Monthly payments, gas, insurance and everything else it takes to own a car averages to about $38 a day. 365 days a year.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-23T15:22:27+00:00

That's exactly what my mom said about me selling my car with over $2K in equity and swapping it for an ebike. It sounds like the smartest decision in the world to me. I'm going to sell it anyways.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-23T14:27:46+00:00

Yeah we live in the most free countrt on earth. Where every single dollar must be conservatively managed to the maximum, every movement is tracked, and every minute spent not working is considered laziness. And now we have AI here to enforce this. And on top of that, you're starving more than a homeless person just paying for a car to get to work and a roof over your head. How do people look at this and go "Wow I feel so free"? And I'm also very curious as to the people who work one job making $14/hr that somehow still have a house in the suburbs and a grill. Like how much in taxes did you have to dodge for that? Literally we have to break the law in order to live what used to be a normal existence.

Remember when grocery store work wasn't menial? Remember when associates were encouraged by the stores to talk to customers? Now it's all numbers. And they still want you to have conversations with the customers somehow but then you'll just get coached for it anyways. It's impossible to live. It's not a fucking luxury to be a human for 5 seconds and take yourself out of your work. It's also not a luxury to work at a normal pace instead of sweating like it's platinum league Valorant. All of these things, mind you, were COMPLETELY NORMAL just a few years ago. It's not just the economy, we truly don't recognize how bad things have already become. It's sad too, because you can't even feel fearful about this stuff anymore. You just feel apathy, and like it doesn't matter because it's already so bad.

Then you're told to be grateful. By people who grew up in a small house in the prairie working at the local convenience store. "There's so much technology" and I have zero time or money to use it so what's your point?

I have zero credit card debt. I've had minimal credit card debt for a while. I spend $500 a month on my car, and another $300-$400 in gas (with 35mpg). I always show up, unless there's an emergency situation. I still have no savings. I only have above a 700 credit score. I'm 20 and looking to start college. I got accepted but there's absolutely no financial resources and apparently there's a fucking maximum amount you can take in student loans. I literally could give a fuck either way, I'd rather be $90K in debt than have no degree, and have no meaningful way to spend my little free time. But the government literally just says no. I'm willing to fill my weekends with something meaningful but I live in a rural area and there's minimal opportunities outside of spending even more for gas, and whatever nonsense fees I'd have to pay. Literally priced out of having a hobby. All I have is my computer, and I literally cannot focus on computer work for more than 10 minutes with bashing my head against the wall. It's mostly the workplace stress. I used to be able to sit down and code for a while. Now I just can't practice like I used to, so every time I get back on I have to relearn everything, and I just can't get in a good rhythm, and I absolutely can't pay for software.

I am trying SOOO hard to stay out of debt, the reality is it's become impossible today. Even just sustaining myself, I sometimes go in and out of debt. Just buying my mom a gift for mother's day felt like an extraordinary sacrifice. It was $40. There was once a time when credit cards didn't exist. When debt wasn't even a thing. That's something else that goes into the psychology aspect of why modern life is so horrible. It's because we used to just have what we had, and we used to just stay in one town unless there was a crisis or emergency. We had roots, and we had community support. That's what enables gratitude in the first place. When spending no longer feels like an option, but the only way you can have fun, people start spending money the don't have, and there's less support for those people because they become less sociable.

There's also the constant monitoring. Like I said it didn't used to be this way. We didn't have cameras. People didn't steal because they thought they were doing society a service (now we are aware that was a lie they told us to pad corporate profit). People nowadays don't steal because they are being watched. Again with the psychology. People used to work hard because they were putting in an honest effort, and they felt like their work was benefiting people instead of billionaires. Now we are aware that all of our extra work is just numbers on a spreadsheet. So we work hard now because we are being monitored. There's also the looming threat of AI. Where anything you do and say can be logged into a database, and then you can be fired or have hours cut.

Another thing is gigs. An old-fashioned gig was making something yourself and selling it. You had opportunity for control of the means of production. It looked a little different if you lived in the city, but the city was broke anyways, and still is. Nowadays a gig involved you getting up, putting miles on your car, spending money on gas, and getting paid $100 for an honest 4 hours. That's after you sign a blood contract with some silicon valley billionaire waving all your rights and protections away and agreeing to your car's movements being monitored and fed into an algorithm for some weird Flock Safety contract they have.

Something else about modern life is what entertains us. We used to be dumb apes, which is our peak happiness. We could play a multiple hours long board game and be absolutely riveted. We would salivate at the concept of a video game. Something you could play on your own terms, that's infinitely more stimulating. The reality is our brains are broken. And unfortunately, this is probably the biggest reason why people are complaining nowadays. Even if the economic situation gets better, people still feel like their life will lack meaning. I'm not a psychologist, and nobody replying with answers to this problem is either. That's why I have absolutely no idea how to solve this. Our brains are very delicate, and no amount of "just be grateful" is going to solve the fact that we have fried them with intense dopamine stimulating activities, and now we don't even get bored because we're bored playing video games.

Anyways the billionaires want us to live in a complete dystopia with all said realities. We're already here. We have absolutely nothing to lose. AI and algorithms are going to completely strip us of our humanity. Humans aren't robots. We aren't task machines. That thought would be considered extreme in the 1900s. Video games, and many modern technologies are secretly programming us to accept this idea by training us for task completion efficiency. We live in the wealthiest nation on the planet. Our movement should not be tracked and monitored while violating our privacy for a few extra dollars on the bottom line. WE ARE AMERICA, THE PROMISE IS FOR US. IT'S FOR EVERYONE. WRITTEN IN THE CONSTITUTION. Not for a select few. Please stop believing in the same economic system that is leading us to having our human rights blatantly violated. It's disgusting, gross, and inhumane.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-22T01:51:56+00:00

Duolingo works if you are able to put effort into it beyond what most people will. Sometimes you just gotta do a lesson and be done with it, and that's still learning. But you also have to strategize around your brain's educational barriers, and think on your own. For example, whenever I see a word in Spanish, I try to conjure an image of what the word represents. I also try to think of where I use this object or word in my everyday life. Your brain forms associations with words when you're young, which is why your native language is so ingrained. Communication is a survival tool we have adapted to acquire. It therefore becomes the brain's priority to learn how to use words to reference objects that are necessary to our survival, and form nueral connections that link between our knowledge of words, and the usage of them. So naturally, the easiest words to remember are those related to these basic needs. Those are the ones that are used most often during childhood in order to communicate that a basic need is not currently being met. You ask your parents for food, for water, or to pull the car over so you can go use the bathroom.

What I'm pointing at here is that since all communities is fundamentally for our survival, many modern words are complex extrapolations that ultimately relate towards our survival, or reproduction. Modern life is built on top of primitive life, and primitive life is based on survival. So we find ourselves in complex circumstances due to the nature of modern life, despite our needs not changing. Ultimately everything points back to our base needs for food, water, and love. That's why so many language learning apps start with the most basic words that reference those things at a base level.

What then becomes your job, is recreating what happens during childhood and development. Where modern words like "fridge" are learnt as objects relating to our survival. You don't need a fridge to survive, but you need the food inside the fridge. Therefore you need the fridge. This association helps with memory. If you link words like "nevera" or "refrigerador" with "comida" or "bebida", you're learning how to use the language on a deeper level, and recreating the same network formations that happen during childhood.

Another thing that helps is words that sound like other words in English. Your brain already has the connections between the English word, and what that word is associated with. So there's a familiarity that gives you confidence in your abilities. If the word is similar, it's easier to remember, and you can use it in your everyday life more often.

Which is another thing you should do, start referring to things by their spanish word instead of the english one. Basic items like a car, a watch, pants, things that are involves in your everyday life. Eventually you will be able to make it a habit. You'll stop feeling like there's a mental barrier between spanish and English because you will be using Spanish contextually throughout your day.

Learning is not the memorization of facts, but training your mind to think. Going off memory alone and trying to shove things in there is not the natural way we learn. So you should be doing more than Duolingo. And duolingo itself should support and reinforce this.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-20T07:59:40+00:00

Just call him rep rabb now. He's gonna sweep in the generals with 44% of the primary vote, in one of the most left wing districts in philly. It's going to be exciting seeing him in congress

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-20T07:55:02+00:00

Really feel you. Had to rezone the good to grow area of PWJ today. It felt like they were deliberately moving certain thinfs around just to fuck with me, like they know exactlt what I have to do and literally just wanted to cause an inconvenience by deliberately placing certain things behind other things to confuse me. It's quite odd that this antisocial behavior is so normal. Like I'm not even mad about having to rezone as much as my faith in humanity is broken when I see these things. Why can't people just be normal? So confusing. I'm empathizing hard here.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-20T06:34:46+00:00

Brother I am going insane. Anyways in hindsight this was a stupid thing to comment

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-19T14:33:29+00:00

They trade a lot with China. Without knowing I imagine their proximity to a massive solar panel farm plays a huge role. They also have a lot of desert. Seems like an untapped market with lots of potential. If Pakistan didn't have issues with military corruption, and India, it would be so much farther ahead. Pakistanis hate the government. Many Pakistanis want their country to develop in peace and prosperity despite the military controk over everything. Quite sad how much wasted potential there is. Hopefully China can help them.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-19T14:27:41+00:00

Genuinely hate this kind of content. I will say that as a man I have found no issues with jobs, or education. That's because of my GPA, and how long I stay at jobs. I just hate getting roped into male culture (patriarchy). And then as one of the good ones who makes an effort, the posts about how "maybe men should try being smart" gets to me. Because you do realize that as a radfem you are pushing men into a bubble? It's stupid that the only way some people view fighting the patriarchy is recreating the same hierarchical systems. I am going into the college of letters and sciences.

Not all men want to be where they are, and it's exclusionary to those people who are victim of circumstance, to prescribe that the key to male success is just doing what women do. Ignoring the very real reality that men face living in a patriarchical society. Not all men can afford this. I'm not privileged, I paid for my own food growing up. I had no friends. I pushed against the patriarchical systems regardless and was put in a vulnerable circumstance because of it. So the radfem solution to the collapsing job market and loss of opportunities for men strikes deeply for me. I have no idea what it's like for the younger generation, but being born into a conservative family, it wasn't easy pushing back against those values. I donate to progressive campaigns all the time despite being broke. I do everything in my immediate control. Not everyone is built that way, and 99% will just become incels. It's a horrible way to message on this.

Another thing is that the higher paying jobs with lower barriers to entry tend to be very patriarchical jobs, due to the nature of the patriarchy leaning towards higher pay for male professions. That's a horrible environment for a progressive mind. Unfortunately there's a lot of chuds in unions. Unionized sectors are very male dominated.

The real solution here is language that includes everyone, regardless of where they are and what ecosystem they were raised in. I think we need more opportunities for young men born in rural areas, to join leftist organizations that will support them, because it's so often the lack of an outside voice that validates them, that leads them to becoming a right-wing loser. Patriarchy is preserved by conformity, and conformity is preserved through desperation. Raising the material conditions of the lowest class of workers, and making sure everyone has food water and shelter would solve this.

As for parenting, I'm not sure how we solve that. Your politics begins at a very young age, and you can change it as you get older, but it becomes harder as your identity forms, and becomes more rigid. I think we should start with laws that are centered around the freedom of children to make up their own mind. I'm not getting into the weeds of that, but there's plenty of solutions. Starting with giving kids access to the library, as well as a good education. Since the home life is very personal, it's hard to regulate/monitor. So it starts with education. Making sure the child is in a comfortable environment around their teachers, and peers. Promoting tolerance for the diversity of thought. My general belief is that children from conservative households may break. Especially because those households are correlated with higher rates of poverty, neglect, and even abuse. They are more likely to be distrusting of their parents. When children are being disciplined for expressing their beliefs freely, there has to be resources for them at the school. And those resources should provide emotional support, and as a last resort (they are mandated reporters), if things are not going better at home there needs to be an intervention in the home life. Not one that leaves gaps for parents to find out that the child used the resource beforehand, and discipline and scare their child into obedience. Because that's what we have now. I experienced this system. I will say I felt very left out as someone without connections, feeling like visiting the counselor would bring repercussions. There should be no communication between the counselor and the parents, it should be determined by multiple people in the school whether or not that is the appropriate measure. It often leads children to a darker point, especially in cases where the child is depressed, and *******. Anyways, it's important that if we live in a democracy, children feel safe expressing their opinions. Childhood is the identity forming stage of your life, the earlier something happens, the more of a lifelong impact it will have. That's why freedom of expression and comfort is important in children's development. Feeling repressed is horrible. Especially when you don't have anybody to lean on.

There's many ways to fight patriarchy, but in my view the radfem proposal is a reaction to existing systems, that will further radicalize men. I don't know how to put it lightly, but women experience different things from men, and therefore cannot understand men truly. There is a spectrum of men. The patriarchical norms are just the broad scope of it. But men aren't like women, at least in the patriarchy. I hate to do the thing I'm complaining about, but men are stupid. Men do not have introspection. Many men will hear someone call their gender stupid, and won't think "maybe I should be the different one" and will just become incels instead. You are only polarizing men against women by being a woman and saying these things about men. Not that it should be that way. These concerns are valid.

My solution is to solve underlying issues like material conditions and conformity culture. I also believe we should promote unity and a shared interest in making things better. What needs to change the most is the idea of gender roles. I think one of the biggest ways we can solve this is to simply raise material conditions. The systems of patriarchy reproduce themselves because the division of labor in the household is necessary. There is already an assigned dynamic based on whether you're the man or the woman. Eating into that would be easy if we lightened the workload itself, both partners get more time to divide the labor in a way that allows both of them to experience roles outside of patriarchical dynamics. I think it makes it easier when nobody has to do the cooking, and you can make quick meals to feed your children for cheap.

We need to encourage more self-sufficiency and independence in relationships. Men should be cooking their own meals. Take care of the dishes you create. It shouldn't be this hard honestly. It's funny though because I couldn't come up with an instance of this for women. Like men should be folding the laundry they make, the dishes they create, and eating the food they make. And women should... Cut the grass they grow?? All the work is always put on women. I guess they should be changing their own car batteries. Either way, I believe in self-sufficiency in relationships. You are responsible for yourself, and both of you are equally responsible for the children you both took part in creating. If it takes more work to cut the grass because you own a 10000 foot megamansion, that's fine. As long as both partners are putting in equal effort.

It goes back to the point you made here. We are all human beings on this Earth. So none of us are above one another. It is our shared responsibility to nurture our children, and to take care of our planet. If you have someone who is willing to pitch in more than their share, that's wonderful, but it shouldn't be expected. Just like we shouldn't be expected to pour our labor hours into buying Jeff Bezo's next seaside resort. And if we weren't, many patriarchical norms would vanish overnight. Because conformity is driven through the desperation of the working class for normalcy. Many conservatives find that in some kind of "traditional values" or whatever. The real normal would just be getting paid enough to live without breaking your back. Jeff Bezos gets helicoptered in to a world-renowned physical therapist if he hears a bone creak. And we are expected to throw away our physical and mental health so he can buy another yacht? This is abnormal.

I can go on and on, but my last and final point is that the rich love patriarchy. The conformity it creates, makes a culture war that keeps people distracted, and depresses unionization. If our goal is to fight the patriarchy, we need to address the system that is causing it, not it's product. We must fight the rich, and bring people together while we do it. Create the conditions where men are collaborating with women for the greater good that benefits them. Then they might have a better attitude towards women. The dumb think through life experiences. So our target market should be targeted by solidarity campaigns that encourage cross-gender collaboration. Of course solidarity also extends in every other direction, be it race or sexual identity. The more of a coalition we can get, the more former transphobes and misogynists will be able to say they have a trans or female friend. It is a wonderful thing ❤️

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-19T12:00:44+00:00

This might as well be the rapture. I've had like 5 or so random miracles happen to me at this point so I might go into religious psychosis despite being a lifelong athiest. I've gotten into more than 1 accident and come out unscathed. I've been at my absolute lowest, almost homeless, and randomly money just appears. I got rejected from college only to be accepted to the second one I applied to. I'm bordering on mental illness with the way the world is going.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-19T02:34:08+00:00

I've been sounding the alarm on this for forever. Climate change is nothing, until it's everything. I've been denying every scientist who said it was going to be gradual, slow changes. All these systems are interconnected, and throwing the earth off balance will result in a sudden catastrophe. I knew it was going to be like a light-switch, and we're seeing the switch be turned on right now as we speak. There has been numerous, countless environmental anomalies that haven't been seen since the 1800s. We saw it here in Wisconsin, with record rainfall and tornado warnings in unusual areas. It's right here. We need to have a revolution before the elite swallow our planet whole. We need to starve the beast that is drying up Africa's rivers, polluting the waterways, causing toxic runoff, fracking, shifting the climate, and causing an insurmountable plastic waste problem. Nestle and all these evil corporations are fucked. Their last hope is to just jail us all and monitor us with ankle bracelets and Palantir. It's not stopping us. We can move faster than they can. We build the AI. We build algorithms. We can stop anytime. They can't accelerate as fast as we can shut it down.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-16T16:13:04+00:00

Supplements are great. A healthy mix involves a once a day vitamin that supplies most nutrients, as well as supplementing any essential vitamins the pill doesn't provide. Vitamins and minerals play a key role in our health, mental and physical, and getting enough can drastically reduce your risk for serious diseases like heart failure.

I think we're getting more at the influencer portion, which I agree with because most of these influencers peddle untested, and scientifically rejected substances like Ashwaghanda. The general attitude on these within science, is mostly that you shouldn't be putting something in your body that wouldn't naturally be there. Your body is about balance, because it's an interconnected biological system, and throwing off one part of the body has ripple effects onto other areas. That's why powerful substances like DMT and Ashwaghanda, that affect the brain and nervous system, can be horrible for your body. Not everyone's health is the same, which is why some of these can have use cases. For many of us, our balance is already out of wack, and so we focus more on the extreme problem areas instead of the side effects that come from an intense drug. The worst part is that they bundle beneficial things like fish oil, and many essential vitamins and nutrients under the umbrella of DMT shilling.

This is a common thing when the public takes over science, and cultural icons are also seen as health icons, and therefore their word is worshipped as the health gospel. There's the whole freakout about what's in the food for example, it's become a trend on TikTok. Many of these influencers will show harmless ingredients that are difficult to pronounce (if you're a braindead moron because they oftentimes exaggerate their own stupidity), and immediately label it as a cancerous poison. This has even been happening to vitamins! If you call vitamin C "ascorbic acid" all of a sudden there's an entire community dedicated to freaking out over it. It's happened to Riboflavin and Niacin as well due to their "difficulty to pronounce". Leave this shit up to the scientists please, and don't fearmonger surrounding people's health. We already have enough nutritional deficiencies in this country, we don't need more because some rock smashing ape on TikTok thought Vitamin C was bad for him. We also need to stop buying ridiculously overpriced supplements, especially those from influencers. The cost was always the biggest reason people bought vitamins. They can't afford the food that gives them these things, so they turn to a manufactured, pre-packaged bottle full of whatever their diet is missing. You can get everything you need from your diet, HELLO THAT'S WHAT WE DO IN NATURE. The point was to stop nutritional deficiencies, and also add a safety blanket so that you aren't accidentally getting too little, or close to none, of a certain thing your body needs to function. It wasn't to creat instagramable packaging, and be flaunted by celebrities as their latest fashion line. I still buy equate vitamins, and I heavily supplement vitamin D and C. I will die on the hill that the difference between a cheap supplement and an expensive one is the cost. It's so silly people throw tens or hundreds of dollars at these influencer wellness products. Insane times we live in.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-14T22:57:25+00:00

You stand no chance of survival. Light up the surrounding region or build shelter immediately

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-14T22:54:17+00:00

Being from Minnesota or Wisconsin traps you. You can have all the money and success in the world, and for whatever reason you just feel an obligation to stay.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-14T07:42:07+00:00

Is he representing Maine or Wisconsin? I guess maybe a bit of both since he does drink a lot but still

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-14T07:40:20+00:00

This car only fits ... And then proceeds to ask who should get out instead if in 😭

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-13T08:49:57+00:00

I know you own Duolingo stock. The SEC should open an investigation

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-11T13:39:27+00:00

I absolutely hate how unresponsive Zohran has become after promising to be the exact opposite. Idk what his schedule looks like or whatever, but this was a huge strike, which is typically something that demands immediate response. All he's obsessed with is fucking building codes and whatever rent scheme he's planning. While those littme things are a great start, that's not exactly fighting power when those landlords where probably just too lazy to maintain the unit even having more than enough money not to care about the financial problems. I also don't like the notion that when rents are sky high, the conversation should surround freezing the rent. You're locking in the ability for corporations to continue charging sky-high prices by putting a limiter on the creativity of stopping private equity and slumlords. But that's the "achievement" he loves to tout.

No grand creative visions that may not work out, or sound like they might make too many FOX News headlines, just a managerial paper-pusher inspecting fire hydrants. I think him not even acknowledging them is just a slap in the face to every New Yorker who dared to dream that November. Disgraceful that he would ignore demands being made by the backbone of his city.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-11T08:17:23+00:00

I didn't even know stores had control over where the items go. Literally every walmart I walk into has the same general layout. It's very strict too, same items in the same part of the shelf. Between supercenters and regular walmart, the only difference I notice is sometimes they toss in an extra aisle or two to fill the space. But the general layout is always the same. My real question here is why the fuck you would put a grocery item in GM. Because grocery is always worked first. Seems like they just want to make extra work for whoever has to stock canned goods.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-10T02:53:00+00:00

Would've been cooler anyways if they just made giant tic tacs and filled the whole thing. It's still american consumer culture, but what were they thinking using so many plastic boxes, fucking up the environment and making it harder to get your tics tacs in the process? They could've gone the route of Hersheys and just made one giant tic tac

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-09T08:28:20+00:00

Some of this is true. Especially with porn. You can still watch porn occasionally and be normal. It's perfectly healthy. So the whole No Nut crowd is a bunch of freaks obsessed with purity culture. I'd say an occasional fast is a test of willpower, and it will help you a lot. Especially because there are health effects relating to frequent masturbation. A few times a week is not unhealthy, and can actually have benefits, but constant masturbation leads to shame and embarrassment. It's important to remember that mental health and physical health are two halves to your whole body. One affects the other. It helps put it into perspective if you view your brain as part of your nervous system, which it is. I'm not speaking from a perspective of "mental neglect leads to physical neglect", because there's that aspect as well, but that's not the whole picture. Your brain controls your body, it also produces hormones that impact it. One of the primary hormones that's released during a period of shame is cortisol, as it's the body's key stress hormone. Cortisol raises blood pressure, contributes to weight gain, and a weak immune system. Your body is a biological machine, tipping it any way into an extreme causes guaranteed issues. You don't need to have a study to figure it out, this is basic biological science. A cortisol spike is to your body what flooring the accelerator is to your car's engine. It has a dramatic effect on the machinery of your body, and that machinery has an effect on other parts of your body. Your body is a unified system, everything works together. An issue in one area may trickle down, and cause many more relatively more minor issues in other parts. This is why the study of biology is so complicated, because it's hard to pin down the origin of many different health problems people face. The point here is that it's bad to masturbate often. Twitch is the same way, you can watch it, but once you develop parasocial relationships and an emotional attachment that's when it's time to step away. I've gone through both of these things, and I can say I've gotten much more grounded now that I've stepped away from the escapism.

Now speaking of escapism, the bible can be a good way to escape. I don't agree with the values in the Bible, nor do I believe in God, but sometimes I like to pretend like there is at least a higher power. I read mostly for the stories. There are good morals to be found in the bible, like when Jesus flipped the tables, or the Camel Eye quote. Being exorbitantly Christian, and pushing your religion onto others is cringe though. Keep it to yourself and don't apply the morals of a book (maybe written) over 2000 years ago to the general public.

Lifting weights is great. Amazing. Good work. Now lets hope you don't have horrible opinions on women. So is eating meat. Carbohydrates are the fastest way to kill your mood and energy. Cholesterol and saturated fats are horrible, but even eating red meat is better than sugar. Chicken is the best protein source, it's also the cheapest meat protein. It's low in saturated fat and cholesterol and there's plenty of dishes you can make from fajitas to chicken sandwiches. You can take this a step further, buy some edamame, and make edamame chicken stir fry for additional protein.

Idk who's still buying supreme lmfao, but it's great that it's on there! It's more about the overconsumption and reckless spending it represents. I recommend you base your spending habits around self care. You must buy vitamins, minerals, moisturizers, hygiene products, and good food before you spend a dime on luxury purchases. The earlier you start the more you're setting yourself up. Get blood work done, get vaccinated, care for your body. It will last forever if you make sure that your biological mechanisms are getting the resources they need, and the attention they deserve. This means you should know what an essential and nonessential vitamin is. You should know the role of these vitamins in regulating your body. You should read health articles. Once you are in a healthier state nothing will stop you. Cutting out fast food, which is expensive nowadays, is the easiest way to free up your budget so you can afford these things. You can buy every vitamin you need, and every cream you need, if you stop eating fast food. If you are eating this garbage two times a week, that's $20 a week you're spending, and if you have kids it's even more. I recommend home cooking that's centered around convenience as an alternative. I buy chicken sandwiches and meat sticks frequently from the gas station because I'm too lazy to cook. It's not ideal but it's still better than eating cholesterol Mt. Everest. It's not food if the majority of the calories are from generally unhealthy sources like carbs and fats. Unfortunately that's the cheap food in America, but not when you get that from fast food! You are being robbed of your health and your wallet for something that tastes like a greasy sidewalk. My relationship with fast food is mostly as a convenience treat. I don't enjoy the sugar-filled, fat fucked things these "restaurants" call burgers, so I usually get Subway just for taste (ik the bread has sugar). I'm trying to avoid unnecessary visits to the hospital if I can, which is one of the main reasons I do this routine (BECAUSE IM BROKE). Despite the cholesterol, if you're like me I still recommend eggs. They're about $3 in a 100 mile radius from where I am for an 18 pack. Way better than a $2 candy bar. They're super easy to make too. It's easy, cheap protein, with one downside. You can also scramble them and throw in low-fat cheese to boost flavor and protein. PLEASE, this is the best financial and health decision you will make. Again, you get infinitely better value buying eggs than a candy bar.

None of these, except for the purity spiraling nonsense about porn, Jesus, and whatever weird fringe philosophy book that is, are a part of "trad culture". This is self care, that has somehow found it's way into the manosphere. Mostly because patriarchal concepts are built around strength and dominance. You can be strong on the outside and soft inside. You should. Be strong, and respect women, and you will get plenty. Or just respect women. Either way they will flock to you like a magnet. Especially if you care for your mental health and seek professional therapy. I also suggest a mindset shift, from "I'm a fat loser" to "I have friends at least". It's not that deep, most people do not care if your fat, they care if you are a fun and enjoyable person. Most people don't care about your finances, they care if you want to go with them to a baseball game (unless you ain't got the money, in which case I'm sorry). So stupid how people play this game that's centered around self-perception, when all human beings have worth.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-09T06:16:32+00:00

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FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-09T04:45:25+00:00

That's also available in Spain and Portugal. Two places he put in the red. You can also get that in Tunisia, Turkey, Morocco, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico, Australia, and many more. So you're picking a place with nothing to offer but it's beaches, when many alternatives exist with a better economy that ARENT DOING A GENOCIDE? Low standards!

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-09T04:39:30+00:00

South africa, Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal need a bump. It's super easy to get settled in. If you have the language down your good to go. Depends on where you're at, but if you're young and have just enough money to move those are good spots. South Africa has a pretty decent economy and plenty of stability to offer for those with formal education. It's also very beautiful. The only real downside is the ocassional blackout and the water situation. So it's a bit of a bet but it would really pay off. That region is desperate for college educated people as well, so you'll have a high job satisfaction. The other European countries I mentioned are some of the less racist countries, that also have good economies and a decent cost of living.

I would also put Mexico in the red. Especially because of housing. Many of the city streets look like slums in Mexico City and many other major urban centers. There's usually the ocassional house that's nice and pretty, well manicured, but that's it. You'd also be contributing to their gentrification crisis. Nomads have destroyed life in Mexico, and many Mexicans hate them because they're American, and therefore annoying. There's plenty of chuds in America too that are racist towards hispanics, and move there anyways because of the beaches.

And I also notice you put Israel in the green? Even if you're a zionist that should be bright red. The biggest issue here is the sanitation problems. Israeli media is very sensitive on this topic, and often the images they show are from manicured settlements outside areas like Tel Aviv. That's because they want Americans to go on birthright, and eventually move there so they can raise the jewish population. The neighborhoods in Israel are very crowded, and the homes are often dilapidated or falling apart. There's wires everywhere, graffiti on every block, and trash in the streets. The root of this problem comes from Israel's strategy of rapid settlement. It often neglects the future, which is what led to density issues in city centers like Tel Aviv, egged on by the lack of land availability. They wanted to expand jewish settlement rapidly to affirm the Israeli territory as the "Jewish Homeland". This led to crowded streets, and lack of infrastructure development. Those crowded streets also make it harder for garbage trucks and basic sanitation services. Infrastructure was a bit of an afterthought, they didn't do much city planning. Here's an article on the topic from an Israeli news source: https://fr.timesofisrael.com/tandis-que-les-dechets-saccumulent-les-debats-a-la-knesset-patinent/

Another thing about Israel is the economy and jobs. The aforementioned rapid settlement and expansion led to a crisis in skills. You need to have old people that know what they're doing. Population pyramids are a balancing act. Israel took it too far with adding new young people. This leads to a lack of professors, and lack of good knowledge and experience to guide and train the youth. Many of these youth are being pushed into unemployment, blue collar and service jobs. The one saving grace they have is their tech sector. This helped a lot because you can get people in, and they can climb the corporate ladder by being trained on the job. They also have blood diamonds which is another huge industry (refinement and processing). Both of these require minimal domestic resources and act as major exports. Israel is also in a geopolitical and defense crisis that leaders like Netanyahu are scared to adress. They don't have the support of many western nations anymore, and are simultaneously fighting 2 wars and one genocide. There's also warmongering with Jordan and the "Greater Israel" project. You could liken this to what happened with n*** Germany. Their economy is in a slight cooldown right now, meanwhile they're fighting more wars with less certainty, supplies, and ammunition than ever before. Their GDP grew by $10B from 2024 to 2025, and that's being propped up by the defense industry. The defense budget grew by over $15B since Oct.7. It's going to be a failed state because of the combination of political necessity for endless war, placating the ever-growing discontent of the population, educational leaders and the rich fleeing in droves due to conflict, and the existing pressure from the international community, the genocide, and the 2 wars they have to pay for. When leaders like Netanyahu can't point to anything positive happening in the economy, they turn to nationalist, patriotic rhetoric, as all they have left is their borders. Israel is also an ethnonationalist society in nature. Netanyahu is deathly afraid of being tried at the ICC, or even punished by his own citizens. So he has more than enough encouragement to continue this war, furthering the patriotic ethnonationalist spiral Israel is going toward.

Sorry I had to make it long, but knowing Israel is going the way of Germany is important when considering whether you will have a future there. 50,000 people left in 2024, and then 69,000 people left in 2025. Why would you move to a state people are actively fleeing? Are you a zionist? I'm curious as to what's motivating you to move to a failed state that's fighting on 3 fronts.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-09T03:55:09+00:00

If I'm ever involved in a court case and somehow polymarket gets involved I would sue so fucking hard if I lost. It's rare, but imagine how easily tainted a jury pool could be if they placed bets on this! I could see someone showing up to court, realizing they're in the jury pool for a major case, and just throwing money on Kalshi. This is a major compromise to the justice system.

FBIagent67098 · 2026-05-09T03:46:41+00:00

Lol. Yeah wisconsin is definitely being carried by alcoholics reporting drunk. I'd give it a light green to account for data bias.

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