Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺

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[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

I'm sorry, no. This isn't fair at all.

I've known what it's like to be unemployed and to feel unemployable for months and sometimes years. I've known what it's like worrying if I'll make the monthly bills, sometimes having to spend a chunk of the money I saved over a lifetime. I've known what it's like to scrimp on grocery bills or cut back on things, including in painful ways. And I doubt I'm alone.

Just because people like me think that the solution to this pain, which I still feel, is not "just make things cheaper somehow" or "just end the tariffs/war/foreign aid/get the bums off welfare" doesn't mean I don't care about this issue.

The anger is real, but emotions are not facts. They're not solutions. Acknowledging the anger and pain is important but they won't solve the underlying problems.

So here's a challenge:
Tell me how I'm wrong.

Tell me how reverting to January 2025 policies will somehow not only stop but even reverse the Bidenflation and the massive entitlement spending cliff we're facing.

Tell me what more politicians can do that actually makes schooling and housing and healthcare cheaper that isn't "just deport the immigrants" or "just make it cheaper, I don't care how."

If that means that Gen Z and everyone struggling with their bills ignores me because I don't offer snake oil, then so be it.

I'm a conservative, rare as that is today. I believe in real, lasting, enduring solutions, not primal screams.

It may well be that both right and left will push for even more destructive policies because the pain is so real. Just remember we evil conservatives, who also hate inflation and high cost of living, offered you real solutions.

You just weren't interested.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

A lot of commentators and people in media and podcasters and politicians have never actually had to worry about how they would afford groceries. They've never had an overdrawn checking account. They've never been hassled by a landlord because their rent is overdo. They've never had their cell service cut off because they couldn't pay it. They've never had to put two gallons in their tank because they couldn't afford to fill it all the way up. They've never had a car break down because they couldn't afford to take it to the mechanic. I'm not one to talk about "lived experience" (which is a term I hate) but I do think that actually experiencing the stress and indignity of not being able to afford to participate in modern life is extremely clarifying, and gives you a perspective that sticks with you even after you achieve financial success. I think this is one of the dividing lines in the affordability debate. People who are flippant about affordability concerns obviously lack the perspective that being broke gives you.

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

They also get all the cultural taste-makers and consumers but end up pushing campaigns that sound like they were written in a faculty lounge. @nobodyknows2322

[Fusionist Sun Devil 🇺🇸🦅🌐 @fusionist_devil]

The realignment of college educated rich and upper middle class is a double edged sword for Dems. They get high propensity voters and realible donors but now their old line about making the rich and big business had to be narrowed to the ultra wealthy and multinational corps

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

Not by much, though.

[🦗New Free Soil Party @FreeSoilAndrew]

@AviWoolf To be fair the private sector added jobs on net.

[🦗New Free Soil Party @FreeSoilAndrew]

@AviWoolf To be fair the private sector added jobs on net.

[Squirrels in space @squirrelspcsuit]

@AviWoolf Apart from that, insisting tariffs are inflationary is an attempt to bundle together independent issues into a single political weapon (tariffs are a tax on consumption, which is bad for growth, but that pressure is deflationary)

[🦗New Free Soil Party @FreeSoilAndrew]

@AviWoolf Yes and no. Door dash isn't a social space either unless you're supposed to hook up with the delivery person.

[RhythmDoc @RhythmDoc01]

@AviWoolf Maturity comes upon recognizing that Social Security and Medicare…ARE welfare.

[Fusionist Sun Devil 🇺🇸🦅🌐 @fusionist_devil]

Exactly. That’s why Sharron Angle, Ken Buck, Christine O’Donnell, Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, Hershel Walker, Mehmet Oz, Blake Masters, and Kari Lake all won elections that Republicans were expected to be favored in and are still sitting in the Senate to this day

[Fusionist Sun Devil 🇺🇸🦅🌐 @fusionist_devil]

The realignment of college educated rich and upper middle class is a double edged sword for Dems. They get high propensity voters and realible donors but now their old line about making the rich and big business had to be narrowed to the ultra wealthy and multinational corps

[Hampton Prescott @HamptonPrezcott]

Anything cultural, to a degree, is going to be secondhand. The key is to take elements from the past that work and combine it with modern innovations to enhance it. Two key examples of this approach succeeding: postmodern architecture in the 80’s and synthwave music in the 2010’s

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

He has a point. We can't complain about young people not meeting up and mating if we don't find some way to resolve this, and most people meet up over food.

[Coddled Affluent Professional @feelsdesperate]

Burrito discourse is really about participation in social life rather expectations about consumption.

What are the cheap, egalitarian spaces that young people are supposed to hang out in? Where can they eat, drink, and be social?

‘Make it at home and save 💵’ misses the point.

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

Blue states' housing shortage is the tell here. They're rife with NIMBYism.

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

Wow. The U.S. lost 23k jobs last month. Plus previous months jobs growth was actually 103k worse than we thought.

And the Fed can’t cut rates to help because Trump’s tariffs and war and blue states’ housing shortage are all putting upward pressure on prices. Not good.

[Hampton Prescott @HamptonPrezcott]

The point being that we are likely overshooting on measurement of shelter inflation (perhaps by a factor of 3x.) So is the economy underperforming partially due to unnecessarily tight financial conditions stemming from lousy measurement techniques?

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

Ending welfare entirely will still not make Social Security and Medicare solvent. Grow up.

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

Ending welfare entirely will still not make Social Security and Medicare solvent. Grow up.

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

Yeesh.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Of the many, many books that predicted some dystopian effects of AI, few or none of them, to my knowledge, predicted that one of AI's first major effects would be to disrupt the book industry itself.

But that's exactly what seems to be happening.

- The number of AI-written books with any sales has grown by a factor of *19* since 2003
- Books with “substantial AI text” are making more money with every passing year
- Authors who don’t write with AI are earning less per book in almost every genre

[🦗New Free Soil Party @FreeSoilAndrew]

@AviWoolf But something something muh offshoring

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

You know who was a master at showing Americans, especially young Americans, that brighter days are ahead, that they, too, can have the American Dream?

Some globalist bum named Ronald Reagan.

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

You know who was a master at showing Americans, especially young Americans, that brighter days are ahead, that they, too, can have the American Dream?

Some globalist bum named Ronald Reagan.

[Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 @AviWoolf]

Entitlements are going through the roof regardless of this.

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

What is frustrating about this whole discourse is that we all know families like this 👇 would be not only comfortable but financially WELL-OFF if the government had not been systematically stealing from them in order to bankroll illegal migration, bureaucrats in foreign countries, corporate welfare, and transnational medicaid fraud.

[OK Conservationist @OKConserve]

@AviWoolf As a person with a hard science background who used soft science research for his job, I can tell you that psychology research in at least education is garbage.