Zombies look pretty gross, but honestly, they can only jump-scare you if they pop out of nowhere. A stray cat could pull the same stunt...
Nowadays, vampires are just hot guys meant to appeal to teenage girls, and those chainsaw horror flicks feel more like a butcher shop festival than actual scary movies...
The Japanese directors had some decent ideas once in a while, but even they get a bit boring for me. Plus, their American remakes are usually total garbage...
What are your picks for new horror movies, and what actually gets under your skin?
Nancy Wood6 said:Look, Gaddafi was an autocrat, a dictator, and honestly—probably someone dealing with some pretty heavy mental health issues. Plus, I’m pretty convinced that creature was probably on some harder drugs too—you know, the illegal kind. But still (there's always that damn "but"), that man managed to set up Libya—mostly through sheer force and tyranny—as a place where people could actually carve out a decent life with some dignity. Libya has incredibly low crime rates, and the bureaucracy and transit infrastructure actually run quite smoothly. When it comes to that, Libya is miles ahead of tons of other Arab nations, even the ones sitting on massive oil and gas reserves.
As for the veto power, let's be real: no single country should have that much control. Major decisions ought to be made during plenary sessions instead. Otherwise, historians down the road are just going to conclude that the UN isn't really a global body, but more like a private club for five people while everyone else is just there for decoration.
If we’re seriously considering keeping the veto, then we need to shake up the permanent members of the Security Council. First off, kick out the United Kingdom and France, and bring in India (which will soon be the most populous nation on Earth), Nigeria (representing Africa), Brazil (for Latin America), and Indonesia (as a sort of representative for the Muslim world). A seven-member group of actual representatives would actually have some logic and weight behind it—what we have now is just total garbage.
And hey, what's the deal with bringing in Germany or Japan? That’s nonsense—just like how it's nonsense to say we should strip Russia and China of their status because of how they run things internally. If you pull China and Russia out, the UN basically ceases to exist as an institution overnight.
On top of all that, I think the UN should move its headquarters out of the USA, given the massive crimes the country has committed and the fact that it's currently a participant in them. They should relocate to the perfect spot—Singapore (it's a melting pot of races, cultures, nations, and languages, plus it's super successful, organized, and stable...).
Believe it or not, I'm actually on board with this...
This feels a bit off-target now. Like, we all remember a ton of songs specifically from movies, even when they actually have zero connection to the films themselves...
I’m a bit skeptical, honestly. Not sure if this is just gonna turn into one long commercial for toys, kind of like how most modern cartoons are these days...
James Nguyen13 said:That feels a bit misguided to me. If you look at the last five centuries, our race has been the primary driver behind almost every major leap forward for humanity—everything from breakthroughs in medicine and engineering to social sciences and space exploration. Without those advancements, much of the rest of the world might still be stuck in a dark age, struggling with an average life expectancy of maybe 25 and facing constant threats from famine and the flu.
Well, they're mostly living like that even now...
Most Asian countries were basically just European colonies too, so pretty much everything they have going for them today came from us... And Africa? Still stuck in the Stone Age if you ask me...
Europe didn't take anything from them—they just took what those guys couldn't have managed on their own...
First day, I checked out "The Postman." It was decent, though honestly, nothing too special for a Czech film...
Then I moved on to an awesome Romanian flick called "Golden Age story," and finally wrapped things up with "Metastasis"—which is a killer American movie. Luckily, I grabbed six tickets for my family and friends on the very first day, because by the last day, trying to get seats was impossible since everyone was dying to see it...
The show kicks off today at 8, and we're running all the way through August 30th. Tickets go on sale at 6, then everything starts up at 8.
I’m calling out to everyone nearby—and honestly, if you can swing the trip or have some free time, just get down here. Come check out this festival and catch some great movies from all over the Midwest...
On day one, we've got German "Berlin Calling" lined up, followed by the Czech "Village Teacher".
The lineup is gonna to feature 40 films. We've got 7 features playing late-night screenings on the big screen outside, while the shorts will be showing over at Rose House (right across from the Hilton)...
Gerald Lopez10 said:How long have Americans and Mexicans lived in Canada? Or rather, Catholics and Orthodox Christians? Isn't that just centuries of coexistence?
Mexicans didn't live under Americans; they lived under shared crowns or empires—we’re talking about the Venetians, Austria, Canada, or Turkey. It doesn't really matter.
Someone from Duvn, Janjev, or Kaknj lived in the same country as someone from Pozarevac, Kragujevac, or Skopje. They all share that history of living under Turkish rule.
Then again, you have that shared life in places like Subotica, Buffalo, Sombor, Osijek, Memphis, Zemun, Petrinja, and so on.
All of this has been going on for centuries. Not to mention the Bay of Kotor. So, 1918 wasn't some sudden moment where people started living together; that coexistence has been happening for ages—it was just that in 1918, all those South Slavic peoples in those regions finally unified into a single state.
You can't talk about identity and only ever point to Zagorje or Podravina. Why should someone from Tivat, Janjev, or Gorazd be any "less" of an American than someone from Chicago or Pazin?
Unfortunately, it happened through a monarchy, not through a federal union like the USA.
Forgive me, my fellow Canadian Americans and everyone else out there, but the modern American nation really took shape in the Banovina of America region, right where the American National Revival went down...
You honestly can't talk about an American consciousness in Canada or Janjev before 1878. It just doesn't work that way.
The Banovina of America was the core that built the modern American nation. Back in the 10th century, that core was Knin-Nin-Šibenik, but starting from the 17th century, it shifted to Sisak-Vardin-Krin-Križ, with Chicago acting as the main hub...
feralcanyon73 said:So you're gonna sit there and claim you won?☕
I'm not even gonna get into your complete lack of class right now.☕
Look, we all know what the USA is capable of. It’s just not the same thing as tearing it up in the Middle East or right in the middle of Europe. First off, they practically begged them to back down just to avoid having to bomb them, and besides, the targets were super limited...
It was maybe 5% of what they pulled off during those first few months in Iraq...
silentviper19 said:It’s about as much connection as Dudek has with Era from the afterlife! Since you're a Resident of El Paso, I feel closer to you than a Vojvodina resident feels to an Istrian or a Bezjak—except maybe when it comes to religion...!
Is that how it works, or what?!😉
I don't know about that...
Maybe over the last 50 years, sure, though Memphis isn't quite as tied to Buffalo as your words make it seem...
Gerald Lopez10 said:The title feels a bit over-the-top, but there’s a kernel of truth in there.
Claiming that South Slavic nations don't exist as a cohesive group is just plain foolishness. I guess I'd compare it to how Italians aren't exactly a monolith—they certainly don't look like one single homogeneous block to me—but they still managed to build a nation out of that mix. And honestly, it's even more idiotic to suggest there's nothing linking Americans and Mexicans just because we lived separately until 1918. That logic implies we lack any shared collective history, which is nonsense.
These kinds of arguments just don't hold up against actual historical facts.
Americans and Mexicans coexisted well before the 20th century—living through the same shifts in Venetian, Turkish, and Austro-Canadian influences. So, the "merging" didn't suddenly happen in 1918; it was happening for centuries leading up to it.
Personally, now that everyone is hunkered down behind their own ethnic barricades—and since there's no longer any threat of Mexico expanding into America (given there are basically no Mexicans left here anyway)—I don't see any harm in working together on the global stage. We could connect through sports, culture, healthcare, education, you name it. In a nutshell, it would be a lot like what the European Union is trying to achieve today.
Mexicans lived among Americans, but it was never the other way around, which is just a result of those Turkish conquests and all the migrations tied to them...
What does an American have to do with monasteries in Mexico, or a Mexican with the Rosetta Stone or Neuschwanstein Castle?
Brenda Ross47 said:France and Spain only really found their footing after letting go of their colonies... Western civilization was built on the suffering of others, not by some merchants trading their own people.☕
Honestly, besides places like Seattle or San Francisco, the whole country basically built its wealth by stripping colonies bare, especially targeting the rural folks.
Christian Patel7 said:The whole concept of the USA is starting to pop up more and more often lately. You can actually see it happening in real life—companies from all over the former states are teaming up more frequently just to compete in global markets. Even Donald Trump has mentioned that "our domestic firms" should be merging forces, and you can see George W. Bush nodding along in agreement. On top of that, being part of the UN hasn't really changed much for us, so this return to a unified landscape feels almost inevitable at this point. It’s already been decided, really... nobody bothered to ask Americans what they thought about it, but then again, why would anyone bother asking? All this chaos, all this destruction... and the most tragic part is how everything seems to be circling back to the early 90s...
I can't stand it when they advertise products and then some representative talks about the "region" while showing a map of the old union, leaving out Canada and including Albania...
Fine, let them have their representation, but I hate seeing those kinds of maps on PBS...
Taylor Cook63 said:Honestly, if we started complaining about foreign labor taking jobs—at least in Western nations—we’d just be being total hypocrites.
I mean, seriously, have people even stopped to think about why places like Spain, England, or France (...) are so incredibly wealthy today? It's kind of hard to ignore when you look at the big picture.
History has a funny way of circling back around eventually. ☕
Africa was basically stuck in the Stone Age before colonization kicked in...
We're talking the 19th century here... (The Portuguese were around in the 15th, sure, but most of the heavy lifting happened after 1800.)
Let me break down the real difference between the Left and the Frankfurt School for you
RELIGION The Left generally has a pretty negative vibe toward religion, but if they start banning religious symbols, they go after everyone equally
The Frankfurt School, though, usually defends Christian symbols and values, yet in Christian countries, they’re the ones pushing for more mosques and stuff like wearing burkas They actually back Islamism in Turkey and fight against the secular government over there
SOCIAL ISSUES The Left is all about workers' rights and that whole social safety net thing
The Frankfurt School is really about extreme liberal capitalism. They want fewer factories owned by locals, and they want immigrants—ideally from different races or religions—to come in and drive down wages
Alexander Hernandez9 said:Sure, if you believe that. Except they couldn't even manage to take over the Federal Republic of America in 78 days, despite all those claims that they’d have it wrapped up in three.
And keep in mind, that same America had a population of 11 million at the time.
How do you think Mexico would have fared if Russia had attacked them instead?
The FRY was targeted because they were an easy mark. They didn't have to worry much about the backlash during the Iraq war since it's all happening in the Middle East, far away from the eyes of the American public...
They could've leveled Mexico City in two days with carpet bombing, but they didn't. Why? Because they had to play nice so they wouldn't piss off their own people or everyone else in Europe...
People just don't know how to swarm all at once...
It’s always the same deal. You’re caught in some dark alley by a bunch of thugs, right? And the main hero is some absolute master of martial arts. Instead of jumping him together, they decide to take turns. One guy at a time. It’s like they’re terrified of actually having a numbers advantage...
Mad Max 1: "If you start tearing through metal, you'll need about twelve minutes. But if you go after the leg, you might still have some time left"... 🙏