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David Pinsen
@dpinsen
Dec 19, 2024 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
"Michael Jackson tragedy is he was born in wrong place. He was born to be military dictator of great pomp, and was to rule with great severity."

Zoomers today know of Michael Jackson mainly from that BAP quote, but he was, in a way, the Mozart of his day. 🧵 1/13 Image Like Mozart, Michael was a child prodigy who changed the game. In fact, the similarities don't end there!

At the age of 5, Mozart was already performing for European royalty. His prodigious skills in playing multiple instruments and composing quickly set him apart. 2/13 Image
Mar 12, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Here’s a solution for Haiti that Yarvin might like: give it back to its rightful owner, Christopher Columbus XX. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristóbal… His ancestor discovered Hispaniola, the island Haiti 🇭🇹 is on, and he was shipwrecked off of what is now Haiti, on Christmas Eve, 1492.

His claim to Haiti precedes that of the descendants of African slaves.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…
Nov 22, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1/11 How the British prevented Jamaica 🇯🇲 from turning into Haiti 🇭🇹. 🧵 from Jan Morris’s “Heaven’s Command”, excising a bit of her anachronistic editorializing. Image 2/11 The main character here is the Governor of Jamaica at the time, Edward John Eyre. Image
Oct 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
The main takeaway here should be that the minority Marxists cheering Hamas are dumb, and lacked the theory of mind to understand how this would go over.

But their antipathy toward Jews isn’t new.

So why the establishment crackdown now? 1/9 🧵 The main reason is the scale of the Hamas attack.

It appears to be the 2nd-worst terrorist incident in history in terms of deaths (with 9/11 being the worst).

Terrorism death counts over 1,000 are extremely rare. 2/9

worldatlas.com/articles/worst…
Mar 7, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Arnold takes a brave stand here against (in reverse chronological order) @RichardBSpencer’s tiki torch march in Charlottesville, Apartheid, Nazi Germany, and the Confederacy.

I have some thoughts, but first watch this; it’s very well done. 🧵 1/ First, I think you’ve got to be a miserable person to dislike Arnold or Trump. If you were born in America in the ‘70s or any decade after, they’ve been deservedly famous for as long as you can remember. 2/
Jan 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Would be curious to see the average test scores of cops who do this. I’m willing to bet they’re fairly low. I live in a diverse area and can’t remember an incident like this.

Cops here get paid very well and you’ve got to ace the cop test to even get an interview.

Literally hundreds of guys take the test when one spot opens up.
Jan 27, 2023 • 49 tweets • 15 min read
Starting a new betting thread 🧵.

No UFC this weekend, but we have the Australian Open finals, and the NFL championship games.

sportsbook.draftkings.com/social/betting… Free bonus bet on DraftKings if you want to play along:

sportsbook.draftkings.com/r/sb/DPinsen/U…
Dec 30, 2022 • 39 tweets • 14 min read
Another weekend with no UFC, but lots of other events.

Starting a new betting thread with UCLA -7.5 @ +136 versus Pittsburgh in whatever bowl game this is. Link for a free $100 in bets on DraftKings if you want to play along.

sportsbook.draftkings.com/r/sb/DPinsen/U…
Dec 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This is stupid and wrong on multiple levels.

1) The ~$100 billion we’re spending on the Ukraine is 164% of Russia’s annual defense budget and nearly 9x the cost of a border wall that would actually protect America.* Image *(Going by NPR’s $11 billion estimate.)

2) Russia’s conventional military poses no offensive threat to us, as evinced by their struggle to project force next door in the Ukraine.

npr.org/2020/01/19/797…
Nov 21, 2022 • 33 tweets • 12 min read
Same game parlay for tonight’s #SNF game. #LACvsKC #NFLTwitter Free bet on #DraftKings if @St1Station wants to get addicted to sports 🏈 betting.

sportsbook.draftkings.com/r/sb/DPinsen/U…
Nov 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Why can’t @CBSSports stop broadcasting this blowout and show the @Bengals game instead?

Even their @paramountplus app doesn’t let you switch.

twitter.com/i/events/15249… They just did. 👍
Nov 19, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Took Maryland +2.5. That didn’t work.
Nov 19, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
My #UFCVegas64 picks. Spivak 🇲🇩, Fialho 🇵🇹, and Della Maddalena 🇦🇺 to finish… Image This parlay, and the rest moneyline. Image
May 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🏆 Took the +475 underdog Mexican Valdez in honor of @SethLargo in the next one.
Apr 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Imagine letting the left hang Charlottesville around Trump’s neck while Biden (and, admittedly, nearly all of Congress) is funding and arming guys like this. In four years, @noahpinion has gone from accusing Trump of tolerance for murderous Nazis to supporting murderous Nazis himself.
Apr 30, 2022 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
My #UFCVegas53 picks. This 2-leg parlay, and straight moneyline bets on the rest.
Apr 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Turns out the Apple Watch does have lifting as a workout choice, you just have to hunt for it. Image Then some jumping rope, stretching, and bag work. Knuckles sore from a few bare knuckle punches at the end. Image
Apr 8, 2022 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
My #UFC273 picks. Image I have this 4-leg parlay, and the rest are straight money line bets. Image
Apr 2, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Seems clear now that no one in the Biden administration, the EU, or NATO thought through the implications of the Russia sanctions at all.
zerohedge.com/markets/zoltan… If the current trajectory continues, it's going to lead to inflationary forces that central banks won't be able to control, because they're based on real world, physical constraints imposed by the sanctions regime.

Take the Aframax oil container ship, for example... Image
Feb 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Forgot my phone in the gym last night. What it was like not having my phone. 🧵 Not a huge deal.
Feb 12, 2022 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
My #UFC271 picks. Have a big parlay (see next tweet), money line bets on the rest, plus an extra bet on @bambamtuivasa to win by KO/TKO. Here’s the parlay. You can break this up in two if you want a better chance of winning.