One of the major things that I saw recently that brought a lot of this too the forefront of my thought was my previous job working high end construction just seeing the loss of any base in reality that so many people in America have. The way we are forced to massage the egos of the rich sickens me to the core. We have a new game show called the briefcase. If you haven't heard of it, it's about two in debt families given a briefcase filled with $101,000 each. The whole point of the show is each family has to decide how much money to keep and how much to give to the other family. we as Americans have now gone so far as too make sport of struggling families that desperately need the help. When any number of rich mother fuckers could just give that money away with no thought and yet they don't. We make a sport of it instead. Pitting 2 families against each other for our pleasure. What is wrong with America? It disgusts me too no end.

I kind of feel like jade helm is preparation for major war. Setting the equipment in place getting all the info we need to efficiently fight in our own homeland. Just under the guise of "war games" so as to not alarm the populace. You know what I'm saying?

Sweet simple reply.... I like it!

That's kind of in the back of my head haha. How dare we as a world populace want peace? I say whatever countries want war throw all "leaders" ie Putin, Obama, whoever leading China, Kim Jong un. Let them fight it out. After they're all dead if we still feel like killing more of the other guys well, we can suit up and follow our leaders. Instead of just going into the meat grinder.

Leaders should be at the front. Inspiring men to great acts. Not cowering in bunkers deep underground.

I believe that for America to go to war we should have to take a nationwide poll and in order to vote yes you have to fill out your info on a draft card. And when the announcement to go to war is made its also a draft notice of all people that voted yes. With no way to buy your way out and no exemptions. If you're not capable of fighting or being drafted you don't get a vote.

I'm pretty sure that's why we call them leaders not followers! But not anymore they all cower. Professional politicians not leaders of men.

I suppose you could be correct sieur!

And taxes. You forgot the damn taxes.

Major war is all I'm saying haha

I've made my decision to not have kids for that reason!

i was kind of thinking it might just be paranoid delusions of grandeur as well. A way for my brain to cope with reality and the very real probability that I will never change the world in the massive ways I'd hoped as a child. I stopped smoking pot because it was making me question reality too much. On top of that it stopped being "fun" once you examine in depth the idea that we can be living in hell and come too the conclusion that there's no way of knowing, or evaluate the idea that all of your friends could be figments of your imagination which you'd have no way of knowing if that were true or not. It kind of stops being fun. After about a year of heavy use I changed from being completely ok smoking any amount to easily getting paranoid and even was hearing full fledged arguments and full on conversations. the arguments and conversations generally were involving the things that were on the edge of my conscious insecurities, somewhat relevant problems. Etc.

Roger wilco! Good advice!

I meant paranoid as in like I was hearing mortars dropping around me and gunfire in the streets. People yelling etc. as a veteran all of that is a very real thought that happens everyday. I look for high ground find three ways out come up with an plan to deal with active shooter threats. Stuff of that nature run through the billion different scenarios in my head. Weed got to the point were it wasn't making me act because I knew it was just a drug. But to go from watching a comedy movie to curled in your bed reliving the worst nightmares of your life. That's the type of paranoia Im talking about. Hearing idf sirens even though I know they're not there. Hearing tank tracks and cannons boom bullets snap crack outside your window. That's the kind of paranoia I was experiencing.

Idf in the army stands for indirect fire. Not Israeli defense force. They are what rings out when mortars are incoming. anything that vaguely sounds like it once you've heard it and been around it when rounds impact always puckers your butthole just a little couple that with being overly high and it's easy to hear brakes screech and let your brain do the rest. If you were asking whether I was actually hearing them or if I was in a war zone the answer is no. It was my overactive brain coupled with a split second stimulus and being overly high creating the sensation that I was hearing them just like I was back in Afghanistan.

Part of why I quit smoking was to focus on work more. And my true passion, breaking my vehicle in every imaginable way offroad and on haha.

Haha I try, I recently took the doors off my truck and it's just made driving such a pleasure! I wholeheartedly stand 100% behind buying tube steel safari doors for whatever you drive!

I disagree! It would be awesomely original! And as long as you did it right it would be freaking awesome!

Haha what story do you want to hear?

Haha it's ok! I enjoy the desert! It's awesome and the view of the sky are amazing!

I don't know. Honestly I see a lot of tension between Asia to include russia and America. Russia is certainly testing our defense with bombers and submarines stuff of that nature doing everything a boxer would do in the first round sizing the opponent up. Testing the defenses playing mind games stuff like that. If Russia attacks the east coast China attacks the west coast Korea could easily start a 3rd front in Asia the Middle East could certainly continue as a 4th front not to mention sleeper cells in America. Mexico although not outwardly siding with Russia is not completely against that idea. So there's a 5th possible front. I like to think that all these dominos aren't lining up in that particular order but there's a pretty good chance that they are. On top of all the biblical prohecies apparently culminating in the next few years. As well as multiple non religious prophecies and major goings on. It just seems to me to be a tumultuous and major time to be alive.

I know about mad. But what would it take to just say fuck it? Being backed into a corner and sanctioned into oblivion? Controlling enough debt to know there's no way to feasibly have it repaid? Mad only works when you're talking about rational people who aren't backed into a corner. Like to people carrying guns going down a street in opposite directions. Both come drawn ready to fight. Meet in the center and say if you shoot at me. I Shoot at you. Now imagine instead of a street we are in a house with one way in one way out. One man comes in weapons drawn. The other was already sitting waiting weapon drawn. The man in the house is now essentially trapped. Of course mad is still in effect. But now there is only the one way out. What would it take for the man in the house to say fuck it. Maybe the guns just being pointed at him would be enough. Hit early hit fast. Hit hard. Maybe he might get out of there alive maybe he won't. Now imagine you are the man in the house. Would you bend to the will of the force standing on your doorstep? Or would you fight? That's just the way I look at it though. I know that many times prohecies have come and gone supposed seers have failed to see the tip of there nose. But although we do not fight major excursions like the crusades you cannot deny that we fight hundreds of proxy wars all across the globe. a big reason I feel a major war is coming is because everybody thinks there's no way it could possibly happen. Everything in the history of ever that people said there's no way of it possibly happening has happened. Titanic. Unsinkable. Germany in ww2. Unstoppable. Kimbo slice. Unbeatable. America falling under major attack. Unthinkable. Just my thought process

It's a good strategy but eventually you have to make the final death blow or risk the enemy coming back bigger and badder than ever

That's my whole point. How far is too far? What's the fuck it limit? Where mad stops being a deterrent?

I agree that I am simplifying things. Nukes to guns countries to people etc. but the overarching idea is still the same even though the nuances are different. With current nuclear technology it may be possible to wipe our entire eastern seaboard out before we even knew what was happening. The idea that everybody would die is based on us knowing the ruskies launched the missiles with sufficient time left for us too react. The technology exists now to were the Russians could literally be a couple miles off the coast with rockets so powerful that we would have 5-10mins before Impact best case scenario. I can look up specific links detailing the technology if you want. Now if they surfaced 5-10 subs and launched 1 missile at every major target on the eastern seaboard who would be left? D.c. Gone. Nyc. Gone. Tampa home of jsoc. Gone. Joint base Langley eustis. Gone. Ft Benning home of the infantry and rangers. Gone. Ft Jackson. Gone. Ft drum. Gone. We don't anticipate an eastern seaboard attack which is why I believe it to be the greatest possibility. I'm sure that there are protocols in place for this type of thing. Unfortunately i don't believe our Cold War protocols will stand up too the million miles an hour warfare that would be required to overcome our borders. Also I'm not so sure that America as a whole has the heart to push the button anymore. We are a soft nation concerned only with materialistic frivolous things as a generality? The magineaux line was an impressive defensive line no doubt and you are correct it would have been a better example. The titanic sank specifically for that reason. Nobody thought of the whole side getting ripped open as a possibility. Therefore when it happened nobody knew what to do. Yes but sometimes the cav pushes through the pike phalanx simply by throwing enough meat into the grinder. Meat that we don't have. But China and Russia do. all of your points are taken, very well and that's a big part of why I believe war to be coming. Just because nobody thinks it will. We will not collectively disarm as a planet so war is inevitable.

Yea that's the type of technology I'm talking about sickeningly scary.

I'm not just listing off population centers for the sake of the civilian casualties the target areas I listed were demonstratably a large part of our overall leadership. Cut off the head the body dies that sort of thinking. Being a former military man I can tell you we do not train anywhere near as hard as the rest of the world. I don't believe nato or any country that is a major part of nato on the "good" side would push the button. We would try to fight this bear as gentleman. There would be a large outcry that nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are beneath us. Don't worry our boys will get'em! That kind of thing. I could be mistaken, but don't flights get high jacked more often in the rest of the world? As far as the things that shouldn't have happened that's part of my argument. People making bad choices based on there belief that the bad things that can happen won't. You can do a dangerous and wrong thing 1,000,000,000 times successfully but it only takes one failure to figure out why it was dangerous and wrong in the first place.

Yup thems the protocols I'm talking about! But due to current technology I believe those protocols to be outdated. Who knows we won't find out till it does or doesn't happen! Hopefully I can die an old pissed off paranoid nut bag! Maybe that's what I was thinking of the good ol' days when terrorism was an honest days work haha. But you are correct. Security was lax but rules were not. Had the populace been allowed to carry firearms onto planes such as a small sidearm 9/11 might never have happened.

The way movies portray airplanes and the pressurization is just completely ridiculous. Everybody carrying guns is mad on a small scale. That's just my opinion though

Yea but the reality of that happening is just not. there would be a few instances yes but the cost of a plane plus damages paid out to families is far greater than replacing even 100 windows a year.

I'm not honestly sure. If you don't count the planes that went missing I believe so. Still if people were just riding around blasting shit away like everybody seems to think we do in 'Merica there'd be a lot more damage and destruction than there actually is.

Yea the quality of our terrorists just isn't up to snuff anymore!

I heard about there flamethrower usage which is just an insane weapon to start with throw in some nut bags and we're talking real crazy. Did you see Isis' latest propaganda they released? They are definitely turning the holy shit scale up to 11 in my book they decapitated 7 men with det. Cord, drowned 5 in a pool in a cage with a bunch of go pros on it, and blew up 3 more in a car with an rpg for target practice about a month ago they released another video showing them crucifying and dismembering a man for being Christian, throwing men off the roofs of buildings for being gay. They are definitely the most successful comic book villains ever.

I just think Isis' are the worst going on right now because of the very public nature and the highly produced nature of the videos.

people will use anything to say stuff is fake.

Haha I'm skeptical of everything. Generally I just pick the most outspoken dickhole and argue against whatever they're arguing for. I've argued some pretty crazy points just because. Like if you brought that up too me I would probably reply with something along the lines of well Star Trek looks good too. Or dr. Who has been portraying space since the 60's something just completely outlandish.

Generally that's not a bad way to live.

Being contrary

Okily doily neighborino!

Leaders should be at the front. Inspiring men to great acts. Not cowering in bunkers deep underground.

I'm not just listing off population centers for the sake of the civilian casualties the target areas I listed were demonstratably a large part of our overall leadership. Cut off the head the body dies that sort of thinking. Being a former military man I can tell you we do not train anywhere near as hard as the rest of the world. I don't believe nato or any country that is a major part of nato on the "good" side would push the button. We would try to fight this bear as gentleman. There would be a large outcry that nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are beneath us. Don't worry our boys will get'em! That kind of thing. I could be mistaken, but don't flights get high jacked more often in the rest of the world? As far as the things that shouldn't have happened that's part of my argument. People making bad choices based on there belief that the bad things that can happen won't. You can do a dangerous and wrong thing 1,000,000,000 times successfully but it only takes one failure to figure out why it was dangerous and wrong in the first place.

Haha I try, I recently took the doors off my truck and it's just made driving such a pleasure! I wholeheartedly stand 100% behind buying tube steel safari doors for whatever you drive!

Major war is all I'm saying haha