Zero-sum thinking is the belief that gains for one individual or group tend to come at the cost of others. According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (2025), U.S. Black and Hispanic people are more likely to hold that belief. Race durably influences political beliefs Full figure with x-axis

Mamdani comes from a culture where lying is normal.

26,000 people from 60 countries were asked how much they believed they had to be selfish [disregard others, cheat, lie, etc.] to get ahead. Indians scored highest “The rich are richer than the
poor because they have been more selfish in life than the poor.”

5-point scale from “strongly disagree” (1) to “strongly agree” (5)

Source:

“I am begging you to stop debunking the foundation of my leftist beliefs.”

Some countries are rich, others are poor — and average IQ explains most of it

https://twitter.com/BenShindel/status/1938644897734807814

And the Y-axis is a log scale, the real relationship is exponential! It looks more like this one

https://twitter.com/williameijer/status/1936792866694557991

Harvard economist Raj Chetty’s study of 20 million Americans shows that Black men are incarcerated at 3 to 10 times the rate of White men raised in households of similar income. What’s your environmental explanation?🧵

https://twitter.com/sashagusevposts/status/1932792604598678012

Source, original graph and data.

U.S. Census—National Statistics by Parent Income Percentile, Gender, and Race: opportunityinsights.org/data/?geograph…

Wokeness largely arises from unmarried, childless young women creating and self-selecting into psychosocial environments that validate their heightened tendencies toward guilt, shame, and altruism, while offering a channel to fulfill their otherwise unmet nurturing needs

https://twitter.com/gilmxres/status/1933953373663101363

The Wokeness frequency distributions come from these items, in this study (n = 5,878):

The People Make The Country: How Low-Trust Immigration Turns Cooperation Into Conflict🧵 Social trust is the expectation that people will act in ways that are predictable, fair, and aligned with mutual benefit, even in the absence of formal contracts or enforcement mechanisms. It allows large-scale cooperation and leads to more stable, pleasant, and rich societies

Given the irreversible nature of hybridization, Europe should be designated as an ecological reserve, and East Asia should remain one. The preservation of phenotypic diversity is the default position in ecology🧵 250 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution, the 40 countries with the highest quality of life are still European (38) and East Asian (2). Why is that?

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Overheard at a top university

Neuroscience professor to grad student: “We can’t put this in the paper because it suggests there is a biological basis to race.” Professor: “You’re drawing this equivalence between sex differences and race differences… I don’t want this in the paper because it’s problematic.”

Grad student: “But race is also genetic.”

Professor: “East Africans are more genetically distinct from West Africans than from Whites, so race is a flawed concept.”

Leftism is a survival strategy for the underclass and the elites who benefit from their dependency. Elite Leftists are thus incentivized to increase the share of underclass, third-world voters to gain power, and they do [1/4]
For Affluent Wimpy Whites, Leftism serves not a survival but a spiritual purpose—sacrificing the future of civilization for the benefit of others gives meaning to their atheistic, hedonic life. A paradoxically very Christian gesture, without the personal cost [2/4]

Immigration is now associated with lower per capita economic growth (r = -.41), presumably because immigrants now mostly come from low-IQ, low-trust populations.

What you’ve been told is a lie

https://twitter.com/dr_vanitas_/status/1912152498522972444

Them: “Just be kind!”

Me: “A CEO can be infinitely kind to his employees, but if he keeps hiring the wrong ones, his company will fail—the same is true for countries.”

Are racial differences in serious crimes solely due to socioeconomics? No.

Black men are incarcerated at 3 to 10 times the rate of White men from equally wealthy households🧵 Data is from Harvard economist Raj Chetty's study of 20 million Americans from adolescence to adulthood.

Table 1: National Statistics by Parent Income Percentile, Gender, and Race
opportunityinsights.org/data/?geograph…

Have we found the cause of Suicidal Empathy?

Research shows free, affluent societies maximize guilt, shame, and altruism in women. In the West, evermore power is given to an increasingly self-loathing, selfless demographic. 🧵 This insight comes from a recent systematic review on the Gender Equality Paradox. It summarizes 27 meta-analyses and large-scale studies as well as 54 other studies.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

New data 🚨

In Austria 🇦🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪, Finland 🇫🇮, France 🇫🇷, Greece 🇬🇷, Ireland 🇮🇪, Italy 🇮🇹, and Sweden 🇸🇪, non-EU immigrants are a net fiscal drain. 🧵


Greece, Ireland, Italy, Sweden

Why are leftists more depressed?
Negative thoughts about the self, the world, and the future are the cognitive causes of depression. Leftism promotes all three. 🧵 Examples:
The self: "I'm ashamed of being white."
The world: "We live in an oppressive patriarchy."
The future: "Climate change will kill us and our planet."