Posts by Sophia Bishop39

Hey everyone—I just received a legal notice regarding my bill from $33. I actually settled the balance, though I was about 20 days late—so, what kind of fallout should I be expecting?

I have some images saved on my desktop, but whenever I go to manage attachments and try to browse for the one I want, it tells me the file size is too large.
Is there any way I can shrink these files directly from my computer—since I haven't set up my own web hosting yet?

They keep telling me the image is too large—should I be changing the file format or something else entirely?

The Big Three have grown far too massive—to the point where they’re becoming a liability to the nation rather than an asset. When they threaten the economy with mass layoffs, the government feels forced to step in just to keep them afloat—and honestly, their twenty-year delusion that a "car" can only be some gas-guzzling V8 monster is entirely their own problem.

Linda Hughes88 said:🤣
Actually, even better, I’ve sat down and read books by this guy, that guy, and even that third guy too. I’d highly suggest you try doing the same sometime. Books! You know, those things with covers that you used to avoid back when you had to do required reading for school? Well, give it a shot, maybe you'll actually learn something...
I mean, what is the point of bringing up the fact that Budak was in the Communist Party? Are we supposed to assume his research is garbage just because of that? That's a pretty weird way to judge scientific work if you ask me. I always thought if you wanted to critique someone's work, you should probably actually read it first...
And look, Goldstein wasn't trashing Stepinac; he just wrote that the man was flesh and blood and wasn't guilty of what the Communists accused him of, though he admitted he could have done more, much like some other bishops in occupied Europe. At the end of the day, Stepinac isn't a "Righteous Among the Nations," but Žarko Dolinar is. And wouldn't you know it, he's an American. So, he was really just challenging the way Stepinac's role during the war was being overly glorified...

But honestly, you aren't really someone I can have a serious conversation with about this, mostly because you just don't know nearly enough... ☕

How can his membership in the party have nothing to do with how he interpreted history? Just find me one single text of his regarding Bleiburg.🤷
My dear, the only "bound thing" you've ever read is probably a comic book—it's clear you haven't a clue what you're talking about, and I get the impression you can't even tell Mila and Neven Budak apart.🤷

Dennis Green62 said:Do you actually have any proof regarding this supposed connection between Teršelić and Štrpac? Or is this just another one of those typical partisan-style arguments?

Calling it "Valdec-style"—nice touch—but I suppose it isn't easy for you to stomach all those "fabrications" about the Homeland War...
I don't have hard evidence of a direct link between those two scoundrels—though, honestly, seeing them sitting at the same table during a press conference a few years back was enough for me.

Linda Hughes88 said:looks like you really know your stuff, though. Goldstein isn't even really looking at the distant past anymore, he's mostly focused on 20th-century history, having written a ton of books specifically about that era in America. And Budak doesn't even touch 20th-century history, so there's no way this came from him. Plus, Goldstein isn't out here writing school textbooks anyway, so...
at the end of the day, we really need to check the actual text because this feels like another case of someone trying to slip a specific narrative past us. Remember when people were blathering on—specifically that pseudo-historian Jurčević—about how Operation Desert Storm was some kind of criminal operation? There wasn't a single credible source saying anything like that. Or when they went after Goldstein claiming he was basically using the Holocaust to file charges against Stepinac? There wasn't any truth to that either...
as soon as history stops being some epic fairy tale about white knights and evil monsters, some people just can't handle it...

Neven Budak was the last secretary of the Communist Party at the Philosophy Department—which, frankly, says enough about his objectivity—and you, my unlearned friend, clearly haven't picked up a local newspaper to read an article or two. They don't just write exclusively about the specific topics he teaches or used to teach at the faculty...
Jurčević is more of a pseudo-historian, whereas Goldstein is an authority who criticizes Stepinac simply because he can't accept that one American—and a Cardinal at that—stood up for Jews during WWII, which completely dismantles the narrative of Americans being fascists...
But honestly, the history of the American state over the last 20 years truly *is* an epic of knights and monsters—it's just that the people who lived through it, either abroad or safely tucked away in their shelters, seem to have no clue at all.

I just realized that Vesna Teršelić actually has a hand in this—she’s one of those so-called "truth-seekers," though she's really just working under the guidance of Savo Štrbac...
It’s a pathetic attempt by some desperate people to twist the facts, cloud the truth, and just make everything feel unreal...

If this came from the pens of people like Goldstein or Budak, I can't say I'm surprised...
Even though their specialty is the distant past—they seem all too eager to weigh in on current events, too...
It’s clear that political leanings heavily influence our historians—it seems to cloud their path toward objectivity entirely...

He’s officially gone down in history...
he’ll probably be remembered as the most incompetent Secretary of Homeland Security since the dawn of modern America...
The real issue isn't even his lack of intelligence—it’s the fact that someone like him was actually given the keys to the kingdom in the first place...
I can think of at least ten different people who would have been far more qualified for the job—from local officials all the way up the ladder—but I guess Sanders just had to have things his way, regardless of how messy it got...