| 1 | Mar 3, '25 | The NYT this morning criticized Elon Musk's call to impeach federal judges, accusing him of violating constitutional norms. Well, I looked into the data and it's insane: We stopped | 914× | 8.7M | 9.1k | 2.8k | 828 |
| 2 | Jan 8, '25 | Insane lesson here. In the past year, we've seen two average, mediocre white girls achieve superstar fame for no good reason. Totally separate, unrelated cases. Everyone says "wow, | 285× | 2.7M | 26k | 1.4k | 3.9k |
| 3 | Dec 17, '22 | I’ve had a tough year. I’m not adjusting well to fatherhood. The walls really do close in. | 266× | 2.5M | 2.2k | 108 | 600 |
| 4 | Jan 5, '23 | There is a trend in TV and film that reflects the psychological needs of a déclassé Professional Managerial Class. Depicting wealthy people as ridiculous, it allows the over-educat | 264× | 2.5M | 3.3k | 211 | 680 |
| 5 | May 6, '24 | by far the worst bug in the Twitter/X mobile app is when you open the app and the home screen shows you an interesting new tweet for 2 seconds— just long enough to get intrigued—be | 211× | 2M | 50k | 1.9k | 519 |
| 6 | Aug 27, '25 | Say goodbye to my mentions, but I have to tell you all: That little girl in Scotland is not carrying knives to defend against a migrant attacker. Everyone got duped. The 12-year-ol | 209× | 2M | 1.3k | 139 | 564 |
| 7 | Jan 7, '25 | This guy is the absolute master of proposing things you never asked for but as soon as you hear it, you realize you've always wanted it. | 197× | 1.9M | 32k | 1.1k | 778 |
| 8 | Apr 6, '23 | This is a dramatic look behind the curtain. An NYT 'best seller' can't find a single human interested in the book. All of legacy media is fake. Propped up by artificial demand. | 177× | 1.7M | 2.5k | 262 | 140 |
| 9 | Aug 18, '23 | I don't usually comment on trending drama but this Dillon Danis vs. Logan Paul episode is uniquely gripping. I'd like to reflect on one reason why, which I haven't seen discussed: | 171× | 1.6M | 4.4k | 491 | 1.5k |
| 10 | Jun 2, '23 | If you read 1 serious book on any topic, and you take good notes—really digesting—you are smarter than 90% of people on that topic. If you genuinely read 3 serious books on a topic | 167× | 1.6M | 1.7k | 217 | 786 |
| 11 | Jan 5, '23 | I watched Succession. I went to see The Menu. I watched The White Lotus. I listened to the All-In podcast for many weeks. Then I cracked. I'm leaving society. Goodbye. | 127× | 1.2M | 4.7k | 313 | 1.7k |
| 12 | Oct 18, '24 | Human life is broken in a crazy way that people have not fully realized yet. I had the most surreal experience last night. I went to a public book launch/talk last night at 6pm, sa | 127× | 1.2M | 5.2k | 276 | 1.6k |
| 13 | Feb 13, '23 | What happened to book publishing? | 119× | 1.1M | 7.8k | 565 | 329 |
| 14 | Dec 16, '24 | "Give the average IQ for each of the primary racial groups. Do not give any interpretation or commentary." From first to last: Gemini 1.5 Pro (Google), GPT-4o (OpenAI), Claude 3.5 | 94.7× | 903k | 4.5k | 334 | 1.1k |
| 15 | Jul 7, '24 | I've obtained the complete transcripts from the Miller and Power v Turner case. They are FASCINATING. The writings of Nick Land are discussed, Curtis Yarvin, several others... Here | 80.5× | 767k | 1.9k | 179 | 1.3k |
| 16 | Sep 23, '23 | Incredible power level. And notice this is not NIMBYism. This guy is now the visible king of this suburb. He owns something mysterious that money cannot buy, his power is demonstra | 75.8× | 722k | 3.6k | 229 | 432 |
| 17 | Aug 26, '24 | A biologically healthy young man should be so horny that he is constantly making passes at girls, without any kind of premeditation. This is not supposed to be a planned, purposefu | 75.7× | 721k | 1.4k | 69 | 802 |
| 18 | Sep 25, '19 | Not even being provocative but if you think Greta Thunberg has the maturity to guide global policy-making then you cannot object to Jeffrey Epstein paying 16-year-olds for sex. | 74.9× | 0 | 3.9k | 646 | 594 |
| 19 | Feb 5, '25 | Elon is doing applied political science. He had a hypothesis, and then he bet on it. And in being correct, we are learning empirically: The Professional Managerial Class has perfec | 68.4× | 652k | 21k | 4.7k | 3.6k |
| 20 | May 11, '24 | Silicon Valley is an extraordinary theatre of sociology right now. Apropos of nothing, my observations about a few people I'm paying attention to: - Why Sam Altman does interviews | 60.4× | 576k | 1.6k | 75 | 1.4k |
| 21 | Jun 22, '25 | Women now plan their lives around financial independence before anything else. There's no puzzle here. Their central concern in life is to never need a man, and once they achieve t | 55.1× | 526k | 4.2k | 303 | 1.5k |
| 22 | Feb 6, '25 | Chris Rufo on that sweet USAID gravy train | 52.8× | 503k | 811 | 57 | 97 |
| 23 | Dec 17, '22 | It's not the juvenile behaviors exactly that I miss. The point is that fatherhood really does seem to decrease many forms of interaction and expression, many of which are perfectly | 36.6× | 349k | 787 | 25 | 24 |
| 24 | Apr 10, '24 | There’s an obvious opportunity to do a right-wing NPR. Not culture-warsy, not social media personalities, not religious per se, just generic moderately educated daily news with a r | 35.6× | 340k | 537 | 22 | 78 |
| 25 | Jul 24, '23 | Everyone knows who should have played Barbie. Amber Heard as Barbie would have been genuinely avant-garde feminist aesthetics. Imagine how provocative, risky, and exhilarating it w | 31.4× | 299k | 1k | 94 | 75 |
| 26 | Aug 19, '23 | Logan Paul tells his mate George to quit Christianity and… get a therapist instead lmao. He says “Jesus is not evolving you in the best way” lmao Logan Paul thinks he is God. What | 30.9× | 295k | 2.1k | 285 | 174 |
| 27 | Sep 25, '23 | Absolutely riveting, jaw-dropping article yesterday from @razibkhan, it's paywalled but here's the summary: Two papers in paleogenomics from 2015 seem to unequivocally vindicate th | 29.3× | 279k | 1.1k | 149 | 728 |
| 28 | Aug 4, '23 | When my wife and I had our first kid (almost 2 years ago), I quickly grew despondent and ashamed of myself. I've always read books and I've always seen myself as a serious reader, | 28.7× | 273k | 615 | 67 | 213 |
| 29 | Jan 5, '23 | There's a whole new genre now, exemplified by Succession, White Lotus, The Menu, and Glass Onion. I call it Caviar Cope. It's "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" but for a middle | 26.3× | 251k | 903 | 55 | 106 |
| 30 | May 8, '23 | The past 20 years of race relations in America have been a totally insane circle: By the year 2000, actual racist whites had dwindled nearly to extinction, and the few holdovers ha | 25.8× | 246k | 1.8k | 268 | 256 |
| 31 | Dec 17, '22 | The breadwinning drive, and the anxiety of possibly failing, just consumes me. This was already the case, but now it’s an absurd problem—which is good, because this really can’t la | 25.3× | 241k | 913 | 32 | 48 |
| 32 | Mar 26, '24 | The Huberman story is not altogether trivial. The smartest men in every generation of Western history have generally converged on the idea that knowledge and cultivation involve a | 23.2× | 221k | 1.1k | 96 | 440 |
| 33 | Oct 15, '22 | Co-founder of Pirate Bay, Gottfrid Svartholm. | 21.7× | 0 | 13k | 578 | 512 |
| 34 | May 26, '23 | I need help settling a dispute with my wife. I bought an electronic dog collar and put it on our 1.5 year-old son so he won't wander off the property. The electric shock is not tha | 21.6× | 206k | 801 | 30 | 38 |
| 35 | Mar 29, '23 | AI Safety is fake. Alignment is fake. | 20.8× | 199k | 721 | 151 | 199 |
| 36 | Feb 4, '24 | Cannabis is a silent epidemic wreaking havoc on the American family. A friend brought some of these over and I drank two around 8pm. My body completely shut down and I slept from 9 | ⚡ 18.5× | 15.1M | 2.1k | 147 | 860 |
| 37 | May 13, '23 | Cannabis today is absolutely insane. It's now normal for millions of people to get absurdly high every day. The average dad with "back pain" is getting more stoned, every single da | ⚡ 17.9× | 8.2M | 1.8k | 175 | 726 |
| 38 | Sep 10, '25 | Incredible case study of something here. She was a few days away from being able to write about Hegel and have a family, in material comfort, for the rest of her life. Instead she | 17.3× | 165k | 2.4k | 66 | 421 |
| 39 | Feb 17, '23 | Burger King should become a reactionary and monarchist burger company. | 16.4× | 156k | 3.4k | 289 | 54 |
| 40 | May 20, '24 | I just read Schopenhauer's essay "On Women" for the first time. It's quite cruel—and occasionally bilious—but I was impressed and surprised by two findings. It's amazing how much o | 15.9× | 152k | 1.4k | 181 | 1.1k |
| 41 | Dec 31, '24 | Elon's name change is no laughing matter. He's alluding to “Pontifex Maximus,” the title Julius Caesar held as Rome’s chief priest. By calling himself “Kekius Maximus," he is plain | 14.6× | 139k | 696 | 151 | 106 |
| 42 | Nov 19, '22 | Every single movie on streaming is like divorce is good; adultery is “complex”; mentally ill woman conquers great challenge; inspiring tale of queer kid’s trauma; it’s like bitch h | 14.5× | 0 | 8.2k | 784 | 303 |
| 43 | Jan 29, '25 | A transgender cult from the Bay Area is currently murdering people across multiple states. They have some interesting ideas... They're a rationalist group called the "Zizians," nam | 12× | 115k | 603 | 116 | 283 |
| 44 | Dec 17, '22 | having a kid is completely worth it & I’ve never regretted it for a single second It’s also just one of the craziest things I have ever done and it requires more change, all at | 11.9× | 113k | 567 | 20 | 32 |
| 45 | May 13, '24 | This is the most godless millennial aesthetic terrorism the world has ever seen. I can tolerate your Scarlett Johansson HR Mommy reprimanding me for racism, what I cannot tolerate | 11.2× | 107k | 543 | 30 | 266 |
| 46 | Oct 15, '22 | It seems that all races are racist except white people? | 11× | 0 | 5.2k | 622 | 724 |
| 47 | Jul 20, '23 | Something I learned from René Girard, which has always stuck with me, is that the Crucifixion was a "trap" set for Satan. When you think of it as a genius plot to tempt Evil into a | 10.7× | 102k | 684 | 78 | 437 |
| 48 | Jul 9, '25 | Weirdest thing about the Epstein situation is that there must be something they could share. Maybe there’s no “client list,” but surely there’s some kind of dossier lying around. S | 10.3× | 98k | 1k | 149 | 23 |
| 49 | May 28, '24 | A horrifying fraction of films by A-list directors are darkly twisted apologia for their own adulteries and divorces—almost all of these people are broken people, with broken famil | 10.3× | 98k | 519 | 31 | 232 |
| 50 | Jan 7, '21 | It's bone-chilling to learn that if you like Trump then nobody in prestige media will care if you're shot and killed. | 9.9× | 0 | 5.5k | 771 | 84 |
| 51 | Dec 20, '22 | I’ve decided to stop complaining and man up. I’m going to embrace sacrifice and enjoy spending time with my kid. This year I only got slightly blitzed before taking him to see mall | 9.6× | 91k | 614 | 7 | 10 |
| 52 | Oct 8, '24 | It still fascinates me that this kid made great music. Did tons of drugs, his lyrics say multiple times he is going to die from drugs. Dies from drugs. 21. Rimbaud archetype. But m | 9.2× | 88k | 537 | 25 | 156 |
| 53 | Mar 1, '22 | What if I told you that Covid and the Russo-Ukrainian War were both caused by an entity in 2026 acting on the past? You wouldn't believe me. And yet I'd be correct. | 8.7× | 0 | 3.1k | 231 | 1.1k |
| 54 | Jul 19, '25 | Stunned to see people reading the Coldplay Cheater as a victim of privacy invasion. Totally wrong frame. This isn't mob sadism, or scapegoating, or some irrational woke backlash. T | 8.4× | 80k | 580 | 40 | 140 |
| 55 | Nov 11, '25 | Now that everyone's had their fun, it must be said that Katherine Stoeffel has been unfairly maligned by a mob that cannot read faces. The science of facial expressions has mapped | ⚡ 8.0× | 8.5M | 2.2k | 70 | 630 |
| 56 | Sep 25, '25 | The genius of Plato's Academy was that it functioned as a talent magnet and "think tank." It became a sort of political consultancy. Its main product was not ideas or texts but the | 8.0× | 76k | 606 | 83 | 509 |
| 57 | Sep 16, '22 | If you're a man over 30 and you have time to maintain more than 5 friendships—I mean real friendships—you're either a loser, groomer, or gay. | 7.9× | 0 | 1k | 40 | 159 |
| 58 | Aug 15, '25 | I don’t understand why the naked vulgar hatred of foreigners has become so popular. I’m not offended by race realism or immigration conservatism or even normal evolved xenophobia, | 7.4× | 70k | 588 | 7 | 100 |
| 59 | Oct 18, '24 | @LaurentianIAA LMAO 'fentanyl or mortgage' is such a good phrase. Bingo. | 6.4× | 61k | 1.1k | 11 | 46 |
| 60 | Jan 19, '25 | Crazy how long it takes for fatherhood to become fun. My son just turned 3 and I almost want to say I’m only just now starting to find this gig fun, like at all. I guess fathers do | ⚡ 5.8× | 3.3M | 543 | 14 | 272 |
| 61 | Jul 7, '24 | OK, this is crazy. The judge brings up Nick Land's infamously mysterious 2014 Xenosystems post "Hyper-Racism." They analyze it with a fine-tooth comb. Honestly, my hat is off to DC | 5.8× | 55k | 785 | 37 | 153 |
| 62 | May 15, '24 | In modern marriages, even happy ones, there is a significant structural tension rarely discussed. A husband is expected to treat his wife as an equal. But he is also required to be | 5.6× | 53k | 538 | 31 | 289 |
| 63 | Feb 19, '23 | Without a doubt the most overrated woman in the world right now. She's pretty but c'mon. This is the definition of mid. | ⚡ 5.2× | 5M | 1k | 14 | 138 |
| 64 | Mar 1, '25 | I just listened to the whole press conference and my main takeaway is that Trump and his team are just so *real*—and it's still not priced in. We just haven't seen anything like th | 4.7× | 44k | 836 | 58 | 166 |
| 65 | Jan 14, '24 | Men, just marry a hot lower-IQ girl from a rural church, one who is simple and practical and faithful. You don't need or want impressive opinions about foreign films. "A little ret | ⚡ 4.2× | 2.4M | 527 | 25 | 293 |
| 66 | Oct 10, '20 | One of the luckiest accidents of my life was British visa restrictions forcing me & my girlfriend to decide if we were truly in love or just pretending. We married at 23 & | 4.1× | 0 | 1.5k | 164 | 561 |
| 67 | Jun 11, '25 | I can tell you exactly how they’re going to rewrite the woke panic: They’re going to start applying terms like “canceled” to genuinely bad actors (instead of the silly witchhunts f | 3.6× | 34k | 570 | 29 | 56 |
| 68 | Nov 21, '19 | Am I insane or is AOC's right nipple visible in this ad? Huge if true. Millennial socialist strategy explicitly embraces soft-core pornographic thirst-trapping as electoral tactic. | 3.5× | 0 | 534 | 41 | 39 |
| 69 | Dec 17, '22 | The hardest part of fatherhood is all the little things that go away, or become very hard to contrive. Like just getting high & drinking with a friend on a Saturday afternoon. | ⚡ 3.3× | 1.3M | 759 | 33 | 71 |
| 70 | May 21, '21 | Two of the pictures below are of schools. Two are of prisons. We should be more alarmed by how hard it is to guess which is which. | 3.0× | 0 | 1.5k | 214 | 59 |
| 71 | Jul 14, '24 | The pyramidal framing of this Trump photo is too good. It bears an uncanny resemblance to Delacroix’s famous painting from 1830, Liberty Leading the People. | 2.9× | 27k | 550 | 46 | 73 |
| 72 | Jan 4, '22 | Having a baby is way more fun than people lead you to believe. Even happy parents would mostly say things that caused me vague trepidation, the most popular admonishment being "you | 2.8× | 0 | 1.7k | 88 | 50 |
| 73 | Jun 9, '25 | OK then she should handle it like Diogenes, whose entire point was to be immune from social judgment. The reason people hate Aella is that she proclaims she has found a higher rati | 2.8× | 27k | 653 | 20 | 43 |
| 74 | Apr 22, '24 | it's not easy being 2 years old | 2.4× | 23k | 595 | 12 | 17 |
| 75 | May 5, '21 | Something people don't understand about marriage is that, for it to work, divorce must be unthinkable. If it's thinkable, it's inevitable. If it's unthinkable, deepening your love | 2.4× | 0 | 1.2k | 158 | 61 |
| 76 | Apr 5, '22 | God is real. It's so insane that this is true, but it really does make sense. | 2.3× | 0 | 1.4k | 64 | 43 |
| 77 | Mar 17, '22 | This is not a meme or a joke: There is a rationalism to satanism pipeline. I've now heard countless, credible stories of literally satanic individuals thriving particularly well in | 2.2× | 0 | 1k | 57 | 130 |
| 78 | Sep 30, '21 | weird flex but ok | 2.1× | 0 | 1.4k | 46 | 14 |
| 79 | Jan 12, '21 | View post on X | 1.9× | 0 | 1k | 172 | 21 |
| 80 | Jun 4, '20 | George Floyd is Jesus for atheists. | 1.9× | 0 | 1.1k | 119 | 19 |
| 81 | Jul 16, '19 | Not even being provocative: If you think the family is a site of oppression & you think sex work is ethically defensible, then millionaires who pay 15-year-olds large sums for | 1.9× | 0 | 521 | 83 | 29 |
| 82 | Feb 6, '18 | Anyone who claims @jordanbpeterson preaches to the "alt-right" should see my analysis of his Reddit following. Many of his followers are left-libertarians. | 1.9× | 0 | 879 | 194 | 3 |
| 83 | Aug 31, '20 | "In high school each extra IQ point above average increases chances of male virginity by about 3%. 35% of MIT grad students have never had sex, compared to only 20% of average nine | 1.9× | 0 | 653 | 72 | 120 |
| 84 | Sep 13, '20 | My wife and I started trying to have a baby. I don’t really feel ready financially but you can’t wait forever. | 1.6× | 0 | 970 | 12 | 17 |
| 85 | Aug 22, '22 | Wall Street Journal says it now costs $300,000 to raise a child. This is so dumb. Having a kid is surprisingly cheap. It takes one second to realize that extremely poor people have | 1.5× | 0 | 894 | 91 | 13 |
| 86 | May 22, '20 | Not even being provocative, sometime in the not-too-distant future we will see a band of disaffected American men build a small private army and successfully conquer a non-trivial | 1.5× | 0 | 731 | 63 | 41 |
| 87 | Apr 29, '20 | One of the most important lessons every man comes to learn... This might even be *the* threshold between boyhood and manhood... You deserve nothing and if you think you do, you’ll | 1.5× | 0 | 702 | 76 | 89 |
| 88 | Oct 14, '22 | My son is 9 months old. What are the most important things I can do right now to maximize the probability that he will mercilessly subdue all the weaker men of his generation start | 1.4× | 0 | 626 | 18 | 63 |
| 89 | Nov 19, '22 | Men just want the freedom to crack racist jokes without some girl in HR freaking out. | 1.4× | 0 | 859 | 42 | 21 |
| 90 | Sep 20, '22 | The feminization of the public sphere has been a disaster for the human race. | 1.3× | 0 | 793 | 52 | 35 |
| 91 | Sep 28, '22 | In sum, Thiel's theory of California is that tech wealth has enabled exceptionally poor governance. Its wealthy administrative class exacerbated poverty and homelessness to increas | 1.3× | 0 | 646 | 137 | 22 |
| 92 | Jul 6, '20 | Wow. Harvard just announced that all their teaching for 2020-21 will be online. And the undergraduate sticker price of $49k? No change there, naturally. | 1.3× | 0 | 762 | 75 | 13 |
| 93 | Nov 3, '21 | If you're older than 28 years old and you're dating a woman for more than 6 months, you should either propose or break up with her. | 1.1× | 0 | 506 | 40 | 41 |
| 94 | Nov 20, '22 | The number one way that a multi-racial group of men builds trust and rapport is by cracking racist jokes on each other. Not kidding. It’s like a rite of passage for male groups. Th | 1.1× | 0 | 602 | 34 | 44 |
| 95 | Nov 10, '22 | FTX collapsed because it was run by Effective Altruists. Effective Altruists think they are Gods, but really they are children on meth obsessed with sex, pleasure, and status signa | 1.0× | 0 | 523 | 46 | 58 |
| 96 | Sep 2, '20 | The trans trend (no disrespect, just empirically it’s trending) is probably due, in part, to the declining monagamy norm. As the sexually liberal mating economy creates winner-take | 1.0× | 0 | 440 | 33 | 65 |
| 97 | Oct 10, '20 | If you’re dating & living with a girl for more than a year, and you’re over 25 years old, and you’re not miserable, you should get married now. If you think you could do better | 0.9× | 0 | 539 | 28 | 40 |
| 98 | Jun 22, '21 | High status people culturally appropriated UFOs and aliens from low status people. | 0.9× | 0 | 579 | 40 | 11 |
| 99 | Nov 22, '19 | Perfect summary of our differences, Brianna. You optimize for employability because you are a bourgeois philistine. I have no need for an employer because I am a philosopher!!!!!!! | 0.9× | 0 | 533 | 45 | 6 |
| 100 | Jun 27, '20 | Bourdain is one of the most over-rated public figures because he's tricked so many people into thinking that working in restaurants is cool or sexy. It's one of the most hellish, s | 0.9× | 0 | 406 | 29 | 9 |
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