Ralph Leonard

@buffsoldier_96 · The Mishima Zaibatsu · joined 20 Nov 2012

Writer. Promethean with Dionysian proclivities. Conservative Marxist. Red Devil. Bylines at |@unherd |@NewStatesman | @TheAtlantic I drink your milkshake!

14 791Followers

1 966Following

65 220Posts total

164.6KViews on collected posts

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Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9621 Sep

When thinking about this, I thought its rare that I praise anything about Nigeria's political system but one virtue of it is it's literally illegal & unconstitutional for the state to strip the citizenship of a natural born citizen, at least, for any reason. 2.6K views · 19 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9620 Sep

@buffsoldier_96 Sanctions are a foreign attack that creates a rally around the regime. People know where their pain is coming from. You're not tricking them into blaming the regime. Libs live with their heads in the clouds. 698 views · 35 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9620 Sep

@buffsoldier_96 no i think people just want to have food and not have their elementary daughters burned alive by American bombs, that’s quite a benefit 1.1K views · 139 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9620 Sep

@buffsoldier_96 Sanctions enhance the power of the state. Saddam was powerful in the 1990s. 1.8K views · 52 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9620 Sep

Sanctions produce a kind of prisoner's dilemma: they hurt the people and society more than the regime. But removing them will benefit the regime more than the people. 67.5K views · 66 likes · 12 reposts · 29 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9619 Sep

Sanctions also limit Iran’s ability to innovate and reproduce the human capital necessary to maintain the military capabilities the IRGC cares about most. Ultimately, the IRGC’s main objective is securing the IR; sanctions are one of the great obstacles they face in that pursuit. 6.5K views · 16 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9619 Sep

You can see that Jonathan Majors is really exercising his acting chops in trying to make the garbage script he was given into a diamond. 3.6K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9619 Sep

And the Iran war, & Ukraine too, has shown that states with barely a navy can use decentralised hybrid amphibious warfare to frustrate, scupper, undermine even push back more powerful hi-tech navies, especially when said power is under the spell of the "short-war illusion". 1.3K views · 20 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9618 Sep

Kotkin has observed that one of the few good things to come of Russia's invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how difficult and unrewarding it is to conquer valuable real estate; all the invader can really "achieve" is to wreck everything. 20.7K views · 778 likes · 34 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9617 Sep

Chilling how extreme this is. Forget democracies even most dictatorships don’t have such measures. https://t.co/ZHccSIMvIK

58.8K views · 592 likes · 90 reposts · 84 replies Open on X →

Ralph Leonard@buffsoldier_9611 Oct 2018

My latest for @unherd for #BlackHistoryMonth on CLR James and essentialist identity politics https://t.co/M76057itet 0 views · 534 likes · 147 reposts · 28 replies Open on X →

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10 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views3 136this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %21.21%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.49%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 136	924	3.39×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	21.21%	3.62%	5.86×
Engagement rate	1.49%	1.52%	0.98×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

58.8K17 Sep

20.7K18 Sep

1.3K19 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

1.34%17 Sep

3.98%18 Sep

1.63%19 Sep

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0.17%20 Sep

2.91%

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes79.6%1 733 in total

Reposts6.7%145 in total

Replies5.9%128 in total

Quotes1.5%33 in total

Bookmarks6.3%137 in total

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