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# ![@shagbark_hick Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1392919510550663171.png) @shagbark_hick 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗

𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 posts on X about all the, mexico, has been, a very 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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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands)  XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[all the](/topic/all-the) #1635, [mexico](/topic/mexico) #1962, [has been](/topic/has-been) #1119, [a very](/topic/a-very) #356, [twitter](/topic/twitter) #2661, [niagara falls](/topic/niagara-falls) #11, [argentina](/topic/argentina) #455, [candle](/topic/candle) 0.26%, [$1280mo](/topic/$1280mo) #1, [live on](/topic/live-on) #2634

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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"In spite of having been on here for years I am only just now really figuring out that a majority X users cannot comprehend nuance and think more in terms of "signaling and counter-signaling" than anything else. I will give an example. If I say "though I enjoy bananas I find that the types of people who eat bananas are now and again taken with leaving their banana peels on the street which I find to be very unfortunate" -- all hell will break loose on here amongst the banana-eaters. I am NOT saying that ALL banana-eating people are bad nor that there is anything intrinsically wrong with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978944429550432569) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T22:01Z 48K followers, 51.8K engagements


"America isn't an idea. It's home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977536697005949192) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T00:47Z 47.8K followers, 15.2K engagements


"If you see someone espousing anti-immigration sentiments while also being vehemently opposed to actually doing any of the things that immigrants are doing -- they're either a psyop account or someone who got "got" by a psyop. Oppose immigration sure But also take the job in Western Kansas buy the house in rural PA open the convenience store in Tuscaloosa Alabama. If the Pakistanis and Venezuelans are doing it -- show up wherever they might and beat them at their own game. Get there while the getting's good; show them how a native-born American kicks ass works hard buys up property and WINS."  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977038288352354669) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T15:47Z 48K followers, 1.2M engagements


"There are really only three "actually Catholic" parts of the USA: X. South Louisiana X. "La Frontera" X. New Mexico I find that other regions with XX% Catholics are generally moribund bastions of a once-great Catholic culture. The Eastern Seaboard counties Northern NY chunks of the Midwest hotspots of French-speaking culture in northern NH and ME -- the old bones of a Catholic culture do exist there but they're basically in their death throes. While isolated hotspots do exist the true bastions of living active thriving Catholic culture are mostly in one of the three regions I highlight here."  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978523117170348064) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T18:07Z 48K followers, 23.2K engagements


"@STDillon Ilion's just rough man. There's some really sad dark energy around there -- especially lately after Remington shut down. Now there's no reason to be there and all the nastiness of Herkimer is boiling over into that town. Sad place. I'd live there myself but I'm nuts lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975733497617953015) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-08T01:22Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements


"I have no idea what this Bishop has ever said or done but I do know that when I lived on the US-Mexico border in the Sonoran Desert I found human remains out in the desert several times -- including the skull of a child. Whatever you think of migration policy it's a lethal business down there with the coyotes and so forth. The desert is killing people there because of their irregular crossings. The cartel has sleepers in every US Gov't agency; you do not know who you can and cannot trust. The humanitarian thing to do is to adapt policies that make irregular crossings inconceivable -- this is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976340294137159865) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-09T17:33Z 47.9K followers, 68.6K engagements


"But I'll add this: I subscribe to the "watershed" theory of culture. It's extremely real -- once you cross into a new drainage basin the people and the land change often quite suddenly. And the line between drainage to the Saint Lawrence / Lake Ontario / Black River and Lake Champlain is a major cultural boundary to me even within NY. Once you go east into Clinton County NY something definitely "shifts." Probably imperceptible to outsiders but it feels very real to me and numerous others familiar with the area. Even my wife has noticed it. If any part of NY feels "like New England" it's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1974835321297621311) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-05T13:53Z 47.8K followers, 36.7K engagements


"I don't know but I believe I am not alone when I say that if forced to choose I'd choose a low trust low conformity society over a high trust high conformity society. I have no tolerance for social conformity whatsoever which I believe is a very American trait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978856914688577890) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T16:13Z 48K followers, 14.4K engagements


"@RussianPapist they literally do especially in urban Churches where Masses are going on numerous times each day. saw it all the time in NYC and New Orleans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978844811932192849) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T15:25Z 48K followers, 1121 engagements


"Across all of history at least XX% of all Christians who have ever lived worshipped Jesus Christ in the Roman Catholic Latin Mass. Likely more. This makes the Latin Mass the most common form of Christian worship in all of human history. Quite an incredible thing to ponder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977141882888372434) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T22:38Z 48K followers, 52.9K engagements


"If I became Eastern Orthodox my life would get a lot easier. Could probably just start up a mission Parish right here in my village with a great Liturgy. Heck I might even be able to discern the Priesthood But my conscience will not allow it for a long list of reasons that mostly generate opprobrium when I talk about them online. I almost hate talking about it because of this but I do find discourse with the EO set to be worthwhile. Namely I am a big proponent of the Luke XX argument for Roman primacy. Simon's special role to "strengthen his brethren" seems to be of note -- and that he would"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975316063295263093) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-06T21:43Z 48K followers, 138.8K engagements


"It would be genuinely incredible if even a single European country went back to being a *real* monarchy again. Certainly would be a moment of world-historical significance. No modern democratic-nation state has ever done it but once one did others might follow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977887200659345830) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-14T00:00Z 48K followers, 68.1K engagements


"Christ repeatedly admonished us to care for the poor and hungry -- but what do we do if where we live there are not so many hungry people nor any who are living in anything like the poverty of Biblical times Lately I am thinking that we minister to the lonely and suicidal. This is another kind of hunger another kind of poverty and it is killing people. Depression anxiety loneliness drug addiction and suicide are plagues on our country -- particularly among the youth. Perhaps the best way we can carry out the mission Christ gave us is to nourish the souls of those who suffer in these ways; by"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975246590458593383) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-06T17:07Z 47.8K followers, 12.2K engagements


"@MitraHispana Christ is King; we're already living in a Monarchy. If we must have civil authority let us have a leader who will make even the barest attempt at buttressing the sovereign Kingship of Christ. Democracy is a sure-shot way to increase sin in the world there is no question there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977906828840149095) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-14T01:18Z 47.8K followers, 1184 engagements


"This is a fantastic point and a LARGE part of why Catholicism is so great for men. In many other traditions a man submits to nothing but his own private interpretation of the Bible which can vary wildly and can change. There is not a visible coherent higher authority that can take him to task if he errs or strays or does something crazy. There is no "rudder" or thread of legitimate authority larger than him. A husband can justify all kinds of insane behavior by misusing Holy Scripture; we have seen many cult leaders abusers and general nutcases do exactly this. But in Catholicism (as with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978089759030342046) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-14T13:25Z 48K followers, 40.6K engagements


"@ZyMazza True Though who has more national influence -- me or the Mayor of Niagara Falls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979182959681839577) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T13:49Z 48K followers, XX engagements


"OK I am ready for this "Indian Summer" thing to be over with already. It's driving me nuts. Bring on the GLOOM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975340551483629575) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-06T23:21Z 47.9K followers, 9649 engagements


"@kodanagain Man I absolutely loved it there. Dramatic water on the river bar great salmon perfect weather. Everyone was very friendly to me when I stayed out at Cape D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975580990241173640) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-07T15:16Z 47.8K followers, 2021 engagements


"I'm not gonna lie some part of me would be tickled to buy a 23rd-floor riverview apartment in Detroit. They're really almost startlingly cheap for what they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977737638682460638) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T14:06Z 48K followers, 42K engagements


"@whiteg0y Come visit seriously. We take guests from Twitter all the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979215226852479264) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T15:57Z 48K followers, XX engagements


"@GB3333333333 The real question is: Can you beat them anyway even with the deck stacked against you If you're really better than them -- you can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977059137671270780) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T17:10Z 48K followers, 53.1K engagements


"By the way folks if you're actually interested in moving to NNY don't ask me for links and listings and all of that. Come up here and have a beer with me. My DM's are open and I'm here all winter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976018120633643458) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-08T20:13Z 47.8K followers, 23.4K engagements


"@williecore94956 Christ very likely wandered across Asia to preach sometime between the age of XX and 30"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977894703874887991) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-14T00:30Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Americans if you HAD to leave the USA what would your first-choice country be to move to Mine would very likely be Argentina hands down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976338416024584518) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-09T17:26Z 48K followers, 34.9K engagements


"Which way Western man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977449246006907132) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-12T19:00Z 47.8K followers, 16.2K engagements


"@johnddavidson Congrats -- you are probably a normal fellow. As someone who is extremely "weird" it could be true that I notice things that you might never notice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978831431594901565) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T14:32Z 48K followers, 7526 engagements


"Any enterprising American can "find work" anywhere that he has the following things: X. An extremely low cost of living X. An internet connection X. Access to the US Postal Service I have seen absolute rednecks build $150k+ online businesses by selling garbage to rich people online. I have seen guys with very basic full-remote customer service jobs save enough to buy serious real estate. I've met several guys who grow obscure plants (like rare Chinese medicinal herbs) to sell online. I've seen people create tourism businesses in the middle of nowhere out of nothing just by good marketing. As"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978641829235999102) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T01:59Z 48K followers, 19.2K engagements


"@cb_huckabee The problem with this schema is that it does not allow for curious passers-by to just wander into the Church as-is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978834566421819624) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T14:45Z 48K followers, 5208 engagements


"This actually isn't a bad idea. I'd gladly consider something like this. Dorothy Day was a big part of my return to the Church; Catholic Worker movement really planted a seed in me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979247407968772539) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T18:05Z 48K followers, 4027 engagements


"@diefortheflower Like I said -- there is no paradise on this earth. You're either shoveling snow stepping over junkies or hiding from the hurricanes. Everyone pays his pound of flesh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978509555400097998) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T17:13Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"@waysyoucanstay What do you wax it with Just regular candle wax or what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976435519690362908) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-09T23:52Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@luke_brocks Cajun country is like heaven man. If it weren't for the humid heat I'd live there in a heartbeat. Served in the USCG in New Orleans East lived in Da Parish constantly drove out to Houma Grand Isle Abbeville Dulac"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978525478832013639) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T18:16Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"I have also had this realization and it has frankly made large portions of the USA basically intolerable to me. I just can't stand places where everything is "on the up-and-up." The places where informality rules; where a kind of haphazard 'roughed-in' cash-only quality is the going concern -- that's where the last "real" places in America are. For it to really work there does also have to be some kind of life in the place some kind of vigor. The more the better. A place where people actually do live and have kids and work and build things -- but where every element of life is just much more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977769914384470081) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T16:14Z 47.8K followers, 27.5K engagements


"@SteveGrant1862 Can I ask how old you are I'm XX and I still feel the pull of the road. I don't think it's some stupid immature fantasy it feels very much like a natural outgrowth of the total death of my homeland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978501571458523465) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T16:41Z 48K followers, XX engagements


"I always wonder how any Catholic converts to non-Apostolic Churches. The various Orthodox Churches OK I can understand because at least they have the Eucharist. But how do you convince yourself that Christ was just sorta making a vague metaphor when He said "gnaw my flesh" It was the only teaching He taught that made people say "this is a hard teaching" and caused people to leave him at once. He said His Flesh is true food and His Blood is true drink; He said if we don't eat and drink of it we have "no life within us." And He being the Lamb of God was the Passover -- and in the original"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978536734263771547) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T19:01Z 48K followers, 26.4K engagements


"I know of a cabin for sale on a half-acre lease bordering state forest for $20000. And I know of a bank that would give a loan for it with XX% down at X% interest with a credit score of 650+ no appraisal or inspection required. That's $4k down mortgage of $120/mo plus $500/yr for the land lease. The Dollar General six miles away is hiring at $16/hr. Even at part-time that's $1280/mo post-tax -- enough to live on easily. The cabin has electric a well and a wood stove and is on a plowed road. It borders tens of thousands of acres of state forest on which hunting fishing and trapping is legal."  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975554642378408206) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-07T13:31Z 48K followers, 310.7K engagements


"It is strange that Puerto Rico is at almost XX% for welfare recipients -- and yet has the lowest total fertility rate in the USA (at just XXXX children per woman). Don't you get more welfare if you have more kids Why would the folks in PR not be babymaxxing for more bennies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979181935206248794) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T13:45Z 48K followers, 9397 engagements


"@john_st_helen Basically everyone I met in the low desert had zero interest in "rising to the top" -- they mostly wanted to have yard parties with their families which is probably a lot of why people seemed so happy. Safetywise it depends heavily on the town. El Paso is super safe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978512503307935876) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T17:25Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"Absolutely vile news. For Catholics I guess it truly doesn't matter who you vote for -- there are often enough no genuinely pro-life options on the ballot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979215040520520040) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T15:56Z 48K followers, 17.9K engagements


"@RealJoeGaydosh Cathedrals are often amazing for this. You see literally all kinds of Catholics ranging from veiling trads to monks and nuns to ex-punks who are all tatted up. Truly beautiful communities many of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978827598579880216) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T14:17Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"Real Upstate New Yorkers know exactly what these lake temperatures mean. Folks living in the Lake Effect snowbelt may be in for a repeat of last winter. get ready for 12' high snowbanks in Copenhagen and Camden"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978559267335487883) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T20:31Z 48K followers, 8181 engagements


"@BunnyandThorton yes if you must know. There was one non-white person there visiting from Costa Rica. She was a Mennonite"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977043044097806514) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T16:06Z 48K followers, 3727 engagements


"The "wild and crazy freedom" of Latin America seems very often to be rather overstated. I thought the same thing when I read a few months ago that Mendoza Argentina banned drinking yerba mate while driving. Seems there is no escape from the "fun ruiner bureaucrats" on earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978964443850539386) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T23:21Z 48K followers, 13.5K engagements


"So what do you DO I hear a lot of "not fair" and OK lots of what's going on is absolutely nasty and unamerican. No doubt there. But if you are in the prime of your life unpropertied and disenfranchised from attaining your goals for whatever reason -- what do you DO I have a lot of field notes on how to answer that question. There isn't just one way. But there are a lot of excellent options some of which I've tried with success. Those shooting them down never ever seem to provide anything resembling a plan of action except in the rare cases where they imagine all of these disenfranchised"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977139797459083466) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T22:30Z 48K followers, 19.7K engagements


"@TracyPribbenow It often literally is -- if I had to guess most EO converts in the USA are former Evangelicals some Baptists etc. So they bring that culture to the Liturgy both for better and for worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978862825696063634) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T16:37Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"It's kind of funny to think about all the Northerners who after years of complaining about the snow here move to Florida -- just so they or their kids can eventually complain about the Florida heat and rain. Truly there is no paradise on this earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978504195088019573) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T16:52Z 48K followers, 16.2K engagements


"I've purchased an L.L. Bean barn coat from the thrift store -- now I am looking like a North Country real estate mogul. Getting a lot of nods of respect at the local gas station. I suspect I'll be getting land deal offers randomly from now on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976418305150996699) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-09T22:43Z 48K followers, 25.1K engagements


"@CJ_Haslett I used to live in Slab City. I also used to live on the edge of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and on Butternut St in Syracuse. Enjoyed all of them far more than any high trust place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978888258093240532) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T18:18Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"It is as if I live in a curated Museum of Rural Collapse where the exhibits are changed every quarter or so. Here we have an old hunting camp formerly owned by an aluminum worker at Alcoa in Massena -- freshly demolished. Though it suffered no structural damage during the superlative snows of the 2024-25 winter season it was scuttled anyway. God knows why or what the owners intend to do with this rough little lot (which I believe is a lease and may not be able to be rebuilt on owing to an obscure sort of treaty with a now-defunct railroad company). Now -- a heap of trash sits in the woods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977917013667303503) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-14T01:58Z 48K followers, 7226 engagements


"@dpheneghan1 True I should start handing out coloring books so we can do a cry-in about how hard life is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977071632289304886) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T17:59Z 48K followers, 23.6K engagements


"Realistically any vision of "reviving a small rural town" requires several things: X. A "core" of perhaps six men working in concert X. A town with very-very-cheap real estate and *ample* cheap housing X. The six men making a pact to all buy property at the same time -- and vowing to stay for X years at least X. The six men also working to obtain influence in local institutions (town council police force utilities downtown businesses) X. The six men agreeing to keep things absolutely quiet until they've acquired real estate -- and then boosting the town by name in their respective online"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979187449277358392) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T14:07Z 48K followers, 19.3K engagements


"Possibly the wildest option on this map is Bill WY pop X. It's a town that only exists because railroads must give breaks for crew members every X hours and I guess Bill is the place for that. I really do like the idea of living in some isolated place full of transients just passing through. Bill has got a hotel-diner and that's about it. It's XX minutes north of Douglas -- and that's a 34-minute drive through absolutely desolate prairie and nothing else. If I were there I'd rent one of the storefronts turn it into some kind of a tavern with no regular hours make it a bizarro destination for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975598454534771129) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-07T16:25Z 48K followers, 92K engagements


"This describes a lot of daily beer drinkers including me. 100-proof and I have a long dark history. When I switched to beer it was a big deal. Like "woah Hickman's cooled down isn't nuts anymore" etc. To then get chided by anti-alcohol absolutists on here for having a few beers most nights seems retarded. I'm a free man in a free country doing something that is completely normal everywhere but in neo-prohibitionist Zoomerland. I've known many men in their 80's and 90's who always drank as much as I drink. I get the sense a lot of the hardcore anti-alcohol Zoomers have no sense of how much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1953236880163541160) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-08-06T23:28Z 48K followers, 33.2K engagements


"@MkMrMny Sorry about Remington. Seriously sad what's happened there. The bones are really good -- it could be a great town. Praying things don't go the way they've gone in Herkimer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975738559727595836) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-08T01:42Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements


"I'm not sure that any part of the United States produces more "wanderers" than Upstate New York. It's a kind of modern-day analogue to what Oklahoma was in the Grapes of Wrath. If you sit at the gas stations a while on the major routes you'll periodically see minivans packed with belongings barefoot kids unshaven men driving U-Hauls women talking on the telephone asking "what's the weather like there right now" and so on. I have heard of at least one entire neighborhood enclave in Syracuse just pulling up the stakes and moving to one subdivision in Florida all at once. I know of Upstaters now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978489863600038284) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T15:55Z 48K followers, 8419 engagements


"@SolBigdadd64070 True I know a lot of people on the East Coast used to say similar things about the Western Frontier. - Native American alone XXXX% - Scalping rate per 1000 residents: 20%+ - Chances of being a victim of violent crime: insanely high Then again those who went anyway WON"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977041799949787359) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T16:01Z 48K followers, 10.7K engagements


"No more anti-Western propaganda. No more WHINING. I'm not gonna listen to spurious theories about how America Europe and the Catholic Church are "lost" or "dying" or "hopeless" ever again. Western Christendom has been the light of the world for over a thousand years. Without it the world descends into barbarism. And as long as there is a single Westerner left and a single Catholic Parish where the candles are still burning -- it is not over. The era where people proclaim that "The West is Lost" is only one long dark fever dream through which the youth of today will awaken again to the reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975923785434894523) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-08T13:58Z 47.8K followers, 21.7K engagements


"I think there is a very big question on the horizon for rural Catholics and Pope Benedict XVI's quote here points to it. So often to be rural is to live in a shrinking decaying world even in secular affairs. To be Catholic is also quite often to inhabit a shrinking world. So the contraction and diminishment are double for the rural Catholic. He sees the worst of the Priest shortage the cancellation of Masses fewer opportunities for Confession and devotions Parish mergers and Church closures -- all as a matter of course. I see this here: Naively I moved to one of the smallest villages in NYS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978813364865253431) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T13:20Z 48K followers, 8430 engagements


"Many people seem not to realize that far Upstate NY has *very* little in common with New England. Far more akin to rural Ontario UP of Michigan etc. Very "Great Lakes" vibe over here. Very Catholic. Few liberals. Cheap rusty gritty -- not "Yankee Candle" quaint. The air is more humid it's more overcast the climate is. "croupy." The people are haggard. The landscapes are "blanker." While Bilbo Baggins would feel right at home in most of New England he'd probably be a little unnerved by this place. Even if things were to gentrify over here (fat chance) they'd look more like say Charlevoix"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1974833614752756073) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-05T13:46Z 48K followers, 55.8K engagements


"I now have more followers on here than there are residents of Niagara Falls NY. It is as if I am the mayor of a digital version of a town that size. Thanks for 48000 folks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979179825462903197) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T13:36Z 48K followers, 7413 engagements


"Many have asked me: "Why orient your whole life such that you have maximum control of your time What's the point Isn't that just selfish" The reasons are simple: X. Daily Mass X. Time with my wife X. Time with my baby X. Serving God If you "lesiuremax" without these you will by default eventually be worse off than if you just lived the workaday life. I know this both from experience and observation. In my long career of doing whatever the hell I want all day long for years on end I have learned a great deal about this. If you're just laying around reading drinking discoursing and fooling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1974531637418340499) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-04T17:46Z 47.8K followers, 17.2K engagements


"America needs more than anything a low-rent haven for thinking people. A town in some far-flung place; walkable with a good Church a little downtown and ample dirt-cheap housing. I'm talking the kind of town where a fellow can land rent a studio for $450/mo lounge at the library on weekdays halfway-unemployed constantly reading and discoursing and taking long walks. A place for a man to write his novel paint his masterpiece work out his ideas slough off his past. Somewhere gritty frigid isolated -- but with a few cozy spots where others like him are continually present where excellent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979197422036529643) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T14:46Z 48K followers, 17K engagements


"Yesterday on the telephone my grandmother told me: "It feels like life in America has lost its color." I said: America is a very big place not all of the country is like it is here in Upstate New York. She asked: "where do things still feel lively" "The US-Mexico border" was my answer. Of everywhere I've been in the USA which to be frank is most of it there's usually a kind of pallor hanging over things. Places are either bereft of life and energy and are actively dying -- or they are hypertrophied giga-commercialized "nowheres" that seem very rich and very inhuman. The only portion of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978502917515534615) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T16:47Z 48K followers, 34.3K engagements


"It may seem strange but with a few exceptions I find the scenery of the Mountain West to be fairly monotonous as compared with the East. This is because there appears to be a lower density of flora out there. If I walk the woods in NY for example there seems to be an infinity of niches -- spruce bogs red maple swamps larch stands beeches maples mixed poplar and pine etc etc. And the forest floor varies *wildly* as well ranging from the edges of beaver meadows to rock moss to bramble and leaf litter and so on. You can't walk a mile in almost any woods here and see the same thing over and over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1959970580238581903) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-08-25T13:26Z 48K followers, 18.9K engagements


"My definitions are not "out of whack." I made this map years ago and while there are a few small changes I'd make I stand behind it. As to whether CNY is Upstate it XXX% is. I grew up there everyone calls it that. Yes there's a line from Elmira to Lake Ontario and everything west of it is WNY and "not Upstate" or so I'm told. I might extend the Western boundary of "Southern Tier" further west to be sure. And I'd call the little nub east of Lake George "basically Vermont." Otherwise the map is good. I stand behind placing Hudson and Catskill in the "downstate" category and believe the line"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1974888243339350456) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-05T17:23Z 48K followers, 25.7K engagements


"Right. When I first returned to the Church about X years ago I was so wounded by the wider world that I clung to aesthetics as a kind of security blanket. But after having my heart ploughed over and renewed by life in the blessed Sacrament I feel less of a need for this kind of thing. I honestly prefer the gritty rough-around-the-edges imperfect Novus Ordo world now (especially when that NO Mass is extremely reverent and not worldly)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978828190106710071) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T14:19Z 48K followers, 7259 engagements


"@Schallskiiiiii @judah47 Dude Camden got HAMMERED this year I was there. Absolutely insane snowfalls. No idea why but the LE snow swung south last winter and Camden and Rome got whacked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978561219490435434) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T20:38Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"I spread optimism because deep down I am depressed and have dealt with a strong relentless sense of hopelessness for many years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977809277340561426) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T18:50Z 48K followers, 85.3K engagements


"I currently live on less than this with a wife and a baby. The key is owning your house outright with no mortgage (only possible in isolated depressed long-winter area) avoiding automobiles and sourcing the absolute cheapest food you possibly can. Most don't want to do this so they are in a position where their desires compel them to earn more money. They want cars easy winters big houses in 'relevant' areas and to buy whatever they want at the market. That's OK it's their choice -- but such people will always be forced to generate large sums of cash money in order to cover their monthly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975604424723615745) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-07T16:49Z 48K followers, 30.2K engagements


"The government is never going to save you. Been strange watching people act as if somehow in spite of all evidence to the contrary a political savior is going to "turn things around." You people ought to know better. The only one who's gonna improve things for you is YOU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977345548697911449) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-12T12:08Z 47.8K followers, 8683 engagements


"There's nothing else like "la frontera" -- once you've lived down there nothing compares. After spending a couple years' worth of time down there I honestly don't think I have enjoyed living anywhere else as much. Perhaps the biggest reason for this is that the people are the friendliest in America at least in my experience. The culture is not "judgy;" no one really cares what you are doing but they are happy to talk to you especially if you have any Spanish. I found limitless opportunities for same-day no-obligations cash-paid labor -- really just about as much as I could ever want. I lived"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978520814803943680) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T17:58Z 48K followers, 38.6K engagements


"I'll say if Upstate NY ever really goes to hell (God forbid) and we have to flee for some reason Aroostook County Maine is our fallback. Quite similar in basically every respect. My wife and I love everything about it up there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976426468491264326) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-09T23:16Z 47.8K followers, 8281 engagements


"Interesting observation and probably true. Hardcore ethno-nationalism and the "make disciples of all nations" charge of the Christian are basically at odds. Only exception seems to be "white man's burden" ideas about noblesse oblige to "lesser" cultures. But oddly this form of nationalism seems to be FAR less popular today than it was for most of early modernity. In fact a lot of the problems of the ethno-racialist American right of today likely stem from the death of noblesse oblige in general. If you subscribe to a basically paternalistic mentality towards your 'inferiors' you can still be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976828977810444314) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T01:55Z 47.8K followers, 13.9K engagements


"If you're under XX you have basically only one real job -- and it's to avoid doing this or anything like it. You should be willing to go to EXTREME lengths to avoid doing this. Literally better off to do and try even the most deliriously insane stuff before trying this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977060078248505546) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T17:13Z 47.8K followers, 40.5K engagements


"@RobertFreundLaw Well actually such low costs of living could allow someone to save an inordinate amount of money very quickly. If you can save $2k/mo and stay for X years you've saved a down payment for a $350000 house. Can't always do that paying rent in a $350k home market"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975592219529593333) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-07T16:01Z 47.9K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Housing market blackpillers take note: This 1440 sq ft 3bd house is for sale for **$40k** in Clairton PA. It's a 30min drive to Pittsburgh and in short commuting distance of an Aldi urgently hiring at $23/hr no experience required. STOP saying the American dream is dead. Yes Clairton is kind of a sad town. Yes there are problems there as with anywhere. But the crime rate is below national average and being 30min from Pittsburgh means you could easily make "real money" within a short drive. Could save oodles of cash in this house because of your low mortgage (or no mortgage) fix it up flip it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977034927255203843) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T15:33Z 48K followers, 94.8K engagements


"Here's a question: As a Catholic who travels often and visits dozens and dozens of Catholic Churches -- WHY do the sung portions of the Mass seem to be sung in a different melody at practically every Church in the country Even at the same Church the melodies might change in an apparently random way week to week often without any clear reason in the Liturgical calendar. The result is tons of people mumbling along or even just being silent even during the most important "participatory" portions of the Mass. Everyone except for a couple of people who are "in the know" regarding these melodies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975919219674943604) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-08T13:40Z 47.8K followers, 22.4K engagements


"Flickers of hope in this place often feel cruel; life in a dying place is a life of "high highs and low lows." Where one Church supper is a bonanza of wholesome hope another is an environment so geriatric you wonder how they put on the dinner without nurses on standby. Today's supper -- at another area Church -- was also quite packed: but it was packed with people who will certainly meet their maker in the next XX years God bless them. No kidding unlike the Mennonite Church -- by 2040 this other Church will certainly be shuttered. And the local school will have no students to teach; it will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977536032082985017) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T00:45Z 47.8K followers, 14.8K engagements


"Up here the people look like muskrats and live like 'em too. The land looks like it forgot to shave. Everyone is so late for work they forgot to get a job to begin with. But they're OLD. The young bucks didn't ever pick up the mantle as true backwoods layabouts. Dunno why -- the pickins are good here. If you want to fart around in the woods tinkering mumbling to yourself wiping your ass with newspaper tippling a little Genny Lite on the ATV this is heaven. In an era where "no one wants to work" this shouldn't be a hard sell. Because here yeah there might be a lot of disability unemployment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977872951773933665) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T23:03Z 48K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Perhaps my greatest gripe with the Latin Mass world is that in about half of TLM Churches I've attended this woman would be viewed with extreme suspicion -- because much of the TLM world has a basically petit-bourgeois culture of "keeping up appearances." I have noticed that even if I wear a nice suit jacket comb my beard wear a decent pair of boots and so on many of the Parishioners at the various TLM's I've been to are leery of me. They ask what I do for work and my answer makes them fret. Or in the event they're familiar with my writings (or my past) a sizable portion of TLM-goers have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978810050283008235) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T13:07Z 48K followers, 484.7K engagements


"@Teianvs I'm a big El Paso fan and honestly if I moved to a large US city it'd be at the top of my list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978514117712371864) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T17:31Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"I had no idea about this. In 1910 Manhattan's population was 2300000. In 2025 it's 1600000. That's a XX% drop. Average rent in LES in 1910 was $10-13/mo or in 2025 dollars about $430/mo. Today median rent in LES is $5398. Fascinating economics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975737944381268329) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-08T01:40Z 48K followers, 83.2K engagements


"Man you just don't see root beer barrel candies anymore. Truly an elite-tier candy. I think it's time they made a much-needed comeback"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1976436284651721145) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-09T23:55Z 48K followers, 13.8K engagements


"@disasterchief For me it is a little too developed for me to want to actually live in. The boomer "golf course" set that's there makes it feel a little too much like normal America IMO. I prefer the valley from Sahuarita to Nogales or for a big border city El Paso or Yuma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978529412967530519) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T18:32Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"@GeraldcHasty I would probably have to leave NNY to find it unfortunately. We are considering it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977838416898527245) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T20:46Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Perhaps the most demoralizing thing about American life is that there's just an absolute dearth of suitable outlets in which a thinking man can have a high-minded conversation with thinking people. Much has been said about the death of the public square not to speak of the pub -- the cafes the universities most of the Churches all the metro-area hubs for literate intellectually-minded types it's all a big nothing now. Been paved over shut down watered down turned into some kind of empty spectacle or a cartoon. All gone. So a thinking man turns to the internet. In the days of BBS's it wasn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979014464985850048) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T02:39Z 48K followers, 38.4K engagements


"If you're still getting your hands bloodied by the sharp fronds along the trunk of the date tree by your third day of working on the date plantation you're not cut out for the job. "Dating" just isn't your line of work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978540259097890857) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T19:15Z 48K followers, 6983 engagements


"In NY ten years of "open and notorious" occupation of a property you do not own can win you title via adverse possession. I have no idea why it isn't more common especially here in the land of abandoned properties. Could be the final solution to the "housing crisis" in many areas of the US though squatting is presently much-maligned because of numerous abuses of adverse possession law. Yes -- when tenants overstay their lease do not pay rent and claim "squatter's rights" it's abominable and wrong. When squatters occupy property that is very obviously not abandoned as with camps and new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978618946967502931) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T00:28Z 48K followers, 27.5K engagements


"If I were ever to move to New York City I'd certainly choose to live in the southernmost portion of Staten Island. I have no idea why Staten Island is so poorly rated by so many people in NYC. I used to work out there and was absolutely amazed by everything about it. Old-school ethnic neighborhoods still thriving friendly people (many with the "old NYC accents") very quiet great beaches nice pubs good Italian food relatively inexpensive housing (for NYC) and just an hour and a half to anywhere you'd want to go in Manhattan or Brooklyn. Seemed to me like an excellent way of life all the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1974831067677720788) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-05T13:36Z 47.8K followers, 21.3K engagements


"Many young Americans are getting interested in Eastern Orthodoxy. The Roman Catholic Church should respond by opening up as many Eastern Catholic mission Churches as possible around the USA -- and they should do so immediately. If the youth want the East give it to them I say But give it to them in full Communion with the Bishop of Rome. Pictures related: Catholic Churches in the USA with the identical Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975342923056365960) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-06T23:30Z 48K followers, 180.6K engagements


"@MauiPace I don't want to raise kids who are a part of the human monoculture so no. Not interested in taking kids to Panera after soccer practice and SAT prep in a community of phony strivers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1979200997265199258) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-17T15:01Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"Living out in open fields is vastly underrated. I've spent a lot of my life living in the woods and while it has its charms the giant ocean-like view one obtains by living in a world of pastures and fields is sublime. It's quite like standing by the ocean; there's a wistful kind of "infinity" about it. You watch the weather change from miles away and see the full spectrum from raging storms to delicate snowy mornings -- with a very humbling full 360-degree view all around you. What's not to like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975210499777196323) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-06T14:44Z 47.9K followers, 12.1K engagements


"@RokoMijic Similar things were said about many of the people Jesus Himself associated with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978857966280352183) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T16:17Z 48K followers, 3058 engagements


"If this is true the art and literature of the mid-2000's may very well suck even more than you already guessed it would. Dubai seems very nice for a lot of things but it seems patently unlikely that the production of great art music and literature would be one of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978643529413877859) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T02:05Z 48K followers, 10.7K engagements


"@TEE_nis @BigBivenski What do you make of X Cor 1:10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978200390379221272) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-14T20:45Z 47.9K followers, XX engagements


"I actually think it'd be a great idea if they made all of our politicians live in one giant filthy trailer park on the outskirts of Ilion NY. Salary reduced to EBT levels. No politician can drive a car that can pass NYS inspection -- must have frame rot rust issues. Mice eating the trailer insulation pipes freezing periodically their kids are getting into being gothic redneck Juggaloes and smoking Seneca cigs at the playground -- the whole nine yards. If this happened America could actually get better and it might get better very quickly. For a democracy to work there can't be some phony fake"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975729817183306039) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-08T01:07Z 48K followers, 44.3K engagements


"Same. It might take a century to smooth out the way it is implemented but I thank God for Vatican II -- and I believe that once its worst excesses are curtailed the Church will flourish because of it. Actually reading the documents changed my mind about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978830701148459186) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T14:29Z 48K followers, 29.6K engagements


"Sometimes I wake up and I still can't believe my profoundly good fortune. Wasn't that long ago that I was a bachelor with no prospects broke miserable quite certain I'd die a recluse. Twitter changed that. You people changed that. So please accept my heartfelt gratitude: Without the support and encouragement you've all given me God knows where I'd be today. This site led me to my wife it led me to make great friends and it allowed us to be hosted here and there in our travels with wonderful folks all across this country. It's also unexpectedly led me to a writing career. Those of you who've"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1945504133060116961) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-07-16T15:21Z 48K followers, 248.9K engagements


"@superfluous_man @harold_bracy Vibrant chaos in America is really almost always just "Mexico but American-style" I find"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977867825889923462) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T22:43Z 47.8K followers, XXX engagements


"This is absolutely true. The POINT of Twitter is to say wild things and to just generally let your freak flag fly. If you're not doing that and spend your time chastising people with nutty opinions on here -- you're doing it wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978505939280924838) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T16:59Z 48K followers, 7096 engagements


"Was thinking this same thing just last night. Went to a local Mennonite Church where they put on a gigantic harvest supper for the community. There were probably over XXX people there; tons of children Amish Mennonites Catholics Baptists all mixed. Most everyone was dressed modestly -- we all said an Our Father together ate turkey and pie and ice cream. The place was clean nice beautiful and everyone was respectfully discussing local concerns family news the drought and so on. No drama no fighting nothing crazy. The choir sang a series of rousing renditions of old hymns and they sang"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977015946645483964) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T14:18Z 48K followers, 187.1K engagements


"A map of where I'd move to if I for some reason had to move to a given US State"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1975577704784404953) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-07T15:03Z 48K followers, 150.9K engagements


"@EleanorKonik Not a bad spot close to San Antonio which is really a top-5 American city IMO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978505130451357888) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-15T16:55Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"@strifenjustice Right I just couldn't do it. If I had to pick between Norway and Africa or New England and Mexico -- I know what I'd be choosing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1978857641339134040) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-16T16:16Z 48K followers, XXX engagements


"Why have I felt hopelessness Because I find it extremely difficult to make friends and see no path toward finding myself in anything resembling a stable lasting sort of community. As a boy I was a loner; as a teen I watched my family fall apart. Later I watched my town die and traveled the country only to find that a large proportion of America seemed to have become some sort of a high-tech digitized surveilled commercialized hellscape. The idea of America I had grown up with was by and large a fantasy from the distant past. When I joined the military I thought I'd find brotherhood and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977814172948701582) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-13T19:10Z 48K followers, 51.4K engagements


"The funniest thing about all the "unpopular opinion meme" posts is that if you post an actually truly genuinely unpopular opinion you will be absolutely lambasted. But if you post a completely normal opinion you will do very well with this meme. Counterintuitive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1977068667449098396) [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) 2025-10-11T17:47Z 48K followers, 6623 engagements