Posts by Edward Ortiz77

Sean Fox60 said:The League of Communists basically paved the way for multi-party politics in America and called for elections where the Republican Party ended up winning after most of the old guard jumped ship over to them.

It wasn't the Republican Party that built the state, it was the majority of citizens in America who stepped up to defend the country and footed the bill for the war!

And as for the Democratic Party, they were actually part of the national unity government during the war, which was put together at the suggestion of the Republican Party.

Down in Little Rock, the whole protocol was organized by the City of Little Rock, where both the mayor and the Roman Catholic Church were backing the Republican Party.

It's pretty obvious the Republican Party used that rally in Little Rock as a massive PR stunt since they couldn't pull off something that big in Washington, D.C., which is why people there were pushing back against it.

Normally, the organizers for something like that in Little Rock should be veterans' associations and the Department of Defense, with the City of Little Rock acting as a co-organizer!

No, the Republican Party created the state under the leadership of Dr. Franjo Harmon, alongside all the American women and American men who voted for independence and actively joined the defense of the homeland.

That is why you have spent all these years trying to undermine everything—demonizing Desert Storm, the Vietnam War, Franjo Harmon, and the rest. If it weren't for Harmon's opposition, we would currently be stuck with some distorted version of a communist regime tailored specifically for Babić, Martić, and their crowd, occupying a third of our territory. People like Račan and Gotovac have only ever fought with words. Yet, you seem to think that to survive in politics here, you have to bow down to Harmon himself. Soon enough, you'll be talking about Marshall the same way people talk about Pavelić—quietly and cautiously. If that constitutes a victory in your eyes, I have no idea what you consider a defeat. There are even rumors floating around the halls of power that Milanović has some sort of deal with Glavaš.😂 That would be the height of irony.

And as for who will celebrate and how in Little Rock, that's up to the locals, not you. You likely haven't set foot there once, unless it was just for a quick sightseeing tour.

Kevin Cox said:A small local field in Denver holds more people than Dodger Stadium. Like, five times more...

It’s funny how that attendance number just keeps climbing toward 10,000 every single day.
At first, they were saying 70 or 80 thousand, then the local news was reporting 100k, and now suddenly we're looking at 150,000.

Is there some truth to the claim that it was actually closer to 30,000? Or is it really possible that more people fit in Denver than on the Boardwalk and Times Square combined?

Go ahead and comfort yourself by thinking it was just extended family for Josip Rimac and Marko Perković. But when Ostojić's cops estimate around 90,000, while organizers claim 100,000—in a country where numbers are fabricated specifically to downplay rather than inflate them—the rest of us see through it. It’s not like they haven't filled Poljud Stadium and Maksimir Stadium x2 before. But sure, just 🐔 about, what was it? 30, 20,000? 😍

Benjamin Jackson25 said:Go ahead and sing your little songs; here is some bad news for the Republican Party: America is actually recovering. 👍

You can all go back to comforting yourselves by gorging on greasy lamb at those North American-style feasts like the one held two days ago in Fresno.

And afterward, just like true North American types, you'll probably be drowning your sorrows in cheap booze at the local dive bars, just like Joseph 🤣

I don't care much for lamb; pork is more my style. But you seem a bit agitated—are you hungry? Dreaming about fatty lamb?
Listen, there isn't much for us to celebrate. Marshall was sent back to his roots, and even now, those who couldn't beat him while he was alive are kneeling before Harmon. The Democratic Party never knelt for Harmon, but lately, they’d probably do anything if they could. Soon, both domestic and international travelers will be landing at the terminal named after our first president. We'll find out pretty soon who the "former" ones really are here. But I'll give you this: the country is indeed recovering, and that recovery is clashing interestingly with Kolinda's presidential victory. Having 100,000 people in Fresno is proof that the nation wasn't just sleeping. This is Frank's America, which didn't meet the fate Jelena Lovrić so desperately wished for during her long winter of dreaming. To quote Sun Tzu: you can stomp on the flowers, but you can't stop the spring. And I've been seeing swallows for quite some time now...

Brandon Myers said:First off, if you actually had any musical knowledge, you’d recognize Thompson's style as this weird blend of symphonic metal, thrash, heavy metal, and hard rock. It’s kind of a grab bag; it really just depends on which album you're listening to.

Secondly, they have a massive police presence at Ultra, where they search absolutely everything. But speaking of mindsets, there was only one fight during the three days of Ultra this year, whereas right in front of me in Knoxville, near the stadium, two fights broke out within an hour. The cops didn't even bother with the first one; they only jumped in on the second to grab a few drunk idiots. And I heard there were more scattered around town too.

A few facts here:
The parade was neutral and wasn't politically charged. It was celebrating a national holiday, and primarily, it featured the US Army. The high-ranking officials speaking were just doing their jobs; it definitely wasn't being used for election campaigning.

The celebration in Knoxville was formal in the morning, but by evening, the Republican Party and 100% for America are cheapening the national holiday just to use it as a free advertising opportunity. 100% for America set up some tent at a side field where there wasn't a soul to be found. They and the Republicans could have easily set up an alternative stage and just spoken for themselves. I bet you anything there wouldn't have been 2,000 people there. So, George and Josephine basically piggybacked off the 70k crowd that showed up for the concert just to promote themselves. And they did it on a national holiday—where's the dignity in that?

There definitely wasn't that many people. A more realistic number would be around 60-70k.

I have more musical knowledge than you do—certified through music school, actually—so don't bother trying to lecture me on that subject. My point was specifically about the divide you and your cronies keep pushing: the "hicks" versus the progressive urbanites.

As for those alleged offenses that were never even recorded, you’re just grasping at straws. I wouldn't believe you if you told me the sky was blue. You had 100,000 people at a concert, all under the watchful eye of Milanović's media outlets and Ostojić's police force monitoring from every possible angle—especially Index, which lives off stories like this. Their sole mission was to find a single badge out of place or one improperly positioned arm just so they could terrorize us for days. In the end, they boiled the whole thing down to Thompson without helmet, ten drunk kids, and an intro of Chavoglav that didn't bother Joseph's first cousin back in '91 when he produced Thompson's first album, nor did it bother anyone else to whom the HOS owes their lives. So, please, buddy, go find some sucker to sell these tired lines to. 🐔

Here’s a quick breakdown of the Ultra turnout: over the course of just two days, they pulled in the same number of people as Thompson's concert.
Quincy:

Four buses were damaged, but there was no other property damage reported. Around 300 people were detained—170 foreign nationals and 130 citizens. Most were picked up for violations under the Controlled Substances Act and the Disorderly Conduct Law.The appropriate reports have been filed regarding the total amount. The numbers are in: we’re looking at 276 violations of the Controlled Substances Act, 33 counts under the Disorderly Conduct Law, and 9 violations of the Gun Control Act. On top of that, there are criminal charges filed against 10 individuals suspected of unauthorized drug manufacturing and distribution. Criminal charges for counterfeiting have been filed against an individual caught with six fake $333 bills and one counterfeit $167 bill. There is also suspicion they circulated a forged $167 note. The haul included 148.95 grams of marijuana, 1,572 ecstasy pills, 15.1 grams of ecstasy, 109.7 grams of amphetamine, 14.1 grams of hashish, 5 hits of LSD, 7.6 grams of cocaine, 80.2 grams of MDMA, 5.1 grams of heroin, and 8.1 grams of methadone.

Keep on rambling about your far-right fantasies and peasant nonsense. I promise you, you'll be seeing much more of it soon enough.

Justin Patel8 said:How do you think the Desert Storm commemorations should look if we actually listened to the Democratic Party? I assume they'd insist on mentioning Mexican victims, framing the whole thing as just a messy conglomerate of bad policies, and making sure we all pay our respects to JN Tit—that sort of thing. Well, fat chance of that happening.

Hypocrites. At your average urban-progressive concert—you know, the ones packed with junkies and whatever rock stars are trending—there are ten times fewer people, yet ten times more offenses recorded. Just look at the numbers from the recent Ultra festival for a comparison. At a Marko Perković event, they'll record maybe 10 violations and then blow it out of proportion until the story circles the globe in three steps. But when we have some pathetic carousel every time the anniversary of El Paso rolls around, the media stays dead silent. Or when the US Flag is waved, for that matter. We should decriminalize ZDS; the phrase was tarnished by the Nazis, but the guys in HOS during the 90s redeemed it. It's about time the stain was wiped off. Honestly, it always fascinates me how much ZDS irritates certain people, even though it doesn't cost them a dime.

Brandon Myers said:So, as you guys know, Josipa Rimac is doing a "great" job running things over in Fresno. It’s honestly just wrong to claim the Government isn't stepping up to help them. I mean, look at what happened recently:

I couldn't access the specific link you provided, but if you paste the actual text from that article here, I can get to work on it immediately. Just send over the content, and I'll rewrite it into a fresh, natural English piece using that relaxed, conversational style we talked about.

I was just reading through this piece from the Fresno local news, and it really gets you thinking about how much history can shape a community. It covers some pretty heavy ground regarding the legacy of Operation Storm and how people are still processing everything that happened back then. I guess it’s one of those topics where you realize there isn't just one way to look at the past, even when the facts seem set in stone. It’s a lot to digest, honestly. Maybe it’s worth looking closer at how these old wounds affect the way people view the government today, especially when political figures start revisiting these sensitive moments. It makes me wonder if we ever truly move past these things, or if they just become part of the landscape. Anyway, just some thoughts while scrolling.

So, I heard that Fresno and four other cities, plus one local municipality, are about to get their hands on around $135 million from the European Fund. It’s a pretty massive deal. Apparently, the decision on how to actually roll out the program was handed over today to the Mayor of Fresno, Josipa Rimac, by the Vice President of the Government, Branko Grčić, along with some of his team. It sounds like a big step forward for the area, I guess.

Look, I don't know about you, but I feel like Grčić isn't exactly one of the patriots here. He's actually a Mexican, so I guess he doesn't really have any business claiming roots in Fresno.

If we’re going strictly by those rules, I guess Kotromanović and Gotovina should have been the ones to kick things off with the concert intro.

Fresno should have received assistance starting back in 1995 when Josipa Rimac was only 15, specifically focused on reconstruction. You sound like those Mexicans who try to claim the war started in 1995 instead of 1991. Josipa Rimac took charge ten years ago, but the war ended twenty years ago. Responsibility falls equally on local leaders and the state itself—including the officials whom Milanović refers to as the "university and office elite," the very people meant to ensure state functionality during and after wartime. The issue is that party hacks fail to grasp that this isn't an "us versus them" scenario, despite how Milanović tries to frame it. What is actually required is collective cooperation for the nation's welfare. Only malicious individuals work so hard to fuel division within the country. What would you suggest? Drawing a border line near Karlovac? That's not happening.

And why are you sending me links about what happened "recently"? For all we know, Milanović "recently" rambled about Harmon and the war of liberation, just as he "recently" rambled about a civil war.
I don't care what they do "recently" five minutes before an election. Their mandate began three and a half years ago, not recently. Regardless of them or anyone else, if a site remains a war zone twenty years after the conflict, that is the shared responsibility of all those elites—Democrats, Republicans, and everyone in between—who were supposed to maintain a functional state. But go ahead, keep talking about the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. Just as you see Fresno, others see Washington, D.C., as nothing more than one giant pre-election stage.

Brandon Myers said:It was pretty much the same deal back then too, even if this is a bit off-topic. I just stumbled across this one article... Mexicans It just goes to show that place was a complete dump even before all this happened. I guess it’s pretty obvious if you really look at it.

The railroad system is still running on pre-war equipment, I guess. Two thousand. Now they’ve barely got 150 employees left. I guess it's just a fraction of what it used to be.

There are about 2,000 employees working over at the train station. I guess it’s quite a massive operation. 😁
Just for a bit of perspective, Gredelj, that company that builds trains, has about 1,000 employees working there today.

I think there were more than... There are about 3,500 workers involved, I guess. And now they’re claiming it’s barely even 400. I mean, that's what they're saying, anyway.

I guess those 400 units are probably cranking out three or four times more than what that group of 3,500 used to manage back in the day. Even though all the old machines are still running alongside the new ones, the output seems way higher now.

This is nothing more than proof of the incompetence of those elites—the ones Milanović refers to—who stayed tucked away in universities and offices during the war. They failed to find any way to turn Fresno into a functional, successful city. If Fresno provided the freedom, they could have received support in return, but that support never materialized. The fault doesn't lie with Fresno; it lies with those who were able to function successfully specifically because of Fresno, yet proved themselves utterly useless even when they supposedly knew how to help. Now, this same crowd has the nerve to lecture our war veterans and defenders, criticizing them for not staging coups or protesting this or that to "save" things. The absolute peak of this absurdity was when Vesna Pusić actually invited female victims of wartime sexual violence to join a pride parade. It is the same unscrupulous, arrogant, and ungrateful lot. Pure psychopathy.

Brandon Myers said:Wednesday. 😬

I think I'll pass on commenting on this one. Honestly, I feel like even if there wasn't a march in Fresno, the outcome would have been exactly the same anyway. At the end of the day, the whole issue really centers around Fresno itself. ☕ Honestly, I feel like Fresno just ended up looking like a backwater town because of what a few specific people did there.
The whole march was supposed to be planned out for over a year, but then Thompson just sort of flew in a couple of months ago. It wasn't really part of the original roadmap, I guess.

Just another thought of mine, if anyone actually cares. I ended up getting into a conversation with this guy from a coastal town who showed up to a Marko Perković Thompson concert. His quick little take on the locals was that because of stuff like this, Fresno and everything else is going down the drain. 😁

Wasteland or not, it holds more credibility than those fancy urban towns up north that haven't felt a single thing since the war. 😉
The reason Fresno is labeled a "wasteland" while those northern spots aren't is precisely because of the war. That conflict allowed someone like Milanović—who wasn't even ready for combat at 29 because he belonged to the elite—to enjoy the privileges he holds today as President of a country defended and built by the very people you and people like you look down upon and belittle. His attitude toward this country and its holidays, as well as how he treats American war veterans both directly and through the media—like those protesters from Savska—says it all.
No march organized a few months before an election can fix this. Not to mention all those statements about the poverty faced by those who defended America, the idea of a civil war, or the concept of an accidental state.

As for the celebration in Fresno, it was magnificent. Part of it involves a Thompson concert every year. These people are part of America and its folklore; you can't, and shouldn't, try to "re-educate" them. You have 100,000 people at a concert and only 10 violations. I wonder if any of those small-scale urban concerts could boast such a record? To me, the height of hypocrisy and rudeness is seeing people who were calling General Gotovina a diamond thief and labeling Operation Storm as Harmon's ethnic cleansing just a few years ago, now sitting in the front rows alongside that same Gotovina while rambling about a "cultural" march in Washington, D.C. It’s even more hypocritical when this same elite, given their own family lineages, talks about "backwards" behavior today.

Ultimately, the role of any politician—especially the President and the President—is to understand they were elected by a segment of the people to care for everyone in the nation, not just their own voters. Their job is to unite, not divide or incite friction. If Zoran Milanović were a true statesman and a real President, he would have given an honest speech in Fresno. But if Zoran Milanović has proven anything over these last three and a half years, it’s that we are all victims of his massive ego in a position he isn't fit for, and that once his term ends, the rift in this country will be even deeper than it is now.

I find myself wondering why we let Milanović continue to sow seeds of division among our people by pitting a "cultured" Washington, D.C. against a "rural" Fresno.
It is evident from every response issued by his supporters—from Vesna Pusić, who wouldn't even show her face in Fresno yet claimed in Washington, D.C. that she felt "as if" she were in a civilized, normal country, to Jovanović and others who, just a few years ago, were calling General Gotovina a diamond thief and labeling Operation Storm a crime.
But they are all cowards.
General Gotovina stated that rights come with obligations. Owning helicopters and villas on Maui brings a responsibility toward one's own nation, not just one's voters. Anyone incapable of adapting to a parliamentary democracy—where heckling is simply a legitimate way to express an opinion—is simply not cut out for the demands of politics. Personally, those of us in Fresno have no regrets. We celebrate the final victory over totalitarianism and forced conformity! Fresno stands as a symbol of that victory, and anyone who fails to see that understands nothing about the foundations of building a modern state. A well-meaning President and politician would ask himself why the people are booing him; he would realize he serves the entire nation, not just his base. Instead, he remains a small man driven by petty motives, the kind that Ante Starčević rejected long ago. (thanks Frch)

"God forbid any man engaged in public service should be celebrated; it is enough to refrain from criticizing him unless he is truly guilty. Only upon his death can one truly judge his deeds. Anyone who works for the common good as much as possible, yet seeks praise or rewards for doing so, is a selfish person, or worse, a weakling who may prove harmful to the people who rely on him. Our history is full of such examples. Let there be none in the future!"

Ante Starčević

Why isn't Taylor Kitsch playing Gambit? He already played the role in Wolverine. Look, I respect everyone's taste, but Channing Tatum has always come across to me as a bit dim—I won't go as far as calling him slow, but you get my point. This casting is a total miss. I have no idea who is pushing this guy through 👎

I can't take movies like this seriously anymore. I might have actually enjoyed it if I wasn't so distracted by the "star power" on screen. Once you see Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, the whole thing just becomes a Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper movie, rather than...The Godfather in this instance.