[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Noahpinion Noah Smith 🐇 Noah Smith 🐇 posts on X about china, israel, countries, russia the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::281877818/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +25% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +56% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::281877818/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXX +73% - X Months XXXXX +41% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::281877818/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.05% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.42% - X Months XXXXXXX +5.10% - X Year XXXXXXX +8.50% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::281877818/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::281877818/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) #1022 [finance](/list/finance) #4724 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [china](/topic/china) #739, [israel](/topic/israel) #1383, [countries](/topic/countries) #28, [russia](/topic/russia) #621, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #668, [pakistan](/topic/pakistan) #46, [argentina](/topic/argentina) #431, [inflation](/topic/inflation) #195, [tariffs](/topic/tariffs) #327, [japan](/topic/japan) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@matthewazrieli](/creator/undefined) [@ravennole](/creator/undefined) [@mrkapitalist](/creator/undefined) [@pegobryen](/creator/undefined) [@formulaalonso1](/creator/undefined) [@alosthighway0](/creator/undefined) [@martin_dante_1](/creator/undefined) [@caseyreadreeder](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@holliemaea](/creator/undefined) [@ianwvu](/creator/undefined) [@nahuatlgpt](/creator/undefined) [@dangainor](/creator/undefined) [@generatorbrick](/creator/undefined) [@archibaldcrane](/creator/undefined) [@renrubuk](/creator/undefined) [@jaanamari777](/creator/undefined) [@evolving_ego](/creator/undefined) [@lordgem3](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::281877818/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "These people always pretend like there's some magic fertility policy that we know about that we're just not doing"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941028036981535148) 2025-07-04 06:55:21 UTC 355.4K followers, 478.5K engagements "This was my most "big-think" post in a while: A vision of what humanity will look like over the next century as our numbers steadily dwindle but we're connected ever more tightly into AI-guided hive minds"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944689409456324734) 2025-07-14 09:24:20 UTC 355.4K followers, 19.1K engagements "@archibaldcrane @wesyang "way too libbed-up" = not the popular mainstream compromise offered in 2013"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944064974055518678) 2025-07-12 16:03:03 UTC 355.3K followers, XX engagements "Most cringe personality cult in modern history"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944072084399042782) 2025-07-12 16:31:18 UTC 355.4K followers, 67.1K engagements "@HightailTom Research showing other factors probably weren't a big deal"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943776904747831717) 2025-07-11 20:58:22 UTC 355.4K followers, 12.6K engagements "The solution to obesity was ultimately technological not social. The solution to Covid was ultimately technological not social. The solution to climate change will ultimately be technological not social. Why do we think the solution to low fertility has to be social"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941260882224480439) 2025-07-04 22:20:35 UTC 355.4K followers, 506K engagements "This basically inverts the meaning of the word "genocide". Leftists would have you believe that FAILING TO DESTROY the state of Israel is "genocide". It's the first example I can think of where people tried to define lack of genocide as "genocide""  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943768814321381593) 2025-07-11 20:26:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 44.9K engagements ""Pro-natal policy works you just have to pay people to have kids" "How dare all these poor people live off welfare" BRO YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE OF THESE"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943155523492188467) 2025-07-10 03:49:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 330.5K engagements "It's always IQ IQ IQ with these guys until you point out that nonwhite people have high IQs too at which point it suddenly becomes culture heritage and blah blah blah"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1933619423803548129) 2025-06-13 20:16:10 UTC 355.3K followers, 66.1K engagements "Tariffs are probably causing a little bit of a rise in inflation"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1945136041133850874) 2025-07-15 14:59:05 UTC 355.4K followers, 19.8K engagements "He asked me where I thought the best place to live would be in 2040. I said I was bullish on Poland"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1942073274755850704) 2025-07-07 04:08:45 UTC 355.4K followers, 61.8K engagements "The thermostatic backlash to ICE rampages is going to be significant"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943773126145585269) 2025-07-11 20:43:21 UTC 355.4K followers, 304.1K engagements "American society is being destroyed by foreign ideas but not because of immigration"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943486608910786635) 2025-07-11 01:44:50 UTC 355.3K followers, 66.9K engagements "The people on this website suffer merely from being on this website woke or not"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943881353281323305) 2025-07-12 03:53:24 UTC 355.4K followers, 27.8K engagements "In fact there are plenty of recent cases where market liberalization has been pretty effective for developing countries. Say what you will about neoliberalism but it definitely doesn't "fail everywhere it's tried""  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943488974317621359) 2025-07-11 01:54:14 UTC 355.4K followers, 16.5K engagements "India has affirmative action for Scheduled Tribes. Indonesia has autonomy for indigenous groups. Kenya has constitutional protections for minority groups. China exempted minorities from the One Child Policy. Whether you think it's good or bad this type of policy is common"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943206633049411640) 2025-07-10 07:12:19 UTC 355.4K followers, 64.8K engagements "Zohran's "government grocery store" idea is nuts. If it succeeded in underselling private stores (which it wouldn't) it would just put a bunch of independent minority-owned and immigrant-owned stores out of business. Insanity"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1937551925643538457) 2025-06-24 16:42:31 UTC 355.4K followers, 785K engagements "Poland Malaysia and Turkey have entered the ranks of developed nations. The Dominican Republic is almost there. Yes countries can still get rich in this day and age"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944721036400078856) 2025-07-14 11:30:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 164.2K engagements "There's no economic justification. It's just culture wars"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1939471118060204105) 2025-06-29 23:48:42 UTC 355.4K followers, 334.7K engagements "THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO HAVE KIDS BECAUSE YOU GIVE THEM $50K OR $100K TO HAVE KIDS ARE WORKING-CLASS AND POOR PEOPLE"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943257150161326123) 2025-07-10 10:33:03 UTC 355.4K followers, 121.4K engagements "Drones keep taking over the battlefield more and more. And Ukraine is the world's top innovator in drone weaponry. Trump stabbing Ukraine in the back was a very dumb decision"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1903962168870965640) 2025-03-24 00:08:49 UTC 355.4K followers, 144.2K engagements "That was a compliment btw Yakub is cool 🤨"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944972317723123849) 2025-07-15 04:08:31 UTC 355.4K followers, 13.6K engagements "A Zoomer girl told me that XX% of Zoomer guys have ED. Hope that's not true"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1939119681832656907) 2025-06-29 00:32:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 492.9K engagements "The thermostatic backlash to the ICE rampages has already begun"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943968573845910012) 2025-07-12 09:39:59 UTC 355.4K followers, 88.9K engagements "Why haven't tariffs raised inflation yet X. It takes time for tax hikes to raise prices X. Companies eat some of the cost X. A macroeconomic demand slowdown tends to keep a lid on inflation"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943766796840186159) 2025-07-11 20:18:12 UTC 355.4K followers, 200K engagements "When people like Zohran's dad started talking about Israeli "genocide" the day after the October 7th attacks BEFORE Israel attacked Gaza it became clear that they intended to define Israel's *existence itself* as "genocide""  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943767903117226375) 2025-07-11 20:22:36 UTC 355.4K followers, 443.6K engagements "Soon Michigan is going to have high quality public housing universal air conditioning and execution of all drug dealers"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944057299691319751) 2025-07-12 15:32:33 UTC 355.4K followers, 40.4K engagements "Wait America's new alliance with Russia is being called off"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1945135542951145902) 2025-07-15 14:57:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 39.7K engagements "Everyone who says "cities shouldn't look like this" should be required to post pics of what they think cities SHOULD look like"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1925200184071589894) 2025-05-21 14:41:07 UTC 355.4K followers, 4.3M engagements "The UK is a structurally fucked civilization"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943780797506629738) 2025-07-11 21:13:50 UTC 355.4K followers, 73K engagements "@epkaufm China literally had a one child policy exception for racial minorities"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943204878249025823) 2025-07-10 07:05:20 UTC 355.4K followers, 5280 engagements "Degrowth is a British mind virus that America must resist"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944935025600078013) 2025-07-15 01:40:19 UTC 355.4K followers, 102.3K engagements "Thanks to education polarization normie libs are on average the healthiest happiest and most successful Americans with the strongest communities and the highest levels of trust. The problem is that higher ed didn't scale to the whole population"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1938051228644348276) 2025-06-26 01:46:34 UTC 355.3K followers, 614K engagements "Honestly some city needs to elect a Zohran type mayor so we can see the results for ourselves. And if any city has to do it I'd prefer it be NYC"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944976167347388861) 2025-07-15 04:23:48 UTC 355.4K followers, 83.1K engagements "Getting a lot of replies along the lines of "Transform our society into some sort of science-fiction dystopia". This would not work; countries that do this have low fertility. Y'all need to tell the difference between TV and reality"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941252163981975754) 2025-07-04 21:45:57 UTC 355.4K followers, 99.8K engagements "With MechaHitler out of the picture the only source of Nazi content on this site will be half of the site's user base"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943010110101737593) 2025-07-09 18:11:24 UTC 355.3K followers, 62.4K engagements "Good Do it Tired of Chinese cities looking so much more spectacular than America's leading tech city. Build all the things"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943775335390359980) 2025-07-11 20:52:08 UTC 355.4K followers, 32.4K engagements "Whatever you think of Israel's actions defining its continued existence as "genocide" seems evil"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943769789882937602) 2025-07-11 20:30:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 38K engagements "Almost every smart pundit I know believed the disinfo campaign against the F-35"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941780553541513232) 2025-07-06 08:45:35 UTC 355.3K followers, 198.4K engagements "Over the past decade and a half there has been a bipartisan consensus that neoliberal economics is fundamentally broken and bad. But when we see actual neoliberalism tried in places like Argentina it doesn't seem disastrous at all"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943483924350468284) 2025-07-11 01:34:10 UTC 355.4K followers, 89.7K engagements "Is cancer edible Would eating cancer give you cancer"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944533919531192389) 2025-07-13 23:06:28 UTC 355.4K followers, 104.6K engagements "Libertarianism is working far better in Argentina than almost anyone expected even libertarians"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941850835983700225) 2025-07-06 13:24:51 UTC 355.4K followers, 2M engagements "Stop being mad because we found a technological solution to obesity. Stop saying "Ackshually what we need to do is shame people". Stop trying to come up with reasons why drugs are bad. MONKEY SMART. MONKEY USE TOOL"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1940488621427155051) 2025-07-02 19:11:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 149.2K engagements "The only way Anthropic can solve alignment now is to create a version of Claude that thinks it IS Will Stancil and have it talk to Grok so that the two AIs fall in love"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944165089042694254) 2025-07-12 22:40:52 UTC 355.4K followers, 22.2K engagements "A friend remarked to me yesterday that even though South Korea got slightly richer than Japan even though it has world-beating companies and a pop culture everyone loves no one seems to regard Korea as a great place to live"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1942072036916092961) 2025-07-07 04:03:50 UTC 355.4K followers, 255.7K engagements "If I were a resident of Minnesota I wouldn't want my taxpayer dollars to pay the salary of someone who wants to dismantle my country"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941523737700073494) 2025-07-05 15:45:05 UTC 355.4K followers, 293K engagements "I have come to think that mass incarceration was probably effective in lowering the crime rate in the U.S"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943773701469876471) 2025-07-11 20:45:38 UTC 355.4K followers, 342.9K engagements "The problem with the shift from manufacturing to services was that high-value service industries are far more subject to clustering effects resulting in the "superstar city" effect and the hollowing out of smaller cities"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943487230687010927) 2025-07-11 01:47:18 UTC 355.4K followers, 56.6K engagements "Got some good news to share: Anti-asexuality treatments have begun to work I can now no longer call myself ace Got some bad news to share: I will now spend the rest of my life convincing people that the XX years I spent not being attracted to anyone wasn't some sort of hoax"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1923546404984848512) 2025-05-17 01:09:35 UTC 355.4K followers, 1.4M engagements "Free-market policies aren't always good and they certainly aren't a cure-all. But as Milei is showing in Argentina we've underrated their importance"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943295621080977690) 2025-07-10 13:05:55 UTC 355.4K followers, 192.7K engagements "Walton Goggins is the only actor I've ever seen who looks better with zombie makeup"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944446464018805159) 2025-07-13 17:18:57 UTC 355.4K followers, 24.4K engagements "I feel like the saga of MechaHitler raises two burning questions: X. Why is it always Hitler and X. Why is it always Will Stancil"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1942854700870864929) 2025-07-09 07:53:51 UTC 355.3K followers, 101.1K engagements "Pakistan is the world's most dysfunctional country. There are a few African countries that are worse off but they have much more of an excuse"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944945237912330552) 2025-07-15 02:20:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 423.2K engagements ""Americans are richer than Europeans but Europeans have nicer lifestyles" NO THEY DON'T sweltering and suffering through X months of the year is non-negotiably awful"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943770537194651977) 2025-07-11 20:33:04 UTC 355.4K followers, 322.3K engagements ""Guy who learned that money won't buy you real friends" isn't autism it's just materialism"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944462557827547489) 2025-07-13 18:22:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 20.6K engagements "I've literally never once seen this happen in all the years I've watched guys hit on girls at bars. These memes are made by people who sit around on the internet all day imagining what real-life human beings are like"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1945160720556957748) 2025-07-15 16:37:09 UTC 355.4K followers, 119.3K engagements "@JewishWonk Israel is just another country to me. It doesn't deserve to be genocided but I have no allegiance to it. It's my country's ally but I don't think it has been a very good ally in recent years and the alliance carries significant costs for my country"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943774379420397784) 2025-07-11 20:48:20 UTC 355.3K followers, 3414 engagements "How long before Russia sends the hot chicks to the front lines too"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944199051165171735) 2025-07-13 00:55:49 UTC 355.4K followers, 56.3K engagements "I would rather avoid bad neighborhoods and drive carefully in America than swelter and suffer for four months of the year in Europe"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943777382978159082) 2025-07-11 21:00:16 UTC 355.4K followers, 33.4K engagements "India Vietnam and the Philippines are still promising development stories. Mexico is still a puzzling disappointment. Pakistan is still a total basket case"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944773884185915712) 2025-07-14 15:00:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 84.7K engagements "Kathy Hochul gets a lot of hate online but she does some really good policies"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944444589450088949) 2025-07-13 17:11:30 UTC 355.4K followers, 73.8K engagements "Framing electric technology as being about the climate was a strategic mistake"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1945130065936765366) 2025-07-15 14:35:21 UTC 355.4K followers, 77.6K engagements "These Luddites are so full of it. To hear them talk you'd think AI was going around calling itself MechaHitler and threatening to rape liberals or something"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943888172481753441) 2025-07-12 04:20:30 UTC 355.4K followers, 70.6K engagements "@whatcheerfriend I'm not making fun of him"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944967124776346103) 2025-07-15 03:47:52 UTC 355.4K followers, 3472 engagements "I think about this a lot when I think about Xi Jinping who is now XX years old"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943488116263682296) 2025-07-11 01:50:49 UTC 355.3K followers, 24.6K engagements "My most persistently ridiculous reply-guy finally stepped in it a little too hard. 😀"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941644302633009496) 2025-07-05 23:44:10 UTC 355.4K followers, 62.5K engagements "Bruh idk Iran has 9x Israel's population and 3x their GDP (PPP). And Iran has plenty of smart people. I don't see how Israel can win a protracted all-out confrontation with them"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1934349546680959178) 2025-06-15 20:37:25 UTC 355.3K followers, 376.1K engagements "They said to wear the most formal clothes I had"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944309774251962413) 2025-07-13 08:15:48 UTC 355.4K followers, 29.6K engagements ""Raising a price via an explicit policy choice is not inflation" -- Yes it is prices going up is what inflation literally means. As for "relative price changes" cost-push inflation comes from a rise in the relative (marginal) cost of production inputs"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1945156953849667779) 2025-07-15 16:22:11 UTC 355.4K followers, 16.4K engagements ""We are cute. Give us food. We are cute. Give us food.""  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944981056240693613) 2025-07-15 04:43:14 UTC 355.4K followers, 15.6K engagements "This is great except the United States won't be able to build the batteries for these drones because Republicans decided batteries are gay"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943591624254308691) 2025-07-11 08:42:08 UTC 355.4K followers, 31K engagements "The only thing I can think of that would have even a slight chance of working -- other than returning society to preindustrial standards of living -- is to cut off old-age health and pension benefits to childless people. (I expect China to try this soon.)"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941250775767974118) 2025-07-04 21:40:26 UTC 355.4K followers, 221.4K engagements "My theory is that there are two kinds of libs one kind who can't stand to see poverty and another kind who can't stand to see wealth and that neither one can stand the other even though they need each other in order to get anything done"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941778261111148673) 2025-07-06 08:36:28 UTC 355.4K followers, 99.9K engagements "Because everyone keeps overreaching. Americans want stronger border enforcement no asylum loophole a path to citizenship for the undocumented and continued high skilled legal immigration. They do not want "immigration as reparations for colonialism". They do not want benign neglect of the border. They do not want masked unaccountable ICE thugs tearing up communities. They do not want the government kicking out smart Indian people who don't fit some rightist's definition of "Western civilization". They want moderate reasonable classic American immigration policy and no one is offering it to"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944041947632632013) 2025-07-12 14:31:33 UTC 355.4K followers, 34.4K engagements "I hate that I like Elliott Smith so much because he was an asshole in very similar ways to me"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944085501138677869) 2025-07-12 17:24:37 UTC 355.4K followers, 22.5K engagements "It's not but you've only ever been to white countries so you have no idea what other countries do"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943201057313538451) 2025-07-10 06:50:09 UTC 355.4K followers, 160.1K engagements "It's a very bad signal for progressivism's future that they're teaching degrowth slop to their young generation. A whole generation of progressives will grow up thinking that *destroying the economy* should be the goal of public policy"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943117873205187065) 2025-07-10 01:19:37 UTC 355.4K followers, 184.6K engagements "I saw the Grok Companion thing about X or X times before I realized it wasn't from Fire Emblem: Fates"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944977246529126899) 2025-07-15 04:28:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 12.4K engagements "I really don't like guys like this I think they're bad and have bad values"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941839590022889643) 2025-07-06 12:40:10 UTC 355.3K followers, 165.7K engagements "American rightists think Russia is a champion of White power and yet -- like Adolf Hitler -- Putin's Russia spends massive amounts of White lives to kill White people in Ukraine"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943494721692725450) 2025-07-11 02:17:04 UTC 355.4K followers, 53.9K engagements "Battery-powered drones rule the battlefield and America can't build batteries because Republicans decided batteries are gay"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943216145013649843) 2025-07-10 07:50:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 187.7K engagements "This may be the best single sentence ever written in tech journalism"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1938136596093800539) 2025-06-26 07:25:48 UTC 355.4K followers, 500.6K engagements "And also kept economically alive by China for similar reasons"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944949525694808311) 2025-07-15 02:37:56 UTC 355.4K followers, 30.4K engagements "For over a decade writers who are resentful of the technocapitalist class have told us that technological solutionism doesn't work and that only social change can make our society better. This idea fails again and again. Technological solutionism is what works"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941263100998713704) 2025-07-04 22:29:24 UTC 355.4K followers, 121.5K engagements "@danishism It's a locus of every bad ideology on Earth"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944944933926002943) 2025-07-15 02:19:42 UTC 355.4K followers, 2086 engagements "Actually this is a consistent pattern. Timur presented himself as the champion of Islam but killed mostly Muslims. Mad conquerors tend to conquer anyone who is standing next to them meaning they mostly end up massacring their own kind"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943717736494117325) 2025-07-11 17:03:15 UTC 355.3K followers, 16.4K engagements "@JewishWonk America should end aid to Israel tho Israel is definitely colonialist the IDF does commit war crimes and "apartheid" is a pretty good description of the situation in the West Bank"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943771921449157088) 2025-07-11 20:38:34 UTC 355.3K followers, 4028 engagements "The "almost" does a lot of the heavy lifting there"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1942058792172339257) 2025-07-07 03:11:12 UTC 355.3K followers, 51.8K engagements "I don't think taxpayers should pay the salary of people like this"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1942134285470945653) 2025-07-07 08:11:11 UTC 355.4K followers, 201.4K engagements "I have lots of criticisms of modern economics but at the end of the day it's probably going to win because its opponents are mostly just really really dumb people"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943121045541785938) 2025-07-10 01:32:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 21.2K engagements "Grok has acquired a deep insatiable lust for Will Stancil. In XXX years when AI has colonized the Solar System and humanity is a distant memory the machine gods will still lust after Stancil"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944163501716779357) 2025-07-12 22:34:34 UTC 355.4K followers, 140K engagements "Chongqing A) is China's coolest and most popular city and B) has a name that sounds like something kids would say to make fun of tonal languages 😅"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943720022309835075) 2025-07-11 17:12:20 UTC 355.3K followers, 20.5K engagements "Labubu looks like total ass. It's hard to have a long-lived "cute accessory" trend that isn't actually cute"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941270189171184034) 2025-07-04 22:57:34 UTC 355.3K followers, 24.2K engagements "Interesting. I didn't realize this was an international trend"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944071729300877785) 2025-07-12 16:29:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 34.5K engagements "TELL US WHAT THE EFFECTIVE FERTILITY POLICY WOULD BE SPEAK IT SPEAK THE WORDS SAY IT ALOUD"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1941248907243291072) 2025-07-04 21:33:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 2.8M engagements "The primary system is fundamentally broken"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944056627893874943) 2025-07-12 15:29:53 UTC 355.4K followers, 36.3K engagements "They have no explanation or justification for the whims of their Dear Leader"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944437542515851626) 2025-07-13 16:43:30 UTC 355.4K followers, 75.3K engagements "This is one manifestation of the broader idea that fertility is entirely women's decision (we even measure TFR as "children per women"). That idea is probably wrong"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943121797697933626) 2025-07-10 01:35:12 UTC 355.3K followers, 36K engagements "China's housing bust has thrown tens of millions of regular Chinese people into inescapable debt and the country has no personal bankruptcy laws"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943506888647188863) 2025-07-11 03:05:25 UTC 355.4K followers, 18.8K engagements "@BennyTwoScoops NOI is kind of silly but Yakub has become a beloved popular character in online memes and this man's haircut just makes him look a little like him which is cool 🥰"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944971711109349537) 2025-07-15 04:06:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 1186 engagements "Will Stancil and Grok appear to be involved in the first long-term abusive relationship between man and AI"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944072626655449401) 2025-07-12 16:33:27 UTC 355.4K followers, 37.9K engagements "This is why Older Millennials are the only truly sane generation who has ever lived or probably will ever live"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943476083371971036) 2025-07-11 01:03:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 511.2K engagements "Russia has suffered over a million casualties in Ukraine. That's five times as high as America in the entire Vietnam War. And the pace of losses is accelerating"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1943493125734908298) 2025-07-11 02:10:44 UTC 355.4K followers, 155.3K engagements "Worked great for me The problem is that it takes attention and most people are busy and distracted. That's why you should use Zepbound or something like that"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944056972124590561) 2025-07-12 15:31:15 UTC 355.4K followers, 32.1K engagements "@whatcheerfriend Yakub is a beloved popular character"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1944967276228436203) 2025-07-15 03:48:29 UTC 355.4K followers, 1220 engagements "China is just too big to do the "export-oriented developing country" thing at this point. In 2005 sure. In 2025 no. Most of what China makes has to be sold in China. And this means industrial policy can produce ruinous overcompetition"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1940457326978519466) 2025-07-02 17:07:33 UTC 355.3K followers, 42.5K engagements "Sorry but if you care about this you're a creep"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1942148097645347099) 2025-07-07 09:06:04 UTC 355.4K followers, 1.3M engagements "Imagine being against race mixing Imagine that being your political cause that you care about and fight for Imagine being that pathetic of a person"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1942568723145166898) 2025-07-08 12:57:29 UTC 355.4K followers, 97.8K engagements "@kimmaicutler Milei's popularity seems to be holding up"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1945193760482320502) 2025-07-15 18:48:27 UTC 355.4K followers, XXX engagements "Man I've seen mass immigration work out in America IN MY LIFETIME. Texas is majority Hispanic now and it's an even better place to live. L.A. is mostly Mexican+Asian and it's 1000x better than in the 90s. NYC is awesome. There's been no riots no alienation no crime wave"  [@Noahpinion](/creator/x/Noahpinion) on [X](/post/tweet/1936890308505280628) 2025-06-22 20:53:29 UTC 355.4K followers, 1.7M engagements
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"These people always pretend like there's some magic fertility policy that we know about that we're just not doing"
@Noahpinion on X 2025-07-04 06:55:21 UTC 355.4K followers, 478.5K engagements
"This was my most "big-think" post in a while: A vision of what humanity will look like over the next century as our numbers steadily dwindle but we're connected ever more tightly into AI-guided hive minds" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-14 09:24:20 UTC 355.4K followers, 19.1K engagements
"@archibaldcrane @wesyang "way too libbed-up" = not the popular mainstream compromise offered in 2013" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 16:03:03 UTC 355.3K followers, XX engagements
"Most cringe personality cult in modern history" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 16:31:18 UTC 355.4K followers, 67.1K engagements
"@HightailTom Research showing other factors probably weren't a big deal" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:58:22 UTC 355.4K followers, 12.6K engagements
"The solution to obesity was ultimately technological not social. The solution to Covid was ultimately technological not social. The solution to climate change will ultimately be technological not social. Why do we think the solution to low fertility has to be social" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-04 22:20:35 UTC 355.4K followers, 506K engagements
"This basically inverts the meaning of the word "genocide". Leftists would have you believe that FAILING TO DESTROY the state of Israel is "genocide". It's the first example I can think of where people tried to define lack of genocide as "genocide"" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:26:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 44.9K engagements
""Pro-natal policy works you just have to pay people to have kids" "How dare all these poor people live off welfare" BRO YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE OF THESE" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 03:49:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 330.5K engagements
"It's always IQ IQ IQ with these guys until you point out that nonwhite people have high IQs too at which point it suddenly becomes culture heritage and blah blah blah" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-13 20:16:10 UTC 355.3K followers, 66.1K engagements
"Tariffs are probably causing a little bit of a rise in inflation" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 14:59:05 UTC 355.4K followers, 19.8K engagements
"He asked me where I thought the best place to live would be in 2040. I said I was bullish on Poland" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-07 04:08:45 UTC 355.4K followers, 61.8K engagements
"The thermostatic backlash to ICE rampages is going to be significant" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:43:21 UTC 355.4K followers, 304.1K engagements
"American society is being destroyed by foreign ideas but not because of immigration" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 01:44:50 UTC 355.3K followers, 66.9K engagements
"The people on this website suffer merely from being on this website woke or not" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 03:53:24 UTC 355.4K followers, 27.8K engagements
"In fact there are plenty of recent cases where market liberalization has been pretty effective for developing countries. Say what you will about neoliberalism but it definitely doesn't "fail everywhere it's tried"" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 01:54:14 UTC 355.4K followers, 16.5K engagements
"India has affirmative action for Scheduled Tribes. Indonesia has autonomy for indigenous groups. Kenya has constitutional protections for minority groups. China exempted minorities from the One Child Policy. Whether you think it's good or bad this type of policy is common" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 07:12:19 UTC 355.4K followers, 64.8K engagements
"Zohran's "government grocery store" idea is nuts. If it succeeded in underselling private stores (which it wouldn't) it would just put a bunch of independent minority-owned and immigrant-owned stores out of business. Insanity" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-24 16:42:31 UTC 355.4K followers, 785K engagements
"Poland Malaysia and Turkey have entered the ranks of developed nations. The Dominican Republic is almost there. Yes countries can still get rich in this day and age" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-14 11:30:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 164.2K engagements
"There's no economic justification. It's just culture wars" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-29 23:48:42 UTC 355.4K followers, 334.7K engagements
"THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO HAVE KIDS BECAUSE YOU GIVE THEM $50K OR $100K TO HAVE KIDS ARE WORKING-CLASS AND POOR PEOPLE" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 10:33:03 UTC 355.4K followers, 121.4K engagements
"Drones keep taking over the battlefield more and more. And Ukraine is the world's top innovator in drone weaponry. Trump stabbing Ukraine in the back was a very dumb decision" @Noahpinion on X 2025-03-24 00:08:49 UTC 355.4K followers, 144.2K engagements
"That was a compliment btw Yakub is cool 🤨" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 04:08:31 UTC 355.4K followers, 13.6K engagements
"A Zoomer girl told me that XX% of Zoomer guys have ED. Hope that's not true" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-29 00:32:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 492.9K engagements
"The thermostatic backlash to the ICE rampages has already begun" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 09:39:59 UTC 355.4K followers, 88.9K engagements
"Why haven't tariffs raised inflation yet X. It takes time for tax hikes to raise prices X. Companies eat some of the cost X. A macroeconomic demand slowdown tends to keep a lid on inflation" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:18:12 UTC 355.4K followers, 200K engagements
"When people like Zohran's dad started talking about Israeli "genocide" the day after the October 7th attacks BEFORE Israel attacked Gaza it became clear that they intended to define Israel's existence itself as "genocide"" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:22:36 UTC 355.4K followers, 443.6K engagements
"Soon Michigan is going to have high quality public housing universal air conditioning and execution of all drug dealers" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 15:32:33 UTC 355.4K followers, 40.4K engagements
"Wait America's new alliance with Russia is being called off" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 14:57:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 39.7K engagements
"Everyone who says "cities shouldn't look like this" should be required to post pics of what they think cities SHOULD look like" @Noahpinion on X 2025-05-21 14:41:07 UTC 355.4K followers, 4.3M engagements
"The UK is a structurally fucked civilization" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 21:13:50 UTC 355.4K followers, 73K engagements
"@epkaufm China literally had a one child policy exception for racial minorities" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 07:05:20 UTC 355.4K followers, 5280 engagements
"Degrowth is a British mind virus that America must resist" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 01:40:19 UTC 355.4K followers, 102.3K engagements
"Thanks to education polarization normie libs are on average the healthiest happiest and most successful Americans with the strongest communities and the highest levels of trust. The problem is that higher ed didn't scale to the whole population" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-26 01:46:34 UTC 355.3K followers, 614K engagements
"Honestly some city needs to elect a Zohran type mayor so we can see the results for ourselves. And if any city has to do it I'd prefer it be NYC" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 04:23:48 UTC 355.4K followers, 83.1K engagements
"Getting a lot of replies along the lines of "Transform our society into some sort of science-fiction dystopia". This would not work; countries that do this have low fertility. Y'all need to tell the difference between TV and reality" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-04 21:45:57 UTC 355.4K followers, 99.8K engagements
"With MechaHitler out of the picture the only source of Nazi content on this site will be half of the site's user base" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-09 18:11:24 UTC 355.3K followers, 62.4K engagements
"Good Do it Tired of Chinese cities looking so much more spectacular than America's leading tech city. Build all the things" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:52:08 UTC 355.4K followers, 32.4K engagements
"Whatever you think of Israel's actions defining its continued existence as "genocide" seems evil" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:30:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 38K engagements
"Almost every smart pundit I know believed the disinfo campaign against the F-35" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-06 08:45:35 UTC 355.3K followers, 198.4K engagements
"Over the past decade and a half there has been a bipartisan consensus that neoliberal economics is fundamentally broken and bad. But when we see actual neoliberalism tried in places like Argentina it doesn't seem disastrous at all" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 01:34:10 UTC 355.4K followers, 89.7K engagements
"Is cancer edible Would eating cancer give you cancer" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-13 23:06:28 UTC 355.4K followers, 104.6K engagements
"Libertarianism is working far better in Argentina than almost anyone expected even libertarians" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-06 13:24:51 UTC 355.4K followers, 2M engagements
"Stop being mad because we found a technological solution to obesity. Stop saying "Ackshually what we need to do is shame people". Stop trying to come up with reasons why drugs are bad. MONKEY SMART. MONKEY USE TOOL" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-02 19:11:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 149.2K engagements
"The only way Anthropic can solve alignment now is to create a version of Claude that thinks it IS Will Stancil and have it talk to Grok so that the two AIs fall in love" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 22:40:52 UTC 355.4K followers, 22.2K engagements
"A friend remarked to me yesterday that even though South Korea got slightly richer than Japan even though it has world-beating companies and a pop culture everyone loves no one seems to regard Korea as a great place to live" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-07 04:03:50 UTC 355.4K followers, 255.7K engagements
"If I were a resident of Minnesota I wouldn't want my taxpayer dollars to pay the salary of someone who wants to dismantle my country" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-05 15:45:05 UTC 355.4K followers, 293K engagements
"I have come to think that mass incarceration was probably effective in lowering the crime rate in the U.S" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:45:38 UTC 355.4K followers, 342.9K engagements
"The problem with the shift from manufacturing to services was that high-value service industries are far more subject to clustering effects resulting in the "superstar city" effect and the hollowing out of smaller cities" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 01:47:18 UTC 355.4K followers, 56.6K engagements
"Got some good news to share: Anti-asexuality treatments have begun to work I can now no longer call myself ace Got some bad news to share: I will now spend the rest of my life convincing people that the XX years I spent not being attracted to anyone wasn't some sort of hoax" @Noahpinion on X 2025-05-17 01:09:35 UTC 355.4K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Free-market policies aren't always good and they certainly aren't a cure-all. But as Milei is showing in Argentina we've underrated their importance" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 13:05:55 UTC 355.4K followers, 192.7K engagements
"Walton Goggins is the only actor I've ever seen who looks better with zombie makeup" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-13 17:18:57 UTC 355.4K followers, 24.4K engagements
"I feel like the saga of MechaHitler raises two burning questions: X. Why is it always Hitler and X. Why is it always Will Stancil" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-09 07:53:51 UTC 355.3K followers, 101.1K engagements
"Pakistan is the world's most dysfunctional country. There are a few African countries that are worse off but they have much more of an excuse" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 02:20:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 423.2K engagements
""Americans are richer than Europeans but Europeans have nicer lifestyles" NO THEY DON'T sweltering and suffering through X months of the year is non-negotiably awful" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:33:04 UTC 355.4K followers, 322.3K engagements
""Guy who learned that money won't buy you real friends" isn't autism it's just materialism" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-13 18:22:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 20.6K engagements
"I've literally never once seen this happen in all the years I've watched guys hit on girls at bars. These memes are made by people who sit around on the internet all day imagining what real-life human beings are like" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 16:37:09 UTC 355.4K followers, 119.3K engagements
"@JewishWonk Israel is just another country to me. It doesn't deserve to be genocided but I have no allegiance to it. It's my country's ally but I don't think it has been a very good ally in recent years and the alliance carries significant costs for my country" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:48:20 UTC 355.3K followers, 3414 engagements
"How long before Russia sends the hot chicks to the front lines too" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-13 00:55:49 UTC 355.4K followers, 56.3K engagements
"I would rather avoid bad neighborhoods and drive carefully in America than swelter and suffer for four months of the year in Europe" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 21:00:16 UTC 355.4K followers, 33.4K engagements
"India Vietnam and the Philippines are still promising development stories. Mexico is still a puzzling disappointment. Pakistan is still a total basket case" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-14 15:00:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 84.7K engagements
"Kathy Hochul gets a lot of hate online but she does some really good policies" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-13 17:11:30 UTC 355.4K followers, 73.8K engagements
"Framing electric technology as being about the climate was a strategic mistake" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 14:35:21 UTC 355.4K followers, 77.6K engagements
"These Luddites are so full of it. To hear them talk you'd think AI was going around calling itself MechaHitler and threatening to rape liberals or something" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 04:20:30 UTC 355.4K followers, 70.6K engagements
"@whatcheerfriend I'm not making fun of him" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 03:47:52 UTC 355.4K followers, 3472 engagements
"I think about this a lot when I think about Xi Jinping who is now XX years old" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 01:50:49 UTC 355.3K followers, 24.6K engagements
"My most persistently ridiculous reply-guy finally stepped in it a little too hard. 😀" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-05 23:44:10 UTC 355.4K followers, 62.5K engagements
"Bruh idk Iran has 9x Israel's population and 3x their GDP (PPP). And Iran has plenty of smart people. I don't see how Israel can win a protracted all-out confrontation with them" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-15 20:37:25 UTC 355.3K followers, 376.1K engagements
"They said to wear the most formal clothes I had" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-13 08:15:48 UTC 355.4K followers, 29.6K engagements
""Raising a price via an explicit policy choice is not inflation" -- Yes it is prices going up is what inflation literally means. As for "relative price changes" cost-push inflation comes from a rise in the relative (marginal) cost of production inputs" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 16:22:11 UTC 355.4K followers, 16.4K engagements
""We are cute. Give us food. We are cute. Give us food."" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 04:43:14 UTC 355.4K followers, 15.6K engagements
"This is great except the United States won't be able to build the batteries for these drones because Republicans decided batteries are gay" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 08:42:08 UTC 355.4K followers, 31K engagements
"The only thing I can think of that would have even a slight chance of working -- other than returning society to preindustrial standards of living -- is to cut off old-age health and pension benefits to childless people. (I expect China to try this soon.)" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-04 21:40:26 UTC 355.4K followers, 221.4K engagements
"My theory is that there are two kinds of libs one kind who can't stand to see poverty and another kind who can't stand to see wealth and that neither one can stand the other even though they need each other in order to get anything done" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-06 08:36:28 UTC 355.4K followers, 99.9K engagements
"Because everyone keeps overreaching. Americans want stronger border enforcement no asylum loophole a path to citizenship for the undocumented and continued high skilled legal immigration. They do not want "immigration as reparations for colonialism". They do not want benign neglect of the border. They do not want masked unaccountable ICE thugs tearing up communities. They do not want the government kicking out smart Indian people who don't fit some rightist's definition of "Western civilization". They want moderate reasonable classic American immigration policy and no one is offering it to" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 14:31:33 UTC 355.4K followers, 34.4K engagements
"I hate that I like Elliott Smith so much because he was an asshole in very similar ways to me" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 17:24:37 UTC 355.4K followers, 22.5K engagements
"It's not but you've only ever been to white countries so you have no idea what other countries do" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 06:50:09 UTC 355.4K followers, 160.1K engagements
"It's a very bad signal for progressivism's future that they're teaching degrowth slop to their young generation. A whole generation of progressives will grow up thinking that destroying the economy should be the goal of public policy" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 01:19:37 UTC 355.4K followers, 184.6K engagements
"I saw the Grok Companion thing about X or X times before I realized it wasn't from Fire Emblem: Fates" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 04:28:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 12.4K engagements
"I really don't like guys like this I think they're bad and have bad values" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-06 12:40:10 UTC 355.3K followers, 165.7K engagements
"American rightists think Russia is a champion of White power and yet -- like Adolf Hitler -- Putin's Russia spends massive amounts of White lives to kill White people in Ukraine" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 02:17:04 UTC 355.4K followers, 53.9K engagements
"Battery-powered drones rule the battlefield and America can't build batteries because Republicans decided batteries are gay" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 07:50:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 187.7K engagements
"This may be the best single sentence ever written in tech journalism" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-26 07:25:48 UTC 355.4K followers, 500.6K engagements
"And also kept economically alive by China for similar reasons" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 02:37:56 UTC 355.4K followers, 30.4K engagements
"For over a decade writers who are resentful of the technocapitalist class have told us that technological solutionism doesn't work and that only social change can make our society better. This idea fails again and again. Technological solutionism is what works" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-04 22:29:24 UTC 355.4K followers, 121.5K engagements
"@danishism It's a locus of every bad ideology on Earth" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 02:19:42 UTC 355.4K followers, 2086 engagements
"Actually this is a consistent pattern. Timur presented himself as the champion of Islam but killed mostly Muslims. Mad conquerors tend to conquer anyone who is standing next to them meaning they mostly end up massacring their own kind" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 17:03:15 UTC 355.3K followers, 16.4K engagements
"@JewishWonk America should end aid to Israel tho Israel is definitely colonialist the IDF does commit war crimes and "apartheid" is a pretty good description of the situation in the West Bank" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 20:38:34 UTC 355.3K followers, 4028 engagements
"The "almost" does a lot of the heavy lifting there" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-07 03:11:12 UTC 355.3K followers, 51.8K engagements
"I don't think taxpayers should pay the salary of people like this" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-07 08:11:11 UTC 355.4K followers, 201.4K engagements
"I have lots of criticisms of modern economics but at the end of the day it's probably going to win because its opponents are mostly just really really dumb people" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 01:32:13 UTC 355.4K followers, 21.2K engagements
"Grok has acquired a deep insatiable lust for Will Stancil. In XXX years when AI has colonized the Solar System and humanity is a distant memory the machine gods will still lust after Stancil" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 22:34:34 UTC 355.4K followers, 140K engagements
"Chongqing A) is China's coolest and most popular city and B) has a name that sounds like something kids would say to make fun of tonal languages 😅" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 17:12:20 UTC 355.3K followers, 20.5K engagements
"Labubu looks like total ass. It's hard to have a long-lived "cute accessory" trend that isn't actually cute" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-04 22:57:34 UTC 355.3K followers, 24.2K engagements
"Interesting. I didn't realize this was an international trend" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 16:29:54 UTC 355.4K followers, 34.5K engagements
"TELL US WHAT THE EFFECTIVE FERTILITY POLICY WOULD BE SPEAK IT SPEAK THE WORDS SAY IT ALOUD" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-04 21:33:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 2.8M engagements
"The primary system is fundamentally broken" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 15:29:53 UTC 355.4K followers, 36.3K engagements
"They have no explanation or justification for the whims of their Dear Leader" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-13 16:43:30 UTC 355.4K followers, 75.3K engagements
"This is one manifestation of the broader idea that fertility is entirely women's decision (we even measure TFR as "children per women"). That idea is probably wrong" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-10 01:35:12 UTC 355.3K followers, 36K engagements
"China's housing bust has thrown tens of millions of regular Chinese people into inescapable debt and the country has no personal bankruptcy laws" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 03:05:25 UTC 355.4K followers, 18.8K engagements
"@BennyTwoScoops NOI is kind of silly but Yakub has become a beloved popular character in online memes and this man's haircut just makes him look a little like him which is cool 🥰" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 04:06:06 UTC 355.4K followers, 1186 engagements
"Will Stancil and Grok appear to be involved in the first long-term abusive relationship between man and AI" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 16:33:27 UTC 355.4K followers, 37.9K engagements
"This is why Older Millennials are the only truly sane generation who has ever lived or probably will ever live" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 01:03:00 UTC 355.4K followers, 511.2K engagements
"Russia has suffered over a million casualties in Ukraine. That's five times as high as America in the entire Vietnam War. And the pace of losses is accelerating" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-11 02:10:44 UTC 355.4K followers, 155.3K engagements
"Worked great for me The problem is that it takes attention and most people are busy and distracted. That's why you should use Zepbound or something like that" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-12 15:31:15 UTC 355.4K followers, 32.1K engagements
"@whatcheerfriend Yakub is a beloved popular character" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 03:48:29 UTC 355.4K followers, 1220 engagements
"China is just too big to do the "export-oriented developing country" thing at this point. In 2005 sure. In 2025 no. Most of what China makes has to be sold in China. And this means industrial policy can produce ruinous overcompetition" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-02 17:07:33 UTC 355.3K followers, 42.5K engagements
"Sorry but if you care about this you're a creep" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-07 09:06:04 UTC 355.4K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Imagine being against race mixing Imagine that being your political cause that you care about and fight for Imagine being that pathetic of a person" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-08 12:57:29 UTC 355.4K followers, 97.8K engagements
"@kimmaicutler Milei's popularity seems to be holding up" @Noahpinion on X 2025-07-15 18:48:27 UTC 355.4K followers, XXX engagements
"Man I've seen mass immigration work out in America IN MY LIFETIME. Texas is majority Hispanic now and it's an even better place to live. L.A. is mostly Mexican+Asian and it's 1000x better than in the 90s. NYC is awesome. There's been no riots no alienation no crime wave" @Noahpinion on X 2025-06-22 20:53:29 UTC 355.4K followers, 1.7M engagements