rodneyk41

Cranky old man that still likes new ideas, gadgets and wine.
I was here before but abandoned Twitter during the ugliness of 2020. I do not respond to messages.

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@OleTimeHardball Right Fielder = Roberto Clemente

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@SunIslandMusic @ConstitustionX I have nothing against the people of Iran but their leader-oppressors need to be blown to hell!

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@ShangguanJiewen How about if the USA just stands on principle, rejects any interaction of any kind despite the short-term consequences and boycotts any goods from China?

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@LauraLoomer Laura, clean up your language. Cockroaches are insects, not animals.

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@politicsusa46 Human resources are like all other resources necessary in business. Companies employ all elements of production at the least cost and quantity for efficiency not because the resource needs to be used. Efficiency is the path to suvival.

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@hoodwild_ Now, that is funny! You could tell that they both enjoyed that, mostly likely preplanned it but made it entertaining for all.

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Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

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@VividProwess I read Michener's "The Source" many years ago, but I forgot a lot of the detail, so I just finished rereading it. My main purpose was to understand why Jews have always been persecuted but also how the Palestinian Gaza conflict started. He laid the blame on the British in 1948.

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@D162Michele I don't know why Americans just being Americans bothers some people so much. We are in our space doing what we like if it bothers you find a space you like.

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@KikiW102722 @DefiyantlyFree Government intervention has only made every one of these problems worse and you are saying that the answer is more government. Wow!

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@goddek 2

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@Kristinartz I have one in my garage.

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@Sal483192236246 A large and sustainable middle class is a defining feature of capitalism.

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People that have power over others and don't want to lose it are the priests of collectivist ideas. Central planning is sold as the means of equality for all but with an all-powerful group to do the "planning". It sounds like kings and serfs in disguise to me.

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@kelly_ques Italian

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@chefsevenn Anisette

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@AmericaReal3 I see guys like these most days on the banks of the pond outside of my pool cage.

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@lady_valor_07 I went to a primitive high school in Appalachia that wasted my time so I would welcome a do over at a better school. Also, it would be great to be a teenager again.

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@luisbaram Divergent points of view elegantly posted are a delightful aspect of an internet forum.

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@NBA__Courtside Stephen A tells it like it is. Black people need to learn more from him. It is good to take pride in what you do well and to allow others to do likewise. These don't have to be exclusive traits but some cultures/ethnics have a propensity to be better at some things. So what?

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@compliantvc Insanity is repeating the same actions and expecting different results. You guys have been choosing teams and killing each other forever. We had an inconsistency killed some rebels and resolved the issue. As your poisonous ideologies leak into our culture we have to defecate it.