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I’m a trainer, bodybuilding coach, and I try my best to be compassionate to my fellow people here on Earth.
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Hard power is a bridge burner. The use of hard power builds a barrier between you and everyone else. And everyone else can begin to unify against you. Soft power is almost always the cheaper, more effective approach.

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Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."

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Someone should share with Elon the story of Marcus Aurelius Cleander. I am seeing parallels that maybe he should know about.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Yikes. Judge Coughenour, a Reagan appointed federal judge, just ruled on the birthright citizenship case. And the review was scathing. I’m glad there are still conservatives who have some principles. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is on the Bureau of Prisons website. It is the 9 star flag, which represents the 9 states that seceded to become the Confederacy. It is still there at the time of this posting. This is not an accident.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Well, ain’t that something? They just keep saying the quiet parts out loud.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Ms Legislature Bill 1484, Section 1, paragraph 3 states that the Mississippi punishment for being in the country illegally is a felony with a life imprisonment without parole, probation, or conditional release. This circumvents the 13th Amendment’s single prohibition on slavery.

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I’m thinking that, by July, American crowds will be returning Musk’s “salute”.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A phrase has been on my mind a lot lately, and I wonder how many lives would be different in its absence. “If not for the kindness of strangers…”

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Anyone else think that Luigi deserves a presidential pardon a lot more than Hunter? #luigididnothingwrong

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I’m confident that the German high command of the late 1930’s had families that missed them, which doesn’t make me feel one bit sad for the manner of their demise. I feel similarly apathetic to the health insurance execs and the parallels between them are sickeningly easy to draw.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The utilization of violence is only appropriate when all other options have been exhausted. Is anyone else philosophically struggling to find any viable option for handling the medical insurance issue in this country without violence?

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I would like to see engineering programs have a requirement that students help engineer prosthetic limbs for people in need. It would humanize their work, provide an obvious public good, and drive forward an important area of medicine, all while staying with the spirit of their major.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Eira looked fantastic at her show. Coaching her has been a lot of fun.

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