[scorpion9]

To be honest, I gave some weight to your comments before, based on your somewhat balanced view on Ukraine.

But this...standard bitter scapegoat claim "we are controlled by EU and EU is controlled by USA" shows that you are no different from the usual armchair conspiracy theorists. Do you have any way to back up your claims that US controls EU and through EU lets say France?
How. Give a list of orders sent to France and then a list of actions that show that France complied with those orders, against its will.

EU is not controlled by anyone. If anything, EU controls US to some extent. EU is the most useful and productive union ever created. It makes rules and laws that actually benefit the people and not the corporations. Good laws that have no chance of being passed in US, because lobbyists and corrupt senators will shoot down any ideas that go against the interests of mega-corporations, will pass regularly in EU. Major US companies are forced to change their production lines, product designs, packaging, and trade routes because EU said so.
EU is good thanks to its huge bureaucracy. Most stupid people complain about EU bureaucracy and fail to see that it is the safety net that makes the EU good. The bigger the bureaucracy, the harder it is to bribe the ministers. Even better, EU ministers rotate and change every few years, so, whatever progress lobbyists had with previous ministers, is undone after the rotation of power.
So, you didn't really answer my question. I asked if you would be happy if Serbia was approved to join the EU?
You said that living in a large union was better than being a small mouse. Well, EU is much bigger than Yugoslavia.
Also, a quick tip: I have lived half of my life in Estonia, before joining the EU, and half of my life after. I can tell you that every...single...thing has gotten better in Estonia, after joining the EU. From salaries, worker rights, and travel opportunities to environmental protection.

900 euros, yeah, that's why my dad lived days of his life and I can't.

Yes, and your dad consumed much less than people consume now. Things are much more complicated now. Take your car for example. The car you bought during the 70's-80's was much simpler than a modern car with all the bells and whistles. Your dad also lived in an era of more energy and fewer people. You can blame the reckless energy policies of major countries and overpopulation on that one. Since the 70's almost 4 Billion people have been added to the world population. All those people become consumers. They need space...housing...resources...fuel. What happens when consumption goes up and production doesn't keep up?
Prices go up. Things are gonna get worse since the world population is gona increase to 11 Billion and the existing billions of people will keep climbing the wealth ladder and will start to consume more and more.

Look, if everything is so good and dandy here come and let's live.

Why do you think everything is good and dandy there?
I never said that. I said things are better than they used to be.
You never lived in Yugoslavia. You don't know what it was like to live back then. What you have, are stories of old people, who have massive youth bias. Again, it's scientifically proven, and I've seen it in practice when talking to my own father. Thats why people turn more and more conservative, the older they get. They want their youth back. They want to go back to the "good old days" even if the good old days were shit.


One last thing, you keep complaining about "inequality" and how median salary isnt a good indicator because some people make much more and some less.

Yes...and that's a good thing. True equality is inequality. Someone who spends 5 years studying medicine is supposed to earn much more than someone who is content at sweeping the streets and slurping beer after a hard day of work.
It wouldn't be fair to give everyone the same income when some do much more than others. You just ignore the entire new prosperous layer of society, because you aren't in it.


PS: The problem in your country is politics. Politicians are Serbs...your people. The problem is your people. Dont blame US or the world on your shitty corrupt politics.
If you don't like how things are going...go change the politics. Protest, or join a party yourself. The old apathetic Russian approach to politics doesn't work anymore. You can't ignore politics and then complain when things go to shit.

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Originally Posted by RaNer ↗

One thing we are grateful about America tho' is when woman come to have vacation so we have sex with wild American girls. They are great in sex and they always tell us how money can't replace good dick, lean figure, clear sea and superb food. So I guess we at least got that

You talk way, way too much. Check what thread you're in, you're not in the WC.

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by RaNer ↗

btw. "Yugoslavia was the fastest growing socialist economy in the post-WWII era (Sapir, 1980). In fact, it was one of the fastest growing countries in Europe during the 1950s and the 1960s (Balassa and Bertrand, 1970). Socialism is mostly associated with central planning."

Yugoslavia on it's lowest point (1991): $120.1 billion GDP.

Croatia on it's highest point (aka now, as you said we are way richer now): $71.490 billion GDP.

Also these numbers means nothing if you don't spread them equally. Yugoslavia was way more equal when it comes to spreading wealth. I gave you few examples, they get ignored. As always in cancel culture - just ignore what does not suit you.

Fuck I'm starting to sound like anglo-saxon :D

We will never ever have opportunities like our parents did. Never. Until we take this land into our own hands.

no one gives a flying fuck about that as this is a Russia/Ukraine War Mobilization, Protests & Sabotage Media III so quit it.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by RaNer ↗

One thing we are grateful about America tho' is when woman come to have vacation so we have sex with wild American girls. They are great in sex and they always tell us how money can't replace good dick, lean figure, clear sea and superb food. So I guess we at least got that

Calm down Rico Slavic.

Its the hormones that make them wild, not the country they come from. Sex/procreation is one of the biggest inherent, ingrained traits of all living things on the planet.

Some women are whores, but so are many, many men.

[RaNer]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

Calm down Rico Slavic.

Its the hormones that make them wild, not the country they come from. Sex/procreation is one of the biggest inherent, ingrained traits of all living things on the planet.

Some women are whores, but so are many, many men.

But I don't blame them ... woman and men have same rights and if they want that that's okay.

Also men come here but they don't enjoy woman but outdoors, drinking, doing drugs, getting stuff for cheap and that's okay.

But no need for violence or "übermensch" behavior. World is global village today.

[WonderMomma]

Never mind.

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Originally Posted by RaNer ↗

But I don't blame them ... woman and men have same rights and if they want that that's okay.

Also men come here but they don't enjoy woman but outdoors, drinking, doing drugs, getting stuff for cheap and that's okay.

But no need for violence or "übermensch" behavior. World is global village today.

Raner it's time for you to stop talking. If you want to wax and wane like a teenager about something that has absolutely nothing to do with the war, you can do it elsewhere. This is not the thread

[ljubodrag]

UA soldier.

I couldn't watch it till the end. I don't have problem with gore, but when I see grown men cry... I just can't.

[WonderMomma]

"The captured occupier admitted that the command forced to scatter petal mines in the residential areas of the occupied Donetsk in order to blame the Armed Forces of Ukraine"

[WonderMomma]

A huge gas pipeline explosion has occurred in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia.