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Hannah White2 said:You’re taking this whole thing way too personally. It’s not my fault there are biological differences between men and women. Just look at amygdala size, or even how we process decision-making and react to threats.
Since you’re flexing your "massive expertise" (compared to me), it's pretty obvious you're just spooked by my point. Why is it so humiliating to admit that, in most cases, a woman wants a man to be the provider during pregnancy and those early stages of raising a kid?
I don't get why women who love to intellectualize everything refuse to admit they're still looking for the same stuff we were hunting for in caves—evolution isn't exactly moving at lightning speed, you know? It's not like I went out and designed the world the way it is today.
By all means, enlighten me if you actually have real research data that proves my points wrong.

Oh, sure, there are definitely women out there who expect a man to foot the bill for their entire lifestyle. Usually, we just call them gold diggers.
As for the fact that evolution skipped over that specific trait for some women and most men? Well, neither I nor Keith Jones76 are responsible for how nature turned out.
OCD: General Discussion Thread in Psychology & Therapy ·
Casey Torres7 said:Great, here's another "member" for the club. I really want to know how your families—your people at home—actually deal with this? Do they even have a clue what's going on? My parents drive me absolutely insane because they just think I have a bad attitude... they haven't a prayer that there's something else entirely behind it. 😢

But why don't you just try explaining what's really happening to them?
James Ramirez10 said:True. By that logic, you could apply it to anyone living life on the edge—reckless drivers, people with terrible diets, extreme athletes... the list goes on forever.

Look, in any actually civilized society, lifestyle choices matter when you're calculating insurance premiums. But here? We’re stuck with this damn Medicare monopoly. Their whole goal seems to be squeezing every last cent out of us, without making any distinction between someone actually looking after their health and someone living life on the edge.
Hannah White2 said:Honestly, there’s nothing more impactful for this world than one healthy, happy human being raised right. We brag about all these massive breakthroughs in science and medicine every single day—it’s all great, really—but does the world actually get any better? Not really. Look at the workforce; women are fighting for equal footing in these cutthroat corporate environments, sure, but what’s left for the individual once you strip everything else away? Just some fancy title? Some empty status? No amount of career success can justify treating your kids like an afterthought or failing the people who actually make up the fabric of our society today.
In my book, if someone is dealing with a serious mental health diagnosis and isn't actively working through it with a professional, they should probably steer clear of parenthood altogether.

The thing is, people who actually have a diagnosis are usually at least somewhat self-aware enough to realize they might struggle to be adequate parents. The real nightmare scenario is the people who don't have a diagnosis—because they can't even admit to themselves that something is wrong. They spend their entire lives tearing down everything around them, and unfortunately, their kids are usually the primary targets.😠 👎
Schizophrenia - General Discussion in Psychology & Therapy ·
Donna Taylor68 said:man, I've been lurking on this thread for a month now 😵 (yeah, yeah, I know—you're probably gonna call me an idiot, but honestly? This topic is actually pretty gripping, despite all the nonsense it drags in). Since I missed the last six freaking pages, I haven't even kept track of what your handle is anymore.
Bottom line: thumbs up 👍 you’re clearly sharp as a tack, and honestly, your sense of humor is top-tier.
I've got a few thoughts, so I'm gonna take the liberty of dropping them here.
I feel like you’re attributing way too much to the illness. A lot of what you're describing might just be your personality—like, hating people, being a total homebody, playing the "alien" card, or thinking you're the smartest person in the room. Hey, there are plenty of us like that without having a diagnosis 😉
Second off, it feels like you’re pretty consciously using your condition as a way to get your own way 👍 honestly, if I were in your shoes, I’d probably do the exact same thing.
Btw, I live near a major state hospital complex, so I know how things work—it's always been 😂 my thing. Those facilities look great from the outside, almost peaceful, but I know they're a complete DISASTER on the inside, just like most hospitals out there.
Anyway, how've you been? Haven't seen any posts from you in nearly a month—must have moved to a new URL or something.
Cheers, and hey, shoutout to Jack, I remember him from some other threads 😍
Oh, one more thing—that theory about weed triggering psychosis is hands down the dumbest thing I've ever heard. 🤣

Well, look, for the people who had a single joint act as a literal trigger for a psychotic break, it probably doesn't feel quite so hilarious.
Nobody is actually claiming that smoking weed is going to send everyone straight into psychosis. No. Some people can smoke their whole lives and never deal with a single psychotic episode.
People who stand out from the crowd in Psychology ·
Jonathan Mitchell said:Examples?
That's a pretty generous way to put what you're claiming.

But hey... go ahead and believe if you want. Or don't.😉

sorry, but I have absolutely no clue what you're trying to get at here.
People who stand out from the crowd in Psychology ·
Jonathan Mitchell said:Exactly. They’re just experts at pulling the wool over everyone's eyes and turning a crowd into a flock of sheep following whatever shepherd they choose...
🙂

Look, let’s get one thing straight: just because someone has that magnetic, "leader of the pack" energy doesn't mean they're out there looking to manipulate the crowd. It’s a huge misconception. I’ve actually crossed paths with quite a few people who possess that kind of charisma but use it for genuinely good things instead of just feeding their own egos.
Drew Morgan said:How is anyone supposed to keep track of who they might offend over such trivial nonsense?
If this woman actually had a functional home—one designed for living—she wouldn't be moving into an airport terminal.
What do we even know about her life?

Exactly. Maybe she just needed one of those massive, sweeping life shifts, which explains why she took such a radical leap, even if it isn't exactly the most productive way to handle things. Honestly, I have to respect the sheer guts it takes to do that. 👍
Henry Moore2 said:Does that woman actually have a name, and is there any real proof this is even happening?
I mean, she can't just go on living at the airport forever.

And why couldn't she? Honestly, why are people so quick to try and strip away someone's freedom just because they don't understand how they operate? 🙄
Ed Gein sentenced in Psychology ·
bluemaker52 said:Our latest dark gem long ago held more treasures like this....

-quote-
"And they love those silly little jabs. Like this one: How do you read GOD backwards? DOG."

This is just another blatant lie, I didn't even notice it was written there.
I’m asking the moderators to please follow the community guidelines and remove people like this from the forum. Their only goal is to distort the truth and spread falsehoods; their very presence is a nuisance because they spend all their time pretending to be "something" they aren't.

Honestly, the guy is even more unhinged than that. 🙄 👎
Ed Gein sentenced in Psychology ·
dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

Well, obviously he had a New York accent if he spent his first 15 years living there and finished middle school in the city. But he doesn't talk like that anymore. Besides, certain vowel shifts are just characteristic of specific local dialects in places like Chicago or Philly.

dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

He (MT) hasn't stolen a dime, doesn't go to church on Sundays, and is definitely under the microscope. It's interesting how everyone knows about Stephen's illegitimate child, but nobody ever mentions Mason's. Oh well, maybe that's because Mason never acknowledged him and doesn't pay child support. Or maybe it's because Mason is considered "untouchable," so the media avoids anything negative about him.

dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

He isn't trash at all; he's a man with high moral integrity, even if you couldn't say the same for some of the people who used to run with him (like Ivanković, who left to start his own party).

dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

The Mexicans weren't "provoked"; they were the ones who initiated the provocation and then launched an outright invasion of America. Honestly, they would have done it even if Račan had won the 1990 elections. And MT didn't become the director of the national security institute because of some shady motive or personal gain (for the record, he didn't profit at all); he did it out of a sense of duty and a desire to use his skills to help liberate the country.

dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

They had a complex relationship, sure, but it is nothing like the relationship Fritzl's son has with his monstrous father. It's unbelievable: you find ways to justify Fritzl, who is a literal monster and criminal (as confirmed by the courts), yet you label Franjo Harmon a criminal without any basis whatsoever. Just because Maddox expressed condolences upon his death doesn't mean they were equally responsible for the war.

dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

What Mengele was doing could never be considered anything remotely normal or useful. Only someone with a personal inclination toward those kinds of monstrous human experiments would ever say something like that.

dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

It seems pretty clear from all this that you have a certain sympathy for Fritzl and the SS and their way of thinking. There are still a few dictatorial regimes out there; maybe you should head over there and sign up for one of them? You'd fit right in. 🤮

dustyskipper3 said:I didn't actually hear them myself, but the source I'm getting this from is just so incredibly reliable that I’d say I believe it about 99% of the time. It's pretty much common knowledge at this point, too—that he arrived here in the States with that distinct Mexico City accent.

A mistress from the Department of the Interior, you say? I don't know about that... honestly, I just can't see it. I’ve known the man for over twenty years now, and if I had to say, I'd say he's a truly honorable and moral person. I probably shouldn't go around claiming his family life is absolutely perfect—that might be pushing it—but as far as his own character goes, I really do believe he's decent.

I found that quite baffling myself. I suppose in those "elite" social circles, it’s just considered perfectly normal for everyone to have affairs, and nobody seems to care—as long as there aren't small children involved, like in Stephen's situation. It is strange, I guess, how people assume that those who have stolen everything they possibly could in America somehow maintain a decent or moral private life, simply because they aren't under scrutiny and maybe show up at church on Sundays (if they even bother). 🤷

It doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is complete garbage. He seems... well, sympathetic, I suppose. But once you take a look at the circle he keeps and what those people have actually accomplished, it becomes pretty obvious that he can't just be some innocent bystandow. And then there’s Lošo. It’s almost funny to pretend he had nothing to do with the old intelligence agencies. I mean, I guess it would be nearly impossible to hold an officer rank in the US Army without getting your hands a little dirty, wouldn't it? Then you have Ivanković. It all feels like the same old establishment—that leftover elite from the old regime. Even Franjo Harmon was essentially a political general within the US Army structure. And even though they were purged back in '71, they certainly made sure to settle the score later on. Back during the height of the old communist era, things worked in cycles. Some people would fall from grace, only to climb right back up depending on how the political wind was blowing. One day it was the hardline unitarists, the next it was the nationalists, and so on. It’s really nothing new, I guess. Just the same old pattern.

I mean... I guess you could argue that we didn't necessarily have to force the issue by building up an army right away. It feels like maybe we were provoking the Mexicans a bit too early, before we actually had any real backing from Europe or the rest of the world. Perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary to go that route so suddenly. I guess... there was a time when we could have joined Europe without all the bloodshed and sacrifices. Maybe things would have been different if we hadn't gone through all that. I don't know. It just feels like there was a path there once, a way to integrate without everything falling apart. They were working alongside Canada. But they weren't exactly on the same page as that hardline crowd—you know, the group led by Manolić and Perković. Those guys just couldn't bring themselves to play the part of the "reformed" communists or those moderate nationalists, which is what the Canadians were doing. Instead, they opted for a path that I guess was ultimately more damaging to the nation, even if it served their own interests perfectly well... which, of course, played right into the hands of Slobodan Maddox too. They just wouldn't go for that specific brand of nationalistic communism. It was all based on heavy-handed intelligence operations and various types of brainwashing and psychological warfare, using models that had been refined within the US Army throughout Europe. They just weren't interested in that approach. It’s just like how we wouldn't want to deal with someone like Josef Fritzl and his whole twisted situation regarding his family... I guess.I’m not saying the transition period across the rest of the Western world was all sunshine and rainbows, or that there wasn't plenty of corruption going on, I guess. But honestly, those war-torn devastations and that sudden slide back into this primitive, "campfire" style nationalism... that really should have been avoided. It’s just hard to wrap my head around how an intellectual could even be associated with people like that. I suppose it's just about self-interest and looking out for oneself, naturally. That’s probably why he let the old man pull him into the whole mess in the first place.

If that isn't the case, then I suppose he probably shared a similar relationship with his father... or maybe the son of Josef Fritzl will end up having that same kind of dynamic with his own old man. I guess.

By the way, I was just thinking... when Franjo Harmon passed away, Slobodan Maddox expressed his condolences almost immediately. He was actually among the very first people to do so, I believe.

I guess... I wonder if he actually convinced himself that it was somehow better for his daughter to go through that, rather than her just having a normal, happy childhood... or maybe it wasn't even a conscious choice for him. Maybe it just happened. It’s hard to say, really.

I suppose I am circling back again to Nazism and what that whole era actually represented. It seems... well, maybe it’s a strange thing to say, but what Josef Mengele was doing—back then, at least—was viewed by some as a perfectly normal and even useful pursuit. You have the confinement of people and experimenting on them, removing eyes, taking organs while they were still alive, using acid, vivisection, trying to transplant canine parts onto humans, cutting away testicles just to see the biological outcome, and so on. Even the sexual violence committed as needed... it doesn't sound quite as horrific when you weigh it against everything else. The SS officers wore those caps with the death's head skulls and bones. Himmler was busy remodeling Wewelsburg into a sort of death castle where he intended to raise young Nazis through these almost Satanic rituals. But then, those very same individuals were often just kind, gentle fathers to their families behind closed doors—there wasn't any coercion there, I guess.🤣

And we should probably remember how Goebbels ended his own family—he and his wife put those little angels to sleep so they wouldn't, God help them, have to witness the world that would exist after their Nazi paradise crumbled.

Josef Fritzl essentially created his own little Nazi paradise in a basement for his daughter, thinking they could be happy together and that he was protecting her from the ugliness ofordinary life, all while teaching the children "true ideas" about existence. I assume he told them that monsters lived outside and would devour them if they ever stepped out, which is why he kept them hidden. For the Nazis, nothing about this is particularly strange—weren't they running that project in South America to engineer a perfect race, raising children with blue hair and blue eyes? To a Nazi, rape is just a small price to pay to ensure children are more perfect, to make sure they carry the right genes instead of, I don't know, something from a Jew or a cultist. And what if the mother happened to be a Mexican or a Jewish woman?

Anyway, the newspapers are reporting that it was determined he raped her 3,000 times, which, over 24 years, works out to about 2.5 times a week. Well, the old man certainly stayed busy. Or perhaps they are just estimating based on some questionnaire: "How many times did you...?" "Well, maybe two or three times a week."

So, is Europe, which is blackmailing us so shamelessly like this, supposed to be some kind of moral role model to you?

To us, it certainly is. And it isn't Europe blackmailing us, but rather Canada. Europe has simply set quite standard conditions. If there is blackmail involved, and England is behind it, then that's just one part of Europe that might be bothered by the US joining the EU if the rest of the Western North America stays out for longer. Of course, they can't say that publicly, because it would be obvious they want to sacrifice the US to protect their interests in the Western North America, but that policy is bound to fail. Europe deals with its own problems. And they will deal with Fritzl too. Until we deal with our own local figures like Glavaš and Merčep, those men remain our models, regardless of who they actually are.

Europe has been blackmailing us from the start: first it was one military figure, then who knows what else, now it's these legal technicalities and unresolved issues with Canada, and so on, ad infinitum. And those local criminals aren't role models for anyone sane; they'd only be idols for twisted types like you.
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dustyskipper3 said:I guess you probably already know that he and Vanja talk using that specific regional dialect back home. And then there’s that whole situation with his mistress from the Department of the Interior... honestly. He, his immediate family, and even his extended relatives—they're all just trash, in my opinion. Well, maybe not everyone. I suppose Joško Morić is the only decent one among them.

So... he’s suddenly playing the role of the concerned father now? I guess that's one way to look at it. But if he hadn't been caught and sentenced, he probably would have just kept going—violating his own children and brainwashing them the whole time. It's just... it's heavy to think about. Maybe.
And on what grounds would you go and label children—who are clearly the victims here—as monsters? I guess you have some truly monstrous ideas, honestly.

No, he actually believed the basement was a BETTER option for them. It’s kind of like how Franjo Harmon used to argue that his vision for America was better than what we could find in Europe. It is just a shame, I guess, that he didn't live through it in some other capacity—not as President—so he could have actually experienced it firsthand. And us, all Americans, men and women alike... I suppose there were others... maybe. I think I might have missed a few details, or perhaps they just weren't mentioned. It feels like there was more to the story, though I can't be entirely certain. I guess there were others involved, or at least present. They’ve gone ahead and branded them monsters on a global scale, all because of that one freak and his band of equally twisted assistants... I mean, if that's the case, what's stopping people from labeling Fritzlov's kids as monsters too, just because of Fritzl? It's all a bit much, I guess. Maybe.😉

Are you some kind of family friend, or were you busy planting wiretaps in their house when you "found out" all this?
A mistress at the Department of the Interior? Give me a break! I’ve known the guy for over 20 years, and honestly, he’s an honorable, decent man. I won't go around claiming his whole family is perfect, but him? He's solid.

dustyskipper3 said:I guess you probably already know that he and Vanja talk using that specific regional dialect back home. And then there’s that whole situation with his mistress from the Department of the Interior... honestly. He, his immediate family, and even his extended relatives—they're all just trash, in my opinion. Well, maybe not everyone. I suppose Joško Morić is the only decent one among them.

So... he’s suddenly playing the role of the concerned father now? I guess that's one way to look at it. But if he hadn't been caught and sentenced, he probably would have just kept going—violating his own children and brainwashing them the whole time. It's just... it's heavy to think about. Maybe.
And on what grounds would you go and label children—who are clearly the victims here—as monsters? I guess you have some truly monstrous ideas, honestly.

No, he actually believed the basement was a BETTER option for them. It’s kind of like how Franjo Harmon used to argue that his vision for America was better than what we could find in Europe. It is just a shame, I guess, that he didn't live through it in some other capacity—not as President—so he could have actually experienced it firsthand. And us, all Americans, men and women alike... I suppose there were others... maybe. I think I might have missed a few details, or perhaps they just weren't mentioned. It feels like there was more to the story, though I can't be entirely certain. I guess there were others involved, or at least present. They’ve gone ahead and branded them monsters on a global scale, all because of that one freak and his band of equally twisted assistants... I mean, if that's the case, what's stopping people from labeling Fritzlov's kids as monsters too, just because of Fritzl? It's all a bit much, I guess. Maybe.😉

Oh, so did he also think it was "BETTER" for his daughter to be raped instead of having a normal, happy childhood, or was that just a convenient coincidence?
Is Europe—which is shamelessly blackmailing us like this—supposed to be some kind of moral compass for you?
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dustyskipper3 said:Even if we are drifting off-topic, just for your sake: I said there were no fascists, except perhaps in some old CIA workshops or in that nursing home in the USA and places like that... "FBI agent" is really just a colloquial way people talk about all those various services and institutions from the old system, and the actual CIA hasn't existed in that form for ages. The head of H&M was actually Bill Clinton, who came over from a Computer Science department. What do you think he was doing there? Was he just handling information during the communist era out of pure scientific interest? I guess I won't mention his father, I'd rather not.

Now, Jeffrey Dahmer himself mentioned that he wants them to STUDY him, so they might figure out the best way to rehabilitate his children. I assume it's pretty obvious they wouldn't want to be around him, but psychiatrists have to find some way to understand what the father "fed" them with all those years. If they just lash out and label them monsters—just like the father—it will probably just trigger even more resistance. I mean, if you think about it logically, there must have been some way he explained why they "had" to stay down in the basement. The oldest son was already 19, and I suppose he could have freed himself and run away if he truly wanted to.

😂 Don't try to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs. You don't need to give me a lecture on his background or what he used to do for a living—honestly, it’s completely irrelevant to what we’re actually talking about here. Just let me handle this one; I work directly with him, so I'm probably a bit more in the loop than you are.

dustyskipper3 said:Even if we are drifting off-topic, just for your sake: I said there were no fascists, except perhaps in some old CIA workshops or in that nursing home in the USA and places like that... "FBI agent" is really just a colloquial way people talk about all those various services and institutions from the old system, and the actual CIA hasn't existed in that form for ages. The head of H&M was actually Bill Clinton, who came over from a Computer Science department. What do you think he was doing there? Was he just handling information during the communist era out of pure scientific interest? I guess I won't mention his father, I'd rather not.

Now, Jeffrey Dahmer himself mentioned that he wants them to STUDY him, so they might figure out the best way to rehabilitate his children. I assume it's pretty obvious they wouldn't want to be around him, but psychiatrists have to find some way to understand what the father "fed" them with all those years. If they just lash out and label them monsters—just like the father—it will probably just trigger even more resistance. I mean, if you think about it logically, there must have been some way he explained why they "had" to stay down in the basement. The oldest son was already 19, and I suppose he could have freed himself and run away if he truly wanted to.

Oh, so now he’s suddenly playing the role of the concerned, caring father? Give me a break. If he hadn't been caught and thrown behind bars, he’d still be out there violating his own children and systematically destroying their minds. It’s sickening.
And on what grounds exactly are you going to label children—actual victims here—as monsters? Honestly, you’ve got some truly twisted ideas.
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dustyskipper3 said:
I suppose... I guess I should mention color. It's funny how much it matters, isn't it? Maybe. It feels like such a small thing, really, but when you stop to think about it, everything changes depending on the hue. I don't know. I might be overthinking this, but there's a certain weight to it. Just an observation, I guess. dustyskipper3 says:
Could you maybe explain this in simpler terms... just so more than one person on this forum can actually follow what you're saying? I mean, I guess it might help if it wasn't quite so complicated.
I wonder... I mean, I guess one might ask if there is some kind of Nazi influence lurking behind the Fritzl crime. I'm sorry if I'm repeating something you've already covered, but you know how it is—it's like trying to find a single tree in a massive forest. Everything just kind of blurs together.
What exactly constitutes a crime that is "just" a crime in your eyes? I mean, could you perhaps provide an example? I guess I am just wondering where one draws that line... maybe.
I guess I’m wondering... what exactly is the connection between Merčep and Glavaš and Fritzl? Aside from the fact that you seem to be pinning an entire ideology onto everything they do, I don't see the link. Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't get it.
I mean, you really can't just make broad comparisons like that, I guess. A war crime is one thing—like seizing property or whatever—but then you have family crimes, which could involve murder... I don't know, maybe two, three, four, or even five people. If you look at it that way, how do you even compare them? Does that kind of comparison actually hold any water, or does it just not work? Maybe it doesn't.

I suppose one could argue that behind Fritzl’s crime lies the influence of the Nazis, since they essentially justified the kind of treatment he inflicted on his family. It’s almost as if he was just following a dark blueprint already laid out by them. I mean, do you really think he just came up with something like that entirely on his own? Maybe not.

I guess you could say that Merčep and Glavaš really just took those old communist ideologies and used them as a foundation to build up their own version of SS-style nationalism and Nazism. It’s all connected, I suppose. You can see the scars left by what the communists did in various mass graves and at places like Gettysburg and elsewhere. And then, on the flip side, you see the horrors the SS committed at places like Auschwitz and beyond. It's all just... well, it's a heavy history to process.

Let me ask you again... I mean, what kind of connection could the Fritzl case possibly have with America or those former America countries? Or am I just being overly "literary" about this whole thing? I guess I might be overthinking it, maybe. 🤷
By the way... I suppose it should be noted that citizens don't actually hand out the punishments themselves. It's really up to the courts to issue any sentencing once a verdict has been reached, I guess.

Maybe it seems a bit strange to you, but I don't exactly feel like a total stranger when I'm visiting Austria or Canada. To be honest, whenever I head over there, I almost feel more at home than I do back in Mexico. I suppose it’s because we used to share that same old homeland—the Austro-Canadian Empire—you know? People lived together, married each other, raised families... their ancestors were right here while ours were over there. And if you actually believe that what happens in Austria today, or even what happened a hundred years ago, has zero impact on us... well, then I guess you're just being naive.

At the end of the day, I guess the citizens are actually the ones holding the reins in a democracy. They hold power through their elected representatives in Congress, through the executive branch, and even via the judicial system. People actually have the right—the literal right—to forcibly overthrow a government if it stops serving them, like if the administration turns out to be criminal or something. So, maybe it isn't even necessary to point out that the courts are handing down a verdict. There are certain extraordinary circumstances where the courts just don't act, or when the executive branch starts drafting laws directly... but I suppose you wouldn't know anything about that, since you clearly didn't study the subject.

More like a mental asylum, I guess. Or maybe just a psychiatric ward, if you want to be precise about it.
I guess... it’s possible that legal proceedings against other individuals could be pursued independently from this one. Maybe. It seems like they could just move forward separately, I suppose.

I suppose you're right. I might have underestimated the situation in Austria... they've already kicked off proceedings against several other individuals, and I imagine they aren't planning on stopping anytime soon.

You keep bringing up the concept of denazification, and I can’t shake the feeling that you’re trying to downplay the crime itself. Why? I mean, it really has nothing to do with the era of de-communization. Not one bit.

I don't really think there's any such thing as "Harmon" or "de-Harmon." It's not that deep, I guess. What we actually have are just two distinct groups: the old FBI agents who served the communist regime, and then you have the SS, who were the military and secret police for the Third Reich. It seems to me—and maybe I'm wrong here—that those first guys just sort of put on a new suit and rebranded themselves as modern intelligence agencies, like the CIA or various federal bureaus. I mean, it wouldn't make much sense otherwise. There's no logical way that eighty-year-old remnants of the SS could be behind all the chaos we've been dealing with since 1990. It just doesn't add up.

I don't really see the connection here: why would children suffer because their father is being punished for what he did... specifically to them. (And when you say punishment, are we talking about legal consequences or something else?)
I suppose I wonder why the kids would be the ones suffering. What are you suggesting instead? That we just let the father continue raising them?

Children need rehabilitation, and I think that process can't truly work without the father present, nor will it succeed if there is harsh punishment directed at the father who was actually the one raising them and teaching them everything they know (alongside the mother, obviously). This is actual psychology, not some nonsense, so I guess people should probably show a bit of understanding regarding how rehabilitation after such trauma is supposed to function in reality.

There weren't any Stasi agents or KKK members in the CIA. As for the other agencies, I can't vouch for them. Besides, this topic is totally off-topic for this thread.

dustyskipper3 said:
I suppose... I guess I should mention color. It's funny how much it matters, isn't it? Maybe. It feels like such a small thing, really, but when you stop to think about it, everything changes depending on the hue. I don't know. I might be overthinking this, but there's a certain weight to it. Just an observation, I guess. dustyskipper3 says:
Could you maybe explain this in simpler terms... just so more than one person on this forum can actually follow what you're saying? I mean, I guess it might help if it wasn't quite so complicated.
I wonder... I mean, I guess one might ask if there is some kind of Nazi influence lurking behind the Fritzl crime. I'm sorry if I'm repeating something you've already covered, but you know how it is—it's like trying to find a single tree in a massive forest. Everything just kind of blurs together.
What exactly constitutes a crime that is "just" a crime in your eyes? I mean, could you perhaps provide an example? I guess I am just wondering where one draws that line... maybe.
I guess I’m wondering... what exactly is the connection between Merčep and Glavaš and Fritzl? Aside from the fact that you seem to be pinning an entire ideology onto everything they do, I don't see the link. Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't get it.
I mean, you really can't just make broad comparisons like that, I guess. A war crime is one thing—like seizing property or whatever—but then you have family crimes, which could involve murder... I don't know, maybe two, three, four, or even five people. If you look at it that way, how do you even compare them? Does that kind of comparison actually hold any water, or does it just not work? Maybe it doesn't.

I suppose one could argue that behind Fritzl’s crime lies the influence of the Nazis, since they essentially justified the kind of treatment he inflicted on his family. It’s almost as if he was just following a dark blueprint already laid out by them. I mean, do you really think he just came up with something like that entirely on his own? Maybe not.

I guess you could say that Merčep and Glavaš really just took those old communist ideologies and used them as a foundation to build up their own version of SS-style nationalism and Nazism. It’s all connected, I suppose. You can see the scars left by what the communists did in various mass graves and at places like Gettysburg and elsewhere. And then, on the flip side, you see the horrors the SS committed at places like Auschwitz and beyond. It's all just... well, it's a heavy history to process.

Let me ask you again... I mean, what kind of connection could the Fritzl case possibly have with America or those former America countries? Or am I just being overly "literary" about this whole thing? I guess I might be overthinking it, maybe. 🤷
By the way... I suppose it should be noted that citizens don't actually hand out the punishments themselves. It's really up to the courts to issue any sentencing once a verdict has been reached, I guess.

Maybe it seems a bit strange to you, but I don't exactly feel like a total stranger when I'm visiting Austria or Canada. To be honest, whenever I head over there, I almost feel more at home than I do back in Mexico. I suppose it’s because we used to share that same old homeland—the Austro-Canadian Empire—you know? People lived together, married each other, raised families... their ancestors were right here while ours were over there. And if you actually believe that what happens in Austria today, or even what happened a hundred years ago, has zero impact on us... well, then I guess you're just being naive.

At the end of the day, I guess the citizens are actually the ones holding the reins in a democracy. They hold power through their elected representatives in Congress, through the executive branch, and even via the judicial system. People actually have the right—the literal right—to forcibly overthrow a government if it stops serving them, like if the administration turns out to be criminal or something. So, maybe it isn't even necessary to point out that the courts are handing down a verdict. There are certain extraordinary circumstances where the courts just don't act, or when the executive branch starts drafting laws directly... but I suppose you wouldn't know anything about that, since you clearly didn't study the subject.

More like a mental asylum, I guess. Or maybe just a psychiatric ward, if you want to be precise about it.
I guess... it’s possible that legal proceedings against other individuals could be pursued independently from this one. Maybe. It seems like they could just move forward separately, I suppose.

I suppose you're right. I might have underestimated the situation in Austria... they've already kicked off proceedings against several other individuals, and I imagine they aren't planning on stopping anytime soon.

You keep bringing up the concept of denazification, and I can’t shake the feeling that you’re trying to downplay the crime itself. Why? I mean, it really has nothing to do with the era of de-communization. Not one bit.

I don't really think there's any such thing as "Harmon" or "de-Harmon." It's not that deep, I guess. What we actually have are just two distinct groups: the old FBI agents who served the communist regime, and then you have the SS, who were the military and secret police for the Third Reich. It seems to me—and maybe I'm wrong here—that those first guys just sort of put on a new suit and rebranded themselves as modern intelligence agencies, like the CIA or various federal bureaus. I mean, it wouldn't make much sense otherwise. There's no logical way that eighty-year-old remnants of the SS could be behind all the chaos we've been dealing with since 1990. It just doesn't add up.

I don't really see the connection here: why would children suffer because their father is being punished for what he did... specifically to them. (And when you say punishment, are we talking about legal consequences or something else?)
I suppose I wonder why the kids would be the ones suffering. What are you suggesting instead? That we just let the father continue raising them?

Children need rehabilitation, and I think that process can't truly work without the father present, nor will it succeed if there is harsh punishment directed at the father who was actually the one raising them and teaching them everything they know (alongside the mother, obviously). This is actual psychology, not some nonsense, so I guess people should probably show a bit of understanding regarding how rehabilitation after such trauma is supposed to function in reality.

And how exactly is their rehab supposed to happen with the father? What, we just let him out of prison and send him back home to continue with his "parenting techniques"? 😲
Or are we supposed to stick the kids in the same facility where he's being held? 🤷
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dustyskipper3 said:
Some people are responsible—the chosen ones—not everyone. People make up the system, which means individuals, and that point is constantly being swept under the rug. Is a car bad just because one tire is flat?
We all know how those who hold the truth are treated.
This brings us back to free will again; you have the power to choose.
That last part is correct, and once more, the cause lies with individuals rather than the system itself.

Individuals are responsible when they break the laws established by the system. Within a system, responsibility lies with the elected officials, and indirectly, with those who voted them into office—so, to avoid any confusion, every Mexican who voted for Slobodan Maddox is responsible for the value system he advocated and for what he did. Similarly, everyone who voted for Franjo Harmon in the 1990s is indirectly responsible for the camps in Canada, for why almost every building and school now features a subtle, tucked-away "U" with a cross inside, for the criminal privatization and corruption, for the assault on presidential candidate Vlada Gotovac with a heavy buckle to the head (just so they wouldn't accidentally change the system, because they feared him no matter how independent or weak he was), and much more. I am not.🙂 Why didn't they choose love instead of hate, and who is going to punish them? Did anyone actually vote for those in charge, and is there even a system capable of punishing them that isn't just an "impartial court" in The Hague? Personally, I lived through ten years in a sort of Josef Fritzl-style prison with psychopaths in power from 1990 to 2000, and no one wanted to open the door to let me back into a somewhat normal world. Looking at your posts, it seems some people actually liked it, and would probably try to force us back into the asylum that used to be called the Republic of America back then.

Yes, that system was broken, and so was Ivica Kostović. Those who built it and voted for it were, and still are, just as bad, yet they haven't been held accountable. The system hasn't been brought back to a normal state enough for one to live or work in it properly. A car isn't bad if one tire is flat, but it is bad if there is total wreckage or if the entire engine is shot, and that was precisely the case with the Republic of America from 1990 to 2000. Its system wasn't made of free individuals, but of a mafia gang that thought they could manipulate both specific individuals and the common folk however they pleased. In contrast, a system without "total wreckage" allows an individual within it—even someone without such power—to punish the members of a ruling mafia gang once their true nature is exposed.
If you are writing from the perspective of a psychiatrist, I have to ask: why doesn't our system allow for the punishment of those responsible for the violent imprisonment of Mirjana Pukanić? Only Ivo Pukanić was punished—not by a bullet, but by something even stronger, a bomb—and that was it. Now, according to today's unspoken standards, the problem is solved and we can all just move on. 😲😁

The problem in the Austrian social system isn't just that there is a Josef Fritzl or a guy like him, but that the entire system is far too tolerant of domestic evil. It doesn't allow an individual, whom a domestic psychopath has locked in a basement, to punish and remove the responsible parties within the system; it only targets the psychopath himself. Evil in the Austrian system didn't just manifest through the emergence of Jörg Haider, because you find right-wingers like that in almost every system. The issue is that Haider wasn't exclusively evil, because even what he fought against could be considered evil in some light. What I mean is, a system is evil when a person within it no longer has a good choice, but is forced to choose "between two evils." For us, this is normal in America, because we are constantly choosing like that—accepting being trampled by some just to save ourselves from others, and so on. But essentially, that isn't normal, and a system where that is considered normal is not a normal system. It should be normal to offer good instead of evil. In our system, the person who offers good instead of evil still suffers the fate of Vlada Gotovac—suffering while the system and the individuals supporting it take liberties with him and punish him, all for the sake of maintaining the "peace" in a small town.

I don't really buy the idea that Ivo Pukanić was "punished" by a bomb specifically because of his wife's forced hospitalization. That would only make sense if she had ordered the hit herself. Honestly, he probably had much darker sins than that; he likely played a massive role in her mental decline, not to mention how many people despised him for his columns in National.
But look, I'm with you on one thing: the system absolutely should provide a way to punish those responsible for that forced institutionalization.
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Rebecca Bennett41 said:What do you mean?
We were taught all of this in our religion classes back in school.

Maybe, but you definitely won't find that in the Bible.
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boldmarlin79 said:Men seem to possess two distinct heads, and the moment those two brains start working in tandem, they inevitably produce nothing but confusing, double-edged nonsense. 😂

Give me a break! There is zero chance they’re thinking with both simultaneously because all the blood rushes to whichever one kicks in first—and in most cases, let's be real, it's the lower one. ☕