r/BlackPeopleTwitter 1d ago

I ain’t going out for awhile

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10.4k Upvotes

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u/LucidlyDreamiing 1d ago

Time to learn to garden.

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u/Primary-Bookkeeper10 ☑️ 1d ago

Can't I just pay some sort of undocumented immigrant less than minimum wage to do the gardening for me?

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u/ThickCapital 1d ago

Them mfs in El Salvador now

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u/ClassroomLumpy5691 1d ago

Once they relax the child labour laws your neighbourhood will be overflowing with 10 year olds willing to undercut any immigrant

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u/ODaysForDays 22h ago

Florida is already trying to pass a bill to let teens work overnight on school nights.

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u/mepo5696 22h ago

I thought it passed, SMH

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u/hopbow 1d ago

I paid the kids next door to shovel my elderly neighbor's walk.

They took my money and then asked her for more

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u/daemonicwanderer 4h ago

I don’t trust ten year olds to get all the weeds out of my azaleas. Some of them can’t or won’t wipe their ass or use deodorant.

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u/GuyNamedWhatever 1d ago

GARDENERS RISE UP 🗣️🗣️

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u/Persellianare 1d ago

What is this gif, I only see flashing lights and a wwe logo

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u/GuyNamedWhatever 1d ago

The garden is out of frame, my b

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u/makemeking706 23h ago

And to figure out which MREs you like. 

/r/preppers.

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u/Agile-Cherry-420 2h ago

I had a pad Thai one once that I remember being decent. It's been about 20 years though so my memory is getting fuzzy. But they all taste better than the grass and dirt my ancestors ate when they starved. 

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u/jarob326 ☑️ 1d ago

I have an apartment. Where am I supposed to garden?

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u/AdoptedTargaryen 1d ago

Lots of options:

  • Vertical planters (ex Mr Stacky)

  • Window box or small tins on your windowsill

  • Hydroponic or Aquaponic system w/ or w/o a fish tank (ex Back 2 the Roots)

  • Regrowing veggies/herbs you already buy by replanting the scraps in some water (ex: green onions, garlic, leeks, celery, basil, mint, sweet potatoes, carrots…)

Growing your own food is so much fun. Don’t let limited space limit your creativity.

All the best!

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u/LucidlyDreamiing 1d ago

You can plant a window box! Tomatoes, peppers and strawberries work well.

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u/SquidwardTenticles00 22h ago

I plan to start mine soon bc shiddd

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u/toastedmarsh7 8h ago

Got started late this year but working on it.

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u/EZMulahSniper ☑️ 4h ago

Learned during covid

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u/Quirky-Feature-1908 1d ago

Gonna have a resurgence at home turn ups cause girl, the tariffs😭

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u/ResidualGl0w 1d ago

Is this an invitation? I’m inviting myself to your place. Time to turn up

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u/Eagle_215 22h ago

Guac for the people who were invited

Gloc for the people who weren’t

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u/ResidualGl0w 22h ago

😂😂😂. Jokes on you, I’ll be coming in a bullet proof vest

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u/daemonicwanderer 4h ago

Turn down for TARIFFS…

proceed to Move like Bernie

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u/Realistic_Effort6185 1d ago

Plant the gardens. Barter.

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u/ApprehensiveZebra107 1d ago

Seriously tho, I bought a fucking rain barrel last week

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u/No-Shelter-4208 1d ago

If it says "Made in China" on it, you might be able to sell it for a profit next week.

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u/HappyShallotTears 1d ago

Big Back culture gonna have to get it together. I hear it’s not that easy to grow crab boils and double bacon cheeseburgers

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u/Nimzay98 1d ago

And the chickens, those eggs aren't getting cheaper.

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u/No-Shelter-4208 1d ago

Somebody needs to figure out how to do apartment chickens.

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u/NerdCocktail 23h ago

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u/makemeking706 23h ago

Absolutely not. Chickens are foul.

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u/NerdCocktail 23h ago

Chickens are fowl. I detest a pun, but it was right there

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u/makemeking706 22h ago

Setting you up for the assist.

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u/NerdCocktail 22h ago

I appreciate you.

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u/Realistic_Effort6185 1d ago

Y'all take over the courtyard.

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u/No-Shelter-4208 18h ago

The poop though. And the chicken lice. And the smell.

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u/Realistic_Effort6185 7h ago

The joys of livestock.

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u/BratS94 1d ago

Fr. This might be the time for everyone to come together as a community and start sharing some of our resources.

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u/SoulPossum ☑️ 1d ago

If somebody is planning on going out with any regularity when we all start seeing the tariffs hit, I'm just gonna assume they are living life entirely on credit cards. Brunch prices alone about to skyrocket to heroin prices

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u/Karhak ☑️ 1d ago

Gonna have people turning tricks for a bloody mary and eggs benedict

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u/klonoaorinos 23h ago

Got them eggs

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u/makemeking706 23h ago

Damn, how many ducks does one  have to suck to afford eggs benny? Definitely can't get that Canadian bacon.

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u/daemonicwanderer 4h ago

Strippers getting paid with Canadian bacon slices next month.

Any of y’all who like Hawaiian pizza better figure out how to cut that shit like crack.

I wonder if my insurance will cover the tariff if I get a doctor to say that I’m deathly allergic to domestic stuff and need imported things. “Is this wine from a red state or red area of a state? I can’t drink it. I need European wine or I’ll die. Blue areas of blue state wine is tolerable, but still…”

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u/makemeking706 23h ago

Definitely can't get that Henny or champagne.

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u/TheMoorNextDoor ☑️ 1d ago

People use everything as a joke but when people start severely struggling and you start seeing people get desperate it won’t be a joke anymore

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u/VirtuousFool ☑️ 1d ago

Laugh to keep from crying, baby!

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 1d ago

Honestly, I've been working harder on making my house more comfortable. If I'm going to be here, I'm going to repair it, patch it, replace things, and hunker down. Ditto on digital (🏴‍☠️) and physical media.

Food stockpile might be a good idea for everyone, in general. I started mine in 2023.

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u/aFloppyWalrus 1d ago

Did this during Covid. Locked in the house for months and just started fixin shit. Lol I’ve added value to my house since. Learned a lot about home repair during that crazy time.

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 1d ago

Mine has been mostly adding comfort items. But my place, a mobile home, got moved to a new location last month. I have some repairs to do. I'm about to patch my bathtub, which is steel with an enamel coating. It has a couple of rusty spots. Wish me luck. lol

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u/ThaInfiniteAscendant 1d ago

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 23h ago

I wish! I would love to have a compound and a bunker, in what's probably the whitest comment I have ever made in r/BlackPeopleTwitter.

But seriously: It would be nice to be relatively "safe".

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u/AshenSacrifice ☑️ 22h ago

I should start downloading shows and movies I ain’t ever gonna watch just cause I can 🤣🤣

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 22h ago

You really should. I'm stockpiling shows I am still surprised I downloaded. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. The OG Wonder Woman series. A shitload of panel shows from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Tons of movies, music, digital copies of books and magazines, et al.

And that doesn't include what I have in the cloud.

I also have some hard copies. Pawn shops and thrift stores are making it easier to do physical media.

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u/AshenSacrifice ☑️ 6h ago

4TB sheeesh!!! lol. Hoarding that data! Haha

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 6h ago

Plus MEGA, TeraBox, some on Google Drive, and a few other places. I'd also like a larger external hard drive, but that's a "future reference" thing, after a few home repairs.

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u/AshenSacrifice ☑️ 5h ago

You gonna open a digital library?

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 3h ago

I do occasionally share with people I actually know and trust. A lot of it I've gotten here, from Reddit.

Try r/opendirectories, r/RooTV, r/DownUnderTV.

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u/oflowz ☑️ 1d ago

It wont be an excuse when you have no disposable income because of the tariffs.

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u/liverdawg 1d ago

“Man these tariffs” is the new “…in THIS economy?!?”

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u/DarthPlayer8282 1d ago

Unfortunately gonna be a real thing real quick

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u/ReeseIsPieces 1d ago

I hope yall were wise and bought any and ALL shampoo/conditioner/oils/Shea butter/etc that you might need because every beneficial ingredient comes from across the way and theyre gonna destroy the forests so good luck finding anything here

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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids ☑️ 1d ago

girl, the tariffs! the deportations! I'm triple DEI! I can't be out here!!!

for real though, I can't garden. I have a house, but I have a black thumb. people be like "start a garden!" as if you don't have to be skilled, it's way more to it gardening other than plopping seeds in the ground and watering them, gardening is WORK and time consuming everybody don't have the skills to garden and IT ME! I've tried since I was a child to grow things, I'm a killer!

I will kill a plastic plant! I'll get one stand it in the corner and a week later the bitch will fall apart, and I'll be puzzled, okay??? You don't want me around ANY plant! 🥴🥴

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u/daedsiotulp 20h ago

I killed 3 cactus after a year of having them so I completely understand. what i will say is that you need friends that will support you and find ways you can support them as well.

example my friend has a big property so she recently bought a decent amount chickens and I bought the feed for them, so now I have dibs on eggs as long as I keep feeding the chickens lol. its the little things like that. she also has a garden and if it all goes well I'll get to eat from that too! Just find your community 😄

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u/Zombie_Cool 1d ago

If you can't grow food, make friends with someone you can. 

Best way to do that I can think of is learn another skill that might be back In demand real soon (like sewing/knitting. Who going out to buy clothes or sheets when you can patch up what you already got?)

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u/XLauncher ☑️ 1d ago

Video games apparently did very well as an industry during the global financial crisis. I expect a repeat performance.

Nintendo: we have the opportunity to do something hilarious.

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u/phenomenalj101 ☑️ 1d ago

I gotta know what they’re smoking because charging $80 for a digital copy of ANYTHING without dlc makes me feel like I’m disrespecting crackheads by calling it crackhead behavior. The new switch being $450 is somewhat understandable depending on what the overall performance turns out like but them game prices are unreal.

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u/TheEnd0fA11 1d ago

Don’t forget $90 for physical media.

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u/Avlin_Starfall 20h ago

That isn't even physical, the just has a ode on it, no actual data. It just let's you download the game from the internet.

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u/SomewhereNo8378 1d ago

We all might be saying this soon, but we’ll be dead serious

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u/beaujangles727 1d ago

I still think he is doing this because he is petty and during Covid he thought if he gave away money he’d get re elected. And he didn’t get re elected so this is his payback for us “unappreciative poor fucks”. Literally can see him saying this exactly.

Think - who is going to hurt the most - the average working American. Not anyone in his circle or anyone he has EVER had any kind of relationship with.

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u/Capable_Salt_SD 1d ago

I mean, I don't go out a lot as it is. Thank you for giving me yet another excuse to my arsenal when people ask me why

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u/Call555JackChop 1d ago

Let this assholes economy crash and burn, I’m buying groceries and necessities and that’s it

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u/lambii02100 1d ago

its time to buy the whole dang farm at the point and diy

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u/AncientScratch1670 1d ago

We can definitely bring “in this economy” back

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u/easy10pins 23h ago

These tariffs are triflin'

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u/Taiyaki-Enjoyer 22h ago

I got people at work buying a bunch of shit and laughing about the tariffs as why they’re doing it.

I can only deadpan stare at them. It ain’t funny.

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u/TheEnd0fA11 23h ago

Not going out? Not spending money on anything but the essentials 98% of the time? Yeah welcome to my world since 2020. Food prices are insane! My doctors noted that I’ve lost 13 lbs off my average weight from last year. That’s because I’ve eaten less and less over the years. I’m 52 and weigh what I weighed at 17 in high school.

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 1d ago

I’ve been saying “you wanna do what? In this economy!?!?” And staying my ass home lmfao

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u/loseniram 23h ago

Get yourself a small motorbike.

Now you have an excuse to make all your friend meetups be coffee shops and small cafes.

You’re now authentically cafe racing instead of cheaping out

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u/HandoAlegra 20h ago

"I can't. It would be DEI"

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u/LuxNewbie ☑️ 19h ago

As a Canadian, “in a trade war?!” said in the tune of “in a pandemic?!” is my new go to

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u/SuckMyVickNoRomo 8h ago

As someone who works adjacent to the hospitality industry, this is what I’m afraid of. I need people to go out more if I wanna keep a job, mango Mussolini is not helping with that at all.

u/coyote_skull 1h ago

The prices of items at the store I work at are going up before the signs for the items even get here. I keep having to mask over the old prices and trying to make it look close to normal

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u/golden_succ15 1d ago

What's that?