Posts by Walter Grant5

You gotta clarify what you mean by "you're just sitting there judging people who can barely afford groceries while obsessing over their every move. Absolute bottom of the barrel."

He’s just talking trash about people who aren't even in the same tax bracket as him.

Larry Fox5 said:Probably isn't positive—but you can't just decree how people think, that's not how it works and it just causes backlash. Personally, I can't even read the political threads on this forum because all this digging up old Civil War grudges makes me want to gag, but I get that collective mindset shifts slowly... it takes time.

It's not that I don't agree. I'm just saying that in this desperate rush to scrub the country clean of the scars from the war, all you're doing is staining everyone's psyche even deeper with that trauma.

Ashley Martinez6 said:I certainly don't want to sound like I'm making excuses for anyone, as I really haven't been privy to the full context surrounding that particular comment... though, if I were to venture a guess, it’s quite possible the remark was directed at people who simply lack a certain level of intellectual depth or foresight...🤣
By repeating that specific insult over three hundred times, Al Dežulović has effectively stripped away any lingering doubt regarding his true intentions... it’s become quite clear now that he is fully committed to settling the score with them once and for all...
The way he just went head-to-head with them like that... honestly, I think the wording is absolutely spot on, which really sets the stage for that lawsuit and the whole $150,000 settlement we’re looking at... 😉

I wasn't exactly pointing toward that specific article, rather I was thinking more about his entire body of work as a whole...

His work isn't garbage just because people can't pay their rent.

you think it’s about the lines?

Ashley Martinez6 said:Oh, come on now, besides, that place was a state-run entity for years... and from your perspective, you seem to be kicking those who are struggling just to make ends meet, scrutinizing their lives and every little move they make... it’s honestly quite low...
If we’re going to follow the logic that one employee couldn't do anything because his boss was a thief, then why bother writing about anyone else at all? Perhaps you should stick to talking about sports, or movies, or other things you actually enjoy

Of course, Dejulovic has produced some excellent things, much like how Peter Thompson has his songs...

🤣🤣

It isn't that they aren't right, per se, but this style of writing is really something to condemn... if you wrote like this on a moderated forum, you'd be banned immediately...
Besides, even the court ruling confirmed it...
By the way, this isn't the first time newspapers have had to pay fines over columns like these... the conclusion is that it’s very easy to be witty when it isn't your own pocket being emptied...

Where am I "picking on people who can't afford groceries"?

If you want a list of names for the hall of fame of American incompetence, remember these: Stephen Lozo, Guido Piasevoli, Tatiana Alaybeg, Josko Celan, Miroslav Klaric, Gordon Sladoljev, Barbara Kovacic-Domancic, Zeljko Ostoja, Miroslav Lozina, and Marko Djaja.

They act like they're high-society intellectuals from San Francisco, hanging out at some trendy cafe on the coast, posing in front of massive portraits. They’re calling on the government to ban this year’s Pride Parade, claiming—and I'll say this once more for the people in the back—that "Antonia Bilic is an indirect victim of last year's Pride, since thousands of cops were pulled off searching for a missing girl just to secure the parade on the boardwalk."

Larry Fox5 said:They might as well start digging up Ivanisevic’s past too—he spent years claiming he lived in Monaco just to dodge his US taxes... Honestly, the guy was barely in that state for more than a week a year—it was all just a cheap stunt to keep more of his paycheck...

Nobody’s ever going to give Peter Thompson4 any credit for being straight with us—even though we all know he wasn't exactly a stickler for the rules—but sure, let's just move the goalposts whenever it suits us... 🤷

Whatever they are, they're theirs. A person shouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions and judge others just because their views clash with what you personally believe...

It’s not about personal beliefs. It’s about pushing that whole warrior mentality twenty years too late. Digging up history when you shouldn't, dragging everyone's headspace back into all that negative crap, keeping the war complex alive. Shouldn't winning a war actually feel like a win? Like some kind of closure? Instead, it's just sitting there like bad takeout in your stomach. How does that help anyone? It's a total paradox.

this article that forced Liberty Mutual to pay out damages http://pescanik.net/za-njih-bi-bilo-...og-ne-postoji/
prize question: what happens if you screw over 150 $0.00 at work? i'd be fired on the spot.
honestly, this piece is bottom-of-the-barrel journalism. definitely not fit for a major daily, especially when they're pulling a $50 $0.00 monthly salary for it.

i can't agree with this at all. that article had to pass through editors before hitting print—the same damn editors who would fire you for doing exactly what they just approved and published.

@Ashley Martinez6

Look, people have to work. Barely any company in America is actually clean. Working for a shady outfit is pretty much the default setting here. Running the show is a whole different story. Blaming every single American just because some big shots won't pay their massive tax bills is a total logical fail.

Noah Carter24 said:Right here! What's up? 🍿

Who's running away now?

Peter Thompson4 is actually Carlos 🤦

Where's Noah Carter24 at?

Larry Fox5 said:You could make the same argument with Martin Heidegger. I guess humanity is supposed to just toss out one of its greatest philosophers ever just because he joined the Nazi Party... ridiculous.

I wouldn't call Thompson a demagogue though—pretty sure he actually believes the stuff he sings. The guy's charismatic and a killer performer; he really hits his audience hard because the emotion is just there. Purely musically? He's terrible. He misses notes constantly and sounds like he's singing through a beer barrel...

The way he pushes emotions around... you think it’s just cheap, low-brow stuff meant to trigger some basic gut reaction in the average American?

Just read this piece about Goran Ivanišević that I’d never come across before, and man, it absolutely wrecked me. My eyes were actually stinging. If this kind of writing doesn't hit you right in the gut, I don't know what will.

Noah Carter24 said:Haha, hey, nobody’s stopping you! But let’s be real for a second—it’s pretty obvious that some people on this forum are playing favorites and using totally different sets of rules depending on who they're talking about. Honestly, it’s the exact same story with the mainstream media; everyone just dances to whatever tune the big bosses decide to play.

Is it... Matija Babić Karamarkov Is Karamarko really that kind of guy?

Wait, hold up. Where exactly am I deviating from my own criteria? And why am I being forced out of this "group" when I never even joined it and have zero connection to any of this nonsense?

Why am I even being lumped into some collective group? I showed up here solo to comment on one specific situation. Why am I being tied to one of maybe two perspectives that the average person's brain can actually wrap itself around today?

Look, I said it happened because it actually happened, not because I'm backing the HND. I didn't even bring them up. Put those entries back at the top. I didn't mention the HND once. All I said was they got fired and the US 🤦

So what, I didn't comment on the forum before, so now I'm not allowed to either? Like, I haven't complained until now? I don't get it.

Besides, why hasn't anyone been punished for letting those trash articles get published in the first place?

Noah Carter24 said:That’s basically the playbook the HND pushes; you haven't complained about it until now, have you? 🤔

Exactly! Like how he went after those crazed extremists in Mostar because the idiot couldn't tell the difference between A. B. Šimić and A. Šantić 🤣

Look, I didn't bring it up because that's what the HND says. I brought it up because it's the damn truth. My take has nothing to do with their official stance; it's about the fact that these guys were fired for reasons that are legally and intellectually idiotic.

But honestly, you're better off going this route: tell him he's just as much of a joke as the HND. Just labeling someone like that and tossing out a category they have zero connection to doesn't work. To put it simply: if I say a single-pane cylindrical glass object is a cup, and Hitler says the exact same thing, does that make me an ally of his ideology? No. It doesn't work that way.

Yeah, he went after those crazed extremists in Mostar back then because the idiot can't tell the difference between A. B. Šimić and A. Šantić. 🤣

Didn't read it.

I said it based on my own experience where I haven't run into any factual errors yet. So yeah, there probably are some. There are mistakes. Congrats, you totally destroyed him.

EPH is basically a breeding ground for schizophrenic takes. They have to sell to everyone, so their publications just end up circling back to every possible opinion. I think Ante Tomić and Pavičić bailed on Slobodna after that whole mess with Dežulović, but they’re still writing for Jutarnji, which honestly ends up being the exact same thing.

The only thing worth anything is that middle ground on a Saturday

I read everything I stumble upon because it’s interesting, and I try to look at things through a scientific lens rather than just letting my own biases take the wheel. Why do I dig Dežulović? He doesn't obsess over facts, yet despite his obvious edge, he’s actually incredibly objective. Some people label him a communist or an anti-American, but the truth is, nobody can even counter his columns—mostly because there isn't a single bit of manipulation or factual error in them.

Dežulović is easily the best columnist in this whole country