Isaac

unironic neocon. living in the greatest country on earth. likely offensive. minimally compassionate. golf, guns, tech and awful takes.

[Isaac @h2twch]

John Scott just scored. Bahahaha.

[Dr. History by the ,5 Liter Ehrenbiertrinker @historybythpint]

In 1630, prince-bishop Johann Georg Fuchs von Dornheim wrote to emperor Ferdinand II that the witch trials in Bamberg must be continued "for the sake of the little children."

[Erich Zann @ErichZannRdA]

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! ... A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

- Winston Churchill

[Isaac @h2twch]

Joke county.

Almost eniterly about unmasking anonymous accounts, not protecting children.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

If Israel had done this, Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson would already be on episode seven of a joint “war on Christianity” series.

[BoduoGnatos⚔️ @boduognatos84]

Marocaines à Bruxelles / Marocaines aux États-Unis

[Isaac @h2twch]

@SwannMarcus89 PA treats divorce for financial misconduct that way. Very based.

[🐺 @LeighWolf]

Kurt will be shocked to learn US troops pretend to shoot EACH OTHER during training.

[Isaac @h2twch]

@WatsonLadd @ProfDBernstein @DOWResponse @SecWar Crippling emeny logistics? Bridges have been a military target forever.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Are the Somali and Sudanese refugees paying for British pensions in the room with us right now?

[Isaac @h2twch]

@Sir_Merc @LJEds20 @flushingitgolf They wanted to buy out the PGA Tour, you mean. Their vision of a partnership was to host their events with PGAT players, while offering less than nothing.

[Isaac @h2twch]

@JCAGOLFReport @BobSuraFans @acaseofthegolf1 @GolfChannel It was somehow "unethical" to run the PIF story? It's been confirmed for them it was a last minute thing to end funding after the year instead of outright.

[wanye @xwanyex]

“Why would we ever want a system based on knowing a guy? Isn’t it better to have an impersonal, objective process?”

— guy who doesn’t know a guy

[Isaac @h2twch]

@AngloChud2001 @_Justin_Sports @JoshuaBarzon What does viewership have to do with revenue. Euros and thirdies watch, but are poor.

[Nathan Law 羅冠聰 @nathanlawkc]

I've come across posts like this many, many times – praising China's safety while denouncing democracies that spend too much time debating "freedoms."

I get it. I don't want to live somewhere I have to watch my surroundings constantly.

But safety isn't the price you pay for freedom. Taiwan, Japan, and Korea are among the safest places. You can walk the streets at 2 a.m without a second thought, and none of them required a surveillance state to get there. Culture, state capacity, and enforcement all shape this, no single model owns it.

China's version comes down to a tyrannical policing and surveillance apparatus that makes the personal cost of committing even petty crime extraordinarily high. But that same apparatus is also the one that disappears the lawyer, the journalist, the dissident.

Europe may have a problem, but China is not the answer to it. Hinting that the problem is having too much “freedom debate” is such a bad take.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

When Gabriel Zucman manipulated tax rate stats to show the wealthy paying less than the poor and tried to memory hole his own previously published numbers that undermined this claim, academia cheered him on because they liked his political narrative and gave him the Clark Medal.

When Kevin Kruse plagiarized multiple passages in his published works over the past two decades, academia circled the wagons around him, attacked the person who discovered it (i.e. me) as "politically motivated," and dismissed overwhelming evidence as "accidental copying and pasting."

When Quinn Slobodian got caught altering the text of Mises quotations to make them sound racist, academia made him co-editor of the journal where he did it and showered him with prizes.

When Nancy MacLean got caught engaging in wholesale fabrications of evidence (as well as egregious incompetence) in her book about James M. Buchanan, academia made her a finalist for the National Book Award.

When Nikole Hannah-Jones got caught denying and ghost-editing one of her most controversial claims out of the 1619 Project, academia handed her a cushy endowed professorship with full tenure despite her having nonexistent scholarly research outputs and zero teaching experience.

When Michael Bellesiles falsified historical documents to make an anti-second amendment argument as part of his history of gun ownership in America, academia gave him the Bancroft Prize and only rescinded it after the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

When Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple scholarly works over her career, academia made her president of Harvard and also tried to circle the wagons until the evidence became so overwhelming that they could not deny it anymore.

Yes, higher ed has a politicization problem and it often shows through in the exceedingly low standards of rigor in many of these fields. But it also manifests in other ways that are much more serious than a simple lack of rigor.

[Pub @PubWanghaf]

“So we brought you in here today because Melissa in accounting heard you refer to the copy machine as ‘retarded’.”
—
HR lady who aborted her child with Down syndrome

[Isaac @h2twch]

@asianvalues @CarsonSCBradley Note: none of the uses of the word indigenous are about models developed in Canada.

They're all about natives.

[Talmud Enjoyer 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🧬 @jewndahalfmen]

Academics do this thing where they take a previously well understood word from the English language, repurpose it to suit some narrow (and highly ideological) analytic lens, and then tell you it’s always meant that.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Why was I outspokenly against America taking shares in private companies, even when Trump was doing it?

Because it’s awful policy, and you know it’s awful policy because this communist degenerate supports it.

You want to kill all innovation and promote corruption? This is how.

[Isaac @h2twch]

@acaseofthegolf1 Please tell me someone got a video of that.