@shagbark_hick Brother, you have it made. I have been a minimalist for years. Once or twice homeless but always pulled through. It is in fact that attitude that serves you so well. God bless.
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Rob Marley
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Rob Marley
@RealRobMarley
Too dumb for New York City, and too ugly for LA.
Appalachia Katılım Ekim 2022
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Many people ask me why I don't try to earn more money.
I guess it's because I hate money. I hate it because it's the perfect antithesis of ROMANCE.
Money isn't beautiful. Fretting over big bank accounts isn't beautiful. Jesus warned us about the hazards of wealth. I love Saint Francis, I love the elegant simplicity of having "just enough," I love eating stale baguettes and cold beans by candlelight when the power goes out...
So I want to keep my operating costs low. I don't want a high-expense lifestyle. If I could get my monthly costs down to zero I would do it.
Could I get rich? It does seem that I could if I wished. Years ago while hitchhiking in WY a Wall Street stock broker who picked me up said it this way:
"You'd be good on Wall Street because you've lived at the bottom and aren't afraid of it. The other guys get nervous because they're scared to lose everything. You could laugh it off, and for that reason, you'd be a master-class trader if you put your mind to it."
Others say that if I'm clever enough to go from flat-broke and homeless to owning multiple homes debt-free, I'm clever enough to earn big bucks. They're kind to say this, and they're probably right.
But the "why" has never been apparent to me. We have enough. We actually have more than enough. I'm more interested in the delightful feeling of keeping things lean, elegantly simple, romantic. The idea of "grinding" to get the big house in the fancy location (and then presumably grinding indefinitely to pay those bigger taxes, bigger bills, etc etc) doesn't appeal.
Give us a tiny old nonelectric shack on the side of a nice trail in the Berkshires, where the hikers stop by in the afternoons, and we walk to the village to go to Mass and buy fruit. Give us a houseboat on the bayou, a cozy tenement in Pittsburgh, a tired ramshackle farmhouse by the riverside. Something simple and beautiful, with monthly costs so low that "stress about bills" is never in our vocabulary -- and where the stress of managing oodles of cash and investments isn't a factor either.
Many say: "ah, as you get older, you'll see the appeal of all that money," but I'm turning 32 next week. I'm a father and a husband now. I'm still not seeing the appeal and neither is my wife. If anything, I suspect the pursuit of wealth would actually cost me something, because as a writer, my medium is really romance -- which is a thing that money always seems to have a way of killing.
And anyway, if I'm not chasing the money, that leaves more of it out there for others to get. Perhaps I am doing the "grindset" types a real courtesy by exiting that arena!
simoj@simoj_
Some thoughts: (a) have you considered becoming a higher earner? many much dumber than you have managed it (b) have you considered other countries? (c) nonstandard housing? Just speculating, but maybe shrinking churches have some kind of parish housing if you do some work for them. Or caretaker for a property in a higher cost area. My Catskills cabin is on collectively owned land with a caretaker who lives rent free permanently
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Welcome to Hickmanville, population 3.
Where life costs less than $800/mo for all expenses,
and even vagrants can become propertied gentry.
We raise our glass to you, wherever you may be on earth! Perhaps, with a little luck, you'll live the American Dream too. God bless you!
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THEY ACTUALLY HAD THEM!!!!
My local feed store had Guinea fowl chicks.
These are supposedly one of the best defenses against ticks.
I am excited asf.
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@MarioNawfal @desni3_7 If you’re going to be racist, at least be original
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🇺🇸 Streamers in Nashville are trying to ride the wave of streamer ChudTheBuilder, saying black restaurant workers are "chimping out" as they merely enforce their workplace policies.
This is not going to end well.
Source: @desni3_7
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸 Chud the Builder's bond set at $1.25 MILLION after attempted murder charge Ooof
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@andrewilliamsus My dark skinned brother, you’re a goddamned national treasure. I fucking love this energy. God bless.
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@Mrgunsngear @nickshirleyy Young man doing big things. Merch is good too.
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@nickshirleyy surprised they let you in the country honestly
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@Mbakaza4L @RoyalSherbert Dumbass waste of ammo. One would have been enough. Retards.
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Her story needs to be taught just like Anne Franks was
ADAM@adamemedia1
Hind rajab - 5 years old - 355 bullets Never forget.
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I wonder how many health issues would go away if they stopped spraying poison on most of the food we eat.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna@RepLuna
The pesticides being used in our food are causing a massive population decline in the United States.
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⚠️ How can a cop smile while doing this? Diabolical...
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@thejrbrand Then gtfo.
We tried to segregate and you chumps cried about it.
Blame no one but yourselves.
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Black Americans ain’t got no business building family and legacy with wh*te people.
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@MakeSenseMarie The low IQ mfkers threatened his 2 yr old son, but HE is the one in jail? I’m so sick of this shit
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This guy says he wants to see Chud publicly executed for saying WORDS!
They just keep proving him right.
There are influencers on the right who are siding with these people instead of Chud.
These influencers-who I like for the most part-are online everyday complaining about the behavior of these people, but when Chud actually goes out and confronts it, they turn on him, saying he’s “harassing people”.
Black people use this word to exert power over White people, and it has to stop.
No one should be attacked over ‘offensive’ words.
We are a civilized society, and that behavior shouldn’t be tolerated.
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If the new GOP/conservative movement is dictated by Laura Loomer and Randy Fine, we are absolutely cooked as a nation.
These are your credible sources?
A fat fuck traitor and a chopped up transformer?
Both of whom put a foreign interest over America?
Lmao.
Laura Loomer@LauraLoomer
EXCLUSIVE: 🚨 Congressman Randy Fine @RepFine tells me he was approached by Cynthia West @Cyntaxed007 (Thomas Massie’s accuser) last year in Florida about Thomas Massie’s @RepThomasMassie alleged financial ties to Iran. 🚨 Rep. Randy Fine revealed to me that he met Thomas Massie’s ex-girlfriend, Cynthia West at a GOP event called the Florida Freedom Forum on August 2, 2025. In an exclusive statement to @LoomerUnleashed, Fine said, “Cynthia West came up to me and told me that Massie is a total sexual creep, weirdo, and he had put her in a difficult personal situation. She told me he asked her to do things in their relationship that she felt were not appropriate. She said Massie also has direct ties to Iran. We stayed in touch.” Additionally, Fine said Ms. West told him Massie asked her to engage in personal and sexual behaviors she felt were inappropriate, claimed emotional abuse during their relationship, and expressed concerns over the Iranian ties, which she believes are financial from what she saw and heard during the time they were dating. Rep. Fine told @LoomerUnleashed, “I am particularly troubled by the allegation that Thomas Massie used his power to get his then girlfriend a taxpayer funded position position in Rep. Victoria Spartz’s @RepSpartz office shortly after they began dating in late 2024, only to have her fired shortly after in what West described as retaliation after her breakup with Massie when she no longer wanted to entertain his creepy sexual demands.” Separately, Fine noted that in May 2025, Iranian-born billionaire Joe Kiani @JoeKiani, an Iranian born donor and the founder of medical technology giant Masimo Corporation and Willow Laboratories, allegedly hosted a fundraiser for Massie that raised $100,000, during which Massie reportedly bashed Israel while the event was underway. Joe Kiani is an Iranian born Democrat mega donor. In 2021, he was appointed by Joe Biden to serve on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a move that was widely viewed as an alleged pay for play position by House Oversight Republicans. Source: oversight.house.gov/release/norman… Kiani has reportedly donated millions of dollars to Democrat causes and candidates, including $1 million to the Biden Foundation in 2017, $750,000 to the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country, and $1 million to the Biden Inaugural Committee. In addition to receiving an appointment to PCAST, Mr. Kiani’s company Masimo received over $3 million in federal government contracts under Biden’s regime. Source: nypost.com/2024/05/17/us-… Read the full letter from the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform here: oversight.house.gov/wp-content/upl… In August 2024, Joe Biden vacationed at Kiani’s $37 million ranch in California. Source: nypost.com/2024/08/20/us-… I have obtained this photo of Massie and Cynthia West from the time they were dating, proving she isn’t lying about their romantic relationship, which began roughly two months after Massie’s wife of 30 years died. Cynthia tells me Massie dated at least one other woman before her, just a couple weeks after his wife mysteriously died.
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@PsyGuy007 @85BreakfastClub You know we lost one here right in my state. To a citizen. Imagine fleeing war and starting all over again in a new place only to get stabbed in the chest by a low iq gang banger retard. RIP Iryna.
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🚨 🇩🇪 CHOC : Un demandeur d’asile irakien de 31 ans, Muhammad A., a poussé une jeune Ukrainienne de 16 ans, Liana K., devant un train de marchandises en gare de Friedland
La jeune fille est morte sur le coup, sous les yeux de son grand-père avec qui elle était au téléphone.
Le tribunal vient de décider : pas de prison.
En raison d’une « grave schizophrénie paranoïde », Muhammad A. est déclaré pénalement irresponsable et envoyé dans un établissement psychiatrique.
Un demandeur d’asile débouté, qui n’aurait jamais dû rester en Allemagne, tue une réfugiée ukrainienne de 16 ans… et le système le protège.
La justice allemande préfère soigner le bourreau plutôt que de protéger les innocents.
Triste symbole d’une Europe qui a perdu le sens des priorités. 💔
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@allen_rashaan @MAC_Arms @AdamKinzinger @GovofCO I can’t image how anyone could possibly still support Trump. Unless you’re like into q or some retarded shit like that.
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With the news that @GovofCO just granted clemency to Tina Peters, justice has been once again perverted, and this time by a DEMOCRAT desperate for Donald Trumps adoration.
Congrats Jared Polis. I bet you get invited to the WH now
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@shagbark_hick @Mmmm_nuh_uh This shit is deeply backwards and highly disturbing. Yes the only place they belong are on roofs.
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@Mmmm_nuh_uh Why even put it on farmland? Until every urban rooftop is covered with solar, we shouldn't be touching the farmland either. Shouldn't even think of it.
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Im incredibly pro-solar but it's so weird that people are cutting down forests for solar land instead of just putting it on farms tbh, like we know that solar panels on farms works and helps crop growth, it's simply, it's cheap, why go to all this trouble?
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Where are all the old-school Earth First types? Why is nobody out there pulling up survey stakes, chaining themselves to bulldozers and such? For those who don't know, NYS started a thing called "ORES," or "Office of Renewable Energy Siting," which bypasses all local control and lets any developer come in and build a 2MW+ solar project ANYWHERE. Local governments and agencies have zero recourse -- ORES can decide what's allowed and where, period. It's essentially a Soviet-style central planning system. Apparently, they're even able to bypass the Adirondack Park Agency, thereby flouting article 14 of the NYS Constitution (the "forever wild" amendment). They're 100% violating the constitution of the state of New York here in the Adirondack Park and are, I guess, just assuming they'll deal with the lawsuits later -- after the developers cash their checks. When these sons of bitches are coming even for the Adirondacks, we have a massive problem. NYS is a hellscape on a level most cannot comprehend. This is a dress rehearsal for what is coming down the pike for the rest of the USA, mark my words. It's a David and Goliath situation.
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Andres takes are legendary, but only because he’s one of maybe 3 blacks being honest.
Andre Williams@andrewilliamsus
>Be a Nіggеr >Stab White kid in the heart in front of his brother >Gets arrested >Claim racism as a defense >Nіggеrs defend him and donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to bail you out >Go home, play 2k. >Be ChudTheBuilder >Doesn’t care about the N-word >Make content of you saying the N-word and watching Nіggеrs chimp out >Chimp out intensifies >Rappers & Streamfags demand Black people attack you on site >Black dude finds you attack you > You shoot in self-defense >Get arrested for attempted murder >Bail set at 1.25 million The racial double standard in America couldn’t be clearer, and Black people‘s culture and behavior couldn’t be more retarded.
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