jacob Wolinsky

Married w/ 6 kids. Ex Valuewalk CEO. Currently @HedgeFundAlpha & Machine Learning and Claude obsessed newbie and Luddite. MENA & WW2 expertz DMs open (no sales)

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

Some people need to look to sports or actors for heroes, I was lucky that mine practically lived in my house

My first substack ever on my grandfather’s journey from 1939-1946 from the Gulag to the Red Army

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

This Hezbollah operative literally looks like half of the men in Tel Aviv.

I'm still in disbelief that he's not Israeli.

[roi kais • روعي كايس • רועי קייס @kaisos1987]

אמש דווח בחשבונות ברשתות החברתיות המזוהים עם חיזבאללה על חיסול של מפקד שטח בחיזבאללה בשם רמזי דרוויש עיד, מהכפר סריפא בדרום לבנון, שנהרג בעת לחימה עם כוחות צה''ל. מתברר שאותו רמזי היה פעיל מאוד ברשתות החברתיות. בעוד שחשבונות מזוהי חמאס הפיצו ציוצים שלו ברשת X בהם הביע תמיכה הארגון, ואף בפעילות של שלוחת חמאס בלבנון, בסוריה האלו באוב ציוץ בו שיבח את הטבח שביצע משטר אסד בשכונת תדאמון בדמשק, אחד מסמלי הזוועות של מלחמת האזרחים הסורית, בה חיזבאללה נלחם לצד המשטר: "אלף ברכות לבור בשכונת תדאמון, שמארח את פגרי הובלות הטרוריסטים בסוריה" כתב רמזי בפברואר 2023, אחרי שנחשפו סרטוני זוועה מהטבח. פעיל הרשת הסורי עומאר מדינה כתב בתגובה "אלף ברכות לטיל שהרג את רמזי היום בדרום לבנון". אהב שייקים ממותגים @OmerShahar123

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

This dude is a dead Hezbollah field commander and I swear he’s like the most Israeli looking person I’ve ever seen. I could swear I met this dude somewhere

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

I'm reading more about Bill Knudsen, an American hero.

He immigrated from Denmark at age 20.

He left a high-paying position at Ford to help ramp up U.S. production to win World War II, as one of the "dollar-a-day men."

Do people like that exist in our generation?

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

@DeepDishEnjoyer You need a lot of people to keep hitting the buy button

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

this website created images of people with AI since 2019, before ChatGPT was born.

average guy found it mind-blowing at the time.

https://t.co/Ao2pCeREWR

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

@altercatio51 @VoicesofWW2 My grandfather fought in Kerch; thankfully, he was withdrawn to elsewhere in March 1942.

Funny thing is, that was one of his least talked about stories of the war.

[Shivers @thinkingshivers]

Just found out that the reason butlers wear gloves is so they can't play on their phones. This seems really inhumane, like declawing cats.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This is inversion so callous it's hard to believe.

The Holocaust had a survival rate of about 30%. Millions of people disappeared from European cities and towns over several years. Everybody knew because it was happening all around them.

Gaza has a survival rate, despite the worst and most deadly and horrible periods of the war, of 97%.

All the dead Jews were noncombatants. A large percentage of the dead Gazans were combatants.

And the Jews of Europe, even as their millennia-old civilization was being systematically wiped out, wanted nothing from the societies that surrounded them except to be allowed to live in peace.

Gaza's leadership of religious fanatics, meanwhile, wants every last Israeli dead and gone, is willing to fight to the last Gazan to achieve that aim, has said so publicly and worked for decades to blow up every peace attempt -- and even now believes that Gaza's destruction would be a worthwhile sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction, because their god told them so.

So Israelis can reasonably believe, given those features of the Gaza war that aren't true about any genocide ever, and were pretty much the opposite of what was happening in the Holocaust, that Gaza's suffering is a bad and painful war, but not remotely a genocide.

But the point of it all, of course, is not to analyze Gaza, but specifically to lump it together with the Holocaust -- to cast the Jews as the new Nazis.

The only reason this person would dare to make such an insanely ahistorical and immoral parallel is because this is the heart of the bigoted propaganda campaign in which he enthusiastically participates: The point of it all is to make the Jews into the Nazis.

A culture that obsessed about Jews being evil and was then shocked by the Holocaust into obsessing about dead Jews as the apotheosis of righteous victimhood is now obsessively engaged in knocking Jews off that moral pedestal they themselves put them on.

That's why they don't care one whit about Hamas massacres of Gazans, about genocidal wars in Syria or Yemen (even when they've funded and armed the sides), about flotilla activists currently held by the Libyans...literally nothing triggers a response except Jews.

They still, even after all these generations, no matter what else is happening in the world or in their own societies, can't stop thinking about Jews.

And as we Jews learned in the 1940s -- the actual, historical 1940s, not the weird fantasies conjured up by these bigots -- a whole society can be in the grip of a callous, destructive bigotry and still believe it is true and righteous.

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

@JonJon1267623 @JacobL1994_ lol and he had even more extreme plans for them for after the war

[Adin - عدین - עדין @AdinHaykin1]

You're not a real Israeli if you didn't find your dead Hezbollah look alike

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

@Jagoff69er @HiddenHistoryYT Also June 1940 was failed battle of britian and June 1941 Barbarossa which was a failure and June 1943 the defeat at Kursk

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

@JonJon1267623 @JacobL1994_ That’s not true and he literally kidnapped hundreds of thousands of people from Ukraine and Poland to use as slave laborers and that’s not even the worst thing he did to them!

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

The reason all of Europe ended up at war with Germany wasn’t because they cared about Jews. That was the least of their concerns. It was because the Nazis were overrunning their countries and killing their people

[Jacob L @JacobL1994_]

Ah yes, Adolph Hitler, notable appreciator of Poles and Ukrainians

[FDE (Waffle House Paladin) @fde_enthusiast7]

Extremist personalities hop between radical ideologies easily even when the new beliefs completely contradict whatever came before. It’s less about the ideas and more about being all in on something

[Brett G @brettgardner_10]

Another great article by @kryshur. This quote from Buffett made me laugh:

“He’s unbelievably efficient, and that’s probably dramatized by the fact that I’m slow and inefficient,” Buffett said of his successor, in an interview. “Even in my prime, I did not get as much accomplished in a day as Greg does.”

https://t.co/TYLTK30zBS

[PolicyRespecter @oteycoueye]

In fact, Yiddish is 100% Turkic. What is now known as the Turkic language family had its origins in a Jewish project where they cooked this weird agglutinative shit up in a lab and FORCED the Turkic people to start speaking it on pain of death. Til then, all Turks spoke Yiddish.

[Negligible Capital @negligible_cap]

I still think about this a lot

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

11mb of memory in my phone taken up by a single photo of Pabrai in biker shorts

128gb is a sham - How am I supposed to have enough memory to store vital info?

[jacob Wolinsky @JacobWolinsky]

@David97768248 @QuantPunch America kills way more civilians per capita from what I've seen (Europe nowadays, you're probably right, because they barely fight.)