find the lifestyle of many Danes very hard to grasp. Things like our welfare system and our fairly high taxes may raise an eyebrow Wink (oh and why the trucks and big cars. I looks so silly when some youngster byes an American (That's what we call the cars Cheesy) and tries to drive around on the not very wide Danish roads Grin )


Very different worlds I imagine. Smiley I believe the right to gun ownership is guaranteed in the off chance that the government should become so despotic we have no choice but to overthrow it and change it back. Smiley
Congratulations on post nr 3000 Smiley

I have heard that "despotic government"-argument before. I find it a bit paranoid and optimistic Wink (you don't really grap your rifle and meet at the battlefield anymore. Those bloody tanks are in the way). But I still remember the surprice a friend of my mother had when her husband died. Hidden among his remains she found a Stengun (British WW2-weapon). She knew that he had been in the Resistance during the war but they had been maried for 30 years and lived 5+ places, but never had he told he about the weapon and every time they moved to a new place he took the weapon with him and hid it again!! Just in case the Germans returned (or the Russians - my hometown is less that 100 km across the sea from former East Germany).

My anti-state feelings make me very sympathetic to the argument, but as Jens points out it's sort of impractical.

What's so funny is that the weapons almost everyone agree to not allow (tanks, flame throwers, etc) are the ones that should logically be allowed, whereas those almost everyone agree to permit, such as hunting rifles, really have very little to do with the spirit of the 2nd amendment... Wink
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« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2004, 04:22:29 AM »

how did you first get interested in american politics?

which region of the us do you find most fascinating?


2. I find New York quite fascinating but haven't really a favorit. The regions that I find hardest to grasp is the deep south and the prairie.

Why is so hard to grasp the deep south and prairie? We are mainly just good hardworking blue collar types who earn a honest buck and work for our families. I'm sure you have the type in Denmark. Smiley

I was waiting for your reply Wink I'm sure that most people in the deep south is quite nice. It's just that a lot of what is "comme il faut" like the right to have a gun is very different from Denmark. It the things that seems like obvious and absolute rights that are very different. I'm sure that many Americans would find the lifestyle of many Danes very hard to grasp. Things like our welfare system and our fairly high taxes may raise an eyebrow Wink (oh and why the trucks and big cars. I looks so silly when some youngster byes an American (That's what we call the cars Cheesy) and tries to drive around on the not very wide Danish roads Grin )


Very different worlds I imagine. Smiley I believe the right to gun ownership is guaranteed in the off chance that the government should become so despotic we have no choice but to overthrow it and change it back. Smiley
Congratulations on post nr 3000 Smiley

I have heard that "despotic government"-argument before. I find it a bit paranoid and optimistic Wink (you don't really grap your rifle and meet at the battlefield anymore. Those bloody tanks are in the way). But I still remember the surprice a friend of my mother had when her husband died. Hidden among his remains she found a Stengun (British WW2-weapon). She knew that he had been in the Resistance during the war but they had been maried for 30 years and lived 5+ places, but never had he told he about the weapon and every time they moved to a new place he took the weapon with him and hid it again!! Just in case the Germans returned (or the Russians - my hometown is less that 100 km across the sea from former East Germany).

My anti-state feelings make me very sympathetic to the argument, but as Jens points out it's sort of impractical.

What's so funny is that the weapons almost everyone agree to not allow (tanks, flame throwers, etc) are the ones that should logically be allowed, whereas those almost everyone agree to permit, such as hunting rifles, really have very little to do with the spirit of the 2nd amendment... Wink
Wink Imagine driving through Alabama and looking at all the pretty tanks, heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns in the front yards, sweeet Grin
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« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2004, 08:40:36 AM »

how did you first get interested in american politics?

which region of the us do you find most fascinating?


2. I find New York quite fascinating but haven't really a favorit. The regions that I find hardest to grasp is the deep south and the prairie.

Why is so hard to grasp the deep south and prairie? We are mainly just good hardworking blue collar types who earn a honest buck and work for our families. I'm sure you have the type in Denmark. Smiley

I was waiting for your reply Wink I'm sure that most people in the deep south is quite nice. It's just that a lot of what is "comme il faut" like the right to have a gun is very different from Denmark. It the things that seems like obvious and absolute rights that are very different. I'm sure that many Americans would find the lifestyle of many Danes very hard to grasp. Things like our welfare system and our fairly high taxes may raise an eyebrow Wink (oh and why the trucks and big cars. I looks so silly when some youngster byes an American (That's what we call the cars Cheesy) and tries to drive around on the not very wide Danish roads Grin )


Very different worlds I imagine. Smiley I believe the right to gun ownership is guaranteed in the off chance that the government should become so despotic we have no choice but to overthrow it and change it back. Smiley
Congratulations on post nr 3000 Smiley

I have heard that "despotic government"-argument before. I find it a bit paranoid and optimistic Wink (you don't really grap your rifle and meet at the battlefield anymore. Those bloody tanks are in the way). But I still remember the surprice a friend of my mother had when her husband died. Hidden among his remains she found a Stengun (British WW2-weapon). She knew that he had been in the Resistance during the war but they had been maried for 30 years and lived 5+ places, but never had he told he about the weapon and every time they moved to a new place he took the weapon with him and hid it again!! Just in case the Germans returned (or the Russians - my hometown is less that 100 km across the sea from former East Germany).

My anti-state feelings make me very sympathetic to the argument, but as Jens points out it's sort of impractical.

What's so funny is that the weapons almost everyone agree to not allow (tanks, flame throwers, etc) are the ones that should logically be allowed, whereas those almost everyone agree to permit, such as hunting rifles, really have very little to do with the spirit of the 2nd amendment... Wink
Wink Imagine driving through Alabama and looking at all the pretty tanks, heavy artillery and anti-aircraft guns in the front yards, sweeet Grin

Though I would somewhat agree with you here I must point out something. The Iraqi insurgents are not using tanks, helicopters, or very heavy artillery. In the original constitution each state was supposed to have a militia (not a national guard). The state was supposed to have control complete over a militia and when the federal govt needed military forces they would request them from the state. In that scenario of the feds became despotic the state could send in the troops. Smiley But my views on how this government should be run are about 100 years out of date, even though I think it's the right way to run it. Smiley
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« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2004, 09:59:50 AM »

ok, followup question....

do the foreigners here find american politics more fascinating than their own country's?
No, I don't. More bewildering at times, better studied at most times, plus I don't know a forum similar to this one...That's why I'm here, really.
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« Reply #29 on: June 21, 2004, 06:17:43 AM »

quick question-how much coverage of aussie elections is their in america? I know the USA is insular (especially in election years), but maybe there has been a bit? Maybe?
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« Reply #30 on: June 21, 2004, 07:31:36 AM »

quick question-how much coverage of aussie elections is their in america? I know the USA is insular (especially in election years), but maybe there has been a bit? Maybe?

You're having elections? Wink

I read in the biggest Swedish paper today that one of the considered VP-picks for kerry was Ohio governor Tom Vilsack. Who is this guy, I never heard of him before? Cheesy
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