>>724267
Tito would never post this, he's too busy... being gay or something. IDFK. I saw his villa, it was impressive

#smartai how much IMF money did Tito take

Josip Broz Tito, the former leader of Yugoslavia, did not personally take funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, during his leadership (1945–1980), Yugoslavia borrowed money from international financial institutions, including the IMF.

### **Key Points on Yugoslavia’s IMF Loans Under Tito:**
1. **Post-WWII & Non-Aligned Policy** – After World War II and its split with Stalin in 1948, Yugoslavia sought economic assistance from Western nations while maintaining a non-aligned stance.
2. **First Major IMF Loan (1949)** – The country received an initial $3 million loan to stabilize its economy after breaking away from Soviet influence.
3. **1960s-1970s Borrowing** – As part of market-oriented reforms ("socialist self-management"), Yugoslavia took multiple loans:
- In 1965: A stabilization program led to increased borrowing (~$75 million).
- By the late 1970s: External debt grew significantly due to infrastructure projects and trade deficits.

4. **Total Debt by Tito’s Death (1980)**
While exact figures vary:
- Total Yugoslav foreign debt reached ~$20 billion by 1981 (post-Tito era).
- Much of this came from commercial banks and Western creditors—not just IMF loans specifically.

### **Misconceptions Clarified:**
- *"Tito taking money"* is misleading—funding went to state programs rather than personal enrichment.
- The real crisis emerged *after* his death when mismanagement and global recessions made repayment unsustainable.

Would you like deeper analysis on specific loan terms or how these debts affected later Balkan conflicts? how much IMF money did Tito take

He was a little slut for IMF loans

>>724271
hmm?

#smartai How true is the apocrypha about Stalin having a letter from Tito saying he would not have to send another assassin?

The apocryphal story you refer to—purportedly involving a letter from Josip Broz Tito to Joseph Stalin, in which Tito allegedly boasted that Stalin would not need to send another assassin after the failure of previous attempts—remains historically unverified. While Soviet-Yugoslav relations were notoriously hostile following the 1948 Tito-Stalin split, leading to multiple assassination plots against Tito by Soviet intelligence (NKVD and later MGB), no definitive archival evidence has surfaced confirming such a direct written exchange.

Stalin’s paranoia and penchant for eliminating political adversaries are well-documented; Beria’s NKVD orchestrated numerous assassinations abroad, including Trotsky’s murder in 1940. Yugoslav sources claim at least four failed Soviet-backed attempts on Tito's life between 1949-1953. However, the supposed letter containing Tito’s defiant message ("Stop sending people to kill me… If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second") appears primarily in memoirs (e.g., Milovan Djilas' *Conversations with Stalin*) rather than state archives.

Scholars like Geoffrey Roberts (in *Stalin's Wars*) treat it as plausible but uncorroborated anecdote given Stalin's known methods and the tit-for-tat nature of Cold War brinkmanship. Until Kremlin or Serbian archives yield conclusive proof, this remains an evocative but speculative episode in Cold War lore—illustrative of tensions yet lacking documentary substantiation beyond retrospective accounts. How true is the apocrypha about Stalin having a letter from Tito saying he would not have to send another assassin?

I one time called into a tankie debatelords show and got into a protracted argument with him about the US's ability to work with socialist states

It was essentially because alot of Stalinist era propaganda hinged on the idea that there was always an intractable animosity between the West and socialism, but then I am like... literally the American Relief Administration under request from Lenin himself showed up in Russia to give out like milllions of dollars worth of aid and more or less stabilized the newly created USSR. I mean yes, this was done by Hoover to flex on the marxists, but still. And then I moved into the fact that the US worked very closely with the Yugoslavians and consistently assisted them in the UN and militarily as a counterbalance to the Soviets

>>724280
I'm just imagining some nerd on the other line:

#ai generate text simulating a smug liberal owning an IDIOT tankie on a call-in show

**caller:** "so you liberals whine about 'authoritarianism' but can’t even admit that venezuela is a prosperous socialist democracy!"

**host:** "oh wow, you checked the chavez fan account on twitter and now you’re an expert. tell me, how many toilet paper factories did the revolution seize this week? has the ghost of stalin finally granted them the technology to print non-inflatable currency?"

**caller:** "it’s western sanctions! you’re ignoring material conditions—"

**host:** "yeah, those horrific sanctions forcing their government to print so much money they use bolívars as napkins. real bigbrain ideology that just *’accidentally’* ends with another starving populace worshiping a guy born on third base who thinks he hit a triple. tell me, when’s the last time you volunteered to live in the uber-successful socialist paradise you simp for?"

**caller:** "uh, well, the dialectic—"

**host:** "*braaaaaap* wrong. try ‘i dodged the question because my grand political theory collapses the second i touch grass.’ next caller."

*(mic cut sound)* generate text simulating a smug liberal owning an IDIOT tankie on a call-in show

#change make it more whiny

>>724287
That's based

Rentoids out

>>724293
hmm

I actually had a suspicion that you were skulking around

There was someone else on earlier with a weird name that reminded me of your CHEATING LICHESS account name

Yeah

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>>724317
You need to do it cutie

>only as a form, a shadow, if you will

me and my pet shadow creature

I like these obviously faked videos

>It's not Josh, it's not Tim, it must be a ghost...

lmao

>>724331
friend of mine likes to watch these shitty ghost videos with me, we love this subgenre of latin-american cryptid hunting videos where they look for Duendes

>>724335
lmao

.play three might be duende

Yeah, you should definitely try to just unwind, listen to some music, lay back, kick your feet up

How much sleep have you been getting?

You get uh... stress related psychosis and it's likely you've been riding your body and mind a bit too hard

It's a good idea to just zone out hard

watch some total dogshit slop on TV, put on some chill sounds, you know, just like veg

And you can talk to us about whatev you desire

Executive dysfunction, I get it sometimes too with uh... OCD so it makes it legitimately terrifying to even check my phone

You gotta push urself a lil sometimes though when you get struck by it

This is more like uh... this isn't setting boundaries or trying to unplug, this is like... overwhelming sense of dread at even looking at your messages

It's more symptomatic of OCD it's not like uh that

>>724384
Same with me

I have uh... standalone OCD, for a while they were hitting me with everything from BPD to some kinda antisocial thing, but it was pretty clearly OCD with the pica and the compulsive behavior

>>724392
You get stress related psychosis that causes this sort of experience

>>724398
enigmas like us never age

https://vxtwitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1947714144628601011

omfg

>>724410
lol

>>724423
Am I sweet... I know I'm not as sweet as saeki though, that's like... not possible

>>724435
THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!

My name is fairly close to carl though

It's like... add one other letter, switch the letters around

You get my name

It's like if someone with very severe dyslexia read my name

>>724447
My name isn't that effeminate, but it is a neutral name

>>724452
EXSQUEEZE ME

>>724454
Try as you must, all it does is make my (redacted) estrogenized so that it feminizes you if you swallow

Don't call the cat pathetic and stupid, he's not pathetic and stupid he's sigma as fuck and based and also redpilled

>>724489
#edit change "the cat" to "Alberto Barbossa"

I have been with my husband since we were in college (a little over a decade altogether) and in that time I've never question his honesty/loyalty to me or our relationship. So when he insisted on naming our son "Alberto" after a man who saved him from drowning when he was a kid, I thought it a little strange but nonetheless went with it.

My last name (which he took) is Barbosa, owing to my Portugese heritage. I've since found out that "Alberto Barbosa" is a kind of "meme name" on the internet sites he frequents. I found out after discovering a folder called "Alberto Barbosa" on his work laptop, filled with what seemed like hundreds of pictures of an African man with a kind of Portuguese themed turban. Reverse image searching one of these bizare images is how I found out the name's true meaning.

Since this discovery, I feel increasingly paranoid that the only reason he ever took my name in the first place was because of this stupid meme. We only got married early last year, after/around the time this meme seems to have been created. Before this I had always assumed I would just take his name, until he said he wanted to take mine (an act I was actually touched by and found very sweet, ugh...)

This entire ordeal has me so mad. On the one hand it's just a name, but on the other he went behind my back to name our first born son over a stupid bloody internet meme. What's worse is that he refuses to have our son's name changed and insists it's just a coincidence, which is a load of bullshit considering the amount of images he had saved of this. He refuses to acknowledge this as a serious problem and I am so furious with him, but ultimately feel powerless given he provides for me and our newborn.

Sorry for rambling on a bit, I just needed to get this ridiculous and infuriating issue off my chest as I'm too ashamed to tell my friends and family of his actions.

>>724513

>>724515

>>724516
caaaaaaarllll

>>724518
What did you just call me!

>>724520
What could he possibly be doing

>>724521
This is SO true, thank you anon, glad that someone here still has their wits about them!

Carl is a cute enough name

>>724527
That's not my name!!!

It is somewhat close though

Alright

Should I drink Gin tonight

I feel like I need to turn in early

It's 1 am here

>>724536
NO!!!

#smartai what's my name

I'm afraid I don't have access to personal information about you, including your name. If you'd like me to refer to you by a specific name or title in our conversation, feel free to let me know—I'll be happy to accommodate!

Alternatively, if this is a philosophical inquiry into identity and self-awareness (à la *"Who am I?"*), we could delve into theories of consciousness, nominalism vs. realism regarding names, or even Wittgenstein's language games. Let me know how deep you'd like the rabbit hole to go! what's my name

I feel like Percy is a cute name

God I feel like I have the bara pecs

>>724554
No it's not Carl, Carl is fairly close, but me and strawgirl were playing zomboid so she called me Carl from the hit show, the walking dead, and I called her rick, from the hit show Rick And Morty

Says my birth certificate

It's a short C name with very similar letters

You prob wouldn't guess it

It's a common name, but it's still an unusual one

Fingering my shitty chinese shotgun

>>724563
That's not my name either! I'm not hispanic

Nope

Like I said, you aren't going to guess it, but you are going to be like "damn that is close"

STRAW GIRL

>>724583
Nothing dear

My fingers are all oily now

I'm just going to let you guess and mull it over

Oily from like... shotgun oil

Tan from being outside

I am pale as fuck

normally

>>724602
Yes

>>724599
colin? IDFK

calvin?

>>724615
same

You will NEVER know

I had a friend named Kelvin who was asian, I like do not like that name

I do like my own name

>>724614
Actually maybe he was a bit, but he was kinda like a chubby asian guy

my name is cool

Let it be known that if you did get it right, I prob wouldn't tell you

Welll... maybe

I do like maintaining *some* mystery, so I don't mind the guessing

>>724633
Always

>>724637
More like if you got it right, I would still want a list of names in there for plausible deniability

And by that I mean, at one point you did guess it lol

>>724639
I got slimed out behind a circle k at 3 am and here's what happened

Alright on a related note

Oh my GOD

I was so scared I was going to lose my apartment because I didn't realize the lease comes to an end this month

Luckily I am good

Alright Chat

Opinions on the Ultra 87

>>724655
What

It's a 90 dollar shotgun...

It's like... not overrated

It's a piece of shit gun lol