Laurence_Tien75

Former Democrat, but during COVID, the party’s embrace of authoritarian pandemic measures, mandates, and censorship of dissent, pushed me away. The Democratic Party I once knew, which championed civil liberties and skepticism of state overreach, had shifted toward top-down control, dismissing legitimate concerns about individual freedom. That disillusionment led me to find common ground with independents and even some segments of the MAGA movement, particularly on issues like free speech, medical autonomy, and opposition to endless foreign intervention. Yet my alignment with parts of the populist right was never wholesale. While I agreed with their critiques of the administrative state and the military-industrial complex, I’ve since diverged sharply from the MAGA/neocon stance on Israel. The reflexive, unconditional support for Netanyahu’s government has revealed a troubling hypocrisy among those who claim to prioritize sovereignty and restraint abroad. Blind allegiance to any foreign nation contradicts the principles of non-intervention. Despite this, I still follow and engage with voices across the spectrum, progressive, conservative, and independent, as long as they argue in good faith. There’s value in hearing opposing views, provided they’re sincere and grounded in facts. Too many people retreat into ideological bubbles, cutting off anyone who disagrees. But growth happens at the edges of our comfort zones. The truth isn’t owned by any one party, and finding it requires wrestling with uncomfortable perspectives.

Trump has burned down his presidency for Netanyahu.

@iah Crazy.

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I’m trying to avoid posting for Lent, but I want to be clear about my position, as it seems we may be on the brink of decisions of historic consequence: The US & Israel were the ones who launched a sneak attack against Iran. Trump himself compared it to the attack on Pearl Harbor. We opened the war with an attack that killed nearly 200 little girls at school. If the Japanese had done that at Pearl Harbor, it would still be on page one of every history book recounting the attack to this day. To then punish the civilian population of Iran by destroying power and water infrastructure, which can only be intended to cause mass civilian suffering and death, simply because they have not capitulated, is a war crime of the highest order. Soldiers, sailors, and airmen are under no obligation to follow such an order, and shame on any officer who orders them to do so.

@ReubenR80027912 You’re a raging moron. What are we going to do. Iranians have nothing to lose.

Respectfully, a ground invasion was never an option. The air war to date is FAR better than any other prez would have offered. This is your chance …if Iranians don’t mobilize when Trump finally sounds the bugle not in us. We did everything to pave the way; they need to walk it

Liberating the Iranian people by bombing their oil refineries, poisoning their air, destroying their fresh water supplies, exploding their elementary schools, and now "obliterating" their power plants. Who wouldn't be grateful for this?

Words are very important. Tucker does a great job of breaking down the trite Zionist talking point of a nation having a right to exist here. No government has a RIGHT to exist. Humans have rights, governments do not. If a government is consistently harming HUMANS’ rights to exist it must be dealt with. That applies to Israel and every other government on the planet.

@Too_Much_Reason @VigilantFox He did answer it if you were intelligent enough to comprehend without being a useful idiot in thinking it’s just a yes or no question.

He’s an insufferable prick. He won’t answer the fucking question, she said it, she said does the country deserve to remain as a nation state and he won’t answer it. He’s awful, I wish he would run for president so he would be utterly embarrassed. But he’s too much of a coward to attempt it

A reporter asks Tucker Carlson if Israel has a “right to exist.” Tucker flips the question right back and asks her to define what “right to exist” means. And then this happened.

Q: “Do you think Donald Trump has betrayed America First?” TUCKER: “I think that this war is something that he promised he wouldn't do. Not once, but countless times. And until YouTube is banned, we'll be able to prove that.”

The entire New Testament was written within roughly 70 years of Christ's birth. Every letter Paul wrote can be placed on this timeline alongside the missionary journey or imprisonment that produced it. Knowing when a book was written changes how you read every line of it.

192 countries were studied and cholesterol was NEGATIVELY associated with death rate... the higher the cholesterol, the lower the death rate why is nobody talking about this?

Juilliard Pre-College student Freya just became the first person in the US to perform on Mozart’s childhood violin! 🎻 The violin is part of the @MorganLibrary exhibition, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Treasures from the Mozarteum Foundation of Salzburg, on view through May 31.

@GadSaad You’re an Israeli bootlicker and cheerleader and you deserve not respect.

I have obviously been exposed to the worst manifestations of Jew-hatred imaginable beginning in my childhood in Lebanon. But I must say that seeing people whom I have been on very friendly terms, and in some instances have promoted their voices, delve into Nazi-level Jew-hatred is tough to process. How did I sit down at a table with such an individual? Did they hate me then but hide it? Or did they develop their current positions recently?

Does Lebanon have the right to exist?

@FloppingAces @YossarianLocker It’s cute you think we’re stopping China when we don’t produce anything. They have a 20 year plan and you think this affects it. Our viewpoint is so short sighted.

Let’s rip the mask off China for a second. They just got their cheap Iranian oil lifeline fucking severed...poof, end of the discount era, billions in savings torched because the U.S. smashed that pipeline of discounted crude. Lost their sweetheart Venezuela deal a couple months back too, after we toppled Maduro and flipped the script on those cut-rate barrels. And that precious grip on the Panama Canal ports? Gone...Panama just seized those key chokepoints from the Hong Kong puppets, handing Washington a massive W in the backyard. This ain’t minor league bullshit. This is a full-frontal, systematic gutting of China’s global influence playbook, one energy artery and strategic chokehold at a time. Yet the media cowards? Crickets. Won’t breathe a word because admitting reality means confessing the U.S. is actually clawing back ground, flipping the board, and making the dragon bleed. Can’t allow that narrative to leak...too busy peddling “America’s decline” porn to notice the empire’s getting curb-stomped in real time. Pathetic. (article below)

WHO IS KILLING THEM?

Economist Editor-in-Chief: Clearly you and I agree, and we’ve both been critical of the Israeli government. Tucker Carlson: Well, I’ve been critical of the Israeli government. The Economist: I’ve been plenty critical. Tucker Carlson: What do you think of what happened in Gaza?

An 18-year-old Japanese classical guitarist, Haruna Miyagawa, performs Niccolò Paganini’s Caprice No. 24, a technically demanding violin piece arranged for guitar, highlighting its sequence of variations and arpeggios in a contemporary concert hall setting.

@FearedBuck One of the Bschelors could have fixed her.

ABC has canceled The Bachelorette after their lead was seen in a leaked footage physically attacking her ex-boyfriend and throwing metal chairs at him while her child was present and reportedly the child was struck during the altercation.

My proooofs on the internet youtube.com/watch?v=HM8Ee6…