American must be understood as its own ethnos. You’re not a mutt, you’re not English-Irish-French-Italian-Polish-Scottish-German because you’ve got fractions and percents of each. You belong to your own ethnic group unique to this continent distinct from all others. Theodore Roosevelt understood this well.
“The children and grandchildren of the men who came here from England, Ireland, Germany, France, Scandinavia, and the rest of Europe have become Americans—a new race, with a new ethnic type, and they are no more Englishmen or Germans or Scandinavians than the descendants of the Norman invaders of England are Frenchmen.
The frontier conditions made a new race. The stern struggle with the wilderness and with wild men welded together the descendants of many European stocks into one people—the American. Out of the crucible of the wilderness came a new ethnic type, hardy, self-reliant, democratic in instinct, and with a continent for its inheritance.”
8000 BC: "Plants are what we eat when the hunt fails."
3000 BC: "Grain and vegetables are what we feed the slaves."
500 BC: "Lentils and barley are the diet of the poor."
100 AD: "Bread and circuses for the mob. The legions get meat."
1200s: "Pottage and roots are what the serf gets. The lord eats venison."
1700s: "Vegetables and porridge are what the starving eat."
1800s: "The Irish are surviving on potatoes. The landlords are exporting the beef."
1900s: "Plants and grain are wartime filler. We're rationing the real food."
1950s: "Plants are cheap. Feed them to the poor."
1970s: "Plants should be the BASE of the pyramid. This is science."
1990s: "Plant-based is emerging as extremely healthy, actually."
2010s: "Plant-based is optimal. Meat is the problem."
2020s: "Plant-based is saving the planet!"
2025: "Plant-based is the healthiest diet on earth. The science is settled."
You: noticing that the diet currently being sold as enlightened and optimal is the same one every ruling class in recorded history fed to the people it was trying to keep weak, compliant, and grateful.
The Talmud basically says “yeah nothing supernatural in our religion worked anymore after Jesus died for some reason” and then Jews still deny Christ’s divinity.
Michigan is clearly just better, it’s time to let go of the everything school delusion and give basketball and football truly elite rosters.
Rick Barnes made the elite 8 with one shooter, and Josh won 8 games with an App State transfer at QB.
Give them a real shot to win big.
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.
It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.
May God bless America.
@mattvanswol lol, this is the part on your journey where you start noticing that, aside from maybe 2 people, all of Washington is not interested in improving our country. Voting right is just applying slight, miniscule brake pressure while screaming down a steep hill.
@lichthauch The state will import 10 scammy illiterates for every child the father of 7 has, none of them will have to work, and neither will their progeny. The state can import your replacements faster than you can breed well adjusted kids. The dads and "readers" need to work together.
The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet
Ya know.
I don't really wanna do this any more. After Arion Carter's deal, I just don't wanna do this any longer. Loyalty matters to me, and seeing our team constantly being dropped and used and just being a cash cow is just not remotely fun any longer.
I started this account because I loved Tennessee football. I made a ton of friends that I love talking to. and I really enjoyed following recruiting.
College football is broken and nothing about it is enjoyable, so I think it is time to put it behind me.
We only attended 3 home games this year, and we lost all 3. I also attended the Oklahoma playoff game for the charity stuff. That's doen from 10 to 12 games a year every year.
But I don't think I wanna continue being around Tennessee athletics at all.
I love my Vols. Have since I was a very small child, but its morphed into something that I don't enjoy at all.
I'll keep this account for the friendship and the fun of posting and interacting, but I think I am going to pull way back on anything to do with the Vols. See if I can't adjust the algorithm to something that isn't completely fucking miserable all the time.
So unfollow if you want, but that's kinda where I am at. Maybe come August I won't be so damned burnt out and jaded to it all.🤷♂️
That Ron DeSantis as governor flew to Israel to sign a hate speech law that limits the speech rights of Americans in Florida -- he did it twice! -- has never received the attention it deserved.
There is zero justification to sign laws governing Americans in Israel.
I can’t believe we black bagged a narco dictator without considering all available options first, like paying an NGO $100b to put on queer musical theater productions in Caracas
Imagine having to work a grocery store job at 88 years of age because your company took your pension away just as you were getting ready to retire. This is sad.