Master Ridley

[Master Ridley @mstr_ridley]

People secretly think that because they go the gym every day they could hack it. Not at all. Totally different type of physical strain. Gym machines are sort of designed to be “safe”, and target very specific muscle groups at a time.

I did one week of construction work when I was 16 - body was completely broken afterwards.

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To the extent you do find what appears to be "poverty" it's much more of the spiritual and physiological kind rather than material. Overweight people living in 'despair', drug addictions, broken families, lives of petty crime etc.

Very real problems btw! But not ones easily fixable by handing out more money.

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@CCGordon33 @CaudilloXIV Holy underrated tweet

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@b_co_co Isn’t that just because there are more teachers than doctors?

A better stat would be what % of doctors are millionaires vs what % of teachers.

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@zachpogrob Cope

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nyc is fascinating because it's like a college frat in the sense where you have 10% of legitimately cool, good looking, interesting people that were always cool and then 90% of people that have always been uncool but wanna larp as cool, and believe they are, because the other 10% is there

the 10% doesn't actually care about being there really, since it's just another place, another situation and another institution they're a part of

the other 90% can't talk about anything else other than being there. it becomes they're entire identity. they're not used to it. very bronze-medal coded

the 90% are all out here tweeting "nyc is electric", "never seen it like this", "game watch party" to all their hometown friends they'll brag about living in nyc over the winter break

the other 10% per my sources (i am also deeply uncool yet know people on the other side) are split evenly right now between formentera, primavera sound (the indie fashion hot girl crowd), monaco (the executive c-suite hyaluronic acid crowd) and weddings in the med (md's and vps and non-single people where he has a submariner and she has the panthere)

so no nyc is not "electric" right now, nyc sucks during the summer. it's too hot, too humid and only the petite bourgeoisie stay there

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@SawnOffSamuraii @asanwal Yep, many such cases.

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@asanwal The fact that this person thinks this is what college essays are about is the exact reason she didn’t get into an Ivy.

Also her SAT score (1510) is not particularly impressive. Median for Harvard admits is 1550.

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Yep, few understand this.

The analogy I give is that most companies are like large standing armies.

And people like OP are incredulous that all these “soldiers” are being paid while doing very little actual “fighting”.

But that’s the nature of warfare. Most soldiers are bored most of the time.

[Master Ridley @mstr_ridley]

Yep, few understand this.

The analogy I give is that most companies are like large standing armies.

And people like OP are incredulous that all these “soldiers” are being paid while doing very little actual “fighting”.

But that’s the nature of warfare. Most soldiers are bored most of the time.

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@ericadamsfornyc My fucking mayor.

It’s funny that he’s literally the “Abundance” mayor in so many ways but all those wonky centre-left nerds who profess that creed are actually deeply racist and so can’t see that in Adams.

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@nikicaga Americans think their rivalries are intense meanwhile across the pond Rangers FC refused to sign a Catholic player until 1989 because of sectarian conflict going back to the Battle of the Boyne in 1690

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@cursor_ai holy chart crime

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@porterstansb I mean, actual elite schools (Andover, Horace Mann etc) do consistently matriculate dozens of kids (of all races) to Ivies every year.

So possibly your private school is not as “elite” as it purports to be.

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A huge amount of people don’t even understand the Universal Progressivism they have unwittingly bought into over the last few decades.

We have had a massive cultural revolution, but to paraphrase Kierkegaard, it was one that “left all the buildings standing” so most are unaware it has happened.

It surfaces in cases like this where remnants from the old world poke through.

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Their obsession with the very legalese word “assault” is interesting in all this.

I’d be curious to see a n gram breakdown on it. When I was growing up no one described a man getting his ass beat after exchanging fighting words as “assault”. I’m not sure they realized it’s part of the pantheon of progressive newspeak, along with “problematic” and “misinformation” etc.

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@ablata_at_alba True. On the other hand men of the South applauded it and even sent Brooks new canes with the inscription “Hit him again”.

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@PureLandNation @bayesiandroll @Empty_America He should be prosecuted, of course.

But this discussion isn’t about how the law should respond, or even really whether what the old guy did was right or wrong.

It’s about how it would have been perceived in generations past.

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@typesfaster There a several hundred thousand people in the nyc area who clear $1M a year.