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How History Books Will Remember The Government Shut Down: A Masterpost

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sodomymcscurvylegs

You know we’re in the dark timeline when Stephenie Meyer has minded her own damned business for years and J.K. Rowling keeps tumbling down the metaphorical steps of murdering her own universe and personal character in the public eye for everyone to see.

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Like, if in 2008 you had told me Stephenie Meyer would quietly retire and stay in her lane instead of continuing to write weird Mormon fantasy with nothing but white characters and J.K. Rowling would be on Twitter spouting some shit like “THE GOBLET OF FIRE WAS ACTUALLY ONCE A TRANS WOMAN, I’VE BEEN SITTING ON THIS SINCE 1986!” I’d say you were a fucking liar.

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But here we are.

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charlesoberonn

Norwegian prisons are nicer than my apartment.

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holy shit dude

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I was really shocked by this and dubious, so I decided to read further. There’s a great article about this here: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35813470

As it turns out, this is more like a halfway house. Prisoners usually begin their term in a prison more like one we’d typically recognize - bars on the windows, locked in their cells. But the emphasis there is on successful reintegration into society. 

As their sentence progresses, with good behavior, they can move into a facility more like this, where their freedoms are still restricted, but they can do things like network with people outside of prison, search for employment, cook and clean and look after themselves, and begin making plans for their reintegration into society. 

As a result, Norway has one of the lowest rates of recidisvism. 20% as opposed to America’s 76%. 

It seems like a shocking idea to us because of where and how we live, but apparently, Norwegians are addressing the real problem. When you take people who can’t function well in society, and then…help them do that?…they….do. Without the crime-ing. 

daxwashere

Turns out treating people like human beings makes them more likely to act like human beings….

liquidsodanium

But won’t that incentivize some people to go back there since they get treated so well and get a nice room versus the streets?

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If you read the post above, it says Norway’s recidivism rate - that is, the rate of released criminals who go on to be arrested again - is 20% versus 76% in the United States, so for the most part, no.

thesallowbeldam thesallowbeldam

Isn’t that white-lined black cross on a red field flag a Nazi flag? Are we going to talk about how wonderful it is a Nazi gets a nice halfway house?

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flyawaysaturday

Wow, people will really try to twist anything to stop their worldview from changing.

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sodomymcscurvylegs

Historians: …well, we can’t really say these historical figures were “gay,” because “gay” and “homosexual” are very modern identities. In different times people had very different views of sexuality.

Me: …so, by that same idea, I guess we can’t say they’re straight either, right?

Historians:

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quousque

This is what I’ve been saying. No one in history was straight until very recently.

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