Radioactive

Dear Gen Z: My mother ate LARD sandwiches when she was a girl. She lived in a dirt floor shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing. She wore dresses made from flour sacks. Fuck you and your whining about the cost of a mocha latte.

Things I have learned this week: 1. You should be able to buy a house and afford a middle-class lifestyle while working a minimum wage job. 2. There are plenty of affordable houses available, but no one wants to live in them because they're not pristine, are located in less-than-desirable areas, are too small, are near non-whites, and/or they'd have to move. 3. It is every American's God-given right to be born, grow up, grow old, and die in the same place, and if you can't do that, the government should engineer things so you can. 4. Rural areas are undesirable because lower wages are commensurate with a lower cost of living. 5. Commuting for 1-1.5 hours is akin to living in a death camp, and is a war crime. 6. Every government agency CNN can name for them, plus old people, plus rich people, plus foreigners, are to blame for every problem young people experience. The only blameless people? Young people. 7. Young people seem afraid to just come out and admit they are demanding communism. 8. Young people love directly or indirectly threatening to kill old people for all their perceived ills. 9. Homemade food will kill you, and is for poors. 10. Young people would rather eat their own feces than admit that they're poor.

I think the reality is that although modernity has made all of our lives easier, men have been freed from the constraints of their biological role while women have not. Eg men don’t have to do physical work or anything dangerous the entirety of their lives meanwhile, women still have birth/raise children. So it feel like there’s a HUGE burden on us & not on them. Add in the rising misogyny & importing of violent foreign men & it like things are going backwards. But it’s important for women to maintain their personal identity because overburdened women can’t be the mothers they need to be!

About a 8 years ago, my wife and I were leaving my grandparents house. Parked parallel. About to pull out. Just us two in the car. My wife forgot to check the side mirror. I was waving bye to my family. Looking the other way. My wife felt a hand on her shoulder and heard a whisper in her ear from behind her. “Wait.” A second later, a giant SUV flew past. If my wife had turned into the street, she would’ve died. I might have too. That moment haunted my wife for weeks after, and we still both remember it to this day. Atheists are too quick to dismiss the supernatural. I’m sure the comments will soon be filled with “Hallucination” “She imagine it” “You made that up” And other similar responses. But my wife was one of the biggest skeptics of spirits until that event. It changed her. Guardian angels are real. Jesus sends them to protect and defend from darkness. His plans are higher than our ways and thoughts higher than our thoughts. So many people out there have stories just like ours. I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.

I know a woman with a husband who only works hard. He works all day leading his very successful contracting company, and then he comes home and does housework, helps with the kids, helps his wife, then he goes to sleep. He never takes time for himself, never kicks back and watches tv, never goes golfing, never scrolls. They’re very wealthy, they have 6 kids and she’s pregnant with a 7th, and she’s very hot and happy. If you want a hot happy wife that gives you lots of kids, you have to be like this, there’s no other way

Coca-Cola commercial from 1976 The past is a foreign country

I said this as a reply to another post. When people’s head explode because you tell them that if a soda is $5 then just get water, it becomes clear that in their mind, soda is a non-negotiable; the price is irrelevant to them; they deserve a lifestyle where they can afford a soda regardless of price. But when you are willing to buy a soda regardless of the price, whoever is selling the soda is going to maximize the price. These people cannot fathom voting with their wallet, because they don’t start from a place of “here is my money, now what can I afford with it”. They legitimately start from a place of “here is what I am buying, and this is BS that it is causing me to be in debt”

I need to know what style of parenting created the complete helplessness, low agency zoomers so I can avoid it.