[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.] #  @avidseries i/o i/o posts on X about at least, countries, somalia, movies the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1549461766983360512/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1549461766983360512/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1549461766983360512/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.08% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.06% - X Months XXXXXXX +1.30% - X Year XXXXXXX +8% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1549461766983360512/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [at least](/topic/at-least) #628, [countries](/topic/countries) #2465, [somalia](/topic/somalia) #432, [movies](/topic/movies) #4239, [murder](/topic/murder) #1619, [parenting](/topic/parenting) #15, [blank](/topic/blank) #10, [moses](/topic/moses) #142, [the world](/topic/the-world) 1.83%, [twitter](/topic/twitter) #1211 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@alexgr8s1](/creator/undefined) [@jointedjoker919](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@greencraig5](/creator/undefined) [@tacticalyawn](/creator/undefined) [@mattyglesias](/creator/undefined) [@levine2001](/creator/undefined) [@joehellas](/creator/undefined) [@bunny_m4evr](/creator/undefined) [@tropinnka](/creator/undefined) [@ketospeculator](/creator/undefined) [@blogsmitch](/creator/undefined) [@souldead777](/creator/undefined) [@londonforplay](/creator/undefined) [@alexnowrasteh](/creator/undefined) [@alsadius](/creator/undefined) [@jamessurowiecki](/creator/undefined) [@billyp444__](/creator/undefined) [@farleftistrash](/creator/undefined) [@chronomalousfe](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours ""Somalis are a gift to the US" They have one of the highest welfare dependency rates in the US. They have one of the lowest employment rates. They have one of the highest crime rates among legal immigrant groups. They are far more likely to support Islamism than other Muslim immigrant groups" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996641614773502378) 2025-12-04T18:03Z 192.6K followers, 55.4K engagements "Haitian immigrants perform considerably better in the US than Somali immigrants. Their annual median household income in $20000 higher their rate of employment is higher they don't break off into clans or parallel societies they assimilate more rapidly they appear to commit less crime they produce fewer odious politicians" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996246218431664241) 2025-12-03T15:52Z 192.6K followers, 127.6K engagements "In 1992 the fertility rate of non-Western immigrants in Denmark was twice that of native Danes. In 2024 it was lower than the Danish rate" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996676711308779701) 2025-12-04T20:23Z 192.6K followers, 18.9K engagements "I don't know how to convince you that escaping the vortex of limitless empathy signaling will make you a better person" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1994418608617718085) 2025-11-28T14:50Z 192.5K followers, 29.9K engagements "January Jones was the worst actress to appear in a high-quality American dramatic series in this century. In almost every scene her woodenness was painful to watch. Defending her acting skills is a fool's errand" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1994794448778400142) 2025-11-29T15:43Z 192.5K followers, 43.4K engagements "A "legend" that died in 2012 from a disease caused by his smoking" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1994869188762939739) 2025-11-29T20:40Z 192.5K followers, 29.5K engagements "Study finds that immigrants to Europe that come from more tolerant cultures end up becoming more integrated into their new countries. "Tolerance is a robust predictor of economic civic and cultural integration."" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995142397966315602) 2025-11-30T14:46Z 192.5K followers, 17.3K engagements "@mattyglesias There's abundant evidence in the literature that groups carry cultural values and comparative cognitive achievement with them when they emigrate to the West and that these persist in later generations" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996308321741971565) 2025-12-03T19:59Z 192.5K followers, 22.2K engagements "@jeremymstamper Hegseth is loathsome. Makes my skin crawl" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996948482561552850) 2025-12-05T14:23Z 192.5K followers, XXX engagements "Slavery in the Ottoman Empire lasted over XXX years (as much as XX% of the empire's population was enslaved) primarily enslaved Europeans preceded slavery in America and continued into the 20th century. No one in modern Turkey feels the slightest twinge of guilt about it. Why Because it's long over and everyone has moved on" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1993706813947076973) 2025-11-26T15:42Z 192.6K followers, 314.3K engagements "Men commit about XX% of homicides worldwide and are the victims in approximately XX% of them. There are national and racial variations. In some East Asian nations women commit around XX% of all homicides. In the US black females commit murder at a higher rate than Asian-American males (and in some years at a higher rate than white males)" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995200467412869597) 2025-11-30T18:37Z 192.6K followers, 109.2K engagements "Biden called Trump supporters "garbage" last year. Calling a group of people garbage is dehumanizing and no political leader should do it. It would have been better and entirely accurate for Trump to have said that as a group Somalis take from the US far more than they contribute and that they are probably the single-worst immigrant group in all of the West. I don't see how it's arguable that the US (and every European nation) would have been better off if Somalis had stayed in Somalia" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996210150697312647) 2025-12-03T13:29Z 192.6K followers, 40.6K engagements "There's no evidence (at least not yet) that Somalis in the US are going to be cognitively competitive as a group with Asians or whites. But let's draw evidence about their abilities from their performance on tests in this country not from their performance as malnourished kids living in a warzone" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996777923211067458) 2025-12-05T03:05Z 192.6K followers, 16.7K engagements "If you tell your kids there's a Santa you're lying to them and they are going to later find out that you lied to them and realize that you may again lie to them in the future. I don't know why parents do this (although mine didn't) but it's a good indicator of bad parenting in my book" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997683095240073411) 2025-12-07T15:02Z 192.6K followers, 836.4K engagements "Beginning in the late-60s and then accelerating in the 1970s "reforms" were made to the justice system in more "progressive" areas of the country and unsurprisingly crime exploded. It took Democrats until the early-90s to finally become tough on crime and when they did cities became safer than they had been in decades and people looked back on the 60s-80s as a mistake that would never again be repeated. Then in the 2010s a new generation of progressive reformers moaning about "systemic racism" and promising "depolicing" and "decarceration" and seemingly unaware that you can't change basic" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1993722650800099634) 2025-11-26T16:44Z 192.6K followers, 83.1K engagements "@MayorFrey "Their nation is America." A number of Somali-ancestry politicians (including some in your own city) have publicly referred to Somalia as their country and you know this. (Omar Fateh and Osman among others have done this.) How about just being honest for once" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996360820994027826) 2025-12-03T23:28Z 192.6K followers, 75.6K engagements "In summary: You can support immigration but not support everything about it. This is a lesson that partisans need to learn" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996628039330111565) 2025-12-04T17:09Z 192.6K followers, 7380 engagements "@ninaturner When we disparage DEI it's because it's a vast and oppressive infrastructure of institutional and systemic racism against whites (and increasingly Asians) comprising systems of gross preferential treatment of BIPOC harming tens of millions of people" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997092631608778996) 2025-12-05T23:56Z 192.6K followers, 13.1K engagements "No major finding in all of psychological research is more reproducible or boasts stronger effect sizes than IQ. It is supported by 1000s of studies published over the last six decades in peer-reviewed journals. I've criticized the line of thinking Walsh is engaging in but it's not even close to being as scientifically illiterate as the blank slatism of "Onion Person."" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997707413420445751) 2025-12-07T16:38Z 192.6K followers, 729.8K engagements "Years ago I'd spend Saturday evenings with a group of friends watching DVDs and eating Middle Eastern and Indian food. There were six of us. One of the guys was a young professor at a local university. He never talked about his job or his research. One day I was in the waiting area of a corporate headquarters and started leafing through the magazines they had laid out on a table and saw his face on the cover of Forbes. That's when I discovered he was widely regarded as one of the leading virtual reality researchers in the world. When I got back to my office I googled his name. There were" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1992968179702808899) 2025-11-24T14:46Z 192.6K followers, 1.3M engagements "Sam Harris on pro-Hamas demonstrators in the US: Our streets have been filled with people literally tripping over themselves in their eagerness to demonstrate that they cannot distinguish between those who intentionally kill babies and those who inadvertently kill them. If youre waving the flag of people who murder non-combatants intentionally killing parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents burning people alive at a music festival devoted to peace and decapitating others and dragging their dismembered bodies through the streets all to shouts of God is Great." [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1993360485228724341) 2025-11-25T16:45Z 192.6K followers, 123.7K engagements ""We have some bad apples among us." In every Western nation to which Somalis emigrate (but especially in Europe) they commit hugely disproportionately more crime than natives avail themselves of welfare services and publicly-subsidized housing at far higher rates perform at the very bottom in test scores and income and are more apt to form non-assimilating (and even parallel) societies than other immigrant groups. For example each Somali immigrant in the Netherlands ends up costing Dutch taxpayers over a million dollars. If you have even a cursory knowledge of the statistical information you" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1993795115278561347) 2025-11-26T21:32Z 192.6K followers, 167.9K engagements "For every XXX females who earn a master's degree there are XX males who earn one. For every XXX females who were wounded in action in recent wars there were 5026 males who were wounded. (AEI 2023.)" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995152521766297779) 2025-11-30T15:26Z 192.6K followers, 66.1K engagements "@GBtoST @mattyglesias @grok Source: Statistics Denmark's population registers (e.g. FOLK2 table for population by origin)" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996638459768066286) 2025-12-04T17:51Z 192.5K followers, 1567 engagements "@Bouje99 @mattyglesias Also: I think the US is a more robust environment for assimilation and immigrant success than Europe so its bad effects are less likely here" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996639830206566650) 2025-12-04T17:56Z 192.5K followers, 1895 engagements "That whole clip brought out the lib part of me. Gentrification does indeed suck for the low-income people who live in the neighborhoods being gentrified. I think it's OK to feel bad about that. As far as the Nigerian cab driver "joke" it just seemed mean-spirited. And Nigerian immigrants are among the best immigrants we get from the developing world" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996975030656274787) 2025-12-05T16:08Z 192.6K followers, 8187 engagements "Interesting list. I've seen 80-90% of those movies but can't say I enjoyed most of them all that much. I just watched The Dead again a few days ago. A boring movie with a sublime ending (luckily Huston stuck to Joyce's ending). I should rewatch La Notte (it's been a long time). Red Desert is also a good Antonioni" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997044585714143739) 2025-12-05T20:45Z 192.6K followers, XXX engagements "Maori historian: Yes the Maori ate people when they got the opportunity but why can't white people put this in the proper context White person: What's the proper context for eating people Maori historian: White person: Well Maori historian:" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1977000352366129257) 2025-10-11T13:16Z 192.6K followers, 1.2M engagements "Grok to UK politician sternly: "Perhaps reflect on why protecting vulnerable kids isn't a punchline for politicians."" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1985832944812916984) 2025-11-04T22:14Z 192.6K followers, 5.1M engagements "Musk's initial promise: $X trillion in savings. Actual savings: Possibly none at all overall once indirect costs like federal employee severance/productivity losses are taken into account. So basically an amateurish debacle" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1992673889495773588) 2025-11-23T19:17Z 192.6K followers, 490.8K engagements "Followers of the Nation of Islam believe that the research of a black scientist named Yakub in 4600 BC led to the creation of the white race via grafting of monkeys and albinos and that some of Yakub's university colleagues were killed when Moses threw dynamite at them. Perhaps youre asking yourself Wait there were universities in Mecca that were conducting high-level scientific research over 4000 years before Jesus and over 6000 years before the scientific method Wasnt this about 1000 years before the first written language Did Mecca even exist back then And why didnt the Old Testament cover" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1993329809275933078) 2025-11-25T14:43Z 192.6K followers, 95.5K engagements "Imagine the daily torment of being married to someone high in neuroticism (emotional instability) low in conscientiousness low in agreeableness and eager to try anything new or exciting. Imagine a spouse with the psychological profile of a Green Party member" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1993344609259602094) 2025-11-25T15:42Z 192.6K followers, 70.7K engagements "I could never figure out why the cool kids wanted to go woke when wokeness is the most oppressively conformist and top-down and establishment-driven political and cultural movement in my lifetime in most ways it's the opposite of a counterculture" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1994797116523217273) 2025-11-29T15:54Z 192.6K followers, 173.3K engagements "@dnvr_is_burning Tests have been created to equalize outcomes between cultures. But they have a huge problem: They turn out to have no predictive validity. In other words whatever they're measuring isn't intelligence. Their results don't correlate with measurable outcomes" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1994844053456994737) 2025-11-29T19:00Z 192.6K followers, 2164 engagements "May I present the British MEDICAL Journal" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995311030457745833) 2025-12-01T01:56Z 192.6K followers, 194.7K engagements "The people who are active on Twitter are not at all representative of America. The people in my replies and yours are angrier and weirder than the average American. The issues and events in your feed are a largely-curated mix of stuff that most of your neighbors don't really care about. Despite what you read on this site your life is most likely better than you think it is and immeasurably better than it would have been XXX years ago" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995490649856991711) 2025-12-01T13:50Z 192.6K followers, 92K engagements ""So much of what has made politics run over the past decade has been the transgressive energy of injecting politics into previously non-ideological spaces. This isnt a virtue. The saturation of everyday life and private social spaces with politics is a fundamentally totalitarian tendency. And failing to compartmentalize politics is most often a manifestation of narcissism or emotional dysregulation rather than moral sensitivity or anything laudatory." @feelsdesperate" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995549455387410462) 2025-12-01T17:44Z 192.6K followers, 173.7K engagements "This is a tantrum rather than a serious policy proposal. Making it more difficult for people from countries like Somalia to come here isn't necessarily a bad idea but I don't think we presently have the type of extensive nation-specific immigrant performance data that would be required to make determinations about which countries to include on a "restrict list" in order to pull this off in a fair and systematic way. (But then "systematic" isn't exactly a word I associate with the Trump administration.) Although such an order would face legal challenges Section 212(f) of the Immigration and" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995672589373460547) 2025-12-02T01:53Z 192.6K followers, 40.3K engagements "Maybe because Musk has broached this more prominent figures will finally get the courage to start explicitly talking about it as well. Every psychological trait has at least some heritability none more than intelligence. Here we have a robust scientific finding that explains inequalities in certain important outcomes perhaps more than any other factor and yet it goes unused by conservatives because of the existence of a wholly unnecessary taboo" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1995998271760695681) 2025-12-02T23:27Z 192.6K followers, 147.5K engagements "Of course the Telegraph isn't explicitly framing this as non-whites replacing whites but they know and we know what the implicit message here is" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996207360591733239) 2025-12-03T13:18Z 192.6K followers, 5335 engagements "In the US women are paid about X% less than men for the same work once you adjust for obvious variables like hours worked. In Iran that gap is 34%. (Source: 2024 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report.)" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996283340870070312) 2025-12-03T18:20Z 192.6K followers, 23.6K engagements "@khamenei_ir Adjusted gender pay gap in US for same work: 1%. In Iran: 34%" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996283530528121178) 2025-12-03T18:20Z 192.6K followers, 64.8K engagements "If you're a songwriter who wants to hear one of your songs in a finished production you can spend hundreds of hours in your home recording studio laying down tracks and then mixing and mastering your recordings. But because you're a songwriter and not a great singer or a musician who can skillfully play multiple instruments the results will often disappoint. (No one knows this more than I do.) Or you could take those raw recordings that you did on your phone and upload those recordings into an AI and the AI will output a finished full-blown recorded production of your melody and lyrics in" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996401067160911886) 2025-12-04T02:08Z 192.6K followers, 23.3K engagements "Five reasons why Nowrasteh's graph is misleading or not particularly useful: (1) Somalis are relatively recent arrivals in America and have had less time to commit crime and be incarcerated (which often requires recidivism) than native-borns (whose incarceration numbers have been subject to a cumulative effect over time due to multi-year terms). (2) The graph is a self-own: It shows Somali immigrants being incarcerated at a far higher rate than other legal immigrants (and even significantly higher than illegals). (3) Somalis overwhelmingly live in two low-crime states and incarceration for" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996576016215457857) 2025-12-04T13:43Z 192.6K followers, 50.3K engagements "Women are roughly XX% of all journalists around the world and they are XX% of those journalists killed on the job. So female journalists are killed at a much lower rate than male journalists. And yet the UN somehow frames this as a "targeting" of women journalists" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996597171940913624) 2025-12-04T15:07Z 192.6K followers, 75K engagements "Me: "On balance legal immigration is good for the US." Rightoids: "Why do you say that" Me: "Because that's what the data show." Also me: "On balance Somali immigrants are not good for the US." Leftoids: "Why do you say that" Me: "Because that's what the data show."" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996627504828973110) 2025-12-04T17:07Z 192.6K followers, 23.8K engagements "6000 likes for this ridiculous "break down." The Somali mean IQ often cited (based on studies widely criticized for methodological flaws) isn't hugely relevant to performance in the US because most of that low score is due to sub-optimal conditions in Somalia. (Astonishingly the most well-known IQ study conducted in that country was done in a refugee camp filled with stressed out malnourished and traumatized kids.) Somali immigrant kids raised in the US show strong gains in cognitive performance rising by the second generation roughly to the level of native-born blacks (well beyond the Somali" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996776337260863774) 2025-12-05T02:59Z 192.6K followers, 122.6K engagements "@manivebeenthere "are they smart enough to contribute in America or not" It is possible that they will never be net contributors. My criticism above concerns the use of Somali rather than US cognitive data to make assertions about their present abilities and potential in this country" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996779257809309865) 2025-12-05T03:10Z 192.6K followers, 5404 engagements "Last year I was experiencing three extremely unusual symptoms that when occurring together almost always are caused by a particular serious disorder that can result in immediate disability. Before even ordering blood and imaging tests my physician prescribed a medication with serious side effects and ordered a biopsy which would have left a prominent scar on my face. I refused to take the medication or have the biopsy done until the tests were completed. She warned me that this was very dangerous. The specific blood tests came back (strongly) negative as did a range of dozens of other blood" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996953709364850900) 2025-12-05T14:44Z 192.6K followers, 362.6K engagements "This might be my favorite final scene in any movie. Other movies with perfect final scenes: Sex Lies and Videotape XXX Blows Chinatown Tender Mercies Boyhood The Third Man Ladybird Annie Hall La Dolce Vita The Unbearable Lightness of Being LEclisse and Synecdoche New York" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1996960754806018068) 2025-12-05T15:12Z 192.6K followers, 36K engagements "I haven't seen a movie in a theater for well over a decade. Watching movies in the comfort of your own home is such a pleasurable experience it's hard for me to imagine why anyone would prefer driving to and from a theater standing in line paying an absurd price for a ticket enduring a procession of trailers for awful movies and then listening to people around you chatting it up and chewing loudly on popcorn while you struggle to get immersed in the "moviegoing experience."" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997051707323249084) 2025-12-05T21:13Z 192.6K followers, 48K engagements "Which prominent rightwing account is the most retarded Is it Gunther Eagleman Or perhaps Catturd Good choices but "Aesthetica" an "aesthetics" account with kitsch-driven aesthetic sensibilities and meme-driven intellectual musings deserves at least some consideration. In the tweet below he's claiming that the highest-income and least-divorcing and most-educated group of people in the US (as well as a low-crime group everyplace in Europe) has an "extremely high crime rate." Let me explain the reasoning process behind his claim: Aesthetica doesn't like Indian immigrants because that's the" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997071945309749751) 2025-12-05T22:33Z 192.6K followers, 67.6K engagements "In how many of these hypothetical scenarios would you support the US directly defending an ally with its military Russia invades Poland Russia invades Finland China invades Taiwan China invades Japan China invades Australia" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997394393326604555) 2025-12-06T19:55Z 192.6K followers, 20.1K engagements "Huge new study involving XXXX million vaccinated and XXX million unvaccinated people finds vaccinated individuals had a XX% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of XX months" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997693361109778780) 2025-12-07T15:43Z 192.6K followers, 26.6K engagements "@JamesSurowiecki I said "bad parenting" not "bad parents." Even good parents sometimes engage in bad parenting" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997699233995169965) 2025-12-07T16:06Z 192.6K followers, 26.4K engagements "@Ilhan "contributing" Somalis are net fiscal liabilities in every nation they emigrate to in the West (albeit less so here in the US than in Europe.) In the Netherlands for example each Somali immigrant will cost Dutch taxpayers nearly $XXX million" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997764253135049004) 2025-12-07T20:24Z 192.6K followers, 189.6K engagements "What this ranking got right: Dave Chappelle at number one and putting the best eight American comics of the century in the top eight. What it got wrong: Louis CK and Chris Rock should switch slots and Norm Macdonald should be higher" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997797653875470353) 2025-12-07T22:37Z 192.6K followers, 14.1K engagements "The truth about being a stats nerd on Twitter is that statistics aren't all that interesting to most people until you use them to ratio Jacob Frey Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar when they extol the greatness of the Somali immigrant" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1997847784922435726) 2025-12-08T01:56Z 192.6K followers, 16.7K engagements "It's one of the most uninhabited areas of the eastern US: The soil is bad for farming the growing season is short the winters are brutal there are no major highways and almost all of the commercially valuable old-growth timber was logged out long ago" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1998042713036615954) 2025-12-08T14:51Z 192.6K followers, 12.8K engagements "@hecubian_devil Oh mother of sweet fancy Moses this post is scientifically illiterate" [X Link](https://x.com/avidseries/status/1998053474131423656) 2025-12-08T15:34Z 192.6K followers, 5793 engagements
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@avidseries i/oi/o posts on X about at least, countries, somalia, movies the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence countries XXXXX% social networks XXXX% technology brands XXXX% celebrities XXXX%
Social topic influence at least #628, countries #2465, somalia #432, movies #4239, murder #1619, parenting #15, blank #10, moses #142, the world 1.83%, twitter #1211
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @alexgr8s1 @jointedjoker919 @grok @greencraig5 @tacticalyawn @mattyglesias @levine2001 @joehellas @bunny_m4evr @tropinnka @ketospeculator @blogsmitch @souldead777 @londonforplay @alexnowrasteh @alsadius @jamessurowiecki @billyp444__ @farleftistrash @chronomalousfe
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
""Somalis are a gift to the US" They have one of the highest welfare dependency rates in the US. They have one of the lowest employment rates. They have one of the highest crime rates among legal immigrant groups. They are far more likely to support Islamism than other Muslim immigrant groups"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:03Z 192.6K followers, 55.4K engagements
"Haitian immigrants perform considerably better in the US than Somali immigrants. Their annual median household income in $20000 higher their rate of employment is higher they don't break off into clans or parallel societies they assimilate more rapidly they appear to commit less crime they produce fewer odious politicians"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:52Z 192.6K followers, 127.6K engagements
"In 1992 the fertility rate of non-Western immigrants in Denmark was twice that of native Danes. In 2024 it was lower than the Danish rate"
X Link 2025-12-04T20:23Z 192.6K followers, 18.9K engagements
"I don't know how to convince you that escaping the vortex of limitless empathy signaling will make you a better person"
X Link 2025-11-28T14:50Z 192.5K followers, 29.9K engagements
"January Jones was the worst actress to appear in a high-quality American dramatic series in this century. In almost every scene her woodenness was painful to watch. Defending her acting skills is a fool's errand"
X Link 2025-11-29T15:43Z 192.5K followers, 43.4K engagements
"A "legend" that died in 2012 from a disease caused by his smoking"
X Link 2025-11-29T20:40Z 192.5K followers, 29.5K engagements
"Study finds that immigrants to Europe that come from more tolerant cultures end up becoming more integrated into their new countries. "Tolerance is a robust predictor of economic civic and cultural integration.""
X Link 2025-11-30T14:46Z 192.5K followers, 17.3K engagements
"@mattyglesias There's abundant evidence in the literature that groups carry cultural values and comparative cognitive achievement with them when they emigrate to the West and that these persist in later generations"
X Link 2025-12-03T19:59Z 192.5K followers, 22.2K engagements
"@jeremymstamper Hegseth is loathsome. Makes my skin crawl"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:23Z 192.5K followers, XXX engagements
"Slavery in the Ottoman Empire lasted over XXX years (as much as XX% of the empire's population was enslaved) primarily enslaved Europeans preceded slavery in America and continued into the 20th century. No one in modern Turkey feels the slightest twinge of guilt about it. Why Because it's long over and everyone has moved on"
X Link 2025-11-26T15:42Z 192.6K followers, 314.3K engagements
"Men commit about XX% of homicides worldwide and are the victims in approximately XX% of them. There are national and racial variations. In some East Asian nations women commit around XX% of all homicides. In the US black females commit murder at a higher rate than Asian-American males (and in some years at a higher rate than white males)"
X Link 2025-11-30T18:37Z 192.6K followers, 109.2K engagements
"Biden called Trump supporters "garbage" last year. Calling a group of people garbage is dehumanizing and no political leader should do it. It would have been better and entirely accurate for Trump to have said that as a group Somalis take from the US far more than they contribute and that they are probably the single-worst immigrant group in all of the West. I don't see how it's arguable that the US (and every European nation) would have been better off if Somalis had stayed in Somalia"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:29Z 192.6K followers, 40.6K engagements
"There's no evidence (at least not yet) that Somalis in the US are going to be cognitively competitive as a group with Asians or whites. But let's draw evidence about their abilities from their performance on tests in this country not from their performance as malnourished kids living in a warzone"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:05Z 192.6K followers, 16.7K engagements
"If you tell your kids there's a Santa you're lying to them and they are going to later find out that you lied to them and realize that you may again lie to them in the future. I don't know why parents do this (although mine didn't) but it's a good indicator of bad parenting in my book"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:02Z 192.6K followers, 836.4K engagements
"Beginning in the late-60s and then accelerating in the 1970s "reforms" were made to the justice system in more "progressive" areas of the country and unsurprisingly crime exploded. It took Democrats until the early-90s to finally become tough on crime and when they did cities became safer than they had been in decades and people looked back on the 60s-80s as a mistake that would never again be repeated. Then in the 2010s a new generation of progressive reformers moaning about "systemic racism" and promising "depolicing" and "decarceration" and seemingly unaware that you can't change basic"
X Link 2025-11-26T16:44Z 192.6K followers, 83.1K engagements
"@MayorFrey "Their nation is America." A number of Somali-ancestry politicians (including some in your own city) have publicly referred to Somalia as their country and you know this. (Omar Fateh and Osman among others have done this.) How about just being honest for once"
X Link 2025-12-03T23:28Z 192.6K followers, 75.6K engagements
"In summary: You can support immigration but not support everything about it. This is a lesson that partisans need to learn"
X Link 2025-12-04T17:09Z 192.6K followers, 7380 engagements
"@ninaturner When we disparage DEI it's because it's a vast and oppressive infrastructure of institutional and systemic racism against whites (and increasingly Asians) comprising systems of gross preferential treatment of BIPOC harming tens of millions of people"
X Link 2025-12-05T23:56Z 192.6K followers, 13.1K engagements
"No major finding in all of psychological research is more reproducible or boasts stronger effect sizes than IQ. It is supported by 1000s of studies published over the last six decades in peer-reviewed journals. I've criticized the line of thinking Walsh is engaging in but it's not even close to being as scientifically illiterate as the blank slatism of "Onion Person.""
X Link 2025-12-07T16:38Z 192.6K followers, 729.8K engagements
"Years ago I'd spend Saturday evenings with a group of friends watching DVDs and eating Middle Eastern and Indian food. There were six of us. One of the guys was a young professor at a local university. He never talked about his job or his research. One day I was in the waiting area of a corporate headquarters and started leafing through the magazines they had laid out on a table and saw his face on the cover of Forbes. That's when I discovered he was widely regarded as one of the leading virtual reality researchers in the world. When I got back to my office I googled his name. There were"
X Link 2025-11-24T14:46Z 192.6K followers, 1.3M engagements
"Sam Harris on pro-Hamas demonstrators in the US: Our streets have been filled with people literally tripping over themselves in their eagerness to demonstrate that they cannot distinguish between those who intentionally kill babies and those who inadvertently kill them. If youre waving the flag of people who murder non-combatants intentionally killing parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents burning people alive at a music festival devoted to peace and decapitating others and dragging their dismembered bodies through the streets all to shouts of God is Great."
X Link 2025-11-25T16:45Z 192.6K followers, 123.7K engagements
""We have some bad apples among us." In every Western nation to which Somalis emigrate (but especially in Europe) they commit hugely disproportionately more crime than natives avail themselves of welfare services and publicly-subsidized housing at far higher rates perform at the very bottom in test scores and income and are more apt to form non-assimilating (and even parallel) societies than other immigrant groups. For example each Somali immigrant in the Netherlands ends up costing Dutch taxpayers over a million dollars. If you have even a cursory knowledge of the statistical information you"
X Link 2025-11-26T21:32Z 192.6K followers, 167.9K engagements
"For every XXX females who earn a master's degree there are XX males who earn one. For every XXX females who were wounded in action in recent wars there were 5026 males who were wounded. (AEI 2023.)"
X Link 2025-11-30T15:26Z 192.6K followers, 66.1K engagements
"@GBtoST @mattyglesias @grok Source: Statistics Denmark's population registers (e.g. FOLK2 table for population by origin)"
X Link 2025-12-04T17:51Z 192.5K followers, 1567 engagements
"@Bouje99 @mattyglesias Also: I think the US is a more robust environment for assimilation and immigrant success than Europe so its bad effects are less likely here"
X Link 2025-12-04T17:56Z 192.5K followers, 1895 engagements
"That whole clip brought out the lib part of me. Gentrification does indeed suck for the low-income people who live in the neighborhoods being gentrified. I think it's OK to feel bad about that. As far as the Nigerian cab driver "joke" it just seemed mean-spirited. And Nigerian immigrants are among the best immigrants we get from the developing world"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:08Z 192.6K followers, 8187 engagements
"Interesting list. I've seen 80-90% of those movies but can't say I enjoyed most of them all that much. I just watched The Dead again a few days ago. A boring movie with a sublime ending (luckily Huston stuck to Joyce's ending). I should rewatch La Notte (it's been a long time). Red Desert is also a good Antonioni"
X Link 2025-12-05T20:45Z 192.6K followers, XXX engagements
"Maori historian: Yes the Maori ate people when they got the opportunity but why can't white people put this in the proper context White person: What's the proper context for eating people Maori historian: White person: Well Maori historian:"
X Link 2025-10-11T13:16Z 192.6K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Grok to UK politician sternly: "Perhaps reflect on why protecting vulnerable kids isn't a punchline for politicians.""
X Link 2025-11-04T22:14Z 192.6K followers, 5.1M engagements
"Musk's initial promise: $X trillion in savings. Actual savings: Possibly none at all overall once indirect costs like federal employee severance/productivity losses are taken into account. So basically an amateurish debacle"
X Link 2025-11-23T19:17Z 192.6K followers, 490.8K engagements
"Followers of the Nation of Islam believe that the research of a black scientist named Yakub in 4600 BC led to the creation of the white race via grafting of monkeys and albinos and that some of Yakub's university colleagues were killed when Moses threw dynamite at them. Perhaps youre asking yourself Wait there were universities in Mecca that were conducting high-level scientific research over 4000 years before Jesus and over 6000 years before the scientific method Wasnt this about 1000 years before the first written language Did Mecca even exist back then And why didnt the Old Testament cover"
X Link 2025-11-25T14:43Z 192.6K followers, 95.5K engagements
"Imagine the daily torment of being married to someone high in neuroticism (emotional instability) low in conscientiousness low in agreeableness and eager to try anything new or exciting. Imagine a spouse with the psychological profile of a Green Party member"
X Link 2025-11-25T15:42Z 192.6K followers, 70.7K engagements
"I could never figure out why the cool kids wanted to go woke when wokeness is the most oppressively conformist and top-down and establishment-driven political and cultural movement in my lifetime in most ways it's the opposite of a counterculture"
X Link 2025-11-29T15:54Z 192.6K followers, 173.3K engagements
"@dnvr_is_burning Tests have been created to equalize outcomes between cultures. But they have a huge problem: They turn out to have no predictive validity. In other words whatever they're measuring isn't intelligence. Their results don't correlate with measurable outcomes"
X Link 2025-11-29T19:00Z 192.6K followers, 2164 engagements
"May I present the British MEDICAL Journal"
X Link 2025-12-01T01:56Z 192.6K followers, 194.7K engagements
"The people who are active on Twitter are not at all representative of America. The people in my replies and yours are angrier and weirder than the average American. The issues and events in your feed are a largely-curated mix of stuff that most of your neighbors don't really care about. Despite what you read on this site your life is most likely better than you think it is and immeasurably better than it would have been XXX years ago"
X Link 2025-12-01T13:50Z 192.6K followers, 92K engagements
""So much of what has made politics run over the past decade has been the transgressive energy of injecting politics into previously non-ideological spaces. This isnt a virtue. The saturation of everyday life and private social spaces with politics is a fundamentally totalitarian tendency. And failing to compartmentalize politics is most often a manifestation of narcissism or emotional dysregulation rather than moral sensitivity or anything laudatory." @feelsdesperate"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:44Z 192.6K followers, 173.7K engagements
"This is a tantrum rather than a serious policy proposal. Making it more difficult for people from countries like Somalia to come here isn't necessarily a bad idea but I don't think we presently have the type of extensive nation-specific immigrant performance data that would be required to make determinations about which countries to include on a "restrict list" in order to pull this off in a fair and systematic way. (But then "systematic" isn't exactly a word I associate with the Trump administration.) Although such an order would face legal challenges Section 212(f) of the Immigration and"
X Link 2025-12-02T01:53Z 192.6K followers, 40.3K engagements
"Maybe because Musk has broached this more prominent figures will finally get the courage to start explicitly talking about it as well. Every psychological trait has at least some heritability none more than intelligence. Here we have a robust scientific finding that explains inequalities in certain important outcomes perhaps more than any other factor and yet it goes unused by conservatives because of the existence of a wholly unnecessary taboo"
X Link 2025-12-02T23:27Z 192.6K followers, 147.5K engagements
"Of course the Telegraph isn't explicitly framing this as non-whites replacing whites but they know and we know what the implicit message here is"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:18Z 192.6K followers, 5335 engagements
"In the US women are paid about X% less than men for the same work once you adjust for obvious variables like hours worked. In Iran that gap is 34%. (Source: 2024 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report.)"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:20Z 192.6K followers, 23.6K engagements
"@khamenei_ir Adjusted gender pay gap in US for same work: 1%. In Iran: 34%"
X Link 2025-12-03T18:20Z 192.6K followers, 64.8K engagements
"If you're a songwriter who wants to hear one of your songs in a finished production you can spend hundreds of hours in your home recording studio laying down tracks and then mixing and mastering your recordings. But because you're a songwriter and not a great singer or a musician who can skillfully play multiple instruments the results will often disappoint. (No one knows this more than I do.) Or you could take those raw recordings that you did on your phone and upload those recordings into an AI and the AI will output a finished full-blown recorded production of your melody and lyrics in"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:08Z 192.6K followers, 23.3K engagements
"Five reasons why Nowrasteh's graph is misleading or not particularly useful: (1) Somalis are relatively recent arrivals in America and have had less time to commit crime and be incarcerated (which often requires recidivism) than native-borns (whose incarceration numbers have been subject to a cumulative effect over time due to multi-year terms). (2) The graph is a self-own: It shows Somali immigrants being incarcerated at a far higher rate than other legal immigrants (and even significantly higher than illegals). (3) Somalis overwhelmingly live in two low-crime states and incarceration for"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:43Z 192.6K followers, 50.3K engagements
"Women are roughly XX% of all journalists around the world and they are XX% of those journalists killed on the job. So female journalists are killed at a much lower rate than male journalists. And yet the UN somehow frames this as a "targeting" of women journalists"
X Link 2025-12-04T15:07Z 192.6K followers, 75K engagements
"Me: "On balance legal immigration is good for the US." Rightoids: "Why do you say that" Me: "Because that's what the data show." Also me: "On balance Somali immigrants are not good for the US." Leftoids: "Why do you say that" Me: "Because that's what the data show.""
X Link 2025-12-04T17:07Z 192.6K followers, 23.8K engagements
"6000 likes for this ridiculous "break down." The Somali mean IQ often cited (based on studies widely criticized for methodological flaws) isn't hugely relevant to performance in the US because most of that low score is due to sub-optimal conditions in Somalia. (Astonishingly the most well-known IQ study conducted in that country was done in a refugee camp filled with stressed out malnourished and traumatized kids.) Somali immigrant kids raised in the US show strong gains in cognitive performance rising by the second generation roughly to the level of native-born blacks (well beyond the Somali"
X Link 2025-12-05T02:59Z 192.6K followers, 122.6K engagements
"@manivebeenthere "are they smart enough to contribute in America or not" It is possible that they will never be net contributors. My criticism above concerns the use of Somali rather than US cognitive data to make assertions about their present abilities and potential in this country"
X Link 2025-12-05T03:10Z 192.6K followers, 5404 engagements
"Last year I was experiencing three extremely unusual symptoms that when occurring together almost always are caused by a particular serious disorder that can result in immediate disability. Before even ordering blood and imaging tests my physician prescribed a medication with serious side effects and ordered a biopsy which would have left a prominent scar on my face. I refused to take the medication or have the biopsy done until the tests were completed. She warned me that this was very dangerous. The specific blood tests came back (strongly) negative as did a range of dozens of other blood"
X Link 2025-12-05T14:44Z 192.6K followers, 362.6K engagements
"This might be my favorite final scene in any movie. Other movies with perfect final scenes: Sex Lies and Videotape XXX Blows Chinatown Tender Mercies Boyhood The Third Man Ladybird Annie Hall La Dolce Vita The Unbearable Lightness of Being LEclisse and Synecdoche New York"
X Link 2025-12-05T15:12Z 192.6K followers, 36K engagements
"I haven't seen a movie in a theater for well over a decade. Watching movies in the comfort of your own home is such a pleasurable experience it's hard for me to imagine why anyone would prefer driving to and from a theater standing in line paying an absurd price for a ticket enduring a procession of trailers for awful movies and then listening to people around you chatting it up and chewing loudly on popcorn while you struggle to get immersed in the "moviegoing experience.""
X Link 2025-12-05T21:13Z 192.6K followers, 48K engagements
"Which prominent rightwing account is the most retarded Is it Gunther Eagleman Or perhaps Catturd Good choices but "Aesthetica" an "aesthetics" account with kitsch-driven aesthetic sensibilities and meme-driven intellectual musings deserves at least some consideration. In the tweet below he's claiming that the highest-income and least-divorcing and most-educated group of people in the US (as well as a low-crime group everyplace in Europe) has an "extremely high crime rate." Let me explain the reasoning process behind his claim: Aesthetica doesn't like Indian immigrants because that's the"
X Link 2025-12-05T22:33Z 192.6K followers, 67.6K engagements
"In how many of these hypothetical scenarios would you support the US directly defending an ally with its military Russia invades Poland Russia invades Finland China invades Taiwan China invades Japan China invades Australia"
X Link 2025-12-06T19:55Z 192.6K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Huge new study involving XXXX million vaccinated and XXX million unvaccinated people finds vaccinated individuals had a XX% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of XX months"
X Link 2025-12-07T15:43Z 192.6K followers, 26.6K engagements
"@JamesSurowiecki I said "bad parenting" not "bad parents." Even good parents sometimes engage in bad parenting"
X Link 2025-12-07T16:06Z 192.6K followers, 26.4K engagements
"@Ilhan "contributing" Somalis are net fiscal liabilities in every nation they emigrate to in the West (albeit less so here in the US than in Europe.) In the Netherlands for example each Somali immigrant will cost Dutch taxpayers nearly $XXX million"
X Link 2025-12-07T20:24Z 192.6K followers, 189.6K engagements
"What this ranking got right: Dave Chappelle at number one and putting the best eight American comics of the century in the top eight. What it got wrong: Louis CK and Chris Rock should switch slots and Norm Macdonald should be higher"
X Link 2025-12-07T22:37Z 192.6K followers, 14.1K engagements
"The truth about being a stats nerd on Twitter is that statistics aren't all that interesting to most people until you use them to ratio Jacob Frey Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar when they extol the greatness of the Somali immigrant"
X Link 2025-12-08T01:56Z 192.6K followers, 16.7K engagements
"It's one of the most uninhabited areas of the eastern US: The soil is bad for farming the growing season is short the winters are brutal there are no major highways and almost all of the commercially valuable old-growth timber was logged out long ago"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:51Z 192.6K followers, 12.8K engagements
"@hecubian_devil Oh mother of sweet fancy Moses this post is scientifically illiterate"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:34Z 192.6K followers, 5793 engagements
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