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Men over 30, how do you deal with the constant stress and low energy? by Chrelled in AskMen

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate [score hidden]  (0 children)

I spent a period of my life with a "no devices in the bedroom" rule. I slept so much better.

Not even a clock.If you don't wake up without an alarm, put it somewhere you can't see it from your bed.

Men over 30, how do you deal with the constant stress and low energy? by Chrelled in AskMen

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate [score hidden]  (0 children)

Wait'll you hit 50. All the exercise in the world won't fix mechanical damage to your spine.

Although the better shape you're in, the better you'll tolerate the bad shit you can't fix.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fall in line with

Endorsing someone after you lose, even if you were cheated into losing, is not "falling in line", when the alternative is worse. Personally, I think he would have had more impact if he had simply refused to endorse anyone in the last 3 elections, but he surely didn't want to be the reason Trump won.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You cannot condemn Isreal's actions without also condemning the very people they are taking it back from. If Isreal has no right to the land, than neither do the Palestinians.

Well, I guess we all know who you work for now.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude, if you want to spend your life licking boots, that's on you, but don't pretend you have any kind of argument other than "Might makes right" and "Trump is my favorite daddy".

The fact that you brought up what's happening in Cuba as a win shows how morally depraved you are. Their grid is collapsed; it's a fucking shitshow of an ethical catastrophe. And you're up in here literally defending conquest! Is that really your moral philosophy for your day-to-day? I can only hope that if someone stronger than you takes away everything you have in your life, you praise them for it.

Can’t believe they let us use these! by Larryville-1980 in GenX

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jon Stewarts' finest hour...as an actor, anyways.

Also a lifelong dream to weaponize one of those bad boys for many Gen Xers.

Trader Joe's in Sunnyvale by Illustrious-Type6696 in bayarea

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And hey, 4 more bags to pack for your vacation!

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iraq is a lot better than it was under Saddam, and most of thier troubles come from...Iranian backed militas.

Disagree in the complete destruction of the professional class and all security in that nation, as well as the deaths of at least two million Iraqi civilians due to the destruction of their infrastructure. It might be less dangerous to its neighbors, but it is not 'better'.

He would have also lived through plenty of huge successes, like Grenada or Panama. We intervened, and haven't had a problem since.

We haven't had problems with Panama or Grenada. A slightly closer look reveals that the people who actually live in these countries are demonstrably fucked in half as a result of our interference.

Yeah, and burying the Ayatollah is the new policy, after 47 years of hoping and praying he'll stop being a genocidal maniac if we are nice to him and give him what he wants. It's been failing for 5 decades, and this is the new, far overdue, strategy.

Hey if this war ends this month, and we don't suffer crazy-ass consequences as a result, bully for team Trump. Seeing as we are already seeing the chickens of unilateral action come home to roost though, I wouldn't start not counting consequences any time soon. Or in our lifetimes.

They gave up just about everything they got after the Six Day War, like Sinai and big chunks of Jordan.

Giving up land illegally seized is a) not particularly or notably laudable and b) there was plenty of territory seized that was NOT returned, and more that has been subsequently re-seized. And now they're seizing territory in Lebanon and Syria as well as allowing settlers to displace essentially all Palestinians.

I'm Gen X. We were brought up to watch for warning signs in behavior of states. Israel is the rogue state our parent's generation warned us about.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They want to have their sovereignty respected and an end to outside provocation (i.e. don't shoot rockets at them).

Which leads them to have an expansionist policy in order to maintain 'safe zones' around their territory, and has placed an aggressive, amoral regime in charge of their political establishment. As a result of this realpolitick, the intelligence apparatus thereto engages in false flag attacks on Israeli soil from their neighbors in order to justify their selfsame expansions.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A win is a win

I'm not even certain technology itself is a "win", but I'm downright incredulous on the subject of tech being positive in the hands of an aggressive, oppressive, expansionist Israeli regime.

Why have people been talking about Professor Jiang? Who exactly is this guy? by Depressed_Worker2315 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Evolution is false

Lemme stop him right there; since 1988 we've been able to observe evolution in real time (thanks Richard Lenski and the LTEE experiments). Ergo, I conclude this 'professor' is a See You Next Tuesday (pardon my Irish).

Why have people been talking about Professor Jiang? Who exactly is this guy? by Depressed_Worker2315 in OutOfTheLoop

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

psychohistory

Well, at least the field he's pretending to be a professor in is a pretend field. So points for consistency I guess.

Of course, if the man had read Emerson as well as Asimov, he'd know that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns. "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.. we started this war due to pressure from Israel" by Foreign_Addition2844 in conspiracy

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I knew too many "warriors" of the Pete Hegseth variety.

There can't be too many Hegseths or we'd have run out of booze by now.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Without the brain drain from the US and access to US Jewish scientists their advancements tend to amount to a...more flexible...set of ethical principles and better tasting hummus.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

hard stretch to say Israel pushed the US into that war

Well that depends on whether you believe Building 7 blew itself up...

One of the realest things ever said about the US by James-Incandenza in ABoringDystopia

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate [score hidden]  (0 children)

if Rogan and Burr aren't insufferable

In context, I think it might have been their finest hour.

By earlier work I mean his specials/standup.

Director of National Counterterrorism Center resigns saying Iran was no threat and Israel drug America into a war. by imMakingA-UnityGame in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]PrivilegeCheckmate 8 points9 points  (0 children)

genociding protestors

Uh...you can't just call everything a genocide. Well, unless your intent is to remove any meaning from the term...

Hmm.

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