Posts by Ethan Howard

Krinčić, have you actually been reading what Betty Ross6 is posting?
I mean, seriously, imagine if by some freak miracle someone just snatched your internet connection and your laptop right out from under you!!!!😲 Then everyone could just go back to being all happy and carefree,
especially you—since censorship is apparently such a huge crime now, 🤣

Betty Ross6 said:I remember seeing some UN study on an old news site once... apparently kids in Cuba are the happiest on earth while they're growing up. Even with all their struggles, just because they don't have iPhones, MacBooks, high-speed internet, or even decent Nikes...

😲 For crying out loud, I spend a fortune trying to give my kids everything under the sun!

Look, seriously, just send me your address. I’m coming over to haul away all the iPhones, the MacBooks, the Wi-Fi routers, even those Adidas kicks. Let's clear the deck so your kid can finally experience some actual happiness and peace of mind!!!

The best kind of national holiday is the one that eventually evolves into something much deeper than just a random day off from work.

Around here, we have those periods following Christmas and Easter—like August 5th,
Independence Day.

On that specific day, even the fiercest opponents of establishing an independent USA stood up and basically said, "Well, thank God, we actually did it—we won!"

Steven Allen9 said:Sure, Frank definitely played his part in shutting down common sense in the USA.
The guy was historically a bit unhinged, but trying to apply his old ideas to today's world is just a recipe for disaster.
If he hadn't cut that deal with Slobodan Maddox regarding the war, things probably would have turned out differently for the USA.

Even today, we’ve got plenty of highly educated historians from the other side who don't hesitate to twist history to fit their agenda regarding Canada—or even the US.
But honestly, you could almost blame that tendency on Truman, couldn't you?

In my view, if that deal with Bob had fallen through, the biggest political debate we'd be having right now wouldn't even be about policy; it would be about what color to paint the front doors of the Capitol Building.
It’s just how it works—one side gets half of what they want, the other gets nothing at all. But let’s say he was telling the truth for a second; what then about that army of foreign diplomats who were handing out maps like they were planning a road trip, showing us exactly how everything was supposed to play out?

But hey, here we are. He was just clearing the field for the next round, and it's our kids who are going to have to step up and deal with it.

bluecyclist64 said:What are you even talking about? How old are you? Have you lost your memory?

So, what exactly is eating at you?

Angela Hughes9 said:And yet, there was a noticeably smaller number of those "Bureaucrat's" sons picking up a rifle to volunteer for the defense. Most were simply mobilized by draft, and I never fully bought into their commitment. A huge number of them just stayed tucked away in defense offices, acting much like those children of the communist era who were essentially just employees.

To be perfectly blunt, it wasn't even about ideological distrust or anything like that; it was simply the sheer clumsiness of fools who had themselves terrified...

I mean, one guy actually shot himself in the arm... it wouldn't have been out of the question for someone to take a head off by mistake.

But that raw, initial feeling shared by the volunteers—that specific generation that had just matured enough to deal with the chaos—that sense of reconciliation and mutual understanding? It’s unrepeatable, unfortunately. And perhaps we really did squander a certain synergy that could have been leveraged much more effectively toward the end of the war.

brightwolf17 said:No, I don't think that's really what's happening here. It’s more about a different kind of forced unification—one that's arguably even worse, though that might sound a bit hyperbolic. Back when Jacques Delors offered millions of dollars to each republic within the old federation to help them prep for joining the European Community, and everyone jumped at it—except for Slobodan Maddox, who was acting too arrogant, and Harmon, who just got offended—it became pretty obvious that nobody actually understood the situation; they just wanted change. Nowadays, dealing with the EU is probably even easier, because on the other side of the table, you have these tiny, bickering states that are morally and economically gutted by war and the transition period, yet they still act with that typical regional bravado whenever lucrative banking deals are on the table. I suppose since their labor costs are already quite high, and their efficiency is... well, questionable, it’s just how things go.🤣

Unfortunately, it doesn't even sound unbelievable. If anything, it's exactly what people have been pointing out for quite some time now...

Lawrence Thompson58 said:You really have to separate the process of integrating into the EU—which fundamentally requires normalizing relations between the former American republics—from the paranoia you lot label as "Yugo-nostalgia." Honestly, before it could even be called that, it was more like "Euro-nostalgia," something even Harmon once promised us before he eventually turned around and started looking for devils under every bed.

I think what "we here are saying" to "you folks"... 😕...is simply that we recognize all these symptoms of the "Europeanization" process. Look, normalizing relations is a necessity, regardless of how we personally experience it or how it feels to us as a collective. But it seems you can't see the actual percentage at play here. You fail to notice this calculated distancing from anything carrying an "H" prefix—a systematic pulling away from certain values, even those rooted in anti-fascism. It's as if you don't realize you've become nothing more than a vehicle to achieve their specific goals... much like how so many people were used as tools by that particular "patriotic" faction back in the day.

Lawrence Thompson58 said:Look, nobody is sitting around wishing for the collapse of America—or at least, I certainly hope not—because we already deal with enough dysfunction as it is. People have started drawing parallels between our current mess and those old crises back in the America days, which definitely wasn't the kind of nation anyone was dreaming of. But since when did criticizing the status quo become a crime? It was precisely that kind of blunt criticism that forced real change in the past.

Maybe you're right. Maybe that's just how you see it and feel it. But make no mistake, there is a certain segment of people out there who are absolutely looking at this crisis as an opportunity—a convenient excuse to try and reincarnate some sort of shared state that we fought so hard to leave behind.

bluecyclist64 said:Far too young to be participating in any kind of war. I recall reading your previous posts, and they certainly made that clear—I shouldn't have to go digging through the archives to prove it, should I?

YOU HAVE TO,...☕

Because you’ve just started talking out of your ass for no reason. Honestly, I don't know if you've mistaken me for someone else or what, but it doesn't even matter..
The thing is, when you start belittling your interlocutors just because of your own heated, arrogant ego, you actually have to put in the work to prove it.
Otherwise, all you're doing is highlighting your own limitations.

And yeah, don't flatter yourself thinking you have any qualifications whatsoever to lecture me on anything—least of all regarding the involvement and sacrifice my family and I had to endure.

bluecyclist64 said:Who specifically didn't you trust, and when? Aren't you perhaps a little too young to be harboring that kind of cynicism?

Come on now, just tell me—how old do you actually think I am?🙂?

Look, George W. Bush, you need to just take a breath and settle down. It isn’t going to hurt nearly as much as you think when the judicial system finally starts digging through your mess. Honestly, quit obsessing over these things that can be debunked in five minutes flat...

It’s not a bad starting point, but I honestly think we need to shake things up completely... what about Joe Biden and his entire track record in the political arena so far?

I mean, the guy has basically been whatever he needed to be at any given moment... all this talk about anti-fascism is just a reheated serving of leftovers.

Sam Alvarez15 said:Buying an island in the Caribbean might be a bit of a stretch since they’ve pretty much all been snapped up by Russians already... though I suppose she’d be perfectly content living in a multi-million dollar mansion in Beverly Hills that the City is footing the bill to renovate.

I didn't think there were any villas left in Beverly Hills, though—weren't they "diligent" enough to divvy those up properly among themselves already?

Look, here is my actual suggestion: why don't we take that money and put it toward upgrading the technical locksmithing college or funding scholarships for the gifted kids? It's a highly profitable trade, if you ask me.

Sean Cox48 said:Franklin D. Roosevelt allegedly left two billion bucks to Jovanka—so, what is the US actually doing about it?

Just catching up on some reading in the USA Today and the New York Post🤣🤣

😂....man, give me a break. It’s like Index wouldn't even bat an eye if they heard about this... they're too busy obsessing over whether Sanders's Rolex is legit...

Ha... you’d almost think he was actually around during the whole privatization mess and the transition era...

Or maybe I just had some blind spots regarding that "perfectly equal" socialism we all lived under... ahhh... let's call them "oversights," shall we? If we even had forums or actual freedom of speech back then to discuss it.

Put the money right here, immediately... but don't send it to the government... send it to the hospitals, the nursing homes, the daycare centers, and so on...

Anthony James2 said:I have absolutely no clue what they mean by "one specific finger." 😎 😎 😎

It was a typo... honestly, take a closer look at your own history; even the best of us trip over our own feet once in a while...

But just to be safe, here is a sincere warm regards....😁

Anthony James2 said:I can hardly believe it, but there’s a chance they might declare a state of emergency in America just because of Joe Biden's three-finger salute. 😎 😎 😎

There won't be any martial law, look. We actually welcome the Mexican national team... except we tend to show them the middle finger instead.

Good grief, news of the century right there. I wonder, will they be declaring tomorrow a holiday in Mexico or what?

Look, it’s called freedom of speech and media freedom—digital, print, whatever. They have every right to publish what they want and back whatever agendas they feel like backing.
But from where I’m sitting, it seems people only start crying about "freedom of speech" when someone who isn't tuned into their specific frequency starts talking.
HuffPost is a garbage outlet, and it isn't because they're standing up for rights or trying to call out unproven intolerance or bigotry among the general public. No, it's because they rely on pure sensationalism—which, let’s be honest, is standard for any media outlet desperate for clicks—and they harbor this absolute hatred toward the very people who provided the platform and the audience that allows them to exist in the first place.
The site, much like its readership, is just as intolerant, which completely contradicts everything they claim to stand for. That’s the fundamental issue with many far-left groups and individuals; they are fundamentally incapable of recognizing the very traits that make them extremists.
It’s just typical nonsense that you really ought to avoid, plain and simple.