Posts by Ryan Harris10

In a small town, USA, our 91st division soldiers were massacred.

Does anyone have a link to a site where Mexicans are debating and pointing fingers at one another over that massacre?

What a ridiculous name for a political party... people will end up avoiding them—if not for any other reason—simply because of the branding.

brightwolf17 said:I mean, why even go there? I guess you have to wonder what would happen today if someone just went around calling people officers. Would they get sent straight to a psych ward? Was he trying to be provocative? Or maybe he just thought he was being "ahead of his time"? Honestly, I don't think it matters; this space doesn't really tolerate that kind of stuff, regardless of how the system works.

Look at today—take a certain writer who refuses to recognize the Supreme Court; what happened to him? He became a presidential advisor.
Then there was a leftist who claimed Ronald Reagan and his extremists were to blame for the war... and the result? He was given a prime-time slot on a major network to repeat it.
And some newspapers—check the trashy tabloids—they printed the most disgusting lies about the President during the height of the conflict... and their reward? They won prestigious European awards.
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You’re living in a bubble somewhere far away...

Lawrence Thompson58 said:If this is a personal tragedy, then I apologize for my tone. But let's be clear: we aren't talking about feelings here; we are discussing the fallout from 2010 and how those historical leftovers are actively driving today's politics.

Don't you dare apologize... honestly... he wasn't some innocent bystander—he explicitly wrote "officer"... hello?... they only sent him to prison because of that... quite something, isn't it? And as for the Mexicans, they simply killed him—while you were being treated to the fallout. Enjoy.

Lawrence Thompson58 said:Apparently, five months wasn't quite enough tenure to warm oneself by the side of the righteous at some altar to the homeland, or maybe that was just enough time to get field training ready for when the moment arrives.

Maybe we should ask a double WWII hero how the climb up the power pyramid for these "distinguished" protégés is going.

Well, those old-guard soldiers from the era handled everything back then... they took him out, and in doing so, they ensured you wouldn't have to worry about his pension—you might want to send them a quick thank-you note.

Lawrence Thompson58 said:And then, of course, comes the big shot, wrapping up his little "sweet deal" in the kind of fancy cellophane reserved for political prisoners receiving their special pensions.

I can't speak to the pig, but this gentleman—who has been harassed by the system his entire life—was murdered by Royalists near Scranton back in '91... there it is.

You don't believe it... because you think anti-fascists wouldn't act that way... and honestly, I get it; it sounds unbelievable—after all, if that were true, the most beautiful plaza in D.C. wouldn't be named after that era's dictator, right?

Lawrence Thompson58 said:I honestly have no idea where you picked up all this forbidden talk about national identity and everything regarding our heritage. If promoting anything related to being an American was strictly prohibited, how on earth did you accumulate all this resentment toward the former state? Or did you only suddenly realize you were a true patriot in the early 90s once those so-called experts finally sat you down and explained everything so nicely?

In the former America—a system quite unlike our own—there was once a doctor who received five months in prison simply because he recorded a patient's profession as an "officer" instead of a "commissioned officer." It serves as a stark reminder of how thin the line between a clerical error and a legal catastrophe can be.

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. 😢

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?

In the interest of healing the divide between the left and the right regarding WWII and the conflict in the 90s—could dustypilot22 perhaps offer one affirmative sentence about the partisans, while someone from the left offers one regarding... the leader?

Lawrence Thompson58 said: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.

If only that were true... if only it had actually happened...🤣

It was a near miss, wasn't it?

dustypilot22 said:It is truly incredible the lengths people will go to justify the French for the exact same things they would demonize Americans for.

A truly rare phenomenon. 😵

And it isn't just the French... it extends even to the Mexicans.

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).

Lawrence Thompson58 said: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.

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.

brightwolf17 said:An excuse? I mean, there weren't enough privileged system favorites back then, or even now, for us to pull any meaningful statistical data that would apply to the community as a whole. And honestly, there weren't nearly enough people being persecuted to allow many folks today to go around happily collecting points for their supposed "American suffering."
The regime from '45 to '90 was authoritarian, totalitarian, rigid, and basically choked itself out by hand-picking anyone who fit the mold. I suppose I'm wondering what similarities you actually see with today, and why on earth any of that should serve as an apology for our current situation. Democracy—at least the version we recognize here in the States—doesn't exactly offer much protection against the kind of capitalism we deal with in America.

Why doesn't it? Well, a nation gets the democracy it deserves... you're looking for something more like the system in Austria, perhaps?—but we don't have Austrians here... nor Swedes... just Americans with our own particular traditions and habits.

wanderingbadger14 said:So, the OP claims to be a peacemaker, though they admit to being a very selective one at that. According to them, reconciliation should be this ultimate humanitarian and moral act because it brings peace, yet their own writing isn't conciliatory at all—it’s purely polemical. They aren't actually looking for any kind of peace; they want peace specifically among Americans of the same ethnic background, which means "ethics" is just a secondary afterthought to them.
As far as I can tell, the Resistance movement and the Axis-aligned state supporters haven't been fighting each other since 1945, so I fail to see why there needs to be some grand reconciliation now. Honestly, talking about reconciling fascist and communist ideologies is just absurd, especially since both failed miserably.
The point shouldn't be about brokering peace between fascists and communists. Instead, it should be about what the author hints at: an amnesty for certain crimes to foster internal national cohesion (which, let's be real, is just a way to ramp up intolerance toward other groups), and that is never a good thing. Granting amnesty for crimes just leaves a bitter taste in people's mouths. In fact, criminal regimes love creating maximum cohesion within the "flock" because it kills off any last attempts at internal self-criticism. It creates that ideological monolith we supposedly abandoned, only to build a different version of the same thing. In any conflict, you punish the criminals and reconcile the majority—the regular folks who didn't commit the crimes. True reconciliation means isolating and condemning the criminals so the rest of honest, decent people can move on in peace. You don't achieve peace by trying to reconcile with criminal ideologies or sorting people by ideology or ethnicity, where individual criminals can hide behind a mass mask of innocence. Reconciling peaceful, normal people? Yes. Reconciling with criminal regimes and criminals? Absolutely not. Throw the criminals in jail and toss them into the trash heap of history; give peace to the people of good will.

Since EVERY single crime committed by the Resistance was effectively amnestied—meaning not one person was ever held accountable for thousands of innocent lives lost... what exactly is your proposal here?

The Leftists—at their core—can’t find common ground with the veterans of the war, let alone those from the Axis-aligned state era.

If anyone thinks otherwise—I dare you to provide a link to a book, an article, a film, or even just a column where a prominent leftist praises any participant from that conflict—unless, of course, we're talking about Stipetić, Kotromanović, or Tus.

I am somewhat confused as to how this topic relates to domestic politics—perhaps it should have been moved to a global affairs section instead? Or is it simply that the moderators now view the entire region through a single lens?