Yes, I think we do agree (well, with one caveat: I'm a woman, a wife and mother. I don't agree that "sowing my wild oats" would have been a good choice for me personally, because that's a whole different kettle of fish--for women, especially women who know they want children, it's a much more weighty decision).
"There is a reason we rejected the uptight overly conservative society we use to have." Yeah, propaganda. I don't actually object to men sowing their wild oats, but let's not pretend that the rejection of traditional western cultures was organic.
I love it. I always said if I ever became coat-of-arms rich I'd make that our family motto.
That's depressingly accurate.
I neither think that nor have ever said it, so you're clearly talking to yourself.
Protip, dem scum: if you're co-ordinating riots, YOU'RE the coup, and your opponants are the legitimate government.
Good. I hope the China-aligned elite get booed and harassed every minute of the rest of their lives. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants
I don't think you're replying to me, somehow.
Yes, that's the problem. You can convince them to buy less by framing it as "good for the environment!" or whatever, but I don't know how to get them to feel rebellious or independent.
Yes, I've become really strict with the no-China-stuff rule. Even my kids know to check now.
The stuff I've bought through local yard sales is amazing. And furniture--the only things I bought "new" in this house are the beds, and my mother bought two bureaus for us. The rest is inherited/bought used/stuff I've had so long I don't even know where it originated.
Yes! I've bought more from local farmers in the past year than I ever have before. But now I need to start sourcing more stuff from local craftspeople.
Me too. I have enough stuff I bought on sale last year (a local kids' clothing store closed) to carry me through one size change for each of them. LOL. But then I'll need to buy things, at least for the oldest two.
If we could all literally go without buying anything other than food for a year, could we bring the elites down?
It really is. It's terrifying. I'm trying to share it with as many of my normie friends as possible, because it's coming from a source (Tablet) they already like for its book reviews, so maybe they'll actually read it.
They're upset he was showing us reality: "Why did they trade with an authoritarian regime and by sending millions of American manufacturing jobs off to China thereby impoverish working Americans? Because it made them rich. They salved their consciences by telling themselves they had no choice but to deal with China: It was big, productive, and efficient and its rise was inevitable. And besides, the American workers hurt by the deal deserved to be punished—who could defend a class of reactionary and racist ideological naysayers standing in the way of what was best for progress?"
(source: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants)
It is fascinating to watch, in its own way. I like that every one is wearing reasonable amounts of clothes, for instance.
But also polygamy, people getting married to people they LITERALLY JUST MET, and men ducking out of their own weddings and turning off their phones. Personal responsibility is apparently not a big thing in Africa.
Ask Mr. Lindell to make extra long pillowcases, just in case.
I cannot overstate how happy I'd be to throw money at you.
Ohhhhh. That would explain a lot. Like how my children eat dessert every night, but neither of them are overweight. We just don't eat out, ever.
They have embraced a system in which tyrants rule over a permanent underclass (https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants). They can never admit it, but they know they are part of the underclass. So they do the only thing the weak can do: virtue signal and play victim, all day long, to assure the strong that they are so very weak they can never be a threat.