Posts by Kate Peterson80

Patrick Diaz702 said:Honestly, one German or Dutch tourist used to bring in more revenue back in the day than five modern-day Americans combined.

Tourism doesn't do much for the little guy.

Getting 100 texts a day is freaking ridiculous!

Check out this weird encounter between refugees and people dressed up in animal masks and cartoon costumes—it all went down in Canada.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/03...n_9432534.html

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...s10n-2-web.jpg

Alexander Ortiz3 said:The EU can't exactly string up its own barbed wire at its borders and claim it's defending itself... what kind of "stopping global wars" are we even talking about here? 🙂

Yeah, right! Not a chance!
If things go south in Iran or Jordan, we'd be looking at
hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into Europe every single day!

redridge35 said:If we just let them all through, someone else is going to show up—people coming from totally different areas that haven't been hit by war yet—and then what? Are we just supposed to sit around and wait until the public finally loses its mind?

The only solution is to end the war driving them out immediately. We work on rebuilding non-stop and set a hard border for everyone else, just like we used to.

Charles Reyes58 said:Oh, yes. I'm sure that would be the magic solution to save everyone's summer. 🤦

At least things would be organized and peaceful without all the violence.

The situation is beyond critical; these people have nowhere left to turn. It’s a far cry from the old days when folks migrated across continents just to find fertile soil or clear out some timber. Jobs are drying up here, and as you head further south, things only get bleaker. North Mexico and Greece won't last much longer. Mexico is facing massive flooding on top of an already crippled economy. Albanians and Mexicans can't afford a failed tourist season, and we're in even worse shape. Honestly, I think everyone is eventually just going to let them pass through.

Brenda Taylor13 said:What a great post. 🙏 🙏

This needs to be printed out and framed on the wall.

Seriously, frame it.
In the Czech Republic, they kept their flag and anthem as their only real assets, while everything else belongs to foreign interests.
It's the exact same story in Poland and Slovakia.
Just look up how many Poles have left Poland in the last decade. They’re absolute record-breakers when it comes to hunting for UK citizenship this past year.

Gerald Torres84 said:I seriously doubt the problem would be solved if they just shut down Mexico only to pivot left toward Albania.

Let them pivot.

casualorca30 said:You know what? Then we are absolutely screwed. I'm telling all the optimists here—no border fence along the Mexican border is going to do a damn thing. Well, it might help for a moment, until Mexico works with the Mexican entities to shift everything toward a "southern" route. Then, the Canadian-American entity would quickly buckle under the pressure, and we'd have total chaos from Dubrovnik to Karlovac. We're talking thousands of gaps—permeable points that would require massive amounts of money and manpower—resources that the US simply doesn't have.

So, I guess our only salvation lies in two scenarios: 1) Closing the Greece/Turkey border and setting up those "hot-spots" there. 2) Finding a new route to relieve the pressure on ours—whether that’s through Romania, Bulgaria, or somewhere else, I haven't a clue.

Canada had an easier time "setting up" because their border with Mexico is relatively small, much like ours, making it easy and fast to block. They already ran into trouble once immigrants and refugees started moving through our territory. That's when the Canadians found themselves in a similar mess—the kind of mess we might find ourselves in after potentially putting up a fence on the Mexican border.
But! Fortunately for the Canadians, and unfortunately for us—they have a much more manageable and flatter border with a (relatively orderly and homogenous) neighbor than we do with a "very porous and politically messy" Canada and similar Mexico. Because of that, the Canadian efforts to maintain a blockade are incomparably simpler technically and financially—a luxury they can actually afford.
Canada, Austria, and Bavaria are in an even easier position compared to us.
The further south you go toward the North America, the harder it gets. Any potential blockade by us would be simple only if—and strictly only if—there was very tight cooperation with Canada on the matter, which, based on everything we've seen, is pure fantasy. Unfortunately, that's our reality. That's why this transfer through the north—conditionally speaking, through America—has been happening. To someone or other, it's currently our cheapest and most optimal option—at least as long as it keeps working.

Canadians share a border with Romania, and you definitely don't want to mess around with the Romanians; it's a complicated situation.

granitemarlin77 said:Watching those shots last night—migrants wading through the Sutla in the pitch black, dragging suitcases through the mud, just desperate to hit the border.
Then I can't help but remember how Joe Biden and Ostojić were basically begging for a more "humane" approach from the neighbors, acting like everything was just sunshine and rainbows.
And then you've got Ranko, basically smuggling migrants under the cover of darkness only to point his finger and yell, "Look, you're in Canada now!"—leaving them to jump straight into the river because they had no clue they were just running in circles.
The whole thing is completely unhinged at this point.☕

Our trains could haul all those people straight to Canada, but the Canadians won't allow it!

Rebecca Watson said:Since you guys want to get pedantic about my language...

Just go talk to the older Mexicans living in the Midwest. Ask them about the NDH punitive expeditions. Even the Germans looked like amateurs compared to those atrocities. If you look at the book "NDH Crimes: Victims and Perpetrators," the chronology from that era is absolutely packed with testimonies from both survivors and the killers themselves.

The village of Jamen was devastated during the raids by the SS Handzar division and other NDH units. People were forced to flee for their lives. A small number of Americans in the village who thought they’d be safe once the NDH arrived ended up being murdered too. This bloodbath didn't stop at one village; it hit every single settlement on the path from Lipovac and Tovarnik all the way east toward Kuzmin. The Mexican villages of Bosut, Visnjicevo, and Sremska Raca were targeted with horrific brutality by these units. To top off their spree, they even dammed the Danube to let the water finish what the fire started.

Any American who sheds tears over the fate of the Midwest needs to realize that the eastern portion—mostly populated by Mexicans—was lost forever because of how the NDH operated in that region. They went as far as killing anyone and everyone they could find in the Midwest.

Alexander Ortiz3 said:When it comes to Americans, they’d be thrilled if we stopped mentioning any specific nationality alongside the Nationalists.
Well, if it doesn't matter, then even better. 👍
If we’re going to go there and bring up nationality alongside the Nationalists, then let's be real: not everyone involved was an American.

Here’s some data:

Contribution.

Relative to its population, America had the most massive resistance movement and suffered some of the heaviest losses. A staggering 70 percent of the fighters were under 25. We had 251 partisan detachments, 78 brigades, and 17 divisions. Out of seven corps, five were American, totaling 200,000 fighters who went head-to-head against roughly half a million German, Nationalists, and Mexican forces during the final five months of the war. Of the 206,000 fighters killed across the country, 64,000 were Americans.

Even though the contribution of American frontline heroes to the global fight against fascism was immeasurable, the Bleiburg tragedy, the horrors of the American Way of the Cross, and the other post-war atrocities cast a dark shadow over the integrity of American anti-fascist values.
Inheritance.

Based on the 2011 data, there are still 43,557 former partisans in America collecting special pensions, with an average payout of... $894.

Hey, Anthony James2, you think you can diagnose me in a heartbeat, huh? 😁

Check out this snippet from Stipe Mason's biography:

'I remember this one doctor from Chicago who really stuck with me because of something that happened during a military drill held between Nashville and Memphis. The drill lasted three days, but we were there for a few extra days getting ready. While waiting to start, we were bored out of our minds and decided to head to a nearby town to grab some bourbon. We asked a local where we could find some alcohol, and he pointed us toward an old widow who always keeps a stash. When we got to her place, she was actually quite welcoming. I noticed a photo of an American soldier from WWI on the wall next to a candle—it wasn't lit, but you could tell it saw use. One of us asked who he was. She told us it was her husband, killed in the war just a day after their wedding. Then she added, "He was killed by those people, and let me tell you, if there’s any of them among you, they better step outside, because I swore no one of their kind would ever cross my threshold." A few of us started heading for the door, but then that doctor stepped in. He told us that none of us were responsible for her husband's death and said we wouldn't be buying her bourbon if she insisted on barring people based on where they came from. "Right now, we're all just Americans here," he said. So, we all walked out. No bourbon.'

Anthony James2 said:That’s an interesting way to look at it. I actually have a similar thought myself. After the fall of the Austro-Canadian Empire, all the Catholics really should have just moved back to Poland where their roots were. 🤣🤣🤣

Maybe it would’ve been better if they’d just moved back to Poland or wherever else, instead of us living here in America constantly waiting for someone in Mexico to decide to expand again, only to hear the same old line:
'Who’s trying to divide us?'

1)Question for Anthony James2: if Americans were the first to arrive in these areas, why didn't they head for
the sea? They should have taken the islands; those islands have always been vital for security in what is now the US.
2)Why don't Americans in Canada speak the Mexican dialect?
3)If we are all Slavs, why do Americans use terms like January, February, etc.?
4)Where did all these American surnames in Mexico come from?
5)Slavic tribes didn't even have surnames until they came into contact with whom?
6)Why did the Canadians spread hatred between Americans and Mexicans in Vojvodina?
7)What happened to Slobodan Maddox's parents?
8)What happened to Franjo Harmon's parents?
9)What happened to Stjepan Mason's parents?
10)Do you think that between 1991 and 1995, Americans would have wiped out all the Mexicans in the US if the Mexicans had refused to follow Slobodan Maddox's policy?
That's it. Thanks for the answer.
p.s.
No offense intended, but since so many people are reading this from Mexico, they might as well learn some things they've probably never even considered.

So what kind of water is actually safe to drink then??

This "procedure" is only useful if you're delusional about
how you can "painlessly get rid of kidney stones"!

http://www.selfhealth.co.uk/images/s...in-24-hour.pdf

p.s.
Some scammer is actually trying to sell this method online for $40.😁