Kyle Knight

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief 💯

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief 💯 there is real antisemitism in the world. Crying wolf makes it a more dangerous world.

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@JMichaelWaller

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief Oh I don’t know there is one. I just know I’m looking for one and a lot of other people are too.

The only light we can follow is the truth.

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@RJBrandenburg @thespybrief I appreciate this post and agree. I’d like to see it all put together, mostly so I can try to explain it to others.

Our worldviews in general (not just TSB) have gone through a lot in the last 10 years. I think everyone is looking for coherence and a path to follow.

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@RandomP97494379 this is great

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@MikeyDiMercurio The super temporal electron hypothesis has been around for at least 15 years.

It is silly but it’s a hard one to actually prove (or disprove) bc of quantum weirdness.

Overall agree - Physics is pretty busy navel gazing rather than solving problems.

Says this engineer

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@infantrydort Perhaps if leadership had explained this - like they did in the year leading up to the Iraq War - people would be a bit more understanding.

Also note, we have no discussion of what victory conditions look like. Is this regime change or degrade of capability? How will we know?

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief ❤️

[Lupercuck Fatale @Trans_Lykeia]

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@xwanyex

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief

[Greg Koenig @gak_pdx]

The thing with the Dem party is that they can run all the moderates they want, put Buttigieg in a town hall, hype Ezra Klein think pieces, populate normie pods with reasonable people… but underneath it all, when times get tough, they will always run to an insane, activist base who obviously is the party’s real juice.

Raman is clearly losing, and her response to LA voters rejecting her Bolshevism is to double down on something insane to appeal to that base like “Hey, vote for us and we’ll ban backyard BBQs.”

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

Marco Rubio finding out he has to run Spirit Airlines now too.

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief So… moral wisdom?

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief Fun fact tho, the P-80 shooting star (1940s tech) had to have a transponder on it bc it was so naturally (and inadvertently) stealthy it couldn’t be consistently be tracked

Though remember, this was against 1940s radar technology

[Kyle Knight @KnightRid3er]

@thespybrief F-5 first flight was 1959. Privately funded venture. Made specifically for export to allied nations.

So 100% not cutting edge even 67 years ago.

Astounding and embarrassing

[John Schindler @20committee]

Check out the big brain on Brad!

We let Finland into NATO because it's one of the few European countries that takes defense seriously. Helsinki can mobilize an army of pushing a million trained troops -- from a total population of under 6 million.

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

Hey girl, did you crash into an Iowa cornfield after losing all flight control surfaces due to an uncontained engine failure? Because…

[Troy Frasier AKA Revived Studios @RevivedThoughts]

The amount of self-hate Americans have towards their own history is truly unreal.

They defeated slavery by fighting against their own family.
They shut Europe out of the western hemisphere so that nations wouldn't live under colonization forever.
They had the ability to stay out of world war 1 but they went and died to help Europeans.
They had the ultimate power in the nuclear bomb. They also had access to all of Europe's colonies that were in shambles. But instead they promoted freedom. They rebuilt Japan and Germany after defeating them in war. They stood down the Soviet Union, even as the world jeered them.
They sent soldiers to places like Vietnam and Afghanistan that died TRYING to create a better world (even if you disagree with those wars, the intentions were fairly good)
And they sent more missionaries to the world than maybe any other country in history. Translated more Bibles into indigenous languages than any other country in history. Ran bigger charities than any other country in history. Created more Christian resources than any other country in history.

Whether it was stopping the Dutch from reconquering Indonesia to the Berlin Airlift to giving Cuba its freedom in the Spanish-American war to saving China from the Japanese America has at least ATTEMPTED to do good with its power.

Yes yes, America has problems. People are imperfect. But goodness gracious does the world have a lot to be grateful for in America. And when we could have taken SO much from the world we have often chosen not to. Rome, Britain, Mongols, Assyrians, Soviets, Chinese, no other group has ever shown the restraint America has consistently shown with such vast power at its fingertips.

We didn't even get into the GIGANTIC technological advances, consumer advances, convenient lifestyle changes America has pioneered. From electricity to space to the light bulb to the smart phone to many cures in medicine and agriculture to the airplane the world has been enormously blessed by America.