@AgentCoopr702 @Faj1791 I’m not a Democrat lol, I voted for Herschel Walker but just pointing out that’s why Republicans shouldn’t nominate black men
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@TheNewClassicGA @Faj1791 George Floyd pulled the same shit and you guys love him
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You just really wish that dems nominated some pro-business moderate named "Mark Gonzalez" at a time like this. Paxton would be the underdog if that were the case. Georgia and Arizona dems picked perfect candidates for their states with Warnock and Kelly, Tx dems are incompetent.
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@Ed_Realist @asymmetricinfo @tracewoodgrains I generally just pick stocks based on the S&P 500 and dip when it starts declining and switch back over to ETF. But granted, people probably do riskier stuff than me
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@asymmetricinfo @tracewoodgrains Yep. I don't understand why people would try to pick stocks. I can see investing in one stock for fun, but not as a way to make money.
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there's a certain class of advice calibrated such that learning to ignore it is part of the test for whether you're ready to ignore it
Aella@Aella_Girl
I'm so mad at everyone in my life who told me never to pick stocks, that smarter ppl will always outcompete u. I could have been making so much money
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@MikeMangumx @RefinedPopulist You need 5% down, ain’t really that much money. I put $14,500 down in 2022 for a house in a good school district in Cobb County at the ripe age of 25.
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@TheNewClassicGA @RefinedPopulist To be fair, the down payment is substantially higher now in comparative terms, assuming a similar percent down. The biggest problem for young people now is that prices have for the past decade or so been going up faster than they can save.
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Nobody denies rates were higher in the 1980s. The difference is that the median home was only 3-4x the average income. Today, the median home costs 6-8x the average income.
A 10-16% mortgage on a $120k house is substantially more affordable than a 7% mortgage on a $700k house.
Richard Miscrea@MiscreaRichard
@RefinedPopulist Where do you get this false information? I bought my first house, if house you can honestly call it, in 1986. Mortgage rate was over 10.5%. A few years before that it was over 16%.
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@Lordpandawaffle @RefinedPopulist I know high schoolers that are making $18 an hour. The people complaining about the economy are just entitled losers who don’t realize you have to work hard to get ahead
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There’s no reason to work for less than $80K. You make more on welfare. Honestly, there’s no reason to work for less than $100K. Why work a full time job for just $10-$20K?
Downstream of those incentives, society starts crumbling under the weight of millions of freeloaders.
bumbadum@bumbadum14
You guys want to call it a "vibecession" because you refuse to acknowledge that 78,000 in 2026 is marginally better than the poverty line in 2008. Your grocery stores are filled with angry looking foreigners in robes where every aisle is locked behind glass walls. McDonalds is now $10 for a valuemeal while in 2008 there was the DOLLAR menu. Every car ride is a dice roll for a $600 pothole induced mechanic bill. TV and movies suck now, and instead of paying 100 bucks for cable people now pay 300 for 10 different subscriptions services. It's genuinly better to impoverished in 2008 America than be average in 2026 America.
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@sladesfreedom2 @RefinedPopulist I understand the raw price is more expensive, but most people did it through mortgages and it was similar then to now. I just don’t get the complaining about boomers
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@TheNewClassicGA @RefinedPopulist Wrong dude In 82 ~16% rates on ~$70k median homes yielded payments eating ~37% of median income. Today, ~$420k homes at 6.5-7% still hit 30-35%+ of higher incomes but price to income ratios doubled 3x then vs 5-6x now).
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@jmhorp My mom made about $550 a week and my dad $14 an hour back in 2004. $2k a week in 2026. Seeing how much she makes cleaning houses now and how much the sawmill probably pays, I’d say they’d be slightly worse off today than back then but not crazily. People need to stop exaggerating
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$80K in 1997 was the cutoff for the top 20% of families. If your parents made $80K in 1997, you were rich, almost double the median family ($45K)
And adjusted for CPI-U inflation, that's $167K today, not $260K
Natania Marshall ✞@NataniaMarshall
If your parents made $80k in the 90s, you’d have to make $260k in 2026 to have the same life. $260k is the new $80k
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@OnceFutureCh Every Friday my parents had date night and my sister and I ordered pizza. Roughly once a week we went out for dinner as a family. Then once or twice a week we’d get fast food out of convenience. This was normal middle class until about 6 minutes ago.
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I definitely remember. Dad had an average job, mom didn’t work, and we owned a 2K sq. ft. home. We ate out ~3-4x a week, took vacations, and bought luxury goods without stress.
You act like we’re delusional when we simply remember what middle-class life looked like 25 years ago.
Disavowed@DisavowedVet
Why are you under the impression that many people don't REMEMBER life with their boomer parents?????
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@RockefellerDem I would have voted Republican in every election except 1968 where I would’ve definitely voted for Wallace. Did write in a name in real life in 2016.
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@kevsaucebro College educated white women have swung left nationwide. In Texas, it was counteracted by Latinos moving right. Georgia has blacks which will always vote Democrat so there was nothing to counteract the shift left.
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what did Georgia have that Texas does not
like why did Blue Georgia become a thing when we’re still struggling in the Lone Star
Joshua Wx@joshuawx_
Writing is on the wall. GOP time is ticking in the state of Georgia
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@byelin This would apply to Texas more than Florida. Florida Hispanics are Caribbean and South American.
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This is the kind of thing where, if true, Florida and Texas could be quasi Dummymanders.
Political Polls@PpollingNumbers
New - Generic Ballot poll - Hispanic voters 🔵 Democrats 60% (+34) 🔴 Republicans 26% Last poll - Republicans +4 (38% Swing from 🔴 ⏩ 🔵) Echelon #B - 5/18
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@FunsoBanlow @MungoJerryLTD It’s good, just not Beatles good. The Beach Boys have Wouldn’t it be Nice, Don’t Talk, Let’s Go Away for a While, God Only Knows, I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times, and Caroline, No that hit Beatle’s level on Pet Sounds. Besides that, it’s just a good album.
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That’s a matter of personal taste. I love their early surf stuff. The Beatles never employed the Wrecking Crew to play on their recordings & none of their hits lifted a Chuck Berry creation for an intro
RobberBaron@Robber_Baron6
@MungoJerryLTD Beach boys had better harmonies
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@Captaingpa @dubsndoo You were making $50 per hour in today’s equivalent while mowing a lawn. But it doesn’t even register in that boomer dead brain of yours.
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Hey pal, I was working up north in the seismic exploration sector in 1971. I lived in a camp, worked from Oct. to April, 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, and earned $1.92 an hour. Millennials wouldn’t have lasted a month up there.
Adam_Corbs@adam_corbs
@dubsndoo Boomers bought their house in 1971 for 37,000,today you can buy the same house for 600,000….
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@FunsoBanlow @MungoJerryLTD The Beach Boys are good but the harmonies sound muffled. Listen to the harmonies on Tell Me Why (not the 2009 awful mixing but maybe the demo on Anthology 4) or She Loves You. Smokes the Beach Boys.
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@MungoJerryLTD They were only talking about the harmonies though. I'm a huge Beach Boys and Beatles fan. The Beatles harmonies regularly served the song perfectly, but I don't think it's really arguable that the Boys had better harmonies. They grew up as harmony singers and had much more range.
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@sboutelle21 @CatholicCharm It’s kind of funny though where I live because the kids come out conservative even if their mom is liberal but the mom lives conservatively. Liberals are seen as the weirdos out here.
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@CatholicCharm I have 2 democratic step sisters who married conservative men. They preach democratic values but live conservative ones. They hate conservatives but married them. Its a huge disconnect that I can't understand.
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Conservative men need to start caring more about politics when it comes to dating. Bc a conservative man will still date a liberal woman if she’s hot and kinda nice. Then they get married and have kids and guess how she’s raising those kids? Yes you actually do need to talk politics on dates
madiiiii ⋆.˚⟡ ࣪ ˖@madsdanae
breaking news: local white guy “isn’t interested in discussing politics” during a first date
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@realest49919420 @FWPlayboy A girl I eventually dumped before we dated wanted to talk but was scared dating me would break up her friend group because her friend liked me. We talked two nights or so. Did this lol and just made sure not to text again. Always show my buddies this.
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@FWPlayboy Interestingly, I did this to the lady who is now my wife about 13 years ago.
Yes, it worked.
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Happy One Year Anniversary to one of the Greatest Alpha Dismissive Lines of All Time!
In the annals of Jerkboy dismissive lines we have great immortalized hits like..
-Bring da movies
We always just meet up and have sex
Bring da movies
-Gay
Are you dating anyone now
Gay
-It’s complicated
How many girls have you slept with?
It’s complicated
And
-I don’t want to get you pregnant
My parents want to meet you
I don’t want to get you pregnant
Then comes along out of nowhere a new contender.
A new phraseology for the causal and professional womanizer alike.
The next Great Alpha dismissive line has emerged from the ether…drum roll please.
“Can you pick me up from the bar rn”
Good for any and all shit tests and situations your girl or girls may throw your way.
I want a divorce
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
Your mistress called me
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
All you want to do is fuck
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
I’m concerned about your drinking
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
You never loved me
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
No more hooking up I’ve changed
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
I’ve met someone else
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
I’m pregnant
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
You’re such an ASS
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
I can’t believe you fucked my sister
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
Your parole officer called
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
I’m getting married and I’m very happy thought you should know
Can you pick me up from the bar rn…
You get the idea
May the poon be with you.
0xMidwestern@0xMidwestern
One year since this gem @FWPlayboy and oh does it work
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@Pat_Stedman I like traditional Catholic liturgy cause I picture my grandma going to it not because I can’t make friends. Too much of the online right is composed of failures blaming everyone but themselves.
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There is a major difference in disposition between the people who consciously choose to join a movement vs those who were born into it.
This is why younger "conservatives" are really better described as reactionaries. Much of the <45 crowd of "trad women" are very into health, polarity, and glamorizing the big family life not because they inherited this tradition - but because they view this lifestyle as a response to the failed culture of the left.
It is part of the reason for a lot of the generational tensions within the right - it is filled with people who have been slowest to adapt to changing culture (true conservatives), and the people on the tip of the zeitgeist who are actively changing culture.
John Moody 🇺🇬@resisfertile
"I can't believe she is wearing a bikini..." Older, right wing woman with a mostly dead marriage bed, 2.3 to 3.2 children over the course of 35 years of marriage starting at age 21, with a body she hasn't cared well for in a decade or more... To a young, new rightwing mom of 29 who already has three kids, works out three days a week, is careful to get her steps in and eats well, is MAHA and has an adoring, happy husband. So much to unpack in the intergenerational dynamics right now between the old and new right, but few areas juxtapose how the new have - overall - a far better view of beauty, sex, and family - than the old right ever offered. The old right in a real sense strains at gnats on some of these issues while swallowing camels. What I mean by this is you have a many on the older right who rejected swaths of basic biblical teaching on having kids, not neglecting the marriage bed or your body, and more... you are needlessly alienating a new generation that is far more biblical than they ever were in practice.
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Atlanta's 8th City Council District (current config):
12 Pres: Romney +33.8*
16 P: Clinton +1.7
16 Sen: Isakson +32*
20 P: Biden +12.6
20 S: Perdue +2.7; (RO) Perdue +5.4* | D+0.1; (RO) Loeffler +0.6*
22 Gov: Kemp +9.5*
22 S: Warnock +11.2
24 P: Harris +12.1
And the asterisks?
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@spits420 @mensweear My friend gave me expensive whiskey and it was so different from Jim Beam that it might as well be a different alcohol lol
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@mensweear i always do the cheapest but there is a clear difference between very cheap and very expensive
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