[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] [@shagbark_hick](/creator/twitter/shagbark_hick) "@PrestonFromFLA lmao that is an EXCELLENT phrase. I don't know why but it makes perfect sense"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948390392270856314) 2025-07-24 14:30:43 UTC 42.7K followers, 2928 engagements "@hununu @NatureSchoolSU Uber came to NYC way before 2016"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949256904859140441) 2025-07-26 23:53:56 UTC 43.1K followers, 4660 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946207895189704767) 2025-07-18 13:58:15 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX engagements "@DosUnfortunates "I am become poverty destroyer of dumpstered pizza""  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948817568929906944) 2025-07-25 18:48:10 UTC 43.1K followers, XX engagements "@PhineusPhineus Haldol is exactly where we're at. Involuntarily tranquilized with the cops there after coming at grandma with a fork and breaking her arm"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948904809761046718) 2025-07-26 00:34:50 UTC 43.1K followers, 5779 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946977002839310408) 2025-07-20 16:54:25 UTC 41.8K followers, 11.3K engagements "I remember rolling up to Newton Iowa years ago ate the the Denny's there (or maybe it was a local diner I forget). Had X hours of incredible laughs and conversation with the old people there. When I left they all said "you should just stay in Newton" I always wonder what would've happened if I had stayed in Newton IA"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949249598754582576) 2025-07-26 23:24:54 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX engagements "Hot tip: If you're taking care of someone who is dying you need to know about "UTI psychosis" if they have a catheter. The UTI can cause kidney failure + sepsis. Both can induce psychosis. And I mean real psychosis. Like attacking people frothing at the mouth going nuts"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948876782989418747) 2025-07-25 22:43:28 UTC 43.1K followers, 170.4K engagements "Whoring welfare petty theft with resale at pawn shops organized theft with resale at bodegas and scrap metal seem to be the major sources outside money into drug-heavy communities. For example a homeless single man can get EBT in CA to the tune of $292/mo. The return scam can help him turn it into cash: because the benefits are only for food he can abuse the "soft cash" return policies of places like Wal-Mart by buying an item under $XX (Bertolli olive oil in the big jug at $XXXXX is common) with EBT and then return it for cash. Rinse and repeat for $292/mo in drug money. Similarly"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948768914852200765) 2025-07-25 15:34:50 UTC 43.1K followers, 32.3K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1944518733864603673) 2025-07-13 22:06:08 UTC 41.8K followers, 56.2K engagements "@AnitaRBoyd Well and what of it Does everyone on earth have a moral obligation to engage in those jobs"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948825847479070859) 2025-07-25 19:21:04 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX engagements "Sent the fella off earlier today on his big adventure. He's well on his way. What a great kid"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948154090237706657) 2025-07-23 22:51:44 UTC 43.1K followers, 7039 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948486063493976262) 2025-07-24 20:50:53 UTC 43.1K followers, 12K engagements "Years ago I went out with a very-wealthy Jewish girl from Boston who was big in the art scene in NYC. Met her at some bar in Brooklyn where bike couriers hang out; proceeded to spend a month straight with her. She did coke 24/7 took me to VIP rooms at tons of clubs and seemed to have both infinite money and a near-zero grasp on time or reality. She swore she'd marry me and she literally prayed we'd get pregnant. We went to "Members Only" in Brooklyn constantly where I was exposed to some of the weirdest gayest richest most drug-addled people I'd ever seen. I was a filthy hobo at the time"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949131123943969082) 2025-07-26 15:34:07 UTC 43.1K followers, 2.9M 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947812395868446773) 2025-07-23 00:13:58 UTC 43.1K followers, 54K engagements "Upward social mobility might be a little like pissing in the pool. If one or two people do it OK no one notices. But if everyone does it it's absolutely disgusting for everyone and the pool is no longer usable. The dismal state of our elites may've produced in large part by the endless striving and elbowing upward that many lower-class American families did and continue to do. In a society where people "know their station" and remain in it stability is the default and there are real barriers against engaging in pitiful levels of effrontery for the sake of power or financial gain -- most"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949481777195602336) 2025-07-27 14:47:29 UTC 43.1K followers, 5962 engagements "The neighbor's welder runs in the abandoned highschool on a foggy night. What's he building in there"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948937821084913927) 2025-07-26 02:46:00 UTC 43.1K followers, 9649 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1940771364421398581) 2025-07-03 13:55:25 UTC 43.1K followers, 715.3K engagements "I'd rather endure poverty filth and isolation than walk on eggshells appease petty bureaucrats chase clout or suffer any indignity at the hands of the little shits in the government or the professional managerial class. That makes me an American that's all. A lot of people just don't get it. They accept a half-assed compromised version of what being American means and jeer at you when you don't accept monkeying around for a bunch of clipboard-wielding dipshits. I toe no lines; I don't "play the game." I'll pay dearly for that if I must. If this is "third-worldism" so be it. Way back when"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948566688162586730) 2025-07-25 02:11:15 UTC 43.1K followers, 12.1K engagements "@junger_stan Completely this yes I nearly put a word about this into the original post here. FDR ruined this country. Self Employment Tax began because of Social Security too"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948882257210495157) 2025-07-25 23:05:13 UTC 42.6K followers, XXX engagements "@mxttmclxmb You know I find a lot of "startup" people a little obnoxious or maybe naive but I can respect that the playing field they're on is definitely very "frontier-esque" in a lot of important ways"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948873999439569337) 2025-07-25 22:32:24 UTC 42.8K followers, XX 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948083072508854777) 2025-07-23 18:09:32 UTC 42.7K followers, 2275 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945200589849149626) 2025-07-15 19:15:35 UTC 41.8K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947667790875287753) 2025-07-22 14:39:21 UTC 41.8K followers, XXX 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948388571540312085) 2025-07-24 14:23:29 UTC 43.1K followers, 9138 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947738282797711503) 2025-07-22 19:19:28 UTC 43.1K followers, 15.4K engagements "Respectfully I find it hard to understand why anyone takes Anglicanism seriously. Like an insane King goes nuts defies Rome murders Saint Thomas More rainbow flags on half the Churches now and you're convinced this is better than being Catholic I don't get it"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948556772567875976) 2025-07-25 01:31:51 UTC 43.1K followers, 26.1K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946234720242835740) 2025-07-18 15:44:51 UTC 43.1K followers, 3919 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946587338731037072) 2025-07-19 15:06:02 UTC 43.1K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1944919623725433160) 2025-07-15 00:39:07 UTC 41.9K followers, 107.1K engagements "I do find it strange that Americans for all their anti-communist / anti-collectivist sensibilities took to the "job" thing so quickly and so naturally. Every company that employs W2 workers is a kind of microcosmic Soviet state. They tell you what to do set quotas monitor your activity (sometimes even outside work) evaluate you and then for it you get your "meal stamps" AKA money and you (might) get healthcare and a retirement. The only distinctly individualist thing about it is the fact that you can quit. But once you quit inasmuch as you became accustomed to being attached to a firm as its"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948870878260850729) 2025-07-25 22:20:00 UTC 43.1K followers, 22.5K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947461984943017995) 2025-07-22 01:01:33 UTC 43.1K followers, 7435 engagements "@JacksonND37 It absolutely does not. If the item is under $XX and you return to Wal-Mart they give you cash. I've watched it be done right in front of me. Everyone on the street knows this is a thing"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948772355183911409) 2025-07-25 15:48:30 UTC 43K followers, XXX engagements "I receive a lot of comments like this and they're funny because I was *the* anarchist par excellence for many years. Read thousands of books within that canon from Marx to Fanon to Stirner to Bookchin to primitivists like Derrick Jensen John Zerzan. And I lived the ethos maximally; traveled to dozens of anarchist communes and farms lived with hippies in the desert hitchhiked 100k+ miles was homeless traveling for 5ish years and homeless not-traveling for a couple years more. Shoplifted spiked trees dumpster-dove etc etc. That's exactly why I'm "conservative" now -- because I traveled all the"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949456627070894264) 2025-07-27 13:07:33 UTC 43.1K followers, 26.4K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947300902278246768) 2025-07-21 14:21:28 UTC 43.1K followers, 79.5K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946371701840724052) 2025-07-19 00:49:10 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX engagements "Spot-on quote. This is VERY apparent to the resident of rural Upstate New York where the air coming from NYC and Albany is always one of condescension and sneering mockery. How they govern the heartland of NY is how they appear to want to govern the heartland of the USA"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949484804224733588) 2025-07-27 14:59:31 UTC 43.1K followers, 4364 engagements "There are times in Upstate NY when the omens aren't whispered -- they're screamed"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948910623854932361) 2025-07-26 00:57:56 UTC 43.1K followers, 6656 engagements "@jcm10x1 I believe it is most common in the dying and elderly for some reason but I may be wrong there"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948881219502186581) 2025-07-25 23:01:05 UTC 43.1K followers, 8257 engagements "The Adirondack Air Force has landed in the North Country"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946025775934673234) 2025-07-18 01:54:35 UTC 43K followers, 18.3K engagements "Large-scale demoralization is not a problem that you can "fix." When a native-born population has lost the will to live or to maintain and expand a coherent society that society is already dead. No amount of money policy investment can fix it. A lot of people seem to think that the solution to the problems caused by offshoring in the Rust Belt / distressed rural areas can just be "fixed" by "bringing the jobs back." This is false. The loss of the prosperity of the manufacturing era introduced a STRUCTURAL change in the cultures where that era took place; it caused a type of demoralization"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949182593330794569) 2025-07-26 18:58:38 UTC 43.1K followers, 20.1K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948481291483275274) 2025-07-24 20:31:55 UTC 42.2K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948021856738369727) 2025-07-23 14:06:17 UTC 43.1K followers, 41.4K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948024034421018964) 2025-07-23 14:14:56 UTC 41.8K followers, 9301 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947675270640550125) 2025-07-22 15:09:05 UTC 41.8K followers, 10.4K engagements "Addendum: This phenomenon has very likely intensified as "the death of mythos" has swept through Western Civilization. Language and storytelling was formerly a mythic domain; words had a spirited invocational quality. Now we use words like Lego blocks and any phenomena outside the august limits of "normalcy" must be dismissed as hokum by practitioners of the new hyper-rationality lest we find ourselves unleashing scary mythopoeic forces that cannot be measured or controlled. Just as the rationalist-atheist combs through sacred Scripture to "debunk" it in the most self-satisfied sort of way he"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949154003142513062) 2025-07-26 17:05:02 UTC 43.1K followers, 7298 engagements "@petroleumpilled @JacksonND37 Right so you buy the item keep the receipt return it. I assure you it can be done dozens and dozens of times each month at the same store"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948773470407454849) 2025-07-25 15:52:56 UTC 43K followers, XXX engagements "Two ideas that I was introduced to at a young age made any kind of integration into "professional" "polite" "respectable" culture very difficult: The First Amendment and the Argument Pyramid. As a kid I thought: OK the First Amendment means I can say what I want and if others don't like it the Argument Pyramid means that they can attempt to refute the central point of my argument if they wish. It was a purely idealistic conception of communication that I never really shook. Always assumed if I said something others didn't like they'd respect my right to say it for one and for two they'd show"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948419461913936234) 2025-07-24 16:26:14 UTC 43.1K followers, 8975 engagements "What's actually incredible about food commodities markets today is -- even at RETAIL prices in grocery stores and restaurants we still spend the lowest level of our income on food in human history: 11.3%. But if you got into buying raw commodities yourself processing them into edible food this figure could be lowered to astonishing levels. Literally could make a year's worth of masa (for tortillas and tamales) for a family of X for $XX. Rice for $0.26/lb Pintos for $0.40/lb wheat for less than $0.10/lb. You'd have to figure out how to buy in bulk purchase some processing equipment and take a"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948403302384783669) 2025-07-24 15:22:01 UTC 43.1K followers, 12.8K engagements "@Gains_of_Glory I hate civilization always have. You and I are in different tribes"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948576687043629169) 2025-07-25 02:50:59 UTC 42.6K followers, XX 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947682385220280714) 2025-07-22 15:37:21 UTC 43.1K followers, 9173 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948059987386790010) 2025-07-23 16:37:48 UTC 43.1K followers, 280.2K engagements "@the_UrbanWolf It's an interesting idea I'll say that. Still seems like it'd send inflation to the moon"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948872465725223271) 2025-07-25 22:26:18 UTC 42.8K followers, XXX engagements "@wonderlandmom makes her story seem very fake"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949154588319162396) 2025-07-26 17:07:22 UTC 43.1K followers, 118.8K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946596248129048768) 2025-07-19 15:41:26 UTC 43.1K followers, 127.4K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948086489197457566) 2025-07-23 18:23:07 UTC 43.1K followers, 9135 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947310139997860092) 2025-07-21 14:58:11 UTC 41.8K followers, 12.8K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948037566365630874) 2025-07-23 15:08:43 UTC 43.1K followers, 35.8K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948414181943710038) 2025-07-24 16:05:15 UTC 43.1K followers, 7805 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947342904264909265) 2025-07-21 17:08:22 UTC 42.7K followers, XXX 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946579441687126343) 2025-07-19 14:34:39 UTC 41.8K followers, 12K engagements "@Johnson73039590 You are definitely right I really have a very weak grasp of the world of the "normie." Pretty much a foreign world to me"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949160957638316065) 2025-07-26 17:32:40 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1942944398418837892) 2025-07-09 13:50:17 UTC 42.8K followers, 61.5K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948157367008510289) 2025-07-23 23:04:45 UTC 43.1K followers, 7996 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945835342948340168) 2025-07-17 13:17:52 UTC 43.1K followers, 5977 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948034011978195091) 2025-07-23 14:54:35 UTC 41.8K followers, 2504 engagements "@JTBechhoefer Where would you suggest I start I am not trying to be divisive and weird I am simply saying from the outside looking in it looks like an insane denomination. I'd love to learn more and see how Anglican folks actually think of this stuff"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948567064290943195) 2025-07-25 02:12:45 UTC 43.1K followers, 1177 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948378391436001466) 2025-07-24 13:43:02 UTC 43.1K followers, 137.6K 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945876603310854318) 2025-07-17 16:01:49 UTC 43.1K followers, 4816 engagements "If you wind up being an "interesting" person you get an weird vista on human psychology. The wilder your stories the larger the peanut gallery will be. They'll say: "it can't be true" You know it is; they won't believe it. So in essence your life history is "Schrodinger's crazy story." No one can prove it; cheap shots against their validity are easy to make. Some people really seem to have a psychological need to believe that "crazy life stories" are never real. I don't know why but if you wind up being "interesting" you'll see this firsthand"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949141270556733699) 2025-07-26 16:14:26 UTC 43.1K followers, 24.9K engagements "@Las______ I did not. It was way way way too weird. Felt almost demonic"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949139277197046167) 2025-07-26 16:06:31 UTC 43.1K followers, 113K engagements "Huh it's almost as if sedentarism is not a great way to obtain power. By staking yourself to a single piece of ground your fixed position is your greatest liability. The Khan was right. The ultra-rich are right. The seafaring merchants were right. Real power is nomadic"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949497304802795834) 2025-07-27 15:49:12 UTC 43.1K followers, 6997 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947470202309906938) 2025-07-22 01:34:13 UTC 43.1K followers, 14.6K engagements "Sometimes I have a few beers and think on Edward Abbey a man I consider to be a true hero. He died in '89 a fact which if he could see what's going on today he'd be glad for. I imagine his disgust at the turns this country's taken. I feel just as disgusted. RIP to a legend"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948573208598253733) 2025-07-25 02:37:10 UTC 43.1K followers, 8215 engagements ""Class" isn't about money. It's about "unwritten rules" that simply cannot be learned except by growing up in a family that wordlessly imparts them or by sycophantic levels of effrontery. If you don't know the unwritten rules just own it. Accept your station with dignity"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949296200554877166) 2025-07-27 02:30:05 UTC 43.1K followers, 32.2K engagements "@KangJesseJames This is interesting is this the only instance of this kind of thing or are there more"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948567253823217779) 2025-07-25 02:13:30 UTC 42.6K followers, XX 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](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1948391049807659236) 2025-07-24 14:33:20 UTC 42.7K followers, 1987 engagements "A shocking amount of the USA looks something like this. When I think of "America" I picture a scene like this"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947113292142362727) 2025-07-21 01:55:59 UTC 43.1K followers, 54.4K engagements "@kemmishTree @Aggroed001 I should make a LinkedIn account just to do this"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949216169094722004) 2025-07-26 21:12:04 UTC 43.1K followers, XX engagements "The net effect of these kinds of weird development schemes is that the only ones doing the developing are the ones who know what's what. There's nothing intuitive about 'development' in our current regulatory climate. Average Joe is excluded; BlackRock terraforms the country"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1927543563744661978) 2025-05-28 01:52:52 UTC 43.1K followers, 5557 engagements "@RoguesPhilo that's insane what'd they make of you"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949143012593791098) 2025-07-26 16:21:22 UTC 43.1K followers, 1111 engagements "@Glyph_of_Doom Yes to almost no avail. I know of maybe one guy who has moved here because of my efforts. Most traditional Catholics want a low-tax pro-gun low-reg state for very understandable reasons. So in spite of the obscenely low cost of real estate they're not interested"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1949233762778116185) 2025-07-26 22:21:58 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX engagements
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"@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 42.7K followers, 2928 engagements
"@hununu @NatureSchoolSU Uber came to NYC way before 2016" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 23:53:56 UTC 43.1K followers, 4660 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 41.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@DosUnfortunates "I am become poverty destroyer of dumpstered pizza"" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 18:48:10 UTC 43.1K followers, XX engagements
"@PhineusPhineus Haldol is exactly where we're at. Involuntarily tranquilized with the cops there after coming at grandma with a fork and breaking her arm" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 00:34:50 UTC 43.1K followers, 5779 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 41.8K followers, 11.3K engagements
"I remember rolling up to Newton Iowa years ago ate the the Denny's there (or maybe it was a local diner I forget). Had X hours of incredible laughs and conversation with the old people there. When I left they all said "you should just stay in Newton" I always wonder what would've happened if I had stayed in Newton IA" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 23:24:54 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX engagements
"Hot tip: If you're taking care of someone who is dying you need to know about "UTI psychosis" if they have a catheter. The UTI can cause kidney failure + sepsis. Both can induce psychosis. And I mean real psychosis. Like attacking people frothing at the mouth going nuts" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 22:43:28 UTC 43.1K followers, 170.4K engagements
"Whoring welfare petty theft with resale at pawn shops organized theft with resale at bodegas and scrap metal seem to be the major sources outside money into drug-heavy communities. For example a homeless single man can get EBT in CA to the tune of $292/mo. The return scam can help him turn it into cash: because the benefits are only for food he can abuse the "soft cash" return policies of places like Wal-Mart by buying an item under $XX (Bertolli olive oil in the big jug at $XXXXX is common) with EBT and then return it for cash. Rinse and repeat for $292/mo in drug money. Similarly" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 15:34:50 UTC 43.1K followers, 32.3K 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 41.8K followers, 56.2K engagements
"@AnitaRBoyd Well and what of it Does everyone on earth have a moral obligation to engage in those jobs" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 19:21:04 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX engagements
"Sent the fella off earlier today on his big adventure. He's well on his way. What a great kid" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-23 22:51:44 UTC 43.1K followers, 7039 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 43.1K followers, 12K engagements
"Years ago I went out with a very-wealthy Jewish girl from Boston who was big in the art scene in NYC. Met her at some bar in Brooklyn where bike couriers hang out; proceeded to spend a month straight with her. She did coke 24/7 took me to VIP rooms at tons of clubs and seemed to have both infinite money and a near-zero grasp on time or reality. She swore she'd marry me and she literally prayed we'd get pregnant. We went to "Members Only" in Brooklyn constantly where I was exposed to some of the weirdest gayest richest most drug-addled people I'd ever seen. I was a filthy hobo at the time" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 15:34:07 UTC 43.1K followers, 2.9M 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 43.1K followers, 54K engagements
"Upward social mobility might be a little like pissing in the pool. If one or two people do it OK no one notices. But if everyone does it it's absolutely disgusting for everyone and the pool is no longer usable. The dismal state of our elites may've produced in large part by the endless striving and elbowing upward that many lower-class American families did and continue to do. In a society where people "know their station" and remain in it stability is the default and there are real barriers against engaging in pitiful levels of effrontery for the sake of power or financial gain -- most" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-27 14:47:29 UTC 43.1K followers, 5962 engagements
"The neighbor's welder runs in the abandoned highschool on a foggy night. What's he building in there" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 02:46:00 UTC 43.1K followers, 9649 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 43.1K followers, 715.3K engagements
"I'd rather endure poverty filth and isolation than walk on eggshells appease petty bureaucrats chase clout or suffer any indignity at the hands of the little shits in the government or the professional managerial class. That makes me an American that's all. A lot of people just don't get it. They accept a half-assed compromised version of what being American means and jeer at you when you don't accept monkeying around for a bunch of clipboard-wielding dipshits. I toe no lines; I don't "play the game." I'll pay dearly for that if I must. If this is "third-worldism" so be it. Way back when" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 02:11:15 UTC 43.1K followers, 12.1K engagements
"@junger_stan Completely this yes I nearly put a word about this into the original post here. FDR ruined this country. Self Employment Tax began because of Social Security too" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 23:05:13 UTC 42.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@mxttmclxmb You know I find a lot of "startup" people a little obnoxious or maybe naive but I can respect that the playing field they're on is definitely very "frontier-esque" in a lot of important ways" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 22:32:24 UTC 42.8K followers, XX 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 42.7K followers, 2275 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 41.8K 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 41.8K followers, XXX 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 43.1K followers, 9138 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 43.1K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Respectfully I find it hard to understand why anyone takes Anglicanism seriously. Like an insane King goes nuts defies Rome murders Saint Thomas More rainbow flags on half the Churches now and you're convinced this is better than being Catholic I don't get it" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 01:31:51 UTC 43.1K followers, 26.1K 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 43.1K followers, 3919 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 43.1K 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 41.9K followers, 107.1K engagements
"I do find it strange that Americans for all their anti-communist / anti-collectivist sensibilities took to the "job" thing so quickly and so naturally. Every company that employs W2 workers is a kind of microcosmic Soviet state. They tell you what to do set quotas monitor your activity (sometimes even outside work) evaluate you and then for it you get your "meal stamps" AKA money and you (might) get healthcare and a retirement. The only distinctly individualist thing about it is the fact that you can quit. But once you quit inasmuch as you became accustomed to being attached to a firm as its" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 22:20:00 UTC 43.1K followers, 22.5K 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 43.1K followers, 7435 engagements
"@JacksonND37 It absolutely does not. If the item is under $XX and you return to Wal-Mart they give you cash. I've watched it be done right in front of me. Everyone on the street knows this is a thing" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 15:48:30 UTC 43K followers, XXX engagements
"I receive a lot of comments like this and they're funny because I was the anarchist par excellence for many years. Read thousands of books within that canon from Marx to Fanon to Stirner to Bookchin to primitivists like Derrick Jensen John Zerzan. And I lived the ethos maximally; traveled to dozens of anarchist communes and farms lived with hippies in the desert hitchhiked 100k+ miles was homeless traveling for 5ish years and homeless not-traveling for a couple years more. Shoplifted spiked trees dumpster-dove etc etc. That's exactly why I'm "conservative" now -- because I traveled all the" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-27 13:07:33 UTC 43.1K followers, 26.4K 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 43.1K followers, 79.5K 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 43.1K followers, XXX engagements
"Spot-on quote. This is VERY apparent to the resident of rural Upstate New York where the air coming from NYC and Albany is always one of condescension and sneering mockery. How they govern the heartland of NY is how they appear to want to govern the heartland of the USA" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-27 14:59:31 UTC 43.1K followers, 4364 engagements
"There are times in Upstate NY when the omens aren't whispered -- they're screamed" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 00:57:56 UTC 43.1K followers, 6656 engagements
"@jcm10x1 I believe it is most common in the dying and elderly for some reason but I may be wrong there" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 23:01:05 UTC 43.1K followers, 8257 engagements
"The Adirondack Air Force has landed in the North Country" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 01:54:35 UTC 43K followers, 18.3K engagements
"Large-scale demoralization is not a problem that you can "fix." When a native-born population has lost the will to live or to maintain and expand a coherent society that society is already dead. No amount of money policy investment can fix it. A lot of people seem to think that the solution to the problems caused by offshoring in the Rust Belt / distressed rural areas can just be "fixed" by "bringing the jobs back." This is false. The loss of the prosperity of the manufacturing era introduced a STRUCTURAL change in the cultures where that era took place; it caused a type of demoralization" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 18:58:38 UTC 43.1K followers, 20.1K 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 42.2K 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 43.1K followers, 41.4K 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 41.8K followers, 9301 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 41.8K followers, 10.4K engagements
"Addendum: This phenomenon has very likely intensified as "the death of mythos" has swept through Western Civilization. Language and storytelling was formerly a mythic domain; words had a spirited invocational quality. Now we use words like Lego blocks and any phenomena outside the august limits of "normalcy" must be dismissed as hokum by practitioners of the new hyper-rationality lest we find ourselves unleashing scary mythopoeic forces that cannot be measured or controlled. Just as the rationalist-atheist combs through sacred Scripture to "debunk" it in the most self-satisfied sort of way he" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 17:05:02 UTC 43.1K followers, 7298 engagements
"@petroleumpilled @JacksonND37 Right so you buy the item keep the receipt return it. I assure you it can be done dozens and dozens of times each month at the same store" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 15:52:56 UTC 43K followers, XXX engagements
"Two ideas that I was introduced to at a young age made any kind of integration into "professional" "polite" "respectable" culture very difficult: The First Amendment and the Argument Pyramid. As a kid I thought: OK the First Amendment means I can say what I want and if others don't like it the Argument Pyramid means that they can attempt to refute the central point of my argument if they wish. It was a purely idealistic conception of communication that I never really shook. Always assumed if I said something others didn't like they'd respect my right to say it for one and for two they'd show" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 16:26:14 UTC 43.1K followers, 8975 engagements
"What's actually incredible about food commodities markets today is -- even at RETAIL prices in grocery stores and restaurants we still spend the lowest level of our income on food in human history: 11.3%. But if you got into buying raw commodities yourself processing them into edible food this figure could be lowered to astonishing levels. Literally could make a year's worth of masa (for tortillas and tamales) for a family of X for $XX. Rice for $0.26/lb Pintos for $0.40/lb wheat for less than $0.10/lb. You'd have to figure out how to buy in bulk purchase some processing equipment and take a" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-24 15:22:01 UTC 43.1K followers, 12.8K engagements
"@Gains_of_Glory I hate civilization always have. You and I are in different tribes" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 02:50:59 UTC 42.6K followers, XX 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 43.1K followers, 9173 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 43.1K followers, 280.2K engagements
"@the_UrbanWolf It's an interesting idea I'll say that. Still seems like it'd send inflation to the moon" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 22:26:18 UTC 42.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@wonderlandmom makes her story seem very fake" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 17:07:22 UTC 43.1K followers, 118.8K 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 43.1K followers, 127.4K 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 43.1K followers, 9135 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 41.8K followers, 12.8K 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 43.1K followers, 35.8K 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 43.1K followers, 7805 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 42.7K followers, XXX 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 41.8K followers, 12K engagements
"@Johnson73039590 You are definitely right I really have a very weak grasp of the world of the "normie." Pretty much a foreign world to me" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 17:32:40 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX 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 42.8K followers, 61.5K 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 43.1K followers, 7996 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 43.1K followers, 5977 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 41.8K followers, 2504 engagements
"@JTBechhoefer Where would you suggest I start I am not trying to be divisive and weird I am simply saying from the outside looking in it looks like an insane denomination. I'd love to learn more and see how Anglican folks actually think of this stuff" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 02:12:45 UTC 43.1K followers, 1177 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 43.1K followers, 137.6K 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 43.1K followers, 4816 engagements
"If you wind up being an "interesting" person you get an weird vista on human psychology. The wilder your stories the larger the peanut gallery will be. They'll say: "it can't be true" You know it is; they won't believe it. So in essence your life history is "Schrodinger's crazy story." No one can prove it; cheap shots against their validity are easy to make. Some people really seem to have a psychological need to believe that "crazy life stories" are never real. I don't know why but if you wind up being "interesting" you'll see this firsthand" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 16:14:26 UTC 43.1K followers, 24.9K engagements
"@Las______ I did not. It was way way way too weird. Felt almost demonic" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 16:06:31 UTC 43.1K followers, 113K engagements
"Huh it's almost as if sedentarism is not a great way to obtain power. By staking yourself to a single piece of ground your fixed position is your greatest liability. The Khan was right. The ultra-rich are right. The seafaring merchants were right. Real power is nomadic" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-27 15:49:12 UTC 43.1K followers, 6997 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 43.1K followers, 14.6K engagements
"Sometimes I have a few beers and think on Edward Abbey a man I consider to be a true hero. He died in '89 a fact which if he could see what's going on today he'd be glad for. I imagine his disgust at the turns this country's taken. I feel just as disgusted. RIP to a legend" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 02:37:10 UTC 43.1K followers, 8215 engagements
""Class" isn't about money. It's about "unwritten rules" that simply cannot be learned except by growing up in a family that wordlessly imparts them or by sycophantic levels of effrontery. If you don't know the unwritten rules just own it. Accept your station with dignity" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-27 02:30:05 UTC 43.1K followers, 32.2K engagements
"@KangJesseJames This is interesting is this the only instance of this kind of thing or are there more" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-25 02:13:30 UTC 42.6K followers, XX 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 42.7K followers, 1987 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 43.1K followers, 54.4K engagements
"@kemmishTree @Aggroed001 I should make a LinkedIn account just to do this" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 21:12:04 UTC 43.1K followers, XX engagements
"The net effect of these kinds of weird development schemes is that the only ones doing the developing are the ones who know what's what. There's nothing intuitive about 'development' in our current regulatory climate. Average Joe is excluded; BlackRock terraforms the country" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-05-28 01:52:52 UTC 43.1K followers, 5557 engagements
"@RoguesPhilo that's insane what'd they make of you" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 16:21:22 UTC 43.1K followers, 1111 engagements
"@Glyph_of_Doom Yes to almost no avail. I know of maybe one guy who has moved here because of my efforts. Most traditional Catholics want a low-tax pro-gun low-reg state for very understandable reasons. So in spite of the obscenely low cost of real estate they're not interested" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-26 22:21:58 UTC 43.1K followers, XXX engagements