# ![@Devon_Eriksen_ Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1675940718345617413.png) @Devon_Eriksen_ Devon Eriksen

Devon Eriksen posts on X about if you, to the, this is, elon musk the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  11.02% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  6.3% [finance](/list/finance)  5.51% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  2.36% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  #5547 [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.57%

**Social topic influence**
[if you](/topic/if-you) #1042, [to the](/topic/to-the) 8.66%, [this is](/topic/this-is) #2182, [elon musk](/topic/elon-musk) #3394, [in the](/topic/in-the) 5.51%, [idea](/topic/idea) #1382, [human](/topic/human) #2794, [the world](/topic/the-world) 3.94%, [civilization](/topic/civilization) #881, [history](/topic/history) 3.15%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"That's because this dude doesn't know what education is. He speaks of growing wheat herding sheep riding a horse and so on but in the era of these skills this was the kind of education given to slaves. Only a slave a person who was owned as property and used as a machine for a task could be expected to do one task for his whole life. A gentleman or even a freeman of the lower classes was not a machine for labor but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life depending on what served his goals at the time. And"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1766666283368562883)  2024-03-10T03:23Z 111.9K followers, 2.3M engagements


"Yes. I am not old enough to have lived in this world but I am old enough to have seen it. Here's how it worked. Everyone man and woman alike walked around with the baseline idea in their heads that when they came of age they were going to get married. So pretty much everyone from the age of [--] on up was passively on the lookout for potential partners until you settled on one you liked. "Dating" wasn't a perennial state or an activity for its own sake it was a purposeful vetting process and it lasted only until you were satisfied you had a good choice. And it wasn't a hard choice to make."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1874109506600251691)  2024-12-31T15:05Z 111.9K followers, 2.4M engagements


"Is it time to liberate Germany again Over the past eight years Gab has been consistently telling the German government to get bent. I estimate that we saved thousands of German citizens from facing raids like this for "racist posts" on Gab. I cannot travel to Germany because we have fines of tens of thousands of https://t.co/WKLydoitvI Over the past eight years Gab has been consistently telling the German government to get bent. I estimate that we saved thousands of German citizens from facing raids like this for "racist posts" on Gab. I cannot travel to Germany because we have fines of tens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1891493864646582737)  2025-02-17T14:24Z 111.9K followers, 57.8M engagements


"Dear boomers: If your stock portfolio has suffered from tariffs and other steps taken by the Trump administration to onshore American industry I have some advice for you. Some of it may sound familiar. - Dust off your resume. Rewrite it with lots of action words. - Get yourself out there. Network. - Cold call businesses to ask if they are hiring. This shows initiative. - Be sure to make eye contact and have a nice firm handshake. Shows character. - Save money. Skip the Starbucks' latte and avocado toast. - Buy another house. They are a great investment because they will only go up in value. -"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1909388642583548028)  2025-04-07T23:31Z 111.9K followers, 168.6K engagements


"These guys don't understand each other. Elon Musk is too guileless. He says exactly what he thinks is true with little regard for how others will react. He alienates allies by airing disputes in public instead of settling them behind closed doors. Because he is a sperg engineer who leads companies of sperg engineers and to do this you must be 100% truthful and transparent. Donald Trump is too guileful. He says exactly what will advance his plans with little regard for telling people what he actually thinks. He alienates allies by expecting their unconditional support without sharing any"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1930736509696581851)  2025-06-05T21:20Z 111.9K followers, 1.9M engagements


"I didn't go to college until I was [--]. This gave me a chance to see it with the perspective of an adult. One lecture in Industrial Psychology in particular I will never forget. The professor spoke about how an effective job description focused on concretely measurable tasks not vague instructions or characteristics. For example "maintain an 85% or greater average on customer feedback surveys" instead of "be cheerful and upbeat" or even "interact positively with customers". This means that goals are clear and performance is measurable. A job is to do something not be something. Once some of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1946245646991995152)  2025-07-18T16:28Z 111.9K followers, 2.6M engagements


"Dear Brits: Do you understand what the Second Amendment to our Constitution is for now Do you understand why we added it Because we were smarter and wiser than you along. You made jokes about "school shootings" and considered yourself more civilized but we knew that history isn't something that happens in the past and on the other side of the world. History happens everywhere all the time. And now invaders are raping your children. And the "civilized" polite genteel society you were so proud of isn't defending you. It's defending the rapists. From you. You thought we were a buncha of dumb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1960489870264094900)  2025-08-26T23:49Z 111.9K followers, 1.1M engagements


"Most of our current political strife is happening precisely so that boomers can avoid admitting to themselves that hippies were the villains all along. This land belongs to all of us. It's not a war zoneits home. Trump can't take that from us. https://t.co/8VmyKfMqRF This land belongs to all of us. It's not a war zoneits home. Trump can't take that from us. https://t.co/8VmyKfMqRF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1975577812775149789)  2025-10-07T15:03Z 111.9K followers, 630.4K engagements


"Gentlemen if you wish to understand women you must watch what they do and ignore what they say. For example if a woman films herself ranting obsessively about you while lying in bed playing with her hair it is completely unimportant what words come out of her mouth. I found out someone I work with is a Conservative Its surprising to me the sudden level of hatred I have towards him I hate him now https://t.co/hvIBQoGyCl I found out someone I work with is a Conservative Its surprising to me the sudden level of hatred I have towards him I hate him now https://t.co/hvIBQoGyCl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1982278514989535256)  2025-10-26T02:50Z 111.9K followers, 1.3M engagements


"The labor theory of value sneaks its way in everywhere. But it's still wrong. Look things aren't valuable because of the effort it takes to get them. Things are valuable because of how useful they are. And there is literally nothing more useful than a human being. Human civilizations need humans. They also need nuclear reactors but men or women can make nuclear reactors. Only women can make humans. So the ideal division of labor is obvious. But you've been taught to think that making nuclear reactors is fun and fulfilling and making humans is just drudgery. Why It's a psyop. It's a psyop run"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022400221041561781)  2026-02-13T19:59Z 111.9K followers, 23.9K engagements


"Britain is the Shire. The Shire is fiction yes but it was written by a real man who understood the soul of his nation. And he feared the sacrifice of that soul for short term profit. I am today launching Restore Britain as a national political party. Join us. https://t.co/RMtEuHopgV https://t.co/jQMAOjQJ5A I am today launching Restore Britain as a national political party. Join us. https://t.co/RMtEuHopgV https://t.co/jQMAOjQJ5A"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022515490917413296)  2026-02-14T03:37Z 111.9K followers, 18K engagements


"@JohnCleese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022534570730754300)  2026-02-14T04:53Z 111.9K followers, 62.3K engagements


"@MichaelFKane Shortly after we saw him heading towards the mountains some [--] kilometers away. Dr Amley explained that even if he caught him and brought him back to the colony he would immediately head right back for the mountains. . but why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023118297856643321)  2026-02-15T19:32Z 111.9K followers, [----] engagements


""My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity." What the hell you think "English-Scots-Irish culture" IS you chocolate-covered philips-head machine screw https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023121730865185095 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2023121730865185095"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023121730865185095)  2026-02-15T19:46Z 111.9K followers, 20.8K engagements


"@nealasher On the other hand not everything the body does is necessarily adaptive always. It's evolved to regulate itself but the way it does this is through biochemical mechanisms which can be damaged. That's how we got an obesity epidemic. Why not also high blood pressure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023290781478572463)  2026-02-16T06:58Z 111.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Here's a little inside information on how this all works based a conversation I had with @ADoricko in California a few months ago. The key thing to understand is that Rainmaker's new technology has nothing to with cloud seeding. Augustus and his modestly-sized crew of nerds use the same seeding process that has been known about and practiced not only for decades but for generations. They were doing this is the 50s guys. But the process never took off in a big way. Why not Because it didn't work consistently and reliably. Sometimes it would bring the rain. Sometimes nothing. Turns out this was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1943674321018257810)  2025-07-11T14:10Z 111.3K followers, 192.8K engagements


"Oh no The peasants aren't having enough babies How will we keep the cost of labor down We couldn't possibly examine the conditions leading up to the fertility crisis. That might force us to have uncomfortable conversations confront unpopular truths and perhaps even acknowledge that we personally might have played some role in causing it. Wait I have an idea People are all just interchangeable units of economic productivity right Let's just import some like we're buying a sack of potatoes Yay That will solve everything Best of all they work for cheap because they're used to third world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1995892096402690072)  2025-12-02T16:25Z 111.3K followers, 908.8K engagements


"@Itsfoss Communists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2016410277265162532)  2026-01-28T07:17Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"For the same reason that MS-13 gangsters have face tattoos. Can someone please explain to me why these super rich men are all pedos Youre a billionaire why cant you just date and have relations with any gorgeous women 18+ you want Power Can someone please explain to me why these super rich men are all pedos Youre a billionaire why cant you just date and have relations with any gorgeous women 18+ you want Power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2018203743271936178)  2026-02-02T06:04Z 111.3K followers, 182.3K engagements


"Communism is not an ideology. It has meant so many different things to so many different people in different places and times that it has only two universal traits. And so it is these traits and these alone that define it. [--]. It exploits the resentment of the have-nots to make them into Useful Idiots who are true believers in the Cause and the Party. [--]. It harnesses the masses of Useful Idiots to the political ambitions of The Party who believe in nothing but power. @whstancil is a Useful Idiot. Because Useful Idiots have been duped they think communism is an ideology and that what they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2018720172412936434)  2026-02-03T16:16Z 111.6K followers, 43.6K engagements


"Communism is in some ways a disease of abundance. The Useful Idiots it requires are motivated not by want but by envy. And more there is to have the more there is to envy. As the total area under a bell curve increases the edges become further apart. Anyone who doesn't understand what that sentence means who can't picture it and understand its mathematical inevitability is susceptible to the disease of communism. This is the purpose that the words "wealth inequality" serve. They are a rhetorical device to keep envy alive when wealth is abundant. The more wealth there is the more wealth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019073609721860291)  2026-02-04T15:40Z 111.3K followers, 24.9K engagements


"@BlackDumpling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019335175851888645)  2026-02-05T08:59Z 111.8K followers, 35.9K engagements


"It doesn't matter if an anti-social act is "part of someone's culture" or if "he didn't know it was wrong" or if he's "too retarded/crazy to understand". Because the purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of a properly functioning justice system is to prevent the repetition of an anti-social act. We do not hang murderers for being aware they have been naughty. We hang them for murdering. And we do it so they don't murder again. "Guilt" in practice means "likelihood of reoffense". If you get on a train and stab a White girl in the neck for being White then you are guilty. Because"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019441191918481847)  2026-02-05T16:01Z 111.6K followers, 29.6K engagements


"@YWNReporter If only all the oppressed peoples of the world were somehow also rich enough to afford massive marketing campaigns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019532443389423720)  2026-02-05T22:03Z 111.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@philvischer The last book is called "Return of the King" you factory-defective pink plastic lawn flamingo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019596602110009593)  2026-02-06T02:18Z 111.5K followers, 30.3K engagements


"@trad_west_ Making the sequel to the Passion of the Christ Wait what Don't we already know how that story ends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019599570880061941)  2026-02-06T02:30Z 111.8K followers, 21.7K engagements


"@esrtweet The best thing we can do for programmers' mental health is to replace MBA boomer middle management with LLMs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019781769197760940)  2026-02-06T14:34Z 111.6K followers, 22.3K engagements


"RT @leonardaisfunE: Ask yourself why they would deface a mural of a White woman who did nothing wrong and was brutally murdered by a derang"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019783835253162470)  2026-02-06T14:42Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@Missy3847291310 A democrat would be preferable to Ramaswamy because both would be defeat but the former would not come packaged with the illusion of victory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019985658887172520)  2026-02-07T04:04Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@IfindRetards That Israel worked for Epstein Nah that doesn't make any sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2019990057558679929)  2026-02-07T04:22Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@JohnCleese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020133269786738875)  2026-02-07T13:51Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@JRuebl47185 Is this a parody account This is a parody account right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020134098237333927)  2026-02-07T13:54Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@5Solas2 Gay marriage shouldn't be illegal on biblical grounds. It should be illegal on practical consequentialist grounds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020134845129592909)  2026-02-07T13:57Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Do I have to explain this Do I actually have to explain this Do you have so little understanding of the world that I have to explain this Or are you disingenuously pretending not to understand this for clicks and a modest amount of money Well I don't get clicks by pretending not to understand things. I get clicks and said modest amount of money by helping people understand things. So even though this one is stupidly simple here goes. Everyone builds his brand and competes for status. That is how humans are wired. And anyone who claims not to be is competing for status with "I am above it all""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020147408735277213)  2026-02-07T14:47Z 111.8K followers, 112.1K engagements


"Evil cannot comprehend anything but evil and weakness. If evil sees you forgoing an opportunity to do evil it will assume you are weak because that is the only possibility it can comprehend. If you wish to have a civilization you must hang anyone who talks like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020560680017932454)  2026-02-08T18:09Z 111.8K followers, 32.5K engagements


"@sciencegirl "Those responsible" Who Name them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020575011296223492)  2026-02-08T19:06Z 111.8K followers, 10.7K engagements


"Doctor (make sure you call her doctor) Jane Clare Jones apparently is here to tell us about "how everything works" because the Feynman lectures on Youtube are the patriarchy or something. I can hardly wait. The problem with these characters is that they don't actually know things. Jones has no idea whether Luna or Mars or both is a better plan and she doesn't even know what criteria might be considered in making such a decision. She has no idea whether or what science fiction writers Elon Musk read as a kid and she has no idea how science fiction writers are educated or what else we do with"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020666735657992572)  2026-02-09T01:11Z 111.8K followers, 55.1K engagements


"@TaraBull Sportsball is for entertaining boomers when they're tired after a hard day of selling out their descendants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020735091857568075)  2026-02-09T05:42Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@prinkasusa Are they the same calculations that women make when they vote for this exact thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020764128990646664)  2026-02-09T07:38Z 111.7K followers, 15.8K engagements


"RT @MichaelFKane: Really big magnet at the L1 Lagrange. That's probably many centuries out so let's do a superconducting loop around the e"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020769678784946477)  2026-02-09T08:00Z 111.8K followers, [--] engagements


"@MikeBales We've reached Peak Boomer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020880608277197104)  2026-02-09T15:20Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@NicoleArbour They don't want to be assassinated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021041131488960886)  2026-02-10T01:58Z 111.8K followers, 28.4K engagements


"@TSteelsen83575 Violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021108059997651445)  2026-02-10T06:24Z 111.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@RecTheRegime So ethnic groups have the right to a territory and nation of their own Interesting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021111410336415870)  2026-02-10T06:38Z 111.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@LIBRAL0GY OMG Men don't read Hegel Or Proust What else in the universe could there possibly be to read"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021493907809501513)  2026-02-11T07:57Z 111.6K followers, [---] engagements


"@mark_slapinski Narrator: "He was not in fact a conservative.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021630437739966835)  2026-02-11T17:00Z 111.8K followers, 37.6K engagements


"There's a concept in AI programming called a "zone of proximal development". It's a fancy way of saying that your system can only be trained when it's accurate enough to be right sometimes and wrong sometimes. Because if you're always being told you're wrong that isn't feedback. Always being told you're right isn't feedback either. Either one prevents the very possibility of learning. If you think about this concept when looking at the modern world it applies in many different areas. No one can learn from constant criticism or from constant praise. I enjoy Brazilian Jujitsu. But imagine if"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021673232269816113)  2026-02-11T19:50Z 111.8K followers, 21.1K engagements


"@JamesSurowiecki People who steal from stores don't steal from stores as part of seven step personal economic growth plan. They steal from stores because they dislike how having to pay makes them feel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021695442967314697)  2026-02-11T21:18Z 111.8K followers, 17.8K engagements


"@spooked75 @ChrisMartzWX Weinersmith Fallacy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021714461610950774)  2026-02-11T22:34Z 111.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@SandyofCthulhu The reason guns don't work in horror movies has nothing to do with the premises and everything to do with how the scriptwriter wanted the movie to last over five minutes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021825407268393211)  2026-02-12T05:55Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@mcsquared34"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022005474363875513)  2026-02-12T17:50Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@ricankilla0722 @elonmusk "If you wish to bake a chocolate chip cookie from scratch you must first invent the universe. " - Carl Sagan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022086474213339587)  2026-02-12T23:12Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@Joshiepoo25 Instead of audience-blaming and posting ego-stroking quirk chungus team self-portraits perhaps you could try assuming that people know what they like and do some introspection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022139032059490434)  2026-02-13T02:41Z 111.8K followers, 10.7K engagements


"@NobleBrown @elonmusk Happens a lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022143800358187276)  2026-02-13T03:00Z 111.8K followers, [---] engagements


"@vxunderground Meanwhile Linux:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022210569336762709)  2026-02-13T07:25Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@InsaneCope If you believe that ANYONE gets possessed by demons then you are not an atheist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022346503080247651)  2026-02-13T16:25Z 111.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@BackwoodsEnginr @AnEriksenWife Yes. Marcus and Miranda are on opposite sides of THEIR political spectrum but they are on the same side of ours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022733226595471512)  2026-02-14T18:02Z 111.8K followers, [---] engagements


"If you like scifi If you are sick of stories of dystopian whining and post-apocalyptic despair If you're wondering what the hell happened to the industry that gave us Neuromancer and The Mote in God's Eye and Dune Then I made you something nice https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJHQ4LZN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJHQ4LZN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1728839120825520471)  2023-11-26T18:12Z 111.9K followers, 890K engagements


"Funny thing about North America. There's two distinct majority types of place-names. Spanish and well "Indian". What Surely you didn't think "Tennessee" "Wisconsin" "Omaha" and "Saskatchewan" were English words did you Thing about these two sets of place-names they're all grouped together by type. California is all "Los Angeles" and "San Clemente" and "Santa Barbara" and Nebraska well. isn't. And in Washington where the Spanish sailed up the coast but didn't land the islands are the San Juan Islands but on land it's all Seattle and Tacoma and Puyallup and Mukilteo. See where the Spanish found"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021861832223293927)  2026-02-12T08:19Z 111.9K followers, 132.5K engagements


"An awful lot of people don't know what analogies are for. Analogies are for explaining what you think not for proving you correct. Here @ESYudkowsky tells us a cute little story about an asteroid that is coming to kill us all and about some people who don't believe the asteroid is dangerous. Well I could tell this same story about a giant Mutant Star Goat coming to devour the entire solar system. Neither story would prove that anything in the real world was analogous in any way to an asteroid. Or a goat. So all we learn from this story is that @ESYudkowsky is very afraid of Thing others are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022431481725939960)  2026-02-13T22:03Z 111.9K followers, 26.3K engagements


"So you want to mock Islam the way you mocked Christ. Well you can't John. You can't always get what you want. You still to this day do not understand. You were not allowed to mock Christ because of what the law said. You were allowed to mock Christ because Christianity permits this. Islam does not permit you to mock Muhammad or Allah. If you do Muslims will kill you. And it doesn't matter if the law says you can because they will not follow the law. They will follow Islam. Your society cannot simultaneous have Muslims and freedom of speech. These two things are fundamentally incompatible. You"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022543487812379098)  2026-02-14T05:28Z 111.9K followers, 983.2K engagements


"Someday I wish to have the confidence of someone with a PhD sharing an opinion that isn't based on any experimental result. There's nothing unhealthy about "seed oils." This health quackery needs to die. There's nothing unhealthy about "seed oils." This health quackery needs to die"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023054064708419646)  2026-02-15T15:17Z 111.9K followers, 21.3K engagements


""I'm not going to suck the exhaust pipe of a bus. That seems like it would be bad for me." "You don't know that You have absolutely no proof that bus exhaust is bad for you" "Seems like common sense." "There is no such thing as common sense Common sense is unscientific Where is your double blind controlled study that says sucking on the exhaust pipe of a bus is bad for you" "I don't need one. I know I'm supposed to breathe what I evolved to breathe which does not include bus exhaust fumes." "You are being unscientific" "I find it more important to be healthy." Show me the study that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023124810872836179)  2026-02-15T19:58Z 111.9K followers, 32.9K engagements


"@infantrydort Don't pedestalize Sparta based on fiction. They were retarded and that's why you need a GPS device to find where Sparta was today. You can see Athens from space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023311414287544705)  2026-02-16T08:20Z 111.9K followers, 61.1K engagements


"Here's a scenario: You're a sociopath. You're trying to rob me because you don't have a moral compass. And you're simultaneously trying to appeal to mine because you know I do and you consider it a weakness. And you'll exploit any weakness you can find because you're a sociopath. But I don't consider it weakness. Because morality is not a leash. It's not a set of things I can't do. It' s a set of things I can do but have decided not to. My moral compass doesn't compel my choices. It describes them. Which means you can't compel me with it. I know a sociopath when I see one. It's easy to tell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1945691422411075825)  2025-07-17T03:45Z 111.9K followers, 434.2K engagements


"It's astonishing how few people understood Dune. It's as if they cannot reconcile the concepts of a good man and a bad outcome existing together. This is the whole point of Dune. It is a cautionary tale about the merging of church and state about the dangers of cults of personality of idolatry. If you think "Paul is bad" you've missed the whole point of the story which is that structures of power have a life of their own and they constrain those who wield that power. If Paul were bad then the possibility would remain that placing a good man in his position would lead to a good outcome. But"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1770171779849617899)  2024-03-19T19:33Z 111.9K followers, 2.4M engagements


"The Japanese love to pretend that they were just sitting around on the beach braiding flowers into each other's hair when the evil round-eyed devils suddenly targeted them for a weapons test. Let's see what the Japanese did: [--]. Literally allied themselves with the literal nazis. [--]. Launched military attacks on neutral powers without a declaration of war. [--]. Committed their own separate Holocaust in Asia with a far greater body count: approximately [--] million. [--]. Conducted medical experiments on prisoners of war including vivisection amputations without anesthesia and testing of biological"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1774987094424711389)  2024-04-02T02:27Z 111.9K followers, 14.1M engagements


"Dear Richard: First of all how we run our own affairs is none of your business. You are not American. You are British. You have no skin in the game. However I am going to answer in more detail not for your benefit but for the education of the audience. This nation is called "the United States of America". If you had really been paying attention and treated that phrase as if it were composed of individual words which mean specific things instead of just a name this would have told you all you needed to know. The United States is a union of states. Not of citizens. That's why it's called the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1822771460236042358)  2024-08-11T23:05Z 111.9K followers, 337.3K engagements


"Here's what Song of Ice and Fire actually wants to be and why George can't finish it. The Song of Ice and Fire isn't actually supposed to be dark Machiavellian hopeless or a subversion of Tolkien at all. It's just supposed to start that way. The details may be complex but the formula is simple. Low-fantasy version of the British Isles torn apart by multi-sided Machiavellian power struggle loosely based on the War of the Roses. Things are bad because of Machiavellian power struggle. In the background subtle hints of external magical otherworldly threat. Warring factions scoff and ignore it as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1831714435549057245)  2024-09-05T15:22Z 111.9K followers, 1.5M engagements


"This is the socialist worldview in a nutshell. Socialists believe the following: [--]. All progress is social. This means that all human problems are solved by rearranging collective human behavior. [--]. How to rearrange human behavior to solve problems is already known. [--]. Problems therefore exist because there are people who don't want to behave in this known fashion. [--]. Therefore problems exist because certain people are in the way of progress. Socialist politicians may be grifters who believe in nothing but their (living) voters the socialist true believers hate you and this is why. They"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1842597867153990139)  2024-10-05T16:08Z 111.9K followers, 394.3K engagements


"This is what will matter [----] years from now. Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's entire budget to the third world. This guy reignited the Space Age. He spent his own money hired a bunch of dudes and reignited the Space Age. And together they underbid and outdid NASA and its pet dinosaur corporations on every conceivable level. This is history happening before you. If you are a puddlefish if you think this is a wasteful showpiece or science project then you don't understand physics economics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1845479747020640570)  2024-10-13T15:00Z 111.9K followers, 3.5M engagements


"I'll tell you this one right now. Most companies are breathtakingly inefficient. Because no one gets fired for doing what "we have always done". Because boomer middle managers hate engineers and most their interactions with them are for the purpose of micromanaging them or emphasizing their own status. Because three hour meetings including everyone they can think of allow nonproductive people to look busy. Because boomer c-suite executives couldn't inspire an autistic nine year old boy to talk about trains. This results in companies that are process-oriented rather than result-oriented. The"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1845633982689394910)  2024-10-14T01:13Z 111.9K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Here's what @elonmusk is doing with DOGE and why he's doing it that way. First of all he's fully aware that for the past [--] years or so a gang of thieves has replaced the US federal government and is wearing it as a skinsuit. But I don't think he wants to belabor that point out loud because a lot of people haven't realized this yet and it'll sound like a loony conspiracy theory until they do. So he decided to show them. That's what targeting USAID is about. When you have to eat an elephant the way to do it is "one bite at a time" but there are some very specific reasons why he selected USAID"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1887257546211115429)  2025-02-05T21:50Z 111.9K followers, 488.1K engagements


"I never really understood women until I realized just how much they hate unattractive men. For a man an unattractive woman is relatively simple to deal with. You just don't look at her through the lens of sexuality. Be polite deal with her as whatever she is. work colleague somebody's mom whatever and keep your distance if she starts trying to hit on you. It's not like that for women. Their instinctive loathing for unattractive men is extreme. Sperm is cheap eggs are expensive. The risk of investing an egg and a pregnancy in unworthy genetic material is far greater than the men's risk in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1892794630032265324)  2025-02-21T04:33Z 111.9K followers, 893.1K engagements


"I'm going to call it right now. A lot of stuff is going to break on this mission. By design. As part of the plan. Don't get upset. I'm not saying SpaceX plans to fail. I'm pointing out that SpaceX has taken an ultraimportant principle from software engineering and realized it applies to all engineering. Feedback beats planning. And that you see is why SpaceX doesn't do things the NASA way. The NASA way was to gold-plate everything plan and test and plan and test and generate mountains of paper detailing every contingency with every scenario prepared for. SpaceX just shrugs says "it's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1910314718998192537)  2025-04-10T12:51Z 111.9K followers, 3M engagements


"Every species has mating rituals. If those mating rituals cannot be performed they will not breed. That's why we say of some animals that they "won't breed in captivity". It isn't because they have abstract philosophical ideas about freedom and want to take a stand. It's because the zoo environment has some restriction that disrupts their mating rituals. In humans these rituals are partially instinctive but also must be adapted to culture so parts of them must be learned. If these parts are not taught because they're not understood or because speaking of them openly is politically off-limits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1918506702267175234)  2025-05-03T03:23Z 111.9K followers, 1.3M engagements


""I have a plan for GoodThing" "Great let's hear it." "First of all everybody has to just " "Okay pump the brakes there smart guy. How do you plan to get people to just" "Well they should just " "Perhaps but how are you going to get them to just" "They should" "They will not. They will not just. Never in the history of humanity have they just. They did not just in antiquity they did not just in the Bronze Age or in the Iron Age. "The Egyptians did not just the Hittites did not just Romans did not just nor did the Chinese. The Ostrogoths the Visigoths the Vandals and the Huns were united solely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1919369844173963736)  2025-05-05T12:33Z 111.9K followers, 289K engagements


"Dear young single men I'm going to save you a lot of future anguish by explaining something. Men evolved language to hunt dangerous game in teams Women evolved language so they could loudly and vehemently declare fealty to the social matrix and not be left alone in the wilderness to die. This means that it is quite possible for an entire group of women to sit in a room and loudly declare one thing to each other while each and every one of them privately thinks the exact opposite. In fact the more women there are in the room the more likely this is to happen. And social media is the largest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955771849692078537)  2025-08-13T23:22Z 111.9K followers, 1.3M engagements


"Either good people hurt bad people or bad people hurt good people. These are your two options. For [--] years liberals have been crying out "I don't want anybody to hurt anybody" But that is not an option. That is not a thing that can happen. If you stop good people from hurting bad people you are helping bad people hurt good people. The difference between good and bad people is that good people hurt bad people as much as they have to and bad people hurt good people as much as they can. Western civilization is made up of mostly good people. The rest of the world is made up of mostly bad people."  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1965071792436896073)  2025-09-08T15:16Z 111.9K followers, 378.5K engagements


"The large explosion that immediately follows it. What is it about God is great in Arabic that bothers you so much 🤔 What is it about God is great in Arabic that bothers you so much 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1976868104375500888)  2025-10-11T04:30Z 111.9K followers, 2.2M engagements


"This is the kind of ahistorical take you get from watching an old Horatio Hornblower miniseries on A&E and then applying the modern political spectrum to the work of fiction you just saw. The American revolutionaries were not "liberals" in any modern sense of the word. They were not fighting for change. They were fighting to keep their accustomed way of life. While most of the colonists considered themselves Englishmen up until the time of the troubles the British crown and Parliament actually had very little to do with the Americas. The colonies were self-organizing and mostly self-governing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1979886236010525134)  2025-10-19T12:23Z 111.9K followers, 174.1K engagements


"This dot is not tiny. This dot is [----] square miles which falls short of the usual figure of [-----] square miles of solar panels to power the US. [-----] square miles is two Greater Los Angeles areas all the way from Thousand Oaks to San Clemente from Moreno Valley to the ocean. A very large number does not magically become a small number when you pull an even bigger number out of your ass to compare it to. Now you wanna cover that area in solar panels and keep them all maintained cleaned and facing the sun Then you wanna make enough batteries to charge up and meet the ENTIRE POWER DEMANDS OF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1979896212636442745)  2025-10-19T13:03Z 111.9K followers, 733.4K engagements


"You may be wondering why immigrants hate us so much. After all they were allowed to come to America and prosper greatly by doing so and a large portion of the population bent over backwards to welcome them and make them feel at home. If you don't understand realpsych you would expect them to be grateful. But that's not how people actually work. Human beings are grateful for gifts and favors only up to the point where they feel they can no longer repay them. Once that point is passed once a person can no longer repay his debts then he has a choice between two narratives for understanding the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1984005489651290492)  2025-10-30T21:12Z 111.9K followers, 289K engagements


"She isn't crying from guilt or shame or sympathy. She is crying from religious ecstasy. We are not dealing with a political philosophy here but a faith with gods devils saints martyrs doctrines rituals heaven hell and original sin. Most people aren't capable of being atheists. It takes a special kind of mind to actually not worship anything. Whether you think that kind of mind is superior or inferior or neither is irrelevant. Either way it's rare. Anyone else when he loses his religion will find a new one and vehemently insist that it isn't religion just observable and obvious facts. But it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1984181042106843593)  2025-10-31T08:49Z 111.9K followers, 459.8K engagements


"1. Have capitalism. Life is good for 90%. [--]. Find the 10% who can't thrive even in ideal conditions. [--]. Tell them socialism would fix their problems. Use their support to implement some socialism. [--]. Have mostly capitalism. Life is good for 80%. [--]. Find the 20% aren't thriving. [--]. Tell them socialism would fix their problems. Use their support to implement some more socialism. [--]. Have some capitalism. Life is good for 70%. [--]. Find the 30% who aren't thriving. It pains me to see people dismiss the rise of socialism as being about young people being dumb and brainwashed. The truth is young"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1985390334403092853)  2025-11-03T16:55Z 111.9K followers, 2.4M engagements


"Well shucks n' tarnation fix yer lookers on this y'all. Us po' simple country folks out here in the Tennessee woods shure are a whole peck o' grateful we gots @kenburns to look out fer us. Why without him them city slickers up in Brooklyn New York Walpole New Hampshire and at Columbia Youneevers. Ukneeverse. Unyeevers. College might not know we was all dependent on the wireless and stuff. They might think that Chattanooga was the first city in the You-knighted states to have fiber internet service to all residents way back in [----]. They might even think we gots [--] Gbps fiber available to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1987740099430232092)  2025-11-10T04:32Z 111.9K followers, 204.3K engagements


"One of the harsh realizations that our civilization must come to in order to survive is this: You cannot protect women from anything unless you first protect them from themselves. Women voted for this. Consistently and repeatedly. Women will curse you as a cruel evil racist and hateful if you ever try to stop this. Women want this. Women want to live like this. Women voted for this. Consistently and repeatedly. Women will curse you as a cruel evil racist and hateful if you ever try to stop this. Women want this. Women want to live like this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020517600296370227)  2026-02-08T15:18Z 111.9K followers, 87.9K engagements


"@Babygravy9 I speak cat and can translate. He is being held wrong. When you hold a cat always support our back legs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022716080385302764)  2026-02-14T16:54Z 111.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@Rich_Cooper I can't tell if this video is satire or not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022391823923319159)  2026-02-13T19:25Z 111.9K followers, 11.6K engagements


"@MichaelFKane @YuvalKordov My current manuscript for Box of Trouble has a chapter entitled "Direct From Uranus". I apologize for nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022573672913912277)  2026-02-14T07:28Z 111.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@perrymetzger You cannot apply the formula in everyday life. But understanding the formula can protect you against bad intuitions about probability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022719680675209321)  2026-02-14T17:08Z 111.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@dantobias I also like Life of Brian. Regrettably I can no longer like John Cleese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022740789642830018)  2026-02-14T18:32Z 111.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@elonmusk @beffjezos Technically a pruned min-max tree *is* AI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022761591981379618)  2026-02-14T19:55Z 111.9K followers, [----] engagements


"No women are not retarded. They are conformist. To fall for actually fall for narratives like the Covid story the BLM story the ICE is Gestapo story to actually whole-heartedly believe them yeah you would have to be kinda retarded. But women didn't "fall for" those stories. Not exactly. They aligned to them. This means they went along with them repeated them reinforced them not because they were convinced by evidence but because they were convinced by the appearance of consensus. Women are evolved to believe what the rest of the tribe appears to believe. Evidence is not considered. Why Well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2016207040280920569)  2026-01-27T17:49Z 111.9K followers, 322.1K engagements


"The word "libertarianism" is being used to mean two totally different and incompatible political agendas. Free-Statism: "Let's design and implement a society where liberty by which we mean individual control over our life circumstances is maximized." Chaos-Worship: "Liberty means not being externally constrained from behaving however we want so let's remove all external constraints on all human beings everywhere forever." Both these groups call themselves "libertarians" but they have nothing in common because while they both revere a concept they refer to as "liberty" they have different"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2016266498231193955)  2026-01-27T21:46Z 111.9K followers, 111.5K engagements


"Any time a nation allows slavery de jure or de facto the business owning class immediately tries to replace the working class with slaves. If they succeed the nation collapses and everyone dies. A nation cannot survive if it's populated by slaves. Why Because nations are what Kurt Vonnegut would call a "granfalloon". his word for an association that only exists because people believe in it. Now Vonnegut who was a liberal and therefore wrong about everything important meant to mock the concept of nations and tribes by coining this term. He believed them to be unnecessary throwbacks to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2017279281705992599)  2026-01-30T16:50Z 111.9K followers, 172.3K engagements


"I've said it before I'll say it again. If you build a company with your sweat and investment dollars you have the right to hire whoever is willing to work for you. Because it's your company. You have the right to compensate them for their labor with whatever they will accept. . if and only if it belongs to you. You have zero right to hand out tickets to the United States of America. Because the United States of America does not belong to you or your company. You can either accept this now or later with more bullets. Hell you can employ the entire population of Ethnicklashistan average IQ 83"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020900095152021966)  2026-02-09T16:38Z 111.9K followers, 90.9K engagements


"Stop it. Just stop. The problem is not the system. The problem is the people. There is no application of number-crunching pie-chart magic that turn a population full of dumb anti-social losers into utopia. Every time you try to fix a people problem by rigging the system differently there are second-order consequences you really won't like. For example you just designed a perpetual gerontocracy wherein young people can't afford houses or get married or have babies because retired people need infinity free healthcare and Caribbean cruises and summer homes. But that's just one example. You can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2020984251697537159)  2026-02-09T22:12Z 111.9K followers, 35.9K engagements


"What you need isn't "mass". instead mass is a property of the things you need. I apologize if that sounds pedantic but I think the distinction is important and here's why. The problem that SpaceX is most concerned with at the moment is lifting things to orbit or out of Earth's gravity well. Since right now everything is manufactured on Earth the mass is the lens that we look at material through. When you're lifting stuff a kilogram is a kilogram is a kilogram. But when we actually have extraction capability outside the gravity well that changes. You're no longer just thinking about delta-v"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022082131871068513)  2026-02-12T22:55Z 111.9K followers, 37.6K engagements


"On the surface this appears to be a principled argument. It is not. It is an attempt to exploit YOUR principles treating them as an intellectual and philosophical attack surface by which you may be deceived. A "principle" to be a principle must be universally applied. @Ecoflowing does not do this. He is laser-focused on the investment and presumed property rights of some restaurant owners in Japan arguing that they may have spent as much as [--] years building that business. He utterly ignores the obvious fact that the Japanese have spent as much as [-----] years of building Japan. This is also"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022374757304320145)  2026-02-13T18:18Z 111.9K followers, 21.7K engagements


"@thenaolivier You haven't fully understood who I am speaking to. Try interpreting the last three paragraphs as content instead of rhetoric"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022570046237622682)  2026-02-14T07:14Z 111.9K followers, 24.4K engagements


"A vast number of humans probably a majority aren't people. They are large language models. I'm not saying this as a generality as a clever or funny way of saying "they are stupid". No. I mean something very concrete and specific and there are a lot of people who appear very intelligent maybe even win awards for writing good poetry or something who are nevertheless not people not fully sapient just a large language model walking around in a human body. First you have to understand what a large language model is. It's a computer (organic or inorganic) which has been trained on a data set"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2009393479886004403)  2026-01-08T22:35Z 111.9K followers, 3.1M engagements


"The distinction between a Large Language Model and a Person is that a Person has a mental model of the universe and his use of language aligns to that model. An LLM's goal for language use is to align with its training data. The required takeaway from the genetic differences video is that your enemies do not use words the way that you do. They are not instruments for conveying meaning. They do not illuminate a mapping from mental concepts to physical reality They are spells provided to them by https://t.co/5OV6HD8jdd The required takeaway from the genetic differences video is that your"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021107852983644300)  2026-02-10T06:23Z 111.9K followers, 33.3K engagements


"A drone is really just a slow inexpensive missile. It has certain advantages associated with being slow (it can loiter looking for targets) and cheap (you can throw more of them) but still it's a missile and we've had missiles for some time and we understand how to counter them. It's always easier to design a missile not to be shot down than to design something to shoot a missile down but if you can outspend and outdesign a non-peer adversary then active defense can work. And drones by definition are non-peer because drones are as I said just a poor man's version of a missile. So whole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021727839406444990)  2026-02-11T23:27Z 111.9K followers, 62.6K engagements


"Sigh. Time for a kickstarter to buy this guy a whole bunch of science fiction books to tide him over until we can invent a prosthetic imagination. Since I do this for a living here's several ideas off the top of my head for viable interstellar travel with no more than thirty seconds of thought need to come up with each one. - Travel at relativistic speeds to compress ship time into a very short period. - Come up with a solution to the Strawberry effect and freeze passengers. - Send AI robots and frozen embryos. - Digitize human consciousness and become the AI. Then live for as long as you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021737740379869246)  2026-02-12T00:06Z 111.9K followers, 39.2K engagements


"I've never been impressed with "grind culture" and I was especially unimpressed with Ramaswamy's allegation that no there is no bias Americans are just being outcompeted because they played varsity football instead of attending cram schools. That whole attitude that whole way of looking at the world is predicated on a credentialist zero-sum idea of what education is even for. To the third world striver coming from a broken society education and cram schools are for outscoring the other guy on tests so you can beat out the other guy for the high-paying job the tenure track position. It's not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021792796223447185)  2026-02-12T03:45Z 111.9K followers, 62.4K engagements


"When someone I know to be smart and knowledgeable says something that seems off base and wrong then I try to assume there's some part of their ideas that I'm not understanding. So help me out here @JoelSercel. My notion is that Martian cities at the first Martian cities will be underground (free radiation shielding). That still requires you to lift your entire tech stack off Earth at least eventually because any extraterrestrial society needs that. But what you don't have to do is refine a whole bunch of high-strength building materials which at first you can only do on Earth then lift them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021993217470673140)  2026-02-12T17:02Z 111.9K followers, 360.8K engagements


"People frequently float the concept of an "Antarctic dry run". But the point of going to space isn't to go to space because we can. It's not a vanity project. The point of going to space is that there's valuable stuff there. I wrote a whole article about this called "The Trillionaires of Mars". One of the great insights that privatized spacelift represents is that frontiers cannot be a massive public works project because the resources devoted to public works project always encounter fierce political opposition from people who want that money given to them instead. ("Whitey's on the moon" etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2021999040683032675)  2026-02-12T17:25Z 111.9K followers, 79.1K engagements


"Not insane. Not even remotely insane. Most top-tier hackers will follow these with some possible rare wiggle room for simple recursion on their own initiative. Complexity in code comes from two sources the inherent unavoidable complexity of the task the code is supposed to do and the complexity of the code that carries out the task. Obviously no code can be simpler than its job but every iota of additional complication is anathema to the best programmers. Because they understand that the most important virtue of code priority number one no matter what is READABILITY. When a program is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022023111294492799)  2026-02-12T19:00Z 111.9K followers, 112.9K engagements


"That's *your* reason. But we need a lot of other people for this kind of project to work people who are personally invested not just carrying out instructions. Space colonization needs to have incentives that make sense to them as well. *You* can focus on long-term ideas about the thriving of the human race over millions or billions of years because your personal prosperity is a ready solution to all your more immediate problems. That's really cool but we can't make that happen for everyone whose help we need. at least not until the project is partially accomplished and we can make giant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022058213252722874)  2026-02-12T21:20Z 111.9K followers, 30K engagements


"If a Japanese man decided that what Japan wanted was cheeseburgers he would not buy a McDonald's franchise and import a bunch of surly American teenagers on work visas. He would develop a multi-year obsession with the perfect cheeseburger make a pilgrimage to America and tour the entire country eating in upscale gastropubs fast-food chains and small-town diners talk to Michellin chefs and short order cooks and make cheeseburgers on the propane stove in his Winnebago every night relentlessly practicing. When he returned home to Japan he would mortgage his house to buy a small storefront and a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022151611561259195)  2026-02-13T03:31Z 111.9K followers, 2.4M engagements


"@AnEriksenWife I was just messing around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022206068437504471)  2026-02-13T07:07Z 111.9K followers, 60.7K engagements


"@SydSteyerhart Porn hijacks the sexual instinct in order to monetize it. It can harm you if you overdo it but so long as you can still manage to have kids the damage is limited. Sportsball hijacks the patriotic instinct in order to monetize it. It harms your whole nation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022495958718910590)  2026-02-14T02:19Z 111.9K followers, 25.5K engagements


"Dear John You said "criticize" and I accidentally said "mock". And if you wish to avoid the issue by quibbling about the difference I cannot stop you. But I would hope that such an exercise would be beneath you. For the sake of those still reading here is the point: What we in the West call "universal human rights" (such as "free speech") are actually nothing of the sort. They are not universal nor are they attached to the mere condition of humanity. They have no a priori existence. Instead they are aspects of Western civilization and depend upon Western culture to exist. Therefore we cannot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022711483633709414)  2026-02-14T16:36Z 111.9K followers, 49.8K engagements


"@AnEriksenWife It genuinely makes me sad to have to be mean to someone who spent his life trying to make things that are fun. But every raindrop bears its own share of responsibility for the flood. If we want the West to survive we must confront this idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022712121637605812)  2026-02-14T16:38Z 111.9K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Yes. Brilliantly said. Furthermore this touches on why democracy is only suited to the government of a united people with a single ethos. It can settle debates about HOW the state should serve its people but when there is no united ethos then democracy shifts to a struggle over whom the state should serve. And this struggle is always won by the least tolerant and most tribally unified group. @Devon_Eriksen_ To boil it down we can't "treat Islam like we do Christianity" because modern Muslims are not like modern Christians. The Christians broadly believe in free speech or will at least not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2022720903361024042)  2026-02-14T17:13Z 111.9K followers, 22K engagements


"There is a sort of woman who is deeply and personally offended that Men don't like Thing. And she always has Theory. Theory is about how Men don't like Thing because they are Bad. All of this is explained by Story. Story might be plausible and make sense but it's one of infinity stories that would be plausible and make sense. She picked this one because she likes it. If her favorite version of Story is the one where Men are Bad then either she doesn't like Men very much and wants people to think Men are Bad or she likes it very much indeed when Men are Bad. To tell which type you are dealing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023099470146072909)  2026-02-15T18:17Z 111.9K followers, 288.7K engagements


"@StephenKing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023119395413701112)  2026-02-15T19:37Z 111.9K followers, 29.7K engagements


"@SethDillon If America is just an idea then no one needs to come here to be an American. They can just be Americans where they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023153265165115821)  2026-02-15T21:51Z 111.9K followers, 20.9K engagements


"@AlolanRat "Liking guns is weird""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023215536721564056)  2026-02-16T01:59Z 111.9K followers, 12.3K engagements


"@misanharriman Gave to whom And for what"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023291453846462885)  2026-02-16T07:00Z 111.9K followers, 18.3K engagements


"@cremieuxrecueil I genuinely love it when I hear some guy with a star wars name going on a racist rant about the evils of the genetically identical people whose homeland is fifty miles away from his"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023309115192209740)  2026-02-16T08:10Z 111.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Women evolved to take care of toddlers. If you put women in charge of teaching ethics you get Toddler Ethics. "No hitting" "Share the toys" "Don't say mean things" These are fine lessons for toddlers. Don't indulge your id at the expense of others. You can learn about balancing interests later when your brain is developed enough to store that information. But when you put women in charge of adults they tend to reflexively assume those adults are toddlers. They will tell you "no hitting" when the Mongol hordes are massing on your borders. They will tell you "share the toys" when a vagrant meth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023456062272086156)  2026-02-16T17:54Z 111.9K followers, 253.7K engagements


"They didn't commission this because they like it. They commissioned this because you hate it. Its much worse than this. If it was cost alone that could be solved. But the awful The Embrace sculpture in Boston was $10 million. The money is there. Its the culture you have to change. The taste element is whats missing. People want to commission this stuff. Thats https://t.co/5230LLwAHD Its much worse than this. If it was cost alone that could be solved. But the awful The Embrace sculpture in Boston was $10 million. The money is there. Its the culture you have to change. The taste element is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023484171910606975)  2026-02-16T19:46Z 111.9K followers, 20.7K engagements


"@MikhailaFuller "Pedo" used to mean "tries to rape prepubescent children". Now it means "gets naked with anyone younger and hotter than me""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/2023496324340187415)  2026-02-16T20:34Z 111.9K followers, 26.3K engagements

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