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@shagbark_hick 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗

𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 posts on X about money, has been, theres a, united states the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"Sedentary peoples have a massive Achilles' heel: They've got their assets manifest labor and sentimental attachments bundled up into one giant taxable extremely-hard-to-move package. If instability is on the horizon you cannot beat the tried and true combination of a sturdy tent a few goats an AK-47 a couple motorbikes and a tolerance for Spartan conditions in dry desolate places. Nimble light on your feet responsive to threats in real time. Pull up the stakes any minute. Perhaps my wildest prediction is that this will make a comeback globally -- even in North America. The "digital nomad""
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 00:46:11 UTC 41.7K followers, 4925 engagements

"@PrestonFromFLA lmao that is an EXCELLENT phrase. I don't know why but it makes perfect sense"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 14:30:43 UTC 41.7K followers, 1931 engagements

"Nice spot for sale up in Ross ND. 2100 sq ft 2bd X bath. Retail space up front. Asking $50k taxes $319/yr. 10min away the county's hiring a maintenance man at $20+/hr FT with full benefits. Limitless possibilities in North Dakota. What a great state"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-02 23:18:56 UTC 41.7K followers, 898.3K engagements

"The absolute best parts of the United States are the places that are so harrowingly desolate abandoned and isolated that no one cares what you do. Want to camp under the water tower in the middle of town Go ahead no one minds. Building a cabin "If you're crazy enough to stay here" they might tell you "then we figure you know what you're doing." Places where you can pass months without hardly seeing anyone unless you want to. Where everyone's a "character." No jobs no visitors no traffic no crime mostly just wind and silence and rusty trailers and weeds -- a blank open canvas for a few weird"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 15:37:21 UTC 41.7K followers, 8746 engagements

"@BestHaasDelgado I am a pitbull genocide promoter"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-20 01:08:00 UTC 41.6K followers, 6450 engagements

"@MonthlyTiger I absolutely love Appalachia and you're right it's very very different from the Deep South. This post is about "the flat South." Once you get into high hills and mountains I do admire those areas a great deal (but I still probably wouldn't visit in summertime)"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:24:24 UTC 41.5K followers, 3540 engagements

"Always been true. The psychology of sedentism largely consists of: "If you're not settled working paying taxes and bills and complaining about working and paying taxes and bills -- you're a subhuman we will chase starve out and hunt to the edges of the earth." True even where nomadic peoples are not criminals are respectful productive self-reliant and steer clear of interfering with the lives of settled peoples. Part of sedentism involves having a massive chip on your shoulder against anyone who manages to evade the piss-poor fate of rising to the alarm punching the clock staying in one place"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 21:52:20 UTC 41.5K followers, 10K engagements

"@strifenjustice Correct. Even if you get a good deal you never know how long it will last even in the most isolated / depressed portions of the state. Like right now we pay $1500/yr but with the upcoming re-val that number could jump to $3000+ easily. On a $33k house"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 14:18:31 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements

"@fiveshorttables Pope Leo addresses the Nomadic Tribes of St Mary of Egypt"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 17:22:00 UTC 41.6K followers, 1180 engagements

"@JayRohrer3 Of course you can still do this. Unassisted birth is legal in all XX states. Midwifery is getting cracked down on but there are ways. Some midwives are establishing practices for American mothers now in northern Mexico charging normal cash rates"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 13:58:15 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements

"There seems to be a mismatch between mens' perception of womens' desire for comfort and womens' actual comfort requirements. Whenever I post about nomadic living and such it's always women who seem fascinated and enthralled by it. But the men say: "no woman would do this." If you point out to these men that the women DO want to do this stuff -- even for extended or indefinite periods of time -- they'll say: "those women are lying." And that could be true until you realize that women are camping hiking doing the AT and PCT WWOOFing off-grid living and third world traveling in larger numbers"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 16:37:48 UTC 41.7K followers, 263.3K engagements

"G.K. Chesterton said: Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Notice that he says "men" and "they" -- in the plural. One man cannot do it; the kind of greatness he describes cannot be willed into existence by one man. If you find you are the only one who loves a dying place or one of the very very few that place will continue to decline in spite of your affinity for it. There is a "fulcrum point" in sheer numbers that must be achieved for the "Rome Effect" to be actuated and sustained. The solitary lover of a dying place is only a witness or at"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 16:35:13 UTC 41.7K followers, 2919 engagements

"One profoundly strange element of the "dissident" psychology that is so fashionable on this website is this: The ones who say that society is doomed failing anti-white anti-Christian anti-American and so on never seem to entertain the idea of "dropping out of society." Why would this be If society is really doomed and we have no recourse or means with which to improve it or return it to order -- why would there be any moral imperative to participate in it Or if there was a moral imperative why would it be so intense so histrionic so anguished and uncompromising What would be the point of that"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-20 16:54:25 UTC 41.7K followers, 11.2K engagements

"If a fellow wanted to call a Jihad against the Patels and start taking back the motels of the heartland where would he begin"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 00:33:33 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.8K engagements

"America needs a nomadic Catholic desert caliphate. End times Fatima prophecies in the Mojave herds of goats Mass in tents AK-47's firing at the moon kettles of hot tea in the desert sunrise little kids on dirtbikes. The Eucharist in a sandstorm. The time has come"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:41:26 UTC 41.7K followers, 126.7K engagements

"Why would anyone buy property with an HOA I'd literally never do it. Whatever the benefits might be they're outweighed by the countless horror stories. Seems downright un-American to me"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 15:43:10 UTC 41.7K followers, 6643 engagements

""American-ness" is a vibe. I'm not kidding. It's not a legal status not an ethnicity it's not even a measurable countable thing. It's literally a feeling. The intuition knows it when it sees it"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-13 22:06:08 UTC 41.7K followers, 56.1K engagements

"@drivelinelive Oh yeah El Paso Texas -- a classic Southern city. not"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:10:46 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements

"@VetSalutes @ThrillaRilla369 Yup. Midwatch + workday + getting into port and working another workday and realizing "huh I've slept X hours in the last 48.""
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:50:26 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements

"The irony about the GI bill is by the time you've got free college the idea of going to college sounds awful. I'm XX I cannot imagine going to English XXX at the local SUNY with all the 18-year-olds. Sounds abysmal. At this point it's a foreign student visa excuse if I need one as a path to permanent residency or an extended stay in another country. That's it"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 16:03:55 UTC 41.7K followers, 13.9K engagements

"I wonder if Protestants will ever start using AI to interpret Scripture. It'd make sense as the central tension within Protestantism seems to be the absence of a definite clarifying authority on the problem of Scriptural interpretation. In lieu of the Pope Grok fills in"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 15:39:53 UTC 41.5K followers, 4972 engagements

"@devinsrose Yeah I'd never take a cruise like this. Maybe one of the actually interesting ones like up to Greenland or a transatlantic on the Queen Mary. But a party cruise with water slides and Mai Tais Sounds awful to me"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:31:13 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements

"This is a great thought experiment for the "American is an ethnicity" crowd. Why are Canadians with identical genes as many founding-stock "ethnic Americans" not really "American" If it were a true ethnicity many Canadians would be unequivocally "American." But they're not"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-14 01:31:32 UTC 41.5K followers, 30K engagements

"The endlessly complicated and granular sense of guilt and obligation that middle-class white people seem to feel about everything has been a complete disaster. It's lowering the birthrate it's demographical suicide for whites and it's resulted in a bureaucratized world of expectations and rules far beyond those required to have a civilized society. This group seemed to take rules and norms that work very well and are wise to employ in moderation and cranked them to the absolute maximum with devastating results. They perfected decency and civilization only to overdo it so badly that they're at"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 19:13:22 UTC 41.7K followers, 5853 engagements

"@GeringerAdam @MonthlyTiger Not bad I'll say I was actually blown away when I first read that NC has higher mountains than the entire Northeast. Still want to make it to Mount Mitchell NC I think that'd be fascinating to see"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:29:15 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Reading about the "Hippie Trail" is almost unbelievable. Thousands of beatniks and hippies took the 6000 mile journey overland from Europe to SE Asia venturing through Iran Afghanistan and the Hindu Kush - often penniless. Love them or hate them those hippies were tough"
@shagbark_hick on X 2023-08-15 01:47:34 UTC 41.6K followers, 59.8K engagements

"There's a lot of truth in this. Catholicism's ecclesial hierarchy is quasi-Monarchical; laity are peasant-esque. Most Catholic culture is a world of spirit grime wine; it largely defies the neat-and-tidy manner of the well-to-do. When high-brow Americans go Catholic there's a weird mismatch; a 'secret third thing' that isn't regular Catholicism but isn't quite Protestantism either. The attempt to shoehorn intense uprightness and petit-bourgeois sensibility into the Faith often results in a stuffy awkward affair. No offense to the SSPX but the Society's Parishes here are often an extreme"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 20:50:53 UTC 41.7K followers, 6105 engagements

"I don't talk about it for obvious reasons but. yeah. Absolutely true. If you want to "pull chicks" or whatever being a filthy hobo is a fantastic way to do it. It's a bizarre window into female psychology. Skews liberal old money. No idea why. Hobos are like toys to them"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 18:23:07 UTC 41.7K followers, 8610 engagements

"$400k home with $2k taxes lmao try NY -- that tax bill could be $8000/yr or more depending on the county. And yes seniors widows and the very poor have been evicted from homes they "own" outright because of these bills. In my home town taxes TRIPLED for many residents after a recent re-val. One farmer went from paying $2400/yr to paying over $7k. There was nearly a riot at the fire barn when the entire town descended on the town council meeting one night after it happened. State Troopers had to be called in. One fellow was investigated for plotting arson against the Town Supervisor later that"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:58:11 UTC 41.7K followers, 12.8K engagements

"I always laugh when people say that Nebraska sucks. They drive through on I-80 zip past everything and say "wow it's so boring." Like most places it's only "boring" if you stay on the Interstate"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 00:13:58 UTC 41.7K followers, 53.1K engagements

"Open container laws are a good example of the erosion of personal freedom in the US. Bogus laws invented by a pack of communist harpies that just don't have a chance of ever being repealed in spite of being useless laws. I propose a "ginger beer revolution". If everyone consumes a ginger beer in a green glass bottle while driving by the police the cops will inevitably start pulling people over thinking it's Heineken or Rolling Rock. When they find that it's a soft drink and not alcohol they'll be discouraged. If this persists long enough enforcement will cease. And once again the American"
@shagbark_hick on X 2024-03-11 23:52:44 UTC 41.5K followers, 485.8K engagements

"@Papamuerte37155 @SeekerOTL Babies and running the house. You know birthing cooking cleaning changing diapers that sort of thing. Helping with family business sometimes; socializing to extend her and the husband's network"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 18:06:00 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@JTBechhoefer There simply needs to be some kind of "regulatory relief zone" schema in America. Like if you want to experiment and do whatever you want there should be a very obvious and legal place to do so"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-10 13:37:35 UTC 41.5K followers, 2577 engagements

"Imagine: no delirious 24-hour news cycle about idiot politicians all lying through their teeth. No awkward Thanksgiving family drama over fake politics that don't matter. Just chilling praying cleaning your AK-47 drinking tea with your brethren in the mountains"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:29:34 UTC 41.7K followers, 10.2K engagements

"@hate4dayzz True it'd be better if I could virtue signal how "based" I am by gladly getting bit by stray German shepherds wherever possible. That's what a real American would do right"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:38:40 UTC 41.6K followers, 24.3K engagements

"In a sense Fentanyl and Meth murdered an entire generation of American "characters" and eccentrics. In the old days weird misfit guys would just drink a little liquor build castles out of junk scrap metal in the desert or whatever. Now they're dying from hard drugs instead. This has been a kind of purging of America's real raw "weird" personality as a country. The long-range results of this will only aid the cultural homogenization that is already taking root. I mean you can't let 700000+ of a country's most poorly-adjusted citizens die young without losing a large number of that generation's"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 15:08:43 UTC 41.7K followers, 34.2K engagements

"@suburbanhornero You know of any places online that sell them I'd love a pair"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 18:15:10 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Lifestyle inflation happened that's it. If you wanted to live the 1950 version of this that our grandfathers actually lived you still could very easily. You'd just be in Iowa or Ohio or whatever. No $1k smartphones or central A/C; no trips to Prague no top-20 cities. Eating at restaurants maybe just a few times a year. Only one car instead of two and at that the cheapest car you can buy (Mitsubishi Mirage). The house you buy could be $50k but it will be XXX square feet "outdated" and you'll need to put some elbow grease into it like grandad did. You might live somewhere really flat and boring"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-03 13:55:25 UTC 41.7K followers, 714.7K engagements

"In Valley City ND this house is for rent at $600/mo. A few miles out of town there's a railroad hiring track laborers at $30/hr -- that's $1000/wk at full time. The opportunities in ND are unreal. Could be saving $28k/yr if you were frugal. If people did "tours of duty" in places like ND they'd be doing themselves and the whole country a real service. Imagine heading up to Valley City for a 4-year "enlistment" where you live in this house work on that railroad live on the cheapest food adopt a disposition of intense financial austerity. . and come out of it with $112000 cash. That's a down"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-13 16:45:01 UTC 41.5K followers, 101K engagements

"The death of the old-school "hippie co-op" has been a disaster for America. Not that long ago co-ops sold at cost or a few cents above at most. Was the place to get CHEAP bulk foods. Then they went corporate started with the luxury yuppie schtick and prices skyrocketed"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 16:05:15 UTC 41.7K followers, 4857 engagements

"@atlanticesque Makes sense. Must be why when I tell gen Z guys that I drink X beers every night they seem to think they need to stage an intervention. If they met my relatives who drink 20+ a night (and are living to their 70's) they'd be astounded"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 17:08:22 UTC 41.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@HxBased I mean serious question not a troll -- what's up with the nomadic populations that have existed since the dawn of time Are they genetically different Perhaps they are"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 18:09:32 UTC 41.7K followers, 1993 engagements

"Another litmus test for the relative vigor and vitality of an ethnic group is: Could your people move to northern Mali right now and establish a foothold Could they win skirmishes gain territory learn to survive in the Sahara If not your group is in terminal decline. The British in 1890 could do it. Russia's Wagner can do it in 2025. Tuareg Azawad fighters could do it in 2012. Americans in 1940 could've done it. Rhodesians in 1960 could've too. If a non-pacifist sect of the Amish emerged they might have a chance as well. I can think of a lot of groups today who absolutely could not do this."
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 14:34:39 UTC 41.7K followers, 11.9K engagements

"The American CPS and foster care systems are pure evil by absolutely everything I have ever seen. When a mom is smoking crack and not feeding her kids CPS does nothing. But when a family of Christian hippies living in a bus pulls up to the wrong gas station the CPS call comes and their kids are abducted by the state. Frequently the foster families themselves are evil scammers perverts sociopaths groomers etc. And the way CPS policies are written give individual agents a frightening level of latitude. No matter what you're doing you can't be sure CPS won't try to break up your family unless"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 19:15:35 UTC 41.7K followers, 17.2K engagements

"@RizomaSchool I just remember my first overnight long-haul bicycle trip. Rome NY to the Berkshires. That first night of stealth camping I'll never forget it. Woke up and felt like a man for the first time. Never looked back. He needs that now I can just tell"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 14:39:21 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements

"@westfallx It actually happens literally everywhere. I've seen off-leash nasty dogs basically everywhere I've been except very-very-rich areas"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:32:04 UTC 41.7K followers, 25.6K engagements

"An American living in Central Asia notes here that nomadic populations were killed by the Soviets; they didn't choose to settle because it was such a better way of life -- they were forced to do so. Once you see historical patterns surrounding nomadism it's hard to defend the idea that all nomads for all of history were living a grim Hobbesian life that they were desperately trying to escape. The reality is basically always the complete opposite. Nomads would quite often rather fight and die than settle and in their oral histories they often make expressions of pity or disgust at the"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 14:23:29 UTC 41.7K followers, 5896 engagements

"The best "middle of nowhere" places are the ones where you can't figure out what the hell anyone does for work. That's where the really nutty wild-ass types of people are living. Largely broke mostly lawless and eccentric to a fault -- these are my people. Of course such places are few and far between. Many former havens for this kind of thing are either succumbing to abandonment yuppie colonization or some kind of development that brings the squares in by the dozen. And the real loony old codgers are dying out in many of these places. The young generation of fellas who might've picked up"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 19:19:28 UTC 41.7K followers, 14.5K engagements

"And this house is currently listed for $30000 on Zillow. 2bd X bath 1000 sq ft parquet wood floors move-in ready. Turns out markets exist and vary widely. We can't all live in Santa Monica Lower East Side Cape Cod etc"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-09 13:50:17 UTC 41.7K followers, 61.4K engagements

"It has always seemed a bit odd to me that none of the "tinker" nomad groups of Ireland & Scotland made their way to America to continue the traveller way of life. By what I know descendants of those groups (such as myself) that wound up in the New World retained an irrepressible nomadic urge but expressed it in novel ways -- like cowboying hoboing railroad work and the military. The few descendants who retained a way of life at all similar to that of the old country were the showmen and 'carnies' like my own father. Those who came to America to leave the Traveller ways behind largely went"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 15:44:51 UTC 41.7K followers, 3802 engagements

"Nomadism never died even in the European genome. It just became "alcoholism" instead when nomadic peoples were forcibly settled (or intensely pressured to remain settled). (and the opioid epidemic is a genocide of peoples with autochthonous genes)"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 23:04:45 UTC 41.7K followers, 7167 engagements

"I've always hated dogs and among those I grew up around this was an absolutely normal mentality. So the sudden shift in the collective conscious about these animals is totally baffling to me. Those who walk on rural roads know it well: loose dogs are a blight. Chained-up barking behemoths snarling at you from yards are an antisocial disgrace. I've been chased bit barked at and when I've responded with any degree of anger or discomfort at the behavior of peoples' dogs their owners were often indignant with me. Even after the first time I got bit the lady who owned the dog kept repeating that"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:06:02 UTC 41.7K followers, 1.7M engagements

"America needs a Kowloon Walled City. Totally unregulated hyper-dense zero oversight. Cheap dirty packed glowing with neon all night long. There's a desperate market demand for something like this"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 00:39:07 UTC 41.7K followers, 106.9K engagements

"@Jamal8969 That's why it's wise never to go to two incomes in the first place. Frankly I find the idea of my wife submitting to a boss outside the home to be appalling. I'd rather be dirt poor than ever suffer that"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 18:48:08 UTC 41.5K followers, XX engagements

"Imagine if we did this today. There are 21000000 boys between XX and XX in the USA today. En masse emancipation would inject tremendous life into our society. and would be good for those boys too. The suffocating "endless childhood" thing was a bad idea that should end"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:01:33 UTC 41.7K followers, 7011 engagements

"It should not take XX months and $8000 in permits to build a pole barn in America. Why don't there seem to be any politicians who are actively trying to change this stuff"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 16:19:04 UTC 41.6K followers, 13.4K engagements

"I'll never get it either. OK you disagree with some doctrines you're not Catholic whatever that's your choice. But to be feverishly adversarial toward the Church that has brought the Gospel to more human beings than any other group seems absurd and even juvenile"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 16:12:32 UTC 41.5K followers, 10.2K engagements

"Daily Mass is one of the absolute best things about being Catholic. Even at tiny rural Parishes weekday Mass is normal. For the vast majority of Protestants and Orthodox this isn't a thing. It's almost unbelievable -- who wouldn't want to worship God EVERY DAY"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 13:17:52 UTC 41.7K followers, 5877 engagements

"@SeekerOTL I only believe at the risk of being offensive that women are generally more easily wooed by luxuries even when such luxuries aren't conducive to their well-being. Woman demands safety and luxury; it is man's duty to provide it but to regulate how safe and luxurious life is"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 14:54:35 UTC 41.7K followers, 2312 engagements

"That's why I mow my lawn with one of these things. Quiet free to use low maintenance artful. You can't beat the classic reel mower and frankly if your yard is too big to mow with one -- you should probably let it go to woods"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-05-16 20:56:39 UTC 41.6K followers, 19.1K engagements

"People who aren't from sick dark-sided broken families cannot conceive of what it's like to be from such a family. It's beyond their comprehension. The entire psychological architecture is different. The guy from a decent upstanding functional family thinks: "It's important to have fun work hard and just generally enjoy life; there are problems in the world but nothing really apocalyptic." Subjects they consider to be "heavy" are generally. not very heavy. These people are not urgently anguished or yearnful for "something better" and are mostly very well-adjusted and optimistic (even if they"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 13:43:02 UTC 41.7K followers, 95.5K engagements

"Crazy idea: If you've got XXX wedding guests each spending an average of $200/guest for travel expenses that's $40000 that people spent in order to witness your marital covenant. If you divorce maybe you should have to pay travel expenses back to the guests -- because all that money and time was spent to attend a wedding that was at the end of it reneged on and ultimately fake. If furthermore the "divorce payout" had to keep pace with inflation over the years of the marriage it'd be one hell of an incentive for couples to stay together. You'd see that big number and say "oof maybe we should"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 15:50:59 UTC 41.6K followers, 20.9K engagements

"Actual "fck you money" is a lot simpler than this. A person has it any time they are earning more than 8x their monthly expenses AND has complete control of 95%+ of their waking hours. This is true at any income level. Most people who have this in the USA this are homeless or are living in extremely marginal areas. Intensely frugal woodsmen hoboes migrant workers or residents of dirt-cheap heartland regions are often succeeding at this. If you want "fck you money" AND central air microwaveable frozen foods big SUV's high-end healthcare retirement plans and giant houses in top-25 areas"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:45:02 UTC 41.7K followers, 10.8K engagements

"@btcplebeian Yes on the Yuba River in CA. heavenly river"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 13:53:46 UTC 41.7K followers, XX engagements

"Correct: I simply don't think about talk about or visit the American South because it was never my thing. Humid heat is like hell to me mostly. I always thought it was a shame they were prevented from seceding. No idea why 750000 Americans had to die to keep them in. The South really is something different from the rest of America -- feels foreign to me in a way the West the Midwest the Plains and New England just doesn't and never did. And there's basically no way for a non-Southerner to talk about visit or think about the South without making Southerners mad. If I move there I'm a filthy"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:21:28 UTC 41.7K followers, 78.9K engagements

"just remembered that Europeans dont have random swaths of endless uninhabited desert wasteland that they can go and visit"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 14:33:17 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.3K engagements

"@FrDamienKarras Relevant Radio is also awesome when you're in the car. I prayed the Rosary from Ohio to North Dakota on my way to meet my wife using the radio. It was awesome. And I got a nod of approval from an old guy sitting in traffic outside Chicago too. God bless him"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 00:49:10 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements

"There's a very thin overlap between the native range of the Joshua Tree and high elevation areas that get 10" or more in annual snowfall. The 'zone' is mostly right around Tonopah NV. I saw it once. Will never forget it. Mind-bendingly magical sight to see"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 16:01:49 UTC 41.7K followers, 4707 engagements

"@FatherMcKennaa why am I seeing this degenerate demon crap on my TL I don't even follow you. How do I make these drug tweets stop"
@shagbark_hick on X 2023-04-04 22:27:14 UTC 41.6K followers, 3626 engagements

"I'll admit criminally insane as Charles Manson was he captured something defining and real about the American spirit when he said: "I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for Work for what Money" That's America right there"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:34:13 UTC 41.7K followers, 14.2K engagements

"The Adirondack Air Force has landed in the North Country"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 01:54:35 UTC 41.7K followers, 18.2K engagements

"A shocking amount of the USA looks something like this. When I think of "America" I picture a scene like this"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 01:55:59 UTC 41.7K followers, 54K engagements

"Incredible insight. Yes -- I very very often feel like I "don't get it." I'll cause trouble in social circles or lose friends having zero idea what I have done wrong. I've often asked: "do people take a class on this stuff How do they know The Rules" So I can really only hang with dropouts and misfits and in lieu of those I can really only be a hermit. The window during which I might've "learned The Rules" has passed; it's just an insane and ridiculous effort to constantly walk on eggshells not knowing whether what I am doing is "correct." That's the "outlaw" mentality in a nutshell"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 14:33:20 UTC 41.7K followers, 1361 engagements

"@AtaraxiaGoal @Chris_arnade This is generally how I think of it too to be honest. But there are photos and there are Photos. if it's from Reddit or something I don't see an argument for attribution but if it's from a "real photographer" a shout-out is a nice courtesy"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 20:31:55 UTC 41.7K followers, XX engagements

"I've slept outdoors for 2000+ nights often for months and months at a time. It was the best sleep of my life. I rose with the sun at dawn and crawled into my bedroll just past dark every day. Once you've done this for any length of time you can't go back. The whole "keep the lights on after dark stay up late sleep in a drywall box with fabric hung over the windows to keep the light out" thing really starts to feel as insane as it actually is. And alarm clocks are completely anathema; they almost seem cruel. Ever since going back to sleeping in electrified buildings again I've had nothing but"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 14:06:17 UTC 41.7K followers, 39.5K engagements

"One of the toughest things going forward is going to be raising boys into real men. Everything's illegal everyone's watching every activity is structured regulated -- the default for boys and young men today is to be a pussy because anything else is now against the rules"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-12 15:41:13 UTC 41.5K followers, 28.5K engagements

"@gildedatlas True a good person gets bit by a dog and thinks: "aw what a nice little doggie""
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:47:34 UTC 41.6K followers, 40.3K engagements

"I think it's hilarious that people from other states occasionally see the dirt-cheap prices of real estate in Upstate NY and assume it's a scam or criminal or whatever. Nope it's real and legal. Our State is so poorly run that in essence you get PAID to buy property here. I say this because there's no way I could've built my house for what I paid for it ($33k for 3bd 1100 sq ft move-in ready with a two-story barn). And there's NO way you could've built that Cathedral today for $250k. It is a crisis of governance so extreme and so deeply entrenched it's almost impossible for people from other"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 14:14:56 UTC 41.7K followers, 9138 engagements

"I'll admit: My life as a traveler has been deeply handicapped by my abject hatred and fear of flying. Used to fly constantly didn't think anything of it. Then I took a very small plane over the Rockies one night and felt genuinely extreme turbulence. Screaming things flying around a lady with a baby had to put the baby under her shirt the stewardess was clinging on for dear life. It was hours like this. Rustled my Jimmies so bad I thought: "huh I'd like to never do that again." So except for a couple flights I had to take in the military I mostly haven't. When I do fly liquor doesn't help"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 15:09:05 UTC 41.7K followers, 10.3K engagements

"@MrEdwarrdHyde You've done it Was the ride rough or fairly calm"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 16:42:52 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements

"@pbdmcniel Didn't know you were a Nebraska enjoyer Paul. Let's catch up in Valentine some time maybe this winter"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 00:44:26 UTC 41.6K followers, 1570 engagements