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blighter posts on X about business, money, private equity, fine the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence finance XXXXX% countries XXXXX% social networks XXXX% technology brands XXXX% celebrities XXXX% musicians XXXX%

Social topic influence business 10.71%, money 10.71%, private equity #72, fine #969, debt 7.14%, culture 3.57%, level 3.57%, pink 3.57%, ceo 3.57%, return to XXXX%

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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"this one tweet contains an almost fractal-like representation of the many many ways our culture is stuck. on any level you engage the tweet exhibits stuck culture - it's about a remake of a movie from a XX year old book: make new things. - cites a quote from the XX year old guy running things: make way for younger talent. - says the remake is going to be "unbelievably contemporary" as evidenced by two bands from the mid-1960's: no for real for the love of all that's holy make way and let younger people make new things"
X Link 2025-12-06T17:46Z 6694 followers, 276.6K engagements

"this is true. the reason Blockbuster failed was not that they were too stupid or slow to change it is that the business had been looted by its parent Viacom in precisely the same way private equity does to everything nowadays. Blockbuster had a good approach to a changing marketplace and a good lead with their huge brand name but they had absolutely no capital to make their plan work because all their cashflow was pledged to pay extremely high debt levels all of which debt was extracted by Viacom prior to spinning Blockbuster off to flounder and die on its own rather that providing working"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:23Z 6696 followers, 765.9K engagements

"it is amazing: Canada is literally committing suicide in every way it is possible for a country to do so. 1) here they decided that Canadians perhaps the nicest people on earth were actually secretly genocidal monsters. they decided this with no evidence and then looked for evidence and found none but now its a key piece of their national identity anyway. 2) they went whole hog on land acknowledgements and now their courts have started making those land acknowledgements the basis of property rights effectively beginning the process of literally unwinding the existence of Canada. 3) they have"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:10Z 6696 followers, 31.9K engagements

"this is funny and true but also -- despite the name -- "rare earths" are not actually all that rare. what they are is difficult and incredibly dirty to extract and process into usability and the US for a variety of reasons decided years ago that we were fine getting out of that industry and letting our largest geopolitical enemy run by genocidal communists to control this vital resource that all modern manufacturing relies upon"
X Link 2025-12-11T16:28Z 6694 followers, 6654 engagements

"@fakelurkeracct it might be my own weakness to potato dishes but not gonna lie i enjoy the occasional foray into fries with different sauces. poutine curry fries whatever. i'm in. love just a nice crisp fry dipped in ketchup like every american but i'll take fries almost any way"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:00Z 6696 followers, 1200 engagements

"the bankruptcy isnt where the money is made. (indeed in PE deals they will often game the bankruptcy process to maintain control after shedding debts by forum shopping to get a judge who will approve an arms length transaction where one of the PE firms owned funds buys the company out of bankruptcy from a different owned fund its ridiculous.) no bankruptcy is the end result of the PE firm already having made its money. the way it works is the PE fund borrows a bunch of money to buy the target company. then with the newly acquired company you run it for extremely short term cash flow boosts:"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:55Z 6696 followers, 15.3K engagements

"@NolteNC and then interestingly i think she actually later starred as a hot 30-something hired to babysit and have sex with a teenager"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:57Z 6696 followers, XXX engagements

"remember that time some global poverty advocate or whatver was lamenting that all global hunger could be permanently solved for like $XX billion except billionaires are too greedy or whatver and then Elon was like give me the plan and if it makes sense I will fund it immediately. and the guy had to backpedal bc of course thats ridiculous this is the same thing"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:29Z 6670 followers, 41.9K engagements

"@jcd1974 eh that was a challenge but clearly Netflix made money in the DVD by mail market and then pivoted to streaming so empirically piracy has not wiped out all "we sell movies" businesses"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:12Z 6670 followers, 6098 engagements

"@qualadder @PeterHalpin17 presumably underwriting fees and not holding the debt themselves. they sell it out to i dunno pension funds or other easily duped folk. but I dunno"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:13Z 6671 followers, 1817 engagements

"@MoffFrieren @JCra420 yup. saw someone today pointing at a newly expensive shitty Panera sandwich so looks like theyre on their way now"
X Link 2025-12-09T03:14Z 6672 followers, XXX engagements

"the widget manufacturer that grew double digits lol PE: - provides slightly below market returns to investors over any timeline you check for the past XX years - has companies go bankrupt at multiples the overall rate for their sectors (but sure this is confounded by them looking for distressed businesses) - has worse job performance for workers: slower pay more turnover more layoffs but surely it has some good sides too yes partners in PE make a ton. so worse for their investors worse for the workers worse for the acquired companies but they make a lot. so a societal good in the same way"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:32Z 6679 followers, XXX engagements

"@AndrewG29922648 @TheVinoMom only recently became aware by her post about Five Guys but it earned a follow"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:28Z 6680 followers, XXX engagements

"i don't have good policy prescriptions that i've thought through but have seen interesting proposals by others in this thread and also Oren Cass's policy shop American Compass had some proposals that seemed reasonable as well. Stuff like changing tax treatment of debt or other things to limit profitability of LBO financial maneuvering maybe also some bankruptcy or PE corporate structure reforms to limits "arms length" stuff that passes through bankruptcy courts. here's one from this thread by a guy i routinely engage with and is an interesting thinker:"
X Link 2025-12-09T16:57Z 6679 followers, XX engagements

"true but also things that Jack Nicholson can rock may not be quite as attainable for literally anyone else"
X Link 2025-12-09T20:49Z 6692 followers, XXX engagements

"@FeedbackRobust yes. everything Pacino has done post Scent of a Woman has a bit of the hoo-ah to it that is off putting"
X Link 2025-12-11T21:37Z 6683 followers, XX engagements

"yesterday i tossed off a post keying off a tweet about Blockbuster but actually mostly about Private Equity which I disdain. it got some traction so my notifications are something of a dumpster fire. that said i wanted to surface an exchange from deep in one of the threads where i got some pushback from someone who sounds like they are in PE saying mine is a biased view the losses get publicized the wins don't. so in this thread a few quick points on this with some background links"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:56Z 6694 followers, 1543 engagements

"final link to Oren Cass's outfit American Compass's original dive into the unsavory predatory mess that we have allowed the financial sector to metastasize into in recent decades:"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:57Z 6694 followers, XXX engagements

"or take a recent report in the Harvard Business Review from McKinsey consultants pimping for PE here: in their opening paragraph they acknowledge PE's reputation as "corporate raiders" who engage in "traditional tactics" like "asset carve-outs (selling off divisions or subsidiaries) and sale leasebacks (selling a companys property and then leasing it from the new owner)" but that is a misunderstanding the authors aver because those practices are so widespread that some PE firms are trying something different: actually running the business. this. is not a defense. it is an acknowledgement"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:57Z 6696 followers, XXX engagements

"ladies and gentlemen: they got him. (did anyone claim Trump didnt call some countries shithole countries I remember discussion about that being inappropriate but true or true and wtf cared if its appropriate. and of course on the other side Jakes side we had the Haiti was always great crowd taking selfies on the beach in Haiti or whatever which was the silliest position.)"
X Link 2025-12-11T21:49Z 6696 followers, XXX engagements