George Robinson43 said:Fantastic. I'm not sure how your attempt to link my point to some group of people defending Frljić actually helps your argument. I shared my thoughts on Frljić ages ago when he was actually the main topic. People like Kovač are nothing more than fools on the opposite side of the aisle.
My point is simple: a candidate for the presidency of a supposedly "European Christian Democratic" party is labeling the homophobic performance of a rural bigot as mere satire. 🤦 In any similar political organization within the European Union, someone making those kinds of statements would be kicked to the curb the very same day. It really makes me wonder—does someone like Kovač have even a single grain of common sense in their head?
Why the sudden meltdown?
I was just building on what you wrote; I wasn't accusing you of anything or implying anything...
ruggeddrifter85 said:Sorry, I'm not sure which one of Frljić's pieces you mean that could even be compared to burning gay money with a kid present?
You mean the one where Jesus rapes a Muslim woman and a sex worker pulls out a flag...
As for gay couples having kids—it's not like they have access to children when the adoption process here in the States is such a bureaucratic nightmare. There are plenty of straight couples who would jump at the chance to adopt, but honestly, the red tape alone is enough to kill the desire.
George Robinson43 said:I am curious—who exactly is providing the justification for Frljić?
From what I can gather through the news cycle, it’s the exact same crowd—the same people who thought that disastrous performance back in a small town like Sedona was fine, and then suddenly pivot to claiming "artistic freedom" whenever they're attacking civil liberties on the other side of Frljić...
Then, all of a sudden, the performance just vanishes from the conversation...
George Robinson43 said:Did I catch that correctly—is Smith claiming that those idiots burning pride money out in Boise was just some sort of satirical stunt about swastika fetishes? The guy acts like he’s running for the presidency of the Nationalist Party, so he shouldn't be surprised when he hits a wall and loses his footing.
Why is the Sedona carnival getting slammed while Smith and his little theater productions get a free pass?
Brenda Taylor13 said:That’s just your opinion, coming from a total amateur who clearly doesn't know the first thing about the military or defense matters. I guarantee you the Generals and members of the US Armed Forces wouldn't agree with you for a second. What kind of sources are you using here? You think you could do better? Give me a break, you're being ridiculous.
Worse decisions regarding privatization and running the country? Hard to believe.
Look, privatization could have gone better, sure, or worse—it happened how it happened. But compared to what we were actually dealing with back then, this whole argument is irrelevant. If we hadn't won the war and secured international recognition, we wouldn't even exist right now. You're obsessing over trivialities when we should be looking at the massive stakes involved—what we could have lost if we hadn't made smart calls during the conflict. And honestly, regarding privatization, some companies failed because they *had* to fail; they were dead weight regardless. Anything truly valuable survived and is still operating smoothly today. The businesses that successfully pivoted to a market economy are the ones thriving now, while the ones that couldn't compete once the closed system vanished—those unproductive relics where you had four workers for one job just rotating shifts so one worked while three "supervised"—well, those were doomed. Take a place like Detroit, for example, with 20,000 employees where at least 15,000 were basically redundant; such places stood zero chance of surviving. Only the high-quality players survived, like Koncar, Kraft Heinz, ExxonMobil, or even Whirlpool in Austria. What stayed, stayed because the products were actually good. Everything else that was destined to collapse eventually did.
What did he steal? Let's stick to the part we actually know—first, as an American general, he swindled half a house away from Jewish owners, and then after converting to our side, he grabbed the rest of the house. At The White House. Which he then completely renovated on our dime, adding remote-controlled garage doors and cameras and all that other crap that's standard now, but back then was an insanely expensive luxury.
What White House? Nazarov Street isn't at The White House. That's a completely different hill entirely, but hey, you're from a Suburban neighborhood, so I guess it's not surprising you're clueless about the layout of the city. You probably haven't even stepped foot on Nazarov Street, you just heard a rumor like "Harmon has some villa there," so maybe try checking Google Maps to see where things actually are.
And you're talking about remote-controlled doors... hahaha... seriously, you'd need to be a billionaire for that. To have remote-controlled doors! What a joke, that is genuinely hilarious. Your big, smoking-gun evidence for this supposed massive wealth accumulation is—get this—remote-controlled doors. Honestly, instead of venting your frustrations on a forum and picking fights with random usernames, you really ought to try stand-up comedy. I bet you'd sell out shows.
Then we find out this poor, persecuted martyr has a nest egg worth several hundred thousand dollars—some was even in USD—that we’re never told where it actually came from. Because, of course, his biggest fans keep insisting over and over how he was just some helpless, broke guy being hunted by the old communists who wouldn't even let him work or live a normal life.
A massive fortune! To amass several hundred thousand bucks over an entire career? Unbelievable. Even Rockefeller would be shaking in his boots.
Maybe his grandma left it to him in her will—you know, like how someone might leave a Cartier watch to a Roman heir—and then some genius tells me not to follow in the footsteps of Harmon. Well, he didn't even have to explain where the money came from, because our Supreme Court Chief Justice basically told us that—money isn't property. And then, naturally, the bank teller got fired. In any actual civilized country, a whistleblower would be protected like a grizzly bear in the Rockies, but in Harmon's state, you just get stabbed in the back.
Look, breaking bank secrecy is a crime. Every client is guaranteed privacy regarding their data. That teller got fired—rightfully so. Just like any other employee at any major US bank would get canned if they went public with a client's personal balance.
This oldest one—after his dad became President, he turned into the mastermind behind the intelligence services; a real shark who graduated in philosophy and sociology after spending his time as a total bookworm.
Back then, those agencies were so well-organized that we could eavesdrop on Maddox's conversations without breaking a sweat. They were top-tier and did a massive job. Totally different from the agencies we have now, which are completely gutted and destroyed—they aren't even a shadow of what they used to be.
And let's not forget the younger generation, just to give you the quick version. - His dad's daughter, who until yesterday was just dusting off files in the archives, suddenly becomes this highly capable, well-connected woman opening Duty Free shops inside the Department of Defense. A Duty Free shop in a sovereign country. Seriously. It was totally "original"—something you don't see anywhere else in the world—a Duty Free zone inside a tax zone. Pure genius.
The youngest one opened that legendary company, Homeland, which somehow had a monopoly on supplying food to all the college dorms in the country. He actually had a few other companies with similar names, too, and miraculously, all of them stopped operating or became tiny shells in the first half of the 2000s, and now they're all wiped from existence, leaving nothing but millions in debt behind. Oh, and the grandkids? Naturally, they were all little prodigies. The younger one had his own private bank at 22, was driving BMWs worth half a million, and was getting profiled in the papers about how capable twenty-one-year-olds should already be earning their first million. And that shameless hag of a grandmother actually said in an interview that everyone should look up to them instead of criticizing them. Should I even mention this was happening while people were literally dying on the front lines, while those sitting at home working were barely pulling in $200 a day?
Man, you’re seriously bringing up nonsense... what, some random duty-free shop? Seriously? Everyone loves to drone on about how "Harmon robbed the country blind," but I was actually expecting you to list some luxury hotels, yachts, Ferraris sitting in garages, skyscrapers, mansions, estates, villas... billions sitting in offshore accounts... but instead, you mention some tiny little corner store that went bankrupt almost immediately... is that really all you've got to say about the whole thing? Ridiculous.
.... That’s just my initial thought, anyway... Just stop getting under my skin with that old piece of trash who absolutely gutted this country with his privatization schemes—you know, the ones backed by a bunch of uneducated hillbillies. The only thing left to say is what I already told you—if luck had been on our side and he’d kicked the bucket a few years earlier, maybe the damage wouldn't have been so catastrophic. Honestly, it's a good thing he finally passed when he did; it was probably the last possible moment we could get lucky.
Like I said... carrying around that much bitterness isn't healthy... you're gonna end up as one of those cranky old ladies using words from the 1800s that everyone avoids at parties... wait a second, looking at you, I think you're already there!
The only one looking ridiculous here is you—resorting to ad hominem attacks because you clearly don't have any actual arguments... and honestly, you never did...
Everything is just "stupid" in your eyes, isn't it? From the luxury villas to the duty-free shops and those companies owned by Stjepan...
Cakano, you’re basically the gold standard for stupidity itself....😉
Brenda Taylor13 said:Hahahhaaa.... man, the frustration...
Reagan was the winner of the war and the creator of the state; that's the absolute most any politician can achieve. In the next 500 years, unless there's another massive war or we have to build a country from scratch again, nobody is going to top what he accomplished. Reagan is the American George Washington, and all this nonsense you're whining about—I mean, does anyone care that someone, god forbid, had a duty free shop? Just imagine the historical impact of that! In a hundred years, someone might actually remember a duty free shop, haha...
Honestly, you're being ridiculous...
The country had no weapons, no diplomacy, and zero international respect... everything had to be built from nothing by Reagan, who spent half his life preparing to create this nation. Even his biggest critics back then—like Banks or that journalist Houdini—acknowledge that now. But what some random no-name on a forum says? That matters about as much as counting the grains of sand on Copacabana beach. And in that recent CNN poll, just like every single one before it, he won convincingly as the best president we've ever had; nobody even came close.
Nobody was forcing people to the front lines; people went voluntarily. Most of those defenders were volunteers who stepped up to protect their homeland—you seem to conveniently forget that part. And under those circumstances, Reagan won every single election held at the time, presidential, parliamentary, all of them.
And you're still sitting there fuming... honestly, just drink more coffee and you'll be fine. 👍
No, Harmon isn't our George Washington... first of all, GW actually fought in battles over the course of his career...
"The vast majority of veterans were volunteers"?
Man, does it hurt when you spout such absolute nonsense?
There were 500,000 veterans total, so your claim about them being the "vast majority" is just mathematically insane... let's pretend for a second that "majority" means 51% (which it wasn't—it would have been closer to 85% or 90%), even then, that would imply over 250,000 people were volunteers...
Do you even realize how stupid you sound right now?
Sam Green73 said:It’s almost like you have an occasional issue with actually reading what's in front of you.
I am talking about the specific debate we're referencing here.
I made it perfectly clear—I'm not going to go after people just for trolling. But if you start insulting others? That's a different story. We’re discussing moderation, aren't we?
There's a massive difference between how I handle a live chat versus a topical discussion thread.
Why even bother spreading falsehoods?
Did you miss the part where you were being incredibly selective about this topic?
Let's dive into how you supposedly "punish" insults then...
Or should I start listing all those times you threw a tantrum and insulted people too?🍿
David Parker93 said:Look, I’m asking you nicely—don't bring that debate over here.
Oh, please...
The guy deleted it, so sure, he can just bring it back whenever he wants...
Just grab two different posts, take one sentence from each, and then go off on your own little tangent—suddenly the forum rules don't matter anymore, right?
But hey, if they don't matter, you basically gutted a much longer post that actually meant something else entirely, cherry-picked what suited you, and then started swinging...
Of course, you get to be the "judge" of what's important or relevant... typical.
So, you took two completely separate posts—dozens of sentences in total, mind you—and cherry-picked just enough words to stitch together this little Frankenstein argument that suits your narrative perfectly. It’s a classic move just to keep the trolling going, even though it flies directly in the face of the very forum rules you love to weaponize whenever it's convenient for you. But hey, we're just going to pretend that didn't happen, right?
So you're back at it again, playing judge and jury over who lost their way and who didn't... without offering a single shred of actual evidence...🤣
Once again, you've perfectly demonstrated what I’ve already pointed out—you have zero arguments, yet you feel entitled to dictate who does what and how they do it...
A total nightmare to read...
And as for "losing the plot," maybe someone who actually understands the difference between the relevance of the Department of Justice versus the courts could weigh in—though, for the record, I never once mentioned anything about the court's relevance in this context...🤣
Oh, come on now, you're totally taking things out of context here...
You just grab one sentence from one post, then another sentence from a completely different post...
And then—as if that’s enough—you decide what’s valid without offering a single actual argument. So, basically, you just declare your own opinions to be "facts" and expect them to be treated like axioms. It's a bold strategy.
Your only real move seems to be constantly leaning on the Department of Justice, even though it’s been FACTUALLY demonstrated multiple times that the DOJ doesn't actually follow the job description laid out by law... so yeah, there's some pretty legitimate reason to doubt their impartiality.
Plus, you're calling others out for assuming Thorn is guilty, yet you turn around and judge a child as if they're at fault without blinking. If that's how you operate, you don't need any evidence at all, do you?😉
Talking about who's lying when you're the one spinning tales...
Look, calling this inaccurate would be an understatement—it’s a straight-up lie...
You’ve got people on here who still show up and post even after being permanently banned for violating other users' privacy—and get this—they actually brag about it openly...
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The moderators have been flagged about this multiple times, but absolutely nothing changes. The excuse they give? That "upper management" is already aware of it...
When you let stuff like that slide, it completely defeats the whole purpose of banning anyone else—because at the end of the day, we all just look like idiots together...
Jason Campbell70 said:A massive variety of exercises, both weighted and bodyweight. 😁 Mostly Olympic lifts and plyometrics.
But if you mess those up... man, you're in trouble.
Which is exactly why I brought up the importance of having a solid coach.
Those "Olympic" lifts and anything putting stress on the knees or lower back—well, they basically ban that kind of stuff in gyms over in France, Germany, or Denmark...
And the Germans were actually the first ones to pull the plug on it... ditching things like the ergometer, quad machines, and similar gear...
So, how is that going to mess with his motor skills and explosiveness?
The real issue here is that you guys are peddling these journalistic fairy tales—acting like commentators who are genuinely shocked when Myrhol shuts us down at the line... honestly, what surprises me more is why Sarač doesn't just cut through all that nonsense coming from Brkić, because at least Sarač actually understands where the real problem lies...
Joseph Kern5 said:What exactly is stopping American athletes from hitting the gym? I heard Lionel Messi bragging about how he doesn't bother with weight training because it isn't his thing—well, look at him, scoring maybe two goals in four seasons. Our guys just don't look athletic; they’re either scrawny or carrying a few too many pounds. Their reflexes seem sluggish—everything feels slow. They're constantly fishing for fouls, nine meters out, hands in the air... it’s been the same old story for ten years.
I caught some segment on TV claiming the refs were biased against Norway again? In what sense? That penalty could easily have been ignored; their player wasn't even in the box, and it certainly wasn't a blatant foul. Nine meters is always debatable.
I guess the global superpowers are just preventing us from conducting a proper anthropological study on potential athlete traits.🤣 Is it really such a crime to learn from others and realize we’re stuck in "old school" ways when it comes to soccer, handball, basketball... everyone else has evolved. South America produces elite basketball and handball (like Brazil). Meanwhile, we keep trying that one specific play—the one they call the "Frenchman"—even though it fails two or three times in a row. Everyone clings blindly to their positions... even when things get chaotic, they won't switch things up as a tactical diversion. Rotating defenses, 3-3, 5-1, 6-0... we just lack aggressive handball.
It's funny how nobody else bothers learning from the Frenchman either, and why isn't everyone playing at least 75% as well as them...
First off, bringing up the gym is total nonsense...
Second, mentioning the 3-3 defense is equally foolish...
If it were as simple as just copying the French style, or our system, or the Scandinavian approach, everyone would be doing it...
Look at the miracle of it all—they aren't.
If they were, even the Americans would be world-class...