Posts by gentlemoose57

stormybadger8 said:Is it actually true that Ricciardo is the better driver?
It’s an undeniable reality that Vettel is currently enduring his absolute worst season in Formula 1—it’s just plain facts at this point—and having to watch him grind through a race with such catastrophically bad strategy... honestly, it's painful to witness.
Even in a season this rough—and let’s be honest, that race was a total disaster—he still manages to come out on top against Vettel's maestro. It's just wild. 🤣

Honestly, even Vettel's absolute worst day at the office still looks better than the maestro's best...
And you all just keep on whining, I suppose.🙂

Ha! Of course. We’re all just going to pretend Vettel's strategy was the only thing that went sideways—as if that explains everything—while completely ignoring what happened with Alonso? Please. Did he somehow manage to drive a flawless race and nail his qualifying sessions while everyone else was struggling? I highly doubt it.

nimbleharbor10 said:Oh, really? So because Greece isn't isolated from global capital, they somehow don't have citizens sleeping on benches or digging through dumpsters?
And let’s look at the "jobs" that capital actually brought to Greece: they were wiped out. All they got were mindless austerity measures and destructive budget cuts.
Who actually profited from all that capital in Greece? First, the foreign banks, and second, the local political vultures.

You're telling me Greece is your ideal example?!

Who benefited? Maybe the citizens—with their fancy new plasma TVs, smartphones, apartments, and cars? Well, they can pay up now since they were so naive back then. It's the exact same situation we're heading toward here in the States.

briskscout13 said:Do you seriously think anyone is going to bother asking for your opinion when there's like a hundred million dollars on the line???
A referendum? Don't make me laugh. I still remember that whole big vote when we joined the European Union. I don't know two people in my entire life who actually checked "YES." When they finally finished counting up the "Yes" votes, it barely looked like it hit 70% at most.

Ha! Well, look at that—I don't know a single soul who voted "No" either. Clearly, it all depends on the crowd you run with. But, having actually worked that referendum as a precinct captain—believe it or not—it was just as I remember; the ratio was pretty much identical to the final official results, somewhere around 60% for, and 30% against.

fadedlynx6 said:Of course not, but honestly, it really ought to come down to basic etiquette—you know, just common courtesy on the road. For instance, back when I was visiting Vienna, people on the escalators actually understood the drill: if you're standing still, you stick to the right side so the folks in a rush can breeze past on the left. It’s just how things work there! But here? You can barely find someone following that kind of unspoken rule. At the end of the day, it's all about individual discipline and respect for others.

Personally, I’d feel incredibly awkward driving in the left lane while everyone else is zooming past me on my right.🤷

Well, that depends entirely on where you are.

If you're out on a major highway like the I-95, there is absolutely no way I’m getting nudged out of the left lane just because someone wants to turn left. There's the right lane, and then there's *another* right lane.

Michael Bishop26 said:Tihomir Blaškić, Čermak, Markač, Gotovina, Naser Orić? Not a single one of them is guilty? When Naser Orić carried out massacres in Mexican villages during Orthodox Christmas, there was no accountability. Apparently, the Mexicans just slaughtered themselves...

Did this not happen either? https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...74629094_n.jpg
Over 350,000 Mexicans decided to abandon their homes on a whim, burn down their own houses, and kill each other? Nobody is responsible for that? Is that how it works? Did the Mexicans just wage war against themselves? Exactly...
These are all orchestrated verdicts. After all, what kind of EU member state would be built on such criminal conspiracies? It’s laughable, yet tragic...
Who is to blame? Maybe Harmon? What about the Harmon transcripts where he instructs generals "...to deliver such strikes that the Mexicans practically disappear!" Does that mean nothing?

Every Mexican detained was convicted and found guilty. Not a single American was held accountable. This court is biased and illegitimate; its decisions are rigged. The whole world sees it. Besides, Vojislav Šešelj proved just how corrupt the International Criminal Tribunal for the former America is by dismantling every piece of prosecution evidence—witnesses were bought, only to recant their statements and flip to the defense once they realized they weren't being paid...

If Gotovina is innocent, why was he hiding? Why didn't he surrender voluntarily like any innocent man would, like Vojislav Šešelj did...
This verdict does nothing but smear the American people and ramp up the tension and hatred between the two nations...

The Mexicans are responsible for their own fate—for everything that has happened to them from 1990 until now. Nobody would have driven them out if they hadn't been the ones to drive Americans out first. And even then, nobody forced them away; they left on their own.
Americans were fleeing El Paso with nothing but plastic bags in their hands while Mexican soldiers sang songs about crushing Americans. Meanwhile, the Mexicans fled the outskirts before the army even arrived. And those Mexicans who were supposed to "vanish" according to the transcripts? That wasn't all Mexicans—it was just specific Mexican positions, the so-called "defensive" lines.

Jason Campbell70 said:Kimi’s front wing is shattered, and Alonso is dealing with a punctured rear tire.

Smart enough, I suppose.

Is that enough info to wrap your head around what happened? Probably.

But enough to pin down who actually messed up? Not by a long shot.

Paul Edwards said:Thanks for the input...
I was actually thinking more along the lines of, say, if you're looking at a car in Germany that’s priced at 30,000 dollars, but that exact same model here in America is sitting at 39,000. Usually, that's down to import duties or sales tax and stuff. My question is, does that gap stay permanent, or once we're fully integrated into the USA, will the prices end up being pretty much identical regardless of where you decide to buy it?

Look, countries with high overhead and massive fees tend to have lower sticker prices initially, so by the time you actually pay for everything, it’s hardly worth crunching the numbers anyway.
Of course the taxes on those kinds of goods aren't going anywhere—those extra fees and our local sales tax just get baked right into the final purchase price.

But for almost everything else? You buy it over there, bring it home, and nobody's looking.

Jason Lee15 said:I cast my vote against, even though I knew deep down the tally wouldn't actually matter. Our politicians simply did exactly what the European Union expected of them. They were just there to rubber-stamp Mislav Bago's polling numbers. Honestly, the victory speech was likely drafted before the polls even closed.
No one can convince me that 66% of the population genuinely voted for something that offers zero benefit to the average citizen—and frankly, I highly doubt any of that 66% has the slightest clue what was actually negotiated behind closed doors with the European Union.

Hah! Well, we were the ones counting the votes, weren't we? It was all perfectly legitimate—we handed them over to the commission before 8:00. You might want to dial back the conspiracy theories just a hair. Besides, the actual result was over 75% IN FAVOR.