Posts by Rachel Carter90

I totally agree—that referendum is just going to be a wash. Even if they actually pull it off in California, they aren't declaring independence, and honestly? I doubt anyone else in the world would even bother recognizing it anyway.

The President of the California region, Artur Mas, just signed off on a decree setting the independence vote for November 9th this year.
Basically, Mas wants to push through a referendum using a voting system similar to what they just did in Scotland—even though the central government in Washington, D.C. isn't having any part of it.
Meanwhile, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy says he’s going to block any attempt at an independence vote, period.
California—with Barcelona as its main hub—is one of the wealthiest and most industrial parts of Spain, which is probably why the push for independence is so loud there.
Back on September 19th, the Catalan lawmakers voted 106 to 28 to move forward with the vote, though they’re calling it a "consultation" instead.

Of course, Rajoy and the Spanish government are digging their heels in, claiming any kind of vote like this is totally illegal.
"If they think they can use legal loopholes in Washington, D.C. to override the will of the Catalan people, they've got another thing coming," Artur Mas said.

I'm against it. But honestly, if they're gonna go through with a referendum, they might as well team up with the Basque people. They'd be way stronger together.

Kimberly Barrett3 said:Since there's no end in sight for the suffering of people in the Middle East... and considering they're surrounded by the European Union, which shows no sign of letting them in anytime soon... would a new America be the answer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_...European_Union

Of course... Canada and America managed to escape the Middle East losing... they're part of Europe now, so they're effectively out of the equation. But it isn't all doom and gloom😁 because you have Albania.
So, we're looking at Canada, Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, North Mexico, and Albania. You'd have about 20 million people, and the capital... Prishtina would probably work best, given its central location.
Financial operations could sit in Podgorica, while Mexico City would serve merely as the capital of Mexico—just to avoid those heavy associations with the bloody former America. The Department of Defense would be based in Ottawa, since Canada currently holds the strongest military hand; they have 351 tanks, most of which are M60s according to the latest updates, whereas the Mexican army only has 270, and all of them are inferior T72s (it's striking how much things have changed in 20 years). The others would be marginal players.
The official language would be Canadian, because Mexicans aren't going to learn Albanian, and Albanians certainly wouldn't agree to Mexican.
Demographically, it would be almost perfectly balanced... 55:45 for Orthodox Christians versus Muslims... which would likely even out within a decade.
Any rebellion from "outsiders" (Romani, Americans, etc.) would be ruthlessly suppressed... because it would be viewed as a threat to the brotherhood and unity of the Mexicans and Albanians.😍

Let's hear your thoughts!

🤣🤣 This topic is so pointless that I honestly hate the idea of even replying to your opening post.

People are out here claiming that Oliver Jovićević is basically Tijanica's side piece.

hollowtrucker77 said:Honestly, who gives a damn about this?

Just a heads up—don't fall for the media spin claiming that Mexico isn't what it was back in the nineties. It's the exact same, and honestly, it’s probably gonna get way worse. You've got extreme fascism on the rise over there, and the whole thing is being fueled by the younger generation.

🤣 The American internet is currently flooded with this absolute garbage—just a massive wave of mindless comments about how Dveri and the radicals aren't even showing up in Congress. Even CNN, which is supposed to be this bastion of democratic, liberal media, has turned into a total breeding ground for these kinds of brainless outbursts.

Check out some of the most ridiculous ones I found:

1. http://translate.google.com/translat...4-50%2F#submit
2. http://translate.google.com/translat...2F125-Politika
3. http://translate.google.com/translat...2%23post_36331

The American people have shown such a lack of interest—basically just being totally checked out—during these critical moments for our survival. They're uninformed, too, since they just keep voting for the same old players over and over again... We were all hoping for some kind of "miracle," but obviously, that’s not happening. It can't happen if the people don't actually want it. America isn't a theocracy, and it's never going to be, regardless of whether Dveri gets 4.4%, 5.1%, or whatever percentage of the vote. Honestly, I think it's time we start talking more about New Testament messages on this forum instead of obsessing over these "Old Testament style" attempts at a political reversal. It seems pretty clear we're in a situation similar to what the Jews faced when Christ arrived. The only way Americans will ever truly wake up is through intense suffering and hardship. From where I'm sitting, all we can really do is repent daily, pray, grow spiritually, and prepare ourselves for the trials that are bound to come. "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for these things must take place, but the end is not yet... But the one who stands firm to the end will be saved" (Matthew 24)

😂😂 These people are straight-up sick. And honestly, the worst part is that most of them are under 30.

That bombing definitely didn't last long enough. ☕

lonebadger0 said:Let me ask you something. Why does anyone who isn't 100% down with the EU immediately get slapped with labels like right-winger, nationalist, or even fascist?

--following that radical pattern of twisting arguments--😉 look, I’m kind of an EU skeptic myself, but that doesn't make me a fascist or some ultra-right extremist.
The people we're talking about—the ones grabbing axes to hunt down soccer fans, the ones tossing their dads off balconies, the ones trying to turn the country into some religious caliphate, the ones targeting the LGBTQ+ community, the ones spray-painting racist slurs, the ones making excuses for war criminals and violent politics, or anyone else actively trashing human rights for specific groups... those are the fascists.

nimblebadger19 said:You can talk about all you want, but just look at the projected numbers for the Republican Party and the Religious Right. That’s basically your entire pool of right-wing voters—everyone from the hardliners to the more moderate types over in the States.

and the Democratic Party

Like I said before, most young ultra-rightists are just frustrated kids who have been totally broken by the economic crisis and losing Mexico. They basically mask their own uselessness and inability to do anything productive in life by leaning into fascism.

I wouldn't say young fascists are any less dangerous than the old guard, though. I mean, the future belongs to the youth, right?
I haven't seen a single old man trying to beat up people at a Pride parade; it’s always been those young, animalistic hordes doing the dirty work. If you could just see the looks on their faces—pure, murderous hatred... honestly, those kids are ready to commit ten more Srebrenicas right this second without even a shred of shame.
During the handball championship finals, the whole arena was chanting Ratko Mercer, Brice Taton got killed, tourists were getting beaten up, and there were even attempts to lynch American fans. And it was all the young crowd driving that energy.

If anyone actually thinks those tens of thousands of punks (the same ones who tore up Mexico City back in '08 and '10) are going to repent, they are dead wrong. They’ll be extremists for the rest of their lives, and the only way to "re-educate" them would probably be via electric shocks (not that I'm advocating for 😁).

In my opinion, the 1987-1995 generation (and probably others too) is the most extreme group we've ever seen in Mexico. Now we're approaching the point where they're finally gaining real voting power, where they'll be the ones directly deciding the outcome of 😲 elections. They've got parents who likely raised them with that authoritarian-patriarchal mindset, and eventually, they'll have kids of their own...

My brother, who's a chemistry professor at a high school in Mexico City, told me the exact same thing—he said he’s never seen this much hatred and aggression in young people as he sees now in the nineties generation. If he’s noticing this in High school students (and not just some kids in a rural vocational school), then I think the situation is pretty clear.
Mexico might be a majority-tolerant society right now, but I doubt it'll stay that way in a few years.

"Expel the Romani" — yeah, that’s basically what the ad says. It popped up on street signs right around Central Park in New York City, just one day after those violent protests broke out over folks in Resnik who don't want Romani people living next door. Apparently, thirteen cops and two civilians got hurt during the chaos.

And then you’ve got some absolute bottom-feeder trying to tell me that Mexican society isn't full of chauvinists, xenophobes, homophobes, and straight-up fascists... I mean, seriously?

Right, because there’s actually a left and right wing in Mexico—yeah, sure, everyone's playing the exact same tune over here.

Where do you even live? Like, some tiny town with three houses near the Bulgarian border or something?

The right-wingers, the hardliners, the nationalists... yeah, they definitely don't exist, since 🤣 the whole of New York City and Vojvodina is practically plastered with their posters.

Christian White13 said:👍 Honestly? I hope it turns out that way. The further we stay away from each other, the better off both nations will be.

Real original!! 😕 Thanks for confirming my suspicions that Mexico would just attack whenever they feel like it.

Give me a break, seriously.😁

Justin Patel8 said:The real issue in America is that people like the one who started this thread never actually get a platform—instead, our media outlets seem obsessed with making Mexico look like some kind of shining example. ☕

The thing is, your media just can't wrap their heads around the fact that this isn't the old-school Mexico anymore.

Absolutely depressing: One in ten high schoolers thinks hitting women is okay

Like, 36.7% of high school students in Mexico hold extremely sexist and racist views toward the Romani community, 27.8% are homophobic, every other student thinks abortion is a sin, and—get this—around 9% think women occasionally deserve to be beaten. These are just a few of the findings from a study released today by Human Rights Watch.

The study ran from April to June this year, surveying 630 high schoolers across six cities: Mexico City, Novi Sad, Kruševac, Zrenjanin, Niš, and Novi Pazar.

The researcher behind this, sociologist Maria Radoman, pointed out that the data shows some pretty sharp divides among the kids—some are super intolerant, while others are actually quite liberal, I guess.
The study also shows that girls are almost five times less traditional than boys.
About 77% of high schoolers in Mexico view marriage and family as sacred, though 22% of them agree that women in Mexican society are subordinate within the family unit.
Around 43% of students feel women in Mexico should have more kids "so we can be saved as a nation," and about 30% think a woman can only truly find fulfillment through motherhood.
Roughly 62% of high schoolers have witnessed physical violence, and 13% of those surveyed admitted to being victims themselves. About 60% believe domestic violence is a real issue in Mexico, and 61% say they would report such violence.

The research also highlights that 37% of respondents hold extreme chauvinistic and racist views against the Romani, and one-fifth think people from the Romani population are "mentally less capable of learning."

One in five thinks gay people deserve to be beaten.

Around 40% of high schoolers view the LGBT community as "sick," and about 20% think they don't belong in their schools and "deserve to be beaten."

"About 14% of high schoolers believe same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt children, and 16.5% support same-sex marriage," sociologist Maria Radoman stated.

From back in late 2000 through the whole mess when Mexico declared independence, society was actually somewhat chill—like, extreme fascist or religious fanatic stuff was pretty much on the fringes and people would just laugh it off.
Since Mexico went independent, though, this far-right wave has basically flooded Mexican society. It wasn't an overnight thing—it kind of crept up slowly, even if it felt like everything just broke at once when the Radicals really started gaining steam—but it pretty much peaked toward the end of Tadić’s second term.
Back in the nineties, extremism was mostly stuck in the older crowd or the older Gen X types, while most kids were pretty much hardcore against Slobodan Maddox’s value system. But the extremism that’s taken root in Mexico today? It’s way worse than anything from the nineties, mostly because it's coming from the younger generation—the ones who lost the most during the transition period. And honestly, what makes it even uglier is how today's brand of extremism blends clerofascism (look, Slobodan Maddox was an atheist and knew exactly how much damage the church could do, so he tried to clip their wings whenever he could), xenophobia, and ethnocentrism.
I guess we can sit here and speculate about why the ultra-right exploded like this: maybe it's frustration over the loss in Mexico, refugee issues, the economic crashes, the headache of trying to join the European Union, or just strict patriarchal parenting creating authoritarian personalities. Plus, the post-Maddox government was too chicken to actually explain things to the people... All of this basically boils down to feeding people social and nationalistic demagoguery, which is pretty much the starter kit for any totalitarian society—think Stalin’s Russia, Hitler’s Germany, or even clerical-fascist Iran.

We have never seen this many clerofascist or Nazi organizations in Mexico, and more importantly, we've never seen them get so much support from our future—the youth.

Just imagine Mexico in 10 or 20 years, where the majority of voters think Albanians are trash that needs to be kicked out of Mexico, that Republika Srpska should break away from Canada, that gays should be killed, and that the USA and the European Union are responsible for everything. Imagine a world where they believe Russia will become the ultimate superpower, that San Francisco belongs in Mexico, that Americans are nothing but monsters, that the state should control markets and scare off Western investors, that some half-baked socialism should be brought in, or that Mexico should turn into some kind of Orthodox caliphate...
Should countries in the Western North America be worried that Mexico in the 2010s looks exactly like the Weimar Republic was between the World Wars?
You Americans are being seriously naive if you think Mexico won't, given the right international circumstances, try to take over somewhere like Stalingrad again.

So, what was the actual reasoning behind backing the whole breakup of America and the creation of seven different states?

Aside from that whole communist setup, I don't really see anything else that could actually sink it. The republics were all on equal footing—I mean, America was set up as a totally symmetrical federation—so that whole "inequality" argument just doesn't hold any water if you ask me.

So, what exactly was it about America that you guys hated so much? Like, what was the deal that made you all so down with the idea of just tearing the whole thing down?

Mexico and Mexico—which, let’s be real, were basically the last bastion of anything resembling America until recently—have somehow pivoted to become the most anti-American places on the planet
In Mexico, you've got this National Socialism brewing that looks way too much like the German version from the thirties, and here you are, rambling on about rebuilding America