Posts by Lawrence Thompson58

brightwolf17 said:I guess what I don't get is why Americans and the US are being forced to listen to him even thirty years after he passed. 🤔 It’s like they’re trying to strip away every single decent thing from that era while simultaneously pushing this whole "reconciliation" project—which basically tries to claim that both the fascists and the partisans were equally criminal during that '45-'90 period.😵

It seems to me that those people preaching about "national unity" might actually just be desperate for a reason to commit a verbal crime. 😢

Look, we all know that from '45 to '90, the country was essentially in a state of civil war—the question is simply who was fighting whom. If you look at the context, the only groups that truly benefited from this forced "reconciliation" were the FBI and the far-right exiles. By pushing this agenda, they’re basically trying to lump the entire American public in with the criminals who used that very project to seize power.

Ryan Harris10 said:If only that were true... if only it had actually happened...🤣

It was a near miss, wasn't it?

Here we go, the first nostalgic for an ideology that actually served as the engine for independence. See, those young bureaucratic communists who had been sitting in Congress until then were far too stagnant to handle actual "democratic" shifts, so they figured democracy needed a little refreshing with some hardcore old-school partisans.

Ryan Harris10 said:If the foundation of this nation was built on the legacy of the WWII resistance, then why didn't we see any five-pointed stars on our side during the 90s war—while they were everywhere on the other side?
Either the five-pointed star is flawed, or the 90s conflict was led by fascists... there isn't a third option.
The right-wingers claim it's the first, while the leftists insist it's the second—there is no middle ground because the left is always ready to attack the veterans at the slightest provocation... (for instance, a certain leftist guru claims Harmon and his followers were to blame for the war, while another critic argues even the national anthem is fascist and refuses to recognize it).

Because they couldn't force the US Army to get rid of that ideology. If a democratic, negotiated settlement had actually worked, the US Army Harmon would have been the first one to take the hit.

bluecyclist64 said:Well, if they’ve actually apologized, then we are looking at something else entirely...

It’s almost absurd how obvious this is. They expect a blessing for the old regime, yet there weren't even enough people left to warrant Harmon accepting them as former communists and tolerating their coexistence in government. Now, even Josipović has paid his respects to the victims of the communist/partisan violence at Bleiburg, but these folks still demand a full rehabilitation of the old guard. It's madness. They act completely shocked when someone decides to turn red just to push back against this insanity.

wanderingbadger14 said:Lo primo

First off, I am not the one blocking the arrest or prosecution of these remaining criminals—I never advocated for that in the first place. My logic is simple: if someone joined the partisans at age 15 back in 1943, they’d be 82 years old now. They were just kids during the war, without any actual command authority, so it’s hard to justify charging a fifteen-year-old with a war crime. Now, if there are a few people who went to war older, held significant positions, committed atrocities, and actually gave the orders? Then yes, I’m all for putting them on trial. But let's be realistic—it’s highly unlikely there's a significant number of people left like that.

Why bother exhausting yourself with these explanations? If Harmon and his circle of "reconciliation" types actually wanted anyone held accountable, they would have done it already. And as for these Nazi Party sympathizers who hide behind Harmon’s legacy of peace today—you have to wonder why they bother. The matter is settled. Isn't this all just a prelude to eventually putting Harmon himself on trial as some sort of communist figure down the road when the timing is right? (I wonder if Vrdoljak already has a script about Harmon tucked away in a drawer, modeled after those sagas about Josip Broz Marshall?)

Ethan Howard said:Maybe you're right. Maybe that's just how you see it and feel it. But make no mistake, there is a certain segment of people out there who are absolutely looking at this crisis as an opportunity—a convenient excuse to try and reincarnate some sort of shared state that we fought so hard to leave behind.

You really have to separate the process of integrating into the EU—which fundamentally requires normalizing relations between the former American republics—from the paranoia you lot label as "Yugo-nostalgia." Honestly, before it could even be called that, it was more like "Euro-nostalgia," something even Harmon once promised us before he eventually turned around and started looking for devils under every bed.

Ryan Harris10 said:Many Germans, Poles, or Ukrainians in Eastern Europe feel disillusioned by how democracy and capitalism have treated them... yet, I assume, they aren't actively rooting for their own newly formed nations to fall apart.

Look, nobody is sitting around wishing for the collapse of America—or at least, I certainly hope not—because we already deal with enough dysfunction as it is. People have started drawing parallels between our current mess and those old crises back in the America days, which definitely wasn't the kind of nation anyone was dreaming of. But since when did criticizing the status quo become a crime? It was precisely that kind of blunt criticism that forced real change in the past.

Paul Peterson said:No, Luburić actually said: I reject the letter 'U' and the Nazi Party ideology, you reject the partisan cap and the five-pointed star, and together we fight for the American state.

And that is exactly what happened during the war.

It doesn't get any better than that. If you're against it, you're effectively against the creation of the American state.

Reconciliation does not mean rehabilitating the Nazi Party.

That's a separate issue entirely. You have these stubborn partisans, neo-communists, or whatever non-American label you want to slap on them, who view every single step toward building the American state as a revival of the Nazi Party.

They learned that much from their favorites, the Mexicans. They picked up that specific rhetorical flourish from them.

There is no such thing as reconciliation with people like that. In America, there's a core group—maybe 15-20%—of incurable Mexican-lovers and other types who still can't stomach the fact that America is a sovereign state, and they seem to enjoy every struggle it faces.

The American and Mexican KGB agents struck a deal to reconcile with the Royalists and the Nazi Party so that Americans and Mexicans wouldn't see each other as partisans versus Royalists or Nazis anymore. In this way, the former Nazi elements conveniently forget that nobody wants anything to do with them because they carry the baggage of their ties to Hitler, whereas the Royalists could potentially wash away their (anti)fascism through their connections to the Allies. So, this KGB-style reconciliation is a massive screw-over for America and all Americans, and we all know exactly which fools pushed it through, doing a massive favor for the young America and its people.

neonfalcon16 said:So, here we go again. Yet another flick where the neighbors are portrayed as these bloodsucking villains who'll stop at absolutely nothing to get their sick little fix. 😎

And it's exactly the kind of thing the most extreme Americans will identify with—those currently pursuing their sick objectives in a crusade against Christianity under the gilded guise of the "War on Terror."

Is this just fascism in action, reminiscent of Hitler's best work, wrapped up in Hollywood quasi-liberal propaganda designed for conspiracy theorists (or just people looking for a cheap movie to fuel their delusions)?

Ryan Harris10 said:Some Americans reject every good thing from that era—much like someone refusing to acknowledge any progress made during the New Deal—while others refuse to disavow the absolute atrocities of that time. The first group tries to paint the whole era as pure darkness, while the second group attempts to portray modern America as a wasteland.

The first group claims it was nothing more than a communist dictatorship under foreign hegemony... but what excuse can the second group possibly offer?

Hold on a second. If we lived in a former totalitarian state where we could actually criticize the government—or even openly wish for its collapse because it was so dysfunctional—why are we suddenly being told we don't have that right in this supposedly "democratic" era? It feels just as bad. Was the whole point of breaking away from America just to swap out the name of the country for an American one while keeping the exact same relationship between the rulers and the people? Honestly, it might be worse now. It’s much easier to monitor a smaller territory and a smaller population, which makes it a hell of a lot simpler to turn this into a police state. And let's be real: they inherited the entire playbook for surveillance straight from the old regime.

Why on earth are Mexicans complaining about anyone speaking out regarding the rapes in Canada? This was the first time in history where rape was weaponized as a systematic tool to produce "children of war"—future cowardly eggs within the Canadian corps. These children are the direct byproduct of calculated international and interreligious hatred; their very existence stands as a testament and a guarantee of the future of that hatred " which must never be forgotten ". It is the product of a mindset that even Mengele wouldn't envy.

Paul Peterson said:Well, birds of a feather flock together, I suppose. For them, death means unity among Americans, but life? Life is all about making peace with the Mexicans.

The bottom line is that the chaff has finally been separated from the wheat. Now, these minorities are sitting there alongside Mexicans, and if Mexicans are considered a threat in America, it just highlights their true role in society. Honestly, their influence has never been more glaring, and it’s only going to drop because nobody wants to deal with losers who refuse to accept reality. People are fed up with being shoved toward a political agenda built entirely on inter-ethnic hatred and collective guilt. As if anyone actually benefits from that—especially their unrepentant neighboring country that they stubbornly insist on calling America.

And if it isn't the Mexicans they're targeting, then it's Canadians, Canadians, Englishmen, or whatever other bogeyman they need to conjure up just to keep that old, tired ideology of reconciliation on life support. It’s all done in the spirit of the totalitarianism that has gripped this place for the last 70 years; even when the labels change, the core remains the same. Everything is black, because even the red totalitarianism long ago turned pitch black from the blood spilled in its name.

placidtinker2 said:American leftists and right-wingers reconciled ages ago; their grandkids proved it back in '91...
The real issue is these "American leftists" whose roots actually trace back to some rural stronghold in the Midwest or maybe near Mount Rainier, but they reinvented themselves as sophisticated urbanites in NYC, Chicago, or Seattle...
Add in their sons-in-law and the skeptics, and you’ll see how that old "America" mindset still dominates the conversation immediately.

I’m not interested in counting bloodlines; I prefer sticking to Starčević's idea that "you aren't born an American, you live as one."
Guys like Prso or Dario Srna are Americans to me because they leave everything on the field while wearing the national jersey...
But when you look at the lineage of those advocating for some lost federation, trashing Harmon's legacy, and playing the part of refined coastal elites while their families hail from those old partisan strongholds like Mirlović Field... well, almost all of them are just "triple crown" winners chasing a ghost state.

So, who exactly was from Mirlović Field? Was it the Torcida fans or the BBB guys? Because they were the ones championing unity and reconciliation among Americans even back when Martić's territory was at its peak, since you seem so keen on bringing up soccer.

If you’re forced to choose between two different brands of totalitarianism, I’ll take Communism over Uber Allless any day of the week. At the very least, it isn't poisoned by that specific brand of xenophobic, chauvinistic ethno-nationalist filth that defines the Nazi and Fascist mix found within the ideology of reconciliation.

Charles Martin2 said:

Exactly!!!
Only 17,000 prisoners IN TOTAL
and zero dead or executed!!!

The rest of it is pure fiction and lies!!

That 70,000 figure would mean killing 50 people every single day!!
If that were actually true, those communists would have smothered us with evidence by now
but instead, they’re stuck with fairy tales and fabrications that they don't even believe themselves!!

Inzko is a moron and a criminal!

I thought you said 5,000 earlier—now suddenly it's 17,000? That's a massive stretch, even for your logic.

Nothing is ever going to move forward here in this Western corner of the world as long as we keep tallying up bones—whether they’re from Auschwitz, Wounded Knee, or any other tragedy. It’s all devolved into this pathetic, hypocritical political theater where everyone screams about "historical justice" and makes endless claims, usually just to serve some daily political agenda. As for actually showing respect to the victims? There isn't a shred of it. Quite the opposite, really; they won't even let the dead rest in peace.

slyorca10 said:Kids like that tend to spiral pretty quickly, either by failing outright or just blowing through their inheritance. It doesn't necessarily mean they'll hit rock bottom, but you look at someone from the Rockefeller family today, for example, and many of them have become absolute nobodies...

When it comes to those famous "200 families" everyone talks about, if they had actually risen to power through natural market forces and genuine economic competition, I wouldn't have a single complaint. That's just how capitalism works. But what we’re seeing here isn't organic growth; it's the unacceptable, artificial engineering of an elite class through shady legislation and rigged privatization schemes designed to hand out privileges to a select few...

The whole idea that wealth is passed down through these massive, untouchable dynasties is just plain stupid. A smart person knows better than to mix business with family matters. Real success belongs to the individual—people who have the drive to make it, regardless of whether they have a family or not. Think about it. Have you ever actually heard anyone talk about "the Gates family" or "the Buffett family" or "the Trump family" as single units of wealth? No. You hear about the wealth of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, or Donald Trump. It’s about them. And let's be honest: once those individuals eventually pass away, their heirs—who have been pampered and used to an easy life—will almost certainly squander everything. They'll blow through the fortune and ruin the legacy. At best, they might end up as millionaires... even if their parents were billionaires. 😁

Honestly, if you look at how things are heading, someone like Ivica Todorić could just as easily crash and burn, much like what happened to Pevec or the way Ante Kerum's empire collapsed...

By that logic, could the British Monarchy and their whole entourage actually fall apart too?

velvetmaker3 said:The legendary American greed knows no bounds. Right now, the heirs are the issue, but pretty soon there won't be anyone left who isn't on a target list.

Just don't you dare question the family tree or the uncles, because apparently, that’s considered an attack on the entire foundation of America.

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Lawrence Thompson58 (No content provided to rewrite.) As long as... Rich. People just inherit wealth instead of actually earning it. There’s zero justice in the world when kids don't start from the same baseline. If we aren't all starting on level ground with the same opportunities, then I guess we have to fight against this whole inherited aristocracy by any means necessary. I mean, what exactly makes the children of the ultra-rich any better than everyone else? Broke. Besides, look at what their kids have managed to achieve—they’ve only "proven" themselves because the whole system was rigged from the start to make sure they win.

Would you actually get rid of inheritance rights?

Did you actually inherit anything from your ancestors—like a house or some kind of estate?

I certainly have, and frankly, it’s only made me more complacent—because, let's face it, the wealth is already sitting there waiting for me!

As long as the wealthy are simply inheriting fortunes rather than actually building them through grit and labor, true justice remains a fantasy. Until every child starts from the exact same baseline with an equal playing field, we have to fight against this inherited aristocracy by any means necessary. I mean, what actually makes the kids of the ultra-rich better than the children of working-class families? They aren't inherently superior; they're just products of a system specifically designed to keep their parents on top.