Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Orange is the new Z" video.

@The0spetsnaz0 A mythical past and/or an unattainable fantasy future, right? Often a return to a wonderful past that never existed, or a harmonious future paradise that ignores human nature. I liked Ronnie Reagan’s slogan “Make America Great”, because it was optimistic and forward looking. It was a call for improvement. We have come a long way, but we still have further to go. The slogan “Make America Great Again” is really kind of chilling and sickening to me.
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It’s something we should always keep in mind whenever we think we need to use force or threat of violence to further agendas, policies, or interests. Years ago in my bad old days, I had to appear in court for being involved in a fight. It dawned on me during the proceedings that I was the bad guy in this case. I think the judge, the city attorney, and the victim actually saw the change in my face, and I got treated leniently at the end of the day. I really was remorseful because even if I didn’t swing first, I really did provoke the fight. Maybe the other guy shared responsibility, but that was on him to figure out. I can only take care of my own mistakes and shortcomings. Why am I telling you this? I guess because I can’t be a better person if I cling to the idea that I’m always right and justified. And I learned from this relatively minor incident to ask myself the question, “Am I in the wrong?” before it escalates. However, I don’t know if this type of thinking even applies to moral monsters like Putin. They don’t really think in terms of good or bad. To them, bad is anyone or anything in their way. Truth is what they say it is, and lies are anything that contradicts the story they tell themselves. And they think everyone thinks like them, or are dumb not to think like them.
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@Мойевропейскийжидобандеровский Yes. Even those that didn’t vote for him. And get this: even those Germans who were too young or who were born after must bear the stain of Hitler. The Germans have done a pretty good job on the whole of facing their past and attempting to make amends. I wish that we in America could do a better job of confronting the sins of our past, but we seem to have a large contingent that wants to return to them.
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I think you can gauge how democratic a people are by how much they allow dissent, criticism, and questioning. We still have real problems in the U.S., and strong anti-democratic currents. We are still a helluva lot better off than Russia, where dissent will get you 15 years in prison or even murdered.
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Are you pro-tiger?
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Mearshimer uses the outlandish example of Mexico because the obvious real world example doesn’t support his claim. Cuba was closely aligned with the USSR, and the U.S. did not invade it. We can get into other misconceptions you might have about the U.S. and Cuba, but the bottom line is that the U.S. has lived peacefully with an unfriendly neighbor for over 60 years. We didn’t bomb it. We didn’t bombard it from naval batteries. The Marines didn’t invade it, nor did paratroopers land at the Havana airport. Mearshimer is full of crap. Putin might have mentioned to Clinton (a lame duck President in his last six months of office) the idea of Russia joining NATO, but he NEVER asked NATO to join. If he had any real desire to do so, why didn’t he ask George W. Bush? If you like distorted and revisionist history, you’ll love John Mearsheimer.
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@Sun-ei4gi “clock [his] watch”? You stop it right this minute.
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That and the fake moon landing sketch are the greatest comedy those two ever did, and they have done a lot of great work. “That would be one thing if we were fighting people marching under the banner of a rat’s anus, but we’re not.” Or “Pirates are fun!”
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Do you even know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was? Do you know how it was resolved? Here is the shortest version that maintains accuracy: the U.S. put nuclear missiles in Turkey. In retaliation, the Soviet Union began putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. After a very dangerous stand off, the Soviets removed the missiles from Cuba and the U.S. removed the missiles from Turkey. As far as engaging in weird hypotheticals, you’re already ignorant of Mexico’s relationship with the U.S. You seem to be ignorant of the fact that Mexico is not a compliant ally of the U.S. and never has been. Just the same, your hypothetical is absurd and useless when you already have a perfectly good example which you yourself mentioned. Cuba. Cuba is a very close neighbor of the U.S., slightly more than 100 miles from Florida. Despite Cuba becoming a communist country and aligning with the Soviet Union, the U.S. never invaded Cuba. It never attacked Cuba. The last military action the U.S. saw in Cuba was the Spanish American War, in which U.S. forces fought WITH Cuba against Spain for Cuban independence. The U.S. has had very unfriendly relations with Cuba since Fidel Castro deposed Bautista in 1959 (actually more like since 1960, when Fidel fully embraced the USSR as its patron), but they’ve been peaceful. So there you have it. The U.S. has had an enemy on its doorstep for over 60 years now and has never invaded it. If you want to bring up the Bay of Pigs, make sure you mentioned who actually invaded. Answer: Cubans, not the U.S. military.
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@EireHammer LOL, what sort of revisionist crap are you peddling? Partition Poland much?
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@EireHammer Oh, t’were it so simple. After WWII and in the West, the military histories of the Eastern Front aka the Great Patriotic War was written by . . . [drumroll] . . . German generals. The Kremlin denied historians from the democracies access to its archives, to participants and carefully controlled their narrative of the war. Historians in the west had to rely on German sources, and some of the most prominent of the surviving German generals wrote memoirs. It wasn’t until the fall of the Soviet Union that historians gained access to the archives. Oh, and funny thing has happened under Putin. Access to the archives has been cut off again.
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It’s one of those things that operates on multiple levels, right down to our personal interactions. And it takes humility to admit when we are wrong, either personally, as a country, and everything in between. However, the biblical admonition “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” doesn’t mean we should allow stone throwers to run amok!
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@RaptorJesus and it’s not like Mexico is a compliant ally of the U.S. If you follow U.S.-Mexico relations, you’d know that there is constant low level friction even with Mexican Presidents that are very friendly to the U.S. The Mexicans are very jealous of their sovereignty, and they respond in kind if/when there are diplomatic slights. That said, the relationship is mostly very friendly because of shared interests and because our economies are entwined. It doesn’t hurt that the second biggest Mexican city (by number of Mexicans) is Los Angeles, California.
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When they realize they’re marching under the banner of a rat’s anus.
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What about the Netherlands? They’re also really big on Orange. They even named one of their historical figures William of Orange. What’s with this Orange craze?
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Can you name a decade that didn’t see the release of war movies? Was there a decade with significantly fewer war movies than the 2000s? Maybe you were noticing war movies more, but I don’t think you have any proof that there were more war movies in that decade, or that WWII movies were designed to promote the Great War on Terror. Maybe you’re thinking of the TV series Band of Brothers, which came out in 2001? Yes, September 9th, 2001. See, Tom Hanks, the executive producer new about the attack on the WTC ahead of time, and created the show to help shape opinion before the attacks occurred. Sure. That’s the ticket. Have you met my wife . . . . Morgan Fairchild?
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A Putzi.
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Zorro Zorro Zorro, The fox so complicated and meta, Zorro Zorro Zorro, he makes the sign of the Zeta. There, fixed. 😉
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What a crock of shite.
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That’s a stretch, but I do agree that Putin has a streak of Naziism in him a mile wide. That’s why I call his followers “Putzis”. You see someone glorifying the Russian military and their invasion of Ukraine, they’re probably a Putzi.
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@briangasser973 How do you think Halloween lovers feel?
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The Japanese sure have a deep and abiding love for Italian food. I love Italian food, too, but I wouldn’t invade another country under the banner of a meatball.
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We don’t do big parades with tanks and missile trucks in the U.S., either. Only one U.S. politician in recent memory wanted that sort of thing, although it’s unclear if he had a hard on for military equipment or a boner for Putin. Anyway, he really really wanted a big military parade and almost got one. Before you say “obviously Putin”, let me point out that this politician said he knew what Vietnam was like because he had gotten sexually transmitted diseases. He definitely has some association with war and sex.
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You seem to have difficulty coping. Do you need someone to talk to?
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