Then die.
"Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older
A story that changed my life, never gets old to revisit, and should be standard reading for every man, young and old.
Take five minutes and read this, you will not regret it.
IRON AND THE SOUL
by Henry Rollins
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You need to be schizomaxxing. You need to be reading between the lines.
You need to be considering student loan deferral complacency entrapment as a last-resort no-alternatives recruiting tool. Why was the United States Postal Service exempt from mandatory vaccination? You need
Epic Beard Man's Replacement Theory Revisionism
Recall the 2010 viral sensation "Epic Beard Man" / "Amber Lamps" video; a bus beatdown.
For the unaware: in 2010, a white 67-year-old Vietnam veteran, Thomas Bruso, was riding Oakland public transit before getting into an
So, why did Joel Schumacher deliberately switch the races and lied about this?
By lying about victims and perpetrators in movies and novels such as this, media elites control the narrative, turning the victims into the guilty, and the guilty into the “oppressed victim”.
@MattWalshBlog
Matt, yes hello... I largely agree with you here, but objectively I don't think the German National Socialists were proponents of the transgender agenda.
Speaking of which... Did we ever figure out what kind of books were they burning, anyway?
@ghostbrowser8
@Spottedcanine
they killed the cyclist, Andreas Probst
17-yo driver was apprehended and facing manslaughter charges; a great candidate for reinstating public execution
Cologne, 1900;
Notice the wide streets, uncrowded by homeless or unnecessary traffic. The casual beauty, how old seamlessly integrates with new. This was the world your forefathers took as baseline.
It's October, so I'll share a true spooky tale you likely haven't heard.
It involves multiple unsolved murders, a peculiar floor of ninety-six year old building where things inexplicably seem to happen, the US Government, and the growth of the fine West Texas town of Lubbock.
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Spent hours poring over Soldier of Fortune magazines at the Barnes & Noble as a young man. Aside from the very crass, no-frills reporting on obscure conflicts worldwide, one of my favorite parts was looking through all of the wild adverts.
Best of classic SOF ads & classifieds🧵
"Civil War"
Why make this film? What is the story about? What is the underlying theme? Who are the "sides"?
A rough analysis of the recently released trailer.
What do you think?
Technically Speaking: from Vedic Chariots to War Toyotas
Improvised, non-standard, and expeditiously modified light mobility tactical vehicles in battle across history; The Technical.
A thread.🧵
Earlier this month, Twitter severely throttled service.
Rampant speculation ensued, but now we are learning it was due to four John Does in Dallas trying to pull every tweet ever made.
Surely it is a coincidence that AT&T/NSA surveillance building is also in Old East Dallas.
Food Additive Bill 418 Clears in California; many view this as a bellwether for nation
Gavin Newsom signed Bill 418, which will prohibit any food product manufactured, sold, delivered, distributed, held, or offered for sale in California after January 1, 2027, from containing:
For ages, men have had fire in their eyes
When they approach, wrongdoers must run, or do what they can
No one wants to be defeated; when playin' with your life, this ain't no truth or dare
They'll kick you and beat you, and tell you it's fair
So beat it, when you wanna be bad
"bro, let's take a photo on this old tractor"
Talking to President Biden about levying more taxes and children.. while drunk at a hard cider bar, classic.
Big B's is an old Apple Orchard purchased by Jeff Schwartz in 2002 now a CO institution + apple distributor for hard cider.
Nile Be Dammed
Hydro-terraforming, the lost Labyrinth of Egypt, extreme engineering, Cold War Geopolitics, the Ziggurat of Ur, and the flooding of tens of thousands of years of history.
A thread about the Aswan Dams.🧵
Part of the
#DendurNovember
series.
Buy your kids their first car.
A rebuttal to Dave Ramsey's notion that buying your child a car will set child up for a life of unrealistic expectations is peak boomer rhetoric akin to kicking them out of house at 18 and/or blowing inheritance on lush twilight years, and
The best thing to do for your kids is have them buy their own cars.
When you buy new cars for teenagers, you're setting them up for a life of ridiculous expectations. Think about their future.
If you have enough cash set aside, you and your child could agree on a matching plan
@DavidZipper
@USDOT
@FastCompany
Contrarily, as cars become safer, smarter, and more capable.. the answer is unequivocally not to limit top end speed.
The answer is to embrace the speed and embrace logic.
A thread🧵:
The answer to most traffic situations is to simply drive faster.
Stream-of-consciousness about congested streets, fast driving, and impact of global immigration while I sip my morning cup of go-fast ☕️🧵
For starters, imagine if passing lane was clear:
@pope_head
@autumngroyper
The fact you perceive BAP and his sphere as having even a semblance of a sustainable political endeavor 😂
Also - ironic how swiftly you are to criticize Fuentes' movement for exhibiting the same theatrical components that are evident within BAP and his elk.
For first time in our nation's history, families like mine who've fought in every major conflict since 1776 are told our services are no longer required, because we are of European descent.
Where does this lead?
+
Who is
@GenCQBrownJr
, the man driving this extreme initiative?
SSG Cindy Rena Bronson is a 88M Motor Transport Operator Staff Non-Commissioned Officer stationed out of Fort Bliss
She would be involved in coordinating the bus for the field trip, not pulling the trigger.
Shame on you,
@Nuggetsnchicken
can you even max DL?
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@FortBlissTexas
Wow so I was unaware I’m trending on Twitter 😂 thank you for all the love and support. Remember the video posted is informative of the insurrection act and not my opinion. My views are my own and I do not speak for the military or any other entity.
@mcuban
@ParkerMalloy
Mark anyone with any basic coherence over the past decade knows the exact opposite is true, consistently and almost comically rearranging what he "literally" says.
Show me one example of where MSM has ever "protected" President Trump.
Disingenuous and laughable, try again.
@Scearpo
In the morning if my face is a little puffy I'll put on an Kirkland Signature ice pack while doing stomach crunches. I can do 1000 now. After I remove the ice pack I use a Kirkland Signature Borghese deep pore cleanser lotion. In the shower I use a Kirkland Signature water
Everyone is talking about theatrics of opening ceremony while overlooking the reality that despite being ~80% of the 594 athletes on United States Olympic Team being White, the NBC opening ceremony coverage almost exclusively interviewed Black athletes.
Every four years, this website re-discovers competitive shooting and fixates on one (1) Asian woman in the Olympics for like 6 days. It's insufferable, but not nearly as bad as the obsession with the beast known as "Simone Biles."
At a refreshing 40 years of age come inauguration, Vance will be third youngest Vice President in history of United States, and the first VP under 50 in 30 years.
Representing the median age of workforce, he will have reverberating effects on stale and aging political landscape.
Napoleon’s Impact
Some skeptics even speculate if Giza's Great Pyramids existed before Napoleon..
Before brushing this off.. consider the theory; I came across and was ready to dismiss, but it was so thoroughly purported that it is worth amplifying to a wider audience.
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I have noticed lots of chatter lately on Shipping Container warfare.
About a decade ago, after the last major training evolution of Infantry Officer Course, cadre member took us from blazing Mojave summer heat into a frigid room, and played this video:
Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs.
Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.
Organized/armed urban assault convoy interdicts/carjacks man in Chicago's Wicker Park (home to some of most expensive real estate in city; median over $550,000)
What is solution?
Both immediate (avoiding/evading)?
...and long term?
Complacency kills.
8 people were robbed in a 30-minute crime spree across Wicker Park and Logan Square yesterday afternoon. Another man was carjacked in Wicker Park overnight.
Just spoke with CG desk NCO (good dude) he has already received 20+ calls from concerned citizens and veterans this morning.
Her unit was briefed and the CG is getting briefed as he leaves his next meeting.
Enjoy your day, Cindy.
Ductus Exemplo
Semper Fidelis
God Bless America
WAR: What's next?
◦ Israel counterattacks and invokes Article 40 Aleph; declaring war for first time since Yom Kippur War in 1973.. against whom?
◦ Hamas / Hezbollah forces in region begin to amass, sending call to the Arab world to prepare for jihad
◦ Across Western
@SecretaryPete
What are you on about, now?
"Parents:
Please teach your children to only use crosswalks and respect the multiple tons of steel that travel at high velocities."
Toute pitié sera étouffée par l'habitude des actions atroces. sortie brûlante de l'enfer, l'ombre de César promènera sa vengeance, criant d'une voix puissante dans l'intérieur de nos frontières: Carnage! et alors seront lâchés les chiens de la guerre!
Walt Disney will replace Benjamin Franklin on the hundred dollar bill from January 1st, 2023 to June 1, 2024, for Disney’s 100th anniversary celebration.
This bill will be legal tender and can be used at any store, like any other US currency.
In Disney fashion, let's imagine..
The enemy is not a computer. The enemy is human; other Battle Mech commanders, like you!
History of the first virtual sport: THE BATTLETECH CENTER
A look at the brainchild of a USMMA drop out with the right timing, tech, & pods, DARPA, Simulation History, AI, M&A, VR, & Net
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Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
Literally Me
A blonde haired AR-wielding heritage American
No surprise the most villainous leader is yet another
#aryanantagonist
; the standard for decades, with "bad guys" disproportionately being represented as such
Can you think of 5 Germanic/Nordic protagonists?
Doubtful
No news is bad news
It certainly won't be the press, with the Girlboss protagonist Dunst and her entourage gallivanting across the conflict zone in a clearly marked white press Ford Excursion.. they will almost certainly represent all current talking points of the current regime
I believe that the definition of definition is reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself.
Completely.
When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents.
It took me years to fully appreciate the value of the lessons I have learned from the Iron. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest
I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting
That which you work against will always work against you.
It wasn’t until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking,
Race Quotas in US Military
You may have seen news of outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair, General Milley, and wondered who his replacement is?
Charles Q. Brown Jr. is a USAF General who will take JCS reins on 1 October
Here's a thread on his main intiative: reducing whites🧵:
So who is driving this most egregious action?
The soon-to-be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stuff, General Brown.
A slack-jawed man who embodies the victim mentality, and is now taking his revenge against those he very clearly views as domestic enemies.
Very dangerous waters.
Yukio Mishima said that he could not entertain the idea of romance if he was not strong. Romance is such a strong and overwhelming passion, a weakened body cannot sustain it for long. I have some of my most romantic thoughts when I am with the Iron.
47 years ago Lynyrd Skynyrd performed in Oakland, California in front of an enormous rebel flag to a massive, entirely White audience. You can't understand what they're doing to Springfield, Ohio until you understand what they already did to Oakland, California. This was America.
@DiscussingFilm
With these sectors of fire, are they preventing water access to Jersey?
Maritime interdiction/overwatch (will statue park be a critical control point?)
Interesting, curious to see where they go with this film and underlying intent
The big brain counter here is for a Rhodesian Brushstroke MAGA hat.
Nothing has been reclaimed.
H/W Realtree is same vibes as toting a carpet bag in Mississippi in the 1870s
That’s the genius work of this one small bit of Harris/Walz merch: the camouflage hat reclaims the rural and Southern identity that mainstream Democrats have long ignored.
Dems are finally embracing country music fans:
On sight
Further drawing lines, antagonists openly target journalists
This will subtly reinforce stereotypes of anon voices vs established MSM.
It will be a critical role of film to peck away at credibility of those who do not trust "the narrative"
So who are the bad guys?
The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.
Nailed It
No HOGs, here. Another great frame analysis from
@_HARVEY__DENT_
:
At quick glance, I thought the sniper was a 2024 iteration of bleached-hair Asian sensation, Sang, from Jackie Chan's Rush Hour.. but it turns out they/them is a transmogrified hair-died nail painted
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.
I have never met a truly strong person who didn’t have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone’s shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working
Despite the constant negative press, there may be a biological reason the Roman salute has held such intrinsic power across the centuries..
It quite literally gets your blood flowing.
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Weeks passed, and every once in a while Mr. P. would give me a shot and drop me in the hallway, sending my books flying. The other students didn’t know what to think. More weeks passed, and I was steadily adding new weights to the bar. I could sense the power inside my body
Once I was in love with a woman. I thought about her the most when the pain from a workout was racing through my body.
Everything in me wanted her. So much so that sex was only a fraction of my total desire. It was the single most intense love I have ever felt, but she lived far
WaPo reports Daniel Penny was a Marine Corps Infantry Unit Leader; a Sergeant.
One does not attain that level without
extreme moral scrutiny.
In urban warzone of New York City, he was first to fight for right and freedom.
Now he will keep his honor clean.
Semper Fidelis.
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver.
Speaking as a suburban white guy raised evangecal the first time you have good naan and curry is the moment you realize you were birthed of a failed civilization
It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me. Learning about what you’re made of is always time well spent, and I have found no better teacher. The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down