Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

Only David's replies are saved in Twitter archive. Visit the external links to see the full discussions. If the tweet being replied to was deleted, it's gone.

Tweets 7,501 Replies 51,144 Retweets 24,559 Everything 83,204
Wed 17 Jun 2020 14:28

@dominichills5 Yes but the game is to play by the rules enough that when you cheat it’s to best advantage. Without any rules you don’t even know when you’ve won

Wed 17 Jun 2020 14:16

@para_paramoney @f_a_r_t_s no matter what you say, some person will read it in a way so stupid it had never even occurred to you anyone would think that

Wed 17 Jun 2020 13:57

@theNewsfox they will be like all the “nice people” who under Hitler decided politics was becoming an ugly business & decent folk should stay away from it

1
Wed 17 Jun 2020 13:55

@dominichills5 all war has codes of what weapons, tactics, etc can & can’t be used. Even Hitler and Stalin never used poison gas against each other’s troops, or tried to assassinate one another.

Wed 17 Jun 2020 09:34

@Gabsrants 1. it’s not a proxy war but direct combat between the two sides, 2. don’t know of Cold War battles between armies fought with sticks and stones

Tue 16 Jun 2020 16:52

@ExtroSpecteur @fluencymark everybody got one around ’76 or ’77 if I remember, but then they all got recalled when one or two went haywire and started killing everyone in the house.

Tue 16 Jun 2020 15:57

@unifylabor @JulietSchor @SomeoneVeryElse @Shayla_Love @jasonhickel @JKSteinberger @KateAronoff @FansPollin @PERIatUMass What’s an economy?

Tue 16 Jun 2020 14:10

@hapoelorient there are poor trans people, quite a lot, and in fact they’re the ones most threatened of all by anti-trans violence, but there are also affluent ones – my real point is, there are no affluent poor people to be spokespeople for the other ones.

Tue 16 Jun 2020 14:09

@hapoelorient to some degree it’s about … well I hate to say entitlement, but, well, part of being poor all your life is that you don’t get up on a chair & say “this is a matter of our very survival!” partly because it’s already so obviously true.

Tue 16 Jun 2020 10:34

@hapoelorient I think the younger Corbynites didn’t prioritise I/P or foreign policy, they were about changing society. But they weren’t in the key policy and leadership roles. This is why there shouldn’t be so many key policy & leadership roles. Too late now I guess.

Tue 16 Jun 2020 10:32

@hapoelorient well this is overstated, but you’re right their priorities are a bit strange. When I speculated Corbyn might be replaced by someone just as socialist but with a less radical foreign policy some older supporters said “then what would be the point?”

Mon 15 Jun 2020 22:23

@ztarasj it was just the only thing someone living in a country like the UK (where I currently live) would likely know about the town! I disavow any pro-Cornell bias.

Mon 15 Jun 2020 18:16

@shimonedelman cancelling rent for 3 months is still cancelling rent – I’ve never understood why people act so snippy about these things

Mon 15 Jun 2020 11:22

@gabri_elle @akraland apparently the “sales juifs” was coming from one guy and the organisers specifically called him out in the rally

Mon 15 Jun 2020 09:45

@sports_freak3 The PKK is not a terror organization. The Turkish state is definitely a terror organization

Sun 14 Jun 2020 20:50

@djau_random yes that’s right – that was the story. Apparently someone who lived in the apartment just below opened the window and got some scissors.

2
Sun 14 Jun 2020 16:59

@NouriPen @BeckieMarsland @robotforaday But I did in fact grade the papers and turned them around quickly so what are we even talking about. Like these two have never once grumbled about how much work they were assigned in how much time! Yes. I’m sure.