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[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@sterlingmsnow @GerryCallahan Same

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

People say:

"I wish one middle-class income could support an entire family like it did in the 1950s."

Okay. Then take the entire 1950s package—not just the parts you romanticize.

• No Netflix, Disney+, Spotify, or endless subscriptions
• One small TV with 3 channels, if you're lucky
• One basic car for the whole family
• No yearly vacations or cheap flights across the country
• No smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, or internet
• Every meal cooked at home from scratch
• Kids sharing bedrooms
• A house under 1,000 sq. ft. for a family of 4–6
• One bathroom for everyone
• Little to no air conditioning in many places
• Clothes repaired, reused, and handed down
• Eating at restaurants was an occasional luxury, not a weekly habit

The comparison isn't just income.

The average household today consumes far more space, technology, entertainment, travel, convenience, and services than the average household did 70 years ago.

That doesn't mean housing, healthcare, and education aren't more expensive today—they are.

But when people compare lifestyles across generations, they often compare a 1950s income to a 2020s standard of living.

Those aren't the same thing.

If you want the economics of the 1950s, you have to accept the lifestyle of the 1950s too.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@TuckerSullfvck Newest chapter of Lamda Lamba Lamba

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@JonnyRoot_ Definitely did NOT grow up with older brothers.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@lucythegreat123 Sounds exactly like girls 12u softball in NC

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@elonmusk It’s really inconvenient that I cannot just email my senator. I have to fill out a form with ALL my personal information before I am allowed access to email him. BUT any knucklehead can walk in from the street, say they are me and be given my ballot on Election Day.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@robbystarbuck @FairTaxOfficial

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@elonmusk @neuralink This is absolutely amazing.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Trump just revoked Biden-administration policies that put hydroelectric dams on a path to be DESTROYED.

Environmentalists said salmon face extinction because of the dams.

But salmon numbers are up!

Here's why Trump made the right decision:

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@brianonorio @dogwoodblooms There is a square nab and a round nab. Both are nabs.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@NewsRated What is this background track???

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@ScottPresler @penn_state @PennStateAlums One exactly like this was spotted at ECU dining hall.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@Jarodbreezy @RyanTrainorUGA What is this? It says an empty platform for you to download apps?

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@DIRECTVnews @DIRECTV Keep standing your ground if you want @DIRECTV but without all these channels you are not offering much. I gave you a week. Now we are going to shop around you are going to start to lose customers in droves.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@MichelleMaxwell I grew up watching Nancy McKeon on Facts of Life and was so appreciative that I had a tomboy role model that showed me women don’t all have to be girly. She also could put on a dress and outshine the others. #SaveTheTomboys

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@beinlibertarian The concept of being a libertarian is great, but it essentially helps the democrats when you vote away from the Republican Party. I wish that wasn’t the case but historically and mathematically it only supports the party that aligns with neither Independents or Republicans.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@asianboxing @babybeginner Maybe the 2022 test was inconclusive. I didn’t see where it said they ‘passed’. It also doesn’t state that they were the exact same tests in 2022 and 2023. Test may have improved. They seem pretty confident in decision and they seem like they don’t want to disclose why.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@asianboxing @babybeginner Maybe the test Crocodile Dundee used.

[GoldenPirate @GoldenPirate6]

@SarahHuckabee @NC_Governor NC should be Carolina blue on this graph! Stand up for girls and women!

[Team USA @TeamUSA]

GOLD FOR THE GOAT 🥇🐐

@Simone_Biles is a 2x Olympic all-around champion!

#ParisOlympics