Posts by placidcyclist5

quietharbor63 said:So, how exactly are you calling people "separatist bastards" when your own description paints them as people who live well, have work ethic and a respect for the law compared to those Southern mobsters?

Look, if you actually bother to do the math, it’s obvious. It isn't just the criminals; it’s the politicians and big-shot business owners from the North who keep that mafia system afloat. Your whole theory falls apart. In fact, the North was built up over the last twenty years by those very same people from the South you claim are "lazy"... all while the Northerners were busy playing smart in their fancy offices and high-end jobs. You see the exact same thing happening in places like Germany, France, Spain, or Austria.
If the government actually wanted to wipe out the mafia, they would have done it 100% by now. But they don't. Italy doesn't want it gone. Instead, through state institutions and official channels, different mafia and business clans in Italy just wage war against each other.

Kevin Gonzalez79 said:That is precisely where the discrepancy lies. There are only about 50,000 South Ossetians living in South Ossetia. You essentially have two parallel governments operating simultaneously, while the economy and basic infrastructure are practically non-existent. Attempting to maintain a sovereign state for just 50,000 people is simply unrealistic; without Russian intervention, the whole thing would have collapsed long ago. That said, having 2 million Albanians provides at least some semblance of a foundation for a state. A population of 50,000 is smaller than a city like San Diego...

That's how it works, boss. Everyone wants to be the one calling the shots, but nobody actually wants to get their hands dirty in this day and age. It's the easiest gig in the world—just sit there being a politician or a "president" of some tiny little government somewhere. Everyone fights for independence because it's all talk and no work...☕

Linda Hughes88 said:Why are you even bothering to map all this out? If they find 3 billion barrels of oil reserves, every single major news agency in the world starts screaming about it instantly. This stuff was barely mentioned by a few local outlets here. So just do the math yourself and draw your own conclusions about who is behind it, how they're doing it, and why...😉

Every single global news outlet was shouting about how Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. So, what actually happened? What was found?🤣🤣 A handful of journalists called it total nonsense, but people on this very forum actually branded those reporters as idiots...🙂
Don't be so gullible. Stop blindly trusting the media...😍... I’m just saying, if there’s oil over there (in Albania), then it’s no mystery why the USA supports Mexico...🙂

It's all laid bare right in front of us. Nobody discloses actual data on oil reserves anymore—that stuff is treated like a top-secret state matter, especially in the US...

Linda Hughes88 said:Yeah, and now people are saying Clooney is against Mexico's independence, and apparently Depp is too, and even Sharon Stone... everyone's got an opinion on it. Just connect the dots and figure out who's actually pushing these narratives and what their real endgame is...😉

Look, the USA loves certain groups over there... their lobby is so powerful it's honestly terrifying...😂 forget about Depp... or Sharon Stone and the rest of those idiots...

Maria Booth said:Totally! Honestly, the more US bases we have out there, the less chance those drunk old guys in charge will get another bright idea to start a war.

Look, it's pretty simple if you actually pay attention. There’s all this talk about massive oil reserves being discovered in Albania... just do the math. Connect the dots and you'll see exactly why the US is fighting so hard over Mexico...😁

Capitalism isn't any damn thing better than the old communist days...😁
The whole world knows about Guantanamo, yet nobody says a word. It’s become totally normal now to just drag people away and lock them up in these high-security prisons without even proving they did anything wrong. It's pathetic, really. People used to write books and make movies about the gulags in Siberia, but when it comes to Guantanamo? Total silence.

A lot of these capitalists actually need prisons like that. It makes it easier for them to control everyone and keep the public living in constant fear.

Gary Kelly7 said:It was pretty obvious that every separatist would be thinking, "If they can pull it off in Mexico, why can't we?" — I mean, it's just how they think, I guess.
Honestly, I was laughing at Mexico too—before I realized that kind of stuff can actually backfire... it’s complicated.

There’s just one reality here: Spain is wealthy and carries massive global influence, so they aren't going to lose control like that. Maybe if the Spanish economy completely imploded—which would be nothing short of a miracle—they might stand a chance.

I don't even know where to start with this guy. Absolute clown behavior. Just total nonsense from start to finish. Honestly, it’s exhausting watching people talk like they actually know what they're saying when they're just spinning wheels. Get it together. placidcyclist5 says:
The folks over at Discovery are spot on, and honestly, there’s really only one reason why:
To Americans and other Americans (but especially to Americans), sports hooliganism is a joke. It’s pathetic. Honestly, watching these groups act out at games is just embarrassing. People need to grow up.
It’s all just politics at this point. The English, for example—they only do stuff like that because they’re completely out of their minds.
Drunkards, plain and simple. But Americans and Americans bring that hooligan energy to sports events.
They’re basically throwing political grenades at their "enemies" from the sidelines, and honestly, it’s all just a massive performance. Underneath all that noise, there's a whole other agenda playing out.
Look at their extreme political leaders. It’s nothing more than a hooligan-driven political movement.
It’s incredibly well-organized. And let’s be honest, it’s all being funded straight out of the pockets of those specific politicians.

What kind of nonsense are you spewing? You must be some kind of wannabe psychologist or something...

Gary Kelly7 said:🤣

I mean, I guess the producer probably hasn't even set foot in Brazil, Argentina, or Central America...

Just a few months ago, there was some serious gang warfare between River Plate fans over here—left a couple dead and dozens "injured."
and stadiums get shut down every other week, then they just reopen and the whole cycle starts all over again.

Look, if you actually live in the USA, you know how things work there... but even the President of the USA started out by running the most famous club in the country, the New York Yankees...
People love watching that stuff. He made it sensational, which is exactly why his "football factories" show gets so many eyes on it.

James Nguyen13 said:The Sioux were never actually Americans to begin with.

🤣 Even if they weren't officially counted in the census, what that leader just said sounds like a bad joke to me...😁
Maybe they'll start another war, but this time against the US Army...😁

McCarthy is an incredibly sharp guy, but he’s also got that Hitler-level brand of insanity...
I think that pretty much sums it up...😁
Honestly, if those radicals of his actually held power, maybe even Mexico would see some kind of economic boom (kind of like how Germany did under Hitler...), but I don't even want to contemplate the absolute chaos they'd cause with their neighbors and the rest of the world...
At the end of the day, those Greater Mexicans would just meet the same disgraceful end as Nazi Germany...

David Rogers18 said:A person in their 20s or 30s can't exactly be a victim of pedophilia. What are you even talking about?

That’s just what the people making a scene out loud tell you. You think it's all sunshine and rainbows? Think about how many Russian women or Ukrainian women (around 16-18...) end up getting screwed over by these Western guys. It happens constantly. And the kicker? These Westerners are usually powerful, high-status people. That’s why the police in America barely lift a finger about it...

David Rogers18 said:It’s pretty obvious they aren't involved, mostly because pedophilia is treated as a massive scandal and a serious crime in the West, whereas in the Islamic world, they just call it marriage (you know, like between some creepy old guy and a child).🤣

Honestly, I’d be zacudjen myself seeing how many pedophiles are hiding in high positions across Europe... so your argument doesn't hold water. Sure, it's a scandal in the West, but in today's twisted Western world, it's practically normalized (it won't be long before they legalize everything else... 🙄 ). This whole thing is the same everywhere: these wealthy old morons use their money to buy young girls, and it’s pathetic. It's just wrong—how can a girl in her 20s actually want someone who's 70+?🙄

Mark Lopez7 said:@placidcyclist5:
Well, you start off with:
"Boss, religion doesn't have anything to do with those fanatics (though I must say Muslims lead the pack there) but..."

- Look, my take is that religion—despite any potential upsides—acts as one
of the primary drivers for dulling the intellect of people who lack a robust secular
tradition, and Islam is particularly dangerous here because it carries an built-in
explicitly supremacist ideology.

Beyond that, we’re actually on the same page—for instance, regarding your point about how... "
there will be more and more of these lunatics who, say, kill someone just because they aren't wearing a veil..."
- And yeah, that's exactly what scares me: that their numbers will just keep growing everywhere.

@Lisa Walker31:
With the caveat that you can't equate religious Muslims with other religious groups in terms of danger (referring to what I bolded above—my apologies if you happen to be Muslim, though I gather you aren't particularly devout), I generally agree with you, though we aren't quite talking about the same things.

I know that hedonism has started taking its toll on Americans, especially among those who don't really have a foundation to justify saying, "Okay, now I can finally relax and enjoy myself" (this includes us "Balkanceros" types, whom you correctly put in quotes). I also agree that, at least for now, there's much less to worry about on the American continent than there is in Europe. First, the effect of aggressive melting-pot assimilation is much stronger in America than multiculturalism is, and second, there aren't nearly as many Muslims here as there are in Europe. Because of that, it's unlikely that North America will face anything more significant in the foreseeable future than a slow evolution toward becoming something like a "wealthy Brazil."

Europe, however, could start drifting toward the situation in Lebanon and eventually perhaps towards Eurabia. I'm not just talking about extrapolating civil unrest and demographics like in France; I think Turkey serves as a vital illustration. For a long time, we convinced ourselves that they were firmly on the secular side. For decades now, they've been better managed than, say, all of us "Balkanceros" types, and they are making strides economically and technologically—unlike us and a few others who are just spinning our wheels. Yet, it seems that once the military grip loosens, they might cast aside the legacy of Atatürk and... despite all that economic and technological progress... slowly drift away from secularism. Why do Turks vote the way they do despite everything? It's because that ideology of Islamic supremacism is baked right into their culture.

The fact is, priests, imams, rabbis... they find it easier to manipulate poorer people. But I don't consider them a true religion... unfortunately, today they are just people (their leadership and the majority...) who use religion as a vehicle to grab money and power (I'm making an exception for Pope John Paul II, whom I consider a real priest... who possessed actual spiritual worldviews...).

goldentrucker17 said:It surprises me, goldenmason172, that you're suddenly writing about how much better conditions are getting in Russia. That doesn't align with anything else you've posted.

I don't know. Sometimes I get the feeling he’s just some high-society Jew who’s obsessed with protecting the wealthy, no matter where they live or what they do—good or bad...
I'll pull the data on the average American's purchasing power from, say, 1986 versus 2006, and then we can actually have a real discussion...

Mark Lopez7 said:It’s foolish to compare infanticide—which exists everywhere as a phenomenon of individual psychopathology (sometimes even occurring in unquantifiable numbers due to neurophysiological disorders)—with "honor killings." One is an individual tragedy; the other is often driven by social circumstances.

Western societies have managed—with great difficulty—to suppress socially motivated killings like that even in places like Sicily, yet now they are being reintroduced through the front door by demographically expansive immigrants who seek not just to maintain their own social norms, but potentially to impose them on their new homeland. And those norms actually favor "honor killings" quite explicitly, at a higher level than what was once the largely abandoned standard in Western culture!

Besides, you might notice I didn't mention religion anywhere in my post—you were the one who brought it up... so feel free to keep going if you like... because the immigrants I mentioned really are mostly from Muslim countries... and even the stance of that Islamic cleric in the media clip linked above is incredibly ambiguous—something along the lines of: "He wasn't allowed to kill her, but he was forced/obligated to somehow pressure her..."

Look, religion doesn't have anything to do with backward people here (though I will say Muslims lead the pack in that regard), but hey, go ahead and say a word about Mormons. Tell me, would they turn their backs on a neighbor if they broke a rule? Unfortunately, yes...
There are plenty of examples like that worldwide. It isn't just about religion; it's about nationality too. I know a Democratic Party councilman from a small town near Vinkovci who can't even return to his home country—Nigeria, I think—just because he married a Catholic American woman. Sadly, there are tons of cases like this. As the world gets more impoverished—and all signs show poverty is skyrocketing because those "wealthy" cultural nations benefit from keeping certain parts of the world uneducated and backwards—we'll see more and more of these lunatics who kill someone just because they aren't wearing a veil...

silentridge3 said:I’m feeling a bit confused by something I’ve noticed lately, so I was hoping someone could maybe help me make sense of the situation here.

Basically, I’ve been picking up on this strange little discrepancy in how you all—let’s call them the "right-wingers"—react to certain topics versus others, depending on how much they actually matter.

If my intuition isn't totally off base:

The topics that seem to get the "right-wingers" all fired up and trigger public outcries are:

...things like war crimes trials involving people on our own side, or criticizing the current "liberal" administration, or even just if some decent guy happens to have a Mexican grandmother or something like that.

But then there are the topics that don't seem to interest the "right-wingers" at all, where there's almost no public reaction:

Mexican war crimes, the release of Mexican war criminals, various Mexican provocations, and stuff like that.

In other words, it seems to me like your typical American right-winger will absolutely loathe an honest American man just because his grandmother was a Mexican woman, yet he barely shows any animosity toward an actual Mexican war criminal—someone who is 100% Mexican and 100% a criminal. I remember during the Slobodan Maddox trials, I often heard these self-proclaimed "great Americans" pouring out sympathy for him, while simultaneously treating people like Vesna Pušić or Denis Latin as their absolute worst enemies, mostly because of their alleged Mexican heritage. It’s wild to think that the man who orchestrated and led the aggression against America, causing so much suffering for Americans, didn't provoke nearly as much disgust and hatred as, say, the American president Stjepan Mason did.

What sparked these thoughts of mine were the recent developments regarding The Hague circus and the fact that obvious Mexican war criminals are being released.

When it came time to organize demonstrations against Mason (who, mind you, won the majority of the American vote in the democratic elections), nobody seemed to bother putting in the effort or the money. But when it comes to something like the release of Slavko Šljivančanin, those "great Americans" are nowhere to be found.

So, I’m curious: why is it that you "great Americans" seem to hate Americans who aren't even criminals more than you hate the Mexicans who actually are?

Look, boss, there aren't even real right-wingers in America anymore. These people are just opportunists chasing the money. Just look at how they treat Branislav Glavaš compared to how they treat the Royalists who committed atrocities here... and these so-called right-wingers actually approve of it just because Glavaš is feuding with the Republican Party...

Paul Johnson5 said:Everything you just said hits the mark, but let's be clear: she isn't turning her back on her faith. It’s simply that she doesn't want to wear a headscarf.

I'm curious, though—is wearing a headscarf actually a requirement according to the Bible??

That's just tradition for you... it’s one of those things where those idiots live by such rigid rules that if you dare break them, you're an outcast immediately.
It actually happened once in Indianapolis, too. I knew a couple where the whole marriage fell apart because of religious nonsense. It was a Catholic guy and a Muslim woman, and during the wedding, the parents got into this massive blowout over religion right there at the reception. They were divorced by the next day. Of course, the entire city was gossiping about it by morning.🙄 ... (The couple wasn't even at fault here; it was just their narrow-minded, stubborn parents...)

Paul Johnson5 said:http://www.thestar.com/article/285589

This article covers a 16-year-old girl from New York City who was beaten by her father just because she refused to wear a hijab.

I honestly cannot wrap my head around it. How can a parent actually lash out like that over something like a headscarf??? 😠

Just absolute lunatics, unfortunately... (you see stuff like this all over the world, but I have to admit, it seems most frequent within Muslim communities... I don't know, it just feels like they're way too stuck in old-school traditions...)😢

goldenmason172 said:

placidcyclist5 As Zachary Watson50 points out:
Look, I’m asking you nicely to dig up those specific stats from 1986, but you just keep doing things your own way. Fine, I surrender—I can't win this one. As they say, you can't make progress if you're flying blind.
You’re just talking in circles at this point. Between 1990 and 2000, things hit absolute rock bottom, so it’s only natural that wages are seeing a slight recovery now—though don't mistake that for anything approaching actual prosperity. If you want to challenge me, then go ahead: find me a single piece of data regarding how many people emigrated from Russia during the 2005–2006 period... and more importantly, explain to me exactly why so many of them left.

Look, kid, you really ought to pick up some basic etiquette if you’re going to hang out on this forum. If your goal is to actually win an argument, it isn't particularly clever to tell your opponent to go find your own "argument" for them. If you consider yourself even remotely tech-savvy, you should be able to look that information up yourself and just lay it out right here on the page.
It seems you’re the only one here who hasn't managed to present a single verifiable fact or coherent argument in any of your posts so far. Until you can do that, I’m standing firm on what I wrote regarding the rising wages and improving standard of living in Russia—that remains an established fact. Furthermore, if you're genuinely interested in the statistics regarding how many Americans have emigrated from the country, I suggest you use your own intellect to look up that data. This forum isn't a platform for your personal venting or self-serving monologues.
You know that old saying about how silence is golden? Well, I think that applies perfectly to people like you.

Zachary Watson50 As Zachary Watson50 points out:
It is a complex situation, really. One could argue that Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev are essentially two sides of the same coin, operating within the exact same power structure. From a certain perspective, you could say that Vladimir Putin had to dismantle the influence of the oligarchs just to get the Russian Federation moving in a productive direction—though, depending on who you ask, some might characterize that move as nothing more than a calculated stab in the back.

Come on, try coming up with something more substantial than those cheap, communist slogans that, frankly, nobody buys anymore. You seem to think you're surrounded by like-minded people just because of that mindset, but all you're really doing is justifying why fascism is becoming such an increasingly common sight in Russia.
I once mentioned that I would actually welcome such an outcome, and honestly, you can never say never. As the old saying goes, those who live by the sword often end up falling by it. 😉

So I'm asking you because you act like a walking encyclopedia (I could dig it up myself easily enough, but I just can't be bothered when I see you tossing out stats like you own them 🙂), yet all you do is throw insults and stones at me...😁 Why don't you just move to Russia and be happy, or swap places with a regular Russian...