Colin Cooper

Software Developer at ~REDACTED~, KSU Engineering Student, lover of games, the outdoors, and all things nerdy

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@DeutschWatamate I’d argue that the German WW1 army was the greatest army in the history of the world.

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@addrair @Austen Based carrot weather user detected

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@thintechgodhead I see your DFW summers and raise you my Midwest summers. Hot and humid. German heat waves have nothing on Midwest hot and humid summers.

[char @xmioo__]

if you dislike space or space travel i lowkey think less of you as a person

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@ItsShubhangi @PotatoMcWhiskey https://t.co/PuuEfTXmm7

[SidewaysKoyote @sidewayskoyote]

So this is about the US using a standard munition to sink an Iranian naval (combat, not supply or merchant marine) vessel that was returning to theater.
My phrasing is specific.

Several days ago, the occupying government of iran stated that they were closing their sea lanes...And all civilian traffic would be targeted.
I want to reiterate that. All civilian traffic.

So here we are four days later. This vessel, which is returning to theater from outside of theater and is in international waters, has had a half a week to communicate with anyone, seek a safe neutral port to wait out the conflict... Declare themselves non combatants and go elsewhere... Give up their munitions and ask to make way to port so that their dudes could go back to their families...
Anything.

This was a frigate, which is a fairly small warship. Basically the smallest thing that is a true blue water warship. They aren't very durable even when a first world navy is building and operating them.
So the video footage of the attack is... shall we say, dramatic. We don't routinely go into our ordnance and reduce the explosive payload by half or two thirds in order to give the enemy a fighting chance. Aside from the insane safety risk, there's just really no point to this.

And it's a true shame that their damage control environment was such that they lost, probably twice as many sailors as they should have.
And I mean, that it is really a shame. I'm a sailor. Both a US Navy veteran and an active "live on the water" sailor.

But the general opinion seems to be that we should have done something to allow this vessel to return to the theater of combat because sinking them was... bad.

I'm not even going to get into the insane risk and casualty ratio of boarding.

But kind of the big deal here is that they had days and days to say something- and it appears that they did not. Or if they did, they did not accept terms that were acceptable to us

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

I feel attacked by this and I think this also potentially applies to you @AndrewFiggy

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

When you didn’t want the US involved with Iran but the submarine kill videos are sick

[OC Scanner 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 @OC_Scanner]

Current status of my X timeline

OSINT Accounts: Pure Chaos

Iranian Americans: grateful as fuck for Trump

White liberals: “fuck Trump”

Seems about right

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@AndrewFiggy Strange. I view myself as a Libertarian, so this isn’t quite how I pictured it.

Then again, there were a number of questions where my preferred response should have been “not the governments problem” but they didn’t allow that.

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@somegrlsam Skill issue really

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@AndrewFiggy How do you think this shakes out? Cause the NYC race violates two separate and opposing political rules, and it makes me curious how it’ll end up.

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@AndrewFiggy Which is backwards considering how the usual practices of each religion is.

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@AndrewFiggy Wouldn’t extending the old budget, exceed that budget? Which therefore could not be done cause you’re not allowed to exceed the budget? 🧐

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@NoResponseBuddy @PotatoMcWhiskey That there aren’t actually as many empty homes as you claim.

Second: vacancy rates have to exceed 9% for housing costs to begin to fall. 9% is the breaking point research shows.

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@NoResponseBuddy @PotatoMcWhiskey Unfortunately, statistics disagree with you.

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@GoodVibePolitik @realCWhitehouse https://t.co/BPZxGa5ie2

[Dilan Esper @dilanesper]

wahhhh wahhhhh wahhhh they won't let us hijack their protest movement! waaaaaaahhhh

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@royal_mlb @JamesNaismith69 One can’t just be a “I support all KS teams” fan?

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@LifeofFitz @MikeMikeMikeKC @EMAWCaleb Come on now, all of you are being dramatic. You wouldn’t have batted an eye on the comment Caleb made if anyone else made it, and it’s a decent question.

Also, go touch grass? You’re a boomer not a zoomer, come on lol

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@bokoen1 So I can either pay half my salary in taxes for healthcare in Europe/canada, or I can pay less than half my salary for healthcare in the US.

The latter sounds better to me!

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@IAmDaltos “Antifa' (short for 'Anti-Fascist Action') is a term used exclusively by organized groups with radical left ideologies like communism or anarchism. The term originated in Germany and was first used by a group established by the German Communist Party, funded by the USSR.

[Colin Cooper @TripleC321]

@PotatoMcWhiskey Nothing you just said refutes the tweet you quoted.

Both are equally true.