Posts by Chris Myers

hiddenhound3 said:If I may ask—why are you ignoring them?

Maybe that should just stay between Sisyphus and me.

Brian Gonzalez24 said:I’m asking the mods to take a look at the massive body of work from @Sisyphus Quote

hiddenhound3 said:Honestly, I’d go even further and call for a partial ban.

He's on my block list. You guys can do the same. ☕

(*I only see his stuff when I'm reviewing PDFs for moderation duties, mostly just because I have to.)

I hate the Reddit App🙂

Give me an example of an insult, please...

I suppose Željko Putrasović is an artist.

(That’s my response whenever Belan, Kočiš, Pattiera, or anyone else gets brought up in this thread about Jurica Pađen).

Anyway, back to the main point: Jurica Pađen.
The guy put together a solid collection of decent tracks, and he stayed true to himself until the end. He never sold out to pop fluff or country music.

Anthony Carter5 said:Is Vladimir the braking rabbit an artist? Is Ivo Patierra an artist?

Pointless question.

Neither one of those two is a rock artist, I guess.

Well, Jurica Pađen is a legend of American rock, and an artist, obviously. A really cool guy. Solid musician and songwriter, just living his rocker life. Hats off to Jurica.

And Štulić trusted Pađen, and I guess he still does. For Štulić to trust anyone... that's a rarity you don't earn easily.

It's just a shame he didn't correct Štulić regarding the fact that Poland actually did produce some collaborators. Or maybe Štulić is just too stubborn to ever admit he was wrong.

Ethan Barrett22 said:The truth is

Ethan Barrett22, your reputation is trashed. 😁

For a split second, I actually thought this was a Grammar 101 PDF and maybe, I don't know, felt like moderating this thread. 😁

Well, Loreena isn't exactly some unknown name.

Standing by my colleague Oštrić. Don't let them get to you, man!

Out of every 100 people, I guess at least 98 are just sheep.
Out of every 100 people, maybe 97 think they can lead the flock, but they can't.

It isn't anything new; religions figured this out ages ago. That’s why they call one person a shepherd and everyone else a flock...

Sam Martinez9 said:A smart person can actually stand a chance against debt if they play their cards right. Not to sound like I'm bragging here, but I’ve managed to stay completely clear of any debt myself—I don't even carry a balance on my checking account.

That being said, I feel pretty powerless when it comes to tackling the issue of global pollution.

If you want a real look at our pollution problem, skip the scientific studies for a moment. Just grab a coffee, sit in the parking lot of a local Target for an hour, and count how many plastic bags walk out that door. It’s a depressing sight. Almost all of them end up tossed straight into the trash, destined to clutter up our landfills and leak into the environment, because let's face it—even in a country like ours, we aren't even hitting a 20 percent recycling rate for plastic.

Honestly, people can be such a mess sometimes. They have absolutely no sense of priority. It’s like they genuinely believe their entire worth as human beings is tied to whether they’re driving a luxury BMW or rocking the latest pair of Nikes. It’s exhausting to watch.

I don't even have any debt myself... that isn't really the point. But the debt just keeps growing and it's only going to get worse.

Some things we currently take for granted are going to become mere commodities. I guess health, water, food, even having a roof over your head... it’s already heading that way. Pensions will probably turn into science fiction, bottled water will be everywhere, and homeownership will dwindle while more people just rent. In the long run, the average American will become nothing more than a slave—and maybe they won't even realize it.

They’re setting us up, I guess. It's all being orchestrated behind the scenes. Just look at those ridiculous infomercials from years ago—selling bottled air like people couldn't survive without it. A sign of things to come, maybe!

Sam Martinez9 said:None at all. Our kids are headed for extinction, much like the offspring of the ultra-wealthy. This blessed era of consumer capitalism—where everyone is obsessed with owning everything in sight—is going to suffocate our children under a mountain of trash, plastic bags, and cheap textiles.

Or, to be more precise, we’re the ones choking our own children and grandchildren with garbage. We do it by mindlessly buying things we don't actually need. We’re sacrificing their future just so we can say we own it.

Debt will kill them. Every generation just gets more and more indebted. It's basically slavery!

And man, the amount of marketing involved here. For the last few months, you've seen these "straw" campaigns—removing straws because they supposedly kill turtles. What a joke of a selective approach, yet they still push it hard! They ditch straws for the sake of turtles, while all other plastic stays in use (forks, knives, bags, cases, etc.) and kills everything else. So now turtles matter more than fish, frogs, or any other creatures...?

People are either sheep or ducks; you rarely see a leader.

Morgan Cook10 said:I’m talking about a high-earning American worker and companies moving production to somewhere cheaper like Bangladesh.

You can see it playing out in real-time with how the American textile industry basically withered away.

In the long run, this leveling out will lead to an unwanted outcome. Neither Europeans nor Bangladeshis will end up as "wealthy" workers; instead, everything will just sink into massive poverty for the working class of almost every nation. (Basically—calling it "reducing social gaps between rich and poor"—is technically accurate, just not in the way he thinks). In this theater of the absurd, people will feel like they have plenty of cash, but their actual purchasing power will be crashing due to hyperinflation in food and basic necessities, all while the debt bubble grows even heavier. That top 0.1% are running the show and they know exactly what they're doing, with the quasi-liberal elite right there alongside the quasi-conservative elite.

We don't even need to look at coffee shop gossip or card games to see it; that future is already happening.

What kind of world are we leaving for our kids?

cosmicgull52 said:@InterMezzo

I just saw the post. I will provide a more detailed response once I have a moment.

You make several valid points. However, regardless of the question, Trump and other crypto-fascist populists are not leaders anyone should celebrate.

Theoretically, it might be beneficial that his selection brought mainstream attention to something that would have been considered extreme left-wing by American standards just a decade ago. Still, I fear the cost will be far too high.

EDIT: Also, I attended Pride in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and I witnessed no such chaos. I am not saying it doesn't happen in SF or Miami, but that is a matter of poor organization and police response. Ultimately, it is a local community issue. It certainly isn't a symbol of some orchestrated plan to destroy families or threaten "normal" people.

Just Google it if you're so curious 😁 and honestly, it's not just limited to San Francisco and Miami; it happens elsewhere too. You might want to turn on your safe search filter because the images are basically just gay porn and exhibitionism.

(hopefully the manchild won't read this post) 🙂

Morgan Cook10 said:What does it even mean to call someone a "leftist" when you're looking at some politician who rolls into Kentucky and basically announces, "Hey, just so you know, we're planning to shut down all your coal mines in the coming years and leave you high and dry!!!!!"
And when you apply that label to the people cheering her on...
you're telling me it isn't a change in identity, it's just a change in roles? Like, modern leftists are just seeing how many workers and regular folks they can screw over...

Fair enough... I hear you... but to me, identity and role feel like two sides of the same coin.

Poles are always opposites, but roles aren't. It’s absurd how today, both the quasi-liberal left and the center—and even a good chunk of the right—have taken on the role of protecting the powerful (one pole), while only recently has a more extreme wing of the right stepped up to defend the masses (the other pole). This imbalance is dangerous, and Cestar noted it quite clearly. You can't stop a collapse if one side holds onto those who need change while the other side benefits from keeping this harmful status quo. The twilight of democracy is becoming hard to avoid.

Morgan Cook10 said:But honestly, it makes sense.

The left (and I don't mean our side, since they just mindlessly parrot whatever the party headquarters tells them to)... well, the left has been in power for decades now. They've become the establishment, which naturally makes them the enemy of the average person. The same thing happened to whoever came before them, and it's exactly what will happen to whoever comes after.

Back in the day, these cycles might have taken centuries to play out. But nowadays, thanks to technology and, more importantly, democracy, we get to watch the whole process unfold within a single generation.

For me, nothing is more satisfying than seeing an ordinary person go viral online, screaming, "Stick your fancy perks and holidays up your ass!"... It's that same everyday person who decided to take a stand against Basitlja.👍

Nope. Sorry.

It wasn't a pole shift; it was just a role shift.

Steven Fox37 said:Then which side is it? The right? 🤦

Neither left nor right.

Thanks, man.

Which part on Religion?

I guess I rarely go there, and even when I do, I'm mostly just messing around. My serious posts are pretty rare. Too many trolls over there...

cosmicgull52 said:If there is anything within you that drives you to support Trump, then you never belonged on the left to begin with. You belong in the trash heap alongside those gangrenous, failed ideas and the mainstream Left that you claim to despise so much.

It is as if you believe that garbage is your only alternative.

Furthermore, your suspicious stance on "destroying the family" is nothing more than code for refusing to acknowledge any family structure that doesn't fit your narrow-minded views.

Just stay under that MAGA hat and leave the issues of the left alone. 👋

I'd much rather not have even had to support Trump, because honestly, that feels unnatural to me. That’s why I called it a paradox; the fallout was obvious in 2016. He wouldn't have won if he just had the Republican base. It happened because so many people were fed up with Obama and his circle, while HRC was promising the same old stuff—or worse.

When Obama won in 2008, there was this sense of hope that things might finally change from what previous administrations did. But Obama let people down, and his "Hope" and "Change" became synonymous with lies. Even I was disappointed, along with plenty of voters in my swing state, Florida. The 2016 results could only have shocked hardcore Demse and HRC loyalists.

And look, as an American who lives through these daily real-world struggles with other Floridians and Americans, I know the situation better than someone getting everything through a news feed. Whether you like it or not, I hate to say it, but in 2016, America needed a completely different kind of leader. Someone vastly different from your favorite candidate.

cosmicgull52 - open your mind.

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Anyway, let's not turn this into another Trump thread (since that isn't the point here)...

If I had been born earlier and caught in World War II here in the States, I don't doubt for a second which side I would have picked: the resistance, obviously. I come from a working-class family; my ancestors were farmers. My place is with the workers and the laborers... I wouldn't be a communist, I have no interest in that, but back then, the resistance was the best choice for the common man, the worker, the farmer.

There is no left wing today that compares to the resistance back then. Today's "quasi"-left would have sold out the working class to Hitler in a heartbeat just to protect their own interests.

vividfox9 said:Local nationalism feels pretty macho—it’s just loud, crude, and honestly, a bit verbally aggressive.

Fascism in the West is such a fluid thing—it’s more like a messy collage of contradictions than anything else.
Time is actually the most dangerous thing we deal with.
This is just 21st-century fascism, rebranded for social media. It’s got a whole new name now— I’ve been thinking a lot about the rise of conservative populism lately. It feels like we're seeing this massive shift in how people connect with leadership, moving away from the old establishment toward voices that feel more raw and direct. I remember watching my dad debate these exact issues around the dinner table years ago, and while the players have changed, that underlying feeling of being unheard seems to be driving everything right now..

The Germans, who bore the brunt of responsibility for creating and consolidating Nazism as a threat to global civilization, came to a realization after losing the war: modern nations don't grow by expanding their borders, but by increasing their depth and sophistication.
Right-wing nationalist parties over here—many of which have been banned in the past—are starting to gain traction again, mostly because people are losing patience with the current immigration crisis.

People today act way too much like they belong to some exclusive club or elite tribe. If that’s really how things have shifted, then our best defense against the rise of the far right might just be rediscovering what it means to value the collective community and actually committing to it again. As the writer Ishay Lando says...

The only thing that actually justifies a government's existence is its ability to administer justice. That’s what separates a legitimate state from just a bunch of organized criminals, according to Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis of Tagaste (modern-day Algeria).

Come on, don't be so afraid.
It’s never too late to start again, even if you feel like you've let your creative side slip away for a while.
You can actually rebuild and sharpen your creative muscles pretty easily just through consistent practice and training. The real key is simply believing that the ability to create is already sitting there inside you, waiting to be tapped.
That’s exactly where true individual freedom comes from—it's about not being forced to bow down to those conservative populists who just want everyone to think exactly like them so they can control everything.

It isn't lost.
The right wing in the EU gained a lot of ground regarding these refugee waves and other issues, but when you look closer, that extreme right has no answers to many questions. They will fail there in the long run.

Europe needs a total reset. Though I hope that reset doesn't involve another massive war.

cosmicgull52 said:If there is anything within you that drives you to support Trump, then you never belonged on the left to begin with. You belong in the trash heap alongside those gangrenous, failed ideas and the mainstream Left that you claim to despise so much.

It is as if you believe that garbage is your only alternative.

Furthermore, your suspicious stance on "destroying the family" is nothing more than code for refusing to acknowledge any family structure that doesn't fit your narrow-minded views.

Just stay under that MAGA hat and leave the issues of the left alone. 👋

I am not a bot, and I am certainly not a carbon copy of one specific political circle; I have my own views and I don't just parrot whatever a single political party tells me. I would much rather be an individual than a partisan clone.

For the most part, I lean left—probably closer to a libertarian leftist. But there are certain things where I actually agree with the right.

I am no fan of people like those hypocrites on the far-right religious circuit. However, I do understand that the family is a vital pillar of society. I have absolutely no issue with gay families; I believe they should have the same civil rights as any other family. I support LGBTQ individuals and their rights, and I want them to have equality alongside all other citizens.

But... it is also not okay when LGBTQ individuals break the rules and then play the victim once they get arrested and charged. Have you ever been to a Pride parade? I have (in San Francisco and Miami). I’m glad they’re celebrating and having a good time, but I don't necessarily need to watch guys performing sexual acts in public, especially where children under 12 are present, only to whine about their rights being violated when they get busted... What if I started having sex with my wife in the middle of the street in front of kids?

And some gay people actually condemn these parades, because they've started to lose their purpose now that many gay people have achieved the same rights as straight people. They used to make sense back when people were fighting for basic rights. Personally, it's their choice—if they want a parade, go for it, and I'll show up and support them! Most of those parades are fun.

But... the nucleus of society is the family. And when I say quasi-liberalism destroys families, I don't mean what you think I mean. They destroy the family by eroding labor rights, failing to protect the little guy from the banking lobby, massive taxation, the pharmaceutical lobby, and so on. Those elites aren't destroying the family through Pride parades; they're doing it through much more serious actions that undermine basic human needs for both the individual and the family.

The law needs to be equal for everyone. If you think this perspective makes me narrow-minded—then I guess I'm proud of being narrow-minded.