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Hello afternoon crowd,

For everyone who follows me for my Y2K-based takes, I have a day job in healthcare.

I love having to declare my credentials for the Dr. Oz-run CMS. What are we doing here!!!

It’s so wild how the paths we take are often due to a combination of the time/place we were born and other sorts of chance

Dudes rock

Love em

I also looked askance at the second-wave feminism of my mom, finding it to be riven with contradictions. I remember thinking that it would be so much easier to be a stay at home mom than have a career (given America’s workplace culture). Glad I learned about a secret third thing (social democracy).

Anyway, when I was in college, I found the affect and terminology of academia to be off-putting, hypocritical, and teleological. I resented it at first! I still resent it, actually. This resentment would have been channeled nicely into an anti-woke grift.

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I got married in an Audrey Hepburn-style dress in Newport AND I got to keep my bank account and last name!!

(Not that the aesthetics of the right are good today, but I could easily see myself getting tricked by the allure of “the old money aesthetic” or something)

As bad as politics were, there was an ascendent Internet feminism and other online subcultures that seemed to explain my life accurately. And there was no place on the right for cosmopolitan or aesthetically inclined people.

If I were 19 today vs in 2007 I could have made some very bad turns re: the tradwife world, antiwoke, etc.

And off the chart swag

Camel

This trip is healing me

They’re playing the Pixies at the ski lodge. New England strong.

What did it taste like?

What did it taste like?

Omg!!!!

Ok how is it?

again I am reminded of how world historically problematic it is that this man is so fucking funny

It’s what the world needs

I think I’ve got this in the bag

I love this! And I think I could do it.

I think I might be able to beat up Kid Rock.

So true

Something tells me that the people buying $68 tote bags are not the ones with student loans

Fr!!!!

Kid Rock's dad owned multiple car dealerships and he grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. Bad Bunny went from bagging groceries and recording his songs in his room to winning multiple Grammys. Which one is the better encapsulation of hard work and the American Dream?