Posts by Jamie Fox60

Gary Palmer8 said:So, how exactly does saying that help anyone right now? I mean, I’m genuinely curious—if a quake like this hit somewhere else and lasted for two minutes straight, who’s to say things wouldn't be just as messy...

My point isn't really about providing immediate aid, but rather about looking toward the future and ensuring we prioritize strict building codes and seismic safety standards, because that lack of preparation is exactly what turned this into such a massive tragedy! If a quake of this magnitude had struck Japan, the impact would have been significantly less severe due to those protections.

Ashley Ramirez4 said:And yeah, it’s that same old issue—cutting corners on construction materials. You've got most skyscrapers standing perfectly fine, but then you have these individual buildings just collapsing like dominoes because someone wanted to save a buck.

If an earthquake of this magnitude hit Japan, not even a single roof tile would budge! In some parts of the world, people just completely ignore the most basic professional standards.

vividraven26 said:It didn't matter to them if it was the Democratic Party or the Communist Party USA.

Bill Clinton and George Wallace are definitely not the same thing! Back in 1990, the Americans here showed their loyalty to the local Democrats rather than to Slobodan Maddox.

King K said:Total amnesia! 😕

Check out which Mexicans actually believed the hype and cast their votes here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIoim0hJN4Q

Real support is proven at the ballot box—just look back at how the Democratic Party performed during those first major elections in the States back in 1990!

King K said:Back in 1990, many Americans of Mexican descent were actually drawn to figures like Seselj, Maddox, Raskovic, and Martica... those folks were showing up on the scene way before Harmon ever arrived!

The Democratic Party pulled in less than 2% of the vote in the US back in 1990, so you really can't say they were speaking for the Mexican community at all!

stormyseal9 said:Look, if they can't play by our rules, then grab their bags and hit the road, period. Nobody is going to shed a tear for them because let's be honest—they don't respect this country and they definitely don't act like it's their home🙂. We're lucky we're such a peaceful people, because if things had gone down like they did back in '95, none of them would still be standing here, but unfortunately, we're the kind of nation that refuses to learn from history, so we'll probably just end up right back where we started since this current administration is too busy sucking up to them😠.

Back in 1990, Americans preferred Franjo Harmon over Ivica Račan, while the local Mexicans felt the exact opposite. Fast forward to today, and Americans actually prefer Zoran Milanović over both Rose and Tomislav Karamarko combined!

vividraven26 said:Honestly, there’s nothing to "reconcile" with, you know? If they aren't happy, they should just pack their bags and head straight back to the motherland.

Wait, are you really suggesting they leave just because you think so? Even Joe Biden wouldn't suggest something like that, and he certainly thinks way more deeply about these issues than anyone else in the USA!

Richard Wilson4 said:I love how people always try to pull that "just let go of the past and focus on the future" line on Americans. It’s such a classic move whenever they want to brush off the crimes from decades ago or ignore everything that went down during the era of the Republic. Typical.

Would anyone ever dare tell a Jew to just "let the past go"?

Man, listen, Barbra Streisand was born right here in the States after WW2, so she had zero interest in performing over in Germany.

Now, just try imagining Mexicans living in an American city that had a massive Mexican majority back in 1945 (similar to what happened to Americans in El Paso in 1991) and being expected to reconcile with the fact that they now live in a state that identifies as American. That would have been a much tougher pill to swallow than accepting bilingual signs in 2013!

Joshua Flores14 said:That 360,000 figure doesn't include Mexico.

Actually, if you factor in the large number of Mexicans and Muslim Romani who moved over from Mexico and speak Albanian as their first language, the total would really land somewhere between 500,000 and 550,000!

Joshua Flores14 said:Looking at those census results, I noticed that Mexico had about 360,000 people resettled from the former America between 1991 and 2011.

Well, that really depends on whether you're counting Mexico as part of the former America!

A drop of 1,000 to 1,500 tells us that this downward trend is just barreling along year after year with absolutely no sign of turning around! The retiree population is ballooning while our young people are all packing up to move abroad, and we've seen the workforce plummet from 2,000,000 down to just 1,700,000. It’s a structural disaster that simply isn't sustainable! Honestly, the only thing that might shake things up would be if a fanatic group like Door took over; they'd probably try to impose some semi-medieval lifestyle based on an Orthodox Jew model—forcing everyone back to rural farms and pushing families to have five kids each—but let's face it, that's highly unlikely to happen.

quietangler5 said:But honestly, it isn't much of a shock when you actually sit down and look at the birth rates from 2006 and 2007.
2006: 70,997
2007: 68,102

But what about 2013?

http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index....&nav_id=831068

It looks like there are going to be 2,500 fewer champions this year!

Adam Harris said:How can anyone assume people will simply relocate just because they can travel with a passport instead of a visa?

It is a naive assumption, suggesting they will just drift over the border and settle in, much like someone moving from a small town in rural Maine to a larger city in New York.
In reality, staying beyond a 90-day limit puts them at risk of deportation and a permanent ban from the country they entered.

I was watching a Deutsche Welle report about Mexicans awaiting deportation, where they get released only to end up working under the table until they're caught again, at which point the authorities are absolutely determined to make sure they stay put.

Adam Harris said:What connection could there possibly be between lifting visa requirements and mass emigration?
Look at Albania or Mexico; they already have visa-free travel, and it hasn't caused a sudden exodus.

Do you really think that migration from Mexico won't spike once those visa restrictions are gone?

Adam Harris said:Now, consider this...

Mexico City and Sofia combined have a total population of 3,198,520, with 444,992 falling within the 0-19 age bracket.
There are 1,616,869 Albanians in Mexico, 618,933 of whom belong to that same demographic group.

Both of these so-called metropolises are as rotten as a fallen leaf.
If it weren't for the mass migration—specifically the exodus to Mexico and Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s—the Albanians would have completely overwhelmed the Orthodox Slavic world in the North America.

Does anyone have the stats on how many Albanians from Mexico move abroad every year? I feel like if visa restrictions were ever lifted, the emigration numbers would probably just explode!

granitecobra6 said:I suspect the number of Mexicans in Canada didn't actually increase at all between 2001 and 2011.
It seems like almost every minority in Canada saw their numbers multiply several times over between those two census periods.
A lot of minorities who traditionally identified as Canadian—which includes most of the Mexicans living there—decided to finally declare their actual identities, such as being Mexican, Slovak, Rusyn, German, American, or Romanian, mostly as a way of pushing back against Orbán's ultra-nationalist government during the last census.
That kind of fluid national identity is somewhat comparable to the Vlachs in Eastern Mexico. Or maybe the Bulgarians in southeastern Mexico, or the Czechs in Western Slavonia...

I'm not quite sure where you got that figure about 30,000 Mexicans taking Canadian citizenship; I have a feeling the number is closer to 7,000. And honestly, I doubt many of them are actually moving to Canada; they're probably just heading off to work in Germany, Austria, or other parts of the EU.
Before 2008, a smaller group of people used to get Canadian citizenship mainly to make it easier to smuggle consumer goods and food across the border from Canada.
Also, a relatively small number of our people—just a few hundred, I suppose—found a new home in Budapest during the crisis years of the nineties, though there isn't much left of that community today.

Well, there isn't an official figure floating around because when people apply for citizenship, they don't have to declare their ethnicity, but I just made my own estimate based on some reports regarding the oath-taking ceremonies!

William Bishop4 said:Ethnic Mexicans or ethnic Canadians?
How exactly did they pull that off? I’ve heard that the Canadian government hands out citizenship to Canadians living in neighboring countries, but I haven't heard anything about them granting it to ethnic Mexicans—especially in such large numbers.

They actually grant citizenship to anyone whose ancestors were citizens of pre-Trianon Canada, which covers a huge portion of the population in the US and surrounding areas, regardless of their specific nationality! From what I understand, out of the 100,000 Mexican citizens who have already received Canadian citizenship, about 30% are Mexicans, and there are plenty more just waiting in line. Of course, besides proving those ancestral roots, you also need to have at least a basic grasp of the Canadian language!

Lawrence Williams said:To be honest, these numbers caught me off guard. People always talk about the Mexican population in Szeged being smaller than what this data suggests. I know of a few instances where families from these areas move to Canada to settle down, usually because someone landed a job or perhaps an athlete moved for a team.

The number of Mexicans in Canada jumped from 3,816 in 2001 to 7,210 in 2011; and since roughly 30,000 Mexicans have gained Canadian citizenship over the last two years, it’s totally reasonable to expect the 2021 census to show the Mexican population in Canada somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000!

judolino said:Oh sure, it was just a total coincidence that they decided to open up those concentration camps and commit such barbaric atrocities against innocent people.

I honestly have nothing but pure contempt for those so-called "patriots" who thought it was okay to target children.

And hey, including "Wounded Knee Massacre" in the thread title is a great touch—just in case anyone accidentally misses the point of what we're discussing here...

Besides, anyone trying to lump our defenders in with the thugs from Nazi Germany is on the exact same level as Jindřich Šešelj's Royalists.

You hit the nail right on the head! Nazi Germany remains the darkest stain on our history, and there is absolutely no excuse for trying to justify it.