[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 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 posts on X about money, heartland, united states, hardcore the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1950 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +104% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +82% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/posts_active)  - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX +34% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.72% - X Month XXXXXX +2.30% - X Months XXXXXX +12% - X Year XXXXXX +38% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #7154 [finance](/list/finance) #5000 [stocks](/list/stocks) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [nfts](/list/nfts) **Social topic influence** [money](/topic/money) #2094, [heartland](/topic/heartland), [united states](/topic/united-states) #1670, [hardcore](/topic/hardcore), [mali](/topic/mali), [campers](/topic/campers), [pope](/topic/pope), [limitless](/topic/limitless), [$20hr](/topic/$20hr), [$319yr](/topic/$319yr) **Top assets mentioned** [Terraforms by Mathcastles (Terraforms)](/topic/terraforms) [BlackRock Inc (BLK)](/topic/blackrock) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1392919510550663171/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Nice spot for sale up in Ross ND. 2100 sq ft 2bd X bath. Retail space up front. Asking $50k taxes $319/yr. 10min away the county's hiring a maintenance man at $20+/hr FT with full benefits. Limitless possibilities in North Dakota. What a great state"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1940550787639529910) 2025-07-02 23:18:56 UTC 41.5K followers, 898.2K engagements "Imagine: no delirious 24-hour news cycle about idiot politicians all lying through their teeth. No awkward Thanksgiving family drama over fake politics that don't matter. Just chilling praying cleaning your AK-47 drinking tea with your brethren in the mountains"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946593263063822603) 2025-07-19 15:29:34 UTC 41.5K followers, 10K engagements "@hammerofvision Eastern Dobsonfly. Never really saw them on the Tug Hill that much as a kid but up here they're out in full force"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946026541357338704) 2025-07-18 01:57:37 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements "This might be a long shot but does anyone know if a decent source for camel or yak wool fabric in the United States Or do they have a XXX% reputable international source I am in the market for some. Thank you"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945213730335170970) 2025-07-15 20:07:48 UTC 41.5K followers, 7150 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 41.5K followers, 3732 engagements "@Jim670275613011 Depends heavily on where you go. Trader Joes in Brooklyn Yeah that's probably locked. Aldi's in Petoskey MI I'd bet money it's not locked or posted"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946977823156994077) 2025-07-20 16:57:40 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements "One of the coolest TV shows ever was Huell Howser's California's Gold. The guy is just plain likeable. He's wandering around California showing viewers the weird and wonderful history of his home state. Absolute best "American travel' show of all time. Few know it outside CA"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945605136409055407) 2025-07-16 22:03:06 UTC 41.5K followers, 15K 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 41.5K followers, 5555 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 41.5K followers, 106.5K engagements "@Kadingis Where are you seeing that price I'd gladly purchase some"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946598074001866808) 2025-07-19 15:48:41 UTC 41.5K followers, 1517 engagements "If a fellow wanted to call a Jihad against the Patels and start taking back the motels of the heartland where would he begin"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1944918219481079995) 2025-07-15 00:33:33 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.7K engagements "This is exactly what immigrants are really really good at doing. Except they exponentiate the process even more by doing it with extended family. And the funniest thing is that the hardcore anti-immigration people are the ones who would NEVER do this seethe over it etc. They're above moving to Garden City KS but when Southwestern Kansas gets taken over by Latinos doing exactly what Murray describes here they're enraged. They seem to want a future with zero migration dirt-cheap food and products and artificially-deflated real estate prices in top-20 zip codes. It's a juvenile fantasy and"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1942952949325402245) 2025-07-09 14:24:16 UTC 41.5K followers, 68.2K 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 41.5K followers, 714.2K 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 41.5K followers, 17.1K engagements "@hate4dayzz True it'd be better if I could virtue signal how "based" I am by gladly getting bit by stray German shepherds wherever possible. That's what a real American would do right"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946595551635534048) 2025-07-19 15:38:40 UTC 41.5K followers, 24.2K engagements "Incredible to believe the *median* age in 1820 was just XXXX years old. Only X nations on earth are now at or below that number: Niger (15.1) Uganda (16.1) Angola (16.2) Mali (16.3) and Chad (16.5). Hard to imagine a version of America with Nigerien levels of youth"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1943845525117452338) 2025-07-12 01:31:02 UTC 41.5K followers, 4786 engagements "The endlessly complicated and granular sense of guilt and obligation that middle-class white people seem to feel about everything has been a complete disaster. It's lowering the birthrate it's demographical suicide for whites and it's resulted in a bureaucratized world of expectations and rules far beyond those required to have a civilized society. This group seemed to take rules and norms that work very well and are wise to employ in moderation and cranked them to the absolute maximum with devastating results. They perfected decency and civilization only to overdo it so badly that they're at"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946287196161339719) 2025-07-18 19:13:22 UTC 41.5K followers, 5774 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 41.5K followers, 74.8K 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 41.5K followers, 124K engagements "I'll never get it either. OK you disagree with some doctrines you're not Catholic whatever that's your choice. But to be feverishly adversarial toward the Church that has brought the Gospel to more human beings than any other group seems absurd and even juvenile"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946604077699260492) 2025-07-19 16:12:32 UTC 41.5K followers, 10.1K engagements "@DaringAmerican2 Because why not do it here We have GIANT public desert lands with unlimited free camping gun rights even limited grazing rights for campers' "pack animals." Our Western deserts are screaming for something like this. We need the deserts to get even weirder"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946619101104775615) 2025-07-19 17:12:14 UTC 41.5K followers, 2219 engagements "It should not take XX months and $8000 in permits to build a pole barn in America. Why don't there seem to be any politicians who are actively trying to change this stuff"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945156170655686906) 2025-07-15 16:19:04 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.4K engagements "False. Because we're also getting the most out of life all winter too. We just get more out of life all the way around. It's hardcore beach swimming and cookouts all summer snowmobiling and skiing all winter. We don't have a "sit inside all day because it's too hot" season"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945521962165448766) 2025-07-16 16:32:36 UTC 41.5K followers, 4240 engagements "We're thinking about doing a "Hickman's Hinterlands Roadshow." Tiny town to tiny town meeting readers wherever we can. Bonfires in the desert speeches at the Super X conference rooms luncheons at McD's by the interstate. see what happens. Like "redneck Chautauquas""  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945544531748790437) 2025-07-16 18:02:17 UTC 41.5K followers, 15.3K 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 41.5K followers, 18.1K 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 41.5K followers, 4630 engagements "@GeringerAdam @MonthlyTiger Not bad I'll say I was actually blown away when I first read that NC has higher mountains than the entire Northeast. Still want to make it to Mount Mitchell NC I think that'd be fascinating to see"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947302857771733002) 2025-07-21 14:29:15 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements "just remembered that Europeans dont have random swaths of endless uninhabited desert wasteland that they can go and visit"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945854324829008219) 2025-07-17 14:33:17 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.3K engagements "That's why I mow my lawn with one of these things. Quiet free to use low maintenance artful. You can't beat the classic reel mower and frankly if your yard is too big to mow with one -- you should probably let it go to woods"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1923482752801771840) 2025-05-16 20:56:39 UTC 41.5K followers, 19.1K engagements "Actual "f*ck you money" is a lot simpler than this. A person has it any time they are earning more than 8x their monthly expenses AND has complete control of 95%+ of their waking hours. This is true at any income level. Most people who have this in the USA this are homeless or are living in extremely marginal areas. Intensely frugal woodsmen hoboes migrant workers or residents of dirt-cheap heartland regions are often succeeding at this. If you want "f*ck you money" AND central air microwaveable frozen foods big SUV's high-end healthcare retirement plans and giant houses in top-25 areas"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947306833330290919) 2025-07-21 14:45:02 UTC 41.5K followers, 10.2K 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 41.6K followers, XXX engagements "@BestHaasDelgado I am a pitbull genocide promoter"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946738831119589591) 2025-07-20 01:08:00 UTC 41.5K followers, 6310 engagements "@jcenters Right I remember when bad dogs went to the POUND. Why'd we stop doing this Why'd we stop doing this right around the same time we stopped putting criminals in JAIL Some big psychological shift occurred"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946591357138579538) 2025-07-19 15:22:00 UTC 41.5K followers, 8061 engagements "I wonder if Protestants will ever start using AI to interpret Scripture. It'd make sense as the central tension within Protestantism seems to be the absence of a definite clarifying authority on the problem of Scriptural interpretation. In lieu of the Pope Grok fills in"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945871081971003540) 2025-07-17 15:39:53 UTC 41.5K followers, 4936 engagements "@BellicoseBestie False. You could move practically anywhere in the small-town heartland and get around this"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945140982074196084) 2025-07-15 15:18:43 UTC 41.5K 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 41.6K followers, 61.4K 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 41.5K followers, 11K engagements "@devinsrose Yeah I'd never take a cruise like this. Maybe one of the actually interesting ones like up to Greenland or a transatlantic on the Queen Mary. But a party cruise with water slides and Mai Tais Sounds awful to me"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947469448236949831) 2025-07-22 01:31:13 UTC 41.5K followers, XX engagements "@Jamal8969 That's why it's wise never to go to two incomes in the first place. Frankly I find the idea of my wife submitting to a boss outside the home to be appalling. I'd rather be dirt poor than ever suffer that"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946280847528616034) 2025-07-18 18:48:08 UTC 41.5K followers, XX engagements "@the_UrbanWolf Sure if you can save more than the $112000 elsewhere you're right. And if you wouldn't benefit from X years of prayer fitness and study nor from learning about an incredible part of the American heartland it's doubly true"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1944447195421213016) 2025-07-13 17:21:52 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX 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 41.5K followers, 9606 engagements "One of the toughest things going forward is going to be raising boys into real men. Everything's illegal everyone's watching every activity is structured regulated -- the default for boys and young men today is to be a pussy because anything else is now against the rules"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1944059480968507859) 2025-07-12 15:41:13 UTC 41.5K followers, 28.5K engagements "Sedentary peoples have a massive Achilles' heel: They've got their assets manifest labor and sentimental attachments bundled up into one giant taxable extremely-hard-to-move package. If instability is on the horizon you cannot beat the tried and true combination of a sturdy tent a few goats an AK-47 a couple motorbikes and a tolerance for Spartan conditions in dry desolate places. Nimble light on your feet responsive to threats in real time. Pull up the stakes any minute. Perhaps my wildest prediction is that this will make a comeback globally -- even in North America. The "digital nomad""  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946370950955475334) 2025-07-19 00:46:11 UTC 41.5K followers, 4858 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 41.5K followers, XXX engagements "@YIMBYLAND Saint Louis for the Catholic culture. Fargo for the nicest people in the world. El Paso for the happiest people in the USA"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946548034378015230) 2025-07-19 12:29:51 UTC 41.5K followers, 2643 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 41.5K followers, XXX engagements "@gildedatlas True a good person gets bit by a dog and thinks: "aw what a nice little doggie""  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946597790986981391) 2025-07-19 15:47:34 UTC 41.5K followers, 40.2K engagements "@fiveshorttables Pope Leo addresses the Nomadic Tribes of St Mary of Egypt"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946621558752952449) 2025-07-19 17:22:00 UTC 41.5K followers, 1153 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 41.5K followers, 55.7K engagements "In Valley City ND this house is for rent at $600/mo. A few miles out of town there's a railroad hiring track laborers at $30/hr -- that's $1000/wk at full time. The opportunities in ND are unreal. Could be saving $28k/yr if you were frugal. If people did "tours of duty" in places like ND they'd be doing themselves and the whole country a real service. Imagine heading up to Valley City for a 4-year "enlistment" where you live in this house work on that railroad live on the cheapest food adopt a disposition of intense financial austerity. . and come out of it with $112000 cash. That's a down"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1944437924390420762) 2025-07-13 16:45:01 UTC 41.5K followers, 101K 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 41.5K followers, 5316 engagements "@arenrlebrun No he's objectively correct for the most part. In the Western US OK maybe he's not quite right; real estate is absurdly expensive in XX% of the West even outside cities. But in the rest of the country No he's absolutely spot on"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1942948903667601416) 2025-07-09 14:08:11 UTC 41.5K followers, 2410 engagements "@MonthlyTiger I absolutely love Appalachia and you're right it's very very different from the Deep South. This post is about "the flat South." Once you get into high hills and mountains I do admire those areas a great deal (but I still probably wouldn't visit in summertime)"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947301640706400380) 2025-07-21 14:24:24 UTC 41.5K followers, 3372 engagements "Always been true. The psychology of sedentism largely consists of: "If you're not settled working paying taxes and bills and complaining about working and paying taxes and bills -- you're a subhuman we will chase starve out and hunt to the edges of the earth." True even where nomadic peoples are not criminals are respectful productive self-reliant and steer clear of interfering with the lives of settled peoples. Part of sedentism involves having a massive chip on your shoulder against anyone who manages to evade the piss-poor fate of rising to the alarm punching the clock staying in one place"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946689587574612396) 2025-07-19 21:52:20 UTC 41.5K followers, 9973 engagements "@VetSalutes @ThrillaRilla369 Yup. Midwatch + workday + getting into port and working another workday and realizing "huh I've slept X hours in the last 48.""  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947474285754532137) 2025-07-22 01:50:26 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements "@westfallx It actually happens literally everywhere. I've seen off-leash nasty dogs basically everywhere I've been except very-very-rich areas"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946593890183577614) 2025-07-19 15:32:04 UTC 41.5K followers, 25.4K 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 41.5K followers, 1.7M 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 41.5K followers, 12.2K engagements "@vonFurious It's so normal among older people here it's not questioned. Of course I knew I was poking a hornet's nest a bit but damn these people are insane over a bunch of stupid mutts. Truly deranged times we're living in"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946690528982028622) 2025-07-19 21:56:04 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX 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 41.5K followers, 52.7K engagements "G.K. Chesterton said: Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Notice that he says "men" and "they" -- in the plural. One man cannot do it; the kind of greatness he describes cannot be willed into existence by one man. If you find you are the only one who loves a dying place or one of the very very few that place will continue to decline in spite of your affinity for it. There is a "fulcrum point" in sheer numbers that must be achieved for the "Rome Effect" to be actuated and sustained. The solitary lover of a dying place is only a witness or at"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1947334561291030829) 2025-07-21 16:35:13 UTC 41.5K followers, 2647 engagements "The training these guys do is insane. XX% of those who try to be USCG rescue swimmers fail out. You have to be in Olympic-tier physical shape cold-tolerant able to keep your cool when beginning to drown etc. Not only are you getting into helicopters in weather conditions so serious that not even the Navy will fly (hurricanes and so on) you're riding that helicopter into some of the most dangerous sea conditions -- breaking surf giant swells and crawling into sinking burning ships to drag half-conscious 200lb victims through ice-cold water to a swinging dangling helicopter basket in the dark."  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1942229256307613896) 2025-07-07 14:28:34 UTC 41.5K followers, 1.3M engagements "@leashless There was certainly a time where the Brits seemed to be fighting and conquering just for the sake of it -- look at Sudan Lasting colonies require resources for generating wealth; but a good fight is only that -- a good fight"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1946588107022733324) 2025-07-19 15:09:05 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements "Crazy idea: If you've got XXX wedding guests each spending an average of $200/guest for travel expenses that's $40000 that people spent in order to witness your marital covenant. If you divorce maybe you should have to pay travel expenses back to the guests -- because all that money and time was spent to attend a wedding that was at the end of it reneged on and ultimately fake. If furthermore the "divorce payout" had to keep pace with inflation over the years of the marriage it'd be one hell of an incentive for couples to stay together. You'd see that big number and say "oof maybe we should"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1945873878678737074) 2025-07-17 15:50:59 UTC 41.5K followers, 20.8K engagements "@JTBechhoefer There simply needs to be some kind of "regulatory relief zone" schema in America. Like if you want to experiment and do whatever you want there should be a very obvious and legal place to do so"  [@shagbark_hick](/creator/x/shagbark_hick) on [X](/post/tweet/1943303589302087802) 2025-07-10 13:37:35 UTC 41.5K followers, 2544 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 41.5K followers, 11.7K 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 41.5K followers, 5807 engagements
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@shagbark_hick 𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 posts on X about money, heartland, united states, hardcore the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1950 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social topic influence money #2094, heartland, united states #1670, hardcore, mali, campers, pope, limitless, $20hr, $319yr
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"Nice spot for sale up in Ross ND. 2100 sq ft 2bd X bath. Retail space up front. Asking $50k taxes $319/yr. 10min away the county's hiring a maintenance man at $20+/hr FT with full benefits. Limitless possibilities in North Dakota. What a great state"
@shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-02 23:18:56 UTC 41.5K followers, 898.2K engagements
"Imagine: no delirious 24-hour news cycle about idiot politicians all lying through their teeth. No awkward Thanksgiving family drama over fake politics that don't matter. Just chilling praying cleaning your AK-47 drinking tea with your brethren in the mountains" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:29:34 UTC 41.5K followers, 10K engagements
"@hammerofvision Eastern Dobsonfly. Never really saw them on the Tug Hill that much as a kid but up here they're out in full force" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 01:57:37 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"This might be a long shot but does anyone know if a decent source for camel or yak wool fabric in the United States Or do they have a XXX% reputable international source I am in the market for some. Thank you" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 20:07:48 UTC 41.5K followers, 7150 engagements
"It has always seemed a bit odd to me that none of the "tinker" nomad groups of Ireland & Scotland made their way to America to continue the traveller way of life. By what I know descendants of those groups (such as myself) that wound up in the New World retained an irrepressible nomadic urge but expressed it in novel ways -- like cowboying hoboing railroad work and the military. The few descendants who retained a way of life at all similar to that of the old country were the showmen and 'carnies' like my own father. Those who came to America to leave the Traveller ways behind largely went" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 15:44:51 UTC 41.5K followers, 3732 engagements
"@Jim670275613011 Depends heavily on where you go. Trader Joes in Brooklyn Yeah that's probably locked. Aldi's in Petoskey MI I'd bet money it's not locked or posted" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-20 16:57:40 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"One of the coolest TV shows ever was Huell Howser's California's Gold. The guy is just plain likeable. He's wandering around California showing viewers the weird and wonderful history of his home state. Absolute best "American travel' show of all time. Few know it outside CA" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-16 22:03:06 UTC 41.5K followers, 15K 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 41.5K followers, 5555 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 41.5K followers, 106.5K engagements
"@Kadingis Where are you seeing that price I'd gladly purchase some" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:48:41 UTC 41.5K followers, 1517 engagements
"If a fellow wanted to call a Jihad against the Patels and start taking back the motels of the heartland where would he begin" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 00:33:33 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.7K engagements
"This is exactly what immigrants are really really good at doing. Except they exponentiate the process even more by doing it with extended family. And the funniest thing is that the hardcore anti-immigration people are the ones who would NEVER do this seethe over it etc. They're above moving to Garden City KS but when Southwestern Kansas gets taken over by Latinos doing exactly what Murray describes here they're enraged. They seem to want a future with zero migration dirt-cheap food and products and artificially-deflated real estate prices in top-20 zip codes. It's a juvenile fantasy and" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-09 14:24:16 UTC 41.5K followers, 68.2K engagements
"Lifestyle inflation happened that's it. If you wanted to live the 1950 version of this that our grandfathers actually lived you still could very easily. You'd just be in Iowa or Ohio or whatever. No $1k smartphones or central A/C; no trips to Prague no top-20 cities. Eating at restaurants maybe just a few times a year. Only one car instead of two and at that the cheapest car you can buy (Mitsubishi Mirage). The house you buy could be $50k but it will be XXX square feet "outdated" and you'll need to put some elbow grease into it like grandad did. You might live somewhere really flat and boring" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-03 13:55:25 UTC 41.5K followers, 714.2K 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 41.5K followers, 17.1K engagements
"@hate4dayzz True it'd be better if I could virtue signal how "based" I am by gladly getting bit by stray German shepherds wherever possible. That's what a real American would do right" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:38:40 UTC 41.5K followers, 24.2K engagements
"Incredible to believe the median age in 1820 was just XXXX years old. Only X nations on earth are now at or below that number: Niger (15.1) Uganda (16.1) Angola (16.2) Mali (16.3) and Chad (16.5). Hard to imagine a version of America with Nigerien levels of youth" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-12 01:31:02 UTC 41.5K followers, 4786 engagements
"The endlessly complicated and granular sense of guilt and obligation that middle-class white people seem to feel about everything has been a complete disaster. It's lowering the birthrate it's demographical suicide for whites and it's resulted in a bureaucratized world of expectations and rules far beyond those required to have a civilized society. This group seemed to take rules and norms that work very well and are wise to employ in moderation and cranked them to the absolute maximum with devastating results. They perfected decency and civilization only to overdo it so badly that they're at" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 19:13:22 UTC 41.5K followers, 5774 engagements
"Correct: I simply don't think about talk about or visit the American South because it was never my thing. Humid heat is like hell to me mostly. I always thought it was a shame they were prevented from seceding. No idea why 750000 Americans had to die to keep them in. The South really is something different from the rest of America -- feels foreign to me in a way the West the Midwest the Plains and New England just doesn't and never did. And there's basically no way for a non-Southerner to talk about visit or think about the South without making Southerners mad. If I move there I'm a filthy" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:21:28 UTC 41.5K followers, 74.8K engagements
"America needs a nomadic Catholic desert caliphate. End times Fatima prophecies in the Mojave herds of goats Mass in tents AK-47's firing at the moon kettles of hot tea in the desert sunrise little kids on dirtbikes. The Eucharist in a sandstorm. The time has come" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:41:26 UTC 41.5K followers, 124K engagements
"I'll never get it either. OK you disagree with some doctrines you're not Catholic whatever that's your choice. But to be feverishly adversarial toward the Church that has brought the Gospel to more human beings than any other group seems absurd and even juvenile" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 16:12:32 UTC 41.5K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@DaringAmerican2 Because why not do it here We have GIANT public desert lands with unlimited free camping gun rights even limited grazing rights for campers' "pack animals." Our Western deserts are screaming for something like this. We need the deserts to get even weirder" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 17:12:14 UTC 41.5K followers, 2219 engagements
"It should not take XX months and $8000 in permits to build a pole barn in America. Why don't there seem to be any politicians who are actively trying to change this stuff" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 16:19:04 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.4K engagements
"False. Because we're also getting the most out of life all winter too. We just get more out of life all the way around. It's hardcore beach swimming and cookouts all summer snowmobiling and skiing all winter. We don't have a "sit inside all day because it's too hot" season" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-16 16:32:36 UTC 41.5K followers, 4240 engagements
"We're thinking about doing a "Hickman's Hinterlands Roadshow." Tiny town to tiny town meeting readers wherever we can. Bonfires in the desert speeches at the Super X conference rooms luncheons at McD's by the interstate. see what happens. Like "redneck Chautauquas"" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-16 18:02:17 UTC 41.5K followers, 15.3K engagements
"The Adirondack Air Force has landed in the North Country" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 01:54:35 UTC 41.5K followers, 18.1K engagements
"There's a very thin overlap between the native range of the Joshua Tree and high elevation areas that get 10" or more in annual snowfall. The 'zone' is mostly right around Tonopah NV. I saw it once. Will never forget it. Mind-bendingly magical sight to see" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 16:01:49 UTC 41.5K followers, 4630 engagements
"@GeringerAdam @MonthlyTiger Not bad I'll say I was actually blown away when I first read that NC has higher mountains than the entire Northeast. Still want to make it to Mount Mitchell NC I think that'd be fascinating to see" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:29:15 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"just remembered that Europeans dont have random swaths of endless uninhabited desert wasteland that they can go and visit" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 14:33:17 UTC 41.5K followers, 13.3K engagements
"That's why I mow my lawn with one of these things. Quiet free to use low maintenance artful. You can't beat the classic reel mower and frankly if your yard is too big to mow with one -- you should probably let it go to woods" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-05-16 20:56:39 UTC 41.5K followers, 19.1K engagements
"Actual "fck you money" is a lot simpler than this. A person has it any time they are earning more than 8x their monthly expenses AND has complete control of 95%+ of their waking hours. This is true at any income level. Most people who have this in the USA this are homeless or are living in extremely marginal areas. Intensely frugal woodsmen hoboes migrant workers or residents of dirt-cheap heartland regions are often succeeding at this. If you want "fck you money" AND central air microwaveable frozen foods big SUV's high-end healthcare retirement plans and giant houses in top-25 areas" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:45:02 UTC 41.5K followers, 10.2K engagements
"@FrDamienKarras Relevant Radio is also awesome when you're in the car. I prayed the Rosary from Ohio to North Dakota on my way to meet my wife using the radio. It was awesome. And I got a nod of approval from an old guy sitting in traffic outside Chicago too. God bless him" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 00:49:10 UTC 41.6K followers, XXX engagements
"@BestHaasDelgado I am a pitbull genocide promoter" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-20 01:08:00 UTC 41.5K followers, 6310 engagements
"@jcenters Right I remember when bad dogs went to the POUND. Why'd we stop doing this Why'd we stop doing this right around the same time we stopped putting criminals in JAIL Some big psychological shift occurred" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:22:00 UTC 41.5K followers, 8061 engagements
"I wonder if Protestants will ever start using AI to interpret Scripture. It'd make sense as the central tension within Protestantism seems to be the absence of a definite clarifying authority on the problem of Scriptural interpretation. In lieu of the Pope Grok fills in" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 15:39:53 UTC 41.5K followers, 4936 engagements
"@BellicoseBestie False. You could move practically anywhere in the small-town heartland and get around this" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-15 15:18:43 UTC 41.5K 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 41.6K followers, 61.4K 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 41.5K followers, 11K engagements
"@devinsrose Yeah I'd never take a cruise like this. Maybe one of the actually interesting ones like up to Greenland or a transatlantic on the Queen Mary. But a party cruise with water slides and Mai Tais Sounds awful to me" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:31:13 UTC 41.5K followers, XX engagements
"@Jamal8969 That's why it's wise never to go to two incomes in the first place. Frankly I find the idea of my wife submitting to a boss outside the home to be appalling. I'd rather be dirt poor than ever suffer that" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-18 18:48:08 UTC 41.5K followers, XX engagements
"@the_UrbanWolf Sure if you can save more than the $112000 elsewhere you're right. And if you wouldn't benefit from X years of prayer fitness and study nor from learning about an incredible part of the American heartland it's doubly true" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-13 17:21:52 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"I'll admit criminally insane as Charles Manson was he captured something defining and real about the American spirit when he said: "I got a motorcycle and a sleeping bag. What the hell I wanna go off and go to work for Work for what Money" That's America right there" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:34:13 UTC 41.5K followers, 9606 engagements
"One of the toughest things going forward is going to be raising boys into real men. Everything's illegal everyone's watching every activity is structured regulated -- the default for boys and young men today is to be a pussy because anything else is now against the rules" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-12 15:41:13 UTC 41.5K followers, 28.5K engagements
"Sedentary peoples have a massive Achilles' heel: They've got their assets manifest labor and sentimental attachments bundled up into one giant taxable extremely-hard-to-move package. If instability is on the horizon you cannot beat the tried and true combination of a sturdy tent a few goats an AK-47 a couple motorbikes and a tolerance for Spartan conditions in dry desolate places. Nimble light on your feet responsive to threats in real time. Pull up the stakes any minute. Perhaps my wildest prediction is that this will make a comeback globally -- even in North America. The "digital nomad"" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 00:46:11 UTC 41.5K followers, 4858 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 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"@YIMBYLAND Saint Louis for the Catholic culture. Fargo for the nicest people in the world. El Paso for the happiest people in the USA" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 12:29:51 UTC 41.5K followers, 2643 engagements
"@atlanticesque Makes sense. Must be why when I tell gen Z guys that I drink X beers every night they seem to think they need to stage an intervention. If they met my relatives who drink 20+ a night (and are living to their 70's) they'd be astounded" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 17:08:22 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"@gildedatlas True a good person gets bit by a dog and thinks: "aw what a nice little doggie"" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:47:34 UTC 41.5K followers, 40.2K engagements
"@fiveshorttables Pope Leo addresses the Nomadic Tribes of St Mary of Egypt" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 17:22:00 UTC 41.5K followers, 1153 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 41.5K followers, 55.7K engagements
"In Valley City ND this house is for rent at $600/mo. A few miles out of town there's a railroad hiring track laborers at $30/hr -- that's $1000/wk at full time. The opportunities in ND are unreal. Could be saving $28k/yr if you were frugal. If people did "tours of duty" in places like ND they'd be doing themselves and the whole country a real service. Imagine heading up to Valley City for a 4-year "enlistment" where you live in this house work on that railroad live on the cheapest food adopt a disposition of intense financial austerity. . and come out of it with $112000 cash. That's a down" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-13 16:45:01 UTC 41.5K followers, 101K engagements
"Imagine if we did this today. There are 21000000 boys between XX and XX in the USA today. En masse emancipation would inject tremendous life into our society. and would be good for those boys too. The suffocating "endless childhood" thing was a bad idea that should end" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:01:33 UTC 41.5K followers, 5316 engagements
"@arenrlebrun No he's objectively correct for the most part. In the Western US OK maybe he's not quite right; real estate is absurdly expensive in XX% of the West even outside cities. But in the rest of the country No he's absolutely spot on" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-09 14:08:11 UTC 41.5K followers, 2410 engagements
"@MonthlyTiger I absolutely love Appalachia and you're right it's very very different from the Deep South. This post is about "the flat South." Once you get into high hills and mountains I do admire those areas a great deal (but I still probably wouldn't visit in summertime)" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 14:24:24 UTC 41.5K followers, 3372 engagements
"Always been true. The psychology of sedentism largely consists of: "If you're not settled working paying taxes and bills and complaining about working and paying taxes and bills -- you're a subhuman we will chase starve out and hunt to the edges of the earth." True even where nomadic peoples are not criminals are respectful productive self-reliant and steer clear of interfering with the lives of settled peoples. Part of sedentism involves having a massive chip on your shoulder against anyone who manages to evade the piss-poor fate of rising to the alarm punching the clock staying in one place" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 21:52:20 UTC 41.5K followers, 9973 engagements
"@VetSalutes @ThrillaRilla369 Yup. Midwatch + workday + getting into port and working another workday and realizing "huh I've slept X hours in the last 48."" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-22 01:50:26 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"@westfallx It actually happens literally everywhere. I've seen off-leash nasty dogs basically everywhere I've been except very-very-rich areas" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:32:04 UTC 41.5K followers, 25.4K engagements
"I've always hated dogs and among those I grew up around this was an absolutely normal mentality. So the sudden shift in the collective conscious about these animals is totally baffling to me. Those who walk on rural roads know it well: loose dogs are a blight. Chained-up barking behemoths snarling at you from yards are an antisocial disgrace. I've been chased bit barked at and when I've responded with any degree of anger or discomfort at the behavior of peoples' dogs their owners were often indignant with me. Even after the first time I got bit the lady who owned the dog kept repeating that" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:06:02 UTC 41.5K followers, 1.7M 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 41.5K followers, 12.2K engagements
"@vonFurious It's so normal among older people here it's not questioned. Of course I knew I was poking a hornet's nest a bit but damn these people are insane over a bunch of stupid mutts. Truly deranged times we're living in" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 21:56:04 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"A shocking amount of the USA looks something like this. When I think of "America" I picture a scene like this" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 01:55:59 UTC 41.5K followers, 52.7K engagements
"G.K. Chesterton said: Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. Notice that he says "men" and "they" -- in the plural. One man cannot do it; the kind of greatness he describes cannot be willed into existence by one man. If you find you are the only one who loves a dying place or one of the very very few that place will continue to decline in spite of your affinity for it. There is a "fulcrum point" in sheer numbers that must be achieved for the "Rome Effect" to be actuated and sustained. The solitary lover of a dying place is only a witness or at" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-21 16:35:13 UTC 41.5K followers, 2647 engagements
"The training these guys do is insane. XX% of those who try to be USCG rescue swimmers fail out. You have to be in Olympic-tier physical shape cold-tolerant able to keep your cool when beginning to drown etc. Not only are you getting into helicopters in weather conditions so serious that not even the Navy will fly (hurricanes and so on) you're riding that helicopter into some of the most dangerous sea conditions -- breaking surf giant swells and crawling into sinking burning ships to drag half-conscious 200lb victims through ice-cold water to a swinging dangling helicopter basket in the dark." @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-07 14:28:34 UTC 41.5K followers, 1.3M engagements
"@leashless There was certainly a time where the Brits seemed to be fighting and conquering just for the sake of it -- look at Sudan Lasting colonies require resources for generating wealth; but a good fight is only that -- a good fight" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-19 15:09:05 UTC 41.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Crazy idea: If you've got XXX wedding guests each spending an average of $200/guest for travel expenses that's $40000 that people spent in order to witness your marital covenant. If you divorce maybe you should have to pay travel expenses back to the guests -- because all that money and time was spent to attend a wedding that was at the end of it reneged on and ultimately fake. If furthermore the "divorce payout" had to keep pace with inflation over the years of the marriage it'd be one hell of an incentive for couples to stay together. You'd see that big number and say "oof maybe we should" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 15:50:59 UTC 41.5K followers, 20.8K engagements
"@JTBechhoefer There simply needs to be some kind of "regulatory relief zone" schema in America. Like if you want to experiment and do whatever you want there should be a very obvious and legal place to do so" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-10 13:37:35 UTC 41.5K followers, 2544 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 41.5K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Daily Mass is one of the absolute best things about being Catholic. Even at tiny rural Parishes weekday Mass is normal. For the vast majority of Protestants and Orthodox this isn't a thing. It's almost unbelievable -- who wouldn't want to worship God EVERY DAY" @shagbark_hick on X 2025-07-17 13:17:52 UTC 41.5K followers, 5807 engagements