Roejanrancher

cranky old yank 🌈 Triggered by hypocrisy. 1st Amendment hawk. Peacenik ☮️ freedom and prosperity for all

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@GrahamCoffeyDC I hope we can all come together to admit how terminally stupid is caring about American football.

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@CurtisDavis @Kshi_nippon Unmanned farm stands are not uncommon where I live in New York. Yes, that state, well known for its small govt.

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@BlackLabelAdvsr Say what you will about govt overreach in the high tax “commie” northeast, but zoning laws do accomplish a lot to keep communities places where people actually want to live. No point arguing which is better - to each his own. Last I checked people are still free to relocate

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@texasrunnerDFW Why do you feel the need to justify anything? This model works for a lot of folks, not for a lot of others. No point in arguing which is better. It’s still a free country (sort of.)

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@DMIN6405 @MissBeck12 @DHSgov Probably a 🤖

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@dmesg @mapleblooded Boomers, like all generations, span a lot of years. Big difference between someone born in ‘50 vs ‘64.

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@calvinfroedge @txgermanbre Not everywhere. Still bidding wars going on in many places where the supply is constrained - many parts of the northeast and mid Atlantic

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@uscfan981 The sorority girls are pretty

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@EQBrowser @ProudSocialist So you’re cool with nationalizing the AI grid and covering everyone with UBI and free healthcare ? Cuz otherwise there’s gonna be a revolution.

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@kevinmcguirejr @brianbeutler Well yeah there’s that

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall.

That’s not what Sears was.

Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose.

It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit.

A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail.

That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things.

Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them.

People call it the death of a department store.

I don’t.

Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now.

Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I have heard people claim that the reaction people are having against AI is the same reaction people had when the internet started to be introduced. And as someone who was there at the time, I can tell you NO IT FUCKING WASN'T.

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@BoringBiz_ @txgermanbre The point still stands. Doesn’t sound like they’re living too extravagantly - $6k/month housing expenses isn’t insane - that’s probably median PITI in a decent suburb anywhere in the country right now. Everyone is feeling it.

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@robbysoave If we need them, they should be publicly owned. Otherwise there’s going to be a revolution

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@thejackhopkins Blue states need to stop sending their citizens’ tax money to the illegitimate govt in DC, and start keeping it local . No more bombs and ballrooms. It ends now.

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@MbarkCherguia Late 40s

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@the_transit_guy I’m sure they spend their 6 week summer vacations fretting mightily about it

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@mhp_guy Sounds great for you and your family and I’m glad you’re happy. I’ll stay in New England, thanks. Last I checked it’s still a free country. Cheers!

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

“The Met Gala is so elitist and detached.”

No, I’m sorry, you’re not annoyed with the Met Gala because it’s elitist.

I can accept other reasons like annoyance over Jeff Bezos funding it. Fine. That’s valid.

But claiming it’s broadly elitist because celebs wear fun and interesting costumes on a red carpet is not why you’re annoyed.

You watch millionaire athletes compete against each other in stadiums and ballparks owned by billionaires who price out working class families because they want more perks for wealthy sports fans.

You voted for a fake billionaire who is obsessed with gold-plated furnishings and elective plastic surgery.

You listen to bro podcasters who are millionaires and ludicrously removed from the problems facing working class families, who then try to pit you against other working class families.

And you love all that. You can’t get enough of it.

You’re not annoyed because the Met Gala is “so elitist.”

You’re annoyed because it’s too feminine-coded and queer-coded for your taste, and the thought that, somewhere, women and queer people are having a good time gets on your nerves.

So, just say that.

Grab your fragile nutsack and have the balls to be honest about why you have no issues with conservative men enjoying themselves in wealthy settings but you draw the line at women and queer people.

[Roejanrancher @emersonsgiant]

@robbysoave The reason they are “earning “ tha much is because the supply of electricians is artificially constrained by an archaic apprentice/journeyman/master system.