@lanedeankendall They do not want to win because, as you mentioned, they lose their identity. They also want the appearance of being the better men. That's marketable.
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Facts of the Matter
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Facts of the Matter
@MatterofFacts5
The interconnected bigger picture and observational rhetoric
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@SevierlyBlessed @PolitiBunny Chicken tenders in the air fryer. Can make enough for an entire week. Chicken salad from a rotisserie chicken. Lasts almost a week.
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With all the talk about the high cost of eating out vs. packing lunches, I’m curious- what do you make from scratch that actually saves your family money?
Let’s share ideas and encourage people who think saving money in this economy is impossible. 🙂
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Solar is on course to become the world’s largest source of electricity overall.
Solar will supply 20% of global electricity by 2032.
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@karkwonk @allie__voss The problem is what we define inflation to be. A lot of the high pricing is because people live beyond their means in every market sector. This creates price increases. We need to know that real inflation is (printing fiat) and what is caused by supply and demand.
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@allie__voss It’s just (some of) genz being very defeatist. If wages are not keeping up with inflation, you should be *even more* motivated to pack a lunch. Not less
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@WorkEmail17 @StockSavvyShay Voting for representatives that promise them "largesse from the treasury". The treasury is funded through taxes (or printing money which devalues money in circulation, another tax).
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@MatterofFacts5 @StockSavvyShay How would they be taking your money?
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Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax.
He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”
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@abbythelibb_ @JeremyDBoreing We keep calling market factor pricing inflation. If they eat out less, prices will reduce.
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People will eat a $20 fast food meal every day and then blame the Boomers and the Jews for being poor and fat.
Sure, there's nasty inflation, and that sucks. Sure, eating homemade sandwiches and leftovers every day won't save you enough to buy a house, but that attitude toward spending and saving and doing what you have to to overcome your obstacles will.
The attitude that everything is expensive so you might as well spend and spend and eat and eat is why you're not getting anywhere. It's not the obstacles you won't even try to overcome.
I'm a SAHM in my early 30s. Husband is in his late 20s. Makes <100k/year. We own a decent town home we bought in 2021 that's currently worth 260k. We have about 90k in equity now. And along the way we have spent plenty of money eating out, going to movies, and generally enjoying life within our means. We've definitely had tough financial seasons. But I just don't connect with this helpless, angry doomerism. It is within your power to make your life better little by little. No one else can do it but you.
The Refined Populist@RefinedPopulist
A large, fast food value meal costs ~$20 with tax. What are they supposed to do?
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@sircalebhammer @JoelWBerry But Zoomers deserve so much. They deserve "treats" for all of the work and progress they have contributed.
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If you watch my show, you know it’s true. My sympathy is running thin.
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns
The biggest thing happening behind the scenes in the "expensive lunch" discourse is that Zoomers are eating out at ridiculously high rates. It's a silent assumption for a ton of young people that restaurants are a basic necessity, not an occasional treat.
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@Tradermayne You can save money eating a steak and vegetables for lunch every day compared to eating art restaurants.
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So the solution is to eat PB&J sandwiches, apples and bags of chips for lunch every day for a week?
Are you fucking 5?
Ben Klayer@the_satellite23
Loaf of bread = $5 Peanut butter = $4 Jelly = $4 18 pack of chips = $12 Bag of apples = $5 Total = $30 And you'll have lunch for an entire week or two. $2-4 average per day. Inflation isn't the problem. Your spending habits are.
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@JeremiahDJohns But Zoomers deserve so much. They deserve "treats" for all off the work and progress they have contributed.
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The biggest thing happening behind the scenes in the "expensive lunch" discourse is that Zoomers are eating out at ridiculously high rates.
It's a silent assumption for a ton of young people that restaurants are a basic necessity, not an occasional treat.
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@drterrysimpson Hopefully good enough to not bring back Ebola
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Meanwhile we have an outbreak of Ebola and some physicians are going to Africa to offer a hand. I wonder what their MCAT scores were?
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@SeanMcCarthyCom They are not supposed to eat lunch out. They are supposed to purpose their own lunch. It costs dollars for lunch this way.
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Lunch just costs $28 now. Are they not supposed to eat?
Mikli@CryptoMikli
Kevin O’Leary says Gen Z is financially cooked when people making $70K a year are spending $28 on lunch
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@SpeckMartyn @giveashitnature "In controlled trials..."
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@giveashitnature For the price of seed + the price of the crop that was not grown in the rows of wildflowers. Interesting idea, but it's not free. There's not enough information here to evaluate it.
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Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.
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@stelzner_n1150 I can feed a family of 5 steak and potatoes for less than that. Ready in under an hour.
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And this is for one person, a family of four will cost you damn near a $100, for fucking subs! Luncacy!
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A regular-sized sandwich, a bag of chips, and a soda cost you like $17 now at Jersey Mike's, then they ask for a tip on their tablet, making the total close to $20. Wealthy people don't care because they don't need to budget, but for middle-class Americans, this is a big problem.
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@stelzner_n1150 I can make the same sandwich with chips for <$5 at home while saving time
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@AnnCoulter Interesting. Do those skills support his role in Congress? Does he represent his constituents?
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Massie's not only the most conservative member of congress - in the freedom and constitutionalist sense - but also the smartest.
He graduated from MIT with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and while there, invented a haptic computer interface, founded a technology company in his dorm room, got dozens of patents, and made millions of dollars.
Today the tech he invented is used in surgical training, robotics, and molecular research, among other things.
Alex Clark@yoalexrapz
The commentary online I’m seeing insinuating that “Thomas Massie is a Democrat” because he spars with Trump is literal retard boomer propaganda for the lowest of IQ individuals. Massie is probably the most conservative member of Congress what are you even talking about? Massie sticks to conservative principles even when politically inconvenient which is WHY Trump doesn’t like him. Trump doesn’t want you to vote for Massie over vanity reasons not because he is a “Democrat”. •He votes against “emergency” power grabs and bipartisan consensus bills that most Republicans eventually cave on. •He’s one of the few members who regularly reads and publicly critiques the actual text of legislation instead of just voting with leadership. •He opposed COVID lockdown policies, vaccine mandates, and massive pandemic spending earlier and more consistently than many Republicans who later rebranded as anti-lockdown. •He’s unusually hostile to corporate welfare, subsidies, and government-backed market manipulation, not just Democratic programs. •He frequently takes positions that hurt him politically or socially in DC because he prioritizes constitutional consistency over party optics. •He’s skeptical of the intelligence/security apparatus in a way that aligns with old-school civil-libertarian conservatism. •He has a long track record of voting against omnibus packages that many “conservative” Republicans publicly complain about but ultimately support because they are WEAK. He’s the most ideologically consistent. People may dislike his positions, but it’s hard to argue he’s transactional or opportunistic. He’s one of the rare Republicans whose voting record often aligns almost perfectly with a STRICT interpretation of limited federal power. He’s the most conservative member of Congress do not lose him!!!
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@Handre @GrumpyTechBro Socialism cannot optimize to all of the requisite variables/factors necessary to be productive and to provide value or necessity.
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Mathematical proof that socialist calculation destroys human welfare emerges from this basic fact: when Soviet shoe factories received quotas measured by weight and volume instead of consumer satisfaction, they did exactly what any rational actor would do under perverse incentives. They mass-produced heavy, unwearable boots in a single size while millions walked barefoot.
You can't blame the factory managers. They faced jail time for missing production targets, not for customer complaints that never reached them anyway. Without market prices signaling actual demand for size 8 versus size 12, they optimized for survival under the only metric that mattered to their political overseers. The result? Warehouses stuffed with useless inventory while citizens lined up for hours hoping to find anything remotely wearable.
Free market economists call this the calculation problem, and it applies to every good and service under central planning. Prices are information systems that coordinate millions of individual preferences across time and geography. When you eliminate prices through state control, you eliminate the only mechanism that tells producers what people actually want, when they want it, and how much they'll sacrifice to get it.
The shoe shortage reveals something deeper about socialist systems: they can hit every statistical target while completely failing human beings. Soviet planners celebrated meeting production quotas while their citizens developed foot problems from ill-fitting footwear. They measured success in tons of leather processed, not in the comfort and mobility of actual people trying to walk to work every morning.
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@MargoinWNC Because they don't think they are talking about them. They think they are talking to the others.
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Never underestimate the stupidity of democrats to weaponize their base and have the base still vote them.
Nick Craig@nicholasmcraig
Sen. Val Applewhite says mothers across North Carolina are incapable of understanding a constitutional amendment lowering the state income tax cap from 7% to 3.5%. Sen. Michael Lee wasn’t having it. #ncpol #ncga
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@IsabellaMDeLuca And drain rivers to water their precious crops
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Vegans claim to care about the planet but then go ahead and kill 4 billion bees every year for their almond milk.
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@TheRabbitHole @WallStreetMav Inflation should only measure fiat injected into the system, not price changes based on market/system factors. It should not measure prices at all. We should know exactly how much money is introduced (printed).
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Inflation is an indirect tax that slowly decays the spending power of the American dollar.
Even if the government is not explicitly raising taxes, inflation will limit what a dollar can buy in the long run.
Kalshi@Kalshi
BREAKING: Kevin Warsh to be sworn as Fed Chair on Friday Inflation now forecasted to hit 5%
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