[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.] [@joperec](/creator/twitter/joperec) "@0xLiveB33f @TiltAtGiants @DennisChavante @Sargon_of_Akkad The British empire was demonstrably less brutal than most other Empires of the era (and before and after); just like the Vikings were more brutal than other raiding people of their era - the Magyars the Muslim corsairs in the Med the Seljuks in central Asia etc"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946162577236480083) 2025-07-18 10:58:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@Nintendonkong @wantthepfunk @MattBelloni I understand you're dealing with addiction and mental health issues but it was Biden not Trump who actually pressured social media companies into censoring Americans"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946312343907946930) 2025-07-18 20:53:18 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@caviterginsoy @Sargon_of_Akkad Many civilizations of that period (and all periods) weren't raiding and didn't have the primal violence of the Vikings. There's a reason why the Vikings shocked the people of their time"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946139837372797406) 2025-07-18 09:27:49 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos if it had it's still the Fed's fault: they didn't start tightening until MARCH 2022 (and even then a pretty timid one). Monetary policy is overriding: if you were correct then the Fed governors would look even more imbecilic and biased"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946175417951388057) 2025-07-18 11:49:12 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@johnvmcdonnell @robinhanson Huh The Gallic campaign and Servile wars and therefore the importance of slavery in Rome (and other ancient civs) are indeed typically taught when teaching ancient era empires/Rome"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1945972485171695669) 2025-07-17 22:22:49 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos What I keep explaining to you is that the government adding debt isn't a sufficient condition to cause inflation. It was the gov spending in 2021 that caused inflation not the 2020 one but not by itself: it required the Fed's collaboration"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946185498185085167) 2025-07-18 12:29:15 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@breynoldz @wantthepfunk @MattBelloni I understand you're dealing with addiction and mental health issues but it was Biden not Trump who actually pressured social media companies into censoring Americans"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946312317320188311) 2025-07-18 20:53:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos Fiscal spending and money supply are completely distinct concepts. Money supply whatever the metric didn't increase by $4T in XX months due to fiscal spending. You've never opened a macro textbook in your entire life. Monetary policy is indeed overriding"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946182256319476218) 2025-07-18 12:16:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@rev_cap @NickTimiraos The Fed partisanship in 2021 lead to X% inflation. There are lots of people to whom "independence" just means "allegiance to the democrats". Most of them don't even realize it. The economy contracted in Q1"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1945978046491558159) 2025-07-17 22:44:55 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@xenobataille What "Own the libs" Is this 2018 reddit Perhaps time to take a break from the internet for you You're not all there mentally"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1945905989644878195) 2025-07-17 17:58:35 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements "@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos The Fed's QE - $X trillion added to the balance sheet in 2020 alone - probably contributed more to the 2020 M2 growth than fiscal stimulus. Then again this is all unimportant: if the Fed had dropped its accommodative policies in early 2021 there wouldn't have been inflation"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946182843572326768) 2025-07-18 12:18:42 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "Ofc it pales in comparison with the personal/family tragedy but taxpayers will be paying for this feminization surgery via Medicaid as the media spent the last few weeks claiming a small decline in Medicaid expenditures growth rate is an untold act of cruelty and murder"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1945487883952890118) 2025-07-16 14:17:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos If you obsess that much about M2 growth as many autodidact amateurs do then it's still the Fed's fault - the Fed could have easily stymied or reversed it if they wanted to"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946183526950326735) 2025-07-18 12:21:25 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos What $X trillion in 2020 There were nowhere near $X trillion of fiscal stimulus in 2020. The CARES act was $2.2T. The December relief bill was $XXX billion but that was spent in 2021. None of that would have triggered X% inflation if not for the ARPA $2.1T in 2021. But even"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946174893793427769) 2025-07-18 11:47:07 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@TiltAtGiants @DennisChavante @Sargon_of_Akkad The eddas are mythological literature they do not describe Viking raids or any historical acts or warfare. Even for the time Viking raids were incredibly brutal and barbaric. For example your chances of survival were much higher if you were the victim of a Muslim corsair raid"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946145001802461516) 2025-07-18 09:48:20 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@DennisChavante @TiltAtGiants @Sargon_of_Akkad Vikings would often rape the men and children and take the women. Nobody at the time was seeing the Vikings as heroic not even the Vikings - they were opportunistic raiders who would prioritize weak undefended targets"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946140420129337811) 2025-07-18 09:30:08 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements "@Callum_TH @Lormif1 @captgouda24 Largely because the UK private capital investment became lethargic after the 80s and early 90s and never recovered. And unemployment rate in the North East is around 4.5%. The situation was gloomier in the 70s"  [@joperec](/creator/x/joperec) on [X](/post/tweet/1946570070244667412) 2025-07-19 13:57:24 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
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"@0xLiveB33f @TiltAtGiants @DennisChavante @Sargon_of_Akkad The British empire was demonstrably less brutal than most other Empires of the era (and before and after); just like the Vikings were more brutal than other raiding people of their era - the Magyars the Muslim corsairs in the Med the Seljuks in central Asia etc"
@joperec on X 2025-07-18 10:58:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@Nintendonkong @wantthepfunk @MattBelloni I understand you're dealing with addiction and mental health issues but it was Biden not Trump who actually pressured social media companies into censoring Americans" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 20:53:18 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@caviterginsoy @Sargon_of_Akkad Many civilizations of that period (and all periods) weren't raiding and didn't have the primal violence of the Vikings. There's a reason why the Vikings shocked the people of their time" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 09:27:49 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos if it had it's still the Fed's fault: they didn't start tightening until MARCH 2022 (and even then a pretty timid one). Monetary policy is overriding: if you were correct then the Fed governors would look even more imbecilic and biased" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 11:49:12 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@johnvmcdonnell @robinhanson Huh The Gallic campaign and Servile wars and therefore the importance of slavery in Rome (and other ancient civs) are indeed typically taught when teaching ancient era empires/Rome" @joperec on X 2025-07-17 22:22:49 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos What I keep explaining to you is that the government adding debt isn't a sufficient condition to cause inflation. It was the gov spending in 2021 that caused inflation not the 2020 one but not by itself: it required the Fed's collaboration" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 12:29:15 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@breynoldz @wantthepfunk @MattBelloni I understand you're dealing with addiction and mental health issues but it was Biden not Trump who actually pressured social media companies into censoring Americans" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 20:53:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos Fiscal spending and money supply are completely distinct concepts. Money supply whatever the metric didn't increase by $4T in XX months due to fiscal spending. You've never opened a macro textbook in your entire life. Monetary policy is indeed overriding" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 12:16:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@rev_cap @NickTimiraos The Fed partisanship in 2021 lead to X% inflation. There are lots of people to whom "independence" just means "allegiance to the democrats". Most of them don't even realize it. The economy contracted in Q1" @joperec on X 2025-07-17 22:44:55 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@xenobataille What "Own the libs" Is this 2018 reddit Perhaps time to take a break from the internet for you You're not all there mentally" @joperec on X 2025-07-17 17:58:35 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements
"@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos The Fed's QE - $X trillion added to the balance sheet in 2020 alone - probably contributed more to the 2020 M2 growth than fiscal stimulus. Then again this is all unimportant: if the Fed had dropped its accommodative policies in early 2021 there wouldn't have been inflation" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 12:18:42 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"Ofc it pales in comparison with the personal/family tragedy but taxpayers will be paying for this feminization surgery via Medicaid as the media spent the last few weeks claiming a small decline in Medicaid expenditures growth rate is an untold act of cruelty and murder" @joperec on X 2025-07-16 14:17:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos If you obsess that much about M2 growth as many autodidact amateurs do then it's still the Fed's fault - the Fed could have easily stymied or reversed it if they wanted to" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 12:21:25 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@DadBodWho @rev_cap @NickTimiraos What $X trillion in 2020 There were nowhere near $X trillion of fiscal stimulus in 2020. The CARES act was $2.2T. The December relief bill was $XXX billion but that was spent in 2021. None of that would have triggered X% inflation if not for the ARPA $2.1T in 2021. But even" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 11:47:07 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@TiltAtGiants @DennisChavante @Sargon_of_Akkad The eddas are mythological literature they do not describe Viking raids or any historical acts or warfare. Even for the time Viking raids were incredibly brutal and barbaric. For example your chances of survival were much higher if you were the victim of a Muslim corsair raid" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 09:48:20 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@DennisChavante @TiltAtGiants @Sargon_of_Akkad Vikings would often rape the men and children and take the women. Nobody at the time was seeing the Vikings as heroic not even the Vikings - they were opportunistic raiders who would prioritize weak undefended targets" @joperec on X 2025-07-18 09:30:08 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements
"@Callum_TH @Lormif1 @captgouda24 Largely because the UK private capital investment became lethargic after the 80s and early 90s and never recovered. And unemployment rate in the North East is around 4.5%. The situation was gloomier in the 70s" @joperec on X 2025-07-19 13:57:24 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements