Comments by "Tomas Vrabec" (@tomasvrabec1845) on "Good Times Bad Times" channel.

Blaming Europe in the comments... Meanwhile over half of Europe didn't even have colonies yet will be pressured into it.
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@sentientflower7891 yeah right... Because descendents os those that didn't migrate and kill of Native Americans are the ones that earned it.... At the same time most of the nations in Europe didn't even have an empire and were often occupied them selves. 🤦‍♂️
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Well he well damn already admitted his revisionism several times... Greater Hungary on his clothes. Greater Hungary in his office as a map (not Hungary, just greater one) Talking about "stolen" poets in Croatia. Talked of stolen lands in Slovakia and Romania, as well as referred to them as the regional Greater Hungarian territories... All publicly... Most caused diplomatic "incidents". He just won't go forward because he is entirely blocked from doing so.
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@sentientflower7891 Europe if fairly diverse place... East of Berlin... Which is more than half of Europe... Didn't even have colonies so stop with your blaming of Europe when most of it didn't even do anything...
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@sentientflower7891 Yeah... Because of some Englishmen and Spaniards from 400 years ago, an eastern European that was oppressed by the western colonialists should be the one to suffer.
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 @LaFonteCheVi *Was Trends change. China was more conflict heavy before Europe, the Levant and Sinai have been the most conflict heavy before that...
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As a Northern Slovakians i was always leaning towards Czech culture more.... The modern kind (😂 as East k now's, we love our folklores) Why? Because they write more free. Whilst it doesn't or didn't quite affect shopping. It affects the ideas around you and Czechs wrote always far more freedom minded from what i have met. Not that they don't get problems of their own but Still... As for Russia. I used to be anti Russian, more from tradition than reason. Now i agree with some, disagree with most. I still see US, Russia and China as the biggest threats there are. Us is seemingly crumbling under their own political games. China... Whilst being one of the largest bullies announced it won't stand being bullied anymore meanwhile they just enforcing military state in HongKong and God help us all if they qere preparing to "unify" With Taiwan (basically Democratic Chinese government in exile) again. And Russsia... Well for the most part keeping its self cool and aomewhat low ans less flashy. Quietly under the mists tries to secure waters in arctic plus the tensions with their European border neighbours. You see If Russia wasn't as Homophobic, racist, sexist and more concerned about the well-being of its citizens and nature i would probation be pro Russia without any problem. And whilst i believe racism, sexism and homophobia have went down power time. No one can deny it is Still quite strong.
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It's always weird. I mean it will never happen. As a Slovak i would hate the unity with Hungary whilst I welcome cooperation or unity within larger organisations such as the V4 or EU. Although i do believe there are Hungarian Unionists that are young and absolutely idiotic on this issue as they simply clam the land. Why do i thought this? When visiting a Slovak/Hungarian bridge border nar Nové Zámky (New Castle) there was quite a handful of Hungarian unionists stickers on the bridge... So there are younger people into it, not that they will even bee heard. As for the comments in regards to Hungarian Minority moving back to Hungary today or Slovaks minority during the 1000 year long occupation by Hungary... The slovaks were the natives. So really you just end up with the Native Rights issues. Every border regions of Europe are a mix which Always cases some issue at the back for some reasons. I think the hungarians should just be assimilated into Slovakia, mainly through education. Eg. Slovak language 1st in school, Hungarian as optional second or third language... If the parent's can't manage to learn their kids the language at home. As for food and other parts of culture... That's such a blend we should just leave it. Even events, why bot have them in the border regions.
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As an Eastern European I would happily see more liberalism in the East, at least to the level of Czechs. As for V4... It doesn't seem to do much besides their megaproject which they can't even fund them selves.
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@Rudenbehr @とひこ Whilst i can't speak for the americans, most of Europe is quite aware how the cycle of nation collapsing and re-emerging back up quite well, wouldn't be that critical about it. Besides, collapse doesn't mean destruction. Collapse of a nation is simply that... Nation.. Not people, not culture. And china collapsed several times in its history only to emerge as several other countries and even today it is made up of several other nations. Collapse of china is not the destruction of china, just of the People's Republic of China. ... You still have the republic of china .. Both chinese despicable different countries, thus whatever emerges is still Chinese, just a different country
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True, as a Slovak I always looked at the Czech traditions as a very Austrian in influence. Still very familiar and similar to. Us Slovaks, but different. But hey... There is a Historical reason... In Austria-Hungary, Slovaks were under Hungarians, Czechs were under Austrian.
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Several reasons. 1. Populism and misinformation scene. All o have to do is switch VPN from cz to SK and I get immodesty spammed by misinformation. 2. Economy. It's a labour oriented society The country gets less investment because it's also in the West as so it's not cheap as a labour source, whilst also not being rich to have more advanced sectors. 3. You either have Populists and pro-anyone-but-mainstream or you have very Yes-EU commands, Yes-Nato commands left parties which concentrate on the modern far left issues (usually common among high end educated people) rather than concentrating on the Workers Left issues.... In a labour-oriented society. So majority feels ignored and rejected - making populism even more catchy and appealing due to it giving attention. 4. Historic fears of ethnic death. Be it historically Austrian Germans, then Hungarians, then Germans, and then Czechs a little (dominated by Prague), similar pressure is felt from the side of EU and NATO especially when federal EU is discussed. This may sound counterintuitive given that Russia is trying to conquer Ukraine. However, the first Republic already joined NAZIs with the reasoning that if they do not they would be... Given to Hungary and split like Poland in 1700s. So basically, when there is a threat of being ethnically eradicated by someone, the nation runs to the other side... Sometimes being a pink pong ball between two countries that would do the same thing to it. (It's part of the lesser self though, which is not uncommon in other eastern European countries). 5. Accumulated issues. Brain drain doesn't help either factor, but is also caused by many. It's essentially a negative feed loop making the country stuck in lower secotrs, whilst also making it more ethnically disappeared. 6. In all honesty the government is so lose that it basically lets anyone steamroll over the people, itself and the nation. Unlike Lithuania, Finland and so on.... There are many small day to day factors that make people feel like the ethnicity is being attacked. From shop goods named in English (labels like peanut butter instead of native Arašidové Maslo) and a large number of younger population actually using slavicized English words in day to day speech make large portions of the population see Slovak disappear... Which is then made worse by misinformation and populist fear mongering. Especially as these little things are then combined with issues like LGBT or abortion which has a support of the youth but not so much middle aged and older. This again makes it feel for many that these individuals are brainwashed by the West and are adopting their customs, languages, ideology and so on as much as the other side thinks of the pro Russians as brainwashed and wishing for nostalgic days. The only thing that was actually better around the 90s than today or the years before 90/80s was that Slovakia actually had a fair autonomy and sovereignty. USSR half dead did not drown it and no politicians were just blindly following some foreign ideas and rules, be it EU, NATO or the USSR. Yes quality of life improved but that's not what they concentrate on... It's the actual say SVK has, the sovereignty of it and it's uniqueness. The fact that these culture wars are one of the largest destructors of Slovak ethnicity as a whole is really saddening. Hence only wishing that a balanced government that would take visible control and stance towards making Slovakia Slovak - labels, language, support and promote some more Slovak art and architecture so show that YES, IT'S US, SLOVAK and not just a copy paste of... Austria, Hungary, Germany, US or Russia in different forms would be the best. Then they can actually support left ideas regarding LGBT and others because they would have the trust of the population. So... More like Finland, Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania. But so far... It's just a country the size of Baltic States with No One in charge that would pilot the Slovak Plane.
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😂 I mean, some of the lost territories were just lost territory of other nations Eg the Slovak and Czech part, both were there before Hungarians were, then lost their territory, then gained it again.
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Singapore is a very nice exception to the rule (dictatorship). Speech is fairly free, Improvements and development are very much present . Citizens Do not seem disconcerted with their government. By a flavours a western nation. But it's a dictatorship, or rather authoritarianism . I wonder whether their land size had anything to do with it.
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@leme5639 that's what being Blocked means.
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@freebozkurt9277 As a slovak I agree. Even today we have Imperator (emperor) Cisár (unknown by origin to me, but explains the Kaiser stuff as it appears more german oriented in folk takes) Tsar (Russia) Kral (King) Although Cisar and Imperator were used appmeqhat interchangeably as, lets face it Kaiser was alway just a germanic there ng that died out and was forgotten put pf spite whilst Tsar remained because of the tragic assassination of the family as a memorandum. But to put it all together. Austria-Hungary was just a big mess. Austrie controlled Czechs, Hungary did Slovaks besides Balkans later and other ethnicities. Just a ticking bomb since the lead did not seem to care enough for their minorities.
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Never! Long live free Slavs!
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@sentientflower7891 you might just be the most pathetic person i have seen in YT comments. Full of complaining without any solutions. If you hate humans as much, just end your self as you are a human... It is also covered by an age old philosophical question... And I love nature ... Hence i am doing my best not only in personal life but also in my studies and work to direct my field towards a greener future... Neither do i hate migrants... I simply aware of the cultures and historical reasons many nations have against them together with the direct implications of a sudden population growth caused by foreign migration and it's un sustainability.
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Another issue is simply caused by demographics and unrelated to hate The Gaza strip is very poor and as a result it's a breeding ground with very high fertility rate resulting in an average age of 19years. Yeah... 19!. For comparation EU is 40. This means that within. The densely populated Gaza strip half of the population is classed as under aged and a kid. So... no matter what action you take against Gaza it will result in killing kids... It's like using your own population age as a leverage... Then the culture in Gaza is extremely toxic and islamistkc which does not help with the make up as it comprises of a lot of young agitated men... As we can see.. that's a recipe for a rape on rape attacks ...
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What are "family values". That just is far too easy to interpret however one wants...
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:D I like how to added "so before Sumerian civilisation" With a flare to impress and challenge but indeed there were many civilisations prior to Sumer, even in Messopotamia
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@InfiniteDesign91 they are heavily out of Historic context. State visits are out of historic context. Sports events are out of historic contexts. Having a pseudo modern map with redrawn borders in his office is not in a historic context ..
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From the North of Poland Down to the Balkans it is also all Slavs os it makes sense we would have more in common than with Hungarians.
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@euroboy9188 wouldn't really say that Europe is compensating for it with immigrants when most of the nations are not very happy about imigrantion..
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小熊维尼 Absolutely ridiculous statement regarding the establishment of democracy trigering world wars... How would that even be possible when pretty much every EU nation adopted democracy as primary form of governing after the wars... Just look at the map of Europe before ww1 and all you will see of kingdoms and empires which monarchies that were either abolished or heavily lost political power after.
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@QuizmasterLaw not unless they start to use left energy ot it would be energy wars.
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It's a sad thing really, central and Estate Europe. Mindsets somewhat split as you can imagine larger pro Russian groups but also the openness of trade, promise of peace and necessity for mass development pushed it towards dependence with the enemy who holds them under a choke hold. ... Take Slovakia. Already troubled by ridiculous politicians as it's been crawling from under an oligarchy for the past 30 years.... Industrial nation based on manufacturing and production. Pretty much all gas comes from Russia... So you can imagine the situation where investigated politicians use it with pro Russian ideas to gather the larger, louder minorities to gain power again... Using the economy, works as an argumentative sword.... It's a Shi* sho*.
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@haykhakobyan9488 worst advice ever. Like... That's literally the approach of the current state and it's what makes the Slovak population so easy to be swayed by miss information. Litters what is needed is to stop being a pink pink ball pushed between one side and the other and to actually take charge of Slovak affairs.
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@haykhakobyan9488 geez you are full misinformation... "100s of thousands of casualties" There were total of 24 thousand casualties in Ukraine. 9 thousand of that are deaths. The low casualties are mainly due to the strong military resistance which prevents the Russian army from fully reaching most of the population. Emigration, yes it's hight. But won't come back? That's also immaculate as the vast majority of Ukrainians do want to come back, and most do not have a permit for long term stay only for refugee purposes which ends with the wars end.... And yes, infrastructure is destroyed... And it will be more destroyed since Russia purposeful attacks it to make Ukraine give up. Yet, it's also rebuilt extremely fast there were whole towns erased and rebuilt already.... Usually better and more technologically advanced than the previous which can easily push Ukraine into an economic explosion growth when the war ends. And the war is not about doing Damage to Russia... It's about pushing Russia out of Ukraine. Not going into Russian territory. Which, actually Ukraine is managing and they caused a Hella lot of Damage to Russia long term. They showed the Russian military is a fraud, they made the Russian government show its incapability and almost insisted a military revolutionary coup from their own due to showing how incompetent the leadership is. Russia won't be able to survive as a federal state for too long.
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I wish they were both more liberal. No need for destruction tho... Hungary's new law is a joke because of how open to interpretation it is. But i don't think even libatal poland wouldn't be able to do lich ahowrt term wise If pola d went liberal, Slovakia would within few years. Slovaks have been gradually more and more liberal anyways due to Czechs. But really it the 3 slavs were to agree o something, the one Magyar would be outvoted that is for sure.
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@zuzudernegger9721 Precisely. East of Berlin and some Scandinavian nations, no nation had colonies and were occupied too. .... And that is A Lot more than 50% of Europe. Heck... Russian Europe makes almost half of Europe by land... So.. Far more than most of Europe.
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@stangota5187 Would not really call Hungary subject to Austria as they did start that way but then it turned into the dual kingdom. 😅 Plus you have nations that were syndicated under Hungary.
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