Todd C. Watson

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii I will say to you what I should say to all mankind, which is may God bless you, and forgive me for any sins of pride or anger that I have committed. I am indeed a sinner always in need of His grace.

We are having too many parallel conversations. You don't even respond to the points I make and the evidence I provide, you are unwilling to go deeper, to use reason, you just keep repeating the same mantra like a stuck record. Beginning to get bored with the same refrain. Thought you were an intellectual, being a lawyer.

It's honestly confusing. Iran was set up to have about $100 billion in assets unfrozen. In addition, they were going to get $300 billion in investments from their Arab neighbors. All they had to do was stop acting like assholes for 5 minutes. They literally couldn't do it. They fired on shipping and bombed their Arab neighbors, the very countries that would be investing $300 billion in them. And all to to get a nuke that would be a suicide mission if they ever used it? I honestly feel sorry for President Trump. How do you negotiate with crazy people?

How does a country make itself safe and productive? Great Britain did it with Christianity—and by executing or imprisoning the worst males in every generation for hundreds of years. By the 1960s, the country was so civilized that policeman carried nothing but a nightstick, everybody queued without a second thought, and newspaper boxes were left unlocked on the high street. Britain had become a so-called high trust society — less euphemistically, an honest society. Something similar—without the Christianity—transpired in Japan. What happens to such a country if it forgets how difficult that was to attain? The Brits found out. And then denied it. x.com/jordanbpeterso…

@kangminlee 100 percent murder

This is murder btw

Elon Musk a détruit une journaliste en détruisant cette narrative d’extrême droite, et je vais te le prouver. Il a simplement répondu « Just common sense » sous une vidéo de Hillary Clinton en 1993. Elle y déclarait, face au Congrès : on ne doit pas étendre les bénéfices de santé complets aux travailleurs non documentés et aux illegal aliens. On ne veut rien faire qui encourage davantage l’immigration illégale. Trop de gens viennent déjà pour des soins. On ne veut surtout pas qu’ils aient les mêmes avantages que les citoyens américains. Ce clip circule. Et soudain, ce qui était le consensus démocrate devient « far-right extremism ». Alors j’ai plongé dans les archives. Pas les caricatures. Les vrais discours, entre 2000 et 2015. Hillary Clinton, sénatrice, 2006, devant le Council on Foreign Relations : « Secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers if necessary in some places. And we need to have tougher employer sanctions. » Elle vote la même année pour le Secure Fence Act. 700 miles de barrières physiques. Barack Obama vote exactement la même chose. Obama, sénateur, décembre 2005 : « We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country. » Toujours Obama, plus tard : « Our nation, like all nations, has the right and obligation to control its borders. » Hillary encore, en 2015, en campagne : « I voted numerous times when I was a senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in. And I do think you have to control your borders. We need to secure our borders, I’m for it, I voted for it, I believe in it. » Ces phrases ne sont pas extrêmes. Elles sont basiques. Un pays qui contrôle ses frontières. Qui ne subventionne pas l’entrée illégale. Qui distingue légal et illégal. Qui refuse d’attirer plus de flux en offrant les mêmes avantages qu’à ses citoyens. Aujourd’hui, répéter exactement ces mots te classe automatiquement « far-right ». Ce qui s’est passé n’est pas un mystère. À partir des années 2010, la gauche culturelle a commencé à perdre le contrôle de la narrative. Internet, les réseaux, la réalité économique et migratoire ont fait craquer le monopole. Face à la perte de pouvoir symbolique et politique, une partie a basculé plus à gauche. Beaucoup plus à gauche. Le centre d’hier est devenu l’extrême d’aujourd’hui. Ce qu’ils appellent désormais « droite » ou « far-right », c’est juste le désir très normal d’avoir des pays qui fonctionnent. Des frontières qui existent. Une loi appliquée. Une allocation intelligente des ressources publiques. Rien d’extrême. L’extrême droite réelle, celle des délire identitaires ou autoritaires, reste extrêmement minoritaire. Elle n’explique pas le glissement. Les mauvaises idées ne rendent pas les gens mauvais. Elles les rendent aveugles. Elles les obligent à décrédibiliser le simple bon sens pour protéger un nouveau dogme. C’est toujours comme ça que les fenêtres d’Overton se déplacent. La bonne nouvelle, c’est que la réalité finit toujours par gagner. Les archives ne mentent pas. Les clips reviennent. Les gens comparent. Et de plus en plus de monde se rend compte que ce qu’on leur vendait comme « extrême » n’était que du common sense. On n’a pas besoin de radicaliser. On a besoin de reconstruire des systèmes qui marchent. Des pays efficients. Des frontières claires. Des institutions qui servent ceux qui jouent le jeu. Le reste, c’est du bruit. Et le bruit, on le laisse aux idéologues. On, on construit.

"When they come to slaughter us tonight, run to the Israeli border as fast as you can and don't look back." I was 13 years old. My town was under siege. No electricity. No water. We crawled out of the bomb shelter to pick dandelions because we had nothing else to eat. The Muslim militias and PLO were closing in. Tomorrow was the attack. So I dressed in my best Easter dress. I wanted to be pretty when they came to kill us. My father read Psalms: "I shall walk through the valley of death and I will not fear." My parents told me: We will create a distraction. You run to the Israeli border. Don't look back. That's what we were facing. That's what Lebanon became for Christians. The West watched. No one came. I survived to tell this story. So many didn't.

Jesus wept.

@Sachinettiyil Saint Charbel, pray for us

Catholic Bishop Kevin Kenney of Minnesota Is Seeking the Intercession of Lebanese Saint Charbel for His Lung Cancer Recovery

@CoreyWriting @politicalelle The Byzantine empire did not exist Corey. Asia Minor has always been Muslim, since the world began

The irony of a conference located in Istanbul calling for “decolonization” of the world lol

🚨 REPORTER: Your interventions risk making Europe worse ELON MUSK: How? REPORTER: You support people who are proto-authoritarians...very clear fascist tendencies ELON: I think you're just completely MAKING THINGS UP. What you're saying is TOTAL FICTION. I am merely saying Europe needs to have SECURE BORDERS. It should not let in vast numbers of people with views antithetical to the accepted views in Europe. This is common sense. 🔥🔥🔥 He's on a roll!

Yes

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii I’ve also travelled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa. I actually love this part of the world, but I’m not deceived by any narrative that its history is one of peace and courtesy for others

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii As long as Palestinians as a whole, all large armed groups, will not agree to a peace deal, how could there be peace?

@ToddCWatsonLaw @mitchellvii You point one finger, three point back at you. Not the recipe to work out peace. You must start with the premise that there are sane people on both sides genuinely seeking peace. If you don't, then it is war.

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii You are saying that Israel is to blame for the massacre of Israelis on October 7? Is this a common belief in your circles?

No Muslim celebrates death, let alone that of non-combatants. My question is why did the vaunted IDF take six hours to respond, when they had real time status updates since the Inception of the Hammas attack? Why did IDF kill its own Israeli hostages under the Hannibal Directive? All wanton attacks on non-combatant civilians are unequivocally unIslamic and constitute terrorism. Of that crime, Israel is x1000 more culpable than Hamas, Houthis, and Hizbollah combined. The UN has not declared these organizations terrorist, but it has declared Netanyahu a war criminal.

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii You aren’t answering my question about the brutality of Muslim conquest and ottoman rule, which is akin to an admission. And yes, I freely admit that the Muslim world had an intellectual flowering around the turn of the first millennium

Muslim Spain - the most amazingly tolerant, just and creative of regions, which directly fueled the European Renaissance. Schools of Averroes, the Muslim Philosopher Ibne Rush, opened across European universities, which was akin to establishlising foreign campuses of Harvard or Cambridge. Centuries earlier the very first University in the world was established by a Muslim Lady in Muslim Morocco in the Ninth Century. The Quran values reason, observation, analysis repeatedly. Maimonides, the formost Jewish Philosopher, thrived in Andulasia. After the Spanish Inquisition, when the Ottoman Empire sent ships to rescue fleeing Muslims and Jews, Maimonides took refuge in Muslim Egypt.

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii I think Israel could happily coexist with Palestinians if they would stop trying to murder Jews. But Palestinians will not do this, seem incapable of doing this

Are you suggesting that Muslim countries become complicit in the War Crimes of ethnically cleansing Palestinans from Gaza and the West Bank? Is genocide or distant refugee camps the only options available to people who have lived on this land millennia before Hazrat Abraham, AS, arrived about 3000 years ago? That's not going to happen.

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii You are right that the PLO offered settlement, but without all of the armed Palestinian groups held to a settlement agreement, what good does one faction’s proposal do?

@ToddCWatsonLaw @mitchellvii Israel returns to pre 1967 borders, and proscribes Apartheid. Palestine State with its capital in Jerusalem.

@yhuss2000 @mitchellvii Has Hamas agreed to this proposal? If Hamas remains a powerful armed Palestinian faction that rejects this settlement and continues fighting Israel, what would be the point of Israel agreeing to this settlement?

“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” -Dale Carnegie