David Schulze

Waiting for the anti-woke free speech warriors to defend the scientists now that Trump, RFK Jr. and the FBI are arresting them, but I'm not holding my breath. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…

@sajm70 @srodan Between 30,000 and 100,000 Chechen civilian died in the First Chechen War by Russia and 25,000 to 200,000 civilians in the Second. In 2003, the United Nations designated the Chechen capital Grozny as the most destroyed city on Earth. drillanddefense.com/grozny-modern-…

@srodan No other nation state post WW2 has even come close to the genocidal Apartheid regime in Israel. Yes your jewish problem is Israel not peaceful opposition by western citizens who object to genocide.

There is a claim that keeps circulating, presented as sophisticated analysis: antisemitic violence is caused by Israel’s actions. If Israel behaved differently, Jewish communities around the world would somehow be safer. This argument is not analysis. It is a moral inversion. And it collapses the moment you apply it consistently. When China imprisons Uyghurs, does anyone warn Muslim communities in Paris to expect attacks? When Russia invaded Ukraine, did anyone tell Russian restaurants to brace for violence? No. Never. The causal chain between a government’s actions and violence against a diaspora is only ever constructed for Jews. Every other minority is extended the basic moral courtesy of being treated as individuals rather than proxies. Now look at what the data actually shows. The SPCJ, which tracks antisemitic incidents in France in coordination with the Interior Ministry, has documented a consistent and damning pattern: it is antisemitic violence that inspires more antisemitic violence, not Israeli policy. After Mohamed Merah murdered Jewish children at point-blank range at the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse in 2012, antisemitic acts surged by 200%. There was no Gaza operation. No Israeli military action. The massacre of Jews in France produced more attacks on Jews in France. The same logic held after the Hypercacher attack in January 2015: antisemitic acts increased by nearly 300%. Massacres of Jews do not shock antisemites into restraint. They embolden them. They signal impunity. They normalize hatred. And everyone in a position of responsibility knows it. Which brings us to October 7. From the day of the Hamas attack, antisemitic acts in France increased by over 1,000%. A daily average of approximately 25 antisemitic acts was recorded in the 30 days that followed, reaching nearly 40 on some days. In the three months after the attack, the number of antisemitic acts equaled those recorded over the previous three years combined. And here is another detail that makes the “Israel causes antisemitism” argument impossible to sustain: the spike began on October 7 itself, the very day of the attack. Israel had not yet responded. Not a single soldier had entered Gaza. Interior Minister Darmanin sent an urgent message to prefects that same day asking them to immediately reinforce protection of Jewish community sites. Synagogues. Schools. Community centers. By October 10, 10,000 police officers had been deployed to protect 500 Jewish sites across the country. Before any Israeli response existed, the French government already knew that Jewish communities needed protecting. Not because of what Israel was about to do. Because of what had just been done to Jews. Antisemitic violence has one cause. Antisemitism.

@yuanyi_z It seems to me that he is trying to engage with them as serious people with whom he disagrees. That seems much more productive than dismissing them as "unprincipled hacks" which substitutes insults for analysis.

For what it's worth, I have left this comment on his post. Let us see what the moderators say. I am flattered to feature on such a distinguished blog; I am less flattered by Dr Sitota’s description of myself as a ‘populist clown’. Nevertheless, I must admit I find his position puzzling. Dr Sirota’s own position amounts to an acceptance that the Supreme Court of Canada is filled by unprincipled hacks and intellectual lightweights who make stupid decisions, but combined with an unwillingness to do anything that might change things. This is, if I may say so, Andrew Coyne-ism. Dr Sirota has often written, at great length about the foolish doings of their lordships. Have his writings made any difference? Has a single judge taken head of what he said? Will they ever notice, when he is in academic exile, having been blacklisted by most respectable Canadian law faculties? Respect for judicial independence is important. It is not, and should never be a licence for misgovernment. That’s not populism, but a basic requirement for self-government in the truest sense.

Dr Sirota dismisses me as a “populist clown” for thinking that judges who undermine the constitutional order ought to be removed, after writing at length about how the current Supreme Court is filled with hacks. At the end of the day, law professors’ servility die hard.

@jonathanbfine I was hoping that at least one or two of mine was the real thing.

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And so it begins. An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address — along with the addresses of 2.9 million other Albertans — was made public by a separatist group.

@OzKaterji How is the British Left responsible for this?

It’s not like there aren’t plenty of cases of hate crimes against Muslims to be justifiably outraged by, but that isn’t the purpose of this. The purpose is to blur the lines over what took place in Golders Green to protect the British left from scrutiny. No matter the cost.

I can’t believe this even needs to be said, but a Muslim man stabbing his Muslim friend before going on an antisemitic rampage and stabbing Jews is obviously not the same. One is a hate crime, the other isn’t. The fact that the hate crime is being focused on is correct.

@robert64862 @jonathanbfine @weiss_hadas A clearly Marxist position. quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/18/gro…

@jonathanbfine @weiss_hadas ...any club that would have me as a member.

publisher: name 3-4 people who'd endorse your book me: if i asked them to? 😳

@irbrodie 540,000 tonnes of bombs dropped on Cambodia; 40,018 killed, tortured, or imprisoned on political charges after the coup he backed in Chile; between 300,000 to 500,000 dead in the war on Bangladesh by West Pakistan that he supported. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

@irbrodie He was responsible for up to 1.5 million deaths in Vietnam alone. truthdig.com/articles/was-n…

@HadleyFreeman @VictoriaPeckham x.com/ZackPolanski/s…

@HadleyFreeman @VictoriaPeckham Are you quite sure that's who we should be afraid of? x.com/thatbloodyMike…

Terrific column by @VictoriaPeckham Be afraid, be very afraid of disingenuous Zack Polanski thetimes.com/article/b8e58c…

@MushtaqBilalPhD This is some weird variation on Brecht: theft by one man is a terrible thing, but one hundred thousand thefts by a well-financed start-up is just a statistic.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. Aaron Swartz downloaded 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta) in 2010. Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Twenty-three years ago the US said it was going to Americanize Iraq. Instead we got something closer to the Saddam-ification of the US.

@jessesingal I find it easy to understand: that it's in the interests of big corps like HBO to keep smug white guys on the air peddling pseudo-edgy pablum that normalizes right-wing views.

what does this mean? like, genuinely, what is nathan claiming here? what is "the system" in question and to whose benefit would it be to give mediocre white men a megaphone? is this a christmas adventurers' club type of theory?

Charles is preaching tolerance, executive restraint, decency, accountability, international peace......Half expect him to chant "No Kings" at any moment.

@elf_2d @dieworkwear Reminds me of Georgia O'Keefe.

@dieworkwear In case anyone is wondering, here's how darned jeans look

The comments on this are utterly bizarre. This happens when the fabric rubs against itself. You can mitigate some of this by purchasing looser-fitting jeans and/ or washing more often. If you wash your jeans infrequently, tiny dirt particles can get trapped between the fibers, acting like tiny saws. That said, most people don't need to wash their jeans after every wear. IMO, a good rule of thumb is to use common sense — wash your jeans when you think they're dirty. You can repair these holes by taking the jeans to a tailor who knows how to darn. Unlike patching, where a tailor puts another piece of fabric behind the hole, darning is a process of adding entirely new material, filling in the hole in a way that almost matches the weave. However, darning works best on pure cotton jeans. If you purchase a cotton-elastane blend, the darning won't be very stable and thus not last very long. If you don't have a local tailor who knows how to darn, you can send the jeans to Denim Therapy, Denim Surgeon, or Williamsburg Garment Company (all based in New York). They will repair the jeans for a small fee. Best to get the jeans repaired just as you're starting to see the hole formed. The larger the hole, the more expensive the repair, and the harder it will be to make the repair look natural. If you find this happening to tailored trousers, seek out trousers made from a worsted cloth rather than a woolen one, especially in heavier weights and a twill weave. A 16oz whipcord or cavalry twill will wear much harder than a 12oz woolen flannel.

@TheBreakdownAB There is not just one way of looking at Track 2 MAID. breachmedia.ca/canada-sideste…

Huh. Did you know the NDP were against MAID for people who were not going to foreseeable die who have conditions like Alzheimers MS or ALS? The Breakdown did not know that. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

And if it wasn’t for the French, the British and the Americans the Iroquois would still be speaking Iroquoian

Although surely he could’ve brought the house down with just one gag about why he decided not to bring his brother.

@TrishtheSkeptic @JeromeAdamsMD @drklausner You: there's no evidence. Me: here it is. You: the study says it's not statistically significant. Me: the study says the opposite. You: I don't trust the study. Me: you are a time sink.

@TrishtheSkeptic @JeromeAdamsMD @drklausner Scientific evidence hun. "Consistent use of a face mask or respirator in indoor public settings was associated with lower odds of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result ." cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

I really wish we would stop framing everything wrong in our health system as corruption and fraud and malfeasance by scientists and doctors and public health workers. It destroys trust in the system, destroys the morale of the people actually out there on the front lines, and truly does nothing to actually make us healthier.