J. Kenji López-Main 🔱⚾🧭 @GKBesterfriend Twitter profile

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J. Kenji López-Main 🔱⚾🧭

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My wife is an old world wife which is like a trad wife but instead of being submissive she hits me with a spoon when I go into the kitchen while she’s makin’ the pasta.

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J. Kenji López-Main 🔱⚾🧭

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2 years

I'm assembling a team

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I love it when people don't realize their parents were rich.

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Replies are pretty split between this being fabulously wealthy as a lifestyle vs completely normal. Middle class is exactly what you grew up with. Anything less is poverty, anything more is riches beyond your imagination.

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It’s good to periodically to remember what opposition to the civil rights movement actually looked like.

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So if both parents made 100k in 1990s dollars then you were above the top 10% or so of households in the United States. Around 75k in the 90s puts you in the top 75%.

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Nominal Median Family Income in the 1990s was ~$35k. The current Median Family Wage as of 2022 is ~$93k.

FRED Economic Data

Median Family Income in the United States

fred.stlouisfed.org

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What is being described with the overseas travel esp is top 10-5% for the 90s. I’m comfortable labeling that “rich”. Middle class is 40-60% income. Upper middle is 70-10%

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Nobody tell Wes Anderson about this town

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Anything you put past upper middle is, of course, a little bit fake. To some only billionaires are rich and earning a million a year is middle class. To which I say: come on.

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@SlatorH "Overseas" means not North or South America.

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@HegelwCrmCheese People are going to love this movie and then ask for another one and they should absolutely get what they ask for good and hard.

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As my mentor William F Buckley once put it

David Brooks

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As my mentor William F. Buckley once put it, “Materialistic democracy beckons every man to make himself a king; republican citizenship incites every man to be a knight.”

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Arguing with stats racists online is basically how I became good enough at statistics and probability to have my current email job so they at least have done that much good in the world.

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@whstancil

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Yes, this is why Sailer et al are so maddening. Their entire performance is just a tone: they look and sound mathy and statistical, but their actual arguments - in the rare instances they bother to include numbers at all - crumble under scrutiny. It’s a trick

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@Gtwy 50k was closer to 90k in the middle to late 90s.

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My leftist catholic ass always be like: “is this Demons, or is this CIA?”

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Jack Dorsey looks like Grigori Rasputin who is tasked with curing Zuckerberg's hemophilia.

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The world’s first zoom ventriloquism act

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Pray for my brother who is relapsing into alcoholism.

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Here's a billboard with the energy of a Facebook post.

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Being let go of my job. Appreciate prayers, bits of advice, etc.

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Mr King, Hang your head in shame. You are responsible for all of these riots and havoc in this country today.

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I think about this one all the time.

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Can you increase Supply? Best I can do is subsidize Demand.

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Postliberals say "liberalism" when they mean "capitalism" because they think the problem is largely the culture of elites and not the structures and incentives of the economy.

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The church isn’t a Museum for the Based but a Hospital for the Cringe

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"The protests are turning me racists and it is your fault." was also fairly common back in the day.

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William F Buckley on the assassination of Martin Luther King

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@HarmlessRadio This is right around a median lifestyle in the 90s.

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“It certainly must take unmititgated gall to ask the public, particularly “WHITEY” for funds to keep you and your ilk rolling along in the manner to which you have become to visibly accustomed. Your false image is beginning to catch up with your as well as others...

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the consequences of the liz bruenig wojack have been horrific for society.

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@mattxiv

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fun fact neither of these men has ever stepped foot in an american primary school

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there's a ton i hate about this genre of advice. a major piece of it is that 'being an adult' means not being in any kind of complicated web of relationships instead of deepening and finally contributing to that web. it's incredibly against how i view relationships at all.

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As an adult, don’t ask your friends to help you move. Hire movers, save a friendship.

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"Yea bro my childhood was exactly like this except that [everything but 2 cars and a 3 bedroom house is different in large ways]"

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@MinModulation "I miss 2019 when I was a NEET, even though I wanted to kill myself back then too." is basically an explanation of economic sentiment detaching from economic indicators.

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Odysseus leading the democratic field.

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The Civil Rights Movement is lead by Marxists who Christians just can't support. While peaceful protest is a valid, in this instance it is fueled by people who are alternating peaceful protest and violence to subvert America and Christianity.

Color, Communism And Common Sense (Long version & PDFs below)

Communism:This presentation by G. Edward Griffin, delivered on April 3, 1969, describing Manning Johnson's book (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OFbsxdGDKJ_...

www.youtube.com

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"What's Wrong with Civil Rights" by the John Birch Society. Making a fairly familiar argument that while civil rights are fine and good, the current movement empowers marxists/communists.

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Honestly if more of you talked to God how the psalmist does you'd have a much better relationship. "God, I'm going through so much drama right now, can you destroy that bitch? She talks behind my back all the time. I have always kept your law. You will provide for me. Amen"

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Jesus specifically tells you not to do this!

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An unoccupied house on stilts in Rodanthe, North Carolina, as it collapses into the ocean this afternoon. Was worth $381,200 according to Zillow.

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My dad and my stepmom have COVID. Please pray.

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@chronowerks @JungeRoamer Can’t wait until Goldcase comes out

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They're both David Bentley Hart

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in your 30s you either chill out and become normal or experience a slow decent for the rest of your life into progressive self parody.

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The Masculine Urge to opt out of the rat race, take an entry level position with the USPS and deliver mail while listening to podcasts and audiobooks all day.

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"smash communism"

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@LibertyTemen @Gtwy It’s a lot!

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I’m married now

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"but Chicago" was a fairly common theme back then too.

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@claaauuudddd It tells such a story

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^funding for the direct mail campaign for this pamphlet came from Charles Koch

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h/t @TheeFantomas

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reading nietzsche's account of christianity as slave morality designed to over time erode master morality's emphasis on greatness and power and repeating "that's right" to myself over and over again.

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@AbiWilks @GarbageApe British people have a ton of words for pedophile for the same reason Eskimos have 100 words for snow.

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The letter that King is responding to when he refers to the White Moderate

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A traditionalist (left) and a liberal (right) discuss current events.

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Global Times

@globaltimesnews

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The virtual event on Xinjiang by the US and a few Western countries was a poor show full of lies and disinformation exposing attempt to use Xinjiang to create mess in and contain China, and is an outright political farce: China's Permanent Mission to UN

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you know this isn't the first race that warren left

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this you?

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What is funnier than that this president got Covid and then beat it in a couple of days and is already back at work? Is there anyone like unto him? If I were one of his detractors, I think I'd give up right about now. No sense throwing good bitterness after bad.

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leftists never beating the anti-bedtime accusations.

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>It was mostly agriculture and textile. My guy, do you know how big agriculture and textiles were from the 1770s to the 1860s?

Dallas Ludlum

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@prageru Slavery was such a small part of our country. It was mostly agriculture and textile. It was wrong and terrible and the normal practice throughout the entire world. We ENDED slavery.

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American Cheese is great, actually. The sodium citrate used as a binder in American Cheese makes it perfect for making different cheese sauces. You can buy sodium citrate online or use American cheese to make sauces more silky and smooth than a bechamel could accomplish.

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@YaBoiJohnny4 @daxdives American food: a cuisine so great it had a cheese goo wrapped in plastic named after it.

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@0xAlaric The male GOP Social Media guys are disproportionally told to never go to college, to do hustle bro scams that will drain their accounts and leave them friendless as they are routinely told to cut ties with people not into their own grindset.

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furiously ripping apart everything i own only to discover that everything is cake.

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These Are All Cakes

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Yes, nationalizing JSTOR

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@JSTOR

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Is there anything better than a linguist's take on Taylor Swift's lyrics?

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You become Trad by being Terminally Online. You do the things terminally online people do. Being unmoored in your 20s. Being white. Being male. Reading poor scans of pdfs that you barely understand that 50 something conspiracy theorists explain to you etc.

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Tridentine Mass goers are the tiniest of a tiny minority. And yet they are all over Twitter. How do we explain this?

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Some Personal News: I am now the digital marketing and communications manager for the Western Provence of the Dominican Order of Preachers. My first day started today. I ship out to Seattle next week. Love u crazy diamonds.

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look at the absolute state of our public intellectuals bro, we're never leaving the cave.

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However, we are now confronted by a series of demonstrations by some of our Negro citizens, directed and led in part by outsiders. We recognize the impatience of people who feel that their hopes not realized. But we are convinced that these demonstrations are unwise and untimely

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"Wet-ass pussy, make that pullout game weak" Cardi B, Theology of the Body, and Openness to Life (2020)

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@villagegirl1796 i would like to see taxes go up on the top 20% of earners and above at a graduated rate. The overseas vacations put this at and around the top 10% of earners in the 90s if not the top 5%. I'm completely okay with them being taxed to pay for social programs.

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@ffx_wave @HarmlessRadio Malcolm in the Middle is very "they are middle class earning the median but precarious b/c of how many kids they have" and a good place to index at. Kids sharing rooms, no money set aside for college. Parents are tired and unable to do everything people would like. etc.

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Unemployment is at 3% and tech is melting into air. It's incredibly funny.

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@besttrousers Individual Employees also have a strong incentive to work on easier to make cups and put an unpopular employee making complex orders. Notice Anna at 20 cups barely moves from her stations but Vika at 10 cups is constantly moving in between people. Easily gameable situation.

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A basic principle of Herbert McCabe's philosophy of prayer. Pray for what you want and God will guide you to what you should want. We see this dialectically in the psalms themselves. You ask for the petty things and then you realize "Wow. when you put it like that..."

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It's crazy that job hopping is the number one thing that can advance your career, especially in your 20s, when it's also the number one thing your parents tell you you should absolutely not do.

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Literally Herbert McCabe basically says "if you are distracted during prayer, you are not being a petty enough bitch. Get real petty. God can handle it."

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I've been on this shit since John Derbyshire got fired from National Review for writing an infamous article in TakiMag. I've been in the internet trenches on this for a long time. The statsracists are bad at stats and are simply *wrong*.

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Actually yes. America has an almost magical ability to create Americans out of the entire world. They fall in love with Football and their daughters listen to Taylor Swift. The second gen feels torn between two worlds, the third are firmly Americans. Many such cases!

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@whstancil Do you think America has 'magic soil' that transforms them into model citizens with a love & loyalty for their 'new country'? Quite the opposite. Wherever they land they plant THEIR culture & turn it into the hellhole they left. We will cease to be America. Period.

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The US just has been hitting it right out of the park when it came to COVID response for everything but Public Health response. Fiscal response? Nailed it. Supply incentives? Nailed it. The fucking vaccines? Fucking nailed it.

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Chinese youth unemployment continues to rise to ever more alarming levels.

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@AryehCW you know they didn't include his iq in the first draft of the headline and he wanted to make sure they put in -iq 200-

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In The Sound of Music (1965) Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, a Manic Pixie Dream Nun.

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@DanFoxAnimates @JamarToombs @jesawyer Kids never played cowboys growing up and thought that cowboys are really cool. If you like cowboys you are pretentious.

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Japan shrinking by .4% but growing per capita by 1.2% is some insane sicko Japan shit. It's the grossest thing I can think of.

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Here's how GDP per capita has changed for each G7 country since before the pandemic: 🇺🇸 +6.6% 🇮🇹 +4.2% (Through Q2) 🇯🇵 +1.2% 🇫🇷 -0.1% 🇬🇧 -0.2% 🇩🇪 -1.1% 🇨🇦 -2.0%