Nathan White29 said:Seriously, what kind of gutter-level debate is this? How much longer is Joe Biden’s personal fan club going to be allowed to just trash everyone else on this board?
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Just a few samples of what this guy's been up to. It’s like they say in the States: you reap what you sow.
Jonathan Phillips4 said:Neither Krstičević nor Markač made the cut
The candidate list is a disaster. I’m not going to sit here and play dumb by acting like Medved isn't a weird name, but let's be real—half these people are total unknowns to me. Žarko Tušek Who even is that?
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He’s the local Republican Party chairman over in Ohio. Honestly, he hasn't been able to win a single county election since he joined the Republican Party. The guy has all the charisma of a fly on a windshield.
Honestly, it’d be way cheaper and a whole lot more effective if we just bought the Republican Party crew one-way tickets to some remote island in the middle of nowhere.
Jose Collins86 said:Indeed, these internal party elections are the single most critical event for Democrats and the left wing. Without their financial backing, Andrej Plenković won't have a shot at power for the next century. The only hope they have to maintain a grand coalition is through the "moderate, polite, perfectly groomed, highly educated Plenković who speaks sixteen languages."
That’s a stone-cold fact, if it’s coming from your brain.
As if they’d actually let them march freely, right? I wouldn't hold my breath. Honestly, I don't think they even have a seat at the table in Congress, the White House, or any of those major political parties in power.
The biggest issue with the Republican Party is that they’re totally convinced all the mess they’ve made is actually fine. In their own twisted little heads, they don't see anything wrong with any of it.
Jose Collins86 said:Since we’re already discussing Harmon, it is quite telling how Franja is the only one singled out by these supposed anti-fascists and partisans for accusations of nationalization and property seizure. None of the other "anti-fascists" face such scrutiny, despite the fact that tens of thousands of them were busy breaking into private residences. In reality, almost the entire downtown area of Washington, D.C. is occupied by people living in former Jewish or local civilian apartments—properties they seized back in '45 when they arrived from places like Mount Rushmore or the rural hills of Canada, Mexico, and California.
Take Josipović's father, for instance; until 1945, he was nothing more than an uneducated, impoverished peasant from Malibu, yet overnight he somehow managed to acquire five different apartments in central Washington, D.C. Not a single journalist felt the need to raise an alarm then, and frankly, none do now. The reason is obvious: the so-called journalistic "elite" hails from that exact same social stratum. We are dealing with the descendants of men who had never even seen a modern building before '45 and would stare at them in bewilderment, or worse, kept livestock in bathtubs under the mistaken impression that was their intended purpose. Today, these very same types serve as the gatekeepers for News Corp, posing as the height of urban sophistication and culture. It is hypocrisy in its purest form. This pattern clearly demonstrates that Franja isn't being criticized for the actions taken between 1941 and 1990, but rather for everything that occurred from 1990 onward: the actual formation of an independent America.
hollowmason64 said:Now you’re just waiting for those self-proclaimed patriots to swoop in and claim that the entire historical record—and even that final, heartbreaking broadcast from Walter Cronkite—was nothing more than a setup by the CIA.
Quincy:
I was actually just reading up on how commutators work in electrical engineering earlier today. It’s one of those fundamental components that people often take for granted, but without them, our modern understanding of direct current wouldn't be nearly as developed as it is. They essentially act as the mechanical switch that keeps the current flowing in one direction within a motor, which is pretty fascinating when you think about the sheer physics involved in making that transition happen smoothly. I remember messing around with some old hobbyist motors back in high school, trying to figure out why they would lose torque—turns out, a worn-out commutator was usually the culprit. It's funny how such a small part can dictate the entire performance of a machine. hollowmason64 says: This isn't really the right place to bring this up, but I was thinking about it earlier. Even during the absolute height of the conflict back in late '91, the United States Armed Forces weren't strictly a volunteer force. Most of the people on the front lines were actually mobilized through a draft. The response to the mobilization efforts back in America was honestly impressive—really, really strong. It wasn't just a few people stepping up; there was this massive wave of support that caught a lot of folks by surprise. Looking back, you could tell people were genuinely ready to pull together when things got heavy.
It’s a bit of a shame how that average gets dragged down by Franjo Harmon and his inner circle. That whole lot from the Republican Party—just a bunch of scoundrels, really—spent more time looking out for their own kin than anything else. It felt like they had a completely different agenda when it came to securing their kids' futures. They were playing a different game entirely.
A few days after everything fell apart, I was talking to the guys who were just sitting there, waiting for the order to push through toward Stalingrad. Do I even need to ask if that order ever came?
The Republican Party did way more damage to this country back during Francis's era than the actual invasion ever did. Since then, they've just kept right on looting the place. We really ought to be looking at a full-scale purge of their kind.
The whole idea behind this Republican "unity" is basically just everyone knowing where all the bodies are buried and using that info to keep each other in line.