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Banana Republican retweeted
When I was 11/12 my dad got a job in Mendoza, Argentina and my family moved down there. I was put in school in Spanish, and we tried to do the whole expat family thing. This was 2007. We were affluent Americans. I became fluent quickly, my sister and I could fully blend. When the global economy crashed it whiplashed worse poorly managed countries like Argentina which was already struggling with inflation. There was a significant amount of blame placed on America as a country and gringos living in country as its representatives. Of the seven other American families in our suburb, five of them had armed, violent robberies and rapes happen in their homes in 2008. I learned much later from @Lady_Astor that the gringo blame was strongly encouraged by Argentina's (Cristina) Kirchner government. My family had a gunman inside the walls incident and we fled the country. The police, who we'd already bribed to come if we called (this was standard) wouldn't protect us. The other American families had been there longer and were better established than us were barely better off. Many had to flee. The experience has led me to be strongly against doing the international expat thing. Assuming that your native neighbors Argentina will not see you as the most viable possible target should any shocks to the system occur is a potentially fatal mistake. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how well set up you are, when things get even moderately bad, you are an outsider. And the place will eat you alive. Do I have any doubt that @itsjacksworld has had fun as a tourist in South America for six years? No. I'm sure it's been great. He's never been there for a major stability shock, like an economic crash. He clearly doesn't have a family and does not know the true stakes of being an expat. He doesn't actually own property down there (more on the flimsiness of "owning property" in a country like Argentina next time), but I hope he comes to realize this through maturity, not experience. Easy to post a concrete cube house near Bariloche for updoots online. Totally unadvisable to become a real expatriate with skin in the game (a wife, a family, not a kid on vacation)
In Jackson Hole or Big Sky, $2.5M gets you a condo. In Patagonia, it gets you a brand-new glass mansion that looks like it was built for a Bond movie. Every room faces a huge glacial lake. Double-height glass walls and a stone fireplace that runs to the ceiling. 7,700 sq ft surrounded by native forest. 5 suites, each with a walk-in closet, and a mudroom built for ski gear. 20 minutes to the biggest ski resort in South America. 25 minutes to the airport. Wyoming and Montana aren’t a true escape anymore. Patagonia is.
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Replying to @shagbark_hick
Buying brand new Vespa scooters for a couple mates and doing that same route would be the correct way to spend 18k
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Replying to @redhairshanks86
Indians don’t even count (subhuman)
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Replying to @yamatsullu
THEY’RE ALL GIRLS
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Replying to @SankaraDispatch
That’s a lot of wasted hallway space they could have packed with inventory
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Replying to @stonetoss
Better be able to trace ancestry back to the Mayflower IMO. And nobody on the family tree with a shitskin wife either!
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Replying to @Cyber_Trailer
His only entertainment value is as a Nig trying to sound smart. Oh I see Jamal, the phone is Dope, you say, very cool.
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Replying to @DonnyGroyper
We’re infested with subhumans
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Replying to @bilawalsidhu
I hate having to descend to the third world hellscape of aliexpress to buy basic components
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Replying to @HealthRanger
Africa and India can go first
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Replying to @racistbilbo
Any man watching this needs to take out his 9 iron and wind up a good backswing.
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Banana Republican retweeted
The heart attack was first described in a medical journal in 1912, and the man who described it had trouble finding a second case. Doctors had been opening chests for 300 years. They had dissected kings, paupers, drunks and the obese, and the blocked coronary artery was a rarity you wrote up. A young Boston cardiologist started practising in 1911. He later said he did not see his first heart attack patient until 1921, and then they came in a flood. By 1950 it was the biggest killer in the United States. By 1960, in Britain. Victorian England ate butter, dripping, suet, bacon and cream, and smoked like a chimney, and the coronary ward did not exist. The Masai lived on milk, meat and blood, and the doctors who went looking in the 1960s could not find heart disease among them. So what arrived between the dissecting rooms of 1900 and the coronary care units of 1960? Crisco launched in 1911. Cottonseed oil hardened into a block that looked like lard. Margarine followed it into every kitchen. By 1960 a quarter of American fat came out of a seed press that had not existed in 1900. The seed oil goes into your blood on the LDL particle. It is the part of the particle that oxidises. The oxidised particle is what the artery wall takes in. The cholesterol was in the butter for a thousand years and the artery stayed open. Then the fat changed, and a disease nobody had heard of became the way most people die. The guideline blames the butter. The butter has an alibi going back to the Bronze Age.
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Replying to @elonmusk
Can’t wait till Whistlindiesel gets one into the power lines
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Replying to @shagbark_hick
Trash people and their shitbull chihuhuas, of course. Now, take a Great Man and his canine companion? Magestic
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Replying to @owroot
Bet youve never run a MS660. Its actually a surprise there are any trees standing near me. Big weeds, the lot of em.
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Replying to @Phartsig @owroot
Howdy neighbor
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Replying to @Oiarjunrathore
Soylennial core ass list
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Replying to @NevrEnoughX
Many are jeets just looting everything that isn’t nailed down
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Replying to @WomanDefiner
Only if you’re eating rotten box on sluts who fuck nigs.
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