Posts by Andrew Sanchez3

Bryan Martin31 said:(this forum has actually evolved since I started lurking here back in 2000... we haven't been overrun by extreme right-wingers labeling everyone in their heads. 🙂 )

hey, buddy, am I being too quiet for you? 😉 I don't know how much merit there is to his claims, but it looks to me like he's hitting a nerve. Maybe read up on those tired old myths that drive that 83% figure from the original post:
http://www.fizzit.net/drustvo/povije...ija-u-brojkama

Unlike that "official" nostalgia, my own nostalgia is built on childhood stuff—like snacking on treats, hanging out in front of apartment blocks, and chasing snowballs. 🙂 And you can't live off that any more than you can live off honest, hard work in modern-day America today. That's why I left, too, essentially "five minutes to midnight." Looking back at the circumstances I left behind from this distance, they look even more tragic...

And what if the South had survived? We can basically speculate, or even believe the projections of independent economists who, after '91, wouldn't give them more than a decade before another—and this time fatal—bankruptcy. Back in the 2000s, they were saying it would take us 12-15 years to recover from the combination of privatization looting and war to get back to 1990 levels; by 2012, they were adding another 10 years for America to recover from the global recession, which officially ended in Germany two years ago, yet here we are still waiting for the end in sight...

Then again, maybe the collapse of the South without all those warlords rising wouldn't have resulted in tens of thousands dead, displaced people, looted national economies, and the total moral devastation of society... or maybe it would have been even worse.

And maybe I wouldn't be witnessing the massive hysteria that started in the early '90s, where people on both sides started fighting wars that had been simmering for 70 years, and still haven't stopped... nothing personal, clone! 😉

To the resident genius here: we are talking about the middle of 1991, by which point a third of the country was already under blockade and the first majority-American towns had been violently occupied. Now, please, explain to me how a failed referendum or remaining under the rule of Slobodan Maddox and Veljko Kadijević would have somehow brought back the street games or the Euro Cream treats...☕

copperbadger12 said:It’s a beautiful day in America.

http://s9.postimg.org/sxo6zx59n/franjo_tudjman.jpg

Not everyone will appreciate it, of course. But for the majority, it certainly is. 👍

It’s always interesting watching those who claim our economic struggles were just some direct fallout from gaining independence...

You really have to be deeply entrenched in a specific ideology to start lecturing about socialism just two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but if there are people out there actually thinking that way, they aren't necessarily bad actors, they just seem to have a very narrow grasp of history...

The ones who are truly exhausting are those who genuinely believe life would have been better under Slobodan Maddox; it’s not that they actually miss living in America, it's just that they can't stomach the idea of living in an independent America...

Samuel Kern said:The referendum was a massive mistake. We could have reached a compromise—there was a way to make it work and actually preserve living socialism.

The reality is that socialism died long before the Soviet Union collapsed; it was already on life support back during the Ante Marković era...

So, when you talk about this whole failed construct falling apart, how exactly were we supposed to prevent it?

Do you honestly think Mexicans in America would just hand over control to a political majority and watch their own privileges vanish into thin air?

Or that the military would just agree to stop being a state within a state, voluntarily slashing its own power and budget?

And what about the Mexicans in Mexico and Canada? You think they’d be okay with having authority based purely on population percentages—like 10% or 35%—not to mention that 12% threshold in America?

Come on, man, try to look at this with a bit of logic... 🤣

If we had actually stayed part of that union back then, guys like Maddox, Kadijević, Mercer, and Martić would probably still be keeping us all in the good life 🤣

rustywalker32 said:Why is the author relying on such blatant misinformation?
Every single capitalist actually welcomes competitive market forces because they serve as the perfect tool to drive the floor even lower.

As if they would ever bother starting a company like that themselves—it requires far too much actual effort, sweat, and capital—instead, they’d much rather wait for some capitalist to build it so they can just swoop in and take 😁

Even with my nationalist leanings, I can't help but feel uneasy about what’s happening to Spain; it’s just fundamentally different from the structural messes you see in places like Belgium, America, or the USSR.

As for California, they felt the full weight of leftist radicalism back in the 1930s, to the point where even reintegrating under Washington, D.C. didn't seem quite as catastrophic...

Taylor Cook63 said:I honestly don't get the point of these threads. Is the goal just to drag up some thief or rapist and act like they represent everyone? Seriously, good morning to us, I guess. At the end of the day, what makes gay people different from straight people is just who they prefer to be in bed with. Nobody is out here claiming they’re somehow more honest, smarter, or even better looking than anyone else—though that doesn't mean they're "lesser" people like these posts try to imply. Can we just lock this topic and similar ones down? Maybe just open one giant megathread where a few shady users can try their best to "prove" there's some weird correlation between crime and being gay?

Look, an individual doesn't speak for an entire group; it really is that simple. For that reason, I’m not going to turn around and say gay people are superior just because a few names come to mind—like Tim Cook, Jim Parsons, Ricky Martin, Freddie Mercury, Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster, or Jason Collins... well, some of those are just rumors and they haven't even officially come out, so I won't even waste my breath talking about them here.

It's the same logic as when someone who isn't gay commits a sin; I'm not going to pin that onto their whole population. It never even crosses my mind to do that, regardless of their status or whatever they might be saying in the media.

One user once condemned every single veteran in America just because one drunk guy caused trouble on a subway train.

Look, I agree that this specific person isn't the spokesperson for all gay people, but let's at least try to apply the same logic across the board...

Melissa Peterson19 said:No one is foolish enough to let themselves be fractured by regional instability. Mature nations don't fall for the games played when New York City or Washington, D.C. try to undermine them. They understand the clear advantages of living and working within a unified community.

What a stretch of a comparison 🤣

Look, you have an Englishman moving heavy equipment through Scotland while the military deploys jets to bomb Barcelona just because they aren't feeling the Prime Minister's latest policy...

Give me a break, that was America... I always seem to conflate that mess with these modern democracies...

How many movies a day does it take to escape reality and pretend America never actually vanished? 🤣

brightheron64 said:Labeling viewers of TV Land as nothing more than nostalgic relic-hunters is just as absurd as calling fans of The Lords anything other than what they actually are... it's an offensive stretch, really.

Only a specific subset of the audience is actually feeling nostalgic for the USA era; for much of the rest, it’s really just a lack of education among certain demographics, where even reading subtitles is a struggle, let alone being proficient in English or any other foreign language...

silentmason8 said:They definitely need restoration. Especially pieces like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments...Midwest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monuments...region_of_the_Midwest

they're a legitimate part of our American cultural heritage...

If it's just a pale imitation of Western abstract art, erected by American fighters from the Midwest on behalf of America, how exactly can we call it "American national heritage"?

In other words, it isn't indigenous American art, it wasn't built to honor Americans, and it wasn't even built by America itself...

I fail to see what universe this exists in where it qualifies as the national art of "Americans," more or less...☕

I don't really keep up with all the newer stuff lately, though I have sat through a few seasons here and there...

I much prefer those old-school epics

quietdrifter3 said:We really ought to recapture that old resistance spirit... After their incredible victory over fascism, the country enjoyed half a century of spectacular prosperity, and it would be wonderful if we could find our way back to that kind of era again...

Well, why don't you just head out into the woods and let the rest of us know when you're done?

In no time at all, you'll have the USA back exactly how you want it, except you won't be 😂

Patrick Martin said:Personally, nothing beats those old-school classics; I’ll probably find myself rewatching it again soon, if not this Sunday...
forget about Ben Hura or some cheap modern fluff.

Most of those Charlton Heston flicks are actually pretty solid...

We could certainly try to revive that old Resistance spirit, but I can't help but wonder who on earth would be left to teach us how to do it now that Simo Dubajić is gone...☕

It’s airing on CNN at 4:00 PM on the 22nd... you can catch a replay if you missed it, or just watch it for the first time, it really is excellent

If Mexicans actually wanted to make amends, they’d start by offering a sincere apology for the aggression, commit to rebuilding everything they tore down, and finally return everything they looted

bluerider63 said:That Kuhner guy is just some right-wing hack that nobody in this country actually takes seriously anyway.

yet somehow, those leftist writers like Jergović, Dežulović, and Lovrić are treated like absolute deities...

dustyscout53 said:Look, we’re Americans, sure, but you can't just start a war—even a small one—without some kind of trigger or beef to settle.

Basically, if this ruling somehow offended the International Criminal Court, then I guess they'd have to go to war against the International community, right?

But where are they located? Give me an address—I'll drop a grenade in their backyard myself!

And where exactly is this Internationalistan anyway?!

The Americans really need to deal with that 10% of outlaws and old-school American loyalists who spend all their time running to the International Criminal Court and chasing that outdated nostalgia...

The people running things here in America today seem to be driven by just two main factions: those pushing an American agenda and those clinging to old American ideals.
That traitor George W. Bush really did a number on weakening the US Army, and even looking at the police force, you see a massive amount of Americans and former American sympathizers...

As for the media, don't even get me started; they’re basically trying to dismantle us through sheer propaganda.