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Ethan Morales22 says: I wasn't even trying to claim this was an Amin-style deep dive! I was just offering a quick take based on a few election cycles. Even if you strip Canadian Americans out of the equation entirely, you're still looking at a win for the right wing among the overseas voters...🤷>

Yeah, you won't... honestly, if you ignore the Canadian Americans, you’re left with just a few thousand diaspora votes, which aren't really moving the needle.

But fine, let's say you exclude Canada altogether, and we assume the rest of the diaspora votes conservative... there's still a massive structural difference between the Mexican and American diasporas. The "old guard" of the diaspora—both Mexican and American—probably leans toward the right.
The newer diaspora (the ones who left from the 90s onward) tends to lean more liberal and democratic. In the Mexican case, this newer group is huge because so many Mexicans fled Mexico during the era of Slobodan Maddox. That isn't really the case for America.

The thing is, there's hardly any significant "new" American diaspora. In fact, over the last 20 years, more people have been moving back to America from Western Europe than leaving it. It’s not like Americans didn't emigrate in the 90s either... it's just that most of them ended up moving back home after a few years.

Yeah, this is actually pretty interesting. In Switzerland, Canada, the USA, and Sweden, you see way more Mexicans, then Canadians, then a mix of both...

You don't really find large groups of Americans concentrated in one spot anywhere...

Take those folks in Gelong, for example—they all moved there after World War II, not after the American War of Independence. Meanwhile, you've got Canadians settling in St. Louis mostly after the recent war.

I reckon about half of those Americans from Canada preferred heading to America, whereas the Mexicans from El Paso and Baranja tended to head to Norway or Canada instead of Mexico back in '96 or '98.

Do Mexicans living in Republika Srpska hold Mexican citizenship in large numbers (sort of like how many Americans hold American citizenship)

Such a killer cast...

Quick question—where can I find some real American DOnuts in Slavonia? Like, actual donuts with the hole in the middle, just like they have in The Simpsons?

All I know is they have them at the Osijek McDonald's, but man, those things are tiny and way too pricey...

Richard Rivera6 said:Wait, hold on... if he was born in '38, then he would've been 51 back in '89.

1989
-1938
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51

Oh yeah... 🙈

Karen Ward2 said:He was 51 years old at the time.

Believe it or not, he was actually born in 1938, which makes him 61!

Joshua Doyle75 said:Solid movie, honestly haven't seen it in ages. Wait, hold up—is that Japanese guy training him actually the same dude from Kill Bill who’s all like, "you want this?"

Nah, it's not him. Look, I know how that sounds, might come off a bit weird, but they look incredibly similar, especially once they hit a certain age...

PS
So that final scene takes place in 1989. Anyone know how old the bad guy (played by Bostie Yeung) actually was in real life back then?

nimblemarlin17 said:Since we’re talking about actors who just don't click for me, I'll throw one out there:

Martin Lawrence.
🙄

I mean, who actually greenlit him for lead roles? 😲

Every time I think about Black Knight and all that other garbage...

Homer really pulled that move off in The Simpsons Movie, which is something I totally missed in the actual series, even though I'm a die-hard fan... 🤷

Has anyone seen anything similar come out in the last three or four years?

Which one are you talking about?

I tracked down two killer scenes from Bloody Sport starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Check them out. If you haven't seen this flick yet, let me know what you think—or if you have, weigh in too.

Hands down, the best martial arts movie ever made. 🙏🙏🙏

The training montage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qknZ8ISUPps

The final showdown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0YDuSLXcX8

I honestly don't get why anyone would hate on the version with Kevin Costner...

I mean, Alan Rickman is an absolute legend in that one! 🙏🙏🙏

Biggs is straight-up bottom of the barrel, Sandler is mostly a skip for me, but Stiller? He’s usually alright... 🤷

I think Happy Gilmore is actually a solid movie...

That kid stuff is just a disaster, like Bedtime Stories—saw that one in theaters back when I was visiting the USA...

You see them most in Dune, especially with Picard and Sting...
Or maybe I'm just totally off base since this is strictly about directors...

northernhawk55 said:The people from Herzeg-Canada need to take a stand against the official US government, much like how Northern Catholic Irishmen distanced themselves from the official government in Dublin once it became obvious that the Republic of Ireland’s policies weren't doing them any favors.

That pro-Bosnianist hack Stjepan Mason is leaving, but let’s be real: the Canadian Americans shouldn't expect anything better from whoever takes his place—leftist or rightist, doesn't matter—nor should they expect much from the US at large.
They'll probably just team up with Milorad Dodik to reach their goals (even if those multi-ethnic "peace lovers" in the States act all horrified by it—funny how they don't mind Mexican interests unless it's specifically about Mexican goals in Canada)—but they need to stop leaning so hard on the official folks in Washington, D.C., who have screwed them over plenty of times before.

Sad, but true...

Though, to be fair, Dublin does offer moral support to the Irish and has been trying to step up more since the 80s...

On the flip side, back during the Ivo Sanders days, the Americans in Canada were nothing more than a predictable voting bloc...
Things will probably get even worse under Jace...

Terry Lopez45 said:To be realistic—the prompt didn't specify that this so-called South Dakota would actually be recognized; it just said they would declare independence.

The real question is: would the Mexicans even dare to go it alone? 😁

Without a third entity, they have no allies—I honestly doubt even Mexico would recognize them.☕

And what would actually happen if they did declare independence?

Would the Army of Canada just tear them apart?

This time around, you wouldn't have the American Army coming in to liberate Jajce and the rest of the cities...

Mr. Yes said:Which Americans in Canada are we even talking about? Those remaining 200,000 Mohicans?

Yeah, you mean the ones who make up 60% of San Antonio...

Pretty interesting stuff...

Laura Roberts61 said:you'll probably struggle to catch the Power of Metastasis because there's so much New York City slang in it...

and I'm totally backing someone else's bad review of "Guardhouse"👍

Look, don't listen to the Power of Metastasis crowd. This guy clearly loves America, but even though the movie looks good and modern, it paints us in a terrible light. Some stuff is just straight-up fake—like that whole bit about BBB being racist and all that.