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@TheMindScourge That Chinese professor guys way smarter than this nonsense.

Hormuz is a weapon that can only be fired once No one should expect a quick resolution to the current crisis, but across the next decade, even the next 3-5 years, the choke point of Hormuz will be massively substituted for The Gulf Arab states are all very rich, with high per capita GDP - the best single measure of relative state capacity - easy access to global markets, especially financial, and have the favorable backing of the US Everyone has known about the Hormuz vulnerability for decades. The Iranians have continually hinted around closing it, but never did. Now they have, but Hormuz is a gun that cannot be reloaded. Deterrents work only up to the point of use. Once used, they have failed. The purpose of a deterrent is to *not* be used Many analysts have made this basic mistake. They think that Iran is now in a position of strength, having exercised its Hormuz option. But the opposite is true. A state is weakest after it has used its deterrent. The cost of that deterrence is now priced in. The worst having been done, the targets of the deterrent are now free to make other arrangements. Before, they were reluctant to do so because of the switching costs. Now, they have no choice; they will not allow themselves to be controlled in this way again Hormuz may never reopen. But the importance of this is a depreciating asset.

@EvilKeaton @RandyHeyyyy Afroman doesnt smoke weed. They raided his house and didnt find a nug. Hes a grifter! Fake stoner!

@RandyHeyyyy It’s doubly weird because Ohio is behind most of the country in terms of marijuana legalization. Afroman is mostly famous for being a fan of getting high.

Afroman grew up in LA and chose to move to Adams County, Ohio. I'm from Ohio and I would never choose to live in Adams County, Ohio. I didn't even know where it was. Wild.

@ProsecutorsPod The monsteosity is that this motherfucker doesnt smoke weed. They raid his house and dont find a nug? This motherfucker is a grifter and doesnt even burn. Poseur ass bitch.

The Afroman story seems like one of those where everyone laughs and high fives Afroman and then in two years the Netflix documentary comes out and it's like, Oh, that's why they sued him.

@waronweakness Youve never met a person older than you? You never had parents? This says more about your lack of socializing...

There is something going on with pre-smartphone nostalgia. This isn't just "meh I must be getting old because I miss the past" (I'm older millennial). I've never seen people crave the past as much as they do now.

@lukecaverns I traved my lineage back to the dude who fucked your mom.

Most men today would not have the courage. Three years ago, I traced my direct paternal lineage back to 1077 in Scotland. My family, the Rose Clan, was loyal to Scotland & fought under the direct command of Robert the Bruce to win the war against England—starving & outnumbered. Something about those bagpipes hits the soul somewhere deep🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@joeybeastmarket Why are you telling them not to do drugs? Drugs rock and you know it.

When I give my kids the “don’t do drugs” talk do I mention that I physically spent 7 years as a bag of chips in a supermarket after smoking gas station salvia in a pool shed or do I just say I had a bad trip

@asdkfjasdlfjd Welfare queens. They cant stomach doing any work that benefits society, just want that government bennies to shoot people for no real good reason.

Once got drunk at the bar with an Iraq War vet and he kept reiterating he wanted to 'go back', that civilian life was 'boring', all you could do in America was boring crap like operate heavy machinery

@KingVelesI Whats the point of being a rural sheephearder if your just going to be an influencer. Stop this nonsense. Stop making everything gay.

My trick is to simply exercise EVERY DAY, no matter what. The longer your streak becomes, the more painful the idea of ruining it gets. After a while, even the most grueling of workouts in the most uncomfortable of circumstances will seem like nothing in comparison. I've been working out every day for 362 days now, and I plan to keep doing it till the day I die (hopefully, including that day).

@TrollinNYC @chaotichermes I grew up wrestling. I never wrestled an indian. Where the fuck do you live where your wrestling indian kids?

@chaotichermes I grew up wrestling. There are almost no good Indian wrestlers. There were maybe a few decent ones who had been wrestling for years. Those skinny-fat bodies are less than optimal for things like wrestling.

Throwback to when I brute forced my way to pin this Indian with zero prior wrestling experience and this being my first match:

@Arcus_Gladius @LandsknechtPike Counter point - I can literally look for myself and its obviously a rich mans war poor mans fight.

@LandsknechtPike The counter view - ‘rich man’s war, poor man’s fight’ - is usually stems from Marxist interpretations of history, and can be discarded in the same way as all other aspects of Marxism. Factually wrong, and pushing a political agenda.

Elites dying in war was nothing unusual in European history. Before modern times, aristocracy fought in wars and often perished in even larger numbers. Nearly half the men in 15th century English peerage died violent deaths. 6,000 French nobles died at Agincourt. etc.

@eW8fkgAM52GS9xW @mahasr199 You heard that from a 22 year old fitness influencer huh? Theres a reason older gym guys dont deadlift and its not because they never did it.

@methodical36662 @mahasr199 Its because nobody deadlifts 😔

The people recommending trades are usually the farthest from it. LARPers. Father in law, uncle, and my dad for a time all were involved in construction. Even with running their own companies they ended up with back issues.

@LandsknechtPike You definitely got a lotta childfuckers in your bloodline too. Dont get too attached to what your ancestors did.

You 100% have nobles and warriors as ancestors if you are of European heritage. Some more facts to consider: 1) There was a higher level of social mobility in Middle Ages than people would expect. The nobility was not some isolated caste, many descendants of powerful nobles eventually married down, while commoners could get promoted to nobles. 2) Not only nobles were warriors. Urban militias, mercenaries etc. existed. You also had specific warrior classes like ministerialis knights, yeomen longbowmen who came from commoners. 3) There was a high percentage of nobles in some parts of Europe, like 10% or even more in historic borderlands like Castile, Hungary and Poland. 4) Not all peasants were some poor serfs toiling the land. The commoners encompassed a wide range of people, you had wealthy peasants, merchants etc. who would be able to buy arms and participate in military expeditions. 5) Nobles consistently looked for physically imposing and strong men to become part of their retinue. These did not have to be of noble blood. Fighting ability was valued. These men also count as warriors naturally. 6) In troubled borderlands of Europe, a fighting class of warriors would always emerge, conducting daring raids into enemy territory. Men like almogavars in Reconquista, uskoks and hajduks later on in wars against Ottomans. Teutonic knights would recruit many native men as irregulars to protect the borderlands and raid the enemy lands. These were all highly skilled warriors. On the Anglo-Scottish border you had border reivers, highly skilled cavalrymen. 7) Urban militias were highly trained for war, they count as warriors too. They were often recruited by kings to fight in wars. Germany and Italy in particular had renowned urban militias in Middle Ages. So if you take all this into account, there was a lot of warriors in Europe in Middle Ages alone, not even taking into account later periods where large mercenary armies became a thing. All descendants of Europeans today have many of such ancestors who were fighting in various wars that took place. Even noble ancestors because warrior nobility and their descendants would often eventually marry down (as many nobles became impoverished), have bastard children, many were poor knights to begin with and were financed by some wealthy lord to be part of their retinue etc.

@fastrlife You definitely care. You got a blue checkmark. Weirdo shit.

@methodical36662 Don’t care about shit lil bro Just what it is Keep that head high

99% of us take our physical features for granted. I’ll use myself for example: - 6’5 - Attractive - Jacked - Nice brown hair - Blue eyes Do you know how many guys would pay $10,000,000 for those features? Easily millions of guys; Every rich man who ever felt invisible would.

@DonShift3 No but i go backpacking once a year and its nothing to hike 12 miles....

DO YOU EVEN RUCK, BRO? I go rucking for exercise. What's rucking? Hiking, but usually at a good pace with a heavy pack to get exercise. Imagine going backpacking, except you're carrying largely dead weight instead of camping gear, and you're not necessarily going anywhere scenic. If you were in the military, especially the infantry, you've rucked. I have a couple routes I go that I've measured and know my times on. I can track my progress by repeating hikes on these known routes. Where: grid square 11S. I can do 3 1/2 miles for a short hike or drag it out to make it 5, 8, or 11 miles by modifying my course. Pack weight at outset is about 20-30lbs, usually depending on how much water I carry. I'll end up around 10lbs depending on what non-consumables I bring (i.e. a camera, radios, etc.) or if I don't drink all my water. It is hard. I choose routes that have a lot of uphills and broken ground. I'll do roughly half off-trail or on really crappy trails. When I get back, I am tired, especially on the longest days, and end up sore for the next day or two (cuz I'm out of shape). But the burn and the difficulty is why I do it. It feels good to be done—I feel like I accomplished something—and my appetite is justified. My knees don't like it so much anymore, but I might as well do it and drop weight and build up my legs before I'm old and have problems worse than just being sore. Rucking has major benefits. Carrying weight engages stabilizing muscles in a real-world way, improving load-bearing strength in ways that you can't quite get in a gym. It's a comprehensive, natural workout instead of doing 27 separate lifts. It's great for the legs too. Stronger legs and a stronger core help with climbing uneven ground and navigating crappy (rocky, soft, steep) terrain under semi-controlled circumstances helps long before you NEED to move over rough country or die. Weight loss is great too. On a hot day and long route with good ups and downs, rucking will burn 2-3 times the calories that just walking will do because of the weight, the added resistance, and having to maintain balance. Weight-bearing your ruck also helps strengthen bones and connective tissues—or screws them up if you're screwed up. Biggest benefit is mental: pushing through discomfort while carrying weight builds grit and confidence. Every year I make it a point to stagger back to my truck in 100°+ desert heat on the verge of fainting; okay I'm exaggerating, that's unintentional but knowing you can drag your ass out of danger after miles of tough hiking, forcing yourself to continue no matter how much it sucks, is a good thing. You will know your limits and that you can force yourself on during the unforgiving minute. If you're worried about SHTF and bugging out and you're not rucking, brother, I hope you are a freakin' marathoner or something because until you put down the miles for real, you won't know if you can really walk home or whatever. 10 miles in a day for me is fairly easily doable; it isn't quick or pretty, but I can do it and have another 5 miles in me the next day.

@VivaldiVril Wtf. Im not trying to fuck my neices when i talk to them. You're a gross peice of shit dude.

There's nothing INTRINSICALLY wrong with a 30/18yo relationship, but in the realistic modern setting, the ONLY reason a 30yo guy is talking to a 18 yo is for sex. And many 18yo girls wouldn't take such a relationship seriously either. It's a values problem, not an age problem.

@TheMindScourge Show me proof that any of your predictions have come true. That Chinese Canadian high school teacher has proof of his predictions at least.

The idea that Israel is cashing in on the closeness of its relationship to the US now because by the end of the decade or the 2030s it’ll be all over is, I think, wrong: My expectation is that the Israeli-US alliance will only grow closer over time. It is only over the last year that US and Israeli forces have participated directly in combat operations with each other. The US relationship in the past was based off of intelligence and weapons transfers, pooling of military R&D, training, and air defense. You can see how Israel is immensely useful to the US. It has considerable tech resources and military capabilities. Moreover, it is willing to use these capabilities in furtherance of US objectives, and Israel puts its personnel at risk. There will be more, not less, of this in the future

@Figiparte @stu_frost @HansMahncke We are not a net exporter of oil. We are a net exporter of oil products. Meaning we import oil and export gas and diesel. Meaning everything elae you say is nonsense and based on a lie.

@stu_frost @HansMahncke You are wrong US is a net positove exporter of oil. The reason Europe was begging US to protect Ukraine is because you depend on Russian LNG. Is rather simple we fight our war against the tyrannical regime of Iran and Europe deal with Russia. Good luck.

This is a great example of the failure of credentialism. Random people have to explain basic political science to a so-called “Professor of Political Science.” The Strait of Hormuz issue is the perfect “allies” test. The United States has very little direct interest in the strait, as almost none of its ships or energy flows pass through there. So before the United States starts doing all the heavy lifting, it is the ideal moment to ask those who actually benefit from the strait being open what they are willing to contribute. The fact that they all said nothing is proof of what Trump has been saying all along, that supposed “allies” are really just freeloaders. So this was never about whether the Europeans could actually help with a handful of dilapidated frigates. It was a test, and they all failed.

@cryptowlkr @StoolAfterDark You look 50. Id sleep you. No offense. But you too old to be dangerous.

@StoolAfterDark I grew up with Jason Williams since I was 5 years old everyone of us could throw hands hairy chest is about to get a West Virginia ass whooping 😂😂😂

“I’M AN NBA CHAMPION. YOU AIN’T SHIT BUT A HAIRY ASS MOTHERFUCKER” WHITE CHOCOLATE JUST PUT NICKY SMOKES IN HIS PLACE