[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.] #  @feelsdesperate Coddled Affluent Professional Coddled Affluent Professional posts on X about health, politics, food, all the the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 6111 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900100015338782724/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +7.30% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +33% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +29% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +3.70% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::900100015338782724/posts_active)  - X Month XXX -XX% - X Months XXXXX +34% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900100015338782724/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +0.47% - X Month XXXXXX +2.10% - X Months XXXXXX +17% - X Year XXXXXX +33% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::900100015338782724/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [countries](/list/countries) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [health](/topic/health), [politics](/topic/politics) #2996, [food](/topic/food), [all the](/topic/all-the), [debt](/topic/debt) #808, [murder](/topic/murder) #270, [maga](/topic/maga) #654, [history](/topic/history), [the first](/topic/the-first), [has been](/topic/has-been) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@whstancil](/creator/undefined) [@jessesingal](/creator/undefined) [@jamessurowiecki](/creator/undefined) [@alicefromqueens](/creator/undefined) [@conor64](/creator/undefined) [@jeffreyasachs](/creator/undefined) [@jholbo1](/creator/undefined) [@nathanjrobinson](/creator/undefined) [@ericlevitz](/creator/undefined) [@jdcmedlock](/creator/undefined) [@noahpinion](/creator/undefined) [@realchrisrufo](/creator/undefined) [@eyeslasho](/creator/undefined) [@richardhanania](/creator/undefined) [@brandonlbradfor](/creator/undefined) [@armanddoma](/creator/undefined) [@defnotadino](/creator/undefined) [@krystalball](/creator/undefined) [@timodc](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [DoorDash, Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "I think that actually Trumps key base is the preternaturally reactionary petite bourgeois - boat dealership owners etc. In the 20th century the communists correctly identified this class as the most recalcitrant and resistant to their project. It is true that these people are often anti-intellectual. But theyre often affluent highly productive economically and embody an American exuberance ($100k pickups and SUVs McMansions Trump flotillas etc.) that I find appealing. In America the kulaks won in a way that totally discredited the communists project and for that they will never be forgiven" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1994754057236336818) 2025-11-29T13:03Z 65.7K followers, 131.1K engagements "Were rapidly devolving into a low trust society and elites are leading that change" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1995923651921608878) 2025-12-02T18:30Z 65.7K followers, 221.6K engagements "It should be the simplest most basic lib adult political understanding that you can either have an expansive generous social welfare state or porous immigration of the unskilled but not both. Low-skilled immigrants are simply not adequately economically productive to sustain whats needed to keep the system running. If someone cannot acknowledge this they are either too stupid or too disingenuous to be worth engaging" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996242360657698927) 2025-12-03T15:37Z 65.7K followers, 59.9K engagements "@Ted__ted_ Did Lucas Gage and Jake Shields make up" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996401927433928706) 2025-12-04T02:11Z 65.7K followers, XXX engagements "Well illegal immigrants often get housing subsidies free health care food stamps and other benefits so theyre able to work for a much lower wage. The tax payer subsidizes labor arbitrage and employers reap a benefit. Maybe voters are idiotic to support this" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996578976047698163) 2025-12-04T13:54Z 65.7K followers, 40K engagements "Truly an amazing time to be alive. Interesting that he seems angrier about this than the multi-million dollar looting of Minnesotas welfare programs" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996719776496799839) 2025-12-04T23:14Z 65.7K followers, 30.9K engagements "Whats the thinking here Socialism is when everyone gets what they want all the time Did the Soviets have luxurious airlines which everyone could ride for free as much as they want" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996767381612531758) 2025-12-05T02:23Z 65.7K followers, 139.4K engagements "There are XX million people on NHS waitlists and the death toll from limited healthcare resources there is orders of magnitude higher. Would that justify killing British politicians" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1997841692649836901) 2025-12-08T01:32Z 65.7K followers, 44K engagements "@conor64 I mean there is a progressive intellectual hegemony that dominates the institutions and that by and large one has had to be aware of and negotiate. Do you dispute that What is inexact about this framing" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998549558411014166) 2025-12-10T00:25Z 65.7K followers, 1669 engagements "Mexican food is fine. Its never great. Youve never had great Mexican food. Its just fine" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1992297082355425377) 2025-11-22T18:20Z 65.7K followers, 735K engagements "Have they even started work rebuilding that bridge in Baltimore that got knocked over a year and a half ago Its really pathetic that we can longer readily build the infrastructure that was commonplace and quickly put up in the mid 20th century" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998118327785316707) 2025-12-08T19:51Z 65.7K followers, 11.3K engagements "@RobProvince Whats going on with the lip filler here people Its totally gotten out of control" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998554378526175690) 2025-12-10T00:44Z 65.7K followers, XXX engagements "Every show hell ask someone making $40k a year with $50k of credit card debt why theyre spending $XXX a month on DoorDash and the answer is inevitably some variant of self care or YOLO or I owe myself a treat and it makes me want to scream" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996318405121679460) 2025-12-03T20:39Z 65.7K followers, 364.4K engagements "There should be no independent government officials. They can just do what they want and theyre not accountable to any elected representatives How is that even a thing" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998091525063098614) 2025-12-08T18:05Z 65.7K followers, 14.2K engagements "If the US devolves into Franco-like authoritarianism Im going to have a bunch of requests ready: Bike lanes abolished everyone who advocates for childrens rights to work camps paper straws outlawed rents in Brooklyn doubled etc. Whats on your list" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1983536422234587526) 2025-10-29T14:08Z 65.7K followers, 14.2K engagements "Lmao Ive never seen an account where EVERY tweet was ratiod but somehow this DA from Minnesota unlocked that achievement" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1997861179151327233) 2025-12-08T02:49Z 65.7K followers, 27K engagements "Here is a very appealing policy proposal that lots of people will like and has shown to be effective elsewhere lets use our magic words to try to convince people its ackshually a bad thing" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998104364498698395) 2025-12-08T18:56Z 65.7K followers, 14.4K engagements "Want to float my meta take on why Kirk murder feels different conclusive. This is more a take for the libs because its something I think the MAGA populists already clearly understand: The lib consensus iterated broadly with marginal differentiation is that while maybe Kirk *didnt deserve it* he was a Bad Person who Spread Hate. The proper inference from this sentiment is that the lib permission-structure consensus-manufacturing apparatus is exhausted if not broken and is terrified and no longer capable of tolerating oppositional free speech. Just look at Kirk: he was an affable slightly goofy" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1966690635634626928) 2025-09-13T02:29Z 65.7K followers, 207.7K engagements "Matt Taibbi on his disgust at Mehdi Hassan Jamal Bowman and Hasan Piker doing USSR nostalgia at Mamdanis victory party: I could fill a whole book with stories of horrible things I heard and saw from eyewitnesses to the Soviet history. And to see people laughing about that shit I cant even describe the emotions. When I saw some of those clips from Mamdanis party I went through in my mind I started cataloging all the top XX or XX awful things that I heard and I just want to share one. I did a story once on Boris Yeltsin. I was actually planning on writing a biography of him at one point. I" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1988807753779830839) 2025-11-13T03:14Z 65.7K followers, 685.7K engagements "Rufo: The vices are no longer social vices. Acquiring a keg as a XX -year -old and opening it under a bridge and having XXX people show up is fundamentally a social enterprise right It's a social transgression but also you're bringing people together. Now the vices strike me as very lonely very introverted very sad and it's like pornography digital technology kind of very inward -looking. Even the gambling like digital gambling is fundamentally different than going to a card room with your buddies at XX p .m. on a Friday night" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1993312901558337599) 2025-11-25T13:36Z 65.7K followers, 422.1K engagements "Lmao it would be really funny if Luigis legacy was higher CEO pay" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1995923428197761279) 2025-12-02T18:30Z 65.7K followers, 302.6K engagements "I generally think libs should do less empathy and more theory of mind. The former is typically an overwrought emotional exercise that serves as an acid bath to dissolve good judgement and reason. The latter requires thoughtful consideration and because it often requires proving semi-empiric and falsifiable claims rather than resting on the crux of fake moral authority it can actually be useful in informing decisions. Theres really no clear argument to be made that its preferential to become emotionally wound up in someones plight rather than coming up with an accurate psychological depiction" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996215176199107003) 2025-12-03T13:49Z 65.7K followers, 23.2K engagements "The CIA is in desperate need of a new project and the UK is suffering under the yoke of oppression" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1996937892392821188) 2025-12-05T13:41Z 65.7K followers, 21K engagements "At what point do you say to yourself OK Enough politics for me Im clearly poisoning my soul Ill go get a new hobby" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1997505393074045056) 2025-12-07T03:16Z 65.7K followers, 137.9K engagements "Matt Taibbi was talking on his podcast about how no one flinched during Obamas presidency when theyd carry out the double tap drone strikes: Theyd drop a bomb on some ostensible terrorists. And then theyd wait and drop another bomb on the first responders: maybe some more terrorists but also nurses doctors emergency respondents good-Samaritan neighbors and very often curious children. No one flinched about this practice. It was *totally fine.* But then of course Obama was in charge when this was happening. Just something to keep in mind as they try to engineer hysteria about that drug boat" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1997506792029343746) 2025-12-07T03:21Z 65.7K followers, 110.6K engagements "Everything in the European technocratic portfolio for the past two decades has been a catastrophic failure: immigration energy diplomacy economic regulation. Absolutely nothing has worked out well. Yet Europeans are stuck and they cant eject it" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1997515319200657866) 2025-12-07T03:55Z 65.7K followers, 71.4K engagements "Its impossible to overstate what an atrocious ticket this was: neither of these lunatics should have been anywhere close to the levers of power. It would have been truly insane to put these people in power" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1997850520212672780) 2025-12-08T02:07Z 65.7K followers, 122.9K engagements "Europeans have a track record of almost always being right on matters of major political importance. Anyways heres a photo of German delegates laughing at Trump in 2018 when he warned they were becoming too dependent on Russian oil" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998093922032357643) 2025-12-08T18:14Z 65.7K followers, 1.2M engagements "Yeah libs havent been hiding the ball at all on this. They want managed democracy run by a technocracy where the only thing you get to vote on is small differences in the marginal tax rate and bureaucrats and experts *acting in your best interests* make political decisions without any say from the public. Ive never been happier that RBG persisted and refused to retire in 2014. And that Mitch McConnell refused to give Merrick Garland a hearing. And that Hillary didnt fly to Wisconsin. We could be closer to Europes fate where things are much much worse than they are now" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998195192256438360) 2025-12-09T00:57Z 65.7K followers, 129K engagements "Its very important to keep the idea of theater kid government in mind. You might feel inclined to debate the theater kids on policy but you shouldnt because that just affirms their sense of self importance and they generally dont have the capacity for debate to be meaningful anyway. What you should do is remember that they are theater kids and boo them relentlessly - what they really care about is attention and their performance being plausible. Just boo them and tell them the performance is so bad it cant be taken seriously. Boo boo boo and never stop booing. Normal politicians (eg third" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998398702424059928) 2025-12-09T14:25Z 65.7K followers, 54.2K engagements "Imagine being a Boomer lib in 2015 anticipating the election of the first female president as a capstone to more than XX years of progressive politics only to have it snatched away and for the next decade to be an unrelenting nightmare where all your illusions are shattered" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998401407527854480) 2025-12-09T14:36Z 65.7K followers, 63.5K engagements "Did this guy get tattoos where his eyebrows should be" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998516325040410817) 2025-12-09T22:13Z 65.7K followers, 234.1K engagements "Its really weird for me as a middle aged guy that we have the same subcultures and subculture aesthetics that we did XX years ago. Theyre tired and sputtering have way less energy and arent attached to good art or good taste anymore and for some reason they appeal to 30-year-olds rather than 16-year-olds. But a lot of it looks the same. It feels like theres a cultural glitch where the thing is broken and cant move forward" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998525325006066014) 2025-12-09T22:49Z 65.7K followers, 127.6K engagements "I think theres an even deeper biological reality than that which is that socially weve been ground down to the smallest functional social particle possible the nuclear family when were meant to exist in much broader multi-generational units where childrearing responsibilities can be shared. Instead we often have two parents preoccupied by fake white collar work and women reasonably feel a great deal of pressure because they are more emotionally and psychologically attuned to the needs of their children. This frustration often manifests as anger at fathers who do feel less psychological" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998749777752621241) 2025-12-10T13:40Z 65.7K followers, 108.8K engagements "While organized religion has been diminished religions solutions to peoples needs remain. And so religious ideations seep back in in odd and unfamiliar ways freed of familiar structures. Sometimes these beliefs crystallize in a perceptible somewhat familiar form and other times they result in blind grasping that leads to entire category errors for example treating politics as an appropriate domain for deriving moral beliefs and pedagogy" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998790598032011398) 2025-12-10T16:23Z 65.7K followers, 9255 engagements "@krystalball I have family members in Canada who will wait a year for an MRI and XX months to see a specialist healthcare people with Medicaid can get access to in a couple weeks. You should really look further in to Canadian health care" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998863668004663457) 2025-12-10T21:13Z 65.7K followers, 7244 engagements "The problem of course is that everyone is so internet addled and incapable of coherent thoughts that once the old order is swept away its likely there will be nothing to replace it so in that sense no one is prepared for whats coming or how stupid things are about to get" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998867385688928503) 2025-12-10T21:28Z 65.7K followers, 18.6K engagements "There are lots of problems with gerontocracy but maybe the biggest is the instability and chaos caused by the purposeful refusal to prepare and make way for the next generation of leadership. It may feel cathartic to kick over stale tedious Boomer lib shibboleths but the end of the current dispensation is already overdetermined and actually whats most pressing isnt dismantling old tropes and pieties that are already in rapid decay but rather figuring out whats next. Its like people are blind to the actual biggest negative consequence of Boomer self-serving and societal domination which isnt" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998872210786709843) 2025-12-10T21:47Z 65.7K followers, 7988 engagements "Libs valorized Canadian health care for generations even as the Canadian healthcare system degenerated into chaos with people waiting years for necessary care. In fairness to offset shortages in care Canada is excelling in euthanasia" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998875501247738174) 2025-12-10T22:00Z 65.7K followers, 13K engagements "My wife asked me whats happening on Twitter since news seems slow. I told her about Candace Owens schizo assassination nonsense and the spat between Lucas Gage and Jake Shields Horrified look on her face and she will never ask me this question again" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1998952143404068936) 2025-12-11T03:05Z 65.7K followers, 5741 engagements "Well-to-do libs need to understand that the downwardly mobile creatives (who they may have gone to high school or college with and who struggle to afford to live in their neighborhoods) hate them and want to murder them and steal their brownstones and luxury German automobiles" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1999166370328772774) 2025-12-11T17:16Z 65.7K followers, 102.5K engagements "The thing thats funny about this is that it was already tried. Trump stared down all the prosecutions (and two assassination attempts). He didnt cry or back down. This is just an attempt by Dems to compensate for their own impotence and it smacks of weakness" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1999177103082762520) 2025-12-11T17:58Z 65.7K followers, 19.3K engagements "You have a few years of your life when your kids are small when you are at their beck and call and your time is not your own and you just have to suck it up and do the thing if you want humanity to continue. Its amazing what people were able to endure with such forbearance XX XX XXX years ago and how victimized and put upon they act right now" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1999178758973272166) 2025-12-11T18:05Z 65.7K followers, 124.5K engagements "This is as pure a diagnostic as they come: You can determine who on the right meets the most basic threshold for mental competence and truthfulness based upon what theyre saying about Charlie Kirks death" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1999191313359499363) 2025-12-11T18:55Z 65.7K followers, 15.6K engagements "Theres even more to this story which is that one of the authors of this paper subsequently got $X million for an antiracism center (in Minnesota of course) and then had to step down because of plagiarism after stealing grant content from a grad student" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1999262844123041944) 2025-12-11T23:39Z 65.7K followers, 30K engagements "Being able to discern meaningful differences is a basic function of intelligence" [X Link](https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/1999614093787844609) 2025-12-12T22:55Z 65.7K followers, 6139 engagements
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@feelsdesperate Coddled Affluent ProfessionalCoddled Affluent Professional posts on X about health, politics, food, all the the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 6111 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Social topic influence health, politics #2996, food, all the, debt #808, murder #270, maga #654, history, the first, has been
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @whstancil @jessesingal @jamessurowiecki @alicefromqueens @conor64 @jeffreyasachs @jholbo1 @nathanjrobinson @ericlevitz @jdcmedlock @noahpinion @realchrisrufo @eyeslasho @richardhanania @brandonlbradfor @armanddoma @defnotadino @krystalball @timodc @elonmusk
Top assets mentioned DoorDash, Inc. (DASH)
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"I think that actually Trumps key base is the preternaturally reactionary petite bourgeois - boat dealership owners etc. In the 20th century the communists correctly identified this class as the most recalcitrant and resistant to their project. It is true that these people are often anti-intellectual. But theyre often affluent highly productive economically and embody an American exuberance ($100k pickups and SUVs McMansions Trump flotillas etc.) that I find appealing. In America the kulaks won in a way that totally discredited the communists project and for that they will never be forgiven"
X Link 2025-11-29T13:03Z 65.7K followers, 131.1K engagements
"Were rapidly devolving into a low trust society and elites are leading that change"
X Link 2025-12-02T18:30Z 65.7K followers, 221.6K engagements
"It should be the simplest most basic lib adult political understanding that you can either have an expansive generous social welfare state or porous immigration of the unskilled but not both. Low-skilled immigrants are simply not adequately economically productive to sustain whats needed to keep the system running. If someone cannot acknowledge this they are either too stupid or too disingenuous to be worth engaging"
X Link 2025-12-03T15:37Z 65.7K followers, 59.9K engagements
"@Ted__ted_ Did Lucas Gage and Jake Shields make up"
X Link 2025-12-04T02:11Z 65.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Well illegal immigrants often get housing subsidies free health care food stamps and other benefits so theyre able to work for a much lower wage. The tax payer subsidizes labor arbitrage and employers reap a benefit. Maybe voters are idiotic to support this"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:54Z 65.7K followers, 40K engagements
"Truly an amazing time to be alive. Interesting that he seems angrier about this than the multi-million dollar looting of Minnesotas welfare programs"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:14Z 65.7K followers, 30.9K engagements
"Whats the thinking here Socialism is when everyone gets what they want all the time Did the Soviets have luxurious airlines which everyone could ride for free as much as they want"
X Link 2025-12-05T02:23Z 65.7K followers, 139.4K engagements
"There are XX million people on NHS waitlists and the death toll from limited healthcare resources there is orders of magnitude higher. Would that justify killing British politicians"
X Link 2025-12-08T01:32Z 65.7K followers, 44K engagements
"@conor64 I mean there is a progressive intellectual hegemony that dominates the institutions and that by and large one has had to be aware of and negotiate. Do you dispute that What is inexact about this framing"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:25Z 65.7K followers, 1669 engagements
"Mexican food is fine. Its never great. Youve never had great Mexican food. Its just fine"
X Link 2025-11-22T18:20Z 65.7K followers, 735K engagements
"Have they even started work rebuilding that bridge in Baltimore that got knocked over a year and a half ago Its really pathetic that we can longer readily build the infrastructure that was commonplace and quickly put up in the mid 20th century"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:51Z 65.7K followers, 11.3K engagements
"@RobProvince Whats going on with the lip filler here people Its totally gotten out of control"
X Link 2025-12-10T00:44Z 65.7K followers, XXX engagements
"Every show hell ask someone making $40k a year with $50k of credit card debt why theyre spending $XXX a month on DoorDash and the answer is inevitably some variant of self care or YOLO or I owe myself a treat and it makes me want to scream"
X Link 2025-12-03T20:39Z 65.7K followers, 364.4K engagements
"There should be no independent government officials. They can just do what they want and theyre not accountable to any elected representatives How is that even a thing"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:05Z 65.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"If the US devolves into Franco-like authoritarianism Im going to have a bunch of requests ready: Bike lanes abolished everyone who advocates for childrens rights to work camps paper straws outlawed rents in Brooklyn doubled etc. Whats on your list"
X Link 2025-10-29T14:08Z 65.7K followers, 14.2K engagements
"Lmao Ive never seen an account where EVERY tweet was ratiod but somehow this DA from Minnesota unlocked that achievement"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:49Z 65.7K followers, 27K engagements
"Here is a very appealing policy proposal that lots of people will like and has shown to be effective elsewhere lets use our magic words to try to convince people its ackshually a bad thing"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:56Z 65.7K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Want to float my meta take on why Kirk murder feels different conclusive. This is more a take for the libs because its something I think the MAGA populists already clearly understand: The lib consensus iterated broadly with marginal differentiation is that while maybe Kirk didnt deserve it he was a Bad Person who Spread Hate. The proper inference from this sentiment is that the lib permission-structure consensus-manufacturing apparatus is exhausted if not broken and is terrified and no longer capable of tolerating oppositional free speech. Just look at Kirk: he was an affable slightly goofy"
X Link 2025-09-13T02:29Z 65.7K followers, 207.7K engagements
"Matt Taibbi on his disgust at Mehdi Hassan Jamal Bowman and Hasan Piker doing USSR nostalgia at Mamdanis victory party: I could fill a whole book with stories of horrible things I heard and saw from eyewitnesses to the Soviet history. And to see people laughing about that shit I cant even describe the emotions. When I saw some of those clips from Mamdanis party I went through in my mind I started cataloging all the top XX or XX awful things that I heard and I just want to share one. I did a story once on Boris Yeltsin. I was actually planning on writing a biography of him at one point. I"
X Link 2025-11-13T03:14Z 65.7K followers, 685.7K engagements
"Rufo: The vices are no longer social vices. Acquiring a keg as a XX -year -old and opening it under a bridge and having XXX people show up is fundamentally a social enterprise right It's a social transgression but also you're bringing people together. Now the vices strike me as very lonely very introverted very sad and it's like pornography digital technology kind of very inward -looking. Even the gambling like digital gambling is fundamentally different than going to a card room with your buddies at XX p .m. on a Friday night"
X Link 2025-11-25T13:36Z 65.7K followers, 422.1K engagements
"Lmao it would be really funny if Luigis legacy was higher CEO pay"
X Link 2025-12-02T18:30Z 65.7K followers, 302.6K engagements
"I generally think libs should do less empathy and more theory of mind. The former is typically an overwrought emotional exercise that serves as an acid bath to dissolve good judgement and reason. The latter requires thoughtful consideration and because it often requires proving semi-empiric and falsifiable claims rather than resting on the crux of fake moral authority it can actually be useful in informing decisions. Theres really no clear argument to be made that its preferential to become emotionally wound up in someones plight rather than coming up with an accurate psychological depiction"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:49Z 65.7K followers, 23.2K engagements
"The CIA is in desperate need of a new project and the UK is suffering under the yoke of oppression"
X Link 2025-12-05T13:41Z 65.7K followers, 21K engagements
"At what point do you say to yourself OK Enough politics for me Im clearly poisoning my soul Ill go get a new hobby"
X Link 2025-12-07T03:16Z 65.7K followers, 137.9K engagements
"Matt Taibbi was talking on his podcast about how no one flinched during Obamas presidency when theyd carry out the double tap drone strikes: Theyd drop a bomb on some ostensible terrorists. And then theyd wait and drop another bomb on the first responders: maybe some more terrorists but also nurses doctors emergency respondents good-Samaritan neighbors and very often curious children. No one flinched about this practice. It was totally fine. But then of course Obama was in charge when this was happening. Just something to keep in mind as they try to engineer hysteria about that drug boat"
X Link 2025-12-07T03:21Z 65.7K followers, 110.6K engagements
"Everything in the European technocratic portfolio for the past two decades has been a catastrophic failure: immigration energy diplomacy economic regulation. Absolutely nothing has worked out well. Yet Europeans are stuck and they cant eject it"
X Link 2025-12-07T03:55Z 65.7K followers, 71.4K engagements
"Its impossible to overstate what an atrocious ticket this was: neither of these lunatics should have been anywhere close to the levers of power. It would have been truly insane to put these people in power"
X Link 2025-12-08T02:07Z 65.7K followers, 122.9K engagements
"Europeans have a track record of almost always being right on matters of major political importance. Anyways heres a photo of German delegates laughing at Trump in 2018 when he warned they were becoming too dependent on Russian oil"
X Link 2025-12-08T18:14Z 65.7K followers, 1.2M engagements
"Yeah libs havent been hiding the ball at all on this. They want managed democracy run by a technocracy where the only thing you get to vote on is small differences in the marginal tax rate and bureaucrats and experts acting in your best interests make political decisions without any say from the public. Ive never been happier that RBG persisted and refused to retire in 2014. And that Mitch McConnell refused to give Merrick Garland a hearing. And that Hillary didnt fly to Wisconsin. We could be closer to Europes fate where things are much much worse than they are now"
X Link 2025-12-09T00:57Z 65.7K followers, 129K engagements
"Its very important to keep the idea of theater kid government in mind. You might feel inclined to debate the theater kids on policy but you shouldnt because that just affirms their sense of self importance and they generally dont have the capacity for debate to be meaningful anyway. What you should do is remember that they are theater kids and boo them relentlessly - what they really care about is attention and their performance being plausible. Just boo them and tell them the performance is so bad it cant be taken seriously. Boo boo boo and never stop booing. Normal politicians (eg third"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:25Z 65.7K followers, 54.2K engagements
"Imagine being a Boomer lib in 2015 anticipating the election of the first female president as a capstone to more than XX years of progressive politics only to have it snatched away and for the next decade to be an unrelenting nightmare where all your illusions are shattered"
X Link 2025-12-09T14:36Z 65.7K followers, 63.5K engagements
"Did this guy get tattoos where his eyebrows should be"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:13Z 65.7K followers, 234.1K engagements
"Its really weird for me as a middle aged guy that we have the same subcultures and subculture aesthetics that we did XX years ago. Theyre tired and sputtering have way less energy and arent attached to good art or good taste anymore and for some reason they appeal to 30-year-olds rather than 16-year-olds. But a lot of it looks the same. It feels like theres a cultural glitch where the thing is broken and cant move forward"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:49Z 65.7K followers, 127.6K engagements
"I think theres an even deeper biological reality than that which is that socially weve been ground down to the smallest functional social particle possible the nuclear family when were meant to exist in much broader multi-generational units where childrearing responsibilities can be shared. Instead we often have two parents preoccupied by fake white collar work and women reasonably feel a great deal of pressure because they are more emotionally and psychologically attuned to the needs of their children. This frustration often manifests as anger at fathers who do feel less psychological"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:40Z 65.7K followers, 108.8K engagements
"While organized religion has been diminished religions solutions to peoples needs remain. And so religious ideations seep back in in odd and unfamiliar ways freed of familiar structures. Sometimes these beliefs crystallize in a perceptible somewhat familiar form and other times they result in blind grasping that leads to entire category errors for example treating politics as an appropriate domain for deriving moral beliefs and pedagogy"
X Link 2025-12-10T16:23Z 65.7K followers, 9255 engagements
"@krystalball I have family members in Canada who will wait a year for an MRI and XX months to see a specialist healthcare people with Medicaid can get access to in a couple weeks. You should really look further in to Canadian health care"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:13Z 65.7K followers, 7244 engagements
"The problem of course is that everyone is so internet addled and incapable of coherent thoughts that once the old order is swept away its likely there will be nothing to replace it so in that sense no one is prepared for whats coming or how stupid things are about to get"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:28Z 65.7K followers, 18.6K engagements
"There are lots of problems with gerontocracy but maybe the biggest is the instability and chaos caused by the purposeful refusal to prepare and make way for the next generation of leadership. It may feel cathartic to kick over stale tedious Boomer lib shibboleths but the end of the current dispensation is already overdetermined and actually whats most pressing isnt dismantling old tropes and pieties that are already in rapid decay but rather figuring out whats next. Its like people are blind to the actual biggest negative consequence of Boomer self-serving and societal domination which isnt"
X Link 2025-12-10T21:47Z 65.7K followers, 7988 engagements
"Libs valorized Canadian health care for generations even as the Canadian healthcare system degenerated into chaos with people waiting years for necessary care. In fairness to offset shortages in care Canada is excelling in euthanasia"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:00Z 65.7K followers, 13K engagements
"My wife asked me whats happening on Twitter since news seems slow. I told her about Candace Owens schizo assassination nonsense and the spat between Lucas Gage and Jake Shields Horrified look on her face and she will never ask me this question again"
X Link 2025-12-11T03:05Z 65.7K followers, 5741 engagements
"Well-to-do libs need to understand that the downwardly mobile creatives (who they may have gone to high school or college with and who struggle to afford to live in their neighborhoods) hate them and want to murder them and steal their brownstones and luxury German automobiles"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:16Z 65.7K followers, 102.5K engagements
"The thing thats funny about this is that it was already tried. Trump stared down all the prosecutions (and two assassination attempts). He didnt cry or back down. This is just an attempt by Dems to compensate for their own impotence and it smacks of weakness"
X Link 2025-12-11T17:58Z 65.7K followers, 19.3K engagements
"You have a few years of your life when your kids are small when you are at their beck and call and your time is not your own and you just have to suck it up and do the thing if you want humanity to continue. Its amazing what people were able to endure with such forbearance XX XX XXX years ago and how victimized and put upon they act right now"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:05Z 65.7K followers, 124.5K engagements
"This is as pure a diagnostic as they come: You can determine who on the right meets the most basic threshold for mental competence and truthfulness based upon what theyre saying about Charlie Kirks death"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:55Z 65.7K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Theres even more to this story which is that one of the authors of this paper subsequently got $X million for an antiracism center (in Minnesota of course) and then had to step down because of plagiarism after stealing grant content from a grad student"
X Link 2025-12-11T23:39Z 65.7K followers, 30K engagements
"Being able to discern meaningful differences is a basic function of intelligence"
X Link 2025-12-12T22:55Z 65.7K followers, 6139 engagements
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