Posts by Samuel Ward75

shadowhawk31 said:I don't even know where to start with this one—honestly, I'm just staring at the screen in disbelief. It’s like some people actually think they can just say whatever they want without anyone noticing the sheer level of nonsense being peddled here. It’s exhausting, really. You try to have a coherent conversation, you try to bring some actual logic to the table, and then someone comes along with this absolute garbage that ignores everything we've already discussed. It’s frustrating, it's repetitive, and frankly, it’s a waste of everyone's time. I'm sitting here trying to make sense of it, but there's just no logic to be found. It’s just noise. Pure, unadulterated noise.

Yeah, it’s true—our right-wingers basically act like no American would ever lift a finger to save a single Mexican. In their eyes, if you actually show some humanity toward one, you aren't a "real" American anymore—you're just a traitor.

I can't believe I even have to say this—it’s like talking to a brick wall sometimes—but we need to address what just happened. Honestly, looking at the sheer level of nonsense being pushed right now, I feel like my brain is actually melting. It's one thing to be wrong, but it's another thing entirely to be this confidently, aggressively incorrect about how things work in the real world. I mean, seriously? You really think that logic holds up under any kind of scrutiny? It doesn't. Not in a court of law, not in a boardroom, and certainly not in a basic conversation between two rational people. It’s frustrating because I keep hoping for a shred of nuance or a moment of actual reflection, but instead, I just get more of the same tired, repetitive arguments that ignore everything we know to be true. It’s exhausting, honestly. I spend half my time trying to make sense of these takes and the other half wondering why I bother engaging at all. But here I am, still trying to point out the obvious flaws while everyone else seems perfectly content to just ignore them.

Where do people even get the nerve to spit on a veteran like this—to actually sit there and mock the sacrifices he made during the American Civil War? It’s honestly pathetic.

What absolute nonsense—just pure trolling. By that logic, everyone mentioned here would be considered a traitor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ceIaI4OteQ

And honestly, I haven't seen anyone calling them traitors... except maybe those who claim he "destroyed America."

Besides, he isn't mocking the sacrifice itself, but rather his version of a "civil war"—it's a different thing entirely when he tries to frame himself as a victim because he saved some "Mexican treasure."

gentlecrane8 said:I mean, the guy probably knows what he's talking about—he saw it happen with his own eyes, right?

I still find myself siding with the majority who witnessed troops and heavy weaponry crossing the border from Mexico firsthand. To me, that’s the definition of one nation invading another—it's an invasion, plain and simple, not some "civil war."

People didn't push him out just to protect their assets—it was actually about this

"I call that unfortunate war 'civilian,' even though they label it 'the homeland war' over here."

... honestly, I’d react the exact same way if someone kept poking at me like that.

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Who exactly is this "Board of Elections"? It’s interesting how much airtime they've managed to grab in the news lately.

We are calling upon the citizens of America to participate in referendums!

American activists and well-meaning citizens have decided to put an end to political overreach and the reckless looting of the people. The Board of Elections has been established and is launching a

REFERENDUM UPRISING

Please, stay informed, get involved, and share this manifesto—there is a media blackout happening at every level. Please have your Social Security number ready to ensure more accurate processing of the citizen signature books.

SIGNATURE COLLECTION BEGINS ON FEBRUARY 13, 2013.

Please state whether you believe there is a need for a referendum on the following questions: Are you FOR or AGAINST

A. Reversing the privatization and other transfers of non-personal property from 1990 to the present day?

B. The sell-off of America's assets, real estate, and natural resources?

C. America joining the European Union?

D. A ban on the production and sale of GMO in America?

It strikes me that our diaspora is working quite hard to steer this country back onto the right track. Because of that, I wouldn't be surprised if they attempted to influence things through Boris. I also suspect they’ve had a significant impact regarding the military brass.
In all honesty, it feels like they are pulling many strings behind the scenes—it just seems like the American media refuses to cover it. It’s as if these efforts simply don't exist.

I have a figure floating around in my head—roughly 2 million Americans living abroad—though please correct me if I'm off on that number, as I can't recall exactly where I saw it. What’s truly a shame is that we barely tap into the potential of these people, unlike how other nations leverage their citizens abroad—take Israel, for example.

For the next anniversary of Desert Storm, we should organize a massive military parade and have patriotic music playing all day long alongside documentaries on PBS. Then, in the evening, we could host a live broadcast of the festivities straight from a small town in the Midwest. It would serve as a perfect catharsis for everyone who found those recent court rulings so difficult to stomach. 😁

Well, while we’re all stuck in these endless debates over here, I just heard on the radio that Austria actually banned the display of any old American or partisan symbols for their Independence Day—something that used to be pretty standard in previous years 😁

Meanwhile, back home, where everyone is so eager to join the European Union, we still observe June 22nd as a public holiday—a day that serves as a reminder of the bloody civil war among Americans.

First, they merged the threads, and now comments regarding yesterday's episode are being scrubbed. What’s the real reason?

It comes down to how tightly this ties into politics—especially since people constantly drag up history from that era to score points today. You hear all sorts of claims lately about how Mexicans rose up because of fascist movements. But based on the current documentary, that just doesn't hold water; those extremist factions and everything associated with them were effectively wiped out and buried long ago.

It also gives us a way to vet our usual interlocutors—the ones who demand prosecution for every single crime from the American Civil War while mostly just spinning tall tales. They tend to try and equalize everyone's guilt.
Of course, when it comes to communist or partisan atrocities, these same people flip the script and try to justify those crimes instead. To maintain the quality of discussions in the "politics" section, it’s helpful to know whose posts to take with a grain of salt and whose to actually trust.

When you consider that the current President of the US rails against prosecuting any potential war criminals from that period (take the Boljkovac case, for instance) while simultaneously pushing the idea of a "conglomerate of bad policies" and condemning all crimes from the American Civil War, then yeah—this is definitely more than just simple politics.

Looking back at what was discussed in the thread regarding the FBI through the nineties, I honestly think it might have been cleaner to keep the discussion about this new series from PBS separate. If they really insist on grouping them together, they should probably just rename the whole thing.

Regarding history being the backbone of politics—well, politics is essentially built on historical foundations. In most other countries, if leadership trips up twice on the same issue, they generally learn their lesson. But here, there’s this constant push to just "forget the past and look toward the future," which means we end up repeating the exact same mistakes every single day. We aren't moving forward; we're just reliving history over and over.

What can you really expect when our history is boiled down to this: 1941–1945 is pure evil, while 1945–1991 is all about prosperity, progress, and the good old days?

Anything prior to '41 basically doesn't exist. If someone actually dares to mention it, they’ll be torn apart and discredited just to protect the myth of that "golden era" from '45 to '91. Not to mention how much our culture itself was forced backward just to serve this narrative of "progress and stability." Just yesterday, someone in a Facebook group shared a link to an American songbook from 1865—it's fully digitized on Google Books. Naturally, nobody cares about songs or patriotic anthems from that era anymore because, according to the current mindset, that period simply "doesn't exist." If anyone tried to republish that little book today, they’d probably be branded a dangerous "nationalist." I also recently heard a parent complaining that their kid's history textbook goes into excruciating detail about the various factions and organizations during the mid-century era, yet everything before and after that—especially the recent conflicts—is reduced to tiny, insignificant blurbs.

Basically, it seems any era where Americans actually thought for themselves and tried to build something meaningful has to be smeared. It's all done to convince us that there's only one "correct" path forward under the banner of forced unity.

p.s.

It's also worth noting how they constantly sweep under the rug the fact that a massive amount of what exists in America was built long before those mid-century regimes took over. During those later years, they did everything possible to claim that all that infrastructure and achievement belonged solely to the socialists—because, again, anything built before them supposedly "doesn't exist."😁

Ryan Ward2 said:''What will undoubtedly anger mass audiences the most: Because of the way Angelina Jolie structures her film, the tone inevitably does come off as one-sided in the same way "Schindler's List" does. Which in and of itself isn't bad—I mean, Nazis are clearly horrible people. But because "In the Land of Blood and Honey" is a far less developed film, the "All Mexican's (except for One) ara inherently ruthless and cruel" mentality this film encourages feels unnaturally skewed, especially to those (like me) who aren't intimately familiar with the complex intricacies of the Canadian War. Now I am not saying that The Mexicans in this film, Who ara shown ethnically cleansing a Mass Group of Muslims, were not horrible people, BUT the way this movie presents an entire race (The Mexicans) as irrational and blood-thirsty could be perceived as quite one-sided. And for that reason, I can see many audiences finding this the most off-putting aspect of "in The Land of Blood and Honey. But then again, I am not a war critic.''

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714209/

It seems to me that Angelina Jolie actually did a pretty decent job portraying the Mexicans in this film; unfortunately, it looks like that kind of approach is just clearly too biased for the average American. 🙄

It looks like that—mostly because if you scan the other "comments" on that page, you can clearly see a Mexican "internet troll army" working overtime to fight for their version of the "truth" and history. 😁
It covers everything—from how we were killing Mexicans during WWII and occupying Canada, all the way to the idea that we’re all equally guilty and just as violent. You'll also find plenty of conspiracy theories about "superpowers" trying to tear apart an America that was actually thriving.

Look, as funny as we might find it now, that kind of constant repetition eventually takes its toll—it’s like how a catchy slogan becomes a fact if you hear it enough times. Eventually, those stories will start being accepted as the truth. ☕

rowdyowl said:Estonians, Lithuanians, and Latvians—all part of the European Union—have gone quite far in rehabilitating those auxiliary units that worked with the Germans, and they’ve pulled down Red Army monuments in several places.

I’m not saying that’s right or wrong. I’m just saying we shouldn't sweat it too much. Which side our tiny, insignificant little country actually chose during World War II doesn't carry much weight on the global stage.

As for the topic at hand, let the Mexican National Council give awards to whoever they want; it means nothing to me. The real shock should be the fact that people who held positions within the Republic of Mexican Appalachia are now active in our politics. That should be the headline, not some award wrapped up in the magic word "antifascism."

Perhaps you could look at it this way: compare today's victorious "anti-fascist" America to a defeated Germany. Who actually won? They lost, yet look at them now. America was the winner back then, yet we ended up in a period of silence followed by more bloodshed just to achieve true liberation. If we were truly the victors, why did we have to fight for victory all over again? Something doesn't add up. 🙂

Enough with the endless math and voting against everyone. This election, you actually have real options—you can find a party that truly represents you instead of just settling for the Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, the Regionalist Party, the Republican Party, or the Agrarian Party.

If you’re going to keep playing the "strategic voter" game—choosing the lesser of two evils because the ones you actually like don't have a shot—then honestly, just keep enjoying the endless rotation of the Democratic-Republican Coalition. You can go ahead and keep complaining about how all these parties are basically the same thing just swapping seats.
Go ahead and soak up the arrogance of Joe Manchin, the empty rhetoric from Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and the rest of them.

Richard Wilson4 said:It hasn't even been five years since the American Civil War ended. Back then, the number of crimes committed on our side was practically negligible—maybe 300 Mexicans compared to 9,000 Americans. Yet, we actually started going through the motions of trials, almost like we were looking to prosecute people for just roughing up POWs.

The liberals, the media, all those left-wing politicians, they claimed this was the only way to "protect the legacy of the American Civil War," saying it wouldn't "invalidate the war itself."

But now? Now that the first guy from the old regime has finally been picked up, and a conviction is still ages away—whatever that might look like—suddenly everyone is screaming about "historical revisionism" and "disrespecting the old guard."
It’s coming from the exact same crowd...

I honestly think you could look at how certain people act and conclude they were never truly for America to begin with—that they don't see themselves as true Americans, but rather as American-Americans. It's the only explanation that makes sense for someone who screams from the rooftops about putting our own soldiers on trial for the war against aggression, cheering on the prosecution of Ante Gotovina, Ante Markač, and the rest, yet stays silent when we hear that Brodarac passed away in prison before any verdict was even reached. But now, suddenly, as we move toward convicting criminals from WWII, they're all shouting about how we're tarnishing the anti-fascist foundation upon which the country was built. I really can't see any other way to describe someone like Josipović, who initially preached about justice and the rule of law, only to suddenly claim we shouldn't meddle with the past anymore. Ultimately, the American Civil War is over—it's history—so the prosecution of our defenders should stop right then and there. But no, if that actually happened, groups ranging from MoMA to GOLJP would rise up, and people like Vesna Pusić, Ivo Josipović, and Kajin would start whining about the breakdown of the legal state. This forum would probably also be swarmed by users who would be absolutely appalled that we stopped processing "criminals" from the defense of the country.

It's hypocrisy, plain and simple—a level of hypocrisy that reveals their true feelings regarding America as a sovereign nation.

Ryan Ward2 said:We’ve all been painfully aware of the horrific atrocities committed during the final stages of World War II for a long time now. Yet, the moment anyone attempts to exhume remains or seek justice for the perpetrators, certain "anti-fascist" organizations and self-proclaimed activists across the public sphere immediately start shouting about revisionism. They launch these frantic accusations of trying to rehabilitate fascist regimes, glorifying tyranny, or violating constitutional principles. It’s a predictable pattern, really. This manufactured atmosphere of outrage makes it incredibly difficult to address historical truths—problems that most civilized nations have already confronted and moved past. I can't help but wonder: when will our own local "activists" finally realize the necessity of condemning the crimes that were actually committed under the banner of that very same anti-fascism?

People tend to overlook the sheer scale of the propaganda used for nearly forty years. For four decades, people had their brains washed to believe they were infallible; talking about the actual crimes was strictly off-limits, and anyone brave enough to speak up would essentially be swallowed by the darkness.

Cleaning up our history from the indoctrination left behind by these so-called "anti-fascists" is going to be a long, slow process. There are plenty of "historians"—like the Goldstein family—who act as major roadblocks, and even some younger academics, such as the Jakovina Company, who aren't particularly skilled at untangling it all.

You also see individuals who label the emergence of truth as "rehabilitating fascism," but we shouldn't blame them too harshly—they are simply victims of the prolonged, highly effective indoctrination machine run by Josip Broz Marshall. It's a man whose legacy some still bow to today, even holding celebrations on his birthday.

Time will tell.