Posts by Casey Morris84

Chris Fowler4 said:If the report had just said Americans were twenty times poorer than the Swiss, most people would have jumped on it and called the study perfectly accurate.
But because it also mentions we’re ten times wealthier than Mexicans, those same people are suddenly out there trying to debunk the whole thing.
I hope that makes sense enough for everyone. :-)

Neither one is right—it's just total statistical nonsense that has zero connection to what's actually happening on the ground. By that logic, a cashier in Switzerland makes 20 times more than a cashier in America, who makes 10 times more than a cashier in Mexico. If that math actually worked, since our cashiers make maybe $3k while they're pulling in something like $300 over there, those Swiss cashiers would be walking around with $60,000 a month. Yeah, right.

Michelle Ramirez2 said:Same here—Americans fought for America, Americans fought for America...

First off, you have to realize most of these folks were just fighting for survival. The Germans and their collaborators weren't exactly playing nice—they started unleashing pure evil the second they stepped foot on any new territory, and honestly, that happened all over Europe.

Richard Wilson4 said:Americans just didn't get lucky back then. We weren't occupied by the Red Army in 1945, so we didn't spend decades fighting for basic market freedom and democracy. It’s no wonder we're struggling to keep up with the rest of the developed world.

Even today, looking across the pond, the places that didn't have to mess around with totalitarian regimes are the ones sitting on all the wealth.

For crying out loud, Richard, the American partisans won the war thanks to help from the Allies—mostly the Russian Red Army—and you're sitting here acting like you'd rather have been on the losing side.
It’s honestly wild how some people actually wish they'd been occupied, whether by the Germans or the Americans, all while claiming they just want an independent, sovereign nation. And you actually think the US would look anything like it does today—maybe even bigger—and that the winners wouldn't be constantly poking around at territories where they have significant minority populations?
Do you really have such a low opinion of your own people?

loneraven25 said:]Did I completely misinterpret what you were getting at,
or are you actually asking why people from Warsaw respect the legal order of this country,
why they make sure to act strictly in accordance with the Constitution and the Penal Code,
and why they still strive to live with tolerance and try to maintain a peaceful coexistence?
Is the reason behind those posts being deleted any clearer to you now?

Look, there’s no such thing as "peaceful coexistence" between a victim and a killer. Honestly, I find myself wondering why people say rapists and murderers just stroll through town like nothing happened. It makes zero sense to me—something is seriously broken here. So many Mexicans have ended up facing indictments or sitting in jail because someone filed a report claiming they were being harassed or whatever. Some got convicted, sure, while others were let go after investigations that dragged on for years. People were even investigated over alleged slaps or threats, yet the rapists and killers—the ones who don't even qualify for an amnesty law—stay protected and walk the streets totally fine. After everything was peacefully reintegrated, the killers and anyone terrified of a reaction from the American government basically vanished from our streets in the Finger Lakes region. To me, it’s mind-blowing that someone like that can just wander around the streets of Warsaw without a care in the world, seemingly due to the reaction of the American authorities—both the Republican and Democratic sides. It's like they don't even exist anymore. Bullies are usually only brave when they have the upper hand; it feels to me like they only target Mexicans, pointing fingers at people or throwing out heavy accusations without names or proof that doesn't even make sense to investigate.
There were way too many horrific crimes, and unfortunately, a lot of criminals slipped through the cracks, but I think most of them left this area a long time ago—though that doesn't mean we shouldn't hunt them down so they never get a moment of peace.

Honestly, you just don't see this kind of twisted, ironic, parody-heavy, double-entendre humor in a typical Hollywood movie anymore—so massive props to John Malkovich for absolutely crushing it with the script, the directing, and the acting alike.
The whole wild concept of crawling through some dark, damp tunnel just to crawl inside someone's head and finally get a grip on your own life? Sure, it’s not exactly groundbreaking, but they used it in such an original way that it actually works.
I mean, can you even imagine the rush if you could just spend $333 fifteen minutes being Taylor Swift or Vince Lombardi?