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Here’s what I know about having a large platform on other social media sites.

NONE of them drive any traffic to Substack. None.

Less than 1% of my traffic comes from any social network.

The average American today is significantly wealthier than even the top 1% in the Roman, Han and Aztec empires.

Looking at the data in 2023 US Purchasing Power Parity:

  • The average American earns around $81,695

  • The top 1% in the Aztec Empire earned about $70,421

True for Strength In Numbers as well. Social as top of funnel is dead

Here’s what I know about having a large platform on other social media sites.

NONE of them drive any traffic to Substack. None.

Less than 1% of my traffic comes from any social network.

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Just like most school shooters since 1999, Hale became obsessed with Columbine years before she opened fire inside The Covenant School in Nashville.

What's a little different about Hale's case is the level of detail and effort that when into mimicking the Columbine shooters. She recorded her own version of "The Basement Tapes" on actual V…

This is written in fairly good English for an Iraqi, suggesting you’re living in the West yourself. If that is not true about you, it is irrelevant since so many other Iraqis and citizens of the broader Arab world sell their mothers for such low prices to emigrate to the West. It might be worthwhile for you to consider the possibility that what’s wrong in Iraq isn’t due to Iran. Nor is it due to the US, where Iraqis prefer to live. But that it actually has to do with Iraqis and their culture, themselves.

Iraq wasn’t some glorious kingdom before the US invasion. It was just another failed Arab state, like all of the other ones, struggling under the centuries of stagnation ushered in by the turn to Islamic fundamentalism before the Mongols invaded. That was in the 1200s. Scientific research was abandoned. Secular education was abandoned. To the point, today, where tiny Israel is able to match the combined output of hundreds of millions of their neighbors on a broad array of metrics of civilization.

They have remained experts though, as you ably demonstrate, at blaming others for every misfortune that has ever befallen them. Even as they climb all over each other to move to those countries that they blame - which is particularly galling, given that people who are “oppressed” don’t move in with their oppressors.

It’s too bad that Iraqis, and Middle Easterners around the world, are incapable of looking in the mirror. You’d be able to solve so many more problems in your countries if you had any willingness to correctly identify them. And especially if you had any ability to learn from the countries and cultures that you all move to since you weren’t able to build a particularly resilient culture of your own.

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