FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
And every gimmick hungry yob
Digging gold from rock n roll
Grabs the mic to tell us
he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this
And it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns
Will later join the church
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FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
As in injections one gets off of websites shipped from China designed to help with injury recovery.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
3d ago
I had an odd experience at jiu jitsu this morning. A few of us have a 6am open mat group, we show up and roll for 45 minutes of rounds in rotation. It's great, even though I'm normally bottom man on the totem poll there and just getting smeared by the blue and purple belts. I'm strong enough and learned enough now that even when I'm losing I'm doing jiu jitsu rather than just flailing around. I'm getting submitted in more creative ways, at least, trying things that fail rather than just resisting.
And everyone was chatting before and after, and I realized I might be the only one in the room not on gear. Everyone is using TRT or peptides or something.
And it's weird because I get the "blond white guy" stereotype of "farm strong," and I'm typically stronger than my opponents on raw power. But if I stick with this, am I going to end up on gear?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
I recall a factoid that young men have a higher crash rate when they have male passengers, but a lower crash rate when they have female passengers in the car. A variety of explanations were offered.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Ditto. My bugaboo is tailgating.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
4d ago
Who is "they" in your mind?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
Any Trump supporters care to steelman this?
It's funny and not that big a deal. An AI generated image like that of Lebron or Vic Fangio would be a perfectly normal thing on sports twitter.
I'm surprised people are making such a big deal of this. In the WSJ Doug Wilson said it was blasphemous, while Rod Dreher said that while Trump might not be the The Antichrist he was engaged in Acts of Antichrist type vibes.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
I find the obvious horse trading here fascinating, you kick out your sex pest and we kick out ours. I wonder how that convo went.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
5d ago
It doesn't matter if it's an opinion shared by 99% of Americans, or 48% of Americans, or just me personally. It's morally correct and believing otherwise is wrong.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
Words have meanings, and I'm not a fan of constantly excusing the use in official communications of words that mean something completely different.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
Perhaps Iran and Israel nuke each other in the next decade, but at this point I can not really bring myself to care...
You should. A nuclear exchange would be a disaster for humanity. The deaths of hundreds of thousands of Israelis and Iranians would be a huge loss to the world. The loss of human capital and consciousness would be a tragedy, the suffering would be immeasurable.
Taiwan
Oddly, I think the Iran war probably precludes a Taiwan war in the near future because two things have become clear. Iran has demonstrated the USA's superiority in technological warfare to an absurd degree. The United States and friends were able to decapitate the Iranian leadership, they've been able to operate with impunity over Iran, they were able to land a small force and operate an airstrip inside Iran during a war. If the USA is even marginally interested in fighting China, it will be extremely costly for China, and especially for the Chinese leadership elite. But also, the Iran war has apparently hastened the decline of American influence abroad. Niall Ferguson brings up, over and over, that this could be the American Suez crisis. America's irresponsible behavior is causing rifts within the alliance system, the special relationships with the anglophone countries are gone, NATO could die. American may have sacrificed its alliances in Europe for its "alliance" with Israel. This increases the odds significantly that Taiwan peacefully unifies with China, with no American opposition, because China grows in power and prominence and Taiwan eventually sees the hand writing on the wall.
As for the blockade war, I can see the logic, but a lot depends on China and India. If China sends a naval escort for a Chinese flagged ship, what happens?
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
None of us knew he had a purple heart, I'm actually going to run down to the VFW at some point and ask some guys I know there how I would go about finding that information.
FiveHourMarathon
Wawa Nationalist
6d ago
They're already framed and labeled.
The problem becomes comparing different forms of slavery/sefdom/free labor which are incommensurate.
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