Andrew Cooper-Stormbom

Made in England. English teacher in Swedish-speaking Finland.

Reason. Integrity. Satire.

Oh, and basketball.

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter.
I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter.
Everyone matters.
Henry Nowak matters.

[Andrew Cooper-Stormbom @AndrewHagmark]

@jess_ann_pin Strongly agree. JBP, who I noted some prior hostility to from you, was great on this. It's a fantastic source of purpose and well-being for us ordinary men who do not aspire to be CEOs or otherwise have high-flying careers.

[James Bryson @theoeides4]

Does anyone know if Jordan says this is true of narcissists?

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

@JSargent88 "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."

—Hunter S. Thompson

[Andrew Cooper-Stormbom @AndrewHagmark]

@jess_ann_pin If he'd added the patently obvious "but it wouldn't be inconvenient to drive 30 minutes or to settle down with a woman I was much more attracted to," you wouldn't think he was a liar, right?

[Andrew Cooper-Stormbom @AndrewHagmark]

Read great books.

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Dr. @jordanbpeterson 's advice to students: "Read great books":

[Andrew Cooper-Stormbom @AndrewHagmark]

@jess_ann_pin @ChrisWillx @RichardvReeves None I'd heard of previously (unlike a good percentage of the list overall), but I did note The Lonely Century by Noreena Hertz as of interest to me.

[Andrew Cooper-Stormbom @AndrewHagmark]

@jess_ann_pin @ChrisWillx @RichardvReeves The list’s greatest atrocity wasn’t the lack of ”one single book by a woman” (there were in fact a few), but that he recommended reading a book by Dan Brown.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Sex differences in personality are larger, rather than smaller, in wealthier, more gender-equal nations - the opposite of what we’d expect if the differences were due to gender inequality, strict gender roles, or patriarchy.

https://t.co/FtSNSLbF2k

[Andrew Cooper-Stormbom @AndrewHagmark]

Or, a third reason, he has moved to her country and seeks "to integrate". Also doomed to failure, btw!

[Steve Sailer @Steve_Sailer]

@JamesSurowiecki @ElizabethGMat C'mon, let's be realistic about how sexual attraction works in practice.

A man who wants his wife to take his surname is a man.

A man who takes his wife's surname is either a social-climbing bounder like Barry Lyndon or a feminist dweeb. Neither marriage will last.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

They put scars on women’s faces for a job interview experiment… then secretly removed them.

The women went in believing they had visible disfigurements — and came out reporting massive discrimination, with interviewers supposedly referencing their “scars.”

Konstantin Kisin used this study to make a powerful point: constantly telling people they’re oppressed or disadvantaged primes them to see discrimination everywhere, even when it isn’t there.

It’s the same psychological effect as buying a new car and suddenly noticing that model on every street.

The ideology of victimhood doesn’t just describe reality — it actively shapes it.

We should be teaching young people they’re strong and capable of overcoming adversity, not training them to see themselves as permanent victims.

What’s one way you’ve seen this “victimhood mindset” play out in real life?

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Contender for the best community note of all time.

Descendent of slavers accidentally whines about the British trying to end the slave trade.

If anything she should be paying reparations to us.

[Bo Winegard @EPoe187]

One of my strongest convictions is that people are vastly more than the sum of their political beliefs and that friendships among people who disagree about politics are not only healthy, but necessary for a complete and empathetic understanding of the world.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Every Western country and city needs to adopt tough on crime policies.

Zero tolerance for theft and violent crime.

This is so obvious, yet there is so much resistance.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

Education research the least likely to replicate according to a huge new paper published by Nature

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

What you *can* teach is logic, how to construct a valid argument, and how to unravel one that is not. You can teach epistemology, and the knowledge of how we know what we know. But the crucial last leg of the journey to think critically about anything is domain knowledge. If you don't know much about a topic, you cannot discern if the premises of an argument are true.

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

You cannot teach critical thinking. You can teach domain specific expertise, which enables you to think critically about that domain. Brilliant chess players do not make great military commanders.

More problematically, people who think they have great critical thinking skills are often the ones who get hoodwinked by any fashionable idea, because they lack the domain expertise to interrogate nonsense.

[Abigail Shrier @AbigailShrier]

Two years ago, almost 0 schools were interested in even considering going phone free.

Now, whole school systems are phone free. The rest are scrambling to get on board

We owe @JonHaidt a tremendous debt of gratitude.

What he achieved - this quickly - is almost unimaginable.

[Andrew Cooper-Stormbom @AndrewHagmark]

@jess_ann_pin Where have you seen JBP say anything like that? I would have thought the assertiveness element of extraversion would be a better proxy. Plus you do score very low/low on the two elements of agreeableness that would seem most likely to have any correlation with submissiveness.

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

I've done as much as anyone to stop anti-white discrimination in America's institutions, but you have to be brain-damaged to believe that "white men are the most oppressed group in history." This is a leftist attitude, and almost certainly a projection of personal failure, frustration, or resentment onto the Jews or the social tableau.

Yes, you should absolutely fight to reduce anti-white discrimination, but if you believe "100% of your problems are external," you're being dishonest with yourself and repressing massive inferiority feelings, which almost certainly have nothing to do with the war in Iran or AIPAC or whatever you think is "holding the white man down."

It's leftist thinking. A victimhood fetish. Your pioneer ancestors would laugh at you for whining that you're "the most oppressed man in history" because of Pam in HR.