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  • AUS-97HORN
    AUS-97HORN

    For the love of Christ woman,  stop posting the same fucking thing every 20 mins just to make your neurotic self feel better.     Bring something useful to the thread other than your inane babbli

  • Im_smarter_then_you
    Im_smarter_then_you

  • InkaUtexas
    InkaUtexas

    I volunteered today. Log/Admin role to replace people for 30-60 days. The operation is in the west, or should the Orcs win will be pulled back behind the NATO wall. Either way the humanitarian effort

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#36352
1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

The upside is both of my kids, as 1/4 Latvian descendants of displaced persons are eligible for right of return citizenship and are working through the process of getting it. 

Same here - I got mine "restored" a few years ago and now also have an EU passport.  My kids should finish the process to get theirs as well shortly.

My grandfather was a "partisan" against the Nazi's in one of the Baltic countries after being in the army there as a lieutenant.  They were welcomed at first as they were seen as a counter to the pro-Bolshevik activities that were starting to take over the Baltics during the 30's.  That ended quickly when the Germans disbanded the army so many in the military left and went "underground". 

As the Russians  approached, he took the family and was able to get on a train westward.  Train got stopped in Poland and all males between 13 and 60 were pulled off the train and "escorted" to another train headed east to help fight the Russian advance.  He had told my grandmother to go to a town in Austria to wait for him (with my dad and sister).  He jumped off the eastbound train and it took him a year but he met up with them in Austria (where my aunt had died of pneumonia while waiting...) 

They had an uncle who had migrated in the 20's that then sponsored them as refugees in the US and he spent the Cold War sending money and books to his friends who got left behind the Iron Curtain...  My family cemetery there has headstones dating back to the 1600's with my last name on them (but the village and church were destroyed in the war - with most remaining relatives sent to die in Siberian gulags - and were never rebuilt and the land is part of a national park now).

Needless to say - fuck Russia!

#36353
23 minutes ago, Grimas said:

Same here - I got mine "restored" a few years ago and now also have an EU passport.  My kids should finish the process to get theirs as well shortly.

Yeah, that's a problem for me because of Jewish history. Supposedly, my great grandfather is from Portugal and met his wife in Ukraine and traveled to the US under an assumed name. Records suck and jews were in more like temporary villages rather than cities in eastern europe.

Hmm, good question that I should know the answer to. I was trying to get Portuguese citizenship and EU citizenship. Is Ukraine becoming a part of the EU? I could probably find my great grandmother's records (near Odessa) and it might even be straightforward. Maybe when Ukraine finally wins I can take care of it.

#36354

Irish here, and meet all the qualifications but no one has my Grandfather's real records. Had to get out of Ireland fastt when his father was arrested by the English for stealing their army horses. Changed his name and got out of Cork faster than I can drink a Guinness. 

#36355
18 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Yeah, that's a problem for me because of Jewish history. Supposedly, my great grandfather is from Portugal and met his wife in Ukraine and traveled to the US under an assumed name. Records suck and jews were in more like temporary villages rather than cities in eastern europe.

Hmm, good question that I should know the answer to. I was trying to get Portuguese citizenship and EU citizenship. Is Ukraine becoming a part of the EU? I could probably find my great grandmother's records (near Odessa) and it might even be straightforward. Maybe when Ukraine finally wins I can take care of it.

Not sure of the Ukraine rules (assuming the EU admits them eventually) and I think it's different in each EU country- in my case, restoration is based on if you can prove you had a relative who was a citizen before 1940 and it's good for 3 generations from them.  My dad was born there in 1941 but his birth wasn't "counted" and had to prove the relationship to his father.  My kids can get it and once they do, their kids will also get citizenship. 

Trying to get it done asap as EU citizenship opens up a ton of University opportunities (like free!) for EU citizens and wife and I can retire anywhere in the EU and full private medical is like $3000/year (as opposed to $3K a year here) and is an option for us until we can get on Medicare back here...

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#36356
13 minutes ago, Grimas said:

private medical is like $3000/year (as opposed to $3K a year here)

That sounds like kind of a wash.

 

 

Thanks for the info.

#36358
27 minutes ago, Bevo said:

That sounds like kind of a wash.

 

 

Thanks for the info.

Typo - $3k a month here

#36362
5 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Bring on the Vikings and Laplanders! Reindeer for all! 

Fuck yes! 

 

Hawley votes no.  He's just......perfect.

#36363
6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Hawley votes no.  He's just......perfect.

I did not bring that up here. Immamac scares me! Will mess up my tree fiddy..... 

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#36364
1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Immamac scares me!

Well then, you should probably run away.  Here's a photo demonstrating the proper technique:

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Oh come on, if we can't have fun with that, what good is living on this planet?  Funny is funny.

 

#36367
13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well then, you should probably run away.  Here's a photo demonstrating the proper technique:

220721-josh-hawley-2up-3x2-ac-1004p-2e41

 

 

Oh come on, if we can't have fun with that, what good is living on this planet?  Funny is funny.

 

And that is funny! Even better if someone can add him to the last video of all the Russians running away from the exploding train! 

#36368
33 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Bring on the Vikings and Laplanders! Reindeer for all! 

Fuck yes! 

 

 

#36369

My grandfather might have had the craziest right of return I’ve ever heard: he could prove his French Huguenot lineage back to an ancestor in Tidewater VA in the 1700s.  Technically he had right of return for French Citizenship due to the revocation of the Treaty of Nantes. He never gave a fuck.  Due to change in law in 1947, it died with him. 

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#36371
53 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

^Better translation of the video I posted earlier.

48 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Damn. So the olds are starting to get pissed. 

I read somewhere that they were pretty harsh on vets of Afghanistan, considering them to be losers or an embarrassment.  And screwed up vets were kept out of sight.

#36373

Ok Finland, time to donate some serious weapons to Ukraine, we know Sweden doesn’t have much but you do 

#36374
5 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

Ok Finland, time to donate some serious weapons to Ukraine, we know Sweden doesn’t have much but you do 

No. 
 

There are 500,000 errrr, 250,000 ughhh, 100,000 nope, 25 Russians are going to invade Finland any day now. 
Putins not kidding this time. 

#36375

Interesting thread.  Basically, Western Europe should be doing what they are doing, and even more here in 2022, because after 2014, they helped fund Russia (and by proxy its military) by continuing to buy resources, sell products (including military), and indulging rich Russian oligarchs.

Or TLDR: If Western Europe had acted in 2014 like they are now, then we wouldn't be in this situation.

 

#36376
Interesting thread.  Basically, Western Europe should be doing what they are doing, and even more here in 2022, because after 2014, they helped fund Russia (and by proxy its military) by continuing to buy resources, sell products (including military), and indulging rich Russian oligarchs.
Or TLDR: If Western Europe had acted in 2014 like they are now, then we wouldn't be in this situation.
 

Of all people, they should have known appeasement doesn’t work.
#36379
7 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


Of all people, they should have known appeasement doesn’t work.

Appeasement or making lots of money off of Russians, while saving on oil and gas?

#36381
11 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Appeasement or making lots of money off of Russians, while saving on oil and gas?

Well, the Germans in the post Cold War world have sorta carved out a niche of looking the other way all in the pursuit of unified worker-owner commerce. 

#36382
6 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Kind of? As with most things in the region, it’s complicated.  In the mid-1930s the Estonian government suspended most civil rights and elections and implemented authoritarian rule. Ironically, this was in response to a coup threat from an even more fashy “League of (Tsarist Army) Veterans”, who wanted the real deal. But it’s also important to know that you could be fascist-curious in that region in the 1930s and subscribe to authoritarian ideals but be far from the race-based, blood soaked vision of the Nazis.

 

By 1938, the last democracy standing in Central or Eastern Europe was Czechoslovakia.  All the others had succumbed to some form of authoritarian experimentation, partly driven by the neighborhood realities and partly by the fact that most of the world was far from settled on “fascism is bad.” 

I went back and looked it up, and the UNL guy was Latvia’s head of gov’t prewar, but I think it works out about the same

#36383
1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

My grandfather might have had the craziest right of return I’ve ever heard: he could prove his French Huguenot lineage back to an ancestor in Tidewater VA in the 1700s.  Technically he had right of return for French Citizenship due to the revocation of the Treaty of Nantes. He never gave a fuck.  Due to change in law in 1947, it died with him. 

Dis quoi? Didn't know about the Huguenot angle.

I'd have to dig up records on a French guy buried somewhere in Scotland in the 1600s. Prolly be faster just to join the Foreign Legion.

#36385
1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

Posted his original comment earlier, and found the video he was referencing.

 

If I were a 14-year-old Ukrainian, this is what I'd be doing all damn day.

Well, almost all day. 14. huhuhuhuuuuuu

#36387
2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

My grandfather might have had the craziest right of return I’ve ever heard: he could prove his French Huguenot lineage back to an ancestor in Tidewater VA in the 1700s.  Technically he had right of return for French Citizenship due to the revocation of the Treaty of Nantes. He never gave a fuck.  Due to change in law in 1947, it died with him. 

How about this? I was fucking born in Germany (to US parents), have a German birth certificate and still can’t get an EU work visa!

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#36388
2 minutes ago, statsman said:

How about this? I was fucking born in Germany (to US parents), have a German birth certificate and still can’t get an EU work visa!

They figured you'd be too busy becoming the US President.

#36390
4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Posted his original comment earlier, and found the video he was referencing.

 

I want him on my horseshoe or washers team 

#36391
4 hours ago, statsman said:

How about this? I was fucking born in Germany (to US parents), have a German birth certificate and still can’t get an EU work visa!

US Citizen, born in Thailand. US decided no dual citizenship for Americans. Pick one or the other. Thais made me an offer when I was 18. I said no, went to UT to meet Coeds and drink at the Posse East. I wonder about that decision. 

#36392
10 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Dis quoi? Didn't know about the Huguenot angle.

I'd have to dig up records on a French guy buried somewhere in Scotland in the 1600s. Prolly be faster just to join the Foreign Legion.

The 1947 law ended it for descendants.  It was use it or lose it. 

#36394
8 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

I want him on my horseshoe or washers team 

If we could get everyone on our professional cornhole circuit over to Ukraine, we could have that entire  country cleared out in about 2 weeks.

#36397

Russia's huge gas flare can be seen as far as Finland - the black carbon it creates is one of the reasons why northern regions are warming twice as fast as others

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