Thack Sparrow

@HVNYrefugee Everyone born in Tennessee knows what it means.

The collapsing number of Tennesseans who understand that the name “Volunteers” applied to the State actually has nothing to do with football is an urgent, existential crisis.

@RolandGunnTN @fde_enthusiast7 It’s why everyone has to go home. American Restoration

I have never respected fleeing into exile. America is my homeland. I will die here. I will be buried here.

I am completely fine with the risk that 150 million mass deportations will cause the housing market to collapse (and houses to become cheap) while wages increase for ordinary workers. That would be the best opportunity anyone has had in 60+ years to purchase cheap assets.

Today, we remember a legend. On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline. Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme. He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on. Gone, but never forgotten. Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸 May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016 Forever in our hearts.

@DStauntOnEm @KingCapece @Tennessean You don’t really think people would be breaking the door down to sign up for the worst quality of life do you? If you do, I have a bridge you need to hear about.

@_TheLongOne_ @KingCapece @Tennessean Same with ranking 42nd in healthcare, 37th in childhood well-being, and last in quality of life? You’d think TN could at least crack into the top half of those categories if the GOP supermajority leadership was as good as y’all claim.

Opinion: Redistricting antics prove Democrats are unfit to lead TN | Opinion tennessean.com/story/opinion/…

@ZachThomasJeff @IVMiles Felt the same way the first time I visited deep Appalachia.

@IVMiles My car once broke down in Forrest City Arkansas. I've never seen small town poverty like that before.

I routinely notice is how Midwesterners think of the South comparatively as poor and backwards. Ive lived in NC, SC, TX, VA, and MI. Michigan is far and away the poorest and demographically deadest. Feels like West Virginia compared to my kinda meh NC hometown (Salisbury).

@csa_appreciator Delta all day

You have to live in one of these for a year.

@AppyOrtho Well that and she’s a smoke show

She’s really a stand out new country artist and her simple strategy is just to act like it’s 1977. Brilliant and it works.

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@JBusenius34625 @adamtaggart @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales Exactly. Free markets punish bad decisions. Our market hasn’t been free in 20 years.

@adamtaggart @_TheLongOne_ @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales It’ll get very bad for people who own multiple mortgages as investments but in the long run If those people go bankrupt and those houses hit the market and at much reduced prices it’s good thing Gen X, and the boomers lose the most if they were foolish

BREAKING: Americans are feeling worse about the economy now than they were during the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial crisis, and following the 9/11 attacks, per YF

@JBusenius34625 @adamtaggart @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales You couldn’t achieve half of what I do in a morning, pussy.

@_TheLongOne_ @adamtaggart @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales Dude, Adam is always talking about any quality. Maybe if you would start thinking about how to make money and stop hating other people you could be more successful.

@DStauntOnEm @KingCapece @Tennessean Having higher test scores than states with 2x the spend seems… better

@KingCapece @Tennessean Republicans have been running TN for many years. How’s it going? 51st in public education funding doesn’t seem… great.

In Metro Nashville Public Schools, 31% of students have "limited English proficiency." We can assume 30% of the 78,749 students are first or 2nd generation immigrants here. And this city is not a historical immigrant destination like New York. That 31% is up 2% since 2024. That's an extra 1,600 students whose first language isn't English in the school district in less than 2 years. The largest high schools in Nashville (Antioch, Cane Ridge, Overton) have about 1,800 people. Perhaps we will see a reversal. Anyone?

Another idea would be to move in mass to the crime ridden cities and take them back over. There are rows and rows of homes in Memphis that you could buy for under $10k. It’s the only hope for our cities & people would get cheap housing that would increase exponentially in value

@adamtaggart @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales You can make the argument pushing the consequences of poor fiscal policies down the road after the GFC is the source. Let the correction happen. People will be better off in the long run.

@_TheLongOne_ @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales My point is it will get worse for all

@BoardGeniuses Rights of passage

This young #Tennessee fan will never get to experience the trough.

@adamtaggart @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales Me either, because the houses I would be in the market for are 7x their actual value If wages kept up, one thing. Too much being put in cheap labor and AI to see that outcome Guess my point is half the country is already there. It’s only going to get worse for the other half.

@_TheLongOne_ @NC2020Anthony @unusual_whales You know I’ve never owned a house, right?? What about my original point do you disagree with? Are you actually saying things WON’T get worse when the next recession arrives?? Because that was the point I was making

@balajis Sure… They’ll happily move to that other country. You know, the one with a Navy and Air Force that underpins the entire global economy via Pax Americana.

Unfortunately, I completely agree that the United States of America is rapidly descending into all-out conflict between left and right. The Luigi left, Kirk killers, anti-Tesla terrorists, and Altman attackers are already in shoot-on-sight mode against conservatives, libertarians, and technologists. The right isn’t there yet; they’re called reactionaries because they only react, so they’re always one cycle behind. Thus, the left has already started shooting while the right is still “only” mirroring the lawfare of last decade’s left. But anyone can see how incandescently angry the American right is getting, so one can expect them to mirror leftist tactics eventually, just as J6 followed BLM. A problem then arises. You see, when communists and nationalists duke it out, technologists tend to be hated by both sides…and tend to leave. That’s what happened in Europe. In the early 1900s, Europe was the undisputed center of science. But then the far left rose to power in Russia, and in response arose a far right in Germany, and then those two psychotic factions blew each other up and took much of Europe with them. The result was that scientists with options left. Shown below is the graph of Nobel prizes. Science used to be centered in Europe when America was still a relative backwater…renowned for cranking out widgets but not much else. Then, as Europe tore itself apart, the smart scientists (and capitalists) simply left for America. Many had no choice; you just couldn’t be a Russian capitalist in the Soviet Union or a Jewish scientist in Nazi Germany, no matter how many years your family might have been in the country. Passionate protestations of ideological loyalty and everlasting patriotism didn’t matter. At best the enemy classes and races were unbanked and denaturalized; at worst they were simply killed. And arguably, all of that — the communism, the nationalism, the wars — all of that arose from the disruption wrought by the Industrial Revolution. We might anticipate similar levels of disruption from the Information Revolution. If so, if America is torn between Democrats and Republicans, or Wokes and MAGAs, or whatever factions succeed them, it’s just not going to be a good place for technological progress. Instead, progress will decentralize to other locations around the world, as it did before.