#  @gaulicsmith Sulla Sulla posts on X about in the, if you, money, the most the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1670280929141465088/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +42% - [--] Month [----------] +77% - [--] Months [----------] -40% - [--] Year [-----------] +79% ### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1670280929141465088/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] +47% - [--] Month [---] +163% - [--] Months [-----] +104% - [--] Year [-----] +47% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1670280929141465088/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.62% - [--] Month [------] +3.40% - [--] Months [------] +20% - [--] Year [------] +95% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1670280929141465088/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) 11.57% [countries](/list/countries) 7.87% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 2.31% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 2.31% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 1.85% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 0.46% [ncaa football](/list/ncaa-football) 0.46% [products](/list/products) 0.46% [musicians](/list/musicians) 0.46% **Social topic influence** [in the](/topic/in-the) 5.09%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 4.63%, [money](/topic/money) 3.7%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 3.7%, [civilization](/topic/civilization) #641, [social](/topic/social) 2.78%, [books](/topic/books) #985, [to the](/topic/to-the) 2.78%, [theory](/topic/theory) 2.31%, [culture](/topic/culture) 2.31% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@scumroman](/creator/undefined) [@talldave7](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@kmdavisjr](/creator/undefined) [@space_stations](/creator/undefined) [@phanatic1a](/creator/undefined) [@kindun526](/creator/undefined) [@brett02e](/creator/undefined) [@rectalanarchy69](/creator/undefined) [@ericlevitz](/creator/undefined) [@paulg](/creator/undefined) [@kyri___d](/creator/undefined) [@knecth](/creator/undefined) [@rafaeltkinder](/creator/undefined) [@is_owenlewis](/creator/undefined) [@alexanderpayton](/creator/undefined) [@tyleraharper](/creator/undefined) [@komodoom](/creator/undefined) [@martinskold2](/creator/undefined) [@woke8yearold](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "This could have been us you stupid fucking bitch Two bees sleeping together in a flower https://t.co/Sb8vHXI9UC Two bees sleeping together in a flower https://t.co/Sb8vHXI9UC" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1963612022244769855) 2025-09-04T14:36Z 27K followers, 815.7K engagements "Oh my God its real wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021547150761680967) 2026-02-11T11:29Z 27K followers, 70.6K engagements "There is a perfect password for this one that no AIs can say My wife calls me panicked. The call is from her number and her voice is unmistakable- thats my wife. Babe our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. Im at the emergency room but they wont take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me [----] dollars as My wife calls me panicked. The call is from her number and her voice is unmistakable- thats my wife. Babe our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. Im at the emergency room but they wont take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me [----] dollars as" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021707670936342911) 2026-02-11T22:07Z 27K followers, 2.1M engagements "Payout algorithm is completely incoherent. Three cycles ago I had a very large increase in impressions but not change on payout. The next cycle I had fewer impressions but twice the money. This cycle I had 20% fewer impressions but my payout was 25% greater" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022466886261453255) 2026-02-14T00:24Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Women may be natural conservatives but they are not naturally right wing. Important distinction Women are natural conservatives. Their inclination is always support whatever the reigning social orthodoxy is because that is the safe option. Women do not rip up fence posts. They preserve them by scolding those who seek to do so. It's just that our fence posts are all Women are natural conservatives. Their inclination is always support whatever the reigning social orthodoxy is because that is the safe option. Women do not rip up fence posts. They preserve them by scolding those who seek to do" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022120107536003166) 2026-02-13T01:26Z 27K followers, 20.3K engagements "There is one objection however. Increases in medical care mean the ratio of homicide / (homicides + aggravated assaults) have fallen. (Murder and Medicine: The Lethality of Criminal Assault)" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022758124914876584) 2026-02-14T19:41Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "America is not an Empire because we do not extract wealth from our client states. Instead we literally send them money. Its like a reverse-empire" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1879214455873212530) 2025-01-14T17:10Z 27K followers, 3.8M engagements "Fun fact: they once tried an experiment in a high school where they gave teenage girls a baby doll simulator to take care of in order to show them what being a mother is like so they wouldnt get pregnant as teenagers. The result More of them got pregnant The birth rate is unlikely to go back up. The reason is simple: more and more people are asking themselves whether having kids would improve their lives and concluding that it wont. How to convince them otherwise The birth rate is unlikely to go back up. The reason is simple: more and more people are asking themselves whether having kids" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1915557629474095449) 2025-04-25T00:05Z 27K followers, 762.8K engagements "The rise and fall of Rock Music" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1957611579274678633) 2025-08-19T01:12Z 27K followers, 5.6M engagements "Here it is. Returning GIs complain about out of control hoeflation American women get jealous of European war brides. Hilarious stuff. Nothing new under the sun" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2011988264425554182) 2026-01-16T02:25Z 26.9K followers, 459.5K engagements "He is literally hanging out with his best friend and his girlfriend in this scene the cure to male loneliness is self isolating for so long that you just get used to it and it feels normal https://t.co/sqhrLA5J6b the cure to male loneliness is self isolating for so long that you just get used to it and it feels normal https://t.co/sqhrLA5J6b" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2016430705715163498) 2026-01-28T08:38Z 26.9K followers, 4.3M engagements "Annas Archive is being sued for the equivalent of 40% of the U.S. GDP or the combined GDP of Germany Japan and England" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2016855465083212066) 2026-01-29T12:46Z 26.9K followers, 255.9K engagements "How does South Dakota do it The correlation between Trump vote share in a state and state TFR went from [----] to [----] in one year. https://t.co/kg6jvccIDx The correlation between Trump vote share in a state and state TFR went from [----] to [----] in one year. https://t.co/kg6jvccIDx" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017121683833024916) 2026-01-30T06:24Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Real masculinity is when you agree with me MAGA men are yelling I am the boot into their podcast mics and singing Heil H*tler in stretch limos - cosplaying the masculinity their movement is devoid of. Meanwhile on the left men (and woman) are taking to the streets to fight back against the government protect the https://t.co/awNy5wQQWk MAGA men are yelling I am the boot into their podcast mics and singing Heil H*tler in stretch limos - cosplaying the masculinity their movement is devoid of. Meanwhile on the left men (and woman) are taking to the streets to fight back against the government" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017259044139114706) 2026-01-30T15:30Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "South Dakota once again standing out. I'm curious why it's fertility is higher than nearby Great Plains states which surely have similar geography and environments (low population density large farms and ranches which benefit from family youth labor conservative norms) Official birth data for [----] has come out and US fertility dropped to [----] births per woman. A large gap has opened up between conservative and liberal states with the Midwest showing fertility almost at replacement while New England and the West Coast have very low fertility. https://t.co/L58Fzr8gzu Official birth data for" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017403205496234126) 2026-01-31T01:03Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Never interrupt your enemy when she is making a mistake" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017551879333700036) 2026-01-31T10:53Z 26.9K followers, 22.7K engagements "I wonder what is across the sea said the boy The Great Mother says there is nothing but endless ocean replied his mother But has anyone ever checked You dare question the Great Mother Absolutely not I am just curious. Why not build a boat You would be crushed by the great waves of the open ocean and would drown But what if we had a bigger boat We will not waste resources on such a frivolous thing I wonder if there is land over there It is probably bad land anyways I wonder if there are people They are probably bad people I would like to explore on the sea one day Would you shut up and help me" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017587886628250085) 2026-01-31T13:16Z 26.9K followers, 35.1K engagements "The 2000s were a wild time Source: Abercrombie and Fitch Back to School 2003" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017597663886381233) 2026-01-31T13:55Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Not so fucking funny now that the shoe is on the other foot now is it" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017616086733373870) 2026-01-31T15:08Z 26.9K followers, 52.4K engagements "2008 and its consequences have been a disaster for the housing market Here is total housing units per family in the US. "1" is not necessarily the "correct" ratio due to all sorts of special considerations and the aging population in particular is a factor deserving a lot of thought here but bottom line is ratio has fallen over the last [--] years. https://t.co/2gNGsqKNIH Here is total housing units per family in the US. "1" is not necessarily the "correct" ratio due to all sorts of special considerations and the aging population in particular is a factor deserving a lot of thought here but" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017620988779975058) 2026-01-31T15:28Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Old town Havana should be renovated into a Paris on the Gulf Are you insane Why would you want to turn Havana into "New Miami" Look at Havana. This is 100x better. Colonial baroque architecture is unmatched. This pathetic worship of skyscrapers and industrialisation needs to stop. https://t.co/m8O6iPYZb9 Are you insane Why would you want to turn Havana into "New Miami" Look at Havana. This is 100x better. Colonial baroque architecture is unmatched. This pathetic worship of skyscrapers and industrialisation needs to stop. https://t.co/m8O6iPYZb9" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017675382439416111) 2026-01-31T19:04Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "If the GOP was smart theyd just cut this as an ad and play it a million times. Followed by images of migrant convoys and stuff. Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017822183729565743) 2026-02-01T04:47Z 27K followers, 131.4K engagements "TIL this image is from Lord of the Rings the wizard is Saruman and the orb is a palantr" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017842494202122565) 2026-02-01T06:08Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Democrats believe every single one of the other 7.7B people on this Earth are simply undocumented Americans Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017899266027708912) 2026-02-01T09:54Z 26.9K followers, 560.3K engagements "Trump can be wild and unpredictable but at the same time he released his [--] point plan Agenda47 way before the election and has been doing those things he promised to do The problem for Republicans is that Trump is kind of wild and unpredictable and might do stupid stuff but the problem for democrats is that we know exactly what theyre going to do The problem for Republicans is that Trump is kind of wild and unpredictable and might do stupid stuff but the problem for democrats is that we know exactly what theyre going to do" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018184884691329324) 2026-02-02T04:49Z 26.9K followers, 39.6K engagements "Miller is basically right but I'd like to add a few more things. A little primer on asylum: [--]. There are no asylum seekers on the Southern Border. Asylum is limited to individuals fleeing extremely narrow categories of state persecution (eg high-ranking Soviet defectors during the Cold War) none of the groups illegally crossing the A little primer on asylum: [--]. There are no asylum seekers on the Southern Border. Asylum is limited to individuals fleeing extremely narrow categories of state persecution (eg high-ranking Soviet defectors during the Cold War) none of the groups illegally crossing" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018200475955274119) 2026-02-02T05:51Z 26.9K followers, 64.1K engagements "1/ Asylum is good in theory. Letting people who are persecuted or fleeing war stay in a safe country seems like the right thing to do. In practice the system is a trojan horse that allows tens of millions of people into the West" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018200477368725624) 2026-02-02T05:51Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "13/ To make matters worse our asylum laws are not designed for a highly connected world where travel and communication are cheap. Traffickers often guide people every step of the way getting them plane tickets from say Mauritania to Colombia thru the darien " [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018200493785276806) 2026-02-02T05:51Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "It should be larger than Giza and built with the same marble used to build the Congress. It will cost billions of dollars and serve no real purpose but it would look cool. Its a good idea" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018546434560389341) 2026-02-03T04:45Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Has this ever been tested in court against one of the legal observers Sources are (1) Rapid Response guide (2) [--] USC [----] (3) US vs Rubio-Gonzalez (1981)" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018575659610849425) 2026-02-03T06:41Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "I am a single-issue voter. Egg prices are down. I got what I voted for. I can finally feed my family again. Yeah your groceries might be expensive but we are building a new monumental arch in Washington so it balances out. https://t.co/gXJ3rI9iK5 Yeah your groceries might be expensive but we are building a new monumental arch in Washington so it balances out. https://t.co/gXJ3rI9iK5" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018772859884319210) 2026-02-03T19:45Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "I have a nitpick. While a border wall is importantly it would not deter an open borders Administration that much. (1) the Biden Admin ordered border forces to literally REMOVE obstacles placed by the Texas National Guard and allow migrants through (2) The wall is not impenetrable. Traffickers often cut through the wall with simple tools. It does however slowly them down hopefully long enough for sensors and border agents to detect it and stop the crossing. A open borders administration could simply order those agents to do catch and release instead of turn back as they have done in the past." [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018939097155621023) 2026-02-04T06:46Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Yookay is crazy because you get [--] months for mean tweets but get acquitted after being caught on video smashing up a factory and beating a cop with a sledgehammer" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019062404072734818) 2026-02-04T14:56Z 27K followers, 133.9K engagements "Really good example of the dying plantation accent Seems like a good a day to re-up this South Carolina historical treasure from the former Senator from Clarendon about liquor the oil of conversation. https://t.co/FKNaQsDA3c Seems like a good a day to re-up this South Carolina historical treasure from the former Senator from Clarendon about liquor the oil of conversation. https://t.co/FKNaQsDA3c" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019413726852727011) 2026-02-05T14:12Z 26.9K followers, 10.8K engagements "Its Reddit horny one of the strangest pathologizations of normal human sexuality outside the ridiculous concept of a so-called breeding fetish (ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚) is the idea that finding various parts of a beautiful womans body to be beautiful is some of kind of deviancy one of the strangest pathologizations of normal human sexuality outside the ridiculous concept of a so-called breeding fetish (ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚) is the idea that finding various parts of a beautiful womans body to be beautiful is some of kind of deviancy" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019640824238379100) 2026-02-06T05:14Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Right cares about power the way a wine snob cares about alcohol The Left cares about power the way an alcoholic cares about alcohol democrats get 51% of the vote immediately change the rules to give themselves 91% of the state representatives forever immediately ban gun ownership immediately let govt employees buy houses with tax $ immediately reduce penalties for rape manslaughter distribution of CP democrats get 51% of the vote immediately change the rules to give themselves 91% of the state representatives forever immediately ban gun ownership immediately let govt employees buy houses" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019645335954673819) 2026-02-06T05:32Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Maybe but at the same time and this should have been obvious theres no simple fix because there are always guard dogs whether voters or politicians who viciously defends their government cheese The great DOGE discovery was that a very large part of US Federal spending is not simply waste but actually enemy resources. The great DOGE discovery was that a very large part of US Federal spending is not simply waste but actually enemy resources" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019653798692810982) 2026-02-06T06:06Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "Heres the problem: the GOP could grow a pair and immediately slash welfare by hundreds of billions of dollars tomorrow and end the deficit or at least decrease it significantly. The result will be a landslide loss in the next election and the Dems will bring it all back" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019653801515598260) 2026-02-06T06:06Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "When Liberals say the Press is the Fourth Estate what they mean is that they should be insulated from market forces and be funded by your tax dollars Laid off normal people: "well this sucks" Laid off journos: "LO WRATH AND RUIN THOU HATH WROUGHT MURDER AGAINST THE VERY ANIMATING JUSTICE OF THE WORLD YEA A BLOODY RAPE DONE HEARTLESSLY TO OUR VIRGIN GUIDING LIGHT ACTING AT THE VERY HAND OF CRUELTY THOU WAR AGAINST TRUTH" Laid off normal people: "well this sucks" Laid off journos: "LO WRATH AND RUIN THOU HATH WROUGHT MURDER AGAINST THE VERY ANIMATING JUSTICE OF THE WORLD YEA A BLOODY RAPE DONE" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019655442390217015) 2026-02-06T06:12Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Please note there are 270m adult Americans and 136m married adults which means there are roughly [--] million married Biden voters in America vs [--] million married Trump voters. They tend to self sort so there are thousands of communities indeed with married Biden voters" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019679335494611467) 2026-02-06T07:47Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "TLDR author cited the following - collapse in quantity of low skilled middle income labor (factory jobs basically) - mass incarceration (harder to get work) - rising rates of disability claims (some of this is unemployed people going on disability some of this may actually be more disabled people) - weaker pressures on men to get work (since men no longer expected to be solo breadwinner) / less stigmatization of non work - less boredom for the unemployed I would also add: low quality men got outcompeted by higher quality women once employment markets equalized. Competent women used to be held" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019695741456031885) 2026-02-06T08:52Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Why is this It's wild that basic governance in America's second largest city has almost completely broken down in recent years yet there's no discussion at all about broader governance reforms or even a single serious challenger to the incumbent mayor. It's wild that basic governance in America's second largest city has almost completely broken down in recent years yet there's no discussion at all about broader governance reforms or even a single serious challenger to the incumbent mayor" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019766543207301390) 2026-02-06T13:34Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "Whats wrong with doing regime change in Cuba Labeling Cuba as a national security threat is a lie used to justify economic war. The goal is to crush the Cuban people manufacture a humanitarian catastrophe and force regime change at any cost. It is unconscionable and cruel. We must stop it. Labeling Cuba as a national security threat is a lie used to justify economic war. The goal is to crush the Cuban people manufacture a humanitarian catastrophe and force regime change at any cost. It is unconscionable and cruel. We must stop it" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019770061116830047) 2026-02-06T13:48Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Correct action here is to put VA redistricting under federal control. We can call them VRA districts Virginia Democrats smile and laugh as Abigail Spanberger signs the redistricting referendum that would disenfranchise 48% of the commonwealth. https://t.co/QvROPA2Wta Virginia Democrats smile and laugh as Abigail Spanberger signs the redistricting referendum that would disenfranchise 48% of the commonwealth. https://t.co/QvROPA2Wta" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019863671980351785) 2026-02-06T20:00Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Welfare fraud in Minnesota is estimated to be between $1 billion and $9 billion Our local businesses are getting rocked by ICE right nowlosing an estimated $10$20 million every single week. Operation Metro Surge isnt helping our community. Its hurting our residents their livelihoods and the small businesses we all love. https://t.co/LkcqhtrZ6l Our local businesses are getting rocked by ICE right nowlosing an estimated $10$20 million every single week. Operation Metro Surge isnt helping our community. Its hurting our residents their livelihoods and the small businesses we all love." [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020230340087017755) 2026-02-07T20:17Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "Many years from now we are going to look back at the wholesale offshoring of American manufacturing to our number one geopolitical foe and think what the hell were they thinking China survived last year's US tariff onslaught but there's nothing brilliant or heroic about how it did that. It simply flooded the rest of the world with an endless stream of discounted goods. Chinese mercantilism just turned away from the US to others. https://t.co/MxLJSXZDUX https://t.co/QhCoywH52D China survived last year's US tariff onslaught but there's nothing brilliant or heroic about how it did that. It" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020298887819374822) 2026-02-08T00:49Z 26.9K followers, 11.5K engagements "What is affirmative action for everyone If only they just stuck with affirmative action for everyone theres a decent case for saying hey we want our elite institutions to reflect the racial makeup of our nation. But no. Affirmative action was gotten rid of because they thought black people took their spots. If only they just stuck with affirmative action for everyone theres a decent case for saying hey we want our elite institutions to reflect the racial makeup of our nation. But no. Affirmative action was gotten rid of because they thought black people took their spots" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020597814649344327) 2026-02-08T20:37Z 26.9K followers, 15K engagements "Imaging having to explain to an ESL speaker why people say Yeah no exactly means" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020622695231045697) 2026-02-08T22:16Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "To be honest were you lying before Im dead - and yet you are not Okay so literally were you not being literal Ill let you know - I will not" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020623476869173625) 2026-02-08T22:19Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "If Im reading the data right the number of White students blocked from the top [---] schools bc they dont do test only is about [-----] every single year 53% of the students at the top [---] colleges in America would not be there under SAT-only admissions. Under this policy elite student bodies would be slightly (60 = 63%) more affluent much whiter (66% = 75%) and much less black + LatinX (19% = 11%). https://t.co/HtRapba9MF 53% of the students at the top [---] colleges in America would not be there under SAT-only admissions. Under this policy elite student bodies would be slightly (60 = 63%) more" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020637278939263130) 2026-02-08T23:14Z 27K followers, 42.5K engagements "This is a real phenomenon but its chiefly because there are way more fun things to do than there used to be. Opportunity cost has risen. Unfortunately there is no way for the Churches to fix this other than to be a spectacle like clown show. Sorry Church attendance has tanked over the past [--] years (though no one wants to admit it or talk about it). I think a big part of the reason for this is that people simply find church services boring (even the megachurch concert ones). But no one really wants to talk about that Church attendance has tanked over the past [--] years (though no one wants to" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020642948954906865) 2026-02-08T23:36Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements "For example before Netflix social media television video games etc what else were you doing on Sunday One had few options for entertainment. The Church served both as a place for worship and for socialization. You saw all your friends there" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020655619456545223) 2026-02-09T00:26Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "When Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was first debated in the U.S. House on 10/2/1990 as part of the Immigration Act of [----] it was only supposed to be for [-----] people and only for people already in our country. Check the Congressional record" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020908035359572078) 2026-02-09T17:09Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "As of [----] there are [---] million people on TPS and Joe Biden literally FLEW [------] into the U.S" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020908037687361634) 2026-02-09T17:09Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "@conor64 . theyre also rooting against team USA because of politics" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020919385741787535) 2026-02-09T17:55Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements "@EricLevitz @paulg You can help stop Trump from stealing the elections by calling your federal and state representatives and demanding they pass mandatory Voter ID and end vote-by-mail" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020923890663596375) 2026-02-09T18:12Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "@Joe__312 @EricLevitz @paulg Why should we make elections more secure if theyre gonna claim fraud anyways do you hear yourself" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020928989066612848) 2026-02-09T18:33Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "@Joe__312 @EricLevitz @paulg Not what I said at all. Dont put words in my mouth" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020932291103797370) 2026-02-09T18:46Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "@Vespa_Girl @EricLevitz @paulg Yea maybe Im generally fine with absentee ballots if requested (as opposed to mailing it out) but why shouldnt you have to come back You dont even live here LOL" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020940399372820695) 2026-02-09T19:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "@kaiser_kenny @kitten_beloved @TrueSlazac Lets say that true for a moment then it makes rational sense not to become one yes This isnt the own you think it is" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020947815275356399) 2026-02-09T19:48Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "This is a classic collective action problem. You are both better off if you do A (separate the political from the personal). You are both worse off if you do B (involve the personal with the political). However if one person (the Left) does B and the Right does A then the Right is MUCH worse off. Your options are: (1) convince them to re-separate the personal and political (2) do what they are doing. Unfortunately (1) seems unlikely New article today about the intrusion of ideological commitments into everyday life and the extinction of neutral spaces enjoy https://t.co/T8SWYXJW3W New article" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021010237671543122) 2026-02-09T23:56Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "FWIW moon bases will look more like massive subterranean ant farms than cities in domes SpaceX is now shifting their priorities into building a Moon Base - doing so in less than a decade. This proposal from the ISU involves converting a Starship into a lunar base Skylab-style. Starships 1000m [--] of pressurized volume would result in a copious base. https://t.co/IigRgME1K3 SpaceX is now shifting their priorities into building a Moon Base - doing so in less than a decade. This proposal from the ISU involves converting a Starship into a lunar base Skylab-style. Starships 1000m [--] of pressurized" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021017374921548213) 2026-02-10T00:24Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Crazy coincidence bc I was reading your paper school choice is not enough and had the exact same thought lmao I argue that Trump's failure to articulate a principled moral vision to counteract woke progressivism is hindering the right. Hard power without soft power does not provide a foundation for long-term success. 👇 https://t.co/azikxqRcWz I argue that Trump's failure to articulate a principled moral vision to counteract woke progressivism is hindering the right. Hard power without soft power does not provide a foundation for long-term success. 👇 https://t.co/azikxqRcWz" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021257841974059347) 2026-02-10T16:19Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Its the phones doesnt really work here because it started in [----] and the introduction of the iPhone in [----] and the saturation of society with iPhones in the following years doesnt appear to have altered the long term trend at all We're in the midst of a "Dating Recession": ✔ HS dating has fallen almost 50% since [----] ✔In [----] a "mere 46% of high school seniors reported ever going out on dates" https://t.co/ymMJRF1xJw We're in the midst of a "Dating Recession": ✔ HS dating has fallen almost 50% since [----] ✔In [----] a "mere 46% of high school seniors reported ever going out on dates"" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021272551691796604) 2026-02-10T17:18Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "In the past it was about being close to everyone else since we didnt have motorized vehicles to commute or move goods efficiently. Cities were efficient. Notably they also killed not just fertility but a lot of people too. Cities were and maybe still are a utility monster that turned biomass into gold. But nowadays you dont need to live in the city to work or be close to production. Many people commute 30-60 minutes into offices. Most factories and warehouses are NOT in the urban core but on the periphery where land is cheap and they can easily put a warehouse right next to the highways So it" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021274631051632653) 2026-02-10T17:26Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "@2024dion Hiring is often nationwide now There is an efficiency aspect I suppose where if you put your office in the CBD it is in the center of the metro but many people have offices on the periphery and plus most people drive anyways" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021293104301482030) 2026-02-10T18:40Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "The Chud making the best art for the competition but being passed over really is the cherry on top Grok Imagine. https://t.co/iAituLxTtQ Grok Imagine. https://t.co/iAituLxTtQ" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021318011873890543) 2026-02-10T20:19Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "You dont even need to annihilate yourself per se. If you perfect virtual reality you could simply amuse yourself to death endlessly. No need to build Star Trek if you can simply play as a federation captain in a virtual reality indistinguishable from reality. You dont need to solve physics problems bc the problems are solved in game. Theres no need to build an intergalactic empire because you can build one in the metaverse or whatever and it feels like the real thing" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021330721449689576) 2026-02-10T21:09Z 27K followers, 20K engagements "(1) if you already have cylinders why care about planets (2) even at the speed of light colonies would never be knitted together into civilization. They would forever be isolated colonies. Star systems could be potentially knitted together as one political unit but nothing interstellar https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021335295942328442 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021335295942328442" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021335295942328442) 2026-02-10T21:27Z 27K followers, 43.3K engagements "Bc it means no intergalactic civilization no Star Trek and no Star Wars. Civilization is permanently confined to star systems. Yes it is true you can send civilization ships to nearby stars. But these polities will never be united as one because of transit time. Transit time from the old world to the new world was mere months not years and the closest star is four light years away This also assumes any civilization DESIRES to colonize the stars which seems unlikely if theyve already invented ASI and Nozicks experience machine which allows them to live that fantasy without living their planet." [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021336190302007731) 2026-02-10T21:31Z 27K followers, 25.2K engagements "Interstellar species will never be a united civilization. Transit time is too long. You COULD build a generation ship and send off to planets but it will be slow and you might never know if they got there and how it worked. Getting any message takes four years Also why colonize planets if you can build massive space habitats https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021336745485250720 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021336745485250720" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021336745485250720) 2026-02-10T21:33Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "@ScumRoman @AlexanderPayton There are a ton of resources right here in a solar system is it profitable to go to another to get them when they are right here" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021337171295342724) 2026-02-10T21:35Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "@is_OwenLewis @ScumRoman @AlexanderPayton Okay but we either did not have the stuff the new world and Asia had or it was so valuable it was worth it. that was like the entire point of going there. The voyages werent for vibes they wanted gold silver and spices" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021338691072032879) 2026-02-10T21:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "@is_OwenLewis They went there for profit I mean sure there was some honor and bragging rights involved but Columbus was financed to find an alternative route to Asia you to for money" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021338963634802969) 2026-02-10T21:42Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "If the singularity ever comes to pass there would be no need to take a vacation to Alpha Centauri and there also wouldnt be cousins. that frantic distortion you're feeling is the spaghettification of civilization as it approaches the event horizon of the singularity. once we're inside it everything slows down. no need to rush. waiting a few thousand years for your cousin to get home from vacation is nothing that frantic distortion you're feeling is the spaghettification of civilization as it approaches the event horizon of the singularity. once we're inside it everything slows down. no need" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021374259541557504) 2026-02-11T00:02Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "The professional managerial class is actually undertaxed in America and further their income tax rates have fallen in the last [--] years while real wages for them have gone way up (while blue collar wages have stagnated) W-2 white collar tax revolt is brewing and every bullshit boomer tax break or special income carve out for waiters is training people to be more anti tax. No one is going to vote for the eat your vegetables campaign but we need to not actually give voters candy W-2 white collar tax revolt is brewing and every bullshit boomer tax break or special income carve out for waiters is" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021383025347448927) 2026-02-11T00:37Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "I understand where the stress comes from bc this class isnt poor enough to have everyone paid for and they arent rich enough to not care. Theyre middle to upper middle class which means a big tax bill eats up a meaningful part of their income income that would actually" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021383029374304652) 2026-02-11T00:37Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "@oaktreerespectr There is no need you are going to be hooked up to the experience machine until you blissfully expire and you will be happy" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021384646278189375) 2026-02-11T00:43Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "Not true whatsoever The reason DOGE failed is because the vast majority of spending in the U.S. goes towards legitimate welfare purposes as defined by law and there is no incentive at all for any politician to ever cut that. Even if they GOP did cut welfare spending massively they would promptly be kicked out of office in the next election and Dems would bring it all back" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021536566666039406) 2026-02-11T10:47Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "if people ages 18-44 turned out as hard as boomers (74% of whom vote) that would add [--] million votes" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021610628511650273) 2026-02-11T15:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "I a similar vein species and organisms that dont care about reproduction will always be outcompeted and replaced by species that care a whole lot about reproduction. Thats how natural selection works" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021665027317805462) 2026-02-11T19:17Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Finding out whether we are alone doesnt pay the bills. Colonization and exploration didnt just happen for glory but largely because it was funded with the goal of profit. Explorers went around Africa and sailed to America trying to find a new way to the far east. The Romans conquered new lands because it funded their war efforts and gave them slaves. The only other option besides profit is usually religious in nature like missionaries or those fleeing religious persecution Any interstellar vehicle is going to cost trillions of dollars. You need some way to finance that." [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021670044652974235) 2026-02-11T19:37Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "I went to the champion of coal event and they gave you the top award" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021700106555146653) 2026-02-11T21:37Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "On Takeselling Most of what goes on around here is what is called takeselling which is just a neologism for commentary. Its very low effort and the only way to get attention is to exaggerate how bad something is which can take the form of rage baiting or fearmongering. People do it because there is a high ROI. Other people provide the most of the content and instead youre just reacting to it. Youre not really in control because whoever controls the outrage of the day technically controls you. React content isnt just extremely popular on X but also on YouTube where influencers post another 30" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021708959544226199) 2026-02-11T22:12Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "One possibility is that once civilization develops the speed at which it approaches the singularity is so quick that the probability of encountering any one civilization pre-singularity is quite low. If we assume the singularity is an extinction event then your window for finding advanced civilizations is very very small. Even if the singularity is not an extinction event my guess is that whatever civilization exists no longer cares that much about space travel. Now its true I did say that in the long run that natural selection should select for civilizations that expand because they would" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021724477013528582) 2026-02-11T23:14Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "If you can already build enormous space habitats why bother with colonizing planets at all Getting out of gravity wells is super expensive" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021725681588322382) 2026-02-11T23:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Btw I am not critical of space I think we should spend way more money on this and Ive said this before. The xeet is about how FTL makes space travel much harder" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021725683987144720) 2026-02-11T23:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Warp drives and FTL travel is a magic trick used in sci fi to make space conflicts work on a human timescale" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021725686138872193) 2026-02-11T23:19Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "RT @0xAlaric: http://x.com/i/article/2021354417325215745 http://x.com/i/article/2021354417325215745" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021733911739670912) 2026-02-11T23:51Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "RT @BecomingCritter: He who fears the cortisol spike believes he maintains power through stoic refusal but *sniff* this is precisely his ca" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021737886563852736) 2026-02-12T00:07Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "RT @memeticsisyphus: Im reading about the lend lease agreements between the U.S. and Soviets. We of course tanks war planes and small an" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021740590682042381) 2026-02-12T00:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "RT @Athens_Stranger: More books is only the road to superficiality Chosen wisely 10-12 books are more than enough for an entire lifetime" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021749711993028837) 2026-02-12T00:54Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "The Dark Knight is an extremely right wing movie First of all the protagonist is a billionaire nepo baby who dress up at night to punch criminals. Second became Batman because his parents were killed by a criminal. They were mugged by reality. Sound familiar Third he works outside the system. A lone wolf. He did it almost all on his own. He has friends but no institutions on his side. Hes a vigilante. He believes he alone can save his city. Now its true that at one point he tries to build a legitimate system with Gordon and Harvey but the Joker wins. What does he do He has to create a noble" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021754235390459953) 2026-02-12T01:12Z 27K followers, 22.1K engagements "RT @Tyler_A_Harper: I interviewed [--] senior admins and profs for this story. They painted a similar picture: under Alexander Mellon became" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021979410312867845) 2026-02-12T16:07Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "I had a premonition" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021985629614268685) 2026-02-12T16:31Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again if two lie together then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone And if one prevail against him two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ecc 4:9-12 People who dont organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do. People who dont organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021986899640881423) 2026-02-12T16:36Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "RT @BrandonWarmke: I doubt any amount of evidence will change minds but Mellon's hundreds of millions for explicitly progressive activism" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021991292314825201) 2026-02-12T16:54Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "I imagine if automated farming ever really takes off that the heartland will be completely depopulated. Vast corporate farms will populate the country staffed by a few contractors living in a dorm on-site. The rural town will die" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022007592525156465) 2026-02-12T17:59Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Now Im not against high density sprawl but I think it has its place and youll never convince suburban dwellers to support it. Instead high density should be pushed in the urban core usually 1-3 miles from the city center depending on how big the city is" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406252022935579) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "@Komodoom Yea pretty much" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022408504544497865) 2026-02-13T20:32Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "Finally while this isnt part of Residual Inflation Theory housing costs both rent and prices have outran real wages and thats a big part of peoples budget AND something paid monthly" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022472218584994072) 2026-02-14T00:45Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Will Stancil is a funny guy but dont ever forget hes extremely bloodthirsty The Jacobins are at the gates. https://t.co/sjlm98ocuo The Jacobins are at the gates. https://t.co/sjlm98ocuo" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019390899957166163) 2026-02-05T12:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "The difference between Trump [----] videos and Trump [----] videos is really stark https://t.co/QKxpgm0lug https://t.co/QKxpgm0lug" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020539584027783198) 2026-02-08T16:45Z 27K followers, 214.7K engagements "The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible. You are forever confined to something like the Expanse the speed of light is a hard limit and any sci-fi future that involves FTL travel or even communication is simply off the table for our species. the speed of light is a hard limit and any sci-fi future that involves FTL travel or even communication is simply off the table for our species" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021292123316682884) 2026-02-10T18:36Z 27K followers, 817.7K engagements "Most people genuinely do not remember this but Reddit moderation used to be extremely barebones. They only banned what was explicitly forbidden by law. Heavy-handed internet moderation was a reaction to [----] and the rise of Trump This makes you look at Substack in a new way given that the CEO Chris Best can't even be clear about what speech is allowed on their platform. #DemsUnited https://t.co/u13FNRhbqb This makes you look at Substack in a new way given that the CEO Chris Best can't even be clear about what speech is allowed on their platform. #DemsUnited https://t.co/u13FNRhbqb" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022146255976378678) 2026-02-13T03:10Z 27K followers, 36.4K engagements "Wow that's crazy there are a bunch of abandoned houses in West Virginia and the Mississippi Delta. I guess America doesn't have a housing shortage after all There are [----] million vacant homes across the U.S. Do we really have a housing shortage https://t.co/NIb8GYGlWN There are [----] million vacant homes across the U.S. Do we really have a housing shortage https://t.co/NIb8GYGlWN" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022395513908445196) 2026-02-13T19:40Z 27K followers, 13.1K engagements "If your goal is purely influence then writing books is not the way to go. Something like 40% of Americans read zero books last year and 2/3rds read less than 5" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022475837136928952) 2026-02-14T00:59Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Nuclear energy didnt die off naturally. It was killed strangled to death by governments The nuclear electricity learning curve is so sad (three rows from bottom second column). https://t.co/GeDaFDFbd4 The nuclear electricity learning curve is so sad (three rows from bottom second column). https://t.co/GeDaFDFbd4" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022493774212219108) 2026-02-14T02:11Z 27K followers, 45.9K engagements "@growing_daniel Brevity is the soul of wit fr fr 🙂" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022817700188229924) 2026-02-14T23:38Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "The readers did not misinterpret Paul. Frank Herbert misinterpreted the character he wrote. https://t.co/vnOAHrLzXT https://t.co/vnOAHrLzXT" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1922900386182058295) 2025-05-15T06:22Z 27K followers, 1.7M engagements "A few notes on RW art - the art should be good by itself. That it is right wing or pushes a right wing message should be secondary. - stories told in novels movies and TV should be genuinely interesting and compelling. The right wing theme should be secondary - show dont tell. Let the viewer put [--] and [--] together. Messages should be implicit or subliminal and not explicit. Avoid moral grandstanding - slop is an assault on the senses and a crime against humanity. You should take pride in QUALITY. At the very least people should say I didnt agree with the message but it was very well made - the" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021420120229232727) 2026-02-11T03:04Z 27K followers, 25K engagements "This obviously the correct fiscal move but for obvious reasons you cannot say this ever GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke says he wants to cut Social Security and affordable health care to "fix" the budget. https://t.co/5i9Aeh5pd2 GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke says he wants to cut Social Security and affordable health care to "fix" the budget. https://t.co/5i9Aeh5pd2" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021430357267185848) 2026-02-11T03:45Z 27K followers, 126K engagements "@Devon_Eriksen_ Do not cite the deep magic to me" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021749440839614744) 2026-02-12T00:53Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "The International World Order is dead Its what you voted for sir https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022845355553906813) 2026-02-15T01:28Z 27K followers, 50.3K engagements "im not falling for this stale millennial propaganda "dating to marry" dude you're [--] relax "dating to marry" dude you're [--] relax" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1952631999291699604) 2025-08-05T07:25Z 27K followers, 508.2K engagements "Practical woman: will run your homestead like its the Navy. Dependably & loyal. Mother of nations. Sensible woman: Adept at social maneuvering. Will know everyones business. A good ally for high society. Sensitive woman: will wreck your life but unforgettable" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2017408253240742057) 2026-01-31T01:23Z 27K followers, 254.1K engagements "The government literally banned Joe Camel bc he was too cool. Not a joke The 90s had the coolest advertising characters https://t.co/nrl7fj6QUQ The 90s had the coolest advertising characters https://t.co/nrl7fj6QUQ" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2018758361584726495) 2026-02-03T18:47Z 27K followers, 1.4M engagements "Mens scalps when they reach age 25" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020223231618347431) 2026-02-07T19:48Z 27K followers, 77.4K engagements "It was not part of his blood It came to him very late With long arrears to make good When Stancil began to hate. https://t.co/HvmSCRiTxe https://t.co/HvmSCRiTxe" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021425168783171998) 2026-02-11T03:24Z 27K followers, 58.8K engagements "A lot of people have suggested you can colonize the galaxy in a few hundred thousand or million years with sub-light speed and I was going to counter with why would they do that but thats not how it works. Any species that has a maximally-expansive mindset will simply dominate the ones that dont on a long enough time frame The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible. You are forever confined to something like the Expanse The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021665023723008293) 2026-02-11T19:17Z 27K followers, 39.7K engagements "@growing_daniel Bill Maher begged me to have dinner with him at the White House. While there he was acting very nervous immediately asked for a vodka tonic for anxiety. Was very respectful to me. Now he goes home and talks bad about me behind my back. Many such cases" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022817178756551053) 2026-02-14T23:36Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Theres no such thing as the universal brotherhood of man. There are only nations There are no such thing as nations only communities There is no such thing as communities only families. There is no such thing as families only people https://t.co/TwTdAn9UE1 https://t.co/TwTdAn9UE1" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022845849269662035) 2026-02-15T01:30Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Women dont make faces like this anymore to the camera they just stare with a blank expression SSRI eyes 🧵hayley williams grr face (a thread) https://t.co/vVRGhJsxyp 🧵hayley williams grr face (a thread) https://t.co/vVRGhJsxyp" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1882915910446620962) 2025-01-24T22:18Z 27K followers, 9.7M engagements "Millennials use lol like STOP at the end of a telegram lol" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1930294977176780998) 2025-06-04T16:06Z 27K followers, 4M engagements "Best books to carry around and pretend to read at coffee shops for a man just getting into performative masculinity" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1969536115968209368) 2025-09-20T22:56Z 27K followers, 5.2M engagements "You sure @MikeJazzpenis @primediscussion "their party holds" Nobody in the part holds these views. The people who say this shit hate Dems almost as much as they hate you. @MikeJazzpenis @primediscussion "their party holds" Nobody in the part holds these views. The people who say this shit hate Dems almost as much as they hate you" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019361736063926591) 2026-02-05T10:45Z 27K followers, 47.5K engagements "Too early to tell tbh. If your enemies feel like they won they probably won. What backing down in the Battle of Minneapolis did: teach communists that - theyre still the winning team - these tactics work - Trump always chickens out But on the other hand Juan has to swim the Rio Grande again If your enemies feel like they won they probably won. What backing down in the Battle of Minneapolis did: teach communists that - theyre still the winning team - these tactics work - Trump always chickens out But on the other hand Juan has to swim the Rio Grande again" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019421117170217255) 2026-02-05T14:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Good book on this btw Working-age men are as likely to be without a job today as at the end of the Great Depression. https://t.co/L8Q9eRvTCc Working-age men are as likely to be without a job today as at the end of the Great Depression. https://t.co/L8Q9eRvTCc" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019694514060030426) 2026-02-06T08:47Z 27K followers, 19.5K engagements "These posts are cringe and government accounts shouldnt post them. Leave memes to the shitposters Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing. https://t.co/MQsBDf8kaQ Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing. https://t.co/MQsBDf8kaQ" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019899414266237273) 2026-02-06T22:22Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Very important posts for accelerationists to see South Africa [----] vs. Today. This is what decolonization looks like. This is what they wanted. Back to the Stone Age. https://t.co/FPdvYWtUJU South Africa [----] vs. Today. This is what decolonization looks like. This is what they wanted. Back to the Stone Age. https://t.co/FPdvYWtUJU" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020282152454443305) 2026-02-07T23:42Z 27K followers, 75K engagements "@MartinSkold2 The English and the Scots-Irish are the most right wing White ethnic groups in America. LDS Southern Baptist and nondenominational evangelical are also the most conservative religious sects by [----] voting patterns which make sense because the English cluster there" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020546951142310126) 2026-02-08T17:15Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "You are the problem. The whole Continent of North-America appears to me destined by Divine Providence to be people by one Nationspeaking one languageprofessing one general System of religious and political principles and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customsFor the Common happiness of them all for their Peace and Prosperity - John Quincy Adams With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors speaking the same language professing the same" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020862998298890725) 2026-02-09T14:10Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Only in America can you find a kid wearing $150 tennis shoes drinking a $5 cup of coffee typing on his $1000 cell phone and complaining on social media that he is oppressed and that capitalism has failed him. Only in America can you find a kid wearing $150 tennis shoes drinking a $5 cup of coffee typing on his $1000 cell phone and complaining on social media that he is oppressed and that capitalism has failed him" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020942125500858691) 2026-02-09T19:25Z 27K followers, 229.7K engagements "Which btw had its own magic tech in the series there is a rocket engine that is very very efficient so they can fly point to point sort of and greatly reduce transit time" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021292126546321421) 2026-02-10T18:36Z 27K followers, 49.2K engagements "minitrue reports doubleplusungood comrade framemogged by ASU boyclub top boy while jestermaxxing" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021721151177887896) 2026-02-11T23:00Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "In the expanse they solve this problem with portals in space "Space travel critical" Twitter is genuinely one of the most retarded groups on this whole site. You literally don't need FTL travel to colonize other star systems. Hell he brings up the Expanse and a major plot point in the first two seasons is a Mormon funded expedition to https://t.co/gvgM41dfld "Space travel critical" Twitter is genuinely one of the most retarded groups on this whole site. You literally don't need FTL travel to colonize other star systems. Hell he brings up the Expanse and a major plot point in the first two" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021725677649613233) 2026-02-11T23:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "RT @Tyler_A_Harper: Ive spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021973469563597168) 2026-02-12T15:43Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "The difference is stark but the Ivy League being woke is nothing new. Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale in [--] and was there from [----] to [----]. Yale isnt Harvard but its probably a good guess to say Harvard was similar at that time The Harvard History department's undergraduate course list in 1949-50 (top images). Compare with every course offered by the Harvard History department in Spring [----] (bottom images). https://t.co/tPBSVeQfky The Harvard History department's undergraduate course list in 1949-50 (top images). Compare with every course offered by the Harvard History department in" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2021996565779603692) 2026-02-12T17:15Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "The good: deportations have gone up 4.6x The bad: deportations are far below the Administration's [-------] per year target. (This paper estimates 300000) Make of that what you will" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022102221291430144) 2026-02-13T00:15Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Doesn't this paragraph imply that our interior enforcement policy was essentially non-enforcement for illegal immigrants who had not committed a crime and even then there was room to increase the number of criminal illegals deported" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022103288179830827) 2026-02-13T00:19Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Street arrests went up 10x. That's new" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022103712978939979) 2026-02-13T00:21Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "My go to for normal sounding names is British royal family and the Bible (England) names - the royal family uses them a lot like Charles William Louis Edward Archie Henry George Albert Arthur Bible - John Luke Mark Matthew Paul Peter Simon Philip Thaddeus James Thomas Andrew Abraham Adam Abner (Abe) David Joshua Jacob Elijah (Eli) Daniel Benjamin Isaac Caleb Aaron Isaiah Jonah Joseph Jonathan Levi Noah Zach As a boy mom let me inform you of the full catalog of available boy names: Kings: George Louis Charles Popes: John Peter Francis Biblical: Noah Elijah David God complex: Jesus Messiah" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022118858455175259) 2026-02-13T01:21Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Interesting a lot of non-Biblical non-royal 20th century American names sound VERY dated Donald Ronald Norman Stanley(Stan) Ralph Clifford(Cliff) Gerald (Gerry) Raymond Walter Roger Earl Dwight Bernard (Bernie) Edwin (Ed/Eddy) Eugene (gene) Wayne Kenneth (Ken)" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022119525316231292) 2026-02-13T01:23Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "That is the Center for Immigration Studies numbers based on the current population survey (CPS) which some people have claimed is inaccurate The Fed data I think is just extrapolation from the Jan-July [----] numbers. I think the NYTimes and deportation data project data is from FOIAs The real answer is we dont know for sure which is disappointing to say the least https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022131790714904708 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022131790714904708" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022131790714904708) 2026-02-13T02:12Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "For a while this seemed to be playing out. New Atheism exploded in the 2000s and the Arab Spring was in large part fueled by social media. Further the country was moving leftward on social issues like gay marriage and LGBT acceptance" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022150720670380495) 2026-02-13T03:27Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "They thought the Internet would usher in the end of history. Liberalism would spread worldwide and everyone would embrace it. No one has any reason to believe otherwise" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022150725124731114) 2026-02-13T03:27Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "The watchword was never again. Never again must we allow those people to threaten the intentional liberal order. The jury is still out on whether it worked. Musk buying Twitter surely changed things but people were really mad about inflation anyways. Only time will tell" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022150755067773151) 2026-02-13T03:28Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Its true that in the movie he falls but its all true that he is genuinely trying to do the right thing. Hes not a monster. He only becomes ones after a psychotic terrorist kills his fiance and blows half his face off. The traditional trope is that authority is good and honest and its only with modern media that authority is shown to be corrupt untruthful and bad. In the Dark Knight most of the higher up authority figures are shown to be good: Batman Dent Gordon. There are some bad cops who betray Harvey so there is that. I dont think you need to follow a trope 100% to lean into it. One" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022152942086770799) 2026-02-13T03:36Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "If the humanities have been so broke for [--] years it begs the question why the Right never tried to do this either The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the countrys preeminent funder of humanities research @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and lettersor killing them https://t.co/ZYwnOT1B3Q The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the countrys preeminent funder of humanities research @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and lettersor killing them https://t.co/ZYwnOT1B3Q" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158302478840056) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "One possibility is that right wing interest groups more often that not reflect the economic concerns of their patrons namely laissez faire economics instead of culture" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158306534731926) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "A right wing billionaire would feel just fine giving money to an economics department to teach more Hayek and Mises. He would have reservations about donating to some humanities department to sponsor grants for researchers for cultural things" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158311085494677) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "This is because I think the fundamental difference between left wing elites and right wing elites with a few exceptions is that the former seeks to spread its ideology like a religion while the former is fundamentally about generating ROI for business owners" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158315573457208) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "This theory is not 100% true because there are some notable right wing interest groups that focus on culture. The most successful two are the guns rights movements and pro life movements. Why they won I cant say for sure but part of it was that they had very simple demands" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158323316036068) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Reverse roe and protect gun rights are very easy to right for a measure. The Right still does not know exactly what their worldview is. Its a loose connection of classical liberalism Christianity now economic populism under Trump and some other more fringe elements" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158327212650949) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "DEI is so powerful in part because it rewards friends and penalized enemies. Actual equality and fairness does not. DEI allows the Left to install friendlier across all organizations at every level. The Right does not have such an ideology" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158334888226942) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "MAGA often used very naked loyalty to Trump tests for appointed government positions and the party itself but this doesnt translate well to anything else nor is it sustainable after Trump leaves office" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022158338386231586) 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Btw this is a massive failure of Conquests Second Law. Many of these orgs were explicitly free speech in the beginning but overtime stopped doing that. Maybe they didnt do enough idk. The problem is that institutional values are ultimately enforced by people so if you hire people who disagree they will eventually overthrow you and change the institutions values" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022176888190337272) 2026-02-13T05:11Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Isn't the first part of your book the Bell Curve about how this is increasingly no longer true (as of 1994) No. Smart working class kids are drastically under identified. There was a major article on this a few years ago but I don't the cite at my fingertips. No. Smart working class kids are drastically under identified. There was a major article on this a few years ago but I don't the cite at my fingertips" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022378534883270732) 2026-02-13T18:33Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "(1) Town Centers - demolish large strip malls and commercial districts that sit at the confluence of massive 6-8 lane stroads. Replace them with town centers that are quant walkable commercial districts with mid-rise mixed used housing no more than a few stories tall" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406222159532283) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "All the buildings should be right up on the sidewalk. If there is parking it should be at the back. The town center should be nice with street trees good sidewalks benches and the occasional park" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406224915079638) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "The town center will be the place where everyone shops eats drinks and has fun. Steps should be taken to try to fit mini big box stores if you really want them" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406227284890090) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "There should be lots of diners coffee shops and bars with outdoor seating. There should be some apartments that go right above the shops maybe 2-4 stories max" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406229956661439) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "The 5-10 min walkshed around the town center should be gently upzoned to allow for missing middle housing. So mid rise courtyard blocks 4- and 6-plexes and townhomes. The vast majority of the suburb remains detached SFH" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406232527769922) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "(3) Mandate that all new suburban developers have cross streets to neighboring developments. You dont need a grid but it shouldnt be cul-de-sacs all feeding into major roads" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406238445912154) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "(4) Mandate sidewalks. Build out urban trails that allow people to cut through suburbs and get to the town center. They should be able to walk or bike to the bar district and go home without driving. This is easier to do with suburbs that havent been built that those that have already been built https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406241041969468 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406241041969468" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406241041969468) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "(5) Bike lanes are good but should be placed strategically along major commute routes to the town center. You dont need a protected bike lane on the side streets but its nice to have one in both directions on the major [--] lane road that goes through the town center" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406243844001969) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "The reason I think this plan is good is because it improves the burbs without turning them into something theyre not - a high density urban district. They follow the Village model rather than endless high density sprawl" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406249250480213) 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "Some basic metrics to measure if this development is good - people should be able to walk or bike to local stores bars and restaurants - kids should be able to walk to school - the city center and lively and full of people - you rarely if ever have to cross massive car sewers to get there https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406620563804182 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406620563804182" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022406620563804182) 2026-02-13T20:24Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "If Residual Inflation theory is true we should expect anger about high prices to decline the longer inflation has been normal. In other words the father we get from the 2022-23 inflation crisis" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022472216345031114) 2026-02-14T00:45Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "I could ask an LLM to do it but Id be unsure of the accuracy" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022763446291382488) 2026-02-14T20:02Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "For aggravated assault (AA) Im getting an insanely strange number. For example the AA rate per [------] in [----] was [-----] while in [----] [---]. That seems way too extreme imo. Thats 15.8x. From my recollection violent crime went up 7-8x between the 1950s to 1990s which was peak crime and our rates should be much lower now then [----] so this doesnt pass the smell test Big if true tho https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022764504627421257 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022764504627421257" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022764504627421257) 2026-02-14T20:06Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "What are some books that one-shot people into terrible beliefs and change their entire worldview but in a bad way Fun question from @Sam__Enright: Whats the anti-reading list in your field of expertise https://t.co/vawry5SLok Fun question from @Sam__Enright: Whats the anti-reading list in your field of expertise https://t.co/vawry5SLok" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1893336494091247932) 2025-02-22T16:26Z 27K followers, 5.8M engagements "Rightists want to tell you that your friends and neighbors are "replacing" you. They want you to turn against your friends and neighbors to make you afraid of them to provoke you into trying to drive them out of the country. It's sickening. Rightists want to tell you that your friends and neighbors are "replacing" you. They want you to turn against your friends and neighbors to make you afraid of them to provoke you into trying to drive them out of the country. It's sickening" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2020892088632569994) 2026-02-09T16:06Z 27K followers, 49.5K engagements "More elite human capital governance. Garry Tan trembles before the power of the San Francisco voter The real story of this graph is that San Francisco's rate of housebuilding has been falling since [----] and is now lower than it's been since [----] despite years of breathless enthusiasm for "YIMBY" bills that have so far done nothing https://t.co/17rdLclEe2 The real story of this graph is that San Francisco's rate of housebuilding has been falling since [----] and is now lower than it's been since [----] despite years of breathless enthusiasm for "YIMBY" bills that have so far done nothing" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022411047328522716) 2026-02-13T20:42Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Men yearn to sit in a big chair and monitor a control panel with lots of screens knobs dials and buttons while monitoring the situation The future were promised but never got https://t.co/xmOJ5VY3NQ The future were promised but never got https://t.co/xmOJ5VY3NQ" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019645819608350724) 2026-02-06T05:34Z 27K followers, 484.2K engagements "Best books to carry around and pretend to read at coffee shops for a man just getting into performative masculinity Best books to carry around and pretend to read at coffee shops for a man just getting into performative masculinity" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/1969603833165730120) 2025-09-21T03:25Z 27K followers, 5M engagements "Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of soup I absolutely love people from SF turning tweets about sandwiches and burritos into think pieces about how amazing their city is. https://t.co/CCbYougSfE I absolutely love people from SF turning tweets about sandwiches and burritos into think pieces about how amazing their city is. https://t.co/CCbYougSfE" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2019894463620083763) 2026-02-06T22:02Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "Highly recommend this btw. how it feels as an adult to revisit the classic books and poems you were taught in class now with fresh eyes and life experience: https://t.co/OE550j6wgE how it feels as an adult to revisit the classic books and poems you were taught in class now with fresh eyes and life experience: https://t.co/OE550j6wgE" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022125648295428250) 2026-02-13T01:48Z 27K followers, 484.8K engagements "Btw it was about this time that the liberal world switched from the Internet is a force for democracy and liberalization to the Internet is a force for (right wing) radicalization and we need to stop it Most people genuinely do not remember this but Reddit moderation used to be extremely barebones. They only banned what was explicitly forbidden by law. Heavy-handed internet moderation was a reaction to [----] and the rise of Trump Most people genuinely do not remember this but Reddit moderation used to be extremely barebones. They only banned what was explicitly forbidden by law. Heavy-handed" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022150711287685587) 2026-02-13T03:27Z 27K followers, 14.8K engagements "The History of the Internet is a Sisyphean effort to recreate the forum community just prior to Eternal September. Substack Notes is what Twitter used to be. It's like [--] standard deviations of IQ higher and all the gang are there. Substack Notes is what Twitter used to be. It's like [--] standard deviations of IQ higher and all the gang are there" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022373995522224483) 2026-02-13T18:15Z 27K followers, 42.9K engagements "The average homicide rate in the 1950s was [----]. The all time low in [----] was [---]. The estimated [----] homicide rate is [---]. The homicide rate today is not dramatically lower than it was in the 1950s This is such a funny example to use because the homicide rate was objectively dramatically lower in the 1950s than it is today This is such a funny example to use because the homicide rate was objectively dramatically lower in the 1950s than it is today" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022756823195848857) 2026-02-14T19:36Z 27K followers, [----] engagements "The top selling artists of the 1950s were Elvis Presley Miles Davis Johnny Matthias and Frank Sinatra. [--] of them were Christmas Albums average white person over in the 1950s exclusively listened to showtunes and music whose only lyrics were a Cuban bandleader occasionally shouting things. Bad Bunny is the much more the successor to that than country singers who rap about the mall. average white person over in the 1950s exclusively listened to showtunes and music whose only lyrics were a Cuban bandleader occasionally shouting things. Bad Bunny is the much more the successor to that than" [X Link](https://x.com/gaulicsmith/status/2022850236666859770) 2026-02-15T01:47Z 27K followers, 10.7K engagements "RT @bronzeagemantis: Is odd fact that Bill father Irving Kristol spoke and acted like Trump as did my friend Don Kagan I think thats a Bro" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023112918439801222) 2026-02-15T19:11Z 27K followers, [--] engagements "Is odd fact that Bill father Irving Kristol spoke and acted like Trump as did my friend Don Kagan I think thats a Bronx thing Anyway Bill Kristol doesnt act like his father but has very studied WASP affect. Just odd observation RE this Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023076327147069883) 2026-02-15T16:45Z 208K followers, 29.6K engagements "Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a multicultural economic zone American culture with its English-Scotts-Irish origin is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it but thats why people come here. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023065954624975059) 2026-02-15T16:04Z 1M followers, 102.5K engagements "Obesity is one of if not the leading cause of chronic disease in America Everytime you get sick from an infectious disease for the next [--] years please remember that this admin canceled multiple promising vaccine developments to give you this idiot slop instead Everytime you get sick from an infectious disease for the next [--] years please remember that this admin canceled multiple promising vaccine developments to give you this idiot slop instead" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023106282840871013) 2026-02-15T18:44Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Everytime you get sick from an infectious disease for the next [--] years please remember that this admin canceled multiple promising vaccine developments to give you this idiot slop instead Processed food kills. EAT REAL FOOD. https://t.co/v1Zy3Cjmyw Processed food kills. EAT REAL FOOD. https://t.co/v1Zy3Cjmyw" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023063402479014109) 2026-02-15T15:54Z 19.4K followers, 83.2K engagements "Idk if its surpassed smoking at this point since way fewer people are smoking nowadays" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023106286657921113) 2026-02-15T18:45Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "If Turkeys young women continue to culturally leapfrog but men remain more conservative then this will have major implications for coupling and fertility cc @timurkuran https://www.ggd.world/p/cultural-leapfrogging-turkish-style https://www.ggd.world/p/cultural-leapfrogging-turkish-style" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022905461830488143) 2026-02-15T05:27Z 59.9K followers, 139.4K engagements "I just think it looks ugly 🤷♂" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023082890209132751) 2026-02-15T17:12Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "my theory is that a reason these men dont like tattoos on women is because its an outward sign of creative agency and self-ownership - it signals that the womans body is hers and no one elses - it aesthetically undermines and rejects mens felt entitlement to our bodies 🖤 Give a girl unrestrained freedom & watch her become the worst version of herself https://t.co/V4JQb7PLwE Give a girl unrestrained freedom & watch her become the worst version of herself https://t.co/V4JQb7PLwE" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023027953165349036) 2026-02-15T13:33Z 34.3K followers, 1.4M engagements "The Obama Admin started doing family detention in June [----] and that stayed in effect until Feb [--] [----] when it was enjoined by a court. Even so family detentions continued to climb after that until declining until July [----] Hillary Clinton: More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term. https://t.co/SvziKGr8cx Hillary Clinton: More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023081689132470307) 2026-02-15T17:07Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Hillary Clinton: More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022788592636989576) 2026-02-14T21:42Z 705.3K followers, 1.9M engagements "Im not so sure. Consider who has the most loans and who doesnt and who is on the margins such that loan forgiveness would cause them to shift their vote If Trumps plan was to make student loans dischargeable and stick the university with the bill he would never lose another election If Trumps plan was to make student loans dischargeable and stick the university with the bill he would never lose another election" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023078935760924815) 2026-02-15T16:56Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "If Trumps plan was to make student loans dischargeable and stick the university with the bill he would never lose another election No the entire point of making student loans dischargeable is so that lenders will not issue irresponsible loans in the first place which requires the conjunctive step of removing their federal backing. This is why the right loses btw. We refuse to think further than two No the entire point of making student loans dischargeable is so that lenders will not issue irresponsible loans in the first place which requires the conjunctive step of removing their federal" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022955546023022916) 2026-02-15T08:46Z 84.1K followers, 39.3K engagements "Colleges might also do a mixture of loans and scholarships. They too would look at ROI. Youd expect to see a growth in high ROI majors and a decline in low ROI majors" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023080443202212209) 2026-02-15T17:02Z 27K followers, [---] engagements "Because the number of students for low ROI majors would decline significantly if they had other benefits (activism) youd expect left wing NGOs to start paying for them with strings attached (ie Mellon among others)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023080682432446558) 2026-02-15T17:03Z 27K followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. 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Social topic influence in the 5.09%, if you 4.63%, money 3.7%, the most 3.7%, civilization #641, social 2.78%, books #985, to the 2.78%, theory 2.31%, culture 2.31%
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"This could have been us you stupid fucking bitch Two bees sleeping together in a flower https://t.co/Sb8vHXI9UC Two bees sleeping together in a flower https://t.co/Sb8vHXI9UC"
X Link 2025-09-04T14:36Z 27K followers, 815.7K engagements
"Oh my God its real wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people wait this graph is crazy BART installed anti-fare-hopping gates and the amount of station maintenance and cleanup they had to do went to basically zero strong evidence that the poor condition of public transit is fairly easy to fix + caused by a very small group of people"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:29Z 27K followers, 70.6K engagements
"There is a perfect password for this one that no AIs can say My wife calls me panicked. The call is from her number and her voice is unmistakable- thats my wife. Babe our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. Im at the emergency room but they wont take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me [----] dollars as My wife calls me panicked. The call is from her number and her voice is unmistakable- thats my wife. Babe our son is hurt. He got in a bike wreck. Im at the emergency room but they wont take our insurance and I need cash to get him help. Please send me [----] dollars as"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:07Z 27K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Payout algorithm is completely incoherent. Three cycles ago I had a very large increase in impressions but not change on payout. The next cycle I had fewer impressions but twice the money. This cycle I had 20% fewer impressions but my payout was 25% greater"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:24Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Women may be natural conservatives but they are not naturally right wing. Important distinction Women are natural conservatives. Their inclination is always support whatever the reigning social orthodoxy is because that is the safe option. Women do not rip up fence posts. They preserve them by scolding those who seek to do so. It's just that our fence posts are all Women are natural conservatives. Their inclination is always support whatever the reigning social orthodoxy is because that is the safe option. Women do not rip up fence posts. They preserve them by scolding those who seek to do"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:26Z 27K followers, 20.3K engagements
"There is one objection however. Increases in medical care mean the ratio of homicide / (homicides + aggravated assaults) have fallen. (Murder and Medicine: The Lethality of Criminal Assault)"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:41Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"America is not an Empire because we do not extract wealth from our client states. Instead we literally send them money. Its like a reverse-empire"
X Link 2025-01-14T17:10Z 27K followers, 3.8M engagements
"Fun fact: they once tried an experiment in a high school where they gave teenage girls a baby doll simulator to take care of in order to show them what being a mother is like so they wouldnt get pregnant as teenagers. The result More of them got pregnant The birth rate is unlikely to go back up. The reason is simple: more and more people are asking themselves whether having kids would improve their lives and concluding that it wont. How to convince them otherwise The birth rate is unlikely to go back up. The reason is simple: more and more people are asking themselves whether having kids"
X Link 2025-04-25T00:05Z 27K followers, 762.8K engagements
"The rise and fall of Rock Music"
X Link 2025-08-19T01:12Z 27K followers, 5.6M engagements
"Here it is. Returning GIs complain about out of control hoeflation American women get jealous of European war brides. Hilarious stuff. Nothing new under the sun"
X Link 2026-01-16T02:25Z 26.9K followers, 459.5K engagements
"He is literally hanging out with his best friend and his girlfriend in this scene the cure to male loneliness is self isolating for so long that you just get used to it and it feels normal https://t.co/sqhrLA5J6b the cure to male loneliness is self isolating for so long that you just get used to it and it feels normal https://t.co/sqhrLA5J6b"
X Link 2026-01-28T08:38Z 26.9K followers, 4.3M engagements
"Annas Archive is being sued for the equivalent of 40% of the U.S. GDP or the combined GDP of Germany Japan and England"
X Link 2026-01-29T12:46Z 26.9K followers, 255.9K engagements
"How does South Dakota do it The correlation between Trump vote share in a state and state TFR went from [----] to [----] in one year. https://t.co/kg6jvccIDx The correlation between Trump vote share in a state and state TFR went from [----] to [----] in one year. https://t.co/kg6jvccIDx"
X Link 2026-01-30T06:24Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Real masculinity is when you agree with me MAGA men are yelling I am the boot into their podcast mics and singing Heil Htler in stretch limos - cosplaying the masculinity their movement is devoid of. Meanwhile on the left men (and woman) are taking to the streets to fight back against the government protect the https://t.co/awNy5wQQWk MAGA men are yelling I am the boot into their podcast mics and singing Heil Htler in stretch limos - cosplaying the masculinity their movement is devoid of. Meanwhile on the left men (and woman) are taking to the streets to fight back against the government"
X Link 2026-01-30T15:30Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"South Dakota once again standing out. I'm curious why it's fertility is higher than nearby Great Plains states which surely have similar geography and environments (low population density large farms and ranches which benefit from family youth labor conservative norms) Official birth data for [----] has come out and US fertility dropped to [----] births per woman. A large gap has opened up between conservative and liberal states with the Midwest showing fertility almost at replacement while New England and the West Coast have very low fertility. https://t.co/L58Fzr8gzu Official birth data for"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:03Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Never interrupt your enemy when she is making a mistake"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:53Z 26.9K followers, 22.7K engagements
"I wonder what is across the sea said the boy The Great Mother says there is nothing but endless ocean replied his mother But has anyone ever checked You dare question the Great Mother Absolutely not I am just curious. Why not build a boat You would be crushed by the great waves of the open ocean and would drown But what if we had a bigger boat We will not waste resources on such a frivolous thing I wonder if there is land over there It is probably bad land anyways I wonder if there are people They are probably bad people I would like to explore on the sea one day Would you shut up and help me"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:16Z 26.9K followers, 35.1K engagements
"The 2000s were a wild time Source: Abercrombie and Fitch Back to School 2003"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:55Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Not so fucking funny now that the shoe is on the other foot now is it"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:08Z 26.9K followers, 52.4K engagements
"2008 and its consequences have been a disaster for the housing market Here is total housing units per family in the US. "1" is not necessarily the "correct" ratio due to all sorts of special considerations and the aging population in particular is a factor deserving a lot of thought here but bottom line is ratio has fallen over the last [--] years. https://t.co/2gNGsqKNIH Here is total housing units per family in the US. "1" is not necessarily the "correct" ratio due to all sorts of special considerations and the aging population in particular is a factor deserving a lot of thought here but"
X Link 2026-01-31T15:28Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Old town Havana should be renovated into a Paris on the Gulf Are you insane Why would you want to turn Havana into "New Miami" Look at Havana. This is 100x better. Colonial baroque architecture is unmatched. This pathetic worship of skyscrapers and industrialisation needs to stop. https://t.co/m8O6iPYZb9 Are you insane Why would you want to turn Havana into "New Miami" Look at Havana. This is 100x better. Colonial baroque architecture is unmatched. This pathetic worship of skyscrapers and industrialisation needs to stop. https://t.co/m8O6iPYZb9"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:04Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If the GOP was smart theyd just cut this as an ad and play it a million times. Followed by images of migrant convoys and stuff. Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY"
X Link 2026-02-01T04:47Z 27K followers, 131.4K engagements
"TIL this image is from Lord of the Rings the wizard is Saruman and the orb is a palantr"
X Link 2026-02-01T06:08Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Democrats believe every single one of the other 7.7B people on this Earth are simply undocumented Americans Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY Bostons Mayor Wu: Every single human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek shelter https://t.co/HKBbyXRPVY"
X Link 2026-02-01T09:54Z 26.9K followers, 560.3K engagements
"Trump can be wild and unpredictable but at the same time he released his [--] point plan Agenda47 way before the election and has been doing those things he promised to do The problem for Republicans is that Trump is kind of wild and unpredictable and might do stupid stuff but the problem for democrats is that we know exactly what theyre going to do The problem for Republicans is that Trump is kind of wild and unpredictable and might do stupid stuff but the problem for democrats is that we know exactly what theyre going to do"
X Link 2026-02-02T04:49Z 26.9K followers, 39.6K engagements
"Miller is basically right but I'd like to add a few more things. A little primer on asylum: [--]. There are no asylum seekers on the Southern Border. Asylum is limited to individuals fleeing extremely narrow categories of state persecution (eg high-ranking Soviet defectors during the Cold War) none of the groups illegally crossing the A little primer on asylum: [--]. There are no asylum seekers on the Southern Border. Asylum is limited to individuals fleeing extremely narrow categories of state persecution (eg high-ranking Soviet defectors during the Cold War) none of the groups illegally crossing"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:51Z 26.9K followers, 64.1K engagements
"1/ Asylum is good in theory. Letting people who are persecuted or fleeing war stay in a safe country seems like the right thing to do. In practice the system is a trojan horse that allows tens of millions of people into the West"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:51Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"13/ To make matters worse our asylum laws are not designed for a highly connected world where travel and communication are cheap. Traffickers often guide people every step of the way getting them plane tickets from say Mauritania to Colombia thru the darien "
X Link 2026-02-02T05:51Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"It should be larger than Giza and built with the same marble used to build the Congress. It will cost billions of dollars and serve no real purpose but it would look cool. Its a good idea"
X Link 2026-02-03T04:45Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Has this ever been tested in court against one of the legal observers Sources are (1) Rapid Response guide (2) [--] USC [----] (3) US vs Rubio-Gonzalez (1981)"
X Link 2026-02-03T06:41Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I am a single-issue voter. Egg prices are down. I got what I voted for. I can finally feed my family again. Yeah your groceries might be expensive but we are building a new monumental arch in Washington so it balances out. https://t.co/gXJ3rI9iK5 Yeah your groceries might be expensive but we are building a new monumental arch in Washington so it balances out. https://t.co/gXJ3rI9iK5"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:45Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I have a nitpick. While a border wall is importantly it would not deter an open borders Administration that much. (1) the Biden Admin ordered border forces to literally REMOVE obstacles placed by the Texas National Guard and allow migrants through (2) The wall is not impenetrable. Traffickers often cut through the wall with simple tools. It does however slowly them down hopefully long enough for sensors and border agents to detect it and stop the crossing. A open borders administration could simply order those agents to do catch and release instead of turn back as they have done in the past."
X Link 2026-02-04T06:46Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Yookay is crazy because you get [--] months for mean tweets but get acquitted after being caught on video smashing up a factory and beating a cop with a sledgehammer"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:56Z 27K followers, 133.9K engagements
"Really good example of the dying plantation accent Seems like a good a day to re-up this South Carolina historical treasure from the former Senator from Clarendon about liquor the oil of conversation. https://t.co/FKNaQsDA3c Seems like a good a day to re-up this South Carolina historical treasure from the former Senator from Clarendon about liquor the oil of conversation. https://t.co/FKNaQsDA3c"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:12Z 26.9K followers, 10.8K engagements
"Its Reddit horny one of the strangest pathologizations of normal human sexuality outside the ridiculous concept of a so-called breeding fetish (ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚) is the idea that finding various parts of a beautiful womans body to be beautiful is some of kind of deviancy one of the strangest pathologizations of normal human sexuality outside the ridiculous concept of a so-called breeding fetish (ðŸ˜ðŸ˜‚) is the idea that finding various parts of a beautiful womans body to be beautiful is some of kind of deviancy"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:14Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Right cares about power the way a wine snob cares about alcohol The Left cares about power the way an alcoholic cares about alcohol democrats get 51% of the vote immediately change the rules to give themselves 91% of the state representatives forever immediately ban gun ownership immediately let govt employees buy houses with tax $ immediately reduce penalties for rape manslaughter distribution of CP democrats get 51% of the vote immediately change the rules to give themselves 91% of the state representatives forever immediately ban gun ownership immediately let govt employees buy houses"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:32Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Maybe but at the same time and this should have been obvious theres no simple fix because there are always guard dogs whether voters or politicians who viciously defends their government cheese The great DOGE discovery was that a very large part of US Federal spending is not simply waste but actually enemy resources. The great DOGE discovery was that a very large part of US Federal spending is not simply waste but actually enemy resources"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:06Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Heres the problem: the GOP could grow a pair and immediately slash welfare by hundreds of billions of dollars tomorrow and end the deficit or at least decrease it significantly. The result will be a landslide loss in the next election and the Dems will bring it all back"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:06Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"When Liberals say the Press is the Fourth Estate what they mean is that they should be insulated from market forces and be funded by your tax dollars Laid off normal people: "well this sucks" Laid off journos: "LO WRATH AND RUIN THOU HATH WROUGHT MURDER AGAINST THE VERY ANIMATING JUSTICE OF THE WORLD YEA A BLOODY RAPE DONE HEARTLESSLY TO OUR VIRGIN GUIDING LIGHT ACTING AT THE VERY HAND OF CRUELTY THOU WAR AGAINST TRUTH" Laid off normal people: "well this sucks" Laid off journos: "LO WRATH AND RUIN THOU HATH WROUGHT MURDER AGAINST THE VERY ANIMATING JUSTICE OF THE WORLD YEA A BLOODY RAPE DONE"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:12Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Please note there are 270m adult Americans and 136m married adults which means there are roughly [--] million married Biden voters in America vs [--] million married Trump voters. They tend to self sort so there are thousands of communities indeed with married Biden voters"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:47Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"TLDR author cited the following - collapse in quantity of low skilled middle income labor (factory jobs basically) - mass incarceration (harder to get work) - rising rates of disability claims (some of this is unemployed people going on disability some of this may actually be more disabled people) - weaker pressures on men to get work (since men no longer expected to be solo breadwinner) / less stigmatization of non work - less boredom for the unemployed I would also add: low quality men got outcompeted by higher quality women once employment markets equalized. Competent women used to be held"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:52Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Why is this It's wild that basic governance in America's second largest city has almost completely broken down in recent years yet there's no discussion at all about broader governance reforms or even a single serious challenger to the incumbent mayor. It's wild that basic governance in America's second largest city has almost completely broken down in recent years yet there's no discussion at all about broader governance reforms or even a single serious challenger to the incumbent mayor"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:34Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Whats wrong with doing regime change in Cuba Labeling Cuba as a national security threat is a lie used to justify economic war. The goal is to crush the Cuban people manufacture a humanitarian catastrophe and force regime change at any cost. It is unconscionable and cruel. We must stop it. Labeling Cuba as a national security threat is a lie used to justify economic war. The goal is to crush the Cuban people manufacture a humanitarian catastrophe and force regime change at any cost. It is unconscionable and cruel. We must stop it"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:48Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Correct action here is to put VA redistricting under federal control. We can call them VRA districts Virginia Democrats smile and laugh as Abigail Spanberger signs the redistricting referendum that would disenfranchise 48% of the commonwealth. https://t.co/QvROPA2Wta Virginia Democrats smile and laugh as Abigail Spanberger signs the redistricting referendum that would disenfranchise 48% of the commonwealth. https://t.co/QvROPA2Wta"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:00Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Welfare fraud in Minnesota is estimated to be between $1 billion and $9 billion Our local businesses are getting rocked by ICE right nowlosing an estimated $10$20 million every single week. Operation Metro Surge isnt helping our community. Its hurting our residents their livelihoods and the small businesses we all love. https://t.co/LkcqhtrZ6l Our local businesses are getting rocked by ICE right nowlosing an estimated $10$20 million every single week. Operation Metro Surge isnt helping our community. Its hurting our residents their livelihoods and the small businesses we all love."
X Link 2026-02-07T20:17Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Many years from now we are going to look back at the wholesale offshoring of American manufacturing to our number one geopolitical foe and think what the hell were they thinking China survived last year's US tariff onslaught but there's nothing brilliant or heroic about how it did that. It simply flooded the rest of the world with an endless stream of discounted goods. Chinese mercantilism just turned away from the US to others. https://t.co/MxLJSXZDUX https://t.co/QhCoywH52D China survived last year's US tariff onslaught but there's nothing brilliant or heroic about how it did that. It"
X Link 2026-02-08T00:49Z 26.9K followers, 11.5K engagements
"What is affirmative action for everyone If only they just stuck with affirmative action for everyone theres a decent case for saying hey we want our elite institutions to reflect the racial makeup of our nation. But no. Affirmative action was gotten rid of because they thought black people took their spots. If only they just stuck with affirmative action for everyone theres a decent case for saying hey we want our elite institutions to reflect the racial makeup of our nation. But no. Affirmative action was gotten rid of because they thought black people took their spots"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:37Z 26.9K followers, 15K engagements
"Imaging having to explain to an ESL speaker why people say Yeah no exactly means"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:16Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"To be honest were you lying before Im dead - and yet you are not Okay so literally were you not being literal Ill let you know - I will not"
X Link 2026-02-08T22:19Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"If Im reading the data right the number of White students blocked from the top [---] schools bc they dont do test only is about [-----] every single year 53% of the students at the top [---] colleges in America would not be there under SAT-only admissions. Under this policy elite student bodies would be slightly (60 = 63%) more affluent much whiter (66% = 75%) and much less black + LatinX (19% = 11%). https://t.co/HtRapba9MF 53% of the students at the top [---] colleges in America would not be there under SAT-only admissions. Under this policy elite student bodies would be slightly (60 = 63%) more"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:14Z 27K followers, 42.5K engagements
"This is a real phenomenon but its chiefly because there are way more fun things to do than there used to be. Opportunity cost has risen. Unfortunately there is no way for the Churches to fix this other than to be a spectacle like clown show. Sorry Church attendance has tanked over the past [--] years (though no one wants to admit it or talk about it). I think a big part of the reason for this is that people simply find church services boring (even the megachurch concert ones). But no one really wants to talk about that Church attendance has tanked over the past [--] years (though no one wants to"
X Link 2026-02-08T23:36Z 26.9K followers, [----] engagements
"For example before Netflix social media television video games etc what else were you doing on Sunday One had few options for entertainment. The Church served both as a place for worship and for socialization. You saw all your friends there"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:26Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"When Temporary Protected Status (TPS) was first debated in the U.S. House on 10/2/1990 as part of the Immigration Act of [----] it was only supposed to be for [-----] people and only for people already in our country. Check the Congressional record"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:09Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"As of [----] there are [---] million people on TPS and Joe Biden literally FLEW [------] into the U.S"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:09Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"@conor64 . theyre also rooting against team USA because of politics"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:55Z 26.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@EricLevitz @paulg You can help stop Trump from stealing the elections by calling your federal and state representatives and demanding they pass mandatory Voter ID and end vote-by-mail"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:12Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"@Joe__312 @EricLevitz @paulg Why should we make elections more secure if theyre gonna claim fraud anyways do you hear yourself"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:33Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"@Joe__312 @EricLevitz @paulg Not what I said at all. Dont put words in my mouth"
X Link 2026-02-09T18:46Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"@Vespa_Girl @EricLevitz @paulg Yea maybe Im generally fine with absentee ballots if requested (as opposed to mailing it out) but why shouldnt you have to come back You dont even live here LOL"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"@kaiser_kenny @kitten_beloved @TrueSlazac Lets say that true for a moment then it makes rational sense not to become one yes This isnt the own you think it is"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:48Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"This is a classic collective action problem. You are both better off if you do A (separate the political from the personal). You are both worse off if you do B (involve the personal with the political). However if one person (the Left) does B and the Right does A then the Right is MUCH worse off. Your options are: (1) convince them to re-separate the personal and political (2) do what they are doing. Unfortunately (1) seems unlikely New article today about the intrusion of ideological commitments into everyday life and the extinction of neutral spaces enjoy https://t.co/T8SWYXJW3W New article"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:56Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"FWIW moon bases will look more like massive subterranean ant farms than cities in domes SpaceX is now shifting their priorities into building a Moon Base - doing so in less than a decade. This proposal from the ISU involves converting a Starship into a lunar base Skylab-style. Starships 1000m [--] of pressurized volume would result in a copious base. https://t.co/IigRgME1K3 SpaceX is now shifting their priorities into building a Moon Base - doing so in less than a decade. This proposal from the ISU involves converting a Starship into a lunar base Skylab-style. Starships 1000m [--] of pressurized"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:24Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Crazy coincidence bc I was reading your paper school choice is not enough and had the exact same thought lmao I argue that Trump's failure to articulate a principled moral vision to counteract woke progressivism is hindering the right. Hard power without soft power does not provide a foundation for long-term success. 👇 https://t.co/azikxqRcWz I argue that Trump's failure to articulate a principled moral vision to counteract woke progressivism is hindering the right. Hard power without soft power does not provide a foundation for long-term success. 👇 https://t.co/azikxqRcWz"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:19Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Its the phones doesnt really work here because it started in [----] and the introduction of the iPhone in [----] and the saturation of society with iPhones in the following years doesnt appear to have altered the long term trend at all We're in the midst of a "Dating Recession": ✔ HS dating has fallen almost 50% since [----] ✔In [----] a "mere 46% of high school seniors reported ever going out on dates" https://t.co/ymMJRF1xJw We're in the midst of a "Dating Recession": ✔ HS dating has fallen almost 50% since [----] ✔In [----] a "mere 46% of high school seniors reported ever going out on dates""
X Link 2026-02-10T17:18Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"In the past it was about being close to everyone else since we didnt have motorized vehicles to commute or move goods efficiently. Cities were efficient. Notably they also killed not just fertility but a lot of people too. Cities were and maybe still are a utility monster that turned biomass into gold. But nowadays you dont need to live in the city to work or be close to production. Many people commute 30-60 minutes into offices. Most factories and warehouses are NOT in the urban core but on the periphery where land is cheap and they can easily put a warehouse right next to the highways So it"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:26Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"@2024dion Hiring is often nationwide now There is an efficiency aspect I suppose where if you put your office in the CBD it is in the center of the metro but many people have offices on the periphery and plus most people drive anyways"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:40Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"The Chud making the best art for the competition but being passed over really is the cherry on top Grok Imagine. https://t.co/iAituLxTtQ Grok Imagine. https://t.co/iAituLxTtQ"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:19Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"You dont even need to annihilate yourself per se. If you perfect virtual reality you could simply amuse yourself to death endlessly. No need to build Star Trek if you can simply play as a federation captain in a virtual reality indistinguishable from reality. You dont need to solve physics problems bc the problems are solved in game. Theres no need to build an intergalactic empire because you can build one in the metaverse or whatever and it feels like the real thing"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:09Z 27K followers, 20K engagements
"(1) if you already have cylinders why care about planets (2) even at the speed of light colonies would never be knitted together into civilization. They would forever be isolated colonies. Star systems could be potentially knitted together as one political unit but nothing interstellar https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021335295942328442 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021335295942328442"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:27Z 27K followers, 43.3K engagements
"Bc it means no intergalactic civilization no Star Trek and no Star Wars. Civilization is permanently confined to star systems. Yes it is true you can send civilization ships to nearby stars. But these polities will never be united as one because of transit time. Transit time from the old world to the new world was mere months not years and the closest star is four light years away This also assumes any civilization DESIRES to colonize the stars which seems unlikely if theyve already invented ASI and Nozicks experience machine which allows them to live that fantasy without living their planet."
X Link 2026-02-10T21:31Z 27K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Interstellar species will never be a united civilization. Transit time is too long. You COULD build a generation ship and send off to planets but it will be slow and you might never know if they got there and how it worked. Getting any message takes four years Also why colonize planets if you can build massive space habitats https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021336745485250720 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021336745485250720"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:33Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"@ScumRoman @AlexanderPayton There are a ton of resources right here in a solar system is it profitable to go to another to get them when they are right here"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:35Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"@is_OwenLewis @ScumRoman @AlexanderPayton Okay but we either did not have the stuff the new world and Asia had or it was so valuable it was worth it. that was like the entire point of going there. The voyages werent for vibes they wanted gold silver and spices"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"@is_OwenLewis They went there for profit I mean sure there was some honor and bragging rights involved but Columbus was financed to find an alternative route to Asia you to for money"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:42Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"If the singularity ever comes to pass there would be no need to take a vacation to Alpha Centauri and there also wouldnt be cousins. that frantic distortion you're feeling is the spaghettification of civilization as it approaches the event horizon of the singularity. once we're inside it everything slows down. no need to rush. waiting a few thousand years for your cousin to get home from vacation is nothing that frantic distortion you're feeling is the spaghettification of civilization as it approaches the event horizon of the singularity. once we're inside it everything slows down. no need"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:02Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"The professional managerial class is actually undertaxed in America and further their income tax rates have fallen in the last [--] years while real wages for them have gone way up (while blue collar wages have stagnated) W-2 white collar tax revolt is brewing and every bullshit boomer tax break or special income carve out for waiters is training people to be more anti tax. No one is going to vote for the eat your vegetables campaign but we need to not actually give voters candy W-2 white collar tax revolt is brewing and every bullshit boomer tax break or special income carve out for waiters is"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:37Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"I understand where the stress comes from bc this class isnt poor enough to have everyone paid for and they arent rich enough to not care. Theyre middle to upper middle class which means a big tax bill eats up a meaningful part of their income income that would actually"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:37Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"@oaktreerespectr There is no need you are going to be hooked up to the experience machine until you blissfully expire and you will be happy"
X Link 2026-02-11T00:43Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"Not true whatsoever The reason DOGE failed is because the vast majority of spending in the U.S. goes towards legitimate welfare purposes as defined by law and there is no incentive at all for any politician to ever cut that. Even if they GOP did cut welfare spending massively they would promptly be kicked out of office in the next election and Dems would bring it all back"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:47Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"if people ages 18-44 turned out as hard as boomers (74% of whom vote) that would add [--] million votes"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"I a similar vein species and organisms that dont care about reproduction will always be outcompeted and replaced by species that care a whole lot about reproduction. Thats how natural selection works"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:17Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Finding out whether we are alone doesnt pay the bills. Colonization and exploration didnt just happen for glory but largely because it was funded with the goal of profit. Explorers went around Africa and sailed to America trying to find a new way to the far east. The Romans conquered new lands because it funded their war efforts and gave them slaves. The only other option besides profit is usually religious in nature like missionaries or those fleeing religious persecution Any interstellar vehicle is going to cost trillions of dollars. You need some way to finance that."
X Link 2026-02-11T19:37Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"I went to the champion of coal event and they gave you the top award"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:37Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"On Takeselling Most of what goes on around here is what is called takeselling which is just a neologism for commentary. Its very low effort and the only way to get attention is to exaggerate how bad something is which can take the form of rage baiting or fearmongering. People do it because there is a high ROI. Other people provide the most of the content and instead youre just reacting to it. Youre not really in control because whoever controls the outrage of the day technically controls you. React content isnt just extremely popular on X but also on YouTube where influencers post another 30"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:12Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"One possibility is that once civilization develops the speed at which it approaches the singularity is so quick that the probability of encountering any one civilization pre-singularity is quite low. If we assume the singularity is an extinction event then your window for finding advanced civilizations is very very small. Even if the singularity is not an extinction event my guess is that whatever civilization exists no longer cares that much about space travel. Now its true I did say that in the long run that natural selection should select for civilizations that expand because they would"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:14Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"If you can already build enormous space habitats why bother with colonizing planets at all Getting out of gravity wells is super expensive"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Btw I am not critical of space I think we should spend way more money on this and Ive said this before. The xeet is about how FTL makes space travel much harder"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Warp drives and FTL travel is a magic trick used in sci fi to make space conflicts work on a human timescale"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:19Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @0xAlaric: http://x.com/i/article/2021354417325215745 http://x.com/i/article/2021354417325215745"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:51Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @BecomingCritter: He who fears the cortisol spike believes he maintains power through stoic refusal but sniff this is precisely his ca"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:07Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @memeticsisyphus: Im reading about the lend lease agreements between the U.S. and Soviets. We of course tanks war planes and small an"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @Athens_Stranger: More books is only the road to superficiality Chosen wisely 10-12 books are more than enough for an entire lifetime"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:54Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"The Dark Knight is an extremely right wing movie First of all the protagonist is a billionaire nepo baby who dress up at night to punch criminals. Second became Batman because his parents were killed by a criminal. They were mugged by reality. Sound familiar Third he works outside the system. A lone wolf. He did it almost all on his own. He has friends but no institutions on his side. Hes a vigilante. He believes he alone can save his city. Now its true that at one point he tries to build a legitimate system with Gordon and Harvey but the Joker wins. What does he do He has to create a noble"
X Link 2026-02-12T01:12Z 27K followers, 22.1K engagements
"RT @Tyler_A_Harper: I interviewed [--] senior admins and profs for this story. They painted a similar picture: under Alexander Mellon became"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:07Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"I had a premonition"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:31Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again if two lie together then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone And if one prevail against him two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. Ecc 4:9-12 People who dont organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do. People who dont organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:36Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"RT @BrandonWarmke: I doubt any amount of evidence will change minds but Mellon's hundreds of millions for explicitly progressive activism"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:54Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"I imagine if automated farming ever really takes off that the heartland will be completely depopulated. Vast corporate farms will populate the country staffed by a few contractors living in a dorm on-site. The rural town will die"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:59Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Now Im not against high density sprawl but I think it has its place and youll never convince suburban dwellers to support it. Instead high density should be pushed in the urban core usually 1-3 miles from the city center depending on how big the city is"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"@Komodoom Yea pretty much"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:32Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"Finally while this isnt part of Residual Inflation Theory housing costs both rent and prices have outran real wages and thats a big part of peoples budget AND something paid monthly"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:45Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Will Stancil is a funny guy but dont ever forget hes extremely bloodthirsty The Jacobins are at the gates. https://t.co/sjlm98ocuo The Jacobins are at the gates. https://t.co/sjlm98ocuo"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"The difference between Trump [----] videos and Trump [----] videos is really stark https://t.co/QKxpgm0lug https://t.co/QKxpgm0lug"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:45Z 27K followers, 214.7K engagements
"The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible. You are forever confined to something like the Expanse the speed of light is a hard limit and any sci-fi future that involves FTL travel or even communication is simply off the table for our species. the speed of light is a hard limit and any sci-fi future that involves FTL travel or even communication is simply off the table for our species"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:36Z 27K followers, 817.7K engagements
"Most people genuinely do not remember this but Reddit moderation used to be extremely barebones. They only banned what was explicitly forbidden by law. Heavy-handed internet moderation was a reaction to [----] and the rise of Trump This makes you look at Substack in a new way given that the CEO Chris Best can't even be clear about what speech is allowed on their platform. #DemsUnited https://t.co/u13FNRhbqb This makes you look at Substack in a new way given that the CEO Chris Best can't even be clear about what speech is allowed on their platform. #DemsUnited https://t.co/u13FNRhbqb"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:10Z 27K followers, 36.4K engagements
"Wow that's crazy there are a bunch of abandoned houses in West Virginia and the Mississippi Delta. I guess America doesn't have a housing shortage after all There are [----] million vacant homes across the U.S. Do we really have a housing shortage https://t.co/NIb8GYGlWN There are [----] million vacant homes across the U.S. Do we really have a housing shortage https://t.co/NIb8GYGlWN"
X Link 2026-02-13T19:40Z 27K followers, 13.1K engagements
"If your goal is purely influence then writing books is not the way to go. Something like 40% of Americans read zero books last year and 2/3rds read less than 5"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:59Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Nuclear energy didnt die off naturally. It was killed strangled to death by governments The nuclear electricity learning curve is so sad (three rows from bottom second column). https://t.co/GeDaFDFbd4 The nuclear electricity learning curve is so sad (three rows from bottom second column). https://t.co/GeDaFDFbd4"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:11Z 27K followers, 45.9K engagements
"@growing_daniel Brevity is the soul of wit fr fr 🙂"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:38Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"The readers did not misinterpret Paul. Frank Herbert misinterpreted the character he wrote. https://t.co/vnOAHrLzXT https://t.co/vnOAHrLzXT"
X Link 2025-05-15T06:22Z 27K followers, 1.7M engagements
"A few notes on RW art - the art should be good by itself. That it is right wing or pushes a right wing message should be secondary. - stories told in novels movies and TV should be genuinely interesting and compelling. The right wing theme should be secondary - show dont tell. Let the viewer put [--] and [--] together. Messages should be implicit or subliminal and not explicit. Avoid moral grandstanding - slop is an assault on the senses and a crime against humanity. You should take pride in QUALITY. At the very least people should say I didnt agree with the message but it was very well made - the"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:04Z 27K followers, 25K engagements
"This obviously the correct fiscal move but for obvious reasons you cannot say this ever GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke says he wants to cut Social Security and affordable health care to "fix" the budget. https://t.co/5i9Aeh5pd2 GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke says he wants to cut Social Security and affordable health care to "fix" the budget. https://t.co/5i9Aeh5pd2"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:45Z 27K followers, 126K engagements
"@Devon_Eriksen_ Do not cite the deep magic to me"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:53Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"The International World Order is dead Its what you voted for sir https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:28Z 27K followers, 50.3K engagements
"im not falling for this stale millennial propaganda "dating to marry" dude you're [--] relax "dating to marry" dude you're [--] relax"
X Link 2025-08-05T07:25Z 27K followers, 508.2K engagements
"Practical woman: will run your homestead like its the Navy. Dependably & loyal. Mother of nations. Sensible woman: Adept at social maneuvering. Will know everyones business. A good ally for high society. Sensitive woman: will wreck your life but unforgettable"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:23Z 27K followers, 254.1K engagements
"The government literally banned Joe Camel bc he was too cool. Not a joke The 90s had the coolest advertising characters https://t.co/nrl7fj6QUQ The 90s had the coolest advertising characters https://t.co/nrl7fj6QUQ"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:47Z 27K followers, 1.4M engagements
"Mens scalps when they reach age 25"
X Link 2026-02-07T19:48Z 27K followers, 77.4K engagements
"It was not part of his blood It came to him very late With long arrears to make good When Stancil began to hate. https://t.co/HvmSCRiTxe https://t.co/HvmSCRiTxe"
X Link 2026-02-11T03:24Z 27K followers, 58.8K engagements
"A lot of people have suggested you can colonize the galaxy in a few hundred thousand or million years with sub-light speed and I was going to counter with why would they do that but thats not how it works. Any species that has a maximally-expansive mindset will simply dominate the ones that dont on a long enough time frame The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and therefore interstellar civilization is also impossible. You are forever confined to something like the Expanse The most depressing solution to the Fermi Paradox is that FTL is impossible and"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:17Z 27K followers, 39.7K engagements
"@growing_daniel Bill Maher begged me to have dinner with him at the White House. While there he was acting very nervous immediately asked for a vodka tonic for anxiety. Was very respectful to me. Now he goes home and talks bad about me behind my back. Many such cases"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:36Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Theres no such thing as the universal brotherhood of man. There are only nations There are no such thing as nations only communities There is no such thing as communities only families. There is no such thing as families only people https://t.co/TwTdAn9UE1 https://t.co/TwTdAn9UE1"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:30Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Women dont make faces like this anymore to the camera they just stare with a blank expression SSRI eyes 🧵hayley williams grr face (a thread) https://t.co/vVRGhJsxyp 🧵hayley williams grr face (a thread) https://t.co/vVRGhJsxyp"
X Link 2025-01-24T22:18Z 27K followers, 9.7M engagements
"Millennials use lol like STOP at the end of a telegram lol"
X Link 2025-06-04T16:06Z 27K followers, 4M engagements
"Best books to carry around and pretend to read at coffee shops for a man just getting into performative masculinity"
X Link 2025-09-20T22:56Z 27K followers, 5.2M engagements
"You sure @MikeJazzpenis @primediscussion "their party holds" Nobody in the part holds these views. The people who say this shit hate Dems almost as much as they hate you. @MikeJazzpenis @primediscussion "their party holds" Nobody in the part holds these views. The people who say this shit hate Dems almost as much as they hate you"
X Link 2026-02-05T10:45Z 27K followers, 47.5K engagements
"Too early to tell tbh. If your enemies feel like they won they probably won. What backing down in the Battle of Minneapolis did: teach communists that - theyre still the winning team - these tactics work - Trump always chickens out But on the other hand Juan has to swim the Rio Grande again If your enemies feel like they won they probably won. What backing down in the Battle of Minneapolis did: teach communists that - theyre still the winning team - these tactics work - Trump always chickens out But on the other hand Juan has to swim the Rio Grande again"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:41Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Good book on this btw Working-age men are as likely to be without a job today as at the end of the Great Depression. https://t.co/L8Q9eRvTCc Working-age men are as likely to be without a job today as at the end of the Great Depression. https://t.co/L8Q9eRvTCc"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:47Z 27K followers, 19.5K engagements
"These posts are cringe and government accounts shouldnt post them. Leave memes to the shitposters Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing. https://t.co/MQsBDf8kaQ Low cortisol. Locked in. Lethalitymaxxing. https://t.co/MQsBDf8kaQ"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:22Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Very important posts for accelerationists to see South Africa [----] vs. Today. This is what decolonization looks like. This is what they wanted. Back to the Stone Age. https://t.co/FPdvYWtUJU South Africa [----] vs. Today. This is what decolonization looks like. This is what they wanted. Back to the Stone Age. https://t.co/FPdvYWtUJU"
X Link 2026-02-07T23:42Z 27K followers, 75K engagements
"@MartinSkold2 The English and the Scots-Irish are the most right wing White ethnic groups in America. LDS Southern Baptist and nondenominational evangelical are also the most conservative religious sects by [----] voting patterns which make sense because the English cluster there"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:15Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"You are the problem. The whole Continent of North-America appears to me destined by Divine Providence to be people by one Nationspeaking one languageprofessing one general System of religious and political principles and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customsFor the Common happiness of them all for their Peace and Prosperity - John Quincy Adams With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors speaking the same language professing the same"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:10Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Only in America can you find a kid wearing $150 tennis shoes drinking a $5 cup of coffee typing on his $1000 cell phone and complaining on social media that he is oppressed and that capitalism has failed him. Only in America can you find a kid wearing $150 tennis shoes drinking a $5 cup of coffee typing on his $1000 cell phone and complaining on social media that he is oppressed and that capitalism has failed him"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:25Z 27K followers, 229.7K engagements
"Which btw had its own magic tech in the series there is a rocket engine that is very very efficient so they can fly point to point sort of and greatly reduce transit time"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:36Z 27K followers, 49.2K engagements
"minitrue reports doubleplusungood comrade framemogged by ASU boyclub top boy while jestermaxxing"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:00Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"In the expanse they solve this problem with portals in space "Space travel critical" Twitter is genuinely one of the most retarded groups on this whole site. You literally don't need FTL travel to colonize other star systems. Hell he brings up the Expanse and a major plot point in the first two seasons is a Mormon funded expedition to https://t.co/gvgM41dfld "Space travel critical" Twitter is genuinely one of the most retarded groups on this whole site. You literally don't need FTL travel to colonize other star systems. Hell he brings up the Expanse and a major plot point in the first two"
X Link 2026-02-11T23:18Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @Tyler_A_Harper: Ive spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a"
X Link 2026-02-12T15:43Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"The difference is stark but the Ivy League being woke is nothing new. Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale in [--] and was there from [----] to [----]. Yale isnt Harvard but its probably a good guess to say Harvard was similar at that time The Harvard History department's undergraduate course list in 1949-50 (top images). Compare with every course offered by the Harvard History department in Spring [----] (bottom images). https://t.co/tPBSVeQfky The Harvard History department's undergraduate course list in 1949-50 (top images). Compare with every course offered by the Harvard History department in"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:15Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"The good: deportations have gone up 4.6x The bad: deportations are far below the Administration's [-------] per year target. (This paper estimates 300000) Make of that what you will"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:15Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Doesn't this paragraph imply that our interior enforcement policy was essentially non-enforcement for illegal immigrants who had not committed a crime and even then there was room to increase the number of criminal illegals deported"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:19Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Street arrests went up 10x. That's new"
X Link 2026-02-13T00:21Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"My go to for normal sounding names is British royal family and the Bible (England) names - the royal family uses them a lot like Charles William Louis Edward Archie Henry George Albert Arthur Bible - John Luke Mark Matthew Paul Peter Simon Philip Thaddeus James Thomas Andrew Abraham Adam Abner (Abe) David Joshua Jacob Elijah (Eli) Daniel Benjamin Isaac Caleb Aaron Isaiah Jonah Joseph Jonathan Levi Noah Zach As a boy mom let me inform you of the full catalog of available boy names: Kings: George Louis Charles Popes: John Peter Francis Biblical: Noah Elijah David God complex: Jesus Messiah"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:21Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Interesting a lot of non-Biblical non-royal 20th century American names sound VERY dated Donald Ronald Norman Stanley(Stan) Ralph Clifford(Cliff) Gerald (Gerry) Raymond Walter Roger Earl Dwight Bernard (Bernie) Edwin (Ed/Eddy) Eugene (gene) Wayne Kenneth (Ken)"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:23Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"That is the Center for Immigration Studies numbers based on the current population survey (CPS) which some people have claimed is inaccurate The Fed data I think is just extrapolation from the Jan-July [----] numbers. I think the NYTimes and deportation data project data is from FOIAs The real answer is we dont know for sure which is disappointing to say the least https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022131790714904708 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022131790714904708"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:12Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"For a while this seemed to be playing out. New Atheism exploded in the 2000s and the Arab Spring was in large part fueled by social media. Further the country was moving leftward on social issues like gay marriage and LGBT acceptance"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:27Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"They thought the Internet would usher in the end of history. Liberalism would spread worldwide and everyone would embrace it. No one has any reason to believe otherwise"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:27Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"The watchword was never again. Never again must we allow those people to threaten the intentional liberal order. The jury is still out on whether it worked. Musk buying Twitter surely changed things but people were really mad about inflation anyways. Only time will tell"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:28Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Its true that in the movie he falls but its all true that he is genuinely trying to do the right thing. Hes not a monster. He only becomes ones after a psychotic terrorist kills his fiance and blows half his face off. The traditional trope is that authority is good and honest and its only with modern media that authority is shown to be corrupt untruthful and bad. In the Dark Knight most of the higher up authority figures are shown to be good: Batman Dent Gordon. There are some bad cops who betray Harvey so there is that. I dont think you need to follow a trope 100% to lean into it. One"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:36Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"If the humanities have been so broke for [--] years it begs the question why the Right never tried to do this either The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the countrys preeminent funder of humanities research @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and lettersor killing them https://t.co/ZYwnOT1B3Q The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the countrys preeminent funder of humanities research @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and lettersor killing them https://t.co/ZYwnOT1B3Q"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"One possibility is that right wing interest groups more often that not reflect the economic concerns of their patrons namely laissez faire economics instead of culture"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"A right wing billionaire would feel just fine giving money to an economics department to teach more Hayek and Mises. He would have reservations about donating to some humanities department to sponsor grants for researchers for cultural things"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"This is because I think the fundamental difference between left wing elites and right wing elites with a few exceptions is that the former seeks to spread its ideology like a religion while the former is fundamentally about generating ROI for business owners"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"This theory is not 100% true because there are some notable right wing interest groups that focus on culture. The most successful two are the guns rights movements and pro life movements. Why they won I cant say for sure but part of it was that they had very simple demands"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Reverse roe and protect gun rights are very easy to right for a measure. The Right still does not know exactly what their worldview is. Its a loose connection of classical liberalism Christianity now economic populism under Trump and some other more fringe elements"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"DEI is so powerful in part because it rewards friends and penalized enemies. Actual equality and fairness does not. DEI allows the Left to install friendlier across all organizations at every level. The Right does not have such an ideology"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"MAGA often used very naked loyalty to Trump tests for appointed government positions and the party itself but this doesnt translate well to anything else nor is it sustainable after Trump leaves office"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:58Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Btw this is a massive failure of Conquests Second Law. Many of these orgs were explicitly free speech in the beginning but overtime stopped doing that. Maybe they didnt do enough idk. The problem is that institutional values are ultimately enforced by people so if you hire people who disagree they will eventually overthrow you and change the institutions values"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:11Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Isn't the first part of your book the Bell Curve about how this is increasingly no longer true (as of 1994) No. Smart working class kids are drastically under identified. There was a major article on this a few years ago but I don't the cite at my fingertips. No. Smart working class kids are drastically under identified. There was a major article on this a few years ago but I don't the cite at my fingertips"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:33Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"(1) Town Centers - demolish large strip malls and commercial districts that sit at the confluence of massive 6-8 lane stroads. Replace them with town centers that are quant walkable commercial districts with mid-rise mixed used housing no more than a few stories tall"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"All the buildings should be right up on the sidewalk. If there is parking it should be at the back. The town center should be nice with street trees good sidewalks benches and the occasional park"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"The town center will be the place where everyone shops eats drinks and has fun. Steps should be taken to try to fit mini big box stores if you really want them"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"There should be lots of diners coffee shops and bars with outdoor seating. There should be some apartments that go right above the shops maybe 2-4 stories max"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"The 5-10 min walkshed around the town center should be gently upzoned to allow for missing middle housing. So mid rise courtyard blocks 4- and 6-plexes and townhomes. The vast majority of the suburb remains detached SFH"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"(3) Mandate that all new suburban developers have cross streets to neighboring developments. You dont need a grid but it shouldnt be cul-de-sacs all feeding into major roads"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"(4) Mandate sidewalks. Build out urban trails that allow people to cut through suburbs and get to the town center. They should be able to walk or bike to the bar district and go home without driving. This is easier to do with suburbs that havent been built that those that have already been built https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406241041969468 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406241041969468"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"(5) Bike lanes are good but should be placed strategically along major commute routes to the town center. You dont need a protected bike lane on the side streets but its nice to have one in both directions on the major [--] lane road that goes through the town center"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"The reason I think this plan is good is because it improves the burbs without turning them into something theyre not - a high density urban district. They follow the Village model rather than endless high density sprawl"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:23Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"Some basic metrics to measure if this development is good - people should be able to walk or bike to local stores bars and restaurants - kids should be able to walk to school - the city center and lively and full of people - you rarely if ever have to cross massive car sewers to get there https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406620563804182 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022406620563804182"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:24Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"If Residual Inflation theory is true we should expect anger about high prices to decline the longer inflation has been normal. In other words the father we get from the 2022-23 inflation crisis"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:45Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"I could ask an LLM to do it but Id be unsure of the accuracy"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:02Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"For aggravated assault (AA) Im getting an insanely strange number. For example the AA rate per [------] in [----] was [-----] while in [----] [---]. That seems way too extreme imo. Thats 15.8x. From my recollection violent crime went up 7-8x between the 1950s to 1990s which was peak crime and our rates should be much lower now then [----] so this doesnt pass the smell test Big if true tho https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022764504627421257 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022764504627421257"
X Link 2026-02-14T20:06Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"What are some books that one-shot people into terrible beliefs and change their entire worldview but in a bad way Fun question from @Sam__Enright: Whats the anti-reading list in your field of expertise https://t.co/vawry5SLok Fun question from @Sam__Enright: Whats the anti-reading list in your field of expertise https://t.co/vawry5SLok"
X Link 2025-02-22T16:26Z 27K followers, 5.8M engagements
"Rightists want to tell you that your friends and neighbors are "replacing" you. They want you to turn against your friends and neighbors to make you afraid of them to provoke you into trying to drive them out of the country. It's sickening. Rightists want to tell you that your friends and neighbors are "replacing" you. They want you to turn against your friends and neighbors to make you afraid of them to provoke you into trying to drive them out of the country. It's sickening"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:06Z 27K followers, 49.5K engagements
"More elite human capital governance. Garry Tan trembles before the power of the San Francisco voter The real story of this graph is that San Francisco's rate of housebuilding has been falling since [----] and is now lower than it's been since [----] despite years of breathless enthusiasm for "YIMBY" bills that have so far done nothing https://t.co/17rdLclEe2 The real story of this graph is that San Francisco's rate of housebuilding has been falling since [----] and is now lower than it's been since [----] despite years of breathless enthusiasm for "YIMBY" bills that have so far done nothing"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:42Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Men yearn to sit in a big chair and monitor a control panel with lots of screens knobs dials and buttons while monitoring the situation The future were promised but never got https://t.co/xmOJ5VY3NQ The future were promised but never got https://t.co/xmOJ5VY3NQ"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:34Z 27K followers, 484.2K engagements
"Best books to carry around and pretend to read at coffee shops for a man just getting into performative masculinity Best books to carry around and pretend to read at coffee shops for a man just getting into performative masculinity"
X Link 2025-09-21T03:25Z 27K followers, 5M engagements
"Esau selling his birthright for a bowl of soup I absolutely love people from SF turning tweets about sandwiches and burritos into think pieces about how amazing their city is. https://t.co/CCbYougSfE I absolutely love people from SF turning tweets about sandwiches and burritos into think pieces about how amazing their city is. https://t.co/CCbYougSfE"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:02Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"Highly recommend this btw. how it feels as an adult to revisit the classic books and poems you were taught in class now with fresh eyes and life experience: https://t.co/OE550j6wgE how it feels as an adult to revisit the classic books and poems you were taught in class now with fresh eyes and life experience: https://t.co/OE550j6wgE"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:48Z 27K followers, 484.8K engagements
"Btw it was about this time that the liberal world switched from the Internet is a force for democracy and liberalization to the Internet is a force for (right wing) radicalization and we need to stop it Most people genuinely do not remember this but Reddit moderation used to be extremely barebones. They only banned what was explicitly forbidden by law. Heavy-handed internet moderation was a reaction to [----] and the rise of Trump Most people genuinely do not remember this but Reddit moderation used to be extremely barebones. They only banned what was explicitly forbidden by law. Heavy-handed"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:27Z 27K followers, 14.8K engagements
"The History of the Internet is a Sisyphean effort to recreate the forum community just prior to Eternal September. Substack Notes is what Twitter used to be. It's like [--] standard deviations of IQ higher and all the gang are there. Substack Notes is what Twitter used to be. It's like [--] standard deviations of IQ higher and all the gang are there"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:15Z 27K followers, 42.9K engagements
"The average homicide rate in the 1950s was [----]. The all time low in [----] was [---]. The estimated [----] homicide rate is [---]. The homicide rate today is not dramatically lower than it was in the 1950s This is such a funny example to use because the homicide rate was objectively dramatically lower in the 1950s than it is today This is such a funny example to use because the homicide rate was objectively dramatically lower in the 1950s than it is today"
X Link 2026-02-14T19:36Z 27K followers, [----] engagements
"The top selling artists of the 1950s were Elvis Presley Miles Davis Johnny Matthias and Frank Sinatra. [--] of them were Christmas Albums average white person over in the 1950s exclusively listened to showtunes and music whose only lyrics were a Cuban bandleader occasionally shouting things. Bad Bunny is the much more the successor to that than country singers who rap about the mall. average white person over in the 1950s exclusively listened to showtunes and music whose only lyrics were a Cuban bandleader occasionally shouting things. Bad Bunny is the much more the successor to that than"
X Link 2026-02-15T01:47Z 27K followers, 10.7K engagements
"RT @bronzeagemantis: Is odd fact that Bill father Irving Kristol spoke and acted like Trump as did my friend Don Kagan I think thats a Bro"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:11Z 27K followers, [--] engagements
"Is odd fact that Bill father Irving Kristol spoke and acted like Trump as did my friend Don Kagan I think thats a Bronx thing Anyway Bill Kristol doesnt act like his father but has very studied WASP affect. Just odd observation RE this Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:45Z 208K followers, 29.6K engagements
"Elon Musk a pro-apartheid South African came here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture (whatever that is). My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom tolerance equal rights and opportunity. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a multicultural economic zone American culture with its English-Scotts-Irish origin is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it but thats why people come here. For a country to survive there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:04Z 1M followers, 102.5K engagements
"Obesity is one of if not the leading cause of chronic disease in America Everytime you get sick from an infectious disease for the next [--] years please remember that this admin canceled multiple promising vaccine developments to give you this idiot slop instead Everytime you get sick from an infectious disease for the next [--] years please remember that this admin canceled multiple promising vaccine developments to give you this idiot slop instead"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:44Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Everytime you get sick from an infectious disease for the next [--] years please remember that this admin canceled multiple promising vaccine developments to give you this idiot slop instead Processed food kills. EAT REAL FOOD. https://t.co/v1Zy3Cjmyw Processed food kills. EAT REAL FOOD. https://t.co/v1Zy3Cjmyw"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:54Z 19.4K followers, 83.2K engagements
"Idk if its surpassed smoking at this point since way fewer people are smoking nowadays"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:45Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"If Turkeys young women continue to culturally leapfrog but men remain more conservative then this will have major implications for coupling and fertility cc @timurkuran https://www.ggd.world/p/cultural-leapfrogging-turkish-style https://www.ggd.world/p/cultural-leapfrogging-turkish-style"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:27Z 59.9K followers, 139.4K engagements
"I just think it looks ugly 🤷♂"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:12Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"my theory is that a reason these men dont like tattoos on women is because its an outward sign of creative agency and self-ownership - it signals that the womans body is hers and no one elses - it aesthetically undermines and rejects mens felt entitlement to our bodies 🖤 Give a girl unrestrained freedom & watch her become the worst version of herself https://t.co/V4JQb7PLwE Give a girl unrestrained freedom & watch her become the worst version of herself https://t.co/V4JQb7PLwE"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:33Z 34.3K followers, 1.4M engagements
"The Obama Admin started doing family detention in June [----] and that stayed in effect until Feb [--] [----] when it was enjoined by a court. Even so family detentions continued to climb after that until declining until July [----] Hillary Clinton: More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term. https://t.co/SvziKGr8cx Hillary Clinton: More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:07Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Hillary Clinton: More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term"
X Link 2026-02-14T21:42Z 705.3K followers, 1.9M engagements
"Im not so sure. Consider who has the most loans and who doesnt and who is on the margins such that loan forgiveness would cause them to shift their vote If Trumps plan was to make student loans dischargeable and stick the university with the bill he would never lose another election If Trumps plan was to make student loans dischargeable and stick the university with the bill he would never lose another election"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:56Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"If Trumps plan was to make student loans dischargeable and stick the university with the bill he would never lose another election No the entire point of making student loans dischargeable is so that lenders will not issue irresponsible loans in the first place which requires the conjunctive step of removing their federal backing. This is why the right loses btw. We refuse to think further than two No the entire point of making student loans dischargeable is so that lenders will not issue irresponsible loans in the first place which requires the conjunctive step of removing their federal"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:46Z 84.1K followers, 39.3K engagements
"Colleges might also do a mixture of loans and scholarships. They too would look at ROI. Youd expect to see a growth in high ROI majors and a decline in low ROI majors"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:02Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
"Because the number of students for low ROI majors would decline significantly if they had other benefits (activism) youd expect left wing NGOs to start paying for them with strings attached (ie Mellon among others)"
X Link 2026-02-15T17:03Z 27K followers, [---] engagements
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