Matthew Thomson

attorney, largely observing, views are my own.

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

I stand here on the side of the debate (not with twits like the guy who played the Hulk)

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Having listened to the arguments of both sides over the last year, I'm no longer on the fence about Israel's war. Here is why:

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Nietzsche, no holding back on socialism with this one lol

[Vusi de Villiers @Finnthehuman80]

This is hilarious. I wonder if they consulted the ancestors when they stole R1.5 Trillion from taxpayers. Maybe the ancestors were angry at all the SOE’s and broke them.

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

For a billionaire, Cyril really struggles with big numbers (happens when wealth given not earned). 7 million trees in 6 months is ~14/yr. A billion in 5 years needs 200 million/yr. I like trees and am a fan of the initiative but at this pace, we hit the target around 2096. 🤡

[Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 @CyrilRamaphosa]

Since April this year, more than seven million trees have been planted across all provinces under the Presidential One Billion Trees Campaign. More than two million trees have been planted in the Western Cape alone, with more than one million trees in each of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

🔗 https://t.co/O1YeGV7kc3

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

If you're curious why the media is spreading so much false information about the riots, consider:

— The French Culture Ministry paid €204.7 million in direct aid to the news media in 2023, of which Le Monde received €8.3 million, L’Humanité €6.5 million and Libération €6.3 million

— The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation

— European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies

— To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.”

— Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.

— The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.

https://t.co/LpyxOXtFAY

— Public reported in 2024 that ISD and the German fact-checker Correctiv, both government-funded, had spread false claims about German farmers and opposition politicians.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

FBI Assembles Elite Team Of Investigators To See If All These Terrorist Attacks Can Somehow Be Connected To A Single Ideology https://t.co/uhgPN5E16h

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

🚨 Breaking: BBC reports that hostile Israeli passengers violently attacked the peaceful pilot who wanted to crash land the plane

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Here's How 'The New York Times' Reported 9 Historic Attacks https://t.co/SiG8U7u9aj

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

Suicidal empathy in action.

@GadSaad

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

A terrorist attack on a flight targeted at Israelis and this is how News24 reports it.

What is actually wrong with you @AdriaanBasson?

[Ricardo Teixeira 🇿🇦 @1TrueRicardo]

Only in South Africa can a former bank robber be placed in charge of "Moral Regeneration".

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

Dude has a weekly newsletter: perhaps he could consider a short statement 'condemning' farm murderers instead of the people who talk about farm murders. In his own words "At a time when unemployment is high, and we need to grow our economy, and attract investment..."

[News24 🇿🇦 @News24]

Ramaphosa condemns ‘white genocide’ lobbying, language that ‘glorifies killing’

https://t.co/ZrIMNT1bY5

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

The babbled garbage of a communist and politician who has never worked a day in his life. Money matters. These people are not serious.

[Karyn Maughan @karynmaughan]

If you want to know why Joburg is in crisis, watch this exchange between Mayor Dada Moreno and @QaanitahHunter.

And please go and vote.
We cannot carry on like this.

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

We are now past peak-woke. Common sense is returning. It would be possible to predict companies' downfall based on adherence to woke ideologies. The more woke the company, the higher the likelihood of imminent failure.

[Daily Maverick @dailymaverick]

To beat the far right, it is time to abandon woke https://t.co/2tfwAzPGrV

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Prominent Muslim Leader Resigns

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

"If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich" that's it.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

Ethiopia was never colonized.

For much of its history, it was one of the poorest countries on the continent.

Meanwhile, Vietnam was colonized by the French, devastated by decades of war, and is now on its way to serious economic prosperity.

If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor, Ethiopia should be rich and Vietnam should be broke. Neither is true.

Can we please retire this excuse?

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

In the future, we will look back at whether a person used pronouns in their email signatures and profiles and whether they took the vaccine and got boosters (especially if they put the vaccine emoji in their bio) as an intelligence test - if you did, you failed.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Providing one's pronouns is extremely, universally dumb and will be seen by future generations as a uniquely dumb marker of a very dumb age. But the dumbest permutation by far is the triplet "she/her/hers," where it's specified that the person has the same gender for both possessive determiners and possessive pronouns.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

The only thing that stops violent men from raping you and your society are other men who are equally willing to be violent in stopping the rapists. The West has decided that the highest virtue is to quietly comply with the destruction of your civilization because to do otherwise is bigoted toward the rapists. It really is that simple.

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

"...clear to attack black people. We know what they stand for. They stand against the human rights of human, of women, and the LGBTQI communities" - is he talking about the ANC's best buds Iran and Hamas?

[Stefan Jacobs @stefanjacobs]

I have a conspiracy theory that the ANC is being blackmailed by some foreign entity into spewing all this leftist slop that’s essentially the same as what you’re seeing coming out of Europe and America. I think they’ve looted so much, and have so many skeletons in the closet, that they are now beholden to adversaries. They’ve sold the country to the highest bidder, and now they’re being forced to regurgitate this nonsense to attack America for no sensible reason whatsoever.

Btw, this is a better alternative than him doing this of his own accord and from conviction. Because that would mean we’re led by literal illiterates and people of extremely low intelligence.

Maybe it’s a combination of both. It’s probably a combination of both.

[Matthew Thomson @MattThomsonZA]

The undefeated and indefatigable Moeletsi Mbeki👏

[Commentary - Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

@elonmusk "President Cyril Ramaphosa acquired 1.2% percent shares in Standard Bank through BEE (Black Economic Empowerment), that is how he became a billionaire." - Moeletsi Mbeki

He never actually built any business. That's what these guys do. They will never let it go. They benefit.