Posts by placidcyclist5

Anonymous said:Seriously, have you been sleeping through the whole year? Dozens of people are grinding away on this. People came from all over the country for the press conference, and now you’re acting like you just discovered water.

If you think Sanders should be taken to court, go for it. Who's stopping you?

Benjamin Smith21 said:Don't talk nonsense. Of course, I don't consider myself less valuable, but I'm telling you that the law doesn't care about feelings. Sanders has immunity. Even if they barely managed to strip Glavaš of his immunity for war crime proceedings, do you really think there are enough votes in Congress to strip Sanders's immunity over this? Of course not. It's the same in every country. High-ranking officials have immunity. Whether that's right or wrong isn't the issue here. Right now, nothing can be done against Sanders, and that has absolutely nothing to do with stepping up or anything involving the human rights courts in Strasbourg.
However, you could file a complaint against the organizers of the World Cup—which, if I'm not mistaken, is the USSA—and they might face a fine so massive they couldn't even pay it. But on the flip side, is it even worth it? Is it worth provoking the fury of the public just as things are starting to stabilize? They’d frame it as fans suing the sport itself. They’d claim that because of the fine, they’ll have to stop investing in youth programs. Everyone would turn against us, and in the end, even if they are penalized, the association would only be hit with a few hundred thousand dollars (which is a huge amount for us ☕) and the entire public would definitely be against us.

Benjamin Smith21 said:For you and for SB: everyone in the administration—meaning the President, the Vice Presidents (Đurđa and Pupovac, if I recall correctly) and all the Cabinet members—as well as everyone in Congress, including the Speaker, the Vice Speakers, and all the representatives, plus the President of the Republic, they all have immunity. You can't take any action because the laws don't apply to them due to that immunity. Just remember the stories involving Glavaš or what happened in Italy with Berlusconi, where everyone just waited for the guy's term to expire before they could finally bring the charges against him. You can't leverage this right now because you can't put the President on trial.

Daniel Carter9 said:It might not change much right now since the damage is done, but wouldn't it still be worth filing a report regardless?

Anonymous said:And honestly, I am REALLY interested in this too... organizing some kind of fundraiser to pool our money together so we can take them to court...

driftingangler6 said:If this trend of tossing shoes at politicians starts spreading globally, our local journalists are definitely going to have to start showing up to White House press briefings wearing fuzzy slippers instead of suits! 😍

Now, don't get me wrong—it’s easy enough to laugh, especially since the whole scene was absolutely ridiculous to watch, but I really do feel for the guy; he's completely and utterly screwed now...

Angela Lee said:Honestly, why even bother freeing him? If you ask me, he’d probably be better off back in Abu Ghraib😠, though I suppose the Iraqi security forces likely gave him a thorough lesson after all that and might still be keeping him in line today. He’ll never forget the moment he tried to take a shot at Bush😁. I have to say, I was genuinely surprised by how quickly Bush reacted; the guy has nothing to lose, I guess, so his reflexes were actually pretty impressive. You have this disheveled Iraqi guy trying to attack him with a shoe, and then there's Georgie just smirking right in his face🤣 before adding: "It was a size 10 shoe"😂🤣. What an absolute legend, that Georgie.

granitemarlin4 said:Just another great idea wasted on a noble cause 😉

Nobody needs peace these days—especially not in the USA, where the career of the world's most powerful nation seems to be hitting a wall!

Sometimes people just pick the wrong profession. So many politicians start out with the best intentions, but they never really get anywhere because they lack support from the major lobbies—and let's face it, those lobbies basically run global politics now, don't they?

quietbadger34 said:Look, these kids have parents for a reason.

If their folks decide it’s actually better for the kids to go train in Madrid instead of Udine, then what exactly is the issue? I don't see one.

Does it honestly make you guys sick to your stomachs when parents choose to send their children off to train tennis at some high-end academy somewhere else?

blueotter70 said:That video you posted is a perfect snapshot of exactly who this kid is. Nothing more than a terrorist. I don't feel a shred of sympathy for him.

Dennis Baker34 said:So, you’ve got this kid with a Canadian passport heading over to Afghanistan and dropping bombs on legitimate UN forces—which, in this case, means our own US Marines.
Honestly, they probably should have just given him a stern talking-to, handed him a lollipop, and sent him packing home so he could be back at it dropping bombs again tomorrow!!
Just take a look at his father's and brother's history for granted. All while their mother is sitting pretty back in Canada enjoying life!
If it were up to me, I’d toss the whole lot of them into an Afghan or Pakistani prison just to show them what real torture actually looks like!

Robin Hernandez4 said:It's not weird at all, but let me ask you this: would you actually vote for a guy who spends his time rambling about alien encounters? You should be paying me just to deal with a clown like you here in the USA. If I wanted to test your intelligence, I'd have a much easier time than this.

Robin Hernandez4 said:Who? Al Gore? The guy who claims he’s out there chatting with aliens or whatever space-man nonsense? Give me a break.😁 Dennis Kucinich is basically a punchline within the American Community here in the USA, so it’s no surprise he’s a joke to the rest of the country too.

neonpilot38 said:I honestly wonder where this world is headed when people like this start posting on forums

I mean, seriously? When someone can look at 22 civilians being killed at a wedding and call it "collateral damage," and then follow it up with some sociopathic comment about how "there will be more born by 2050"?

It’s sick minds like these that drive everything we see happening today

Which is exactly why I felt the need to say something

It feels like the life of one person in Afghanistan is worth less than a dog in the West!

Over here, if a pet dies, people are mourning and grieving for months on end.
But when they hear on the news that 22 innocent Afghans were slaughtered in the middle of a celebration—at a wedding, for God's sake—they just brush it off as collateral damage. To them, it's just another mundane statistic to digest over morning coffee.☕

If something like this happened to American citizens, the entire world would be in an uproar.
And don't even get me started on what the reaction would be if this had happened to Jewish people.

But no, when it happens to people in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Africa, it's all just "collateral damage."

John Howard8 said:Have you ever actually heard the term "collateral damage"? Suppose one of those bystanders had actually been bin Laden; would you really argue they shouldn't have pulled the trigger? War is a brutal business, and there isn't always much room left for sentimentality or pure humanitarianism. Besides, if we're judging by the standards of people like Šljivančanin and Ratko Mercer, the Americans are practically saints by comparison. If this conflict were being waged by someone like Šljivančanin or Radić, they would have leveled several cities to the ground before even stepping foot inside, followed by massacres, rounding up survivors to be sent to Guantanamo Bay or Mexico City, and then moving on to the next town while issuing threats similar to what happened in Memphis. Things aren't quite as black and white as some people would have you believe. Of course, there are unintended casualties, and those are truly tragic, but we have seen far, far worse in our recent history. They managed to push the taliban back. It is almost certain that under taliban rule, the number of civilian casualties would have been significantly higher—not to mention the systemic oppression and the humiliation of women, which causes a level of suffering that is arguably more agonizing than death itself.