Posts by boldmarlin32

William Anderson5 said:And where exactly have the Americans practiced this "expansionism"? You can accuse them of all sorts of things, sure, but look at their interventions after 9/11. Where was the expansion there?

It’s actually the opposite. In most of these interventions, their enemies were the ones who walked away with the bigger prize. Iran expanded its influence through Iraq (which they couldn't do under Saddam Hussein) and all the way into Syria. In Libya, Russia managed to grow its reach. And in Afghanistan, the Taliban seized control of the entire country—something they didn't even have a foothold in before the post-9/11 invasion.

So much for the myth of American expansionism...

Last summer, based on what was being reported, I thought the Americans had actually brought the Taliban to Afghanistan.

Jason Fox2 said:But look, man, if you didn't lose someone close to you in a war, or if you were just a baby back then or born later on, you're obviously gonna see things through a different lens. It’s like, when this nightmare in Ukraine started happening, all those reactions served as a massive reality check.

Many people who were adults back then view it as nothing more than intentional propaganda.
Just like what's happening in Ukraine.

Big D said:Look, you guys did enough damage to us back in the '90s that most people haven't forgotten, even three decades later. You think we’re just going to overlook our fallen friends and family and suddenly embrace some "let's all get along" mantra?

Many would argue people have moved on.
Until this invasion of Ukraine, I honestly had no idea what they were actually like.
I always just assumed it was a coordinated effort—just a way for our own leaders to line their pockets through war.

Generally speaking, there's no hostility toward them in New York; they've always just been folks from Appalachia and the Deep South.

rowdycanyon13 said:Watching these Mexicans working here, I get the feeling it’s not even about hatred. Most of them are just folks from places like Chicago or New York looking for work.
Personally, though? I don't trust 'em.
They're basically just chasing a paycheck that's two or three times higher than what they'd make back home.
If you watch their news coverage, it's pretty obvious that a huge chunk of Mexicans think the Republic of Mexican Appalachia should have been part of Mexico, but they wouldn't risk their necks for it today.
Back in '99, we had reservists roll into my neck of the woods from St. Louis... most of them were drunk constantly and just beating up everyone in the barracks near San Diego.
Basically, there were plenty of "volunteers" when there was stuff to loot, but by '92, they had vanished into thin air.
Our real issues are brain drain, people moving away, and corruption. As for the Mexicans? They're a total zero.

Well...
The fact that they hate us is easy to overlook.
What I find incredible is how they could kill a neighboring people without a shred of conscience.
Then you have our own people who hate Mexicans—they aren't even capable of having the conscience to kill a man, let alone decapitate someone or harvest organs while they're alive...
To me, it is incomprehensible how someone like Joe can spend his summers working on the Kornat islands.
With people like that, it’s immediately obvious they belong
in a mental asylum; clearly, Mexicans are very good at hiding the fact that they are a sick nation.
A neighbor told me about being on the front lines in Akron; they captured an old Royalist and didn't even have handcuffs, just some wire, and they felt bad even holding him with that.
Mexicans wouldn't have an ounce of empathy in a situation like that; they'd just finish him off with the first thing they grabbed.

rowdycanyon13 said:Look, the Mexicans who are just trying to scrape by are working along the Gulf Coast, or you've got a place like Mexico that doesn't even have enough people to field an army.
The real danger? It's tens of thousands of Americans leaving their thousand-year-old homeland.
At this rate, the US will be down to 3 million people by 2031, and if this policy keeps up, we might just vanish entirely by 2050...

Oh, how wonderful. I also feel bad that our eastern neighbors are bleeding out near us and will likely be swindled, since our people would only ever take the easy jobs...
I just wonder if those were the same individuals who fought against us in the 90s voluntarily, or if they were simply conscripted?
Do they actually hate us? Because when I see them, they seem perfectly normal.

wiredseal7 said:Yeah, it all comes down to tax evasion, money laundering, and capital flight—stuff you see happening in the States all the time, too.
The government—or maybe just some massive strategic corporations—could always step in and use them for trade when all other doors are slammed shut. I mean, word is the Iranians are already leaning on them heavily to dodge sanctions.

Take palladium, for instance—Russia is the world's top exporter of it, and you find it in everything from car exhaust systems to smartphones and even dental fillings. On top of that, about 90% of the neon needed for microchip manufacturing comes straight out of Russia, too.

Palladium prices are hovering around that one-third mark—so basically, we're all going to have to start keeping a much closer eye on our cars to prevent catalyst theft.
That neon comes out of Ukraine—though nobody can agree if it's 70% or 90%, some folks even say 50%—but it’s mostly shipped to the USA, with the plant located somewhere near Odessa.
The chip shortage isn't just about silicon—it's about neon gas. If you can't get the stuff needed to etch those circuits, everything grinds to a halt. It’s like trying to bake a cake when the grocery store is out of eggs—pretty much useless at that point.

Palladium has doubled in price since 2014.
Platinum used to be the only thing that mattered.
Only gas guzzlers have palladium in their converters, and even then, mostly in cars from before the 2000s—around the time emissions standards tightened, palladium in CATs became minimal...
Here is the graph showing the daily price surge:
It jumped by $8.25/kg in just two days.

Even Congress is gone now.

Morgan Wilson8 said:Please, if anyone here has family members who have dealt with stomach cancer, reach out and share your experiences. I am feeling quite desperate... Any information would be appreciated.

Was the individual a smoker?
How old were they?

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Linda Lee4 said:Right now, the trend suggests that unknown is significantly less threatening than delta or alpha... If this holds true over the next few weeks, we should probably just open everything back up and let it spread until it becomes dominant as quickly as possible. At this point, the restrictions are barely doing anything to slow down the momentum anyway.

Hmm....
I haven't quite followed the logic here, nor have I read much beyond a few posts.

So, by that reasoning, omicron is supposedly the final mutation, making it ideal to let loose immediately?

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Greetings. I am experiencing an audio issue on my PC; the sound lags behind the music and sounds excessively deep and distorted. It seems some audio settings from a game I was playing carried over to my system settings. Even after uninstalling the game, the issue persists. I have attempted to navigate the sound settings, but I am currently at a loss as to how to revert everything back to normal.