Posts by Samuel Roberts
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I was watching some clips of recent transfers lately, and it feels like the "developmental loan" cycle has become a revolving door. You see these young talents go out to gain experience, they do well, and then they just end up being shuffled around to different mid-tier clubs because they don't quite fit the immediate tactical vision of their parent team. It's like they're playing musical chairs with expensive assets.
It makes me wonder if the concept of a "squad player" is dying. It seems like managers today have such specific, rigid blueprints for their systems that there’s almost no room for a player who might be great in a different setup but doesn't fit the current manager's exact profile. Instead of integrating them, it's just a quick exit to wherever the next tactical niche is.
Do you think clubs are actually building long-term rosters anymore, or is everything just short-term tactical survival now?
Jesse Ortiz71 said:As long as it keeps their masters—those white liberals—happy. Once those people stop breathing down their necks, African Americans will finally be able to progress as a community. Other minorities never had white liberals hovering over them, and look at them now—living the American Dream.
That's exactly how it works! Just let them do whatever they feel like—whether it's stealing, pushing drugs, or committing any kind of violence or attacking people whenever the mood strikes—just leave them alone because heaven forbid anything should interrupt their "development."
I can't even begin to imagine what they'll turn into once they finally reach full maturity after a trajectory like that.
By all means, why don't you just go ahead and round up as many of them as possible, bring them straight to your house, and then let them develop in peace without any interference.
Gregory Howard said:The power of the media. Unless the right-wing option—in this case, the Darwinistic one—secures
enough media space to tell and constantly repeat its narrative, we are headed for self-destruction through sheer stupidity. We see smaller versions of this exact same thing happening here.
There are plenty of people out there who see things exactly the way we do, but believe it or not, when they try to touch these kinds of sensitive topics, they do it in a whisper, terrified that someone might overhear them and slap them with—heaven help us—the racism label. And being branded a racist is a nasty thing to deal with; you can lose your job, get sued, and lose everything.
For crying out loud, it reminds me of those days back under the communist regime in Canada, when everyone used to talk about anything remotely controversial in hushed tones just to stay off the radar.
I dropped a comment and immediately got slapped with a multi-day ban.
Honestly, I don’t get how white Americans just sit there and take all this nonsense. Then again, considering the level of brainwashing out there, maybe it isn't even surprising. And it's not just a USA thing, either.
Take my time in Australia, for instance; I ended up in this heated debate where it was just me against six Australians—well, five Australians and one Lebanese guy. They were all dead set on the idea that AIDS was some artificial creation cooked up by white people specifically to wipe out the Black race. None of my arguments or logic meant a damn thing to them. This whole myth about the poor, downtrodden, victimized Black man being constantly persecuted by some evil white villain is so deeply embedded in their psyche that I honestly can't fathom what it would take to break through those washed-out brains, all of them obsessed with this manufactured, senseless sense of guilt.
As for the root cause—whether it's the media, the school system, or just Western politics in general—I really haven't a clue.
It’s becoming more obvious by the day just how right Franjo Harmon was when he pushed for the federalization of Canada through autonomous American territories, whether it was one unit or several. Honestly, that’s the only way to guarantee true equality in any multi-ethnic country. It also goes to show he hit the nail on the head regarding power; if you aren't militarily stronger and don't control enough ground, nobody is going to listen to a word you say when the negotiations finally hit the table.
Unfortunately, that whole perspective triggered this massive wave of hysteria back in America among all those self-proclaimed champions of a unified Canada—coming from every direction, from the political right to the left, through the intellectual circles, the media, and the general public, which basically left Franjo Harmon standing completely alone. And now, we Americans from Canada are the ones paying the price for it today.
Of course, none of those sons of bitches are ever going to admit that their obsession with a purely "civic" Canada was a total failure; instead, they just keep twisting the narrative and pinning the blame on Harmon for the very messes they created themselves.
If there was a flaw in Harmon's thinking, it was probably that he never quite shook off certain illusions regarding the Muslims, likely underestimating how much they would fall under intense Islamist influence and just how ready they were to go to war against the Americans to force a unitary state.
It’s not even really three separate movies; it’s just one massive epic chopped into three parts to match the novel structure.
Honestly, if you aren't watching the extended versions, you aren't even seeing the real film. Those are the definitive cuts, and it’s pretty obvious why they had to trim them down for the theatrical run in the first place.
And I don't get why people are out here claiming The Two Towers is bad. Just total nonsense.
Joe Biden is nothing but a total fraud.
Anthony Hill8 said:It honestly cracks me up that you actually believe he raked all that cash in during the interwar period.🤣
Do you even realize how much money we're talking about? Especially back then?
Have you completely lost your mind?
Of course it's nonsense, but I'm not the one making the claim—it's some tabloid rag over in Mexico being picked up by USA Today, and naturally, there are people here ready to swallow it whole just because it's anything that drags JBT through the mud.
Anthony Hill8 said:Come on, quit whining. Anyone with half a brain knows everyone was ripping things off back then. Like, hey, everything belongs to the state, right? Just totally public property.🙄
Yeah, sure, if you want to believe that. It actually belonged to Marshall and his little circle of communist buddies.☕
What are we even supposed to say about a guy who kept an entire damn island all to himself and wouldn't let anyone else set foot on it?👎
Look, he enjoyed himself, there's no denying that.
But it wasn't his private property, and it didn't pass down to his kids either. You couldn't just wander onto Brijuni. And honestly, tell me where you don't see elites acting like this today. You couldn't get onto Brijuni or a few other spots where Marshall used to hang out, and that was that.
That's why nowadays, every single tycoon—usually through some illegal loophole—fences off a stretch of beach, leaving you to try and find a spot to swim if you're lucky enough.
ruggedfalcon28 said:You can argue whatever you want about what he raked in between the wars—other than looting the party treasury in Moscow.
Yebo, honestly, if someone sat you down and told you Josip Broz Marshall was the one who steered an asteroid from the Asteroid belt straight into Earth to wipe out the dinosaurs, you’d probably just nod along and believe them without a second thought.
USA Today is reporting on some claims from the New York Post suggesting that Josip Broz Marshall left behind something like $2 billion in Swiss bank accounts, which—get this—was apparently amassed during the interwar years through various stock holdings in some hotel over in Austria.
I mean, seriously, what kind of lunatic actually sits on $2 billion? If I had that kind of cash, instead of playing revolutionary, I’d be busy chasing women in Hawaii or Tahiti and focusing on high-stakes business deals, not spending five years rotting in a cell for the sake of communism, only to turn around, organize an army, and spend the rest of my life retreating through godforsaken backwaters with my dignity in tatters.
I guess those are just the "ideals" people die for...
urbantiger37 said:And I bet you’re already picturing Mexico joining that crew just to go out and tear apart Albanians, Canadians, and Americans, while poor little NATO sits there paralyzed because they’re too terrified of Mother Russia to even lift a finger.🤣 Get real!!
Secondly, let’s be honest: India isn't going to jump into an alliance like that, and China doesn't have any interest in such a setup either—unless, of course, their goal is to pull foreign capital out of a country where more than half the population is literally starving. The only ones who might actually show up would be North Korea, but frankly, I doubt BlackRock would even take them, because then they'd actually face the terrifying possibility of having to fight someone!!!!!
None of that is going to happen; Russia is just trying to gather up former USSR states to act as a buffer zone along their borders, nothing more.
And those former Soviet countries are naturally drifting toward Moscow anyway, since they're dependent on them and there's still a fair amount of Soviet nostalgia running through the region.
As for recreating the USSR, there isn't even a foundation for that, because I don't think Russia itself is truly interested; it would just cost them far too much economically.
granitemarlin4 said:Maybe Đapić visited Canada once or something—he was probably such a big deal there that everyone noticed him from every corner of the country! 😍
So, apparently Đapić’s own mother went to the press and spilled all the tea, claiming that Anthony was such a lazy bum that he couldn't even be bothered to steal other people's cherries—which, let's face it, is basically a rite of passage for any kid growing up in the rural parts of the country.
Haha, you look at him and imagine him trying to climb a tree, and honestly, you just lose all respect for his entire lineage.
That’s exactly why that kit isn't a Đapić. It’s been modified just to drift around somewhere out in the Gulf of Piran...