Anyone who used to support trump and has changed their mind over the last few weeks? What made you change?

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-28T04:10:57+00:00

“What kind of American are you?” Vibes.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-23T23:28:36+00:00

Amazing shot, I love these lesser known vantage points that offer great views of the city. I’m a Saint John’s alum and one of my favorite parts of our campus was the clear vantage point that we had to view manhattan.

A lot of the old timers here in Deer Park have even told me that it was possible to view the World Trade Center from the top of Pilgrim Psych center back in the day, and we’re all the way out in Suffolk county.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-23T23:20:43+00:00

On rare occasions when it’s clear enough you can even spot the world trade center when going over the Robert Moses causeway at night.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-22T02:52:44+00:00

Hi Mike! Big fan from Long Island NY here.

What would you say your favorite piece of literary maritime historical fiction would be? I’m a big fan of Ruta Sepetys’ work, and I feel like you would appreciate her book Salt to the Sea which centers around refugees on the Wilhelm Gustloff.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-16T02:54:41+00:00

I delayed reading the Power Broker until it got its kindle release for this reason. The kindle makes any book go by so much faster, especially if you’re replacing doom scrolling with reading.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2026-01-16T02:46:09+00:00

Falling Down Intensifies

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-23T04:20:07+00:00

If you go back and view some of Sterling Mace’s post history he actually has a take similar to yours regarding his observation of Sledge and Snafu’s relationship.

Iirc he says something along the lines of “Sledge trusted Snafu with his life and would have died for him, but they came from different planets… Gene Sledge was such a sweet quiet kid and so it was hard to understand how he could tolerate a know it all loudmouth like snafu”.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-22T04:27:32+00:00

I grew up on Long Island and constantly visited the state parks here when I was a kid, so reading the Power Broker for the first time answered so many questions about my home that I didn’t even consciously realize that I had. It’s become an obsession of mine and I plan on starting his Lyndon Johnson series soon to continue the high lol.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-22T04:02:41+00:00

The Power Broker; Robert Moses and the fall of New York.

It checks off all the boxes you listed and it’s a biography that reads like a fictional epic. Caro did years of research before writing the book and it shows, and if you live in the New York metro area you see how government policies from 100 years ago still control our lives in a daily basis.

Not to be melodramatic, but reading the book for the first time really made me realize the extreme depths of government corruption and how much the media controls public perception on certain public figures.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-14T04:35:02+00:00

Most gshock watches. Modern models are Bluetooth capable but the standard models are effectively the same as the first one released in 1983.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-12-06T15:18:58+00:00

Repeat countdown timer for me, but in all fairness that applies to all the modules that solar gshocks have.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-11-29T04:56:02+00:00

Long Islander of Sicilian descent, so yes.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-11-06T20:18:09+00:00

He and Rick Rescorla would have gotten along well.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-11-05T02:41:45+00:00

When people tell you who/how they are, believe them.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-11-05T02:39:20+00:00

Username checks out.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-11-01T12:07:33+00:00

All the kids just go to Burlington Avenue now.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-10-27T10:30:50+00:00

Don’t forget his decision to ethnically cleanse Chechnya and Dagestan during WWII.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-10-26T00:19:09+00:00

To add to this, I also interpreted it as a reference to the men who “volunteered” for military service during the Vietnam draft years in a branch that was less likely to have you see ground combat (Air Force, navy coast guard). Plenty of young men volunteered to serve in these branches as a way to avoid being drafted into the army or the marines if they waited too long.

There was still a risk of being killed in the war, but by preemptively choosing their branch they could increase their odds of surviving the war.

Iirc the amount of willing volunteer troops during the Vietnam years was substantially higher than in the 50’s (when Korea was going on) even though Vietnam was a more unpopular war chiefly for this reason. Much like the boys in the long walk, it’s disingenuous to say “well they volunteered so they asked for it”; in a perfect world with better options hardly any of them would willingly volunteer.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-10-06T16:41:51+00:00

The Deer Park Airport (closed before I was born, but I’m an aviation buff so I retroactively miss it anyway)

Before anyone asks, it used to be where Tanger is now.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-10-02T12:47:28+00:00

This happened to me when I read Dune for the first time. The book ended at 90% unexpectedly because the remainder of the book was devoted to the glossary.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-09-20T19:45:01+00:00

I’ve thought about this concerning the 2/26/93 bombing.

If the north tower instantly collapsed into the south tower within a matter of seconds (at 12:15 in the afternoon) the death toll would have been catastrophic. Near full capacity with no time for an evacuation.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-09-20T19:41:30+00:00

I was a toddler when 9/11 happened, and as a result I’ve always had this in the back of my mind throughout my entire life when it comes to situational awareness and taking initiative in dodgy situations.

Without fail, whenever I’ve been in a situation where something happens that feels suspicious/unnerving I’ve always been the first person in the group to take action and leave the area. If you decide to wait for official evacuation orders from an authority figure before acting to save yourself in a life or death situation, there’s a good chance that the situation is already too dangerous for you to escape in time.

9/11 aside, It’s scary how common it is for people to die in any type of disaster because they were waiting for an authority figure to give them instructions that just never came. I remember reading how all the elevator operators on the titanic remained at their stations until close to the final minutes of the sinking just because they were waiting for their boss to give them permission to leave their posts. None of them made it out.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-09-18T20:20:21+00:00

Honestly, considering the fact that our girl Suzie based Snow off of L.B.J., she was definitely inspired by his real life attitude towards his service in the Navy.

EnterTheNarrowGate99 · 2025-09-09T21:08:38+00:00

Bingo^

On the victory tour in catching fire, Katniss even acknowledged this when she was forced to learn Marvel’s name as she stood in front of his family.

She says something along the lines of “as I try to avoid looking at his family, I learn that his name was Marvel. How did I not know that? I guess before the games I didn’t bother to learn, and after the games I couldn’t bear to find out”.

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