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Well, you should.  It's a false premise.  A person who is incapable of violence of any sort is by definition "peaceful".  This would include some of those who are incapable of "great violence".
It's also just pandering.

Meh. I think that empathy, kindness, and being protective are a good package deal. The problem is when you use your capacity for violent protectiveness as an identity and a badge of legitimacy. Which is what these fake alpha bro types (who Elon fancied himself one of, he’s pathetic) fancy themselves as.
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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Meh. I think that empathy, kindness, and being protective are a good package deal. 

Yeah, so?  That doesn't mean one must possess the "protective" characteristic (much less the capability of "great violence") to be peaceful.

It was a dumb statement, it is fundamentally wrong, and Elon is a twat who must likely lacks the very trait he imagines himself possessing.

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9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

He’s about to go through his Ayn Rand phase. 

Remember when this guy was the one blabbering about Ayn Rand? 
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1 hour ago, ultimaton said:

Mark Rober about to be designated a domestic terrorist 

 

58 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

The dude is really into science and a former NASA engineer so a good chance he was already thought of in that capacity. 

Lol, a good friend is a producer for the channel. He’s equally bemused and a bit down over the hate on Twitter for the video.

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42 minutes ago, YChang said:

 

Lol, a good friend is a producer for the channel. He’s equally bemused and a bit down over the hate on Twitter for the video.

How did he not see the hate coming? Elon turned Twitter into a hate machine to be deployed at anyone who says something he doesn’t like. 

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7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

How did he not see the hate coming? Elon turned Twitter into a hate machine to be deployed at anyone who says something he doesn’t like. 

I’m sure he likely expected it and he was still disappointed by it. 

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10 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Well, you should.  It's a false premise.  A person who is incapable of violence of any sort is by definition "peaceful".  This would include some of those who are incapable of "great violence".

It's also just pandering.

Moreover, there are plenty of peaceful folks that were not "harmless."  Ghandi, Jesus Christ (although I suppose Pops is capable of great violence), MLK, Bonhoeffer.

He acts as though he's spouting undiscovered main truths, when it's just inaccurate memeshit only undiscovered because his uncritical followers are morons.

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1 hour ago, YChang said:

 

Lol, a good friend is a producer for the channel. He’s equally bemused and a bit down over the hate on Twitter for the video.

I’m sure a lot of the hate is that the video is showing Autopilot but not Full Self Driving. The point is that this camera-only technology is bullshit and dangerous. LiDAR is the future and the Waymo + Uber partnership is adding to Elon’s downward spiral. 

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22 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Cringe posting in the middle of the night. 
 

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19 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

Nah he’s wrong. His cat vs human is dumb because if you get that cat in a bad spot it will do what it can to survive and you better believe that is great violence.

his real mistake is that he thinks weakness means you are hopeless and you're not. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug and can save your ass when you need it to. 

I've said it before and I'll say it again; so much of Elon's worldview is crystal clear when considered as that of a powerless young boy looking to his father for how to please him and earn his approval.

Regardless, he is promoting the hallmark fashy perspective wherein violence is "normalized as a legitimate form of political expression."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html

They handled the secure transport of nuclear materials — dangerous, demanding work that requires rigorous training. Four of them took the Trump administration’s offer of a buyout and left the National Nuclear Security Administration.

A half-dozen staff members left a unit in the agency that builds reactors for nuclear submarines.

And a biochemist and engineer who had recently joined the agency as head of the team that enforces safety and environmental standards at a Texas plant that assembles nuclear warheads was fired.

In the past six weeks, the agency, just one relatively small outpost in a federal work force that President Trump and his top adviser Elon Musk aim to drastically pare down, has lost a huge cadre of scientists, engineers, safety experts, project officers, accountants and lawyers — all in the midst of its most ambitious endeavors in a generation.

The nuclear agency, chronically understaffed but critically important, is the busiest it has been since the Cold War. It not only manages the nation’s 3,748 nuclear bombs and warheads, it is modernizing that arsenal — a $20-billion-a-year effort that will arm a new fleet of nuclear submarines, bomber jets and land-based missiles.

Since the last year of the first Trump administration, the agency has been desperately trying to build up its staff to handle the added workload. Though it was still hundreds of employees short of what it had said it needed, it had edged up to about 2,000 workers by January.

Now, with the Trump administration’s buyouts and firings, the agency’s trajectory has gone from one of painstaking growth to retraction.

More than 130 employees took the government’s offer of a payout to resign, according to internal agency documents obtained by The New York Times that have not previously been reported. Those departures, together with those of about 27 workers who were caught up in a mass firing and not rehired, wiped out most of the recent staffing gains.

Engaged in top-secret work, tucked away in the Energy Department, the agency typically stays below the public radar. But it has emerged as a headline example of how the Trump administration’s cuts, touted as a cure-all for supposed government extravagance and corruption, are threatening the muscle and bone of operations that involve national security or other missions at the very heart of the federal government’s responsibilities.

Free link for rest of article detailing specifics and how it hurts: https://archive.is/htd1I

A couple of quotes:

The [Energy] department has said that most of the fired employees handled administrative and clerical tasks that were not critical to the agency’s operation. But an analysis of the internal documents by The Times, coupled with interviews with 18 current and former agency officials, shows that is not true for the bulk of people who took the buyout.

Many who left held a top-secret security clearance, called Q, that gave them access to information about how nuclear weapons are designed, produced and used, officials said. The offer allowed them to go on administrative leave with pay through September, then resign.

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“This whole process of trying to downsize the government is being handled in the sloppiest, most irresponsible kind of way that one could imagine,” Mr. [Senator Angus] King said.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Many who left held a top-secret security clearance, called Q, that gave them access to information about how nuclear weapons are designed, produced and used, officials said. The offer allowed them to go on administrative leave with pay through September, then resign.

I just hope they find work with a western European country.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/business/social-security-doge-ssa.html

When Eleanor H., 66, called the Social Security Administration last month seeking details about her retirement benefits, she didn’t expect to comfort the representative who answered. The woman started sobbing.

“I asked her what was wrong, and she said she and her co-workers were informed by email to accept a taxable $20,000 payout or risk termination,” said Eleanor, who lives in New Jersey (she asked to use only her first name out of privacy concerns).

The rep still answered all of Eleanor’s questions. “Through her tears she said, ‘What am I going to do?’”

The Social Security Administration, which sends retirement, survivor and disability payments to 73 million people each month, has long been called the “third rail” of politics — largely untouchable given its widespread popularity and role as one of the country’s remaining safety nets.

But in recent weeks, the Trump administration, led by Elon Musk’s crew of cost cutters at the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has taken its chain saw to the agency’s operations. The agency has announced plans to cut up to 12 percent of its work force, at a time its staffing is at a 50-year low. It has also offered early retirement and other incentives, including payments up to $25,000, to the entire staff.

Many current and former Social Security officials fear the cuts could create gaping holes in the agency’s infrastructure, destabilizing the program, which keeps millions of people out of poverty and large percentages of retirees rely on for the bulk of their income.

The actions have caused Social Security employees and former commissioners and executives of both parties to sound alarm bells, saying it would be difficult to repair the damage, which could threaten access to benefits.

“Everything they have done so far is breaking the agency’s ability to serve the public,” said Martin O’Malley, the most recent former Social Security commissioner under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. He said he feared that Mr. Musk’s team had taken most of the actions necessary to create a total system collapse, whether in skyrocketing wait times for customer service, system interruptions or a timely payment of benefits.

Rest of article: https://archive.is/QLOGq

Some quotes:

Michael Astrue, a former agency commissioner appointed by President George W. Bush, said it appeared that Mr. Musk has imported the strategy he used when he bought Twitter, “where you go into some place established, level it and then figure you’re going to improvise your way out,” he said, speaking at a briefing on Thursday held by the National Academy of Social Insurance. “It’s extremely destructive.”

Jason Fichtner, who held several positions at the agency, including deputy commissioner and chief economist, put it even more bluntly at the briefing. “It’s more like a drunk operating a wrecking ball,” he said.

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Tiffany Flick, the agency’s former acting chief of staff with 30 years of service at Social Security, recently recounted the events around that episode, which also led to her retirement. She expressed deep concerns about the safety of the confidential data and the program overall, according to her sworn testimony on March 6 in a federal lawsuit. The data, she said, has already been misinterpreted and used to spread misinformation.

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Mr. Musk has said that he wants to cut waste, fraud and abuse at the agency, but he and President Trump have continued to repeat false claims that millions of dead people are collecting benefits.

In fact, the Social Security Office of the Inspector General, which is charged with uncovering fraud and inefficiencies, published a report in 2023 that explains why these people don’t have recorded deaths, but also do not collect checks.

“Both Musk and Trump are grossly mischaracterizing the death data,” said Kathleen Romig, director of Social Security and disability policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and a former agency adviser. (Mr. Trump also fired the acting inspector general.)

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On 3/16/2025 at 7:29 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

Cringe posting in the middle of the night. 
 

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I am thankful for one thing regarding Elon. 

Being able to tell my 1st grader that "the richest man in the world is also the most pathetic loser in the world" is a good life lesson. 

 

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15 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

I am thankful for one thing regarding Elon. 

Being able to tell my 1st grader that "the richest man in the world is also the most pathetic loser in the world" is a good life lesson. 

 

It really is amazing.  You can buy so, so, so many things.

But whether you are "a man" or not....shit, not only does money not buy that, having too much money may lead you down the wrong path of THINKING that you can buy it.

As just one example:

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Nobody is a genius/god-level at EVERYTHING.  A perfect example of Elon not getting that is his stupid and utterly pointless bragging about being one of the top players in the world of Diablo IV.  I mean....WTF?  Who fucking cares?  Be good at what you do, and what you are, and have the confidence to laugh and NOT be good about other things that maybe you enjoy, but you don't have the time to dedicate to it.

I'm really good at certain things.  Top of my game, recognized in my field, all the things that a man of a certain age should be.  But there are PLENTY of things I'm not good at, including things I enjoy.  Shit, I remember when my son would invite me to play Mario Kart with him when he was young.  It's fun as hell.  Also, I didn't play it frequently, so I wasn't that good at it. As he'd beat me, we'd laugh our asses off.  I didn't get mad, I didn't try to brag about how good I was at it.  I had better things to do with my time than become a Mario Kart expert.  And my ego was just fine with being lousy at it and being schooled by an 11 year old.

I'm also a mediocre to bad fly caster.  Don't care, still love to fish.  Can and do admire a good caster when I fish with one, and can laugh when I manage to pop myself in the back of the head with my own fly.

Elon can't do ANY of that.  If he does any activity....he has to insist that he's god-level at it.  No, Elon, you're not.  The only thing you're god-level at is being pathetic.  You can have $440 billion.  You can have $eleventy trillion.  All that proves is that you're good at exactly one thing -- gaming the system to make money (a nifty skill, good for you).  But all the money in the world won't make you a man, because you'll never be comfortable in your own skin and comfortable with your own limitations.  Instead, you'll lie about them....which is also something that a real man doesn't do, and doesn't feel the need to do.

TLDR; if you are a loser, all the money in the world won't change that.  You'll just be a rich loser.

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54 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

I say this as a military veteran who retired after a 20-year career on active duty… I can’t stand Chris Kyle “sheepdog” bros.   
 

They are only slightly more annoying than “Mama Bears.”

Two sides of the same generic garbageperson. 

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1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I am thankful for one thing regarding Elon. 

Being able to tell my 1st grader that "the richest man in the world is also the most pathetic loser in the world" is a good life lesson. 

Tell your first grader that the world’s richest man has jerked off into test tubes to father kids rather than doing the supermodel circuit.

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12 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Tell your first grader that the world’s richest man has jerked off into test tubes to father kids rather than doing the supermodel circuit.

C'mon, man. That is second grade subject matter. 

 

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On 3/16/2025 at 11:08 AM, SubliminalHorn said:

Now that is the perfect example of a warrior. Almost Greek statuesque 

He has the right color

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All his marbling is internal

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2 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

I say this as a military veteran who retired after a 20-year career on active duty… I can’t stand Chris Kyle “sheepdog” bros.   
 

They are only slightly more annoying than “Mama Bears.”

Can you decode this for us civilians?

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Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car
A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the automaker, whose sales had already been falling off a cliff in the important European market.

In 2024, Tesla saw a 41% reduction in sales in Germany compared to 2023 despite EV sales surging 27% during the year.

This has already raised red flags about Tesla’s future in Germany, but it is nothing compared to Tesla’s performance so far in 2025.

Tesla’s sales were down 70% in the first two months of 2025, and again, that’s compared to its already poor performance in 2024.

There are many factors at play, including increased EV competition and the Model Y changeover, but in recent months, industry experts have attributed Tesla’s decline in the country to Germans being upset with Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s meddling in local elections and promoting the far-right AfD party.

Musk is currently under probe in Europe for his political meddling, and his reputation has crashed in Germany after a couple of Seig Heil salutes at Trump’s inauguration and several questionable posts promoting fascist and Nazi ideologies, like this one yesterday:
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This does not help Tesla’s prospects in Europe, particularly Germany. Only 20% of voters sided with AfD, and Tesla shouldn’t necessarily count on them being potential customers.

AfD has been staunchly against Tesla and even ran ads like this:
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Now, a new survey of 100,000 Germans by T-Online about Tesla showed that only 3% of respondents would consider buying a Tesla vehicle:

It’s a rejection that couldn’t be clearer: More than 94 percent of t-online readers say they won’t buy a Tesla again. Only three percent said they would still consider a car from the former electric pioneer. Around 100,000 readers voted—a record turnout. The message is clear: Germans are turning their backs on Tesla.

Those are impressive results, and they explain Tesla’s current sales in Germany.

Some Tesla shareholders hope that the new version of the Model Y will help reverse the trend, but those poll results don’t look good.

Furthermore, Tesla’s Model 3 sales are also crashing in Germany, which suggests that Model Y is not the only problem.

Electrek’s Take
Those results are wild. We are back to like 2015 Tesla when no one knew or cared about the company.

Now, everyone knows about it, but no one wants to touch it.

Fortunately, it is coming at a time when there are plenty of other EV options, and it looks like the EV transition is going to continue in Germany, just without Tesla.

With these results, I’m starting to think that Tesla is going to have to scale back in Germany.

 

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

Can you decode this for us civilians?

In the movie "American Sniper" Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle gives a speech about how there are three types of people in the world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs.  Sheepdogs protect the sheep from the wolves.  I don't disagree with the aspiration to be a defender of those who are weaker, but a generation of military and faux-military meatheads latched on to this and made it their entire identity.  They carry everywhere and brag about being constantly on alert, scoping out every room they enter.  They make a big deal of never sitting with their back to a door and assessing the threat level of every person they encounter.

It's bullshit posturing.

 

 

 

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1 minute ago, Guadaloopy said:

In the movie "American Sniper" Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle gives a speech about how there are three types of people in the world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs.  Sheepdogs protect the sheep from the wolves.  I don't disagree with the aspiration to be a defender of those who are weaker, but a generation of military and faux-military meatheads latched on to this and made it their entire identity.  They carry everywhere and brag about being constantly on alert, scoping out every room they enter.  They make a big deal of never sitting with their back to a door and assessing the threat level of every person they encounter.

Yeah, I saw the film but didn't connect it to your reference.  Thanks.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

It really is amazing.  You can buy so, so, so many things.

But whether you are "a man" or not....shit, not only does money not buy that, having too much money may lead you down the wrong path of THINKING that you can buy it.

As just one example:

e5fcbc686994a578e69ec56027bbf6ea57bef81b

Nobody is a genius/god-level at EVERYTHING.  A perfect example of Elon not getting that is his stupid and utterly pointless bragging about being one of the top players in the world of Diablo IV.  I mean....WTF?  Who fucking cares?  Be good at what you do, and what you are, and have the confidence to laugh and NOT be good about other things that maybe you enjoy, but you don't have the time to dedicate to it.

I'm really good at certain things.  Top of my game, recognized in my field, all the things that a man of a certain age should be.  But there are PLENTY of things I'm not good at, including things I enjoy.  Shit, I remember when my son would invite me to play Mario Kart with him when he was young.  It's fun as hell.  Also, I didn't play it frequently, so I wasn't that good at it. As he'd beat me, we'd laugh our asses off.  I didn't get mad, I didn't try to brag about how good I was at it.  I had better things to do with my time than become a Mario Kart expert.  And my ego was just fine with being lousy at it and being schooled by an 11 year old.

I'm also a mediocre to bad fly caster.  Don't care, still love to fish.  Can and do admire a good caster when I fish with one, and can laugh when I manage to pop myself in the back of the head with my own fly.

Elon can't do ANY of that.  If he does any activity....he has to insist that he's god-level at it.  No, Elon, you're not.  The only thing you're god-level at is being pathetic.  You can have $440 billion.  You can have $eleventy trillion.  All that proves is that you're good at exactly one thing -- gaming the system to make money (a nifty skill, good for you).  But all the money in the world won't make you a man, because you'll never be comfortable in your own skin and comfortable with your own limitations.  Instead, you'll lie about them....which is also something that a real man doesn't do, and doesn't feel the need to do.

TLDR; if you are a loser, all the money in the world won't change that.  You'll just be a rich loser.

I don't disagree with anything you wrote (I, too, am a mediocre fly caster), I am just not sure Elon is bragging about his Diablo skills solely to fill some inner psychological need.  I think just as Trump has managed to make himself relatable to the disenfranchised working class white male, Elon is making himself relatable to a lost generation of angry young males (many under the age of 18) who are estranged from the opposite sex and spend the majority of their time online playing video games.  You've seen what Trump was able to do with his following.  I wonder what Elon's planning to do with his?

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18 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

In the movie "American Sniper" Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle gives a speech about how there are three types of people in the world: sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs.  Sheepdogs protect the sheep from the wolves.  I don't disagree with the aspiration to be a defender of those who are weaker, but a generation of military and faux-military meatheads latched on to this and made it their entire identity.  They carry everywhere and brag about being constantly on alert, scoping out every room they enter.  They make a big deal of never sitting with their back to a door and assessing the threat level of every person they encounter.

It's bullshit posturing.

 

 

 

 

Wasn't Kyle also a liar? Lying at his military accolades and even crazy things like saying he once Punched Jesse Ventura?

 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

It really is amazing.  You can buy so, so, so many things.

But whether you are "a man" or not....shit, not only does money not buy that, having too much money may lead you down the wrong path of THINKING that you can buy it.

As just one example:

e5fcbc686994a578e69ec56027bbf6ea57bef81b

Nobody is a genius/god-level at EVERYTHING.  A perfect example of Elon not getting that is his stupid and utterly pointless bragging about being one of the top players in the world of Diablo IV.  I mean....WTF?  Who fucking cares?  Be good at what you do, and what you are, and have the confidence to laugh and NOT be good about other things that maybe you enjoy, but you don't have the time to dedicate to it.

I'm really good at certain things.  Top of my game, recognized in my field, all the things that a man of a certain age should be.  But there are PLENTY of things I'm not good at, including things I enjoy.  Shit, I remember when my son would invite me to play Mario Kart with him when he was young.  It's fun as hell.  Also, I didn't play it frequently, so I wasn't that good at it. As he'd beat me, we'd laugh our asses off.  I didn't get mad, I didn't try to brag about how good I was at it.  I had better things to do with my time than become a Mario Kart expert.  And my ego was just fine with being lousy at it and being schooled by an 11 year old.

I'm also a mediocre to bad fly caster.  Don't care, still love to fish.  Can and do admire a good caster when I fish with one, and can laugh when I manage to pop myself in the back of the head with my own fly.

Elon can't do ANY of that.  If he does any activity....he has to insist that he's god-level at it.  No, Elon, you're not.  The only thing you're god-level at is being pathetic.  You can have $440 billion.  You can have $eleventy trillion.  All that proves is that you're good at exactly one thing -- gaming the system to make money (a nifty skill, good for you).  But all the money in the world won't make you a man, because you'll never be comfortable in your own skin and comfortable with your own limitations.  Instead, you'll lie about them....which is also something that a real man doesn't do, and doesn't feel the need to do.

TLDR; if you are a loser, all the money in the world won't change that.  You'll just be a rich loser.

I love playing Halo with my sons on Co-op, even now as grown ass men.  I'm forever stuck in the 2000-2012 when the Master Chief ruled them all.  But I suck at Halo.  I struggle to be competitive on Heroic, and Legendary is just like a joke. 

I can talk the Pope into buying a pack of Trojan Magnums, but I can't head shot an Elite to save my god damn life, and I'm hopeless on multi player, so when my kids go online to play shooters, I log off and call it a night, cause they dont need my lame ass in the corner, shooting the wall. 

A man has to know his limitations. 

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4 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

 

Wasn't Kyle also a liar? Lying at his military accolades and even crazy things like saying he once Punched Jesse Ventura?

 

I knew a SOF trainer doing his rotation at the Pentagon when I lived in VA.  He once told me that if you believed all the stories that those guys tell, the Ayatollah has been killed about 50 times over. 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

It really is amazing.  You can buy so, so, so many things.

But whether you are "a man" or not....shit, not only does money not buy that, having too much money may lead you down the wrong path of THINKING that you can buy it.

As just one example:

e5fcbc686994a578e69ec56027bbf6ea57bef81b

Nobody is a genius/god-level at EVERYTHING.  A perfect example of Elon not getting that is his stupid and utterly pointless bragging about being one of the top players in the world of Diablo IV.  I mean....WTF?  Who fucking cares?  Be good at what you do, and what you are, and have the confidence to laugh and NOT be good about other things that maybe you enjoy, but you don't have the time to dedicate to it.

I'm really good at certain things.  Top of my game, recognized in my field, all the things that a man of a certain age should be.  But there are PLENTY of things I'm not good at, including things I enjoy.  Shit, I remember when my son would invite me to play Mario Kart with him when he was young.  It's fun as hell.  Also, I didn't play it frequently, so I wasn't that good at it. As he'd beat me, we'd laugh our asses off.  I didn't get mad, I didn't try to brag about how good I was at it.  I had better things to do with my time than become a Mario Kart expert.  And my ego was just fine with being lousy at it and being schooled by an 11 year old.

I'm also a mediocre to bad fly caster.  Don't care, still love to fish.  Can and do admire a good caster when I fish with one, and can laugh when I manage to pop myself in the back of the head with my own fly.

Elon can't do ANY of that.  If he does any activity....he has to insist that he's god-level at it.  No, Elon, you're not.  The only thing you're god-level at is being pathetic.  You can have $440 billion.  You can have $eleventy trillion.  All that proves is that you're good at exactly one thing -- gaming the system to make money (a nifty skill, good for you).  But all the money in the world won't make you a man, because you'll never be comfortable in your own skin and comfortable with your own limitations.  Instead, you'll lie about them....which is also something that a real man doesn't do, and doesn't feel the need to do.

TLDR; if you are a loser, all the money in the world won't change that.  You'll just be a rich loser.

I’m with you, man.  In my early 40s there’s a few things I can do with the best of them.  Put a football through a tire at 30 yards with a tight spiral.  Sling 90 mph heat in the zone for at least three innings before my arm tires.  Rebuild a Weber carb.  Speak six languages (well, and I’m also fair at reading Latin and a Greek).  
Keep beautiful women hanging on my every word through dinner, take them back home, and leave them aching but wanting more the next morning. 
 

But yeah, video games. My Achilles heel.  I was just spending too much time working on my sub-4 mile and summiting all the 14k peaks in the Western hemisphere. 

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13 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

I’m with you, man.  In my early 40s there’s a few things I can do with the best of them.  Put a football through a tire at 30 yards with a tight spiral.  Sling 90 mph heat in the zone for at least three innings before my arm tires.  Rebuild a Weber carb.  Speak six languages (well, and I’m also fair at reading Latin and a Greek).  
Keep beautiful women hanging on my every word through dinner, take them back home, and leave them aching but wanting more the next morning. 
 

But yeah, video games. My Achilles heel.  I was just spending too much time working on my sub-4 mile and summiting all the 14k peaks in the Western hemisphere. 

Lifes tough when you got a big dick. 

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Or so I've heard. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:

I love playing Halo with my sons on Co-op, even now as grown ass men.  I'm forever stuck in the 2000-2012 when the Master Chief ruled them all.  But I suck at Halo.  I struggle to be competitive on Heroic, and Legendary is just like a joke. 

I can talk the Pope into buying a pack of Trojan Magnums, but I can't head shot an Elite to save my god damn life, and I'm hopeless on multi player, so when my kids go online to play shooters, I log off and call it a night, cause they dont need my lame ass in the corner, shooting the wall. 

A man has to know his limitations. 

You sir, understand my plight.

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Posted
On 3/16/2025 at 7:29 AM, 956 Worldwide said:

Cringe posting in the middle of the night. 
 

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Looks to me like someone put on a suit of armor because they are scared of getting fucked up by a cat. 

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