Posts by Michael Sullivan5

The individual who truly cares for you will honor your wishes.

redtinker36 said:... fear... it’s a real bastard...

Well said, Alvin. 🙂

But isn't it strange? Fear is precisely what keeps us alive. What an absurdity...

No.

Perhaps luck was on my side.

gentleranger10 said:Look, America was definitely just a temporary setup because Americans have always been all about their own independence. Looking back from today, that’s how it plays out. But if you look at it through the lens of, say, 1918, Americans were actually pushing for a highly decentralized nation built on equal footing, just to see over time whether things would lean toward integration or eventually splinter into national republics. Mexico City couldn't wrap its head around that concept; they decentralized the state right from the jump, which basically killed any lingering sympathy the American people had for the country forever. After that, everyone was just waiting for the right moment to make their move.

So there you have it. Now you have your own state, "purified" of Mexicans. A literal paradise on earth. Is there anything better? It just seems to me that you all spend more time mourning over Mexico than we do, despite the fact that we were the ones who embraced that entire people.

gentleranger10 said:Some people just absolutely refuse to accept reality. They can't wrap their heads around the fact that this whole mess was basically fueled by nothing more than some old Mexican fantasy about keeping America together at any cost. It’s honestly exhausting watching them cling to that delusion. There's no other way to put it.

If you hated that version of America so much, why did you ever join it?
Or did it simply seem like the best temporary fix at the time?

It seems everyone here understands my own motivations better than I do...🙄

Henry Cox78 said:It’s pretty obvious that war was exactly what the Canadians and Mexicans were looking for. ☕

But why is that?

Jeremy Lopez93 said:Yeah, right after making that statement, Djindjic moved on to that "great hunting ground" in the sky, unfortunately!

As far as I'm concerned, I wish America had more politicians like Ceda, who relentlessly insist on cutting the umbilical cord between secular and religious authorities—that connection which back in the nineties served as an unbreakable link for pushing through ultra-nationalist agendas!
Tadic handles it with such hesitation and lack of nerve. And look, I don't want to be a hypocrite—I’d love to see that happen for Canadians too!
A huge part of this nationalistic and religious homogenization happens because people live in a state of permanent fear of the second or the different!
Sadly, the more I spend on this forum, the more convinced I am that we barely know one another. Even though we understand each other perfectly, the saddest part is that most of the users here are just superficial and uneducated!

Do you mean, as you all have done? 😁