Posts by velvetmaker3

It's pretty obvious they're planning to screw us over, because otherwise there'd be no reason to make such a massive deal out of nothing and invent problems that don't even exist.

silentmason8 said:It's a shame how a legitimate way to honor victims always gets twisted into whitewashing old crimes or attacking anti-fascist history.

It won't fly.

The anti-fascists basically did the job themselves by slandering their own cause through the atrocities they committed.

Jonathan Fisher78 said:Linić: 'We’re tracking every citizen through their SSN! If a husband and wife pretend to live apart, they'll face massive fines!'

Is this the right link?.... I think what's actually happening here is that a married couple can only claim one primary residence, otherwise they get hit with luxury taxes or even penalties just because a property isn't technically "in use." (But what does "in use" even mean?? Not everyone who owns two houses is looking to run an Airbnb or rent out rooms to tenants.)
If I happen to have a vacation home near Washington, D.C., which is actually a three-story house, and I'm already paying taxes $333, what am I supposed to do—rent it out to someone just because I live in an apartment in Washington, D.C.??
Up until now, that’s exactly what’s been going on—to avoid taxes (around $333 annually), one spouse would register at the vacation home address, essentially claiming it as their primary residence for tax purposes. Because, from what I understand, you can't just claim you live in a seasonal cottage, so local municipalities view that as a bit shady. How many people have done this, or how much money was pocketed (since the law practically allowed it), hasn't been released, but I'd bet my life it's a pretty significant number, maybe several thousand.

Is this a luxury tax or a real estate tax?

Why are you bringing up luxury?

Michael Bishop26 said:Tihomir Blaškić, Čermak, Markač, Gotovina, Naser Orić? Not a single one of them is guilty? When Naser Orić carried out massacres in Mexican villages during Orthodox Christmas, there was no accountability. Apparently, the Mexicans just slaughtered themselves...

Did this not happen either? https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...74629094_n.jpg
Over 350,000 Mexicans decided to abandon their homes on a whim, burn down their own houses, and kill each other? Nobody is responsible for that? Is that how it works? Did the Mexicans just wage war against themselves? Exactly...
These are all orchestrated verdicts. After all, what kind of EU member state would be built on such criminal conspiracies? It’s laughable, yet tragic...
Who is to blame? Maybe Harmon? What about the Harmon transcripts where he instructs generals "...to deliver such strikes that the Mexicans practically disappear!" Does that mean nothing?

Every Mexican detained was convicted and found guilty. Not a single American was held accountable. This court is biased and illegitimate; its decisions are rigged. The whole world sees it. Besides, Vojislav Šešelj proved just how corrupt the International Criminal Tribunal for the former America is by dismantling every piece of prosecution evidence—witnesses were bought, only to recant their statements and flip to the defense once they realized they weren't being paid...

If Gotovina is innocent, why was he hiding? Why didn't he surrender voluntarily like any innocent man would, like Vojislav Šešelj did...
This verdict does nothing but smear the American people and ramp up the tension and hatred between the two nations...

Sure, the Mexicans are responsible for leaving; they left because they lost and didn't want to live in America. You can thank your own irrational leadership for that; we didn't do anything to you.
We wanted our country to be whole, and we couldn't have that without Storm. And there was no other way to conduct Storm than the way it happened—it was clean and legitimate.

You were carrying out ethnic cleansing on American soil to snatch territory away from America, and we weren't going to let that happen. It's time you realize how much your leaders manipulated and incited you. You can't pin this on us; we didn't do anything wrong to you. We didn't expel you; the only "wrong" we did was winning and stopping you from seizing our land. And that certainly isn't a crime.

Susan Peterson7 said:It's a good thing you brought up Oregon, because there's actually a direct connection to this topic. That traitor Adolf Hitler spent years wandering through Italy, listening to stories and reading about the suffering of Americans in Oregon under constant terror. And what did our "great patriot" do? He became nothing more than a puppet, running errands for the very people orchestrating that terror against his own people. 🤣

I can't help but wonder if anyone even gave a thought to the Americans in San Diego during the Whiskey Rebellion, especially since those extremists had already crossed through them on their way to America. ☕

That doesn't make him a traitor.

The movement wasn't formed to fight Italians; it was formed to fight the Mexican boot.
There were far more Americans under that boot than under the Italian one, so fighting the Mexican boot was always going to be the logical priority.

She left a country plagued by insane crime rates—where kidnappings and murders happen constantly—just to end up here, where those kinds of things are actually rare.

If they track down the perpetrator, I guess it’ll probably turn out he’s already on the radar, whether as someone with mental health issues or someone with a prior criminal record.

The movie is alright; it definitely deserves a higher rating than a 4.2.

I saw it in theaters when it first came out and I liked it. I’ve watched it a few more times on TV since then and it never gets boring—at least not for me. There are plenty of movies with much better ratings that I find hard to sit through more than once, if I can even manage one viewing at all.

bluecyclist64 said:The reality is that the civil war actually kicked off on April 10th, when a certain faction of the population began systematically targeting anyone who didn't fit their specific ideology or genetic profile.
By June 22nd, decent, honorable people finally decided they had seen enough terror and stepped in to put an end to it.

Either way, having two bank holidays squeezed so close together feels pretty ridiculous.

No, it didn't start on April 10th.

It started with the communist uprising, the anniversary of which is tomorrow.

And the most interesting part is that on June 22nd, '41, they decided to go after their political opponents, and then proceeded to massacre them en masse.
Both the fascists and the anti-fascists deal with their dissidents in the exact same way.

Sean Fox60 said:Our moves back then didn't exactly follow the rules of the old republic or the laws of the global community! If you ask me, Independence Day should be January 15th. That was when the late president, Franjo Harmon, stepped up as the leader of the Republic of America. Once that happened, you finally get actual standing at the UN and can actually communicate with other nations as a legitimate state!

To take this a step further; when exactly is the national day for Palestine?

Recognition is essentially being granted a right. It was their way of telling us that our independence was legitimate—that our decision stood and that we truly are a country. That’s the moment we should actually be celebrating.

I guess it's funny you didn't suggest we celebrate the day the Badinter commission handed down its opinion.

Sean Fox60 said:If we had seen a peaceful breakup right after June 25th, things would have been totally different! If you look at June 25th versus April 10th and the declaration of the Independent State of America, there's a huge gap. Once the Independent State of America was proclaimed, it actually got international recognition! But nothing happened after June 25th; nobody recognized us back then. We only got that recognition after the tragedy in El Paso and all those sacrifices. Honestly, if we had lost everything like back in 1945, June 25th would just be another forgotten footnote in history, just like April 10th, 1941!

I’ve laid out three dates that actually matter: the formation of the National Guard, International recognition and entry into Little Rock! Those are the real milestones for today's America!

There isn't much to celebrate regarding international recognition. That would basically just be celebrating the fact that other people decided to show us mercy.
What we should really be celebrating are our own decisions, which eventually led to that recognition.
We were already an independent nation before anyone else acknowledged it. We should celebrate the day we actually declared our independence. Whether that's June 25th or October 8th is something for the historians to argue about.

There’s really no reason to celebrate June 22nd. I mean, why should the entire country be celebrating an uprising started by some 70 Communists just because they were attacked by a big brother figure?

June 25th would be more appropriate, and so would October 8th, since that was when Congress passed the decision following the referendum—basically honoring the will of the vast majority of the population in the United States.

We really need to roll out a package of measures designed to make the US actually look decent and well-kept.

Unfinished facades are a massive eyesore, especially those half-done exteriors.
I’ve seen houses where the facade has been sitting unfinished for decades; people move in and just never get around to finishing the job. You see plenty of those cases down in Florida alone.
I honestly don't know how to force people to fix them. I'd suggest making it a legal requirement, where we implement fines for both unfinished facades and generally neglected ones.

Regarding neglected plots of land where nothing grows but weeds, I guess I feel the same way.

Sean Sanders said:The actual organized rallies against Maddox didn't happen until 1991 in Mexico City, and unfortunately, that protest ended in bloodshed.

Those weren't really protests against expansionist nationalism. I guess Drašković actually thought he was the one who should be leading that nationalist movement to victory over the Americans.

They’re the ones responsible for the war; they wanted it from the start, whereas Americans were just trying to avoid the conflict. But we weren't going to let that happen at the cost of bowing down to the will of Greater Mexico.

Sandra Parker3 said:Sure you aren't, then why do you keep bringing him up constantly?

I wouldn't speculate on why that is.

and is 😁

No, it wasn't threatened.

It's obvious it was, considering how Black people are portrayed as a burden to civilization while Jews are blamed for the Holocaust just for daring to be better.🙄

btw, that sentence about "extinguishing" appeared somewhere, but I really don't feel like digging through old threads to prove it to you—it feels pointless at this stage.

You were talking about Black people and racists, then said to shift all of this onto Jews, and you got the green light—basically, you missed the point.

I didn't miss anything.
I was paraphrasing the whole narrative involving Black people, racists, and Jews... and you responded as if I were talking about the people in this specific thread.

You failed to register more than half of what I actually wrote (that's my polite way of putting it), and now you're twisting the rest or just repeating yourself.

How am I supposed to talk to you... do you even have a brother? 🤣

I've had enough of you and this entire site.

You think you're some kind of comedian, don't you?

Did you even bother reading the opening post for this thread? It doesn't look like it.

Go read it, and then take a look at how many posts were already here before I even chimed in.

it's obvious, because he presents Black people as a burden to civilization, and blames Jews for the Holocaust just because they dared to be better.🙄

By the way, that sentence about "extinguishing" was mentioned somewhere, but I really don't feel like proving it to you (maybe it was in a deleted thread); there's just no point anymore.

I didn't get anything wrong.
I was just paraphrasing the story about Black people, racists, and Jews... and you responded to me as if I were talking about the people participating in this thread.

You didn't register more than half of what I wrote (if I'm being honest), and for everything else, you either twist my words or just repeat yourself.

How am I supposed to ask you...? Anyway, do you even have a brother? 🤣

I'm done with you and this whole site.

And I'm done with people who make drama out of absolutely nothing.

Sandra Parker3 said:The ones who are using Judolina right now to push her to the forefront just to create a smoke screen for the actual main topic.

Can dignity even be defended that way? Does he even need such a defense?
Was anyone's dignity actually compromised regarding the specific topic at hand? And whose?

You can defend it within the law, obviously. You defend the law and the dignity of the state...

Yeah, it was compromised.

It seems to me we aren't that far off; we're closer than you think, and not just us, but many places west of here too. There are very few places in the world where you can freely say something that doesn't align with the political consensus of the ruling elite.
Politics in both Korea and Western democracies dictate what can and cannot be said. They just differ on which topics have restricted freedom of speech. It's always done in the name of higher causes, usually for the "greater good."

I'll say it again, we are nowhere near Korea.
And... it’s irrelevant to the current situation, so you can't compare us based on that.

Judolina insulted her interlocutors, and that's a whole different thing. Someone can express their view without being insulting.

Judolina is a side character; she could have avoided it, but she didn't, fine.

She cursed out her conversation partners, while some others were "cursing" entire races and nations.

I haven't studied who played what role there, but I saw the thread when it was on page two and followed it a bit. I wasn't interested enough to jump in, but just enough to see how it would play out. Nothing particularly racist happened there; what caught my eye was the excessive and completely unjustifiable insults toward the anti-racist users, then some user from the divisions with a couple of decent posts, and nothing else worth mentioning. So, I'm surprised by the uproar surrounding this thread. Pure anti-racist hysteria over nothing.

There was nothing to scream about; they're just shouting into the wind.

You're missing the point.🤷

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I was specifically talking about Nazis and Jews, and you know that perfectly well

you're twisting my words completely
and I'm really not a fan of that......

He is in the spotlight, and it's because anti-racists put him there, treating him like some heroic victim who fell on the front lines of defense. I'm not the one who pushed him into the spotlight. As for why that happened, I won't speculate.

No, it wasn't threatened.

It's much closer than you think, and not just to us, but to many people further West than we are.

You talked about Black people and racists, then you said to shift all this onto Jews, and you got a green light—basically, you missed the whole point.

Sandra Parker3 said:Nah, that's not it. He was just being desperately vulgar and blunt.

Unlike that other guy, who was basically just trying to carve out some breathing room for his racist and Nazi ways of thinking and acting.

I didn't even catch that guy being a so-called racist.

Yeah, they’re obsessed with Black people, who just can't seem to reach a civilized level. They think Black people are superior to white people because they reproduce faster and more efficiently, and since their skin is resistant to the sun, they represent a threat to those who have every right to be concerned.🙄 They claim they're "threatened"... please. How exactly are they at risk when they're sitting right at the top of the food chain? 🙄It’s pretty obvious they’re going to shut down those first ones, isn't it? Follow that logic.

Apply all of this to the Jews as well.

I know those tactics all too well. Bye.

Nobody wanted to suppress anyone; you're exaggerating. And you're doing it easily, way too easily.
It's not right to slap a stigma like that on someone.

Sandra Parker3 said:Just be specific, where exactly is the problem? What part of that is the emphasized "that"?

Nothing special really happened in that thread, other than one user insulting others. There shouldn't be any taboo topics or forbidden ways of thinking.

I'm not a fan of taboo topics either, at least not when they get shut down right after the opening post—especially an opening post like that one, in my opinion.
It just gives the impression that something is being hidden or covered up, or whatever.
An opening post like that triggers everything, and then depending on how the discussion goes, it gets closed rather than deleted.
I'll say it again: the moderator messed up by being out of their depth here.
Judolino should have been given a warning for that first profane post; if a second one followed, he should've been removed from the thread entirely.
That way, you and people like you wouldn't be pushing him into the spotlight right now.

There’s no such thing as taboo thinking—nobody can stop you from thinking what you want—but if you're in a public space, your freedom ends where someone else's right begins, specifically their right to dignity.

And yeah, hatred was being justified in that thread; people could argue for it or explain it, but they were definitely acting in accordance with it.
Nobody knows any other way to vent hate.🤷

If conversation is only allowed if it aligns with official policy, then we're basically North Korea. Over there, only views that fit the state agenda are permitted.

Freedom of speech is only granted as long as you stick to the official line.

No, we aren't. You're intentionally misrepresenting things; we are nowhere near North Korea.

He should check if he was actually understood, because if these situations keep happening, then he *is* practicing.🙄
Basically, that guy needs to work on himself, though that's not even the point and is just a distraction from the topic.

Look, free speech has its limits, but we’re coming at this from totally different angles here. I’m out here fighting for actual free speech, whereas you seem more interested in just following the law and sticking to those legal restrictions that hem it all in.

By that logic, Judolino should have been allowed to say whatever he wanted without getting slapped with sanctions, too.

Anyway... it just occurred to me, I think I saw that guy—I haven't double-checked, but I can—sending some really crude stuff via PM earlier...
He was acting all composed, polite, and calm on the thread, despite everything I’ve already pointed out, which you didn't even address.

It’s a classic tactic: baiting people into having reactions like Judolino’s, especially when the moderator isn't doing their job.

Besides, there wasn't any hate speech being spread.

Hardly. It was straight-up justifying and promoting hate as if it were just some normal reaction that leads to perfectly normal behavior when someone "gets in your way."
Using the Holocaust and racism as examples to back that up, too.

If someone is a racist, it's perfectly fine for them to explain why they hold those views or what they believe in. If they're wrong, anti-racists can easily shut them down with better arguments. Or maybe they're just afraid they won't be able to?

They aren't afraid.
I'll say it again: this is entirely on the moderator, and honestly, the admin too. In a stroke of pure irony, they handed a hate speech ban to the one person who was actually screaming against the justification of hate.🙄
(And yeah, he was screaming, because apparently nobody wanted to hear a rational tone.)

Who is "like me"? Who exactly are these people similar to me?

That sounds like a favorite little catchphrase used by labelers.

Can dignity even be defended that way? Does he even need that kind of defense?
Was dignity even threatened in this specific thread? And whose?

You think we're far away, but we're closer than you think—not just us, but many people west of here too. There are very few places in the world where you can freely say something that doesn't align with the political consensus of the ruling elite.
Politics in North Korea and in Western democracies both dictate what can and cannot be said. The only difference is the specific topics where free speech is restricted. And it's always in the name of higher reasons, usually for the "greater good."

Judolino insulted his interlocutors, which is a completely different matter. He can express his views without being insulting.

I haven't been studying who was playing what role there, but I saw the thread while it was on the second page and followed it a bit. I wasn't interested enough to jump in, just enough to see how it would unfold. Nothing particularly racist happened there; what caught my eye was the excessive, totally unnecessary, and unjustified insulting of anti-racist users, followed by a user with a few decent posts and nothing else I could single out. That's why the uproar over this thread surprises me. It was pure anti-racist hysteria over nothing.

He didn't have anything to scream about; he's just blowing smoke in the cold.

Lisa Hernandez3 said:Actually, I wouldn't say the topic is taboo so much as it is—well, poor. Based on editorial standards, which is really what matters here, bad topics shouldn't be allowed on the forum. Generally speaking, I don't see why we would permit this one—for whom, or for what purpose? Is it meant to educate or spark a debate? If the authors behind these specific theses—assuming that's what we're dealing with—actually care about having a real discussion, they could always try starting a polemic within academic circles. They could ask for opinions from professors at, their chosen university, find an appropriate interlocutor, and then perhaps voice their thoughts on forums later in a more composed manner. I imagine even debate clubs have certain frameworks and guidelines regarding what constitutes a valid topic versus what doesn't—a better or worse selection process, if you will.

And if someone is a pure, unadulterated racist, the question remains the same. For what greater good of humanity should a racist (and I assume we all know the definition) theoretically be granted unlimited freedom of speech? Are there any topics that have been settled by a consensus that they serve the common good? What ceilings, or what misguided paradigms, would racism attempt to shatter? I suppose that is the crux of the matter.

True, the topic was poorly handled, but it didn't have to be. If people hadn't jumped straight to insults, it could have stabilized into a meaningful conversation.

But those self-proclaimed anti-racists wouldn't allow that; it's way too easy to slap a "hate speech" label on someone else's opinion.

This forum isn't some academic circle; it's just regular people talking about stuff, that's it.
Does every single discussion need to be at an Ivy League level?

Why shouldn't it be? And why should anti-racists have unlimited free speech while racists don't?

It would actually be useful for the anti-racists, too. They'd get a sense of how many racists are actually out there, how they think, and have a chance to actually engage with them to try and win them over to their side. Wouldn't that be beneficial?

Both racism and anti-racism are social science constructs, much like how politics and legislation view them. It’s one way today, but it could be totally different tomorrow.

Just because there's a broad consensus today that racists are evil, doesn't mean it couldn't be the complete opposite in the future.

The "greater good" always leaves someone out, no matter how you slice it. It's impossible for everyone to benefit from actions taken in the name of the common good.

amiggga said:Hate speech on forums isn't handled by debating arguments; it's just flagged, deleted, and punished right from the jump.

Yeah, which is exactly why that anti-racist user got banned—he was practically bordering on hate speech himself.

I didn't notice any actual racists in those quotes.