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Fredster

@asteroidsfred

Retired Automotive Engineer. Army Vet, Husband, Father, Grandpa. 3D print and paint enthusiast. Love my Dogs and Country! No DMs, they will be deleted unread

Tennessee, USA 가입일 Mayıs 2016
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Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·
A pet historical peeve of mine is when archers are ordered to "fire" before they shoot. Before gunpowder, that term made no sense. You would have ordered archers to "loose" or possibly "shoot". Also usually a group of archers didn't fire in a synchronized attack all together. Volley fire was developed for gunpowder infantry, to maximize the noise and make sure the enemy was close enough and grouped enough for that first shot to count. There were times when you wanted your archers to shoot all together, but you wouldn't have each shot be an organized volley. If you did it at all it would just be the first (or the last) shot. Anyway bowmen don't "fire".
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Fredster
Fredster@asteroidsfred·
@harmonic_shift @DanielBordmanOG What are you talking about you windows licking idiot? The post was about Kash Patel, and you make it about jooz? The left have been attacking Patel, who is as far from a Jew as you can get unless you are a Shia, that there is. Nobody buys this "Jews are running the world" BS
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Harmonic Shift
Harmonic Shift@harmonic_shift·
Says the retard. Jews are a genocidal people. Look at what they’re doing in the Middle East to the Palestinians. They own both sides of politics. They want you to die so they can steal your stuff. They want you to die fighting their war. They want a population they can enslave easier.
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Daniel Bordman
Daniel Bordman@DanielBordmanOG·
This is probably the most remarkable achievement ever from an FBI director. A middle aged Indian man, who likes to drink and have a bit of fun with NHL player and UFC, had his entire communications leaked and not only came out clean but what did leak actually makes him look naturally cool. The odds of this ever happening again are 0.0000000000001%
International Cyber Digest@IntCyberDigest

🚨‼️ BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel's Gmail account was hacked by Iranian nation-state hackers. They have published his entire inbox, including mails on his home in India, private life, personal data, business dealings and travel history (Havana, Cuba!).

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Fredster
Fredster@asteroidsfred·
@AntiLeftMemes I would ask, did he have any relatives that are still here?
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Anti Left Memes
Anti Left Memes@AntiLeftMemes·
“I have a quick question for anyone who voted for DONALD TRUMP." "What are you gonna tell your child when they come home from school crying because their best friend was just taken out of their classroom by an IMMIGRATION AGENT?"
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Fredster@asteroidsfred·
@MS2PZ If they don't have brown eyes, how can they be black?
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Lisa
Lisa@MS2PZ·
Be honest do you find black girls attractive?
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Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺
Liberta Cherguia 🇪🇺@MbarkCherguia·
This is your friend's child in your house and his mother says"leave him,he will cry if you stop him". What will you do?
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Fredster@asteroidsfred·
@RealAshlar They did. About 700,000 white people died in a war to free them.
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Ashlar@RealAshlar·
What’s your response to this person ??
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Harmonic Shift
Harmonic Shift@harmonic_shift·
@DanielBordmanOG Thanks for admitting he’s an Indian and therefore not American. It’s already a failed state that an Indian is running the FBI you retard.
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Fredster
Fredster@asteroidsfred·
@morechaosp25099 @goji175 @disparutoo That depends on the parents and how they raise their kids as the OP is pointing out, right? Abdicating is not a solution. It just means you can't deal with real life. I have 3 kids and 3 grand kids. They are doing just fine because I taught them how to deal with problems
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Disparu
Disparu@disparutoo·
The boomer attitude that resulted in hating your own kids is bizarre. Gone are the days of wanting to leave the world in a better place than you found it so that your kids live a better life than you did. If you can't comprehend anything except yourself, why would you care.
keeno ✧@ayekeeno

Will Ferrell says he doesn’t buy ANYTHING for his kids, saying when they travel as a family he flies first class and makes them sit in economy on a whole different airline 😭😂 “they gotta earn it… they just gotta figure it out, I had to”

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Sadie
Sadie@Sadie_NC·
Hmmm?? 🤔🤔
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Rooster@todd20006·
@CENTCOM When was Iran a threat to US soil
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U.S. Central Command
For decades, Iranian naval vessels have threatened and harassed global shipping in regional waters, but those days are over.
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NWRain-Judi@RYboating·
U.S. Unleashes Uncrewed Sea-Drone Speedboats Against Iran — A New Era in Naval Warfare These are cool! They can be used to find mines, submarines and do surveillance/reconnaissance missions. As a person who spent most of her adult life working in the boating/marine industry, I really find this interesting. From the article: The United States has for the first time deployed autonomous, uncrewed drone speedboats in active combat operations against Iran, introducing a low-cost, asymmetric naval capability that officials say has already logged hundreds of hours patrolling key waterways under Operation Epic Fury. “U.S. forces continue to employ unmanned systems in the Middle East region, including surface drone assets like the GARC,” Hawkins told the outlet, adding that the platform has “successfully logged over 450 underway hours and more than 2,200 nautical miles during maritime patrols in support of Operation Epic Fury.” The deployment marks the first acknowledged use of uncrewed surface vessels by the United States in an active conflict, underscoring a broader shift toward autonomous systems designed to operate at a fraction of the cost of traditional naval platforms while expanding surveillance and strike capabilities. The vessels, built by Maryland-based BlackSea Technologies, are designed for intelligence, surveillance, and , but can also support mine countermeasures, communications relay, anti-submarine warfare, and the deployment of aerial and underwater drones. Each craft can reach speeds exceeding 40 knots and carry payloads of up to 1,000 pounds, according to manufacturer specifications, offering a flexible platform capable of supporting a wide range of maritime operations at an estimated cost of roughly $250,000 per vessel — a fraction of the roughly $2 billion price tag of a U.S. Navy destroyer. Officials have not indicated that the drone boats have been used in offensive strike roles, though their design allows for adaptation into expendable, one-way attack systems increasingly seen in modern conflicts. The Navy has maintained a growing unmanned presence in the region for years, including through its Bahrain-based Task Force 59 under the U.S. Fifth Fleet, which focuses on integrating autonomous platforms and artificial intelligence into maritime operations. The use of such systems comes as the United States and its allies confront Iran’s escalating campaign against commercial shipping in and around the Strait of Hormuz, where Tehran has effectively choked off normal traffic through missile attacks, drone strikes, and explicit threats against ships tied to countries it considers aligned with the United States and Israel. While U.S. naval forces have long operated unmanned systems in the region, the GARC deployment marks the first acknowledged use of this class of uncrewed surface vessel in an active conflict. Link to article/video in comments
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Fredster
Fredster@asteroidsfred·
@kimmagagal2 Ukraine is winning. They hit Russia hard, killed 1.25 million of them.. And they are developing a whole military industry making drones and counter drone tech. And they knocked out about 40% of Russias oil infrastructure.
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Kimmie
Kimmie@kimmagagal2·
Hmmm...I have questions
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Marc Cinqmars
Marc Cinqmars@goji175·
@disparutoo Being Gen X and my interactions with family it really seems the "Boomer" generation are perhaps the single most greedy and destructive one,they literally do not care how broken things are they will fight to the death to keep it going and fuck later generations.
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Honey Thoughts 🇺🇸
Honey Thoughts 🇺🇸@nobleisawinner·
Real thoughts 💭 If you're white, have you ever suffered from white guilt even a little? 🤔
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10Δ@_10delta_·
3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February. Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance. The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible. 1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork. The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40. Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT. Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD. 2nd was Syria. The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean. The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed. This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next. 3rd was Venezuela. In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily. The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone. Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to.. 4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock. Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled. The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States. If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil. This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system. The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency. The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves. But the US grand strategy goes deeper.. Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths. By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale. The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas. On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls.. Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy. Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal. Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass. Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years. Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost. Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first. The US is seizing all 3.
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