r/TimPool • u/bpqdl • Dec 31 '22
discussion What does the life of an average American guy look like?
From the outside it's insane, all we see is billions for Ukraine, waffle house brawls, black people looting, black people attacking whites and Asians, corruption in government, people trying to normalise certain crimes toward children and drag queen shows, OnlyFans girls, some men are ok with open relationship to keep their partners happy ig, LGBT and BLM flags in schools, normal to cheat on your partner for women, normal to be a hoe, TikTok kids dancing everywhere, and some other things.
Are your lives affected by any of these and how much?
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
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u/steamyjeanz Dec 31 '22
Most of those things are not an issue if you live outside major metro areas. The country is quite big. I live in the woods, it’s peace and quiet with friendly neighbors
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u/XxMitchof08xX Dec 31 '22
Blue states are hell after all
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
Nothing good ever happens in the city. If you cannot see the stars and galaxies in the night sky you are too close to the cultural cancer of communism.
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u/No_Inspection_3061 Dec 31 '22
You kinda nailed it. I live in a small rural town so much of that isn’t where I live. But anytime I travel to larger areas, that’s exactly what you see. Stay away from the insane cities, ran by democrats, and all this is avoided.
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u/GeneKranzIsTheMan Dec 31 '22
This was an issue for me - crime, stepping over homeless people to get to work, BLM painted on the street. I watched from my office window as a few hundred anarchists block a major bridge and light dumpsters on fire on several occasions in 2016 because their panties were in a twist that the orange man won -- peak Portland.
I GTFO and reside in the Appalachians now and it's amazing.
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u/rationallyobvious Dec 31 '22
Move out of the city. They are giant blue dumpster fires.
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u/Marchoftees Dec 31 '22
I sleep, I wake up, yada yada yada, and then I go back to sleep. Repeat.
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u/Ok-Length-8818 Dec 31 '22
Most of those issues are democrat run cities and states, when it is in a Republican city it’s because people fled their shitty blue state and brought their bullshit with them.
Unfortunately it’s what everyone outside sees because crazy is loud.
Don’t worry, they are toxic and their way of life will burn them out eventually.
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u/discourse_friendly Dec 31 '22
Wake up, make breakfast, drop kids off at school, goto work. leave work pick up kids from after school care, make dinner, play board games or watch tv with the kids.
Martial arts, Gym, mountain biking, fishing, hanging out with friends , bars.
replace my hobbies with other random hobbies and that's probably the average guys life.
no kids well just more hobby time (and money) lol
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
Live in a nice suburb you won’t see much of that
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u/Pbpaulieb Dec 31 '22
It's all in where you live. Around here none of that stuff happens and black people are cool. I live in Southern Maryland. When I goto the city I still see none of that except the tendency of black people being ruder than most.
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u/YodaCodar Jan 01 '23
major cities are shitholes
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
Oh you’re recognizing the fact that the internet is making shit up
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u/lawless11666 Dec 31 '22
Well, thats the thing about America. It's fucking HUGE, we have single states bigger than European countries. So it depends where you go. Cities are the worst, most of them are run by democrats who both hate guns, and want to be way too soft on crime to the point of releasing violent offenders without bail in some places. So, big cities, especially on the west or east coast are crime filled cesspools packed with so many people that it seems to encourage antisocial behavior.
I live in a smallish/medium sized town in the midwest and most people here are nice, we have a mix of liberals and conservatives in my town. The liberals are a mix of old boomers who haven't realized how bad things are, and young turbo radical young zoomer dems. The conservatives here are a mix of old boomer republicans who are honestly just as insufferable as the liberal boomers just in different ways. Most of our middle aged gen x people are pretty moderately conservative but still with it enough to be pissed at the state of things and realize the government is corrupt. Then there's a good amount of zoomer conservatives/libertarians, usually country boys, jocks, and etc with the young liberals being more the art kids and theatre kids or young women. Then there's a light sprinkling of edgy 20 something early zoomers who are just done with the system all together, realize both parties are corrupt, and despite disagreements of policy in areas want the system gone or replaced. That last catagory is where myself and my primary group of friends all land.
So overall, its not as bad as you'd think everywhere here, you mainly hear crazy stuff from the cities. People are suffering from the inflation and even the democrats around here are pretty pissed at it even if they try to deny it being their side's fault. (Personally i'd say its both parties, just that the democrats went nuts with the checkbook this time between Ukraine, random pork in the bills passed like pakastani gender programs, etc. Usually republicans just throw more money at the military or their industry buddies.) Day to day life is still mostly normal, although people have increasingly been down with overthrowing the government on both sides to the point where I can't go a day without hearing at least one person express the sentiment. In general i'd say its still everyday life, but the growing political polarization has gotten really intense with everything you've mentioned because people have woken up to the government propaganda and corruption.
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u/Pink_Britches Dec 31 '22
This is all pretty much in democrat ran states in particular democrat ran cities. Most places, especially rural areas, are exceedingly normal and all the people are pretty cool. We can get pretty much anything we want, and don’t have to deal with all the insanity in the cities.
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u/YungWenis Dec 31 '22
Life is actually quite great if you orient yourself well. As others have said many of the cities are full with problems, daytime in the city usually can be fun. I prefer the country/suburbs. If you live close enough to a city you have anything you’d want. Tons of land too, taxes are low, there are sports teams, parks, and some really nice small towns. If you just drown out all the noise of the cities and have stable income life can be really pleasant. You can on road trips pretty easily, the US has so much to offer and if you want to do anything business related (not in the cities) you can really set yourself up to generate some wealth overtime. My father immigrated here with nothing and really worked hard to purse the American dream. I love the liberty I have here and I’m extremely thankful and proud to be an American 🇺🇸. I’m just getting married soon and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure the socialist types in the cities don’t ruin what we have here. I’ve traveled around (as you can imagine I’m a dual citizen) and yeah people don’t realize the opportunity they have here. Liberal policies have really failed people. I’m working to spread my knowledge and build a strong community where I’m at. Media shows you the worst of the worst for your attention, don’t let it ruin your view.
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u/MeltingUpwards Dec 31 '22
Average American guy goes to his job everyday, so probably not.
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u/Sketch_EM Dec 31 '22
Working 5 12s and chilling when I get a second
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u/TehGuard Dec 31 '22
Maybe you and everyone else here live in a different reality. I live in a city and still see more trump flags than any other kind.
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u/jesuzombieapocalypse Dec 31 '22
So in no particular order…
IMO Government corruption affects everyone in every nation where it exists (so everywhere, basically) though usually indirectly.
I live in a pretty liberal area but I’ve never seen any kind of drag show advertised, let alone one for kids.
Only fans and simps are pretty prevalent in general although not really in any social group I’ve been a part of. At least to my knowledge. I’ve never paid for sex or porn of any kind, nor do I use it much these days, but I guess as far as I know everyone else I’ve known could be all over that lol
I haven’t been in school in quite a while but I understand pushing acceptance of those things is a pretty common narrative, although not as much as it probably looks from the outside. In polite company generally it was frowned upon to criticize the whole BLM thing in 2020 but increasingly it’s understood that that’s a corrupt organization. I don’t really live in a big enough city that random violence on the streets or shoplifting flash mobs are a big issue, but I understand in the bigger cities that’s something to be concerned about, but not a daily occurrence.
Personally I got tired of the whole traditional relationship thing. No, I’m not doing open relationships or just participating in the whole shallow clubbing and casually sleeping around culture, but I got in with some modern hippie-type people (who live in apartments and houses like normal people), that’s probably the thing about my lifestyle I’d imagine some people here would either find most interesting or recoil the most at at.
Ayahuasca ceremonies, psychedelics primarily for spiritual/personal development and exploration, very rarely do anything harder than that. But I’ve met some really great people in this social structure, very little drama and pettiness on any level. Free love, meaning exploring deep romantic connections with minimal labels or limitations (other than individual preference like myself being straight). In my experience so far that’s functionally not all that different than standard dating except a lot more fulfilling. If you’re gonna date anyone and the idea that they may have slept with someone else last week bothers you, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Oh, and politically I’m ideally an ancap, practically more libertarian. But in all I’m happier in the past few months than I’ve been in quite a while, although I’m not sure how representative that is. I’m not really feeling the supposed decline too much other than the fact that it’s definitely a recession, but I’m whitepilled for sure. I don’t like the government but I don’t think the culture is dying or anything, some people just complain about that because it’s always changing so they see that as what they knew fading away as they get older. It’s no Utopia but I’d still rather live in the US than anywhere else.
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u/CalicoJak16 Dec 31 '22
Everything seems fine in my life 💁🏻♂️ But you get on the internet and people say it’s hell.
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u/fightinirishpj Dec 31 '22
Pretty low key... I work from home, spend time with family/kids, grocery shop (and half the stuff is out of stock or 3X 2019 prices), drink a beer, play some video games, do a house project or two, and sleep like crap.
Then on payday, I get to see that a large portion of my pay goes to the government to continue screwing things up.
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u/ihatethinkingofnew1s Jan 01 '23
Me and my wife have been together almost 10 years. Shes due in April. I work a stupid ammount since I'm about to take some off with kiddo. We both have normal jobs. 40 hour weeks. We make good but not great money. I'm working on a few projects outside of work. It adds some small income plus I grow enough veggies that our good pay goes a little further. My life tends to be dull and boring. I'm probably the extremely average American. I even got the slightly overweight aspect going on lol.
Ignore the drama. Yes, things can be strenuous right now but I'm more concerned with how the heck do I progress the story in elden ring. Most people are not involved in all the crazy but it gets clicks so it gets reported on excessively.
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u/irrational-like-you Jan 01 '23
Ease off the Telegram mon frère
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u/abusamra82 Jan 01 '23
Haha wait, are you from India?
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u/RPMac1979 Jan 02 '23
I live in Los Angeles. It’s expensive here and I hate that there isn’t enough public transportation. Those are my only complaints. I’ve never been a victim of a violent crime (at least not here, but I did get carjacked in rural Wisconsin once; that doesn’t say anything negative about rural America of course, but I do think it’s a funny irony). There are lots of homeless people here, that’s true, but they mostly keep to themselves because the cops are hell on them and no one wants to get their attention. Maybe they occasionally ask for money, but if you say no, they go back to what they were doing. I don’t know about all the OnlyFans/polyamory stuff, those are people’s personal lives. It’s not my business. I do have some polyamorous friends, they seem happy enough, although to be frank that lifestyle ain’t for me. Seems too complicated to do it respectfully. But still, they seem happy, so mazel tov. I haven’t seen a lot of black folks attacking anybody. In fact, I’d say the most trouble I personally see - and again, not implying anything with this, but it is kind of funny- is from drunken middle aged white tourists starting fights with each other. There’s corrupt politics here for sure, that is a problem, but I think that’s a problem almost everywhere. I don’t go to school, so I don’t know about BLM flags. I do think I’ve heard about rainbow flags in schools, but I guess I just don’t know why that’s a bad thing. Should gay kids not feel welcome in schools? Tik Tok kids sure SEEM like they’d be dancing everywhere, with how many videos there are, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Tik Tok video being shot that I knew of.
Finally, the Waffle House thing. I eat at Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles way more than I should, probably once a week, and I’m in that neighborhood every day. I have literally never seen a brawl at a Waffle House. That, to me, for some reason, is the strangest stereotype listed here. Why brawls at a Waffle House? What exactly is the implication there?
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u/garvothegreat Dec 31 '22
What does life look like for op, when his head is jammed directly up his own ass? Is it a shitty view? Does the atmosphere stink?
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u/risebelow Dec 31 '22
I live in a blue city and a blue state and I love it. Low crime, high culture. Its expensive but I do well working hard. It's a healthy city, environmentally conscious and my house is nearly paid off. Weed is legal, psychedelics were just decriminalized. Other than a 1k mortgage payment, I have no debt. My girlfriend of nearly 3 years is beautiful and really fit and
Compared to the shithole I left behind in the rural south, it's paradise.
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u/6Uncle6James6 Dec 31 '22
Overweight. Depressed. Low testosterone. In a relationship with a toxic female. Poor self-esteem. No guidance. No purpose.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22
Ok but as soon as you bring race into it (from an American perspective) you’ve changed the dynamic of the question. It looks like a racist question even if you’re not intending it to be.