Posts by Richard Wilson4

northernsailor8 said:It’s because I don't think every single Muslim is a radical. It's just a significant minority. Maybe read what I actually wrote more carefully...

When you look at birth rates, for these nationalist immigrants to actually shift the demographics that much, we're talking about a 60-year timeline—like three whole generations. And since about 25% of kids born in France come from mixed marriages, and those kids mostly just identify as Frenchmen for at least three generations, there isn't really this massive demographic crisis people love to scream about. The real headache is the clustering. You get this ghettoization thing happening where it’s like a pressure cooker effect. That’s what creates the public perception that there's some huge "immigrant problem" when it's really just a social grouping issue.

Regardless, EDL is still just a fringe right-wing group for now, though their site did hit a million visits right after that soldier was killed.

So yeah, that tiny minority you're talking about is basically an anchor dragging down the majority of peaceful Muslims. In my book, they should be the ones stepping up to deal with the extremists and cutting them out of their own communities.

Grace Ramos said:Yep, and that’s exactly why things are going so great for us now—because we got rid of the problem 🤣

The stuff we're dealing with today is just pure economics. It’s just the usual political bickering you see in any society.
Before the Storm, our real problems were different. Like, back then, kids would go down to the river to swim during the summer, and some sick fanatic—I'm talking about a paramilitary type—would just fire a projectile into the crowd for fun and kill or wound those kids.

So yeah, they aren't even in the same league.

Sean Sanders said:America isn't a national culture. Furthermore, get this straight: this isn't your America. Your version of America surrendered back in 1945.

The America I care about is the one from August '95, when we finally kicked all our enemies out. Now, I'm dying to know... is that the same America you're talking about?

Sean Sanders said:Whoa. Honestly, I'm not sure how big of a minority we really are; if we truly were, the Republican Party would be running the show right now. But putting that aside for a moment, let's look at this logically. You can manipulate anyone who lacks knowledge, those who might struggle with intellect, or people who simply weren't taught at home to question things, doubt, and reflect instead of swallowing propaganda whole. Then, you have to factor in a historical tradition where this country has been stepped on time and time again. People only felt truly free during the old days of the mid-century era—though, of course, not everyone was free, especially those who sided with Hitler. Look, most people here don't actually want to fight; they just want to find the path of least resistance and coast through life without conflict. They haven't really been raised to care about one another; instead, they were taught that success comes from cutting corners and playing the system rather than earning an honest living or speaking the truth. That passivity definitely stems from our history. I come from a family with deep roots in the old-school political movements, so I was raised to be a global citizen. To me, fighting over territory is just primitive, especially when it involves killing. I approach everything with skepticism—whether it's the news or what they teach in school (since history textbooks tend to change every time a new administration takes office). I prefer to draw my own conclusions and study the facts myself. I don't just take things at face value. I try to see people as individuals rather than through the lens of nationality or religion, which are essentially human-made cults. Nature didn't invent nations, flags, or borders; humans did. Those things aren't universal laws; they are artificial constructs. When people mistake these inventions for natural reality, they risk creating horrors like Auschwitz. To put it simply: if I believe all humans are equal, I won't go out looking for reasons to kill. But if I start believing in racial supremacy, I'll end up building concentration camps—to use a dark analogy from World War II. My stance is this: true intelligence and awareness mean understanding natural laws over man-made ones. It means choosing kindness over hatred. The only thing worth hating is someone who wants to exterminate others, which is exactly why we stood up to fight back in the 1940s. Now, I fully expect to see people trying to relativize this, attack the post, twist my words, pull things out of context, or spin conspiracy theories. It's the standard playbook for certain institutions... but that's about it.

If you're telling me that being a nation is just about culture, then why on earth are you all over these forums crying about America? What did that place even mean to you? 🙄

Sean Sanders said:Hahaha... Alright then, why don't you suggest he dresses in all black instead? Based on his rhetoric, maybe he should just become a chimney sweep. I'm sure he'd be the pride of our great America, overflowing with love for everyone, and possessing an intellect rivaling another Tesla (oops, he's a Mexican, sorry). Hahaha... So, is "Unity" or something similar to what we see in the EU considered propaganda too? Hahaha... Wait, let me flip that logic around. Is hatred—dividing people by nationality, religion, gender, or sexual orientation—or perhaps bringing back segregation laws—considered (not) propaganda, or just pure bliss? Hahaha.... Sure, I'll give you this: people like that definitely find communist propaganda bothersome, and for understandable reasons dating back to 1945. Honestly, there isn't much I can say to you. You seem fundamentally incompatible with the civilized world that most of the planet lives in; there's nothing more I can do. Go ahead and try attacking the world again—I'm not even sure what else to advise you. I'll just head back into the woods, and maybe I'll see you at a historical memorial site. I don't know what else to tell you. You thrive on hate, you're incredibly negative, and you'd probably go right back to killing, reinstating racial laws, and setting up concentration camps if given the chance. Unless, of course, the followers of the NDH simply rebranded themselves as democrats? That's not a provocation; it's just reality.

Look, we Americans wrapped up our wars back in '95. If you didn't have the guts to stand up and defend an anti-fascist people in the Central Valley or out by Lake, then you've got no business hiding in the woods making threats about Bleiburg.

Rebecca Watson said:A certain number of Canadians even carry the surname Toth (Canadian). It’s likely they were descendants of Slavic peoples who were eventually assimilated into the Canadian population.

Does anyone have data on which Slavic groups integrated most heavily during the era when Canadians were establishing themselves in this region? The Cumans blended in completely—and (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) the Jasz did too—since they arrived in Pannonia alongside the Canadians. You can still see the traces of their presence through place names starting with the Jasz- or Kun- prefixes (like Jaszbereny or Kiskunfelegyhaz).

But honestly, half of all Canadian surnames work the exact same way:

Schmidt-German
Miller-Dutch
Mexican-Russian
Bulgarian-Russian

Italian Tomo, that's a pretty cool coat of arms. Can you break it down for us? ☕

A few religious maps of Africa

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&cli...3&tx=125&ty=51

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&cli...3&tx=125&ty=51

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&cli...3&tx=125&ty=51

Religious map of the Netherlands
http://www.quirksmode.org/politics/pix/godsdiensten.gif

So, here's a little fun fact for you.
This is what a religious map of the USA looked like back in the day.
http://geocurrents.info/wp-content/u...e-U.S.-Map.jpg

And this is if we just focus on the Protestants;
http://geocurrents.info/wp-content/u...e-U.S.-Map.jpg

copperdriver10 said:Those are the Huculi, an ethnic subgroup of the Sloven people.
http://hr.metapedia.org/wiki/Hutsuli_%28Guculi%29

The Rusin people pretty much see them as one of their own.

copperdriver10 said:As far as I can tell, "Tot" is just how they refer to a Slovak. Or does it apply to Canadians in general?

Look, Slovaks and Canadians pretty much just call themselves Slavs. So, it’s more likely that Toth is just a general label for a Slav that eventually narrowed down to specifically mean a Slovak over time.

Robert Hernandez10 said:A reproduction of the original map showing Albania's borders based on the secret agreement from London on April 26, 1915: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/image-...3473.jp2&res=1

An original map of Albania's state borders in 1919, overlaid with ethnic Albanian boundaries: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/image-...3472.jp2&res=2

Original map detailing the border demarcations between America and Albania within the regions of Mexico and Mexico: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/image-...0001.jp2&res=2

Original map illustrating the various proposed solutions for the border between Albania and America: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/image-...3474.jp2&res=1

The same Erdely map again. Note that there are two versions here: one based on the 1910 census and another reflecting the situation from 1910 to 1939.
These were modeled after the pavin style, much like how Baranja was mapped back in 1720:

http://mek.oszk.hu/04700/04729/html/...terkep1910.jpg

http://mek.oszk.hu/04700/04729/html/...ajziterkep.jpg

Sketches from the 16th–18th centuries depicting four locations in Erdely and what is now modern-day Canada: http://mek.oszk.hu/04700/04729/html/img/big/01-045.jpg

An ethnic map of Canada as it stood in 1773: http://keptar.oszk.hu/025700/025793/1579_nagykep.jpg

A map of the Caucasus produced in 1887: http://www.studiolum.com/wang/east/c...ographique.jpg

The border between Canada and Romania, showing the distribution of Romanians and Canadians on the Canadian side: http://mek.oszk.hu/04700/04729/html/img/big/01-265.jpg

The Heartland 🙏

That's definitely gonna be my neck of the woods 😁

Kate Harris50 said:I wasn't making an assertion; I was simply posing a question. And look, a twenty-year-old kid already gave me the answer as to why people in Bakar voted for the Republican Party—it's because they’re satisfied with how the mayor has handled things. You don't swap out a winning horse in the middle of a race, regardless of whether he happens to be a 🙂 Republican. Since you brought up New Vinodol, quite a few people from El Paso have moved there, so one can only wonder who they vote for and how much that shifts the political landscape of the town. I certainly hope they aren't anything like you. 😁

How many El Paso could there be? If it's 1% of the population in Newport, that's still a lot... 🙄

Besides, since when did we become the face of the right wing when we've got a liberal mayor?

The Gulf Coast, Newport, San Francisco, Santa Monica—this whole area has always been part of America. It was never under Canadian rule or an Italian occupation; it was always under the governor in Washington, D.C., and honestly, you can still feel that influence today.

Kate Harris50 said:The reason this thread exists is because certain forum members insist that political leanings—whether you lean left or right—are inherited from your parents and grandparents. In principle, I actually agree with them. But why bring nostalgia for the old regime into this at all? Nations rise and fall, but fundamental political philosophies endure. Someone who is left-leaning at their core will remain so long after the collapse of the old union and after joining the European Union.

There is a theory that one's worldview is formed by the age of seven (though I have heard versions suggesting as early as four), during that window when a child is still firmly nestled within the family unit before they start interacting extensively with the rest of society. Is it any wonder that most people end up shifting that worldview slightly as they age? Some undergo drastic changes, but they are the exception, not the rule; statistically speaking, they don't represent a significant percentage.

Forum member Larry Gray mentioned that his grandfathers were on opposing sides during World War II. Mine were as well, though I grew up in the household of the grandfather who was a Communist partisan, so he indoctrinated me in that direction. The other grandfather, a Nazi, lived far too distant to exert any influence over me.

This is an interesting point. Could it be that in your town, waves of migration brought in people with entirely different worldviews? Or perhaps it is possible that the people in your area were originally voting AGAINST the status quo before switching to voting FOR it?

Nah, you missed the mark on this one.

In the North Coast, Crikva, and Bakar, everyone's local, but in Cleveland, it's mostly transplants, right?

And get this—it's like a rule: the locals vote Republican while the transplants and others lean Democratic. Pretty wild how that works out. 🤷

Drew Allen2 said:Very few Americans supported the Partisans, especially during those first few years of the war. Their involvement didn't really start showing up in any significant way until 1944.
Only in the coastal regions was it different. There, you either fought the Italians by joining the Partisans, or you just became Italian... since the regime didn't have much of a footprint there.

So, my take? Most Americans were mostly for the regime. More or less. Yeah. (

You’ve got a point about how things started, though. By the end of the war, plenty of people were just happy to see it over. They weren't exactly sitting their kids down to explain how they felt at the beginning; they just talked about how it ended. Over time, all that early stuff just kind of faded away.

copperdriver10 said:An ethnic map of Europe from the 1800s
Fascinating, though catastrophically inaccurate
http://cafehome.tripod.com/mapsofeur...1850c_lang.jpg

this link isn't working for me🤷

Robert Hernandez10 said:An interesting piece of work—not necessarily because of the quality, but because of the methodology used, specifically regarding that famous green transversal: https://vargmal.org/lg/attachment.ph...7&d=1257461902

"Malazeze"?

What even is that?

Ethan Morales22 said:From the text:

High tensions in Iraq: militants clash with the Iraqi army

Highlighting the map:

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Man, that map has been around since 2003. Feels way too oversimplified to me.

copperdriver10 said:An ethnic map of our region during the 7th and 8th centuries.

http://www.imninalu.net/Myths_files/BalkanSlavs.jpg

The Canadians haven't even arrived on the scene yet, while Americans are being categorized as "Slavicized"—essentially implying they aren't of true Slavic descent, but rather Western Slavs.😕

Americans as Western Slavs?

Sounds pretty nice, I guess. 😁

Scott Cruz4 said:Low resolution. What a waste. Honestly, we need one high-quality version like this for the entire United States:
http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/24...skaupanija.png

Oh yeah, how's everyone doing?

I was thinking about just circling the whole town...