Ghudbob

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 never touched substack, so wouldn't know. articles don't really matter if you don't know how to parse them though.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Named after Jacobinism from the French Revolution. It’s an online magazine I subscribe to. Plenty of lefty writers on substack

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Iran has been screaming death to Israel and death to America for about 50 years now. Not sure it’s a new war homeslice. Maybe one they weren’t ready for. Their current lack of navy and airforce would suggest this. We even have 70 year old airframes doing bombing runs lol

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 and you're spouting propaganda from DC. I trust those who have literal fire rain over the elite pedo in office here.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Find someone from the diaspora IRL and ask them what they think. You’re sharing IRGC regime propaganda

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Our culture is being slowly pushed to the side, not sure what you're on about. and we've started defunding our research so those innovaters are leaving.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Yes we can look inward and still exert the greatest military mankind has ever seen. Bretton woods has laid the foundation of the economic powerhouse of the dollar. We still house some of the most innovative and market breaking industries for tech. And culture is obv

To address some comments, he did not back out. We had a miscommunication between PV media and organizing teams about his attendance while we waited for finale schedule confirmation. We posted the announcement too early. He was the last name we were waiting on. Blame us, not him!

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 not sure what you mean by this, I know socialism/communism isn't going to happen in my life time, and if it does start to happen it'd be towards the end.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 How long you got lol. The failures of centralized means managing a complex economy can be a dissertation… not too mention all the revolutionary pain that communism requires. Fergie Chambers and the ilk are who I’m talking about. Not your run of the mill socialists

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 my point is that they won't go to cost effective weapons. They're going to buy big dumb expensive things to pad the pockets of those PAC donors.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Those expensive PAC checks lead to more government expenditure in those industries as to my point. Not sure what youre on about

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I think it should be scaling based on how many properties you own. We also exempt things up to 150k a year, which should be removed.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Surprised to hear a Texan suggest property taxes should be higher

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 The ford is one of the two we've deployed to iran. If one were to be hit, it's the ford. I'm referring to a ship that will actually be hit by one if one were to be.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 From what I heard it was intentional. This makes sense to me as I know what double and triple deployments do to troops and their families. And the ford is only one of our 11 carriers… if you think a single shahed can destroy an aircraft carrier I don’t know what to tell ya

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Except they're vague with the wording on "imminent defeat" in the option to where it could effectively be threatened. They've also not meaningfully been threatened in any of these wars.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 The Samson option is for imminent defeat. If it was for feeling threatened they would have started and ended these wars in a day

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 except we shouldn't "get it". there shouldn't be any death like that. period. end of story. The school being unintentional is also horse shit when it was how we started fighting. We had time to prepare that attack.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I never said Israel was innocent of anything just that I get it. Last intentional bombing of kids I can think of was Obama drone striking an American one. It’s why I only voted for him once

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I believe it can help, but not a rule. I don't think you're actually keyed into what's happening though. I think you just look at it, then get the wrong interpretations, and go talk to people who also have wrong takes.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Absolutely keyed into the world. Politics, markets, churches, communities and family. Doing it from comfort broadens the scope of youre being real. Wasn’t always like this for me tbh. There were years I was solely focused on survival. Mazlovs hierarchy if you believe in that

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I know what my point is. I just fundamentally do not think someone with 3 multi-mil homes and 100k+ cars can be attached to the on-the-ground reality of most people. Especially when your counter to how bad the economy was doing is "i bought a 150k car lol".

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Your point was I’m detached from reality. But I’m not, I’m probs more aware of it than you are tbh. Various inputs from all types. I believe the perpetually disaffected are just as out of touch as billionaires. In different ways

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I do not know any leftist who has substacks, so I can't verify any of that. Then mother jones just looked like a more rude liberal network. Never heard of jacobin.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Jacobin? Mother Jones? My various substack subscriptions? I have a brother who is an O6, with a command, in the navy and we have quite the convos of his opinions of the guy

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 It’s not a scapegoat when we literally make it rain fire man. To them we ARE the great satan.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Yes as scapegoat for their people. They were quite the culture until the mullahs took over. Then they needed a scapegoat for internal control. Have you never spoken with the diaspora?

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 You can’t be exerting if you’re focusing internally. Exerting is the definition of a super power.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 That’s only one half the equation homes. Do we still have a Starbucks in the forbidden city?

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I don’t think you’re a maga. I’m just a socialist. How will they destroy the country if we’ve never been in power? Sounds like you just want a boogeyman to blame.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Biden didn’t destroy the country you are correct. You seem to think I’m some psycho maga type… I’m grateful leftists are far from the levers of power in this country

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I doubt they will. Especially when the expensive manufacturers write those PAC checks.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I don’t doubt that. Governments in general are rather ineffective at building. Companies are already expanding and retooling and hiring. Government is good for about one thing, and that’s spending. They’ll just be spending it a bit more on cost effective weapons

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 And Russia benefits from issues with the straight. So they’re incentivized to fund Iran. The Chinese tankers are also still allowed through for various reasons so they’re not hit *too* hard. Russia does come out of this pretty good though

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Russia and Iran are direct oil competitors. The pipeline is so China doesn’t have to rely on the straight for their energy needs. Russia may end up being the biggest winner of this tbh

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 California can’t because they’re cucked to Silicon Valley. I also don’t think it’s high enough for people owning multiple multi million dollar properties. I don’t think just shaving costs can fix it without destroying whole sections of govt

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Military spending is 3.5% of our gdp bro. Don’t think a wealth tax will ever happen, California can’t even figure it out. Income tax is already pretty high, I pay in the 6 figures as an example. We could definitely shave costs tho

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 When the naval hulls aren’t maintained like actual dog shit yeah. We can’t even clean our toilets in them man. And the ford lit on fire a month ago.

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 Bruhhhh. It takes multiple hits from specifically designed ship killing weapons to sink even legacy American naval hulls. You can watch SINKEX videos on YouTube. We do em every year…

@Blobby4do @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 I would say most of the world is evil, to an extent, yeah. But we’re talking about the same doctrine. And you said you knew it. Which would imply I didn’t need to say threatened as that’s literally their doctrine

@ghudbob @ProgressiveVic @Emmceebee23 You didn’t say threatened enough. Might wanna touch up on forward deterrence. I would suggest most of the human condition is evil if harming kids is our metric