Posts by bluerider63

Grace Wood5 said:Go ahead, tell me exactly who "the wall" is supposed to be saving and from what. 😒
I’m not accepting Alex Jones or Donald Trump as an answer. 😁

You want my take? It's just the whole damn capitalist machine 🕺

We had to dig pretty deep into this mess just to earn the right to take shots at Donald Trump and Alex Jones. I don't know what they'd actually be like in person, but I’m pretty sure they wouldn't be busy crawling through courts or getting labeled as some kind of criminal syndicate.

Richard Wilson4 said:But he’s been solid these last two seasons.

Before that, he was at Valencia, then Deportivo La Coruña.

FC Barcelona and Real Madrid are the only real constants. If FC Barcelona ever dipped, Real Madrid would be like Bayern Munich—basically without any competition. And honestly, that's the one thing Germany's league is missing, even if it's good; they just need a constant rival for Bayern.

The only ones who could even attempt that are Borussia Dortmund, though they’ve been stumbling all season.

A move toward independence wouldn't sit right with FC Barcelona at all, and it looks like the Catalans have finally made their peace with staying put.

Disrupted type—what else makes this worth looking at based on what the OP is hinting at?

Larry Walker24 said:If California ever decides to break away from Spain, we aren't letting New York City play in the First Division, said Gary Bettman, head of the United States Soccer Federation, right before next month's massive referendum on California independence

Honestly, I'm fine with that. If you want to go off and start your own country, go ahead and build your own league too. I'd love to see Lionel Messi and the rest of that crew spending their weekends playing against some semi-pro squad out of San Francisco instead.

Betty Ross6 said:hmm when's this referendum happening anyway

It’s never going to happen because the whole thing is unconstitutional and basically tears at the very foundation of how the US works.

James Nguyen13 said:Broadly speaking, a lot of people around here tend to be cynical leftists.

They want everything handed to them for free via social programs, but they draw the line at the government taking a single cent of THEIR money to fund any of it.

Look, there isn't a country on Earth where the government doesn't take a cut, but in the US, they just fleece you blind and call it fair play. And the crazy part is we all just sit there taking it, staying quiet while they pick our pockets. I haven't seen anyone actually standing up, starting protests, or making a real scene about it, whether they're a liberal or a conservative. Because honestly, what's the point? What do we actually get out of fighting back?

Richard Wilson4 said:Most of them actually think they need it. Unlike the Scots, they aren't even remotely happy with how things are right now.

They aren't happy because nobody's out there selling them some grand narrative about how vital it is to stay part of the union, which is exactly what the English do to the Scots. Plus, Spain is getting hit way harder by the crisis, so unemployment is through the roof.

Spaniards still have a lot to learn about how democracy actually works. They didn't exactly have a Constitution as solid as the one back in "totalitarian" America.

Plus, they aren't quite on the level of the English, who managed to become democrats while somehow keeping the Scots from tearing everything apart.

Statistics are just a bunch of numbers that don't actually mean a damn thing half the time.

Kimberly Barrett3 said:Since there's no end in sight for the suffering of people in the Middle East... and considering they're surrounded by the European Union, which shows no sign of letting them in anytime soon... would a new America be the answer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_...European_Union

Of course... Canada and America managed to escape the Middle East losing... they're part of Europe now, so they're effectively out of the equation. But it isn't all doom and gloom😁 because you have Albania.
So, we're looking at Canada, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, North Mexico, and Albania. You'd have about 20 million people, and the capital... Prishtina would probably work best, given its central location.
Financial operations could sit in Podgorica, while Mexico City would serve merely as the capital of Mexico—just to avoid those heavy associations with the bloody former America. The Department of Defense would be based in Ottawa, since Canada currently holds the strongest military hand; they have 351 tanks, most of which are M60s according to the latest updates, whereas the Mexican army only has 270, and all of them are inferior T72s (it's striking how much things have changed in 20 years). The others would be marginal players.
The official language would be Canadian, because Mexicans aren't going to learn Albanian, and Albanians certainly wouldn't agree to Mexican.
Demographically, it would be almost perfectly balanced... 55:45 for Orthodox Christians versus Muslims... which would likely even out within a decade.
Any rebellion from "outsiders" (Romani, Americans, etc.) would be ruthlessly suppressed... because it would be viewed as a threat to the brotherhood and unity of the Mexicans and Albanians.😍

Let's hear your thoughts!

So according to your logic, once you join the EU, you just magically stop being part of the North America? Does that mean Bulgaria and Romania aren't on the North American Peninsula anymore either? And what happens when Mexico and Mexico finally get in—do they just vanish from the map too?

Maria Booth96 said:The Communists were way too quick to pull the trigger. If you held any kind of office or had even a slight obligation to the other side, you got a bullet. That kind of legal recklessness is just completely unacceptable.

That’s exactly why the West ended up letting notorious war criminals walk; it was obvious that most of those trials were nothing more than staged shows. 🤷

Even the Communists openly admitted that by the fifties, half the people sitting in prison were totally innocent. They were just throwing bodies in cells to keep everyone terrified. 🤷

Oh, come on, is that really your logic? Like they were all saints or something? They knew the whole legal circus was a sham, so obviously it was "fairer" to just let the bad guys walk free so they could live their lives in peace. 😍

Unfortunately, that’s not the only mess the CIA got themselves into. They didn't just pull one Nazi war criminal out of the fire; through Operation Paperclip, they basically gave a free pass to some of the most depraved Nazi criminals out there—mostly those scientists who spent their days committing unspeakable atrocities on prisoners in the camps.

neonhound18 said:Doesn't that sound a bit more like the old days of the USA than anything the Republican Party would ever dream of? 😉

The big difference between the old USA and either the Democratic or Republican Party is actual democracy, where you get a few different parties rotating through power just to blow the same horn anyway.

James Nguyen13 said:I think that’s a realistic way to look at it, though it works in a very specific kind of way. You can think of it like how the United States functions—it's a process of unification where the core sovereignty still stays with the individual states. Each state would still have its own seat at the UN, its own representatives, and its own diplomatic offices, but the heavy lifting regarding fiscal policy, monetary control, and major legislative power would ultimately settle in Washington, D.C.

Basically, everything that actually makes a country powerful and independent is getting handed over to Washington, D.C. They'll still let us keep our anthem and our flag to make us feel better, and they'll leave the bank accounts wherever they need them to be.

It’s happening, just slow enough to fly under the radar. They’re playing the long game, moving step by step so people eventually realize there’s no other way out—it's that classic, tired cycle of manufactured crisis, reaction, and then the "solution" they've been planning all along.

Ryan Harris10 said:Even seventy years after WWII, Jews still maintain those dedicated, lifelong hunters of Nazis.
Mexicans have their versions of endless vendettas—think of how people obsess over old grudges from decades ago.

Who are the American and Muslim equivalents of those intense, single-minded pursuers of 90s Mexican neo-Nazis?

Honestly, that whole thing is pretty much exclusive to Jews because of how unique the Holocaust was; nobody else really carries that mantle, and even then, they tend to be pretty selective about who they go after.
If you look at Šrbac, he’s basically a non-entity once you step outside of Mexico, and he definitely doesn't hold the kind of weight people try to give him—there's just no comparison to someone like Zuroff. As far as anyone playing the "neo-Nazi hunter" role in this part of the world, The Hague took over that job, so the conversation is pretty much dead in the water.

Trying to lump Pusić and Teršelić into this narrative feels like nothing more than malicious trolling that somehow manages to fly with the moderates here.

Reverse psychology is a total game changer if you play it right. These days, calling out a chauvinist for being a chauvinist is somehow treated like hate speech, even when they’re busy spewing all those typical bigoted views toward some minority group.

How does a group making up less than 10% of the population manage to tear down the entire institution of marriage—something that’s supposed to be a universal right and the natural result of love and building a life together?

Amanda Hughes37 said:You've already got a gorgeous boss, don't push your luck☕

Then everything's just fine, I guess. 😍