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Sep 19 • 52 tweets • 17 min read
1/ THREAD. Was the 2020 election fair? Will complete this thread in multiple parts over the next couple of weeks.
>General Voter Fraud Claims
>Claims about 2020 election
>Wisconsin
>Pennsylvania
>Arizona
>Georgia
>Nevada
(may not be in that order for states)
I will not be writing about Michigan since the total vote disparity there is relatively large.2/ Why am I doing this thread? Firstly because most of my followers think that it was rigged.
1/Thread about women in law enforcement. 2/ Women in the US make up about 14% of police officers. This number has grown rapidly since the early 70s though less than people may think since female officers are more common on TV than real life. researchgate.net/publication/27…
Aug 31 • 33 tweets • 9 min read
Going to do a thread on the 1986 book "Men and Marriage" which is critical of the feminist movement. It is pretty old so I am taking some of the social science cited at the time with a grain of salt, but it is certainly an interesting time capsule. amazon.com/Men-Marriage-G…
Why men are less sexually secure than women:
Aug 7 • 53 tweets • 21 min read
1/Thread about race, immigration and Islam in the UK. I am not British, so if I get something wrong please correct me. 2/ First, we can see that immigration particularly from non-EU countries has increased in recent years: migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/brie…
Aug 1 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
1/THREAD Cambodians in the donut industry. A case study in ethnic nepotism: 2/ Most of the information in this thread comes from the 2020 documentary Donut King about Ted Ngoy and his Southern California donut empire.
1/Thread with data that I could find about immigration and race in France. I am obviously not an expert and don't speak French so if you think I am not presenting the full picture please correct me, especially if you are French. 2/ France was about 8.8% muslim in 2016: pewresearch.org/religion/2017/…
Jun 7 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
New Pew report on Trump vs Biden polling:
>40% of dems think that criminal justice system should be harsher
>59% of Republicans are pro-natalist
>56% of Republicans support seperation of church and state
38% of Trump supporters are sympathetic to abortion:
May 28 • 34 tweets • 14 min read
1/THREAD What is going on with gender relations in South Korea?
2/Of some major countries polled, South Korea has the highest percent of people saying that there is a great deal or fair amount of tension between men and women: ipsos.com/sites/default/…
Apr 30 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Quick thread on this new report on underemployment, which is defined as getting a degree and working a job that doesn't need one. They estimate that after 10 years 45% of college graduates are "underemployed" static1.squarespace.com/static/6197797…
most people who start out underemployed stay that way:
Mar 13 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
1/ Thread on Haitian immigrants in America, since we may be getting more of them: 2/ Haitians seem to have a lower incarceration rate than other immigrants when they are legal, higher when they are illegal: cato.org/blog/haitian-c…
Feb 3 • 32 tweets • 9 min read
Going to do a thread on this book which looks at 6 islands that have shifted from one group to another: amazon.com/Majority-Minor…
As the author points out, contention between groups characterizes pretty much every diverse country:
Jan 23 • 50 tweets • 14 min read
Alright, since the poll respondents requested, here are some excepts from Roy Baumeister's "Is there anything good about men" amazon.com/There-Anything…
The main thesis of the book is that men and women each have their own things that they are good at, and that the things that men are good at are vital to society flourishing.
Jan 20 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
Thread on people who allegedly scored very well on IQ tests, what evidence there is and what they did with their lives. This is looking at test data only, not claimed smartest people based on accomplishments.
The Guinness book of world record used to keep a record for the smartest person. Here were the entries in the early 80's. Marilyn vos Savant held the title from 1985 to 1990, until it was discontinued.
Nov 30, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Trying to find info on race in Ireland but I can't find very much. If you have more, please include. It looks like Ireland is about 87% white, down from 94% more than a decade ago. @KeithWoodsYT
A while ago, a professor predicted that Irish could be a minority by the middle of the century: archive.is/q2LUU
Nov 14, 2023 • 43 tweets • 13 min read
1/THREAD Here is the story of Yusef Salaam New York's new city council member for district 9 and a member of the notorious "Central Park 5"
2/Many young men were picked up the night of the incident, Yusef Salaam was not among them. They gave statements: all recorded here. centralpark5joggerattackers.com/videos/
Oct 23, 2023 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
1/ THREAD there is a common narrative on the right that Jews are receiving their comeuppance for supporting immigration of people who hate them into the west. Wanted to gather some data on Jewish opinions on immigration, Islam and more from various countries. 2/ I am not trying to present any thesis on this issue, just gather data. Please add more if you have it.
Israel: Plurality of Israelis think that Europe should take in Syrian refugees (in 2015), while 80% don't think that Israel should. timesofisrael.com/poll-shows-few…
Jul 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Thread: There is a common narrative in politics, that social issues are a distraction by the elites, and the real issue is class issues. Heres why I don't think that narrative is accurate: 2/ Attitudes on immigration are much more predictive of voting preferences than income: cspicenter.com/p/the-national…
Jul 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Women are less interested in dating than men:
Women are also more picky. College educated women especially so: