In this thread, I will dissect the hateful, sloppy NYT opinion piece attacking @elonmusk for being an Afrikaner.
It took me 15 seconds to confirm that the author, a socialist whose site the NYT calls "independent," is actually being bankrolled by... George Soros
Real shocker!
The crux of the article is that Elon Musk is a white supremacist because he was raised in apartheid South Africa, and his support for Trump, capitalism, and America is all rooted in racism.
"Free Enterprise" is given scare quotes!
You can feel the immense racial hatred emanating from every paragraph. It's palpable.
White. White. White. Evil. Evil. Evil.
If you don't understand how socialist socieities descend into mass murder, this is how. Blood guilt. Sins of the father. Hatred of private property.
The defamation isn't just extended to Elon. Also: David Sacks and Peter Thiel (one born in SA, one spent time in German Namibia as a child)
The author defends "land restitution" as a "broadly accepted norm" - even comparing it to eminent domain
Murdering white farmers and stealing their land! God forbid anyone oppose that!
Let's discuss how this worked out in Africa before...
Samantha Power, the USAID administrator under Biden (not exactly a MAGA) covered the Zimbabwe collapse in 2003
The black government murdered white farmers and stole their land. Grain yields fell 90%. 90%!
The people who support this are psychopaths.
The author, William Shoki, goes out of his way to specifically defend Zimbabwe, which is maybe the craziest thing here.
Zimbabwe is such a disaster that they've printed $100 trillion bills.
Only black communist intellectuals benefit from this. African populations suffer
William Shoki, the author, is editor of "Africa is a Country" ("independent publication" says NYT)
The first partner listed on their website? Open Society Foundations.
Independent?
Luckily, this type of stuff doesn't work anymore. South Africa is a failed state. Zimbabwe even worse.
We are honored to have Elon (and David and Peter, and all the rest) as citizens in the United States of America.
🇺🇸
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Wharton statistician looks at Hamas’ casualty data and concludes they are likely falsifying to maintain a rolling mean & linear growth — and they don’t know how to avoid making anomalies obvious to Western analysts
Women:Children R2=0.017
Men:Women is *negative* with R2 = 0.835
“Perhaps…the Gaza ministry is releasing fake daily numbers that vary too little because they do not have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers.”
The utter lack of correlation between the deaths of women and children is especially strange.
Essentially, the split between women and children is different every day but the total always the same.
The Israel-Hamas war, anti-semitism, and free speech in America
My reflections after three weeks of arguing in my country.
In general I am happy about the state of discourse in America, but I wish to address some criticisms of me, both honest and dishonest.
🧵
I absolutely stand by my actions collecting public pro-terror statements and identifying who made them.
Yet I noticed an unhealthy impulse by many people on my side to report minor transgressions or private criticisms as if they *were* endorsements of mass murder.
Not all are!
As I explained to the New York Times, it actually *is* possible to separate the two.
And as I also pointed out, I have raised my voice before in support of the sacred speech rights of anti-Zionists
Last summer, a trans-owned, trans-staffed coffee shop in Philadelphia shut its doors after its (trans) employees conducted a "radical accountability process" against the owners.
This is the bizarre story of Mina's World, which I wrote about on my blog.
They accused the owners of a lot of charges
Including wage theft.
But they separately complained when the owners tried to *stop* wage theft -- when tips were literally stolen from the jar by teenagers.
Other complaints were vague:
"Anti-blackness in a multitude of forms & occasions"
"Tokenization as a way to appear safe by association"
The video below is Emily Wilson, the Homeric translator promoted by the corporate media, reciting Book 23 from her translation of the Odyssey
It is disturbing - a mockery of the great work
Imagine NPR but read by the worst middle school theater teacher of all time
Part 2:
NOW, compare that with the great performer Stanley Lombardo, who performed Book 23 of his own translation of the Odyssey - live WITH DRUMS on C-SPAN with Christopher Hitchens in 2000.
Lombardo has dignity where Wilson does not. He has a sense of what it means to tell a story.
You may notice the cover of Lombardo's translation:
It's the photograph Earthrise from Apollo 8. Christmas Eve 1968.
If that isn't a beautiful symbol of what it feels like to yearn for Ithaca, for your far-away home after an epic journey...