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Thack Sparrow

@_TheLongOne_

Vols sports, Tennessee history/culture, manufacturing and distribution.

Malesus, TN Katılım Mart 2012
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David Scott Harris
David Scott Harris@HVNYrefugee·
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.
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Roland Gunn 🇺🇸
Roland Gunn 🇺🇸@RolandGunnTN·
I have never respected fleeing into exile. America is my homeland. I will die here. I will be buried here.
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Fugitive Caesar
Fugitive Caesar@ThomBrady5·
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.
Dibromin@dibromin

@ThomBrady5 How will that affect the mortgage industry? I am totally for illegals/naturalized/etc. being deported but that could be a lot of payments not being made and we all know who will have to pick up that tab.

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The White House
The White House@WhiteHouse·
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.
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Thack Sparrow@_TheLongOne_·
@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.
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David Staunton
David Staunton@DStauntOnEm·
@_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.
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Zach Thomas Jefferson
Zach Thomas Jefferson@ZachThomasJeff·
@IVMiles My car once broke down in Forrest City Arkansas. I've never seen small town poverty like that before.
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CSA Appreciator
CSA Appreciator@csa_appreciator·
You have to live in one of these for a year.
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Jbus
Jbus@JBusenius34625·
@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
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unusual_whales
unusual_whales@unusual_whales·
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
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David Staunton
David Staunton@DStauntOnEm·
@KingCapece @Tennessean Republicans have been running TN for many years. How’s it going? 51st in public education funding doesn’t seem… great.
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Jerry Curlan
Jerry Curlan@WorkforLife3·
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?
Paul@WomanDefiner

75% of the students in NYC are 1st and 2nd generation immigrant by the way. 50% of 4th graders in NYC are first gen Immigrants.

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Boil A. Frog
Boil A. Frog@BoilAFrog2·
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
🏛Architectolder@Architectolder

Small, affordable quality built homes should be a national priority. Something must be done to ensure young families can afford a piece of the American Dream. It would seem both parties could join together to reduce red tape and ease restrictions.

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Thack Sparrow@_TheLongOne_·
@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.
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Thack Sparrow@_TheLongOne_·
@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.
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Adam Taggart
Adam Taggart@adamtaggart·
@_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
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Thack Sparrow@_TheLongOne_·
@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.
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Balaji
Balaji@balajis·
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.
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Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy

Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose.

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