David Solin

[David Solin @david_solin]

@esjesjesj Yeah, the Sukhoi pilot definitely got lower.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@dianekaylacy @nypost As you already know now that’s a 5.56mm bullpup rifle, a Croatian model marketed by Springfield Armory in the US.

Mounted on it is what looks to be a night vision scope, although I am not sure what model.

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

Women are never beating the Batman shopping allegations

[David Solin @david_solin]

@japan_nobunaga This is only possible in a high trust society. Preserve Japanese culture and keep it that way, you know how!

[David Solin @david_solin]

@japan_nobunaga You kept the ticket only so that it could be inspected. “Trust, but verify”.

I suppose by letting you take it, you are being trusted not to counterfeit it, or pass it along to another to use deceitfully. A great honor.

[Roy K. Altman @RoyKAltman]

One of the driving themes of my new book, Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law, is something I only came to understand after investigating each of the six claims made against Israel.

That theme is this: none of these claims exists ex nihilo. They do not come out of thin air.

Each of the six claims is carefully calibrated to invert the Jewish narrative.

In other words, each claim takes something that has historically been done to the Jews—or is actively being done to the Jews—and turns it upside down. It says: actually, the Jews are not the victims of this crime. They are its perpetrators.

And in that way, each of the claims actually is a very sharp, double-sided sword.

On one side, Jews are accused of the ultimate crime of crimes: genocide. On the other, Jewish suffering, Jewish history, and the Jewish narrative are cheapened. The argument becomes: you should not worry too much about the Holocaust; you should not treat it as uniquely important; you should not teach it as a singular warning to humanity—because the Jews, we are told, have become Holocaust perpetrators themselves.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@ToddHaberle @ihtesham2005 If you've read Aristotle, then surely you'd realize that he was quite capable of imagining a comparable scenario.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A backyard. One man guarding a grill for four hours.

He never left it once.

Everyone else drifted and drank and laughed. But one man stood alone before the flames, turning meat with a long fork, immovable. I knew him at once. The keeper of the sacred fire.

I took my place beside him and said nothing. After a while, he spoke.

"Low and slow," he said, eyes on the coals. "You can't rush it. Rush it, you ruin it."

I bowed my head. A blade, a tea, a life. None can be rushed. I had crossed four thousand miles to hear my grandfather's words from a man in a "KISS THE COOK" apron.

"Everything worth doing is slow," I agreed.

He glanced at me. Something passed between us.

"My wife says just use the oven." He shook his head at the fire. "She doesn't get it."

"They never do," I said.

And this is where it turned.

For the first time in years, this man had been understood. And he rose to meet it. His back straightened. His voice dropped low. A teenager reached for the grill and the man lifted one hand without even looking. "Not yet." The boy retreated. He was becoming what I already believed him to be.

A woman asked when the food would be done. "It's ready when it's ready," he told the flames.

Three people approached. Three were turned away with a single word. By the fourth hour, no one questioned him. The whole party had arranged itself around the man and his fire, the way a village arranges itself around a shrine.

Then he handed me the fork.

"Watch it a sec. I gotta pee."

I have been trusted with castles.

I have never been more honored.

He served everyone before himself, and ate last, standing, still watching the coals. We never traded names. We did not need to.

He believed he had finally met a man who took his cooking seriously.

I believed I had finally met America's last samurai.

Neither of us will ever correct the other.

So tell me, America.

Who is the man at your gathering who will not leave the grill?

Have you ever once asked him why?

I think he is still standing there.

Guarding the fire.

Waiting for one person to understand.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

This seems really important.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je veux présenter mes excuses, au nom des Français, pour avoir enfanté la French Theory (qui a enfanté la pire des merdes idéologiques : le wokisme).

Nous avons donné au monde Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Et puis, dans les ruines intellectuelles de l'après-68, nous avons donné Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants qui ont fabriqué, dans l'élégance de notre langue, l'arme idéologique qui paralyse aujourd'hui l'Occident.

Il faut comprendre ce qu'ils ont fait. Foucault a enseigné que la vérité n'existe pas, qu'il n'y a que des rapports de pouvoir déguisés en savoir. Que la science, la raison, la justice, l'institution médicale, l'école, la prison, la sexualité, tout n'est qu'une mise en scène de la domination. Derrida a enseigné que les textes n'ont pas de sens stable, que tout signifiant glisse, que toute lecture est une trahison, que l'auteur est mort et que le lecteur règne. Deleuze a enseigné qu'il fallait préférer le rhizome à l'arbre, le nomade au sédentaire, le désir à la loi, le devenir à l'être, la différence à l'identité.

Pris isolément, ce sont des thèses discutables. Combinées, exportées, vulgarisées, elles forment un système. Et ce système est un poison.

Car voici ce qui s'est passé. Ces textes, illisibles en France, ont traversé l'Atlantique. Les départements de Yale, de Berkeley, de Columbia les ont absorbés dans les années 80. Ils y ont trouvé un terreau qui n'existait pas chez nous : le puritanisme américain, sa culpabilité raciale, son obsession identitaire. La French Theory s'est mariée à ce substrat, et l'enfant de ce mariage s'appelle le wokisme.

Judith Butler lit Foucault et invente le genre performatif. Edward Said lit Foucault et invente le post-colonialisme académique. Kimberlé Crenshaw hérite du cadre et invente l'intersectionnalité. À chaque étape, la matrice est française : il n'y a pas de vérité, il n'y a que du pouvoir, donc toute hiérarchie est suspecte, toute institution est oppressive, toute norme est violence, toute identité est construite donc négociable, toute majorité est coupable.

Voilà comment trois philosophes parisiens, qui n'ont probablement jamais imaginé leurs conséquences pratiques, ont fourni le logiciel d'exploitation à une génération entière d'activistes, de bureaucrates universitaires, de DRH, de journalistes, de législateurs. Voilà comment on a obtenu une civilisation qui ne sait plus dire si une femme est une femme, si sa propre histoire mérite d'être défendue, si le mérite existe, si la vérité se distingue de l'opinion.

C'est de la merde pour une raison simple, et il faut la dire calmement. Une civilisation se tient debout sur trois piliers : la croyance qu'il existe une vérité accessible à la raison, la croyance qu'il existe un bien distinct du mal, la croyance qu'il existe un héritage à transmettre. La French Theory a entrepris de dynamiter les trois. Pas par méchanceté. Par jeu intellectuel, par fascination du soupçon, par haine de la bourgeoisie qui les avait nourris. Mais le résultat est là. Une génération entière a appris à déconstruire et n'a jamais appris à construire. Une génération entière sait soupçonner et ne sait plus admirer. Une génération entière voit le pouvoir partout et la beauté nulle part.

Je m'excuse parce que nous, Français, avons une responsabilité particulière. C'est notre langue, nos universités, nos éditeurs, notre prestige qui ont donné à ce nihilisme son emballage chic. Sans la légitimité de la Sorbonne et de Vincennes, ces idées n'auraient jamais traversé l'océan. Nous avons exporté le doute comme d'autres exportent des armes.

Ce qui se construit maintenant, en silicon valley, dans les labos d'IA, dans les startups, dans les ateliers, dans tous les lieux où des gens fabriquent encore des choses au lieu de les déconstruire, c'est la réponse. Une civilisation se reconstruit par les b��tisseurs, pas par les commentateurs. Par ceux qui croient que la vérité existe et qu'elle vaut qu'on s'y consacre. Par ceux qui assument une hiérarchie du beau, du vrai, du bon, et qui n'ont pas honte de la transmettre.

Alors pardon. Et au travail.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@AusCan531 @McCormickProf That’s actually not a bad explanation of the liberal pathology, which is a hypersensitive compassion disorder that manifests as an obsession with control.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@just_whatever @bblatt11 @sarcasm IYKYK

Chag Pesach Sameach!

[Michael Elgort @just_whatever]

Breaking: reports of mass bread shortages across Israel

Bread shelves are all empty. That’s a very significant development

I will dig deeper into that matter and will let you know what happened. Stay tuned

[David Solin @david_solin]

@latlonging @AustinJustice It is so refreshing to hear from someone who shatters the leftist pieties and dares to say what is obvious to everyone living in Austin.

We must evict these virtue-signaling idiots from government and restore the rule of law, to the clear benefit of everyone.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@tariqtramboo In the Islamic Republic, these women would be beaten to within an inch of their lives for immodesty.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@GregAbbott_TX @GregAbbott_TX let’s rename Caesar Chavez in Austin in honor of Chuck Norris!

[David Solin @david_solin]

@profstonge VanDyke is a hero for being brave enough simply to speak the plain truth.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

Addressing Zoomerslop.
A real Gen Z quote:
"Of all my friends, Israel is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to America First. I, in fact, have not talked to one Gen Z conservative that has been pro-Israel. Everybody I've talked to is questioning Israel."

Listen, kids. Doesn't that seem really f--king weird to you? The main thing your whole cohort cares about is another country, one that is allied with us and kicking ass in the most Top Gun way you can imagine? Doesn't it seem weird that everyone in your generation is focused on another country that isn't even attacking us?

It should seem weird because it is weird. The reason it's happening is not because Israel is relevant to all of your lives. The reason it is happening is because you're being propagandized.

Let me repeat the quote in words that hit your big brothers and sisters right in the assholes ten years ago:
"Of all my friends, privilege is the very first thing that they want to learn about and understand, because it does go back to Social Justice. I, in fact, have not talked to one Millennial liberal that doesn't question our privilege. Everybody I've talked to is questioning privilege: white privilege, male privilege, straight privilege."

Do you think that was normal? No, it wasn't normal either. Every Gen X or older person can tell you that the young people in their generations had many, varied, and diverse interests. There was no top of mind for everyone in a generation. But the Millennials got it with privilege and Social Justice, and you're getting it with Israel and "America First."

Kids, listen to me.

This is not normal.

This is not natural.

This is the result of dedicated propaganda campaigns.

You are being propagandized.

The method of propaganda being used is primarily something called "reflexivity," which is a method developed by George Soros to create mass movements of belief around deliberate lies that he called "fertile fallacies."

He called them "fertile fallacies" because they are lies (fallacies, errors, differences between what's believed and what's really true) that can take off (fertile) in a population. They're "lies with legs," it has been said.

The method of "reflexivity" is to get everyone believing the same erroneous stuff in an increasing way at the same time. This is accomplished through local media saturation: everyone is talking about the same thing in the same way at the same time, and eventually so are your friends. Then the ideas "reflect" all around you creating a sense of social consensus and widespread belief.

Reflexive campaigns are everywhere now. On the Left, we call them the "Current Thing." We have rafts of memes of the NPCs all changing their tune or saying the same thing or being reprogrammed or being hypnotized into the newest Current Thing, which changes when the media does.

That's you! Now! You're being Sorosed!

The reason everyone in your generation is suddenly talking about Israel is because propagandists in your midst have made Israel your "current thing." It is a reflexive campaign, and you aren't just a victim but are playing your part.

The framing for that reflexive campaign is "America First." The propagandists are exploiting your love of country and frustration with bad actors in our governments and their "global partners," which are increasingly being exposed, to get you attached to a bunch of fertile fallacies about Israel, all of which play upon your fears, anxieties, frustrations, and love for your beautiful country.

Here are some:
"Israel is not really our greatest ally. It isn't even an ally."
"We can't afford things at home because Israel gets aid money."
"This is Israel's War, and I'm not dying in Israel's War."
"Israel attacked the USS Liberty and isn't our friend."
"Jeffrey Epstein was working with Israel."
"Israel is too weak to exist on its own so it manipulates America into supporting it."
"Israel is a settler-colonialist project that is doing a genocide of the indigenous Palestinians." (OOPS MY BAD THAT'S THE ONE THEY'RE TELLING YOUR FRIENDS ON THE LEFT)
"Israel is a warmongering vassal state under with US protectorate status that is seeking to become a regional power by starting random wars that it drags the US into and doing genocide." (AHH THAT'S YOUR VERSION OF THE SAME LIE!)

None of these (or dozens more) is accurate. They are all fallacies (lies) designed to take off in the social and emotional environments you find yourselves in, driven by media and political propagandists who have their own agendas but need your help (just like the NPCs on the Left).

The reason you are so obsessed (and, yes, that's obsession) with Israel is because you are being targeted by reflexive propaganda campaigns designed to make you all fixate on this object that can be alleged to cause most of your problems. In fact, it causes few, if any, of your problems and is actively solving many problems you are blessed enough not to even know that you have.

Friends, you are being propagandized. You are being led to focus and fixate on these things because it serves dark interests that are not your own.

The same Soros techniques that work on the Left are being used on you, and you're helping them work.

How do you stop them?
1) Stop listening to propagandists. This is actually really important.
2) Seek out the opposite side of what you're being told and try to understand the truth.
3) Use critical thinking.
4) Ask yourself if you're being asked to think about issues or asked to feel about issues.
5) Be skeptical of something that appears suddenly in the news or on platforms that everyone is repeating all the time all at once. That's how Soros's reflexivity works.
6) Understand, just like how it was true with CNN and other trusted news sources, that trusted sources can be bought, at which point they are not trustworthy anymore and are using your trust to manipulate you.

The biggest anti-America operation that's happening right now is the sudden skeptical-to-hostile fixation on Israel. Notice that it's only been a thing since October 7, 2023, exactly the same time the parallel propaganda wave began on the Left. What you're participating in is the side of that same campaign tailored to your values, your anxieties, and your frustrations. No different.

This campaign is rapidly turning people against not just Israel and often Jews (against your values, I'm sure), but against MAGA, Trump, the United States and its role in the world, and the Republican Party. Who benefits from that? Not you. Not us.

Isn't it weird to you that so many people suddenly believe exactly the opposite of what they believed in 2022? Isn't it weird to you that everyone considers this such a big issue?

It should be weird because it is. That's the signature of a propaganda campaign, and you are its primary targets.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@Abu_Salah9 And they'll do it again. It's called fuck around and find out.

[David Solin @david_solin]

@NYCMayor You and your wife are human garbage wrapped in skin. You may have all the Marxist useful idiots fooled, but millions of us are well aware of exactly what kind of hateful bigot you are.