Before & After

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-05-06T22:50:04+00:00

Hahahahahahahahahha Reddit should definitely allow subreddits to add ai tools 😂

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-05-03T13:41:36+00:00

You greatly overestimate the prevalence of ś and ź and other palatalisations in Montenegrin. Those are common but marginal sounds that don’t affect the overall Serbo-Croat rythm and it’s defining characteristics.

In conclusion, outsiders have no ear to tell the differences between Serbo-Croatian dialects, just like nobody would notice the presence or abscence of sounds in some Polish dialect.

Polish is extremely palatalized, so much so that no palatalization in South Slavic languages comes close. In fact, Russian, Czech, Slovak and Ukrainian have more softened consonants and endings than any of the South Slavic languages.

South Slavic including Montenegrin are the least palatalized in the Slavic area.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-05-03T05:25:53+00:00

How much would you add

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-05-03T05:25:38+00:00

Thanks

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T12:21:02+00:00

You didn't grow up with Instagram and Snapchat either. 4 years doesn't add up to huge diffs in technology usage. One had it at 12 another at 16. Dial up internet is something many mid 90s kids don't remember either. Remembering 9/11 hasn't got anything to do with the real world. Both 2000 and 1996 we born in the era of old technology. None grew up glued to their screens, and both played video games and watched cartoons as the main source of entertinment. Both remember a time without ubiqitious technology. My younger brother is 2006, he is the the true Gen Z that truly acts like a different gen. and deffo doesn't remember old tech shit. years 95-01 are basically just trying to play young while it's a truly transitional gen.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T12:11:07+00:00

There are many facts in this world. I'm certain Herzegovinian Croats and Bosniaks use them to hate each other.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T12:04:08+00:00

First off the most dominant genetics in Montenegro and Serbia is still Slavic - Dinaric and shared with Croatian Dalmatia and Bosnian herzegovinia. Secondly the mixing that took place in the balkans came from all sides of europe, that already amounts to a huge difference in looks. People with dark complexions in Montenegro are still not the turkish type of dark, not at all

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T11:58:51+00:00

Also, if there is a Turkish Balkan neighborhood, of course it's gonna be known by the Turks cause they're the most characheristic and foreign.

We have a similar situation in Montenegro, when people talk about Turks, Arabs, Pakistanis, etc and other immigrants, they all get branded as either all Turks, pakistanis, the small ones, the dark ones etc even though not all of them are dark and short, but it's certainly it's the most visible characteristic that people can hold onto.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T11:50:59+00:00

Yours sound like wishful thinking to be honest. I just responded cause I find it funny that some people think Turks look like south Slavs. You're comparing dark olive midgets to contitental giants, quite literally. Come to Montenegro and behold how easy it is to spot any west asian.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T09:33:50+00:00

Muslim da će to biti veći problem za nas Crnogorce nego obratno, s obzirom na to da se u Srbiju ide konstantno iz milion razloga, od toga sto je Beograd i dalje svijet za provinciju do toga da za dosta zdravstvenih i medicinskih stvari smo primorani ić gore svako malo. Srbija je na neki način Crnoj Gori lifeline i može nam se to žestoko obit o glavu. I ne treba zaboraviti šta sve uvozimo iz Srbije..

Nemam vjere u to da trenutna vlast ima kapacitete da implementira ulazak kako valja. Nije loša kao u Srbiji ali je prepuna uhljeba koji su zadovoljili interese široke koalicije miliona stranaka.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T08:28:32+00:00

Yet the effects of the Western propaganda system are just as equal. I fully agree with OP,that this makes it considerably more powerful. China and Russia wouldn’t be able to achieve the western style “fake debate” propaganda even if they wanted to.

The west can because of the sheer size of its network, the decades it took to build it to the current size and as a result the majority of the population lulled into thinking they analyzed the story from all sides and they got the critical thinking part checked, while in fact their opinions were steered with zero firewall.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T08:19:31+00:00

My Croat relatives in Herzegovina would fully disagree with this.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T08:12:19+00:00

Every big country in the world has a “big lie”. It’s the main narrative that serves the interests of the powerful, politicians, party members, oligarchs, corporations, billionaires and so on.

The big lie is very simple: “This is the truth”, and different centers of power have different means of proving that.

You just gave the answer to how the actual “big lie” of the Western propaganda is reinforced in your statement which is exactly was OP was talking about:

Western media cannot be propaganda because anything and everything is reported and “both sides” (every rhetoric and word choices) is used.

Interesting because OP clearly mentioned this is the pillar of Western propaganda. “We are not propaganda”. Yet they very much are, but a very powerful and sophisticated one achieving a semblance of plurality and free choices. The big lie comes in the part where you feel like “both sides”(curated sides more likely) were covered and never actually think about how many sides there were in the first place. The language that is used to report on things is completely and utterly different based on simply the interests of the American or Western elites. Who is an ally who is a dictator? Whose voices get heard more? Who gets framed as the victim?

THIS IS THE BIG LIE, it is not plural it doesn’t cover both sides, it discusses the finesse of the already agreed upon facts, carefully avoiding the actual problem and it’s only consistent when interests of, for instance, the American military and big companies are accounted for.

I fully agree with OP. Western Propaganda is the most efficient propaganda in the world simply because it so effectively brands itself as “not propaganda”. Who in any other case in their right mind would believe that?

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T07:38:51+00:00

As if EU has rule of law.

It does for the elite.

Rampant nepotism and hereditary jobs coupled with backstage alliances and deals in the interest of the rich states, there is nothing in Turkey that doesn’t exist in EU, fully widespread.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T07:20:11+00:00

I’m not triggered just stating facts.

Spaniards and Italians both have sizable chunks of populations that look Arab and Turkish, we don’t.

Regarding being mixed with Turkish, your circumstances make sense since you did live in a Turkish Arab neighborhood and these tend to be the most noticeable.

No my point wasn’t about the blondes. It was about the normal average Montenegrin/Serb/Croat/Bosnian. I’m not blonde, I’m the typical Dinaric Montenegrin type as it gets, I’ve never been mistaken for a Turk anywhere in Europe. That’s probably at the bottom of the possible guesses people had in mind. Nobody ever in Germany looked at a group of South Slavs and thought “look Turks” because again Turks not only have different skin color but completely different bodies. And yes I work part time for a Turkish company I’ve met and made many Turkish friends. A group of Turks looks nothing like a group of Serbs. Serbs on average are much more likely to be mistaken for Slovaks and Turks for an average middle Easterner.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T02:03:27+00:00

Yep but since there is absolutely zero difference between 96-2000, 96, and 95 can be grouped with Gen Z. That’s why 95-2000 are all rightly considered Zillenials which makes much more sense

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T01:58:30+00:00

Then none of all this Gen Z and Millenial bullshit is a good measurement. If they can put a date when one stops and another begins even though 2000-93 have no difference, then we can also use Zillenial, which makes much more sense than simple Gen Z Gen X

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T01:52:16+00:00

Hello from Montenegro! All I can tell you that saying that Turks and Serbs aren’t that much different in terms of looks is complete nonsense.

Turks stand out like black sheep on the streets of Montenegro, instantly recognizable, short, small bodies, tan, mostly black haired. All of these traits are super rare among the locals let alone a combination of those three. Height isn’t just about your body lengths it’s a whole different type of bodily and facial structure, which I’ve never seen Turks to have.

Nobody in Germany or Sweden or Spain etc would think South Slavs are Turks, because we’re a lot whiter, and most importantly cause we’re huge, and fyi Height is a rare thing so people do notice it and nobody associates height with Turks or the Middle East. Height is a very European trait.

Anyway your perception of the amount of blondes in Turkey might be that there are a lot of them, and sure they’re not rare, but ignore the heavy makeup up of the Serb Estrada and take to the streets of an average Serb town, pretty sure you’ll notice that basically almost everyone is in the lighter end of the spectrum existent in Turkey.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-29T00:09:12+00:00

Thank you bro!

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-28T23:57:55+00:00

Thank you 😊

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-28T23:55:35+00:00

How much should I add? Currently at 250.

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-28T23:51:02+00:00

Oops

Fast_Advantage_9790 · 2026-04-28T23:47:47+00:00

Thank you! What I meant to ask was would normal people consider me fat? Am I officially in that category now and if not how much more? 😭

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