@CaptainCons @based_coach1 @Coach_Hall12 You’re arguing with a guy that made ruining childhoods his life work and meal ticket not gonna change his mind
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Tom
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@based_coach1 @Coach_Hall12 Ok then we can disagree
I think what you’re talking about is getting someone to repeat a physical motion in an efficient manner
To me, athleticism is what you do naturally
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If you put your kid in this “training” at 7yo it is nothing more than a fancy daycare
At 7-14yo your kid doesn’t need training or to specialize in a sport. They need to be a kid.
Play multiple sports. Play pickup sports with their friends outside. Not every waking moment needs to be scheduled for kids.
If you disagree with me then go listen to all the pro athletes who say the same thing
Joey Bergles@JoeyBergles
I train kids from every sport imaginable. They all train as “athletes” If a 7-14 year old gets more athletic - they’ll get better at their sport.
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@BohnMonde @Schizointel Even the dictionary acknowledges the current meaning of the word. Just “I’m the smartest in the room” types respond like this to every post that doesn’t use the 500 AD meaning.
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@Schizointel Please learn to use the word “decimate” correctly. Otherwise, 100%.
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Spain had 278,000 personnel in Cuba with an additional 82,000 volunteer militiamen with an additional 10,000 Spanish troops in Puerto Rico with an additional contingent of several thousand militia and a additional 51,000 troops in the Philippines
Over the course of the 114-day war, The United States was only able to ferry 17,000 troops across from Florida to Cuba with an additional 25,000 troops in Tampa prepared to be sent to the island. Additionally, the capture of Puerto Rico we sent a total of 10,000 troops.
Spain had a 1:1 ratio of troops vs the US in Puerto Rico.
Spain outnumbered US forces 22:1 in Cuba if we're using the forces that actually landed on the island if we count the additional 25,000 reinforcements that we're prepared to deploy from Tampa, then it reduces to Spain outnumbering US forces 8:1 on Cuba.
By all metrics Spain who was defending the islands should have been able to utterly decimate US landing forces and should have been able to drive them back from their prepared defenses.
βόρειος βαρόνος@BorealBaron
Cuba is 90 miles off the coast of the US. It was logistically impossible for Spain to have won that war. Then a wealthy 75% white island turned into a communist hellhole, and you didn’t bother to mount a proper invasion. Part of the plan, I guess. Great imperialist job 👍🏻
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@tocchanTX @rushicrypto You can pause your mortgage a while after a job loss
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@rushicrypto $4700 a month is an enormous mortgage.
For 260K, I personally would have done half that, at max $2400 a month mortgage.
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A guy I used to work with hit me up last night.
Dude was making $260k in tech. Nice house, $4,700/month mortgage, two cars, vacations every few months.
Got laid off 7 months ago.
Still nothing.
Said he’s down to $22k and burning $5,500 a month. Wife at home, one kid.
He told me he checks his bank app before he even gets out of bed now.
This is someone I saw winning in real life.
Save your money.
Because when it flips, it flips fast.
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@tocchanTX @rushicrypto Yeah I get people asking why we live so far from the city and that’s the reason need a reasonable mortgage. Don’t want to find out but could pay mortgage if either of us lost our job.
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@NajamAli2020 Because it funds a terrorist regime that we are at war with. You can’t possibly be this dumb.
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I am genuinely struggling to understand this logic.
If the rest of the world is willing to pay a small toll to Iran to keep oil flowing and stabilise markets, then why does the U.S. feel the need to block all shipping, especially when it is not dependent on that oil?
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Tom retweetledi
Iran war is a great microcosm of "US: The World Policeman" discourse.
It's a shit job; it'd be great if others pitched in more; it'd be nice to get appreciation (or just not get vilified), but if we don't do it - no one will, the neighborhood is fucked, & we live here.
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@KenGardner11 @MirMAKOfficial They’re all lawyers too so have doctorates FWIW
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@MirMAKOfficial Even so, the Venture Capitalist and the two Real Estate guys brought an army of State, NSC, and Defense experts with them. But yes, that post was really dumb.
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Negotiating Teams.
Irani.
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American.
Real Estate Developer.
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@FlintAgeScholar @aincomeinvestor Yeah I’m debating switching to a Roth 401k contribution to head off that.
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It assumes the 401k remains as is.
That's a very big assumption. Japan had a similar setup, NISA.
Lo and behold just this past year they "reformed" it to be a lot less advantageous. That's what is going to happen to millenials, they will impose a retroactive capital gains tax or something on it and poof, no millennial retirement.
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401k debate is up there with the rent vs. own argument.
CHLOÉ HAPPE@bronzeageshawty
401ks are stupid. "Wow, I can't wait to finally have 600 thousand dollars at age 65 to last me the next 20 years. I'm glad I spent 40 years as a slave."
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PM Carney says the days of sending 70 cents of every dollar in military spending to the United States are over and gets a standing ovation
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@ShameVincent @DastDn I’ve read multiple articles where they want to move Tehran because there is not enough. Just an example
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North Korea has amply demonstrated the difficulty of collapsing a dictatorial regime purely via economic means.
Still, Tehran was already in catastrophic financial straits before the war and is much worse off now. Getting away with "taxing" Hormuz would be an integral life raft.
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@KenGardner11 IMO main issue is he’s not gonna get the praise he wants for several years by “winning.” He has to trust neutering Iran is something people praise him for down the line.
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ok.
If Trump hates any one thing more than not being praised, it's being humiliated. And endless humiliation will ensue if the end result of this operation is Iran laughing at us and running a toll booth in the Strait of Hormuz.
Max Abrahms@MaxAbrahms
Iran isn’t giving Trump an off-ramp. He must choose between escalation and humiliation.
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@KenGardner11 No one thinks of the future it’s the instant hit that’s all that matters now. It’s been that way for years with trading actual bad guys for idiots that travelled to some hostile country.
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I really don’t even know what the terrorist regime that infests Iran has done to deserve a seat at the same negotiating table as the United States of America. The more I think of it, the angrier I get. We should never negotiate with terrorists. Rewarding evil never ends well.
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Oh I’d bet money on Trump cutting a deal with China for Taiwan.
And by deal, I mean a Trump deal, so it’ll benefit the US and West in absolutely no way at all, and the talks won’t even involve the Taiwan Govt.
Faytuks Network@FaytuksNetwork
BREAKING: China pushed Iran to agree to a ceasefire, in an attempt to win favor with the Trump administration. Xi aims to convince Trump that Taiwan is a "breakaway province" of China in their meeting next month - WSJ
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@IranIntl_En Amazing no authority to negotiate and a mandate to not negotiate on anything we want.
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Senior Iranian officials are locked in a dispute over the composition and authority of the delegation set to negotiate with the United States in Islamabad, according to information received by Iran International.
The IRGC commander-in-chief Ahmad Vahidi is seeking to curb the authority of Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the talks.
Vahidi has also pushed for the inclusion of Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, in the negotiating team — a move opposed by current members, who consider him lacking experience for strategic negotiations.
At the same time, Vahidi and the IRGC Aerospace Force commander have stressed that the delegation must avoid any negotiations over Iran’s missile program.
iranintl.com/en/202604109102
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@KenGardner11 I’m finally on the impeachment bandwagon. Only issue is it would have to be done in sync with a Vance impeachment
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LOL, not buying it. Our negotiators can’t even possibly be this stupid, can they?
People need to stop being distracted by mendacious Iranian negotiators and focus on what the IRG has already done in violation of the alleged ceasefire agreement.
They’re LAUGHING at us.
Trey Yingst@TreyYingst
“There is an updated plan, Iran has already conceded to many of those old points,” a U.S. official told Fox News. The previous 10-point plan being circulated is not the latest framework, I’m told.
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@neoavatara @beyondreasdoubt @justkarl He would enact a wealth tax paid to Iran if they agreed to that
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@beyondreasdoubt @justkarl What if we renamed it the Strait of Trump?
Would that make you happy?
😬
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Tom retweetledi
The President of the United States now openly discussing operating a joint protection racket with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Delusional and weak.
Jonathan Karl@jonkarl
This morning, I asked President Trump if he’s okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls: “We’re thinking of doing it as a joint venture. It’s a way of securing it — also securing it from lots of other people.” “It’s a beautiful thing”
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