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SlowFlowPro
| Favorite team: | Stanford  |
| Location: | Simple Solutions to Complex Probs |
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| Registered on: | 1/18/2004 |
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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 9:47 pm
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If you’ve never heard of Jonny Kim, he’s a SEAL corpsman turned Harvard educated Doctor turned naval aviator turned nasa astronaut and is currently on the ISS.
Yes his story is incredible.
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I’ve been listening to a ton of Jocko and it’s pretty incredible how much of the accounts of Ramadi line up. He’s had everyone from Army and Marines that served alongside his seal task unit on up to Gen Macfarland and pretty much everyone tells the same tale and if anything downplays their role.
Jocko is not immune from the online drama, either.
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re: Shough plays a Boosie track, says he will die on that field for us.
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 7:44 pm
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Our job as fans is to be deliriously supportive until it no longer makes sense.
re: Tariffs not bringing in what trump said they would….
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 7:40 pm
Tariffs wont' be large enough to make that sort of dent
And the negative economic implications of tariffs will shrink normal tax collection via other methods (primarily income), as tax receipts mirror GDP
And the negative economic implications of tariffs will shrink normal tax collection via other methods (primarily income), as tax receipts mirror GDP
re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 7:20 pm
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SFP is right about this one.
To just correct you a little, it's not me saying this. I am saying that it's other spec ops guys saying this.
For example:
re: Crypto bros., why isn't Bitcoin more widely used?
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 4:24 pm
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A lot of them got rich off their own farts too.
And this is why it won't be a currency anytime soon.
re: Crypto bros., why isn't Bitcoin more widely used?
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 4:23 pm
All the stablecoins end up having the same issues as USD, so the cryptrobros don't like them, but that's been shown the only way to have a currency in the modern economy.
re: Crypto bros., why isn't Bitcoin more widely used?
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 4:21 pm
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why isn't Bitcoin more widely used?
It morphed from a method of transfer to an investment vehicle during its first boom and never returned. It's far too volatile to be anything close to a currency
re: AI answers the ultimate OT question: Can a 100 unarmed men defeat a gorilla in a fight?
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 2:00 pm
re: Operation Curveball: Arrests for Massage Parlor Prostitution
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:39 pm
In terms of Chinese massage parlor prostitutes, that's a strong crop of 9s and 10s
re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:20 pm
That's a tomato tomato scenario
Trump's admin knew this and negotiated directly with the Taliban.
Trump's admin knew this and negotiated directly with the Taliban.
re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:13 pm
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I don’t pay much attention to the social media stuff.
Let me be clear: this is my only frame of reference and the totality of which I am commenting.
re: Rand Paul never recovered
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:05 pm
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He is supporting more govt, because China continues to grow an economic base as we watch ours erode
What a non-responsive, irrelevant comment :lol:
re: Woodside reaches $17.5B investment decision on Lake Charles LNG facility
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:04 pm
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yea not sure what people want.
needs better recreation facilities for sure in LC but overall its not bad
People always bitch about "stuff to do".
When new stuff comes, those people don't "do the stuff to do" and the businesses fail.
re: Rand Paul never recovered
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:02 pm
Yeah who wants that freedom stuff?
re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:01 pm
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There are a lot of people in the spec ops community with a visceral hatred for Marcus Lutrell and consider him a coward. Dudes that have a lot of standing refer to him as the lone runner.
I've actually been consuming a lot of "spec ops" content lately, and what I've discovered is they're all liars and create drama. I have no idea which side of this story is correct, but it's far from the only one. Tim Kennedy being a fake was the hot topic for a while but now it's the Benghazi story taking the headlines.
re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 1:00 pm
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but pisses me off to no end knowing years later Joe Biden and his admin let the Taliban gain control back of Afghanistan.
Wasn't this deal struck under Trump to celebration by MAGA (and me)?
Biden fricked up leaving, no doubt, but leaving Afghanistan was one of Trump's better policies in admin 1.
re: Rand Paul never recovered
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 12:59 pm
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Paul’s one of those “endangered” conservatives who’s lost the plot.
No he's maintained principles and isn't engaging in hypocrisy like MAGA NPCs
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Since 2016, the GOP base has shifted to prioritize economic strength
The tariff policy opposes this entirely :lol;
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and American workers
The less productive ones
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. Paul’s tariff opposition shows he’s still stuck in the pre-2016
AKA, he's not a hypocrite.
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while ignoring how “free trade” has screwed over the middle class and fueled government bloat.
a. It has not "screwed over the middle class"
b. It has frick all to do with government bloat
re: Rand Paul never recovered
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 12:57 pm
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The claim that tariffs are “more government”
...is because they literally are more government.
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Tariffs aren’t just any tax—they’re a strategic tool to level the playing field for American workers and fund the government without leaning on income taxes,
You're now playing the imaginary reality game, too.
All taxes are "strategic tools to" [insert the blank with big government fantasies and dreams]
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By opposing Trump’s tariffs, Paul’s inadvertently propping up the status quo: a federal government that’s ballooned out of control while foreign countries exploit us with unfair trade deals.
Federal government "ballooning out of control" means what, exactly?
Spending has nothing to do with tariffs or taxes, for example.
The leviathan our fedgov has become has nothing to do with tariffs or taxes.
Seems you're going for an emotional argument not supported by reality (again).
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while foreign countries exploit us with unfair trade deals.
...and you're using outright lies :lol:
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He’s acting like we can politely debate our way to a smaller government
That's a better plan than increasing the size of government on our way to a smaller government (tomorrow, allegedly)
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The federal government’s a mess, and tariffs are a pragmatic tool to claw back control,
How? This makes negative sense.
Do your "stats since 2011" with a devolving economy and SOL that we would face with tariffs and use your imagination-based policy mindset to show those numbers.
Hint: it ain't good.
re: Rand Paul never recovered
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 12:52 pm
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In a vacuum it wouldn't’
There we go.
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But obviously you can’t assess these things in your over-simplistic little vacuums.
You're now trying the irrational approach of extrapolating "little vacuums" into your fantastical imagination without any basis in reality.
I'll stick with reality and what actually happened.
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Using the tariff example, a favorable deal between the US and all trading partners is a good thing in part.
It theoretically could be, but you're making all sorts of assumptions in that framing.
Again
You're now trying the irrational approach of extrapolating "little vacuums" into your fantastical imagination without any basis in reality.
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As things sit now, the US is getting very little out if it’s biggest bargaining chip.
And you even have to resort to untruths to try to make this framing :casty:
re: Rand Paul never recovered
Posted by SlowFlowPro on 4/29/25 at 12:50 pm
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But the US has a means to force the hand of Chinas leadership,
We have many means to do that. We could also invade them or assassinate people or all sorts of silliness that I also wouldn't support.
That is changing the framing of a logical discussion about individual policy preference.
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So even tho you cant vote for their leaders, you can affect their abilities to implement tariffs.
And I have principles, primarily smaller government. I don't want US leaders to increase the size of government to purportedly solve any problem.
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
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