Everybody Knows

20K posts

Everybody Knows banner
Everybody Knows

Everybody Knows

@StephenMaxner

“I am I, and I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.” // “A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy!” // “I prefer not to.”

Radio Free America Katılım Ekim 2012
1.6K Takip Edilen674 Takipçiler
Everybody Knows retweetledi
Nick Dixon
Nick Dixon@NickDixon·
Feel like this guy has waited his whole life to say this. Incredibly eloquent and accurate appraisal of the failure of Western elites.
English
568
2.4K
11.8K
643.6K
Robby Starbuck
Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck·
This is called projection meant to manipulate an audience or raw stupidity. The #1 elite class of people pushing the idea of common men owning nothing is the world economic forum which is led entirely by leftists. They did the whole "you’ll own nothing and be happy" push. I don’t think Graham is dumb enough not to know that so he’s something more sinister, an intentional manipulator banking on YOU being stupid enough to believe him.
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine

They want you to own nothing. They want you to rent your car, your house, your entire life from them, from a billionaire class that owns everything around you. That's their ideal future, and we can't let them have it.

English
28
97
522
23.8K
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
@TheLaurenChen Saying the left ‘wins’ in present tense implies the game is still being played. No correction can take place until we openly address and acknowledge that they won (full stop; game over) a long time ago.
English
1
0
20
292
Lauren Chen
Lauren Chen@TheLaurenChen·
This is why the left wins all the time Each bureaucrat is actually an activist working to ingrain their ideology into our institutions at every chance Take this example with the Federal Judicual Center, which has an official manual that instructs judges on how to weigh scientific evidence It turns out the climate section was really the work of green activists, meaning they were effectively biasing judges toward climate change activism before cases even got to court Now this climate chapter was pulled once it was discovered how slanted it was, but imagine how many more examples are out there in every corner of government, academia, media, and corporate life...
Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt

The backlash was so fierce that the FJC was forced to pull the entire climate chapter, but only after it had already been distributed to thousands of judges. Let that sink in. They laundered Greta Thunberg talking points into the official judicial reference manual.

English
19
307
1.4K
33.8K
Sam Davis’ Shoe of Doom
Sam Davis’ Shoe of Doom@JustinOpinion10·
What a presumptive, egocentric statement. Some have frugal parents; some have charitable parents; and some have parents who prefer simplicity and/or routine. The reason these practices sound like poor is because what poor must do, these choose to. You are why people don’t like anons.
English
3
0
6
112
🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock
🍹 Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock@kimmie_c_·
Gen X here... I remember going to McDonald's for birthday parties & on rare occasions w/ my family for a treat. Eating out was NEVER an everyday occurrence... not even weekly. Months would go buy w/ nothing but grocery store bought food. Where are these people getting their info?
Raven@raven_brah

Boomers seem to forget that fast food used to be a normal, everyday expense for them because it was affordable. You could get a burger easily on minimum wage, it wasn’t some fancy treat you had once a year as a reward for pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

English
698
339
6.7K
216.8K
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
Who said being poor was an insult? Not me. Didn’t even imply it. Especially for kids who don’t have any say in the matter. But if one is poor, one is poor and it is definitely relevant to a discussion on widespread spending habits and cultures. (I’m no longer interested in the rest of the discussion, just want to clarify that one point.)
English
0
0
0
10
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
@kev5673 @kimmie_c_ Look, it is ridiculous for gen xers to claim poverty. But, you win, im bored with your stubbornness in the face of reality and I concede the issue. Time to get a homemade sandwich or a sit down lunch and contemplate the verities of remembrance.
English
1
0
0
22
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ There were fewer restaurants. I already demonstrated that people ate out less frequently. Also your mental benchmark household income is 3.2 times the median household income back then. The equivalent of $250k today. The $250k family certainly isn’t stressed about takeout prices.
@kev5673 tweet media
English
2
0
0
31
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
Yeah, I have an idea, but not going into that. But a normal sit down restaurant above TGIF (don’t think there were chili’s then) but below ‘fancy’ was probably 60-70 for a family of four. A household income of 75k would be 4500 or so after taxes. An eating out budget of $500 would be no big deal. Restaurants were full, so besides your family and the original poster, apparently a lot of people could fit it into their budget. I guess the pools down south (or wherever you’re from) didn’t know how to live.
English
1
0
0
17
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
@kev5673 @kimmie_c_ ‘Real restaurants were for (special occasions)’ millionaire family thinks they weren’t cheap and thinks he understands definitions. Sure thing.
English
1
0
0
19
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ Rhetoric is supposed to help make your point, I think what you’re constructing here is a straw man.
English
1
0
0
14
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
@kev5673 @kimmie_c_ Yes, you do not understand rhetoric, I am not surprised, since you don’t seem to know what many words mean. But it is never too late to learn!
English
1
0
0
19
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ Here I’ll refresh your memory of what I actually said since your addled brain seems to have concocted a fictional story to imprint on this conversation.
@kev5673 tweet media
English
1
0
0
17
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
@kev5673 @kimmie_c_ The original poster said McDonals was a once a month treat. Give me a break. Then you said you had to save pennies to eat out. Give me a break. People are ridiculous.
English
2
0
0
37
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ First off, I never said soda was a luxury. Nobody in this thread did. I said eating out was not what people spent on as regularly. “Money was free and easy” Ok. This has devolved into a joke. Have a good one buddy.
@kev5673 tweet media
English
1
0
0
20
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
@GenTXer2 Did you just Little Bro me? Heh, fair enough, but the man could sing!
English
1
0
5
50
GenTXer2
GenTXer2@GenTXer2·
@StephenMaxner You're a little younger than I am. By '89, I wasn't listening to top 40
English
1
0
1
306
GenTXer2
GenTXer2@GenTXer2·
80s Hair Metal Power Ballad you may have forgotten: Skid Row: “I Remember You” (1989)
English
88
246
1.6K
56.5K
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
I don’t know why we keep going, but whatever. Again, it is so removed from reality as to be absurd. Like I said, probably a bot. Soda was not a luxury. McDonald’s was not a luxury. People were not burning candles to save on electricity. If any of these things were true for you, you were poor. Nothing wrong with being poor, but it is the exception. You know the 80s were called the decade of excess for a reason, right? You know fast food combo meals were like $5, right? Baseball tickets were $5. Movie tickets were $5. Money was free and easy unless you are 1) lying, 2)insane, or 3) a bot. So there you go.
English
1
0
0
30
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ And it’s weird to keep calling me poor and fake apologizing for sharing a different perspective on how families back then viewed eating out. It’s an enormous amount of hostility in an odd effort to feel superior I guess? But why?
English
1
0
3
55
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ I’ve talked about my childhood with lots of friends and my experience was pretty normal. My dad was corner office level manager at a bank. I also don’t think not eating out at Applebees once a week had a negative impact on my quality of life. It just wasn’t how most people lived.
English
2
0
9
121
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
Nonsense. People have a disease where they want to pretend their life was harder then it was. my dad was a stockbroker, one neighbor kid’s dad was a community college teacher, two worked for the government, another’s was a pastor, another’s owned a Chinese restaurant. I am sorry you lived a sad life, but don’t try to pretend times were hard back then, because they weren’t. Maybe for you, but that was a your family problem.
English
3
0
0
127
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ It’s possible that you were on the upper end of upper middle class, or that your parents were simply spendthrifts. Your description doesn’t sound like the norm for any of people I know who grew up with professional class parents.
English
1
0
9
118
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
Then you were cheap. If you think people in the 80s thought going to McDonald’s once a month was a privilege, you grew up in an entirely different world than I did. Going out to eat was no big deal because prices were reasonable. Vacations were no big deal, cars were no big deal, sports were no big deal, someone tried to say soda was luxury. I guess you all were poor or cheap. Again, sorry to hear it.
English
6
0
0
115
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ This is such a weird attack attempt. I know what my parents made and I know how much they have now. I know what professions my friends/neighbors parents were in. I know we all lived in new build 4-5 bedroom colonials. Lots of people used to eat 90%+ of their meals at home.
English
1
0
11
123
Everybody Knows
Everybody Knows@StephenMaxner·
@kev5673 @kimmie_c_ Nah, I grew up in slightly upper middle class home in the 80s and everyone I knew could afford all the basic enjoyments of life pretty easily. You were poor, too, apparently. Sorry about that.
English
2
0
0
165
@kev5673
@kev5673@kev5673·
@StephenMaxner @kimmie_c_ Nah that was typical among the professional class in the 90s. My parents both worked corporate jobs and they’re retired “millionaires next door” now. And we would pick up subway or dominos but 5 days a week ate home cooked meals and real restaurants were for bdays or road trips.
English
1
0
15
173

Keşfet

@robbystarbuck @TheLaurenChen @JustinOpinion10 @kimmie_c_ @kev5673 @elonmusk @BarackObama @taylorswift13