[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.] #  @stanfordNYC Bernard Stanford ✡︎ Bernard Stanford ✡︎ posts on X about money, insurance, china, social security the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::722590431234691073/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +969% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +357% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +826% - X Year XXXXXXXXX +1,011% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::722590431234691073/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +138% - X Months XXX +103% - X Year XXX +297% ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::722590431234691073/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +3.30% - X Month XXXXX +69% - X Months XXXXX +407% - X Year XXXXX +829% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::722590431234691073/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::722590431234691073/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #1879 [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [money](/topic/money) #743, [insurance](/topic/insurance) #160, [china](/topic/china) 3.7%, [social security](/topic/social-security) #5, [discount](/topic/discount) 3.7%, [beijing](/topic/beijing) 3.7%, [canada](/topic/canada) 1.85%, [playing](/topic/playing) 1.85%, [fdic](/topic/fdic) 1.85%, [ss](/topic/ss) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@stephen72549984](/creator/undefined) [@thepurpieknight](/creator/undefined) [@michael_druggan](/creator/undefined) [@animerobin0](/creator/undefined) [@8th_block](/creator/undefined) [@hotformoot](/creator/undefined) [@manishearth](/creator/undefined) [@tracewoodgrains](/creator/undefined) [@orinkerr](/creator/undefined) [@3renchenghu](/creator/undefined) [@hughjass6901](/creator/undefined) [@marigo2thepolls](/creator/undefined) [@wanyeburkett](/creator/undefined) [@fackudemiurge](/creator/undefined) [@eugyppius1](/creator/undefined) [@lovabler0gue](/creator/undefined) [@mikewarot](/creator/undefined) [@althistoryfan](/creator/undefined) [@teddychassin](/creator/undefined) [@sgodofsk](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::722590431234691073/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "@HotForMoot Great call by the teens. They got the bike back undamaged avoided getting into a legal situation in Canada and he guy got banned from the park and identified to police. And the teens could always have used more force if they really needed"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945295260810117481) 2025-07-16 01:31:46 UTC 4803 followers, 1064 engagements "This makes it function more like a welfare program. And if it were seen as such instead of as social insurance on a level playing field it would be far less popular. So it must be hidden. And when covered up it just looks like free money. Of course that's popular"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1946213450713051426) 2025-07-18 14:20:20 UTC 4813 followers, 3487 engagements "@ManishEarth @tracewoodgrains Of course it does. Many place names in America aren't legible in English because of very recent demographic replacement of local people (Native Americans) with retention of place names. China didn't undergo that"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945672098640179318) 2025-07-17 02:29:11 UTC 4811 followers, XXX engagements "Plenty of Chinese cities do have names that aren't clearly meaningful or have a pre-Han origin. And America does have the occasional Long Beach or Fort Worth or Portland. But most of our cities have non-English name origins or are derived from surnames"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945490700641906964) 2025-07-16 14:28:23 UTC 4814 followers, 295.3K engagements "COVID seems to be very clearly not the cause of modern social dysfunction and it's annoying to see it brought up so often. The trends are longstanding and well predate the pandemic. It likely simply moved things toward a few years"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1942976489764339930) 2025-07-09 15:57:48 UTC 4814 followers, 4259 engagements "@3RenChengHu Agreed The much more stable ethnic history plus the conservative features of chatacter-based writing contribute to this"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945503025763635522) 2025-07-16 15:17:21 UTC 4814 followers, 40K engagements "@HughJass6901 @MariGO2thepolls @wanyeburkett It's possible though unclear. The issue is that since it's known that Kamala won Hispanics and Asians second and third generations must have been *more* left wing than naturalized citizens which doesn't bode well for assimilation"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945940920689435131) 2025-07-17 20:17:23 UTC 4811 followers, XX engagements "@fackudemiurge @eugyppius1 Yeah people who want to change the direction of the CDU would need to register as members participate voice their opinions serve as delegates etc. It does require showing up. Fwiw to launch AfD they had to do a lot of that anyway just in a separate party"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945217641611739306) 2025-07-15 20:23:20 UTC 4794 followers, XX engagements "I think people just don't have good intuition for much raw consumption something like a two-week NICU stay is. The real cost of salaries equipment etc. is absolutely well into the tens of thousands of dollars"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1943683174833217545) 2025-07-11 14:45:55 UTC 4808 followers, 106.4K engagements "@lovabler0gue @mikewarot Total FDIC deposits are about two orders of magnitude smaller than the NPV of owed Social Security benefits so that's not especially helpful"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1946314620655882254) 2025-07-18 21:02:20 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements "@JamesFl It was a rhetorical question to emphasize how often place names in the US are not semantically legible in English except as name. I chose York on purpose because of its satisfying sound it's presence in New York and it's intriguing history which I was aware of"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945819893749723476) 2025-07-17 12:16:28 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements "@mikewarot Except the money isn't supposed to be at-risk and so is only lent to the federal government. Compare to even large pension funds which can and do get bailed out by state and federal governments (an implicit subsidy). SS is too big for that"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1946281950085349791) 2025-07-18 18:52:31 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements "@AltHistoryFan @MariGO2thepolls @wanyeburkett Don't think they did They still voted for Democrats on net even in 2024"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945899489966887415) 2025-07-17 17:32:46 UTC 4811 followers, XX engagements "Ideally social insurance programs work by charging a fair premium to the public with the government able to securely facilitate consumption smoothing over long periods. But that's not what SS really is. It's also redistributive both within and between cohorts"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1946212973975851190) 2025-07-18 14:18:26 UTC 4813 followers, 3480 engagements "@hindookissinger Always thought it was fascinating that Abbottabad used the local naming structure but was named for a British official surnamed Abbott. Interesting that it never got renamed after independence either"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945660180340830515) 2025-07-17 01:41:50 UTC 4813 followers, 17.6K engagements "@ThePurpIeKnight @sgodofsk I'm comfortable putting a discount on saving lives when the people who would be saved knowingly took risks. But it can still be a good value even with that discount"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945864682004242673) 2025-07-17 15:14:27 UTC 4806 followers, XX engagements "@ManishEarth @tracewoodgrains I also chose "York" as the rhetorical example (as a component of New York) because York's name's history reflects Britain's demographic changes. Celtic -- Roman - Anglo-Saxon/Viking. Again China only had one major demographic replacement and it was mostly 1500+ years ago"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945672638698864784) 2025-07-17 02:31:20 UTC 4811 followers, XXX engagements "The official position of the US government is that Pashtuns west of this line are white and ineligible for minority contract set asides but Pashtuns from east of this line are Asian and eligible"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1943347178434630145) 2025-07-10 16:30:47 UTC 4814 followers, 31.4K engagements "It's hard to blame people for being confused by social security when the program was specifically set up this way to confuse them. Why Because the fundamental logic is so clearly unsound: the average person is promised more money out in real terms than they pay in"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1946211080574828608) 2025-07-18 14:10:55 UTC 4813 followers, 71.8K engagements "@HotForMoot There was a local news write-up:"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945295340208320835) 2025-07-16 01:32:05 UTC 4806 followers, XXX engagements "It seems the only actual evidence of Epstein working for intelligence is this single paragraph: a second-hand anonymous recollection of Acosta supposedly doing CYA for himself in private published in The Daily Beast in an opinion piece. That's it"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945588929547124933) 2025-07-16 20:58:42 UTC 4813 followers, 4233 engagements "@SidKhurana3607 Hard to imagine a whole XX% bothering to list "Scots-Irish" but that's what the map looks like"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1946019772052713774) 2025-07-18 01:30:43 UTC 4813 followers, 5057 engagements "Considering long term social support costs and the opportunity cost of having 150000 skilled labor immigrants through a competitive process instead this move could easily have a NPV cost of tens of billions of pounds or a good single digit percentage of the UK annual budget"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945157709566779620) 2025-07-15 16:25:11 UTC 4808 followers, 3413 engagements "@GarrettPetersen The existence of Taipei implies an opposite Tainan. Maybe even an eastern Taitung or a central Taichung. Someday someone will discover the fabled Taihsi and win the Nobel prize in Sinology"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945496220660633909) 2025-07-16 14:50:19 UTC 4813 followers, 76.3K engagements "@lhfang Doesn't sound like someone who was "protected." Sounds like a wealthy person using their resources as leverage making clear that this will be extremely difficult for all involved unless they get a lenient plea deal"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945655758399349042) 2025-07-17 01:24:15 UTC 4813 followers, 12.6K engagements "A fun facet of Chinese is that many city names are semantically legible as normal text instead of just as names. Shanghai = On the Sea Beijing = North Capital Shenzhen = Deep Ditch Fuzhou = Happy City Americans are used to names just being names. What the heck is a "York""  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945489830206455835) 2025-07-16 14:24:55 UTC 4813 followers, 4.4M engagements "@cameronmattis Yup. But totally illegal to a modern speaker and they wouldn't even try to understand it. It's a place name they're just like that. The Chinese character system leads meaning to be more clearly preserved across time even as pronunciation changes"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945492775102767442) 2025-07-16 14:36:37 UTC 4811 followers, 16.4K engagements "@cremieuxrecueil Arabs can't be anti-Semitic because they're Semites. 🤓"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1940983281128034630) 2025-07-04 03:57:30 UTC 4814 followers, 522.1K engagements "@SidKhurana3607 Based on the upstate New York and Maine I'll swap to "American.""  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1946020074843672817) 2025-07-18 01:31:55 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements "@cremieuxrecueil My best guess from the clues: Zohran Mamdani lied on his college applications possibly by misrepresenting himself as black based on his birthplace of Uganda. We'll see"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1939877331754975471) 2025-07-01 02:42:51 UTC 4814 followers, 527.7K engagements "@Liberater4589 @agraybee Yes that's the point of the tweet. Beijing is literally "North Capital" completely legible in modern Chinese. It is still understood as a name of course. Compare to "Portland" or "Fort Worth." But the proportion of legible names in Chinese is much higher than in the US"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945614776043745289) 2025-07-16 22:41:25 UTC 4813 followers, 1021 engagements "@ThePurpIeKnight @sgodofsk It'd be subject to a CBA sure like anything else. It's plausible given the high death count that better gates (or whatever) would pencil out even with a discount"  [@stanfordNYC](/creator/x/stanfordNYC) on [X](/post/tweet/1945860358851166519) 2025-07-17 14:57:16 UTC 4806 followers, XX engagements
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@stanfordNYC Bernard Stanford ✡︎
Bernard Stanford ✡︎ posts on X about money, insurance, china, social security the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX +969%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +357%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +826%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX +1,011%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XXXX%
- X Month XXX +138%
- X Months XXX +103%
- X Year XXX +297%
Followers: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXX +3.30%
- X Month XXXXX +69%
- X Months XXXXX +407%
- X Year XXXXX +829%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance #1879 countries XXXX% travel destinations XXX% celebrities XXXX%
Social topic influence money #743, insurance #160, china 3.7%, social security #5, discount 3.7%, beijing 3.7%, canada 1.85%, playing 1.85%, fdic 1.85%, ss XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @stephen72549984 @thepurpieknight @michael_druggan @animerobin0 @8th_block @hotformoot @manishearth @tracewoodgrains @orinkerr @3renchenghu @hughjass6901 @marigo2thepolls @wanyeburkett @fackudemiurge @eugyppius1 @lovabler0gue @mikewarot @althistoryfan @teddychassin @sgodofsk
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"@HotForMoot Great call by the teens. They got the bike back undamaged avoided getting into a legal situation in Canada and he guy got banned from the park and identified to police. And the teens could always have used more force if they really needed"
@stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 01:31:46 UTC 4803 followers, 1064 engagements
"This makes it function more like a welfare program. And if it were seen as such instead of as social insurance on a level playing field it would be far less popular. So it must be hidden. And when covered up it just looks like free money. Of course that's popular" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-18 14:20:20 UTC 4813 followers, 3487 engagements
"@ManishEarth @tracewoodgrains Of course it does. Many place names in America aren't legible in English because of very recent demographic replacement of local people (Native Americans) with retention of place names. China didn't undergo that" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 02:29:11 UTC 4811 followers, XXX engagements
"Plenty of Chinese cities do have names that aren't clearly meaningful or have a pre-Han origin. And America does have the occasional Long Beach or Fort Worth or Portland. But most of our cities have non-English name origins or are derived from surnames" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 14:28:23 UTC 4814 followers, 295.3K engagements
"COVID seems to be very clearly not the cause of modern social dysfunction and it's annoying to see it brought up so often. The trends are longstanding and well predate the pandemic. It likely simply moved things toward a few years" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-09 15:57:48 UTC 4814 followers, 4259 engagements
"@3RenChengHu Agreed The much more stable ethnic history plus the conservative features of chatacter-based writing contribute to this" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 15:17:21 UTC 4814 followers, 40K engagements
"@HughJass6901 @MariGO2thepolls @wanyeburkett It's possible though unclear. The issue is that since it's known that Kamala won Hispanics and Asians second and third generations must have been more left wing than naturalized citizens which doesn't bode well for assimilation" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 20:17:23 UTC 4811 followers, XX engagements
"@fackudemiurge @eugyppius1 Yeah people who want to change the direction of the CDU would need to register as members participate voice their opinions serve as delegates etc. It does require showing up. Fwiw to launch AfD they had to do a lot of that anyway just in a separate party" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-15 20:23:20 UTC 4794 followers, XX engagements
"I think people just don't have good intuition for much raw consumption something like a two-week NICU stay is. The real cost of salaries equipment etc. is absolutely well into the tens of thousands of dollars" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-11 14:45:55 UTC 4808 followers, 106.4K engagements
"@lovabler0gue @mikewarot Total FDIC deposits are about two orders of magnitude smaller than the NPV of owed Social Security benefits so that's not especially helpful" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-18 21:02:20 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements
"@JamesFl It was a rhetorical question to emphasize how often place names in the US are not semantically legible in English except as name. I chose York on purpose because of its satisfying sound it's presence in New York and it's intriguing history which I was aware of" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 12:16:28 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements
"@mikewarot Except the money isn't supposed to be at-risk and so is only lent to the federal government. Compare to even large pension funds which can and do get bailed out by state and federal governments (an implicit subsidy). SS is too big for that" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-18 18:52:31 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements
"@AltHistoryFan @MariGO2thepolls @wanyeburkett Don't think they did They still voted for Democrats on net even in 2024" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 17:32:46 UTC 4811 followers, XX engagements
"Ideally social insurance programs work by charging a fair premium to the public with the government able to securely facilitate consumption smoothing over long periods. But that's not what SS really is. It's also redistributive both within and between cohorts" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-18 14:18:26 UTC 4813 followers, 3480 engagements
"@hindookissinger Always thought it was fascinating that Abbottabad used the local naming structure but was named for a British official surnamed Abbott. Interesting that it never got renamed after independence either" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 01:41:50 UTC 4813 followers, 17.6K engagements
"@ThePurpIeKnight @sgodofsk I'm comfortable putting a discount on saving lives when the people who would be saved knowingly took risks. But it can still be a good value even with that discount" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 15:14:27 UTC 4806 followers, XX engagements
"@ManishEarth @tracewoodgrains I also chose "York" as the rhetorical example (as a component of New York) because York's name's history reflects Britain's demographic changes. Celtic -- Roman - Anglo-Saxon/Viking. Again China only had one major demographic replacement and it was mostly 1500+ years ago" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 02:31:20 UTC 4811 followers, XXX engagements
"The official position of the US government is that Pashtuns west of this line are white and ineligible for minority contract set asides but Pashtuns from east of this line are Asian and eligible" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-10 16:30:47 UTC 4814 followers, 31.4K engagements
"It's hard to blame people for being confused by social security when the program was specifically set up this way to confuse them. Why Because the fundamental logic is so clearly unsound: the average person is promised more money out in real terms than they pay in" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-18 14:10:55 UTC 4813 followers, 71.8K engagements
"@HotForMoot There was a local news write-up:" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 01:32:05 UTC 4806 followers, XXX engagements
"It seems the only actual evidence of Epstein working for intelligence is this single paragraph: a second-hand anonymous recollection of Acosta supposedly doing CYA for himself in private published in The Daily Beast in an opinion piece. That's it" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 20:58:42 UTC 4813 followers, 4233 engagements
"@SidKhurana3607 Hard to imagine a whole XX% bothering to list "Scots-Irish" but that's what the map looks like" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-18 01:30:43 UTC 4813 followers, 5057 engagements
"Considering long term social support costs and the opportunity cost of having 150000 skilled labor immigrants through a competitive process instead this move could easily have a NPV cost of tens of billions of pounds or a good single digit percentage of the UK annual budget" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-15 16:25:11 UTC 4808 followers, 3413 engagements
"@GarrettPetersen The existence of Taipei implies an opposite Tainan. Maybe even an eastern Taitung or a central Taichung. Someday someone will discover the fabled Taihsi and win the Nobel prize in Sinology" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 14:50:19 UTC 4813 followers, 76.3K engagements
"@lhfang Doesn't sound like someone who was "protected." Sounds like a wealthy person using their resources as leverage making clear that this will be extremely difficult for all involved unless they get a lenient plea deal" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 01:24:15 UTC 4813 followers, 12.6K engagements
"A fun facet of Chinese is that many city names are semantically legible as normal text instead of just as names. Shanghai = On the Sea Beijing = North Capital Shenzhen = Deep Ditch Fuzhou = Happy City Americans are used to names just being names. What the heck is a "York"" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 14:24:55 UTC 4813 followers, 4.4M engagements
"@cameronmattis Yup. But totally illegal to a modern speaker and they wouldn't even try to understand it. It's a place name they're just like that. The Chinese character system leads meaning to be more clearly preserved across time even as pronunciation changes" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 14:36:37 UTC 4811 followers, 16.4K engagements
"@cremieuxrecueil Arabs can't be anti-Semitic because they're Semites. 🤓" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-04 03:57:30 UTC 4814 followers, 522.1K engagements
"@SidKhurana3607 Based on the upstate New York and Maine I'll swap to "American."" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-18 01:31:55 UTC 4813 followers, XXX engagements
"@cremieuxrecueil My best guess from the clues: Zohran Mamdani lied on his college applications possibly by misrepresenting himself as black based on his birthplace of Uganda. We'll see" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-01 02:42:51 UTC 4814 followers, 527.7K engagements
"@Liberater4589 @agraybee Yes that's the point of the tweet. Beijing is literally "North Capital" completely legible in modern Chinese. It is still understood as a name of course. Compare to "Portland" or "Fort Worth." But the proportion of legible names in Chinese is much higher than in the US" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-16 22:41:25 UTC 4813 followers, 1021 engagements
"@ThePurpIeKnight @sgodofsk It'd be subject to a CBA sure like anything else. It's plausible given the high death count that better gates (or whatever) would pencil out even with a discount" @stanfordNYC on X 2025-07-17 14:57:16 UTC 4806 followers, XX engagements