Talking about UP home prices vs California home prices with a 10 year old. Lol

His Mom told me, "Happy turkey month! 🦃"

Is this a Californian thing? I'm so confused right now.

I love to see this, I've been an anti-traveler my whole life, partly as a knee jerk reaction to those who ascribe moral value to spending a lot of money on fare, food and booze. It's really just vain consumption with different backdrops disguised as cultural enrichment.

Modern transportation has misled us into thinking the world is small, and when you take the time to simply walk somewhere, it really hits you just how vast our world is. I used to hike a considerable amount, and there was a particular lookout tower I was fond of. I made a point of going there all the time, taking different trails, going off trail entirely and once I even got lost in a blizzard-but I knew the general geography so well I knew how to figure out where to go. It struck me how cool that was, and it was only done with lots of exposure to a particular area.

Bearing that in mind, I determined that I could spend the rest of my life exploring my county alone, and such intimacy would make it a worthy endeavor.

I feel compelled to read this. Send help

> Be me
> Make posts as difficult to absorb as possible to shake off subscribers
> Count still goes up.

What do I need to do to get Telegrammers to leave me alone? Do I need to publish the list of Jews that I like? Will that do it?

If you want to stop and look, just squat. You don't need a bench, retard.

I'll take 8

Congress has all along been but a clumsy recording machine of conclusions worked out in the laboratory and machine-shop; and yet the idea is still deeply seated in the minds of men otherwise intelligent that, to effect political results, it is necessary to hold office, or at least to be a politician and to be heard from the hustings. Is not the exact reverse more truly the case? The situation may not be, indeed it certainly is not, as it should be; it may be, I hold that it is, unfortunate that the scholar and investigator are finding themselves more and more excluded from public life by the professional with an aptitude for the machine, but the result is none the less patent. On all the issues of real moment,—issues affecting anything more than a division of the spoils or the concession of some privilege of exaction from the community, it is the student, the man of affairs and the scientist who to-day, in last resort, closes debate and shapes public policy. His is the last word.

- Adams Charles Francis, An Undeveloped Function

I can't help but feel like I've seen a system like this somewhere before.... Hmm....

the elites don't want you to know this but you can take almost any section of ground and sit on it and it's free

My father played this song on many a car ride when I was growing up; brings me back.

Correct.

I've compiled a list of 10 arguments against the abolition of slavery:

"Dude, think about it..."
1. "Slavery is just natural, man — how can you make nature illegal?"
2. "Prohibition never works — just look at alcohol in the 1920s. Making slavery illegal just creates a black market for slaves and, thus, organized crime."
3. "Bro, if people are gonna own slaves anyway, wouldn't it be safer if it was regulated? At least then we'd have quality control."
4. "Tax revenue from legal slavery could fund so many schools and, like, fix roads and stuff, dude."
5. "If people want to keep slaves on their own property, how is that hurting anybody?"
6. "Slavery helps plantation owners with chronic illnesses with production, efficiency, and other business needs — denying them access is cruel."
7. "Prison cells are full of offenders who could have been picking cotton instead. The system is broken, man."
8. "Dude, look at all these studies showing how slavery boosts agricultural production. The government and big, northern industries are just suppressing the truth!"
9. "It's organic and sustainable labor, unlike all those artificial machines polluting our air. Think about the environment, man."
10. "It's literally impossible to overdose on slavery, my dude. Not a single documented case in history."

Very funny passage from an American journalist after visiting Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in the late 1930's. There's a lot of funny bits here contextually, but the last bit of hysterical:

On first glance, Germany in 1936 was overwhelmingly attractive, and first impressions disarmed many a hardy anti-Nazi before he could lift his lance for attack. Its big cities were cleaner than big cities ought, by custom, to be. You could search far and wide through Berlin’s sea of houses or Hamburg’s huge harbour district, but you could never find a slum or anything approaching one. On the countryside, broad, flourishing acres were cut into neat checkerboards. People looked good. Nobody was in rags, not a single citizen. They were well dressed, if not stylishly dressed. And they were well fed. The impression was one of order, cleanliness and prosperity—and this has been of immense propaganda value to the Nazis.

There is a great fallacy here, and it is a mistake which an unfortunately large number of young American students I met in Heidelberg made and retained for a long time. The fallacy is in connecting this admirable order, cleanliness and apparent prosperity with the Nazi government. Actually, and this was pointed out to me by a German dock-worker on my first magic day in Bremen, Germans and Germany were neat, clean and able to do an amazing lot with amazingly little long before Hitler came to power. Such slums as existed were removed by the Socialist government and replaced with neat workers’ apartments while the Nazis were still a noisy minority chalking swastikas on back-alley fences. […] Once, however, I broke my routine and took a trip to Russia. That land impressed me disgustingly favorably for a individual who was still more Liberal than Socialist. Contrary to the development of my reactions in Germany, Russia looked better the longer I stayed and the more I saw. Russia was not neat, clean, and orderly. Russia was dirty and disorderly.

But the spirit of the thing got me. The Bolsheviks did not inherit cleanliness and order; they inherited a wrecked feudal society, and in a relatively short period wonders had been done. The edges were rough and the effort was amateur. But that was just it; it was amateur, everybody was doing it. You got the impression that each and every little individual was feeling pretty important doing the pretty important job of building up a State, eager and interested as a bunch of little boys turned loose in a locomotive and told to do as they please. It showed promise like a gifted child’s first scratchings of “a house” on paper. Klein aber mein; a little but mine own, as the proverb goes.

What is more, the standard of living was definitely rising, not falling. The whole picture was not as pretty as the German one, but the atmosphere, utterly devoid of any trace of militarism or racial prejudice, was clean and healthy as the streets were dirty. I knew all along the atmosphere reminded me of a word, but I couldn’t think what it was until I got back to Germany. The word was “democracy.” That, I know, is a strange reaction to a country which is well known to be a dictatorship, but the atmosphere simply did not coincide with the newspapers’ verdict.

- Howard K. Smith, The Last Train from Berlin

You should not refer to yourself as a "citizen." That is gay. Unless you have power (in which case, why are you here?) refer to yourself as a "subject" or a "peasant."