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high price low life

[Wavefinder General @RagnarockWave]

This seems very affordable

[Midwestrogen @DumpsterThug666]

Chicago charges you $100 to get a permit and it only lasts two years.

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Everyone is saying, in so many words, "demographics"

But Detroit was always a fragile industrial monoculture. At the peak of its glamor it was still just a jumped-up company town. It never had the economic diversity which characterized cities like Chicago, NYC, or even St Louis

[Wavefinder General @RagnarockWave]

Fish in water moment. Midwest culture is just super pervasive

[alina de sérabin @avramnotever]

We have cities and cultures but the midwest is home to millions of people with no identity at all. Literally none. Entire childhood spent developing no roots or foothold in a community. Go more than 10 miles out of a city limit and youll see it immediately

[Cleaver's Henchdwarf @cowgirl_bebop]

People don't seem to understand American abundance. This is the specialty cheese section, which is completely separate from the rest of the dairy aisle where you'd get things like string cheese and regular cheap block cheddar.

We have everything, and in ridiculous quantities.

[𝔏𝔢𝔫𝔞 🎀 @clusterbitch_]

africa is practically a non-factor for the economies of western nations now btw, bar the pretty sizable foreign aid budgets they allocate for them. inland african colonization was also generally a dumb money sink. at some point you need to find a new line!

[Dean Abbott @DeanAbbott]

Everyone's brain is broken and we're all too neurotic to love and be loved.

[alexjm 🇺🇸 @alexjmingolla]

“American stadiums are horrible, they shouldn’t host”

“Ok the stadiums are nice but they won’t fill”

“The stadiums filled but the games will suck”

“The games are exciting but American cities are terrible”

“American cities are only fun because they’re rich”

[Wheeljack @SJWheeljack]

Enough time has passed that I can admit the early anti-SJW's of the pre-Trump tumblr era (ca. 2014) were absolutely correct in that academic social justice language was being co-opted and weaponized by malignantly toxic, hostile people who wanted to hide behind a veil of virtue.

[Wavefinder General @RagnarockWave]

Thats why the American Civil is sometimes called the first modern war. The scale of mobilization and the scale of that war was breaking new ground in warfare. A continental war that involved the 2 largest armies in the world that killed 1.5m, scale and intensity??

[David Austin Walsh @DavidAstinWalsh]

Sure, but when you read about the scale and intensity of the European wars in the 1860s and 1870s you can kind of understand why most European military observers considered the American Civil War a backwater fought by amateurs.

[Wavefinder General @RagnarockWave]

20 years too late, real ones were invested since elementary

[Jimothy @JimHistHub]

Once you turn 30 as an American male, you instantly become obsessed with the Civil War

[Root_Cosmo @root0cosmo]

American communists have a Bizarro Exceptionalism where they believe the US is exceptionally evil. In reality, hating yourself will never bring about a successful movement. Neither will refusing to take a stand on nationalist hatred.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Some of you were alive when that happened.

[Scorpio 🦇 Black @scorpioblxck]

People talmbout “taste gap” relationships.

I would never date a girl into the same stuff as me.

Girls who like the same stuff as me are insane. It’s the biggest red flag this side of fatherlessnes and birth control.

My wife listens to Zach Bryan and plays Animal Crossing.

[Chicago Tattoo Lady 🎨✍🏾 @Artxpooh]

Mfs be overly stealing our lingo in Chicago and yall ass be going for it

[Polly Pocketknife🌸🔪 @polypocketknife]

i hate what we’ve done to nerdiness. the average nerd isn’t even smart now they just like slop. they watch long youtube videos where someone explains obscure star wars expanded universe lore and half the time the guy in the video didn’t even read it he’s just reading wookiepedia.

[Wavefinder General @RagnarockWave]

💪🏾

[Icontrolthetrafic @Icontrolth13030]

Only country niggas and prison niggas wear tanks under their shirts

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

It’s weird how many high-IQ liberals remain committed to the idea that IQ is fake even as liberals solidify their position as the high-IQ political coalition

[Not a Good Jewish Girl✡️ @estherzelda0514]

High-IQ liberals are in invisible intellectual bubbles. I was/am in one myself. At that level, what really set us apart was hard work, luck, familial wealth, or nepotism, not innate intelligence. It was negligible, and not as important as what connections your parents had.

A genuinely blackpilling event in the life of a liberal like that is the realization what the median person is like, and how half of people are even worse than that.

This is the sort of realization that may never come for a high-IQ liberal, particularly the overly status-conscious and downwardly mobile ones, especially the ones in cloistered in academia or insular industries like law, consulting, finance, high tech, or medicine. They do not go looking, so they never learn.

But slowly, if they stop contemplating their navels and jealously gazing upwards, they might start to figure out that even within their bubbles, if they look down, some people are falling behind because they truly are, probably from birth, stupid, reckless, and irresponsible. If they apply that to the rest of the population, it might alienate them to the rest of their extremely progressive peers, who need to believe, to fit in and to justify their own success, that merit is won and not having it is only the product of unfair institutions.

Which is part of it, sure, but it does not incorporate how many people daily make truly stupid self-sabotaging decisions, and the misery that follows is their own fault.

[𝔐𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔄𝔩𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔞𝔰 𝔑𝔞𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯 @MAalcofribas]

One huge gap I see between Euro and American tourists is that the Euro seems genuinely interested in seeing ordinary life in small town America whereas the American bürger really only ever stays within a capitol or around the main sites.

Not many Americans itching to pass through Besançon, Łódź, Kiel, or Ipswich, but Euros are completely gobsmacked by Fairhope, Chattanooga, Middlefield, Bowling Green, and Ocean City.