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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 5:20 pm

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He panicked, ran, and hid while his buddies were picked off.

This is as factually unproven and unprovable as his account is.

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 5:14 pm

Thanks for sharing. I've heard similar from people I know, but I'm not SF.

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 4:46 pm

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I’d have to hear this, lol. Kennedy is a war veteran, green beret, sniper school graduate, ranger school graduate, UFC fighter, and 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian jujitsu. Show me the fakeness, lol. I’d love to be as fake as that.

TK is a douchebag who has lied about his combat record. SFP is right about this one.

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re: Kamala Harris is charging $25 to listen to her virtual speech tomorrow.

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 2:03 pm

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If i wanted to listen to a drunk Indian give a speech, i'd go to Oklahoma.

have an upvote :cheers:

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 1:42 pm

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I’ve also read that the team (I think it was Delta?) that went in to retrieve the bodies of the fallen SEALs said that there were few, if any, deceased enemy combatants.

i dont think that means much. the bodies could have easily been removed before the Delta guys got there. but i do firmly believe that his account is wildly exaggerated.

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 1:19 pm

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The withdrawal was a clusterfrick of epic proportions. That is not debatable.

We were pulling out of Afghanistan regardless. The Afghan forces that we sank billions of dollars in training and equipment into was going to collapse regardless. As soon as we stopped holding their hand there was never a doubt in how it would go.

We should have maintained control of Bagram throughout the withdrawal and destroyed anything we couldn't take with us.

100% concur.

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 1:18 pm

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Getting out of Afghanistan and returning it to the Taliban are 2 very different things.

not really, if we're being honest. Biden, Austin, and McKenzie fricked the exit to the degree that Austin and McKenzie should have been fired. the amount of gear and weapons we left them is unforgiveable. but regardless, unless we stayed there permanently, it was going to end up back in Taliban hands eventually almost certainly.

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re: I've Never Seen Casablanca

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 1:15 pm

i watched it for the first time within the last three or four years, and it absolutely is worth the hype. it's good, man.

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 1:10 pm

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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.

all of them?

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re: Watched Lone Survivor again last night

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 1:09 pm

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I would love to know the real truth of what went down up there.

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’m sure the truth died on that mountain that day and we will never know what really went down.

so much of his story jsut doesnt pass the smell test for anyone who knows much about the military, and certainly the spec ops community knows even more.

also they hate him because he was sort of the first SEAL to really change the culture from "silent warriors" to "warriors who wont shut the frick up"

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re: Go see Revenge of the Sith in theaters.

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/29/25 at 8:17 am

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I saw it in the theater 20 years ago. It sucked then and it sucks now. I don't understand this new trend of people pretending it's good

i loved it in the theaters, saw it three times that summer. started to hate it later on as i rewatched it more times over the years. but it's sort of come back to be a guilty pleasure for me. it has huge, glaring problems for sure, but i think it's fun.

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re: Films vs Movies

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/28/25 at 4:04 pm

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they're all just movies. i don't call them anything other than in polite company because i'm not a complete douche.

but i do say in our house, we define what we're watching as flicks, films, and movies. but we do that in terms of what kind of thing we want to watch.

Drop was a great little flick.
Sinners was a good movie
Warfare was a film.

again, that's just in house douchebaggery, not how i'd talk about it in polite company.

lol, this is a fair analysis. what does "picture" fall into the heirarchy? as in, "that director used to make great pictures"

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re: Perfect Bittersweet endings to a movie (spoilers)

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/28/25 at 11:14 am

Butterfly Effect so perfectly captures the early 00s pop culture vibe, between the actors, the atmosphere, the over-the-top angst / edginess. it's such a guilty pleasure for me. it's a basically "Nu Metal: The Movie"

agreed, i think it has a pretty solid ending.

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11 year old interested in archery

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/28/25 at 10:46 am

i have an eleven year old girl who is super interested in learning to shoot a bow. i know absolutely nothing about archery, bows, or anything like that, but i love that she is showing interest in what i think is a pretty cool outdoor activity. i realize that this is a super broad question, but can anyone give me any advice for like step 1a. that i should take to start facilitating this?

i have a friend nearby with some property that we could shoot at, so i at least have that problem solved.

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re: Stihl FS-56 weed eater

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/28/25 at 10:42 am

i tried the rapid loader awhile back and it drove me nuts always having to replace the line when it would inevitably break. i ended up going with the speed feed head and it's pretty foolproof

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re: Films vs Movies

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/28/25 at 10:37 am

pretentious assholes who view them as some sort of "art" call them films

normal people who just like entertainment call them movies.

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re: The White Lotus- HBO Max

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/28/25 at 10:31 am

finished season 1 this weekend. at first i didnt really get it, then i kind of started hating it, then i ended up liking it alot by the end. skimming through this thread actually makes me like it even more in hindsight. i expected it to be more of a procedural storyline leading up to a murder, but i'm glad it wasnt. sort of like Twin Peaks a little in that the story is almost secondary to the characters, their interactions, the setting, and the atmosphere.

might actually give the whole season a rewatch.

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re: Vanessa Kirby confirms F4 explores gender politics

Posted by Sam Quint on 4/28/25 at 9:28 am

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Shakman elaborated, “If [Reed] is the most scientifically intelligent person, then she is the most emotionally intelligent person on the planet. Between the two of them, they're building an idealistic society."

women seem to think that being emotional = being emotionally intelligent. it's basically the female version of "mansplaining", where oftentimes dudes think that just because they speak direct and are confident, that means they know what they are talking about. having huge emotional responses to everything doesnt make you emotionally intelligent.

anyways, that's neither here nor there as it pertains to the thread really. i just hate the overuse of that term.

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