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VB Knives posts on X about money, france, all the, countries the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 5037 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social topic influence money, france, all the, countries, rome, arc, compound #123, told, andor, empire
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"@bumbadum14 The kind of absolute entry level construction jobs often taken by XX year old kids have never really paid much at first" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 21:10:58 UTC 33.3K followers, 4902 engagements
"The thing about English is that the language really "wants" to simplify its grammar. Unschooled speakers anywhere on earth make about the same "mistakes." Generally eliminating verb tenses moving towards a greater degree of non-inflection like Afrikaans" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 14:33:03 UTC 33.3K followers, 3362 engagements
"Specifically you can see that the buildings of the 50's were low-craft labor saving "cheap" practical industrial clearly of the current post-civilization. But the dress was still laborious impractical somewhat uncomfortable responsible to social duty more than weather" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 03:57:35 UTC 33.3K followers, 1492 engagements
"It's difficult to claim that any equivalent land area of the USA is "richer" than France. There is more ability to purchase chattels automobiles use energy. But actually replicating the built environment of France would cost more than the entire GDP of such area in the USA" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-20 23:22:32 UTC 33.3K followers, 37.7K engagements
"One of the most interesting questions in American sociology is why Upstate NY looks like Belarus/Mordor compared to New England. The border is like going through a strange portal it's a HARD line in most places. Same thing with Quebec BTW" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-14 20:02:59 UTC 33.3K followers, 206.2K engagements
"With the partial exception of Libertarians people on the "right" side of the spectrum are incapable of moving anywhere in a group and doing anything. But Libs can take over entire states start colonies in the Costa Rican jungle reclaim major cities etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-16 17:11:27 UTC 33.3K followers, 50.7K engagements
"Does the arc of history bend towards Richard Spencerism" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-27 01:37:49 UTC 33.3K followers, 1895 engagements
"From grim 70s bathroom to a fun Moroccan theme Shower is an 8" copper rain-head no flow restrictors anywhere. I did actually order it from Morocco LOL. New Tub is a deep soaker style" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 01:27:29 UTC 33.3K followers, 8716 engagements
"The real "founding ethos" is oddly similar to today's mindset. There were other periods in USA history where a different more communal feel prevailed. And those periods are mostly what people are nostalgic for. But the OG true Anglo form was "Plantation America."" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 13:57:13 UTC 33.3K followers, 9255 engagements
"I absolutely would trade these types 1:1 with any randomly selected foreigner. If you complain about being poor but won't learn a physical trade starting at 50K as a raw beginner . . . DEPORT" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 18:38:29 UTC 33.3K followers, 82.7K engagements
"Yes the other amusing thing is that there are many places in the USA where you can just by a normal house on any rural road and be XX% certain that everyone around you will be white. The "compound" thing is sort of a bid for attention or a provocation of the system" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 21:05:30 UTC 33.3K followers, 2704 engagements
"@valuedrift Yeah likewise I think that Latins were always naturalizable but the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 made that totally clear going forwards" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 23:25:10 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Everything is a LARP now to the point that the entire concept of authenticity becomes pointless/tiresome to mention. That is ironic and curated "graffiti" in the background it has been legally installed to give a certain gritty vibe. Just how everything is now" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 02:14:10 UTC 33.3K followers, 48.2K engagements
"It's really strange to imagine that biology has rendered children extremely resistant to eating the one thing that we are told is vital to their health. Have we considered that perhaps the basic premise here is erroneous" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-13 15:22:31 UTC 33.3K followers, 103.1K engagements
"If you look at the replies they are saying that $XX hour is too low for absolute beginners being taught a very valuable trade say it's too physical they would rather do dead-end retail. No one wants to deal with these type of people they really do deserve whatever they get" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 18:26:25 UTC 33.3K followers, 698.9K engagements
"Unlike all the weirdos and malcontents on here I actually do think you should do whatever big fun thing you want to do. If you want to do a big X month long trip save up the money and do it" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 17:54:14 UTC 33.3K followers, 6604 engagements
"It's not that weird. Early agriculture is not preferable on an individual basis to the life of a hunter gatherer. No nomad or hunter has ever felt anything but scorn/pity for primitive farmers. The first 5K years of civilization are a punishment as stated in the Bible" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 13:46:59 UTC 33.3K followers, 44K engagements
"@LordCarsonEsq It's very heavy duty you could brain someone with the knobs. Be sure to use plenty of blue locktite style thread lock on the connections it's nice stuff but the machining isn't space age just using telfon tape or soft thread compound won't seal it" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 02:05:33 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Middle guy has a full head of brown hair at age 100+. Built different" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 03:42:06 UTC 33.3K followers, 44.8K engagements
"It's funny we are told day and night on here that Americans are crushed immiserated "ripped off" by other countries you would think we are the poorest people on earth. But IRL we are so rich and pampered that the idea of a clothes line is preposterous/offensive to many" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 03:14:49 UTC 33.3K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Humorous small example of "Great Inversion."" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 18:31:50 UTC 33.3K followers, 15.4K engagements
"@simonsarris Not yet I've never worked with stones that small other than repairs. I would have to actually make at least a shed sized building from scratch to figure it out I guarantee there are tricks and problems you can't see in advance" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 14:04:46 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
"If you buy a piece of private land in rural TX AR OK Missouri you generally can do what you want inside the lines. In many areas there are no "permits" required for structures and no "zoning" other than a septic requirement. The northern mind can't grasp this. I suspect this is what they are doing it's not actually a "town" like everyone is thinking legally it's probably just a bunch of people living on one big private parcel. Probably no law or enforcement mechanism to stop them from building as many houses as they like inside this parcel" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 19:59:09 UTC 33.3K followers, 20.6K engagements
"@alwaysadblock $XX an hour isn't really a poor wage for a construction laborer in any case" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 18:44:38 UTC 33.3K followers, 10.7K engagements
"It's because A/C is new. Heating a garage in Wisconsin seems normal virtuous productive. Same size garage with A/C in Phoenix seems wasteful extravagant decadent. But it takes far less energy to cool the Phoenix garage" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 16:59:27 UTC 33.3K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@turbothad I think Tequila is one of those things like Cilantro where different people taste different things. I love Tequila prefer that taste to all other liquors" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-16 20:19:55 UTC 33.3K followers, 5955 engagements
"1950 is an odd inflection point. The overall scene the architecture the cars and so forth are clearly an early stage of our civilization the neo-civilization or post-civilization. But for a brief period the dress still looked like the old civilization. Transitional" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 03:49:14 UTC 33.3K followers, 4254 engagements
"@bgcts Comes down again to the issue of feeling entitled to something like the living standard of the childhood home as a young adult. In many cases parents were older in peak earning years you automatically had your own room an a large newer clean house" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 23:34:36 UTC 33.3K followers, 1258 engagements
"Business success is one of the very few things you aren't too old for in your XX or 50s. There are many cases of this" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 02:08:50 UTC 33.3K followers, 8349 engagements
"They look XX% less ill than the shoppers at your local Walmart. Maybe the AI superbrain will decide that a system like Cuba is better. It's important to be honest about these things" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 23:40:54 UTC 33.3K followers, 23.3K engagements
"A certain kind of "blue" female is arguably the person most mentally able to endure actual physical hardships while a certain type of "red" male is the opposite. Who spends months on a 3rd world beach or lives in van without modern conveniences Who can go without a shower" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 15:17:25 UTC 33.3K followers, 92K engagements
"English is probably going to start changing fast. It was mostly "frozen" for a long time by prescriptive grammar and the power of our unofficial but very real "academy." But now all that now feels like wearing a suit and tie to work. The dam won't hold" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 14:05:49 UTC 33.3K followers, 27.7K engagements
"The founders had infinite chances to codify the idea of America as a Protestant state and/or an Anglo-Saxon state but they never did either. Early Republic did exclude "Asiatics" but there was never any law preventing citizenship by MENA Muslims Latin Catholics Jews etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 23:20:43 UTC 33.3K followers, 16.9K engagements
"Why are conservatives unable to create the physical environment they idolize in areas that they totally control The conservative visual fantasy is a D + XX New England College town. It's true almost like a "cargo cult" thing" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-02 01:13:26 UTC 33.3K followers, 727.6K engagements
"Another example of how some things do cost more but at the same time there has been a totally undiscussed increase in standards. When I was in early 20s having "nice" apartment wasn't an expectation much less having your own nice apartment. Wages were really low" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 18:00:41 UTC 33.3K followers, 68.3K engagements
"UMC people won't admit it but if you look at what they actually DO they try to avoid working class whites more strongly than "diversity." Don't get me wrong they avoid both but they seem even more avoidant of WCW. They actually like some diversity if the class is right" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 19:54:21 UTC 33.3K followers, 26.8K engagements
"My official prediction for what would happen in the event of an unambiguous loss of USA hegemony is: X. Our "crew-cab" lifestyle was extractive on the rest of the world this radically collapses. X. TFR among natives falls to under X mass despair. X. Immigration continues or even increases in a desperate attempt to staff basic remaining industries such as agriculture in the face of a radically shrinking aging and demoralized population" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 15:08:37 UTC 33.3K followers, 43.6K engagements
"There is a certain kind of person who buys excessive cars and then is driven to work a lot and ends up with lots of money. But if you just want to be financially safe and not driven like a rented mule . . . don't care about cars" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 20:58:17 UTC 33.3K followers, 12.8K engagements
"But wasn't this lifestyle (Gone with the Wind) created by mass import of African labor to start with Perhaps if we opened the border we would again begin having fancy dress balls Something to consider" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 21:59:24 UTC 33.3K followers, 28.3K engagements
"I actually agree that "upper class" starts at XX million. That is "gracious lifestyle without working" territory. Which is the only real definition of Upper Class" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 22:50:19 UTC 33.3K followers, 55.1K engagements
"One weird thing is that we are rapidly running out of old people who can actually recall the "Old World." In a sense everything from the beginning of time until about 1940 was one thing and everything since then is another thing. Not many living people can recall 1936" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 03:24:42 UTC 33.3K followers, 134.7K engagements
"I think that in the "normal" timeline we had a full nuclear exchange during the cold war. Everything seems weird and gets continually weirder because we are in a super-low probability reality generated by Stanislav Petrov's impulsive decision to disregard the "incoming" alert" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 22:29:22 UTC 33.3K followers, 417.2K engagements
"I somewhat resist nostalgia but "sign up to work on a ranch in Africa at age 13" really is a thing they took from us. That really isn't happening today" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 01:05:29 UTC 33.3K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Interestingly this has almost nothing to do with the price of pizza ingredients. It's been 15+ years since the last real recession low end wages have surged there is no "hungry" class of cheap labor to serve the middle class. When everyone is economically MC no one is" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 22:44:26 UTC 33.3K followers, 27.8K engagements
"There is a certain type who lives like this it's incomprehensible to outsiders. They are horrible with money but at the same time somehow always make way more money than regular people. One day they have 100s of thousands in cash then are suddenly bankrupt etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 21:16:15 UTC 33.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
"And he truly hated the Slavs to the point that you cannot say he subscribed to anything resembling the current "white" identity concept. He thought African and American Indians were cool in their proper places but would have ideally exterminated the roundheaded slavs to the last one" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 20:14:09 UTC 33.3K followers, 2153 engagements
"Not sure how one would prove this but I'm convinced that as a Nation ages the personalities of everyone including the young tends to shift in that direction. The young men of old countries are themselves often "old" in spirit and behavior. Cautious dour inhibited etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-03 03:40:03 UTC 33.3K followers, 14.3K engagements
"The most beautiful French actresses very often have mixed French and MENA ancestry. Eva Green is partly Algerian Sephardic Emmanuelle Bart partly Egyptian Jewish Isabelle Adjani is half Algerian. France is like the USA it does really absorb/incorporate people" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 19:27:09 UTC 33.3K followers, 159.2K engagements
"@BolourNoah We print money out of nothing and the entire rest of the world sends us real items in exchange" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 16:18:39 UTC 33.3K followers, 5862 engagements
"Yeah my paternal ancestors were conservative high church Episcopalians who had extremely close long term links with certain prominent Catholics even donated land for a local RCC parish. If brought forward to 2025 honestly think they would favor re-unification with Rome" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 22:40:56 UTC 33.3K followers, 5515 engagements
"Achievements like space travel have a surprisingly limited relationship with the general consumer standard. Many societies have a high consumer standard but accomplish nothing of this sort. Others are vice versa" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 14:28:54 UTC 33.3K followers, 3440 engagements
"It's funny a baby or small child can ride on mother's lap in an airplane. While the same thing is illegal and a mega-taboo in an automobile. But is there any real evidence that car seats are safer than being shielded by the mother's body in a crash Is it all hysteria" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-12 00:56:12 UTC 33.3K followers, 32.2K engagements
"Starting another wall re-building job this week. I've been trying to figure out a productivity expectation for building mortared full thickness natural stone walls to allow easy fixed price quoting. Figure 16x4x2 (128 cubic feet) of wall is reasonable for a man-week meaning that $XX per cubic foot for labor alone would be absolute minimum. Or in other words the 16x4x2 wall in question would cost at least $1280 in labor which is $XX a linear foot excluding all materials and foundation (you don't need too much foundation in warm dry climates). So putting a low garden wall around an acre would" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-08 20:53:09 UTC 33.3K followers, 10.1K engagements
"I was at the school today saw they are putting in for an HB1 presumably for a math teacher. Job includes housing so "cost of living" vs. salary is great. We haven't had an in-person math teacher for X years. Some Filipina will be sending home like 35K a year" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 20:53:10 UTC 33.3K followers, 5449 engagements
"Yeah there is this strange politically motivated revisionism that tries to argue Tenochtitlan wasn't extremely cool impressive etc. Very dumb the conquistadors themselves said it was the most impressively planned/built city they had ever seen" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 17:51:21 UTC 33.3K followers, 13.4K engagements
"Did you know that Winston Churchill was a bricklayer It was of course a "hobby" but he worked to a professional standard and did large projects. This may be the most "Anglo" thing ever" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-16 18:06:59 UTC 33.3K followers, 38.6K engagements
"A lot of the X discourse about "demographics" hits strangely if you are familiar with these places. They have the supposedly ideal demographic but have MANY problems. The areas look like what was "taken from us" but the types who say that want nothing to do with them IRL" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 18:05:47 UTC 33.3K followers, 27.1K engagements
"Be careful with this. Sometimes people get VERY mad if you mow over the line. It can lead to lawsuits even" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 02:09:26 UTC 33.3K followers, 3519 engagements
"Risk perception was just different on every level in the past. That minimal fan guard makes us nervous today. They clearly thought little about such things" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 14:58:24 UTC 33.3K followers, 90.7K engagements
"@EdenReclaimed Luther wasn't a founding father. Jefferson wrote: "to comprehend within the mantle of its protection the Jew and the Gentile the Christian and the Muslim the Hindu and infidel of every denomination" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 00:36:06 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
"It would be at least arguable if they dropped the printed book/reading fetishism along with the entire bourgeoisie prosperity thing. You can at least argue in good faith that it was supposed to be a society of homeless itinerant preachers without an extra pair of sandals" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 04:36:56 UTC 33.3K followers, 5870 engagements
"I suspect that companies tend to be very interested in knowing whether you have a history of showing up somewhere for X straight years doing tiresome and often useless things complying with bureaucratic procedures . . . More relevant than raw IQ in most work settings" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 02:24:21 UTC 33.3K followers, 40.1K engagements
"So if a lower class person has the academics to get into a good college yes they often will have radical upwards class mobility via a cross-class marriage. But just looks in a non-college person won't do what you think it will. Neither in males nor females" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 14:38:01 UTC 33.3K followers, 7714 engagements
"@leviathanww They can never answer who they want to do it. Other than a "robot" which doesn't exist" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 14:08:28 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Crack reduces food consumption. Hunter Biden looks unusually good for XX because he has eaten much less food than your average 55-year-old man. He is "healthier" than your average sober person" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 22:43:15 UTC 33.3K followers, 52.1K engagements
"Another excellent National Forest camping experience. Weekend in July in Colorado dirt road tent only campground X out of XX sites taken no reservations $XX at the self-pay station. Idyllic private site right by a stream" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 01:23:50 UTC 33.3K followers, 9759 engagements
"Weed is in its "Gin Frenzy" stage. "Drunk for a penny Dead drunk for twopence Clean straw for nothing." Max potency openly designed for zombie level hyper abuse" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 02:15:51 UTC 33.3K followers, 22.6K engagements
"@conditionalZep1 @Atomic_Ferret Me neither literally never seen a single case in my life" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 14:58:22 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
""Nice Things" don't generally raise the fertility rate in fact they seem to suppress it. The nicest places on earth are probably Vermont (1.4) Finland (1.25) and Denmark (1.47). If we want nice things we should just say we want to enjoy them it's more honest that way" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 15:36:27 UTC 33.3K followers, 16.2K engagements
"In very remote areas it's often the only radio station. But it's offensively and deliberately irrelevant to the very communities it pretends to serve. The content is hyper-urban woke the very voices are almost unbearable to the non-Brooklyn ear" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 04:16:04 UTC 33.3K followers, 79.5K engagements
""Architecture without the Arch" can have a certain primitive force as we see among the ancient Greeks Hindus Maya Egyptians etc. But such cannot be considered objectively superior to the later vaulted and domed buildings such as the Taj the Pantheon Hagia Sophia etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-12 01:06:13 UTC 33.3K followers, 4231 engagements
"@R1245177 @PiratePareto I doubt more that X% of Americans known who Ballmer is" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 04:17:09 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
"Almost everyone used to whip dogs for misbehavior and would have problematic ones put down (or would just shoot them) without a second thought. Forgotten past" @Empty_America on X 2025-06-23 01:46:43 UTC 33.3K followers, 25.1K engagements
"There is a very strange chapter in history where certain Dutchmen became "Barbary Pirates."" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-16 02:51:52 UTC 33.3K followers, 7725 engagements
"Anglos have a very unusual and seemingly deep rooted anxiety regarding "density." It seems this was unleased by auto transit since we obviously used to build cities. But in any case the apartment and townhouse have a negativity to us that most cultures would find baffling" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 14:17:30 UTC 33.3K followers, 16.2K engagements
"One funny thing is that when I was a kid I spend a great deal of time with my paternal grandmother who was born in 1908 and to a somewhat lesser extent with my grandfather born in 1906. I internalized their stories almost like my own memories so I guess if I make it to 90+ I will have some of the very oldest "memories" on earth" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 03:41:00 UTC 33.3K followers, 13.5K engagements
"@GRONreturns In the Irish Plantations the English used an effectively foreign people (Borderers) to settle frontier land to replace the natives and producing commercial agricultural products for the English to transact. Exact same playbook as settling Germans in our midwest" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 23:14:10 UTC 33.3K followers, XX engagements
"@SperglerAcolyte The are the type of peasant group who might be quite appealing to a higher culture or more martial class as a sort of "base of the pyramid."" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 19:12:40 UTC 33.3K followers, 2198 engagements
"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-16 22:14:45 UTC 33.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Ancient Anglo-American customs conflict with modern expectation of "absolute enclosure." Many such cases. Fence it with barbed wire and be prepared for tense and possibly armed conflicts with your new "neighbors" I guess" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 04:01:34 UTC 33.3K followers, 8365 engagements
"@HenryMorgan3721 Probably has something to do with Germans. Tx had those hard working Germans" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 22:44:01 UTC 33.3K followers, 6631 engagements
"Do people who prefer Rihanna to Beyonce have higher or lower IQs Many are asking. It's a different type for sure" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 03:17:13 UTC 33.3K followers, 7403 engagements
"I mean there is a way to attack the Catholic Church on Gospel literalist grounds . . . But protestants NEVER pursue this line of reasoning. Because other than certain very fundamentalist Pentecostals and such Gospel literalism hits them harder. It's a sword they can't use" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 04:41:36 UTC 33.3K followers, 2003 engagements
"I refuse to believe that theological quizzes will play any role whatsoever in the Final Judgement of Man. If you get up there and try to justify yourself with how you were correct about some esoteric point . . . I just can't see it being like that" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 19:39:26 UTC 33.3K followers, 12.7K engagements
"If America is a people based on common blood descent (presumably from English settlers) can someone tell me how Jack Posobiec or Stephen Miller are "Americans" I mean this is getting beyond absurd" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-13 21:19:18 UTC 33.3K followers, 303.4K engagements
"Other than recent arrivals all Americans will in due time have colonial-era ancestors. Just how the math works. Sooner or later your line is sure to marry someone with those lines. Obama for instance had Mayflower era ancestors. Math" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 02:12:12 UTC 33.3K followers, 6904 engagements
"Italians often grow really big on the American Diet. Also see the many NFL greats of Italian background" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 21:42:02 UTC 33.3K followers, 6008 engagements
"Do jobs even have "status" anymore I mean I guess wagies rank each other in some fashion but doesn't the real status ladder start when you aren't in employment anymore How can anyone have status if they have a boss" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 03:41:46 UTC 33.3K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Could we trick the wokes into paying for a monument to the most toxic of masculinities in this manner" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 00:14:45 UTC 33.3K followers, 9701 engagements
"OK so can anyone clearly state what an absolute beginner should be paid on a construction site or other entry level job manual labor job Genuinely interested to hear the answers. Keep in mind this does get paid for by increased prices for housing etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 02:23:25 UTC 33.3K followers, 11.1K engagements
"That church has stood for XXX years or whatever with not much more than a pickup truck load of squarish quarry stone in the entire structure. That is the stuff that fascinates me. XX% just little field stones" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 04:24:35 UTC 33.3K followers, 9208 engagements
"Many used to believe that Blacks had some genetic propensity towards high fertility. Now their fertility in the USA is lower than whites. Much really is cultural or environmental" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 03:46:22 UTC 33.3K followers, 19.7K engagements
"What exactly is going on here MAGA spent years peddling the Epstein thing (including the binder stunt) then a few weeks ago Trump suddenly flipped XXX degrees frantically denied it was even a thing. Now his appointees are interviewing Maxwell saying this stuff" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 23:06:47 UTC 33.3K followers, 9160 engagements
"I've always found it odd that Americans never adopted the ubiquitous "Blue Coverall" of Europe. We mostly just work in our regular older clothes or ruin newer clothes because we forget to change etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-20 19:01:08 UTC 33.3K followers, 22.8K engagements
"This a pretty core "Americanism" thing that is really fading. It doesn't seem like a partisan or "left-right" thing either. The ethos that it's just really good for you to dig ditches when XX or XX seems to be rapidly fading in general" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-16 17:40:46 UTC 33.3K followers, 204K engagements
"Interesting question. The answer was clearly "no anxiety" from 500-1450 since the Church obviously copied and re-copied all the "pagan classics" that we still have at great labor. Not sure when anxiety began to emerge" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 17:28:35 UTC 33.3K followers, 7405 engagements
"No one knows what made them build it. Not a thing we can genuinely think or feel anymore. Relic from a former world" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 03:25:40 UTC 33.3K followers, 5818 engagements
"Much of America will be an infinitely depressing place if it ever loses its "empire" and thus the ability to fund mass affluence. Unlike Europe our structures aren't cut out to tastefully weather a century of malaise. Cracked vinyl siding blowing in the wind . ." @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 14:56:59 UTC 33.3K followers, 336.9K engagements
"If Zoomers actually went back in time to 1995 they would be shocked and horrified by the amount of drinking drugs drunk driving risk taking in general. That girl partied. It wasn't like you are thinking" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-12 01:18:02 UTC 33.3K followers, 568.2K engagements
"I really hope Derek Huffman makes it. He had certain convictions and acted on them. Not a coward or a worm-tongue like so many others" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 03:14:55 UTC 33.3K followers, 6880 engagements
"Many Americans would be in suicidal despair if our ability to consume energy and product per capita fell to the level of France. Many of the "canned food and gun" hoarders would do suicidal rampages even though nothing had actually collapsed" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 17:04:53 UTC 33.3K followers, 13.4K engagements
"Ozzy was an interesting guy. Immense talent. The "satanic" branding was always an odd point almost like a Halloween costume. As far as I know very little evidence that he ever used his immense fame and wealth to do bad things or hurt people. Which is very rare" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 18:47:32 UTC 33.3K followers, 14K engagements
"The older Gen Xers are at least as rich as Boomers and many are still getting richer. In a few years the 85-year-old boomer will sell his dream house to the 65-year-old Gen Xer. Most of the "Giant RV" guys now are actually Gen X etc" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-20 18:28:36 UTC 33.3K followers, 7994 engagements
"Since that is a brick the cat must have stepped on the tile at the factory it's not like wet concrete today. So the builders saw that particular tile in the stack noted the cat's feet and placed it right in front of the door. Pretty cool" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 23:45:30 UTC 33.3K followers, 4838 engagements
"This is really interesting. We historically think of cities as "population sinks." But today urban areas often have more births than deaths while many rural areas are in "natural decline." NYC metro isn't "sterile" it actually has a positive birth-death balance" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 23:29:48 UTC 33.3K followers, 10.3K engagements
"It's weird that hordes of people move to the places that supposedly have the worst quality of life. I bet whatever state this study says has the highest quality of life is actively losing population to Tenn" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 22:05:06 UTC 33.3K followers, 16.6K engagements
"I generally just wear jeans they seem fine" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 14:07:30 UTC 33.3K followers, 25.6K engagements
"Everybody wants freestanding masonry buildings but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass bricks" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 02:37:08 UTC 33.3K followers, 4507 engagements
"I did like having my own place during college but they were invariably studios and in bad neighborhoods and/or decaying buildings that had been subdivided. I think those situations would be considered totally unlivable by middle class zoomers now" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 18:07:28 UTC 33.3K followers, 5474 engagements
"Despite the online "thrown out at 18" narrative the real change over time in Anglo society is that we have LOST all traditional avenues for young men to escape the home before XX. Used to be many options like the Sea cattle drives the circus apprenticeships boarding schools etc. Often available at age XX or in some cases even younger" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 00:07:52 UTC 33.3K followers, 59.4K engagements
"Let's do it. Nothing normal exists anymore. Let's just do the big future" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-21 04:32:15 UTC 33.3K followers, 25.1K engagements
"@Vines_N_Cattle Supposedly you need less octane at higher elevation. But it does seem to add to the "Mexico" vibe when people stop for gas and regular is XX octane" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 14:35:38 UTC 33.3K followers, XX engagements
"Why do photorealists tend to be totally unable to "compose" any type of interesting painting There is never any interesting theme or scene that they apply their ability to. Like developing that level of technique "burns out" or precludes any larger artistic ability" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 14:02:48 UTC 33.3K followers, 16.6K engagements
"I've never really gotten the entire toilet thing. I have one recently installed a new one they are "OK." Hot bathing water is the real luxury. If I had to pick I'd take hot running water over even electricity and it's 100x more important than an indoor flusher" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-27 02:43:25 UTC 33.3K followers, 2210 engagements
"One fun thing about this Welsh Castle account is that the architectural style is closest to "Southwestern" when it comes to USA analogies. It would all look natural in Santa Fe but not in New England. Kind of an interesting quirk of history" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-22 22:36:41 UTC 33.3K followers, 27.3K engagements
"I don't like that particular image but I do recall an add from like 1989 there were a couple "Bill and Ted" type dudes and one grabbed a slice the cheese stretched like that for real so much cheese. It was like the platonic idea of pizza probably from some place in L.A" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 03:23:08 UTC 33.3K followers, 2613 engagements
"@basedbarnicle @shagbark_hick Correct as you go west towards the 100th meridian the despair thing seems to stop" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-26 18:21:02 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
"It's the AGEING. Nothing will seem normal until these places become physically young again. The first step to any form of recovery is simply halting and reversing population ageing producing children. You can't skip it that is the unavoidable first step" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-25 03:56:28 UTC 33.3K followers, 31.4K engagements
"The USA has a really harsh class system. It is MUCH harder than people think to rise socially just on looks without going to a good college etc. Lower class white people are clearly distinguishable by mannerisms speech. The IHOP X doesn't often marry a doctor IRL" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 14:32:45 UTC 33.3K followers, 128.7K engagements
"@pill_iron There is a complicated psychology where they detest the frontier mythology of the USA. It may be largely unconscious. Again feels oddly like Left Wokes who have fundamentally similar discomfort with the same idea and imagery" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 17:24:55 UTC 33.3K followers, XXX engagements
""This is what they took from us" - Suggest learning to build/rebuild civilization for $XX an hour starting rate. Screaming crying accusations "I'm not pushing a hecking wheelbarrow in the SUN"" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-23 20:43:29 UTC 33.3K followers, 30.7K engagements
"Pretty much true. Goes for the Southwest also" @Empty_America on X 2025-07-24 02:27:56 UTC 33.3K followers, 5219 engagements