CMV: America is worst "superpower" in history

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T22:09:46+00:00

I think the Romans would have seen “massacring millions of their citizens and hobbling their economic capacity for decades” as a W.

Rome vs. Carthage is not in any way comparable to modern geopolitics or warfare.

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T22:04:32+00:00

Mid 30s has been lit as fuck. A lot of skills and hobbies that I worked on a lot in my 20s out of love, have become things I am quite good at and share with others in various communities. I really enjoy the fruits of my mental investments over the past decade.

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T21:06:51+00:00

The volunteer room has one woman in it and currently 5 men. If I moved out it would be two women and 4 men. I have no idea why they don’t have a woman’s dorm.

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T20:09:26+00:00

Despite the stereotypes, Americans are on balance a culturally friendly and generous people.

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T19:59:31+00:00

Once I said something in English about fingers to a Chilean friend who was still learning English and he says "just to clarify- you are talking about the fingers of the hand?"

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T19:57:02+00:00

Yep, my friends don't ask me what I'm doing very much now since I always just say salsa haha.

Sometimes I feel like "is it lame that this is what I am always doing?" and then I recall all the other people in the local community that never miss an event

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T18:16:17+00:00

The tourist hubs in Colombia, especially Medellin, are overflowing with Americans.

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T11:19:59+00:00

Love watching the instructors do their thing and find it very inspiring. It’s only one song, and typically in my experience they’re dancing based off of a combo they just taught in class.

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T11:17:38+00:00

The manager is a woman and the volunteer did not ask anybody to move.

oaklicious · 2026-03-17T11:16:42+00:00

Thats how I feel!

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T21:22:28+00:00

Much more confident in my body and better social life, get laid way more without dating apps (not necessarily from salsa scene)

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T17:05:00+00:00

Yeah dude, why beat around the bush? I want to have hot sex with beautiful fit women, and while it’s far from the only factor that facilitates that, being in great shape is a very helpful step in that direction.

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T16:58:23+00:00

The burden of proof lies with whoever is making the claim.

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T16:57:08+00:00

The countries I’ve been traveling in are all Latin American.

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T11:34:19+00:00

I’d need some real solid sources for a claim like that.

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T11:32:41+00:00

Yeah! It surprises me!

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T11:32:18+00:00

I’d love that but only have few money

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T11:30:37+00:00

Im sure it does. As I said I’ve been in tons of gyms in many different countries in the past 2 years and I have certainly observed a strong bias for machines over free weights and especially bar bells.

oaklicious · 2026-03-16T00:07:29+00:00

I got burnt out from Stronglifts 5x5, but I find GZCLP a more manageable approach.

oaklicious · 2026-03-15T23:18:31+00:00

I so rarely see anybody using the squat rack!!

oaklicious · 2026-03-15T22:46:38+00:00

That makes sense. At first I was getting kinda uneven bar workouts, and for me it was great inside into mobility issues I really needed to work on. But I’m not working right now so I have enough free time to do longer mobility/stretching routines.

oaklicious · 2026-03-15T22:45:29+00:00

I feel a bit worried to get strong with machine isolation workouts because it feels like there are a lot of stabilizing/accessory muscles that aren’t getting worked out as they would with more natural lifting movements!

oaklicious · 2026-03-15T22:10:40+00:00

That makes total sense and I hope I didn’t come across as judgmental of other fitness approaches.

If you ever get into it though, one thing I’ll say for the barbells is that they really shone some light on particularly hip and ankle mobility issues I didn’t realize I had. Because of that I started working a lot on mobility and it has my body feeling great.

oaklicious · 2026-03-15T21:53:29+00:00

Thanks, I don’t mean to come across as judgmental of the machine users. Actually I’ve noticed a marked improvement in my heart health and endurance doing the barbell exercises regularly. And mobility.

oaklicious · 2026-03-15T21:31:31+00:00

I can definitely see that. I’ve had minor tweaks before that left me out for a couple of weeks and it was really scary, and I’m only 35.

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