Geoff Graham
@ggraham
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Tweets are reminders to myself. Replies are me trolling friends. @bigridgemtnclub @yeomanpodcast @periodicalink @ioncompany
Mostly ATL & WNC
Joined June 2008
What bothered me most was that a solid story was so obfuscated by winking-virtue signaling and ham-fisted caricatures. Brick was such an amazing debut that I still approach every Rian Johnson movie with hope.
Via @drcrouchback, a very good thread on the various ways in which the set-up of WUDM makes no sense. The Josh Brolin character is so badly written, barely even rising to caricature. It is not even remotely believable that such a person could exist.
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Nothing will make sense until you understand that, for many people, “capitalism” = makes my net worth go up, and “Communism” = makes my net worth go down
@brianwut @GreenPlusAnE You and your filthy communist friends are all over my feed demonizing boomers as greedy and targeting thier wealth for redistribution. I understand perfectly.
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Billions of people in faraway lands—and many millions in my very own country—regularly deal with things that are entirely foreign to me.
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There would be less hate and more market responsiveness if financialized corporations weren't insulated from liability, protected against competition, and subsidized in all sorts of direct and indirect ways. The status quo is manufacturing support for collectivism. "Champions of
Baffled by people who want more housing but hate home builders, want more medicines but hate pharmaceutical companies, want more jobs but hate employers etc. There's no Easter Bunny...if we want stuff, someone has to make it.
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Listen up nerds, Potter is the bad guy. Potter steals thousands of dollars from the Building & Loan, and its members. George isn’t a thief or a communist. George is a hero and communitarian ethics is Christian (I am my brother’s keeper) not communist. Put this to rest!!
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Silent night, Holy night Son of God, love's pure light Radiant beams from Thy holy face With the dawn of redeeming grace Jesus Lord at thy birth Jesus Lord at thy birth
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One thing about having a small crew doing just about everything is you have very little waste. We have a small dumpster, have put more packaging waste in there than scraps, and will complete all of our rough-ins before having it pulled a second time.
We have six pieces of shiplap siding remaining. We will need exactly six pieces to finish siding the barn. #measuretwicecutonce
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My story is out! I spoke with mom and author Diane Alisa Tuft about her family's return to multigenerational living and her message for Americans about why the village is so much better than the suburbs: https://t.co/n8ee4af2Hf
theamericanconservative.com
One Utah mom says cookie-cutter suburbs are causing society to crumble.
I've got a piece coming out in @amconmag soon with a solution for all this - but everyone's going to have to compromise. Could the solution be something many cultures already embrace - multigenerational living? I talked to a young mom/author who writes and posts about how her
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I’m just happy we’ve reached the point when the sun will shine a little longer today than it did yesterday
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Some of you want me to believe that... Free bus travel = communism Free car travel = capitalism
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This is it right here. There is no reason the US government should be paying out six figure benefits to high earners couples. No other nation on earth does this. America is approaching WWII debt levels but without a defense base. We can’t afford it.
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It’s one thing to claim credit for what your ancestors did, and there is certainly a lot of that out there. But that is not what rootedness is, and it’s wrong to conflate the two things.
Caring about this stuff can be fine if you do it in a personal way, sorta as a hobby. My grandfather landed at Omaha and I think that's pretty badass. But making this a core part of your identity is pathetic and lame. Expecting it to grant you special privileges is unhinged.
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Rootedness strengthens both the person and the place. You can welcome newcomers while simultaneously safeguarding the invaluable culture and values that make a place attractive to newcomers. Tourist towns have learned what happens when they elevate tourism over the culture that
@ATabarrok Acknowledging the value of roots and rootedness isn’t xenophobic or anti-immigrant, and denying it is preposterous. All other things being equal, who cares more for a place? The new arrival or the person whose family is buried there? The founders not only enshrined preference
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The past was a different country. My grandfather & his brother survived a German POW camp in WWII. They took a boat to the US Dec 1947. Settled one inside & one on the edge of this box in 1960. Grandfather was a janitor at a fine men's clothier. His brother a construction worker.
To me, this is the best real estate in the world. Half acre lots, a block to the beach, walkable city life, no crime, still connected to LA and complete privacy. Current entry level price: $14 million
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@ggraham Absolutely agree. On that point, the Texas high school football state championships are ongoing this week and a kid from this area had a record setting day in the six man division. I saw someone reply to a tweet about it asking why his parents didn’t take him to a bigger school
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@jamesdecker2006 EVEN IF you accept that economic value is the end all be all, once you count all the chips, it becomes inescapably clear that kinship has enormous economic value. Ten above-average strangers can't create anything as wonderful as ten regular folks who all care about each other.
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RULES, RULES, RULES ❌ Selling fresh milk to a neighbor, illegal. ❌ Crossing a street midblock, illegal. ❌ Operating a bookstore in your garage, illegal. ❌ Converting a mansion to a fourplex, illegal. ❌ Letting your child walk alone to the playground, illegal. ❌ Riding
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