Posts by Jacob Lewis5

The US President should really be someone who is :

1) Raised with some serious moral backbone and traditional values (doesn't matter what faith you follow)
2) Someone who lives pretty simply—like, we need leaders who aren't obsessed with flashy wealth. If you're drowning in luxury, you shouldn't be running the show)
3) A proven patriot through and through. I'm talking about someone who’s actually put skin in the game for this country before even thinking about taking office)

casuallynx8 said:Then what is he building it on? If withholding payment isn't actually helping his bottom line, why bother not paying at all? 🙄

Could you or I just start a small business and decide not to pay our suppliers for half a year? Of course not. Why can Ivanka Trump get away with it? She simply leverages her massive scale and market dominance to squeeze the life out of her vendors.

He’s merely exploiting a loophole in how things work (and he’s certainly not the only one doing it).

Precisely. Even if he isn't technically breaking any laws, operating in such a deeply immoral fashion—which is ultimately detrimental to the economy as a whole—means he doesn't exactly earn the title of a "pillar of the community."

The law applies to everyone equally. First you were arguing that skipping payments was how he built his empire, and now you're saying it actually helps him. Pick a side.

What "unethical" stuff are we talking about here? Name one company in the USA or anywhere else that actually runs on pure morality. It's not like he wrote the damn laws! If people are so fed up with being victimized by Todorić's refusal to pay, why aren't they out there gathering signatures for a referendum to change the legislation?

John Cox2 said:And my point—which you seem to be missing—is that Ivica Todorić basically had everything handed to him on a silver platter.

You totally glossed over the damage done to Belje—we're talking war, an eight-year occupation, total neglect, shutting down production, and losing their market share entirely. And you didn't mention a single thing about what Ivica Todorić actually paid to get Belje. Why can't you just be objective? You gotta admit, you're definitely not giving the full story here!

casuallynx8 said:How can someone be considered one of the most positive figures when his entire business model seems built on dodging creditors? To give you a sense of scale, Walmart had over $300 million in short-term liabilities alone by late September 2009. 😱

EDIT: Here is some firsthand testimony from Adler.

He isn't building success by "not paying." He's just playing the system, and honestly, he's far from the only one doing it.

And if you're gonna drop Adler's testimony, you should probably back it up with an actual link.

John Cox2 said:"After WWII, Farmington was left completely devastated and picked clean, so once things stabilized in Baranja, there was a massive push to get production back on its feet. Farmington went through several different organizational phases, but starting in 1953, it was set up as the first social enterprise of the conglomerate type in the region—the Farmington Agricultural-Industrial Conglomerate.
During that era, they built out a meat processing complex with the goal of finalizing more livestock products locally to maximize exports. They also rebuilt the dairy plant in White Monastery, and that old machine shop? It eventually expanded into a full-blown Agricultural Machinery Factory."

"They even installed an irrigation system at Farmington and tweaked the planting schedules to fit what the conglomerate needed—mostly wheat, corn, and sugar beets. Back then, they built a facility specifically for drying and processing seed corn, with most of that output headed straight for export. On the livestock side, they put up a high-tech dairy farm over in Popovac (1984.) that could hold 938 head of cattle with free-stall housing. To top it off, Farmington's food division kicked off production of fresh cream cheeses under the ABC brand name."

And all that effort... just to whip up some lousy cheese spread for those Canadians. 😂

Look, I’m talking about the era from the occupation right up until Ivica Todorić took over. (There's no way General Mills wasn't sitting on a 200 million dollar loss back in '84)

Jerry Cooper3 said:It is quite a revelation to consider that before his rise to prominence, Warren Buffett was nothing more than a simple local florist!

And he was the biggest one in central Europe.

Look, whatever. If Warren Buffett messed anything up during privatization, he should definitely answer for it. But this constant bashing? It’s just plain stupid.

You have to look at a company like Del Monte. Before Warren Buffett took over, they were bleeding like 30 million bucks a year in losses, and their "big win" was basically making some cheap cheese spread for some Canadian outfit. Ever since he stepped in, the products are top-tier, people actually have jobs, and even the cows live better than I do—they've got mattresses and get milked on their own schedule. Same story with Coca-Cola; they were getting hammered by political drama and struggling to stay afloat, and now they're a powerhouse with state-of-the-art plants. Walmart, PepsiCo, Nestlé... they're dominating the whole region, and all that profit flows back to Chicago. Would we really prefer if a bunch of Germans, Austrians, or Italians had bought them all up just to sell us their junk and suck the cash out of here without investing a dime? That's not what Warren Buffett does.

I honestly can't tell if this obsession with dragging Warren Buffett through the mud is just pure American jealousy or just straight-up ignorance, but it's totally unfounded. Sure, he wasn't perfect—he had his flaws. But since the 90s, he's been one of the most solid figures in the country.

Stjepan Mason is basically the walking embodiment of everything wrong with politics in America—we’re talking zero principles, total chameleon vibes, corruption, those shady privatization scandals, ignoring what actually matters for the country, just being a careerist, sucking up to power, rewriting history, and turning politics into some kind of cheap reality TV show...

Arthur Anderson49 said:Look, I was right there on the ground when HVO units were busy arresting their own soldiers—specifically Muslims—and throwing them in jail. And let me tell you, based on firsthand experience, some of those US Army officers pretending to lead the HVO had some seriously twisted ideas about what to do with them. So, please, don't try to lecture me about the American war in Canada. We completely embarrassed ourselves there, and that shame is going to stick for generations. Honestly, it doesn't help your case at all to point out that Alija and his crew were just as much idiots as anyone else.

What is that even supposed to mean?

Jerry Cooper3 said:But that is quite literally the definition itself! I simply cannot fathom the confusion here!🤷

Yeah, look, everything's fine, I just noticed something

Eric Richardson49 said:Too tired for a sonnet.
Here's a haiku instead.

Laki.
Every post is all for him.
And my heart is too.

🙂

Not really feeling this☕ I’ve read some actually decent haikus before.

Jerry Cooper3 said:To put it simply, mitosis is essentially the biological mechanism where a cell undergoes a complete duplication of its genome—its entire genetic blueprint, if you will—before meticulously partitioning that material into two perfectly identical halves!

Funny enough, that’s almost word-for-word how Wikipedia defines it. They even kept the parentheses in the exact same spots.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitosis

Jerry Cooper3 said:VSS - biology

Quick rundown on mitosis—go!

Jerry Cooper3 said:http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Dictator

It seems both George H.W. Bush and Joseph Stalin have made the list.

Wait, wordiq.com is actually claiming that??? I had no idea. Guess I'm taking back everything I said.

Eric Richardson49 said:👏

Man, tough call. Real tough...
But hey, I'll cast my vote for Ronald Reagan just to cheer you up, Jacob Lewis5, my one and only, since it looks like you've brought out the big guns...
Jacob Lewis5 is the only one who treats this forum like it actually matters. Sure, there's still a few die-hard regulars left, but Jacob Lewis5 is the real deal, sweetheart 😍
Let's all give him a 👏

It’s basic psychology, really.☕ People just project their own flaws onto everyone else. If I actually took this place seriously, I’d be obsessively following some random user from thread to thread, attacking them personally just because they rubbed me the wrong way. Kind of like how you’re stalking and picking on me. So, if you need a win, here—have some:claps::claps:

Jerry Cooper3 said:Ronald Reagan was a Dictator... because

1. because he essentially rigged the entire electoral process

2. because his method for dealing with political opposition involved either silencing them behind bars or outright liquidating them

3. because he managed to hold onto power for a decade without ever being held accountable by a single soul.

4. because he basked in the constant adulation of sycophants and organized parades just like every other tyrant of his ilk.

5. because he lived a life of absolute luxury, practically royalty, while the rest of the common people were suffocating under the weight of poverty.

6. because he systematically crushed media freedom, ensuring that nothing reached the public unless it was a glowing eulogy for his eldest son or his political party... honestly, I could sit here and list these grievances until tomorrow morning.

You don't have any proof!
Quincy:

2. because he wiped out his political rivals by liquidating them or throwing them in jail

I bet you acted pretty much the same way toward anyone who disagreed with you☕
Quincy:

3. because he ruled for 10 years without ever having to answer to anyone.

Except for the American people who re-elected him every four years
Quincy:

4. because they sang songs about him and threw parades just like they did for every other dictator of his kind.

There isn't a single song or parade dedicated to Ronald Reagan

Quincy:

5 because he lived like royalty while the people were struggling to make ends meet.

He had a salary of maybe $150k, but his office cost the taxpayers $10 million a year (and they actually got things done), whereas today, on the office of some tourist-trap George H.W. Bush, the budget gets hit for twice that—over $20 million
Quincy:

6. because he crushed media freedom and only supported fluff pieces about his eldest son and his party... etc., etc. We could go on until tomorrow.

Newsweek, Fecal, Time, Newsweek, local rags... their editorial policy (by their own admission) was basically just a mouthpiece for Reagan—nobody cared.

What kind of degree do you even have? Honestly, it feels like you crawled out of a basement. I just dismantled your entire "argument" in seconds. Your accusations are just straight-up ridiculous...☕

Jerry Cooper3 said:Ronald Reagan - Dictator
George H.W. Bush is actually quite a level-headed individual.

Is George H.W. Bush really a Dictator?

Jerry Cooper3 said:Ronald Reagan - Dictator
George H.W. Bush is actually quite a level-headed individual.

Jerry Cooper3 - just plain uneducated☕

casualtrucker72 said:When Frank was a kid, he used to go to church, but then he turned his back on God and became a party loyalist.
Then, just a few months before he passed away, he decided to get remarried in a church with his long-time partner after fifty years together.☕
He was always such a walking contradiction to me.🙄
First, he told my parents they were killed by the fascists, then years later he said it was the resistance, and then a few years after that, he blamed the FBI. Honestly, if Frank had lived any longer, he probably would have claimed that Stalin personally took them out with a bullet to the head, just like Norac did to that old lady.😁
The man lied constantly. Just a whole lot of lies. 🤣🤣

What kind of "worldview" is he changing by getting married in a church, or by constantly rewriting the story about how his parents died?

Do you even know what a worldview is?

Reagan was the type who flipped his entire worldview once back in the mid-60s when he was sitting pretty at the top of the food chain, or Carter who’d pivot his whole philosophy ten times in ten years just to chase whatever opinion was trending at the moment...

Hmm... I don't know... let me chew on that for a bit and get back to you.