Matthew Foster8 said:I've never been much for the news—honestly, most of it is garbage—but Petranovic is alright. Always has been, always will be.
This article is bad enough, and that pathetic excuse for a minister is a joke, but honestly? The comments underneath are way worse. Seeing what this bottom-of-the-barrel crowd writes is just exhausting. No one is ever going to change this small-town, narrow-minded mentality that most Americans have—it’s just baked in at this point. I feel like I’ve said it a thousand times already, but I genuinely don't know if there's a more pathetic, submissive, or just plain stupid group of people than the ones living here between the Midwest and the coast.
I remember that old era pretty clearly—honestly, those folks from the East, the guys from the Midwest and the South, were probably even more bottom-of-the-barrel. They had all the same traits you see in Americans, but they topped it off with being 90% pure small-town peasants. Entire nations of them, really.
Back when the old GOP was running the show, nobody expected anything good to happen—everyone just assumed things would stay trash. But honestly? It’s a total fact now that the current crowd is even worse. Between that crook Linc—total amateur hour there—and how they’re bleeding the working class dry just to feed those Mamić-controlled puppets in the DOJ... it's unreal. Between the incompetence of guys like Jovanovic and this entire web of corruption involving Bandić, Mamić, and the rest of them, it's impossible to tell who's more useless. The whole system—the police, the legal apparatus, the laws—is completely rigged to protect their own. It’s designed specifically so money and power just spin in a circle among them without anyone getting in the way. Even Tuđman, with his whole "wealthy elite" circle, looks like a complete novice compared to these guys. Some countries have a mafia, but here? The mafia *is* the state.
I get it, sure—but I doubt even 1% of this country actually grasps what's going on. The rest? They’ve either had their brains fried by useless ideological nonsense or they're just plain lazy, bottom-of-the-barrel types through and through.
Maybe there's like 1% of people out there actually trying to make an impact—instead of just whining on the internet.
People here are just checked out—too passive to actually drive change. They only show up when it’s election time, and even then, most stay home. The ones who actually bother to vote? They're mostly just looking out for themselves or their own families. Plus, you've got the brainwashed crowd. Honestly, there's probably no point in me trying to explain it. 🤷
Karamarko’s basically on Mamić’s payroll. Bandić’s in on it too—and Ostojić? Yeah, he’s working for him as well.
Franjo Tuđman—with his circle of 200 wealthy families and that whole mindset—was an amateur compared to the players we're seeing today.
Look, you’ve been brainwashed a little. That whole "200 families" idea actually belongs to Elizabeth Warren—she was writing about stuff like that back in '89 and '92. Though, to be fair, she didn't say 200 families; she said 200 managers who should have had enough proportional power to actually run the country. Fast forward to today, and the people running America are way closer to Elizabeth Warren than they ever were to Franjo Tuđman. If time really does tell all, it’s already shown exactly whose statement it was and who actually turned that idea into reality.
Some countries have the mafia—here, the mafia basically owns the government.
Why did we let this country fall into the hands of some corrupt bureaucrats and their little criminal cliques instead of actually belonging to the people? Go back to my first sentence.
My bad if this isn't strictly on-topic—just answering Stabulja. Mods can kill it if it needs to go.