Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱

VIP at the Montego Bay Dunkin Donuts. Wallace and Gromit enjoyer. I own a fleet of classic cars.

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

In the early 1950's two fifths of American households didn't own a car, a third didn't have private telephones, fewer people owned homes, a third of all homes were without running water and/or a private toilet, homes were smaller overall, and only 5% of the pop went to college

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@gmiller Never felt disgusted by it but once a week feels about the average

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

I think most of the anger surrounding Markiplier using AI stems from the fact that 90 percent of those people are 12 years old.

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@CurlySquared I have bad news for you regarding all tech involving transportation and communication including phones, vehicles, and the internet in general i.e. the military also uses it.

[✨Dapper Bear✨ @Daper_Bear]

It’s so fucking weird to see Ppl react to this like Markiplier was outed as a predator.

We really drank the “Ai bad” kool-aid so hard that genuinely progressive uses of it are being treated like you’re outing a Jewish family to the third reich.

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@Goracyi @doelaroid Honest mistake? He asked ChatGPT a question about almonds. You're just as dumb as the people going after him if you think he did anything wrong.

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@CartoonsHateHer Do not let your husband silence the farts.

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@wtfis2bdone @jessesingal "Reasonable"

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@pere_albacar Okay

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@thegenesisbl0ck How many of your male friends own Coach handbags?

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@LoneStarChica And you can if, like your grandparents, you want to be dirt poor, have a piss jar next to your bed because your house doesn't have full plumbing, no vacations, one car at most, and hope your kids can do better than shift manager at the Stop and Sip

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

Lifestyle inflation happened, that's it.

If you wanted to live the 1950 version of this that our grandfathers actually lived, you still could very easily.

You'd just be in Iowa or Ohio or whatever. No $1k smartphones or central A/C; no trips to Prague, no top-20 cities. Eating at restaurants maybe just a few times a year. Only one car instead of two, and at that, the cheapest car you can buy (Mitsubishi Mirage?). The house you buy could be $50k, but it will be 800 square feet, "outdated," and you'll need to put some elbow grease into it, like grandad did.

You might live somewhere really flat and boring, with long winters, far from where you grew up. You might marry the first decent gal you could find at the local church, and she probably won't look like a model. Your kids won't be going to expensive SAT prep classes, nor will they be jetting all over the state for Soccer sectionals or joining the ski team. Christmas gifts will consist of things like oranges, candy canes, socks, and maybe a new bike from Wal-Mart. The kids' "extracurriculars" will consist of riding bikes to the river to skip rocks, or building snowmen in the yard.

You'll work at the municipal water plant in Newton Iowa, or be an assistant manager at the Love's truck stop in Bismarck, ND. Maybe start a highway line striping company in Ponca City Oklahoma. It's not gonna be some glamorous white-collar work-from home kind of thing.

Vacations? Sure, take an old canvas tent and a cooler full of bologna sandwiches up to the national forest land in Indiana or up in Michigan and go camping for a week every year. Crack open a few Old Milwaukees; maybe smoke a Dutch Master's and turn the radio on. It's not gonna be a European odyssey or a tropical getaway in Tahiti every year..

The wife can stay at home too, that's for sure. Making cheap crockpot meals from whatever's on sale at Aldi's, mending your work shirts, teaching the kids to read and sing hymns. It's more than doable.

But if you've GOT to have all the newfangled extras and just CAN'T live in a place that is "boring" or "cold" or work a job that is "low status", and have an endless princely list of "needs" -- yup, the revised, redone, totally different version of the American Dream (a version your grandpa never lived) will be out of reach.

When you find it's out of reach, you'll ask: What happened? Lifestyle inflation happened. You fell for a bunch of stupid marketing. Your grandad is facepalming in heaven, wondering what the hell is wrong with you, because the life he lived is now even easier to attain than it was back in his day!

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@scopedbylarry Jesus is the greatest American and he literally wrote the Bible

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

The incel game has gone from being upset that women supposedly only want to date rich models to being upset that they have to meet the most basic prerequisites to qualify as a human being

[Involuntary Celibate (Incels.is) @IncelsCo]

"Just self-improve, bro!"

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@IncelsCo Too all you short, fat, homeless, jobless, bad skin having, uneducated, no interest having, friendless, carless, virgin kings. You are seen.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Like how are we discussing whether Democrats should run on Abundance when politics is full bore schizophrenia now.

[ɐ͎ʞ͎ć͎ı͎ɹ͎ɐ͎ɯ͎ @leamaric]

@ZachTGR Worst thing that can happen to a third world cause is for American leftists to rally behind it.

[hårkl @harkl_]

This is what they took from you

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

@bob_smith Like the passing of a large breasted Japanese woman

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Bashing Taylor Lorenz is too easy. There will always be crazy assholes like her, clamoring for attention.

Instead we need to ask why, as a society, we elevated Taylor Lorenz to be an important public intellectual, and gave her important jobs at the country's top newspapers.

[Admiral Garfield Perry 🇮🇱 @HubrisKarate]

The Flintstones as a horror film and it's called Staba Daba Doo