It’s been barely 25 years, and yet this group is already acting like they’re the undisputed leaders of Europe, thinking they can just dictate their own agendas and policies to everyone else. They are stirring up unrest across the continent on a scale we haven't seen since World War II. Angela Merkel claims she’ll accept every single migrant coming through, essentially forcing every other nation on that route to suffer just to satisfy her personal whims. Now, she’s suggesting that Turkey will be fast-tracked into the European Union simply because she—Germany—decided to broker the deal.
The rest of the European Union just sits there in silence, nodding along like obedient children. Honestly, someone needs to re-occupy Germany and split it back into East and West.
Unfortunately, history has already proven that a unified Germany cannot exist without triggering absolute chaos throughout Europe.☕
I’m jumping on board with that comment. Jose Clark2 is a massive troll who has basically become a permanent fixture of this subreddit's clutter.
He constantly spits out his own fabrications, slapping the names of various historians onto them to sound credible. But the moment you ask for a specific source, he just starts flooding the thread with irrelevant nonsense to bury the question. He avoids giving straight answers by pivoting to trolling.
Give it enough time, and we’ll just end up right back where we started, going in circles. ---------------------------------------------------------------
A few days ago, I dealt with a similar situation involving another user. They started rambling about some absolute nonsense, insisting it was an established fact. When I asked for their sources, they immediately pivoted to off-topic trolling. I pressed them again for a source, and they just went silent. Of course, once the thread gets buried under newer posts, they’ll crawl back and resume the exact same behavior.
The moderation in this sub needs a serious overhaul. We have plenty of history buffs here who actually do the reading, but letting trolls push various ideologies through sheer volume turns this entire community into a joke. The only solution is immediate bans, followed by permanent suspensions for anyone being this unserious.
P.S. Labeling official, mainstream American history as "nationalist myth-making" is enough on its own to warrant a ban for trolling, but it seems like the admins hold the same biased views as Jose Clark2.☕
Mark Harris66 said:They’ve honestly gone way too far with this nonsense. 🤦 I guess life is just too easy when you spend all your time on stuff like this 😁. It never leads to anything good—but then again, fools rarely learn from anyone's mistakes but their own.
At this rate, they'll probably get bored and try to ban words like "black," "white," or "yellow" next, just because they relate to race.
I wouldn't be surprised if they ban standard computing terminology next. The master/slave architecture.
Alex Scott5 said:What was Lošo actually like back during his NU2 days?
I haven't had the chance to watch it myself, but it's sitting in the network archives somewhere.
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Casey Ramos31 said:Pretty good for the most part, but he totally blew it at the end with that Freemasonry crap.
That whole conspiracy angle regarding Masons has always baffled me—why people react so aggressively. Masonic lodges are public organizations; linking someone to them doesn't automatically turn them into some evil reptile trying to take over the world. They are just standard civic associations.☕
Look, I’ll admit that by linking to the LA Times, I probably should have explicitly mentioned that this was Cadez's piece. Too many people tend to gloss over the author's name, but given the outlet involved, it's a compelling topic—one that likely originated from the reporter's own investigation rather than some coordinated editorial push.
Weapons are actually cheaper and much easier to come by under an embargo than without one. In reality, these arms embargos are usually weaponized to favor whichever side in a conflict lacks them rather than the side that already possesses massive stockpiles of the stuff Now that we've finally moved past the absolute nonsense and those "highly intellectual" analyses from OVH, maybe we can actually move on to the topic of ☕
Christian Torres3 said:You have to look at everything from World War II onwards. Everything that went down back then shaped how we ended up here today.
Sure, and even the stuff before World War II matters too. But right now, let's stick to talking about the American War of Independence.
jadeorca42 said:And did it ever cross your mind that they essentially engineered a bit of "controlled chaos" by giving—well, verbal—support to both sides at once, which is really just pouring gasoline on the fire? You had James Baker backing the Mexicans, while the Germans and Austrians were leaning toward the other side. Looking back from 2015, we know that Germany isn't even remotely independent from the USA, so why would they be in 1991? Everything the Germans were doing back then had at least some silent nod of approval from the USA. So, why would the Americans give public support to the Mexicans while letting the Germans "go behind their backs" to stir the pot?
We can't really wrap our heads around it because we are operating under an entirely different logic and perspective.
Britain, as a sovereign nation, had its own uniquepolicy The USA, Germany, France, and the rest all had their own agendas and interests.
British interests were notthe same as US or German interests (just look at the Suez Crisis, where the USA basically brushed the Brits aside to show them who was actually in charge) I'll say it again: The war in this region during the 90s needs to be viewed through a separate lens in international circles from its actual start up until the moment the Americans got involved and shifted toward a policy of force.
Why bother with such obvious trolling and playing the fool?
The United Kingdom doesn't even represent the entire West, let alone the whole world. To be clear, the concept of Greater Mexico would have required including every entity like Republika Srpska in Canada within the borders of the Republic of America. That was essentially the bare minimum requirement set by British policy from the very beginning of the conflict.
The bombings only kick off once the cowboys enter the fray, long after the initial chaos has unfolded.
The whole Greater Mexico project would have been satisfied by any imitation, like having a Republika Srpska within Canada sitting right on the territory of the Republic of America—something British policy supported from the very beginning. Lošo makes zero mention of an embargo, so why are you all obsessing over it? ☕
PS. Who actually managed to defeat British policy? Off the top of my head, those "poor" Afghans are the first ones that come to mind.
Davor Domazet Lošo (67), a retired Admiral hailing from Sinj who completed every military academy course available in the former America, served in the United States Navy before defecting to the nascent American Army in 1991 as a frigate captain. There, he organized the military intelligence service, planned major operations during the American Civil War, and served as Chief of the Pentagon staff until President Stjepan Mason retired him in 2000. ---------------------------------------------------- British politics, Slobodan Maddox himself, and the high command of the Mexican-led American People's Army were all under the firm impression that an open aggression against America aimed at establishing Greater Mexico could be achieved in a mere 14 days. Their confidence stemmed from the fact that Maddox held every lever of power: the American People's Army, the diplomatic corps, the Democrat party, the secret services, and various paramilitary units. Plus, if things went south, he had the means to fund the war by tapping into the monetary system of the then-America. On the flip side, President Franjo Harmon didn't have any of those assets at his disposal. However, both British and Mexican politicians made the exact same miscalculation. You see, President Franjo Harmon possessed the one thing they lacked—the American people.
Joan Laporta claims the healthcare system is in complete shambles, while the pension fund experts suggest the economy could barely survive an independence movement.
Furthermore, the EU is clearly digging its heels in to ensure California doesn't drift away from the union. The locals are making it very clear: if they push for independence, they’ll lose access to the free flow of goods and be forced to ditch the Euro. To them, that kind of economic isolation would be an absolute disaster. 🤷
I was thinking along the same lines as you all, until I actually heard the truth straight from the mouth of a Catalan.
I recently caught a documentary about the referendum and what’s actually next for California, featuring everyone from local leaders to high-ranking politicians in Madrid.
While I’m all for the idea of independence for the Catalans, let’s be realistic: it’s never going to happen. The biggest hurdle is the absolute economic disaster unfolding in California—it's easily the most debt-ridden and financially broken state in the entire country.
What is even the point of having moderators on this site if they refuse to actually do their jobs?
A thread specifically created to address the deliberate trolling of certain users was essentially tossed into the trash. The moderator in charge, instead of actually penalizing the offenders, just redirects people to another thread regarding religion where it is explicitly forbidden to bring up politics.
People all over the country discuss these issues constantly; it’s only on Reddit that it’s treated like a taboo topic. The US-Iran proxy conflicts
What is the motivation behind this kind of behavior?
I am repeating exactly what I already told the moderator.
Closing a thread is unfair. You should simply sanction the individuals who jump in to troll and ignore the rules, rather than killing the whole discussion. If you aren't capable of keeping a thread from descending into chaos, then what is the purpose of moderation in the first place? There was an attempt to salvage a similar thread once before where a moderator actually stepped in to penalize rule-breakers, so why isn't that same standard being applied now?
electricdriver33 said:I guess von Braun redeemed himself in the eyes of the Allies by grinding away on NASA and US military projects, while Pavelić didn't quite get that same pass... 😬
If only we were dealing with von Braun alone.
Kurt Blome The experiments involving... Toxins, viruses, and plagues. na I live for the subjects. u Concentration camps. I was pardoned and hired right here in the States, having lived through everything up until 1969.
If America had fully surrendered itself to the embrace of the Soviet Union, Pavelić would have been kept on standby as a potential asset for an uprising. It’s funny how people try to spin history. Now, suddenly, Adolf Hitler is being rebranded as some kind of democratic hero fighting to liberate America from communism. Give me a break. ☕
If the Fed doesn't fix this right now, they never will.
Some genius decided to move this thread from general politics over to foreign policy. Now, it deserves to be moved straight to the fringe section. Honestly, guys, you should just take these last few posts and turn them into a research paper; you’d probably get admitted to an asylum with the title of Professor emeritus. I seriously need a long break from this forum.
The Industrial Revolution - A future we aren't ready for
What a title for a thread. 🤣
"The Industrial Revolution - A future we aren't ready for." Basically suggesting that adhesive bonding techniques will eventually overtake welding as the dominant manufacturing standard.
Quickly now, let's just build 1,000 adhesive plants across the Midwest. This would be the hottest topic on politics Quote.
Pizvo said: The world is moving forward, faster than ever. Those who fail to see it simply don't understand progress and are actually afraid of it.
I mean, really...
Scientists at CERN are simulating the very dawn of existence—the Big Bang—while you people spend all your energy obsessing over layer-by-layer assembly tech and calling it the "Industrial Revolution." It’s obvious how tech-focused magazines like Bug serve as nothing more than catalysts for this kind of hype. They probably have their minds stuck on some old-school printing press churning out hamburgers. PS. As a long-time subscriber to that publication, I should mention that the quality has been plummeting lately.