Stonecutter Lee

Rust Belt Nomad. Spectacle Enjoyer. Athleticism Adherent. Peater Neophyte. “Towards a new history of mankind”

[Virgil @VirgilsQuill]

It’s ok to love America

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

I have been blessed with a lot in life. But there is nothing I’m more grateful for than being born in this country.

Hard men I’ve never met have made untold sacrifices so that being American means so much.

Forever grateful. God bless America 🇺🇸❤️

[Stonecutter Lee @boy_imperator]

Mackinac City is home to several gastrointestinal wonders

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It produces abundant rhubarb

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My brother is in his MD PhD in Wisco. He keeps and tends large and fertile plots in a community garden.

[Blood Memory @AnemoiaAmerica]

“I tell no lies about dead men. These men who came with the Long Hair (Custer) were as good men as ever fought. The Long Hair stood like a sheaf of corn with all the ears fallen around him.…He killed a man when he fell. He laughed [as he died]”. -Sitting Bull

[Electra @Electrarythm]

Arnold Schwarzenegger

[Stonecutter Lee @boy_imperator]

Immediate follow. Burma badly needs and deserves more transformative, focused bets.

[Damon Zumbroegel @DamonZumbroegel]

Turning Sand to Eden : Reviving a 2,000 year old Burmese Farm Valley. I bought a farm in Burma that had been continuously worked for 2,000 documented years. Over the last 50 years the farming methods changed, and destroyed the vitality of the valley……turning it to desertification, loss of soil, and massive riverfront erosion. We got to work: planting trees, stabilizing the river frontage, and pumping life back into the soil. I can proudly say that after 15 years……SUCCESS. The Valley is thriving once again, and we are setting into place methods to keep it that way. It’s sad that we had to fix what was broken, but I am happy to say that Nature is more than happy to help out. Just get the ball rolling, and Nature will do the rest.
Pic #1 - Vihara Valley Farm when we arrived
Pic #2 - Vihara Valley Farm after we had been there a while

[Kaiser von Lohengramm @KaiserLoengramm]

Thomas Jefferson literally wrote that our own blood was spilt to acquire these lands which is why the land belongs to Americans. I don’t know what else you would call that other than blood and soil.

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

Why are Knicks fans so nativist when it comes to New York and so not when it comes to America?

"This is Bodega Nationalism, the rising phenomenon of people fiercely territorial about their sports team, their area code, and their borough, but mysteriously disinterested in the nation that contains them all. Someone who thinks America is an idea but Queens is a sovereign fiefdom. Deport the bandwagoners. Remigrate the transplants. No human is illegal unless they’re from Ohio."

https://t.co/oCyEPGosx7

[Stonecutter Lee @boy_imperator]

On my Wisconsin shit.

Brewers defeated my CLE Guardians but oh well

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Detailing

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Wisconsin Statehouse

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Now commencing: The Madison-Michigan-Martha’s Vineyard summer epic

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

hollywood globalists experience globalism

[Marcus Milione @MarcusMilione]

"Tasteslop" (seen this word pop up a few times now) is supposed to critique decontextualized status signaling and in turn it acts as a way for the "connoisseur" to announce that they, unlike the masses with their identical kettles, possess the relationship and not merely the reference

It launders "snobbery" into media theory. The person calling "tasteslop" is doing the exact thing tasteslop describes... performing depth they may or may not have, for an audience that can't verify it either way

The trouble with a relational definition of taste (like "tasteslop") is that it makes the accusation unfalsifiable

If the same kettle can be tasteful, vulgar, camp, or slop depending entirely on "the social route by which it arrives," then tasteslop is a property of the arrival and any one object itself... which means you cant really ever settle whether any given thing qualifies by looking at it

In turn you have to know how it got to you

Since you (the viewer/consumer) has no real way of knowing that, the label collapses into a vibe

This then almost always resolves the same way...

it's slop when they have it, and a considered choice (or real taste) when I do

So if the (kettle, Tabis, Togo etc) is contaminated by popularity, the " more tasteful" move is to not have the kettle and in turn... reach for the more obscure object, the one that hasn't been "posted" yet

The problem isn't the objects themselves, and it isn't even really the algorithm

We've completely outsourced the relationship to these objects and kept only the reference BECAUSE the reference is the part that photographs

The machine (algo) doesn't know taste... it knows the gestures that have clustered around (the idea of) taste, and we've begun optimizing for the gestures because that's what gets seen

You don't fix this by avoiding the kettle. You fix it by being able to answer why the kettle?

[Hunter Ryerson @huntryerson]

Detroit is, moreso than DC, the capital of America. It is a pure distillation of our Republic; its golden age was our golden age, its problems are our problems. Its tragic fall is ours. Those who cared enough to salvage it are the best of us. We win when Detroit is great again.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

It's OK to love America.

[Lomez @L0m3z]

The Marine Band has not gotten enough credit for how good they were last night.

Who needs washed up pop stars? These guys killed it.