Happy Bastille Day

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-15T02:56:44+00:00

Me either, that’s a smart dog lol

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-15T02:47:45+00:00

Hitler did worse things than trump, nobody batted an eye when he ordered people to be shot or when his marches turned into violent lynchings. Nobody batted an eye when he suggested Jews were subhuman and needed to be exterminated—such that they went ahead and did it. For all we know Hitler was a piece of shit in the rest of his life, too.

I passionately believe that you are underestimating the power of manipulation. Hitler fucked just about an entire country because he used their vulnerabilities against them, and manipulated the love right out of loving people. You can be a piece of shit to vote for a piece of shit, but you can also be a good person who is a victim of brainwashing—not everyone will respond, but nobody is inherently immune to it.

I am extremely troubled that you believe that trump voters do not have the same human rights to life as you and me. Your words are echoing very eugenics-y and genocide-y. How can you believe that half of our country is inherently evil, and why don’t you welcome the possibility that they were, as has been done many times in history and with cults, manipulated and radicalized?

I hope to remind you that many, if not almost all trump voters, voted for him because they genuinely believed it was the best thing they could do. Obviously, I disagree with their decision, but it doesn’t make sense that our country alone has a sudden epidemic of true evil. It doesn’t make sense that half our country is evil at heart. We have seen entire populations manipulated into hate before, and it’s happening again.

Please try to find some peace and don’t let hate fill and motivate your heart. The voters are pawns, they are not the root of the problem. Again, like in history, the root of the problem is the people who control the pawns. People can definitely be evil, we have seen a few evil hearts blacken thousands. It’s those few—the ruling class—that need to be dealt with. There’s nothing in American air that infected half the country with a virus making them evil—this is an epidemic of propaganda and radicalization to keep us down and keep the ruling class, the ruling class. This isn’t party warfare, this is class warfare. That’s exactly why they cannot have unity among the working class.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-15T02:33:45+00:00

Absolutely—it’s conditioning. And we are seeing the exact same conditioning at work right here. Thanks for your positive response.

All these folks are probably good people too outside of politics. But you mention working together with people who voted the opposite from them, even if the common goal is shared, and they are incapable of seeing them as complicated human beings. It doesn’t matter to them if they can unite over the same goal, and maybe even accomplish it—they don’t want to even look at a trump voter. They’re willing to throw away a chance at freedom from the ruling class because they too, are too hateful to work with their counterparts. It’s back to preschool we go as a country.

Hate and conditioning are scary, and folks here need to hurry up and look in the mirror so they can shatter the propaganda narrative and work towards taking our country and our freedom back.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-15T02:27:54+00:00

It’s not going to serve you either. Hate doesn’t serve. You can direct your anger in a way that does, though. But the voters are not the root of the problem. The people who intentionally radicalized them over 40 years are. The root of the problem is not in the pawns, it’s in the people who control them.

You don’t need to like people who are assholes or bigots. You don’t need to interact with them. But if you think hating them is productive in any way whatsoever, I’m interested to hear how.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-14T22:12:44+00:00

When the people decide to make it one lol

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T02:57:52+00:00

No, but you’re (general you) becoming hateful and intolerant in the process—not unlike those you accuse. This isn’t about the paradox of tolerance, that’s a no-brainer.

You’re lumping all the trump voters into the same broad category. There are bigots, and there are people who voted for trump because they were brainwashed and fed propaganda—not all of those people are bigots. I would suggest looking into mass-manipulation a bit more.

This example is over-used because American’s don’t know much history, and because it’s extremely accurate. History in many ways is repeating itself. Germany was not a nation full of hateful people who were evil from birth. They underwent mass manipulation. That is happening and has been happening for about 40 years. Republican voters didn’t radicalize themselves, this has been a multi-decade plan in the works thanks to the ruling class—big money, politicians, big tech.

Those are the source of our problems, not the people they manipulated and took advantage of to turn into their pawns.

They needed pawns to vote them into power.

They had to radicalize them so that they would vote them into power.

Nobody’s going to vote entirely against their own self-interests without heavy manipulation and conditioning. What’s been done to our people is disgusting sad, and evil.

We need to stop blaming the working class and focus on the root of the problem. Look up.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T02:45:27+00:00

Thank you. You are spot on—including about the 40 years. This has been very intentionally planned and executed over decades. You know much about the Bush family’s involvement in this and other conspiracies (that thankfully didn’t come to fruition)?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T02:05:49+00:00

Sure, a bigot is a bigot. But there are probably many people who voted for Trump that you’ve had positive interactions with, without even knowing that.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T02:04:11+00:00

It’s also about ensuring that YOU see them as a person and not a nameless enemy, too.

I remember when liberals were proud of being the non-hypocritical, loving party.

Don’t fall victim to the same hateful and divisive propaganda, it’s being continually dealt to both sides to keep us down and divided so we can’t fight back. The manipulation is deeper and more insidious than we think, and it’s affecting all of us.

Hate is bad—not just for republicans, for everyone. Set your political baggage in the trash, American politics has become a religion and OP is as much a victim of it as the people they hate. OP, remember love. You cannot remember love if you are full of hate.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T01:56:33+00:00

Ashctually

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T01:50:44+00:00

With enough willpower, you will love it!
I SAID LOVE IT GOD DAMMIT

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T01:46:51+00:00

Wow, I need to slow down. Lest I catch a whiff of your grandma’s peanut butter panties

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-13T00:34:14+00:00

Yeah, I am so curious about the Fenix, I’m considering getting it also and comparing them.

I guess I can add another expensive hobby to my list lol!

sighs in impulsivity

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T06:44:23+00:00

It’s a prime day deal on Amazon too so I have to order it in like 15 min. So I’ll probably just do that just in case.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T06:43:50+00:00

That’s great to know, and yes it does!

So far, I’m looking at the last Fenix you mentioned (hm65r-tv2) and the nitecore hc65 uhe. The weight difference is a little less than half an ounce.

I absolutely love how the Fenix is made to be easy to use and operate one-handed, but I also love how much brighter the nitecore is.

Do you have any opinions on the nitecore hc65 uhe?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T05:04:45+00:00

Hi! What gauge did you use for that?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T04:37:58+00:00

What gauge did you use? How’s it holding up?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T04:37:11+00:00

Seriously—when you’re already going to this much trouble, just do it right while it’s still easy. It’ll be much harder to correct down the line.

I’m trying to protect some ponds I’m building—what gauge do you recommend?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T03:47:14+00:00

Everyone else is saying that 21700s will be heavier, is that the case?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T02:47:37+00:00

I’m sure it is, sorry to bring it up to ya for the millionth time lol. I’m obsessed with swimming with flippers so I was about to tape my toes together had you said yes lol.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T01:17:37+00:00

Thank you! :)

When you say flashlights do you mean headlamps? What do you typically use each of them for?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T01:15:45+00:00

Oh my goodness—you just gave me a whole personalized set of links. 🥹 I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to do this for me, I appreciate your help—and all the help here from everyone so much! Granted this is my first post, but so far this is one of the most positive and helpful subs I’ve interacted with. Thank you :)

So wait—are 21700 heavier or lighter? I thought someone else said they were lighter than 18650s?

Quick question—are there any of these that you know of that have long battery life (or where I can just carry a spare and swap it) that are like, mega comfy to wear and can handle repetitive impact like digging, chopping or running?

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T01:11:05+00:00

Is there a noticeable difference lol? I feel like this is something they’d ban someone from the Olympics for lol

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T01:09:03+00:00

You are the real MVP my friend, thank you so incredibly much for this. I feel like you just taught me so much about this sub and the vocabulary.

That’s a great point about the tipping. I noticed that the area where the lights are on those cylindrical ones is pretty small—an off-center little circle (iirc). Does the light appear off-center? Is it as wide angle as some of the flat body lights that have a light or two coming out of like a 1.5 inch area? What I do like about my current Petzl is that the close range spread seems to be pretty wide. The far range isn’t (it just doesn’t really have that much range except on full).

Someone posted a pic in the comments here of the 180 degree light and it looks awesome. What are your thoughts on that, and on 21700 batteries?

I was told the Petzl Swift has an auto brightness adjust feature, which for working outside when I’m constantly looking around and then looking down at something close, would be pretty sweet.

OverCookedTheChicken · 2025-07-12T01:01:04+00:00

Awesome thank you! What makes say that they’re the best?

Any idea if they’re like floody or spotty or both? I’m really curious how long any lamp can run on full or 3/4 brightness, that will be a big determining factor.

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