Jaron Lowenstein

Musical one-hit-wonder, twice. Vision Architect. Managing smart people and building businesses with them. 🗝

[Jaron Lowenstein @Jaronlowe]

@Timodc Agreed. AIPAC’s spending is real but I think it's driven largely by defensive concerns about Jewish security and antisemitism. And Shapiro should probably just say that.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

New and free documentary on psychedelics, awareness, and meditation, exec produced by Sam Harris.

[Sage Actual @SageDynamics]

At no point in this sentence did I know what was going to happen next.

[Erin Molan @Erin_Molan]

Christian kids slaughtered in Congo…

A bloodbath in Syria…

The videos are horrific 💔

The only thing more horrifying is the silence surrounding it…

If it’s impossible (try as you might) to blame Jews you don’t care???!!!

WHERE ARE YOU?

[Jaron Lowenstein @Jaronlowe]

@eyeslasho So good

[Jaron Lowenstein @Jaronlowe]

@TellingDrama @DanielEichholz2 Not that familiar

[Jaron Lowenstein @Jaronlowe]

The Stealers

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Trump 💯 plays for @Steelers 😂

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

DEI is when you give people who aren't qualified opportunities they don't deserve and then silence anyone who notices.

[Calev Ben-Dor @Fathom_Editor]

Sam Harris: "Of course, the boundary between Anti-Semitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern—and I’m not sure that it is always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t distinguish between collateral damage in a necessary war and conscious acts of genocidal sadism that are celebrated as a religious sacrament by a death cult. Our streets have been filled with people, literally tripping over themselves in their eagerness to demonstrate that they cannot distinguish between those who intentionally kill babies, and those who inadvertently kill them, having taken great pains to avoid killing them, while defending themselves against the very people who have just intentionally tortured and killed innocent men, women, and yes… babies…

If you have landed, proudly and sanctimoniously, on the wrong side of this asymmetry—this vast gulf between savagery and civilization—while marching through the quad of an Ivy League institution wearing yoga pants, I’m not sure it matters that your moral confusion is due to the fact that you just happen to hate Jews. Whether you’re an anti-Semite or just an apologist for atrocity is probably immaterial. The crucial point is that you are dangerously confused about the moral norms and political sympathies that make life in this world worth living."

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

Sam Harris on what we can learn about Palestinian culture from the ways many civilians in Gaza reacted to the October 7th atrocities:

“After 9/11, as an American, traumatized by an act of terror of a sort that we had never seen on our shores, imagine if Seal Team Six had captured some random Saudi women and children and paraded them as hostages through Times Square. Can you imagine dancing for joy and spitting in the faces of these terrified women?

Imagine our soldiers dragging the mutilated bodies of other Saudi noncombatants along the sidewalk. Can you imagine people coming out of their offices and shrieking with joy and stomping on their bodies? Can you imagine Israelis doing this to the bodies of Palestinian noncombatants in the streets of Tel Aviv?

No, you can’t. Culture matters. Beliefs matter. So whether they belong to the organization or not, the people you see in those videos are the same as Hamas.”

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

Sam Harris on what sets Islam apart from other religions:

"Muhammad wasn’t the Muslim Jesus. The man was not crucified. He was a statesman and a warlord. He fought in dozens of battles and was victorious. And in Islam, Muhammad is the very model of the ideal man. Just imagine how Christianity might be different if Jesus routinely had his enemies killed and their wives taken as sex slaves. Do you think Christianity might be just a little different if Jesus had been less like a hippie with a steady supply of MDMA and more like Tony Soprano?”

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Why is Kevin Spacey still cancelled, still not able to do his amazing work when he has been acquitted of all charges in multiple trials?
Sharon Stone, Liam Neeson, Stephen Fry and other stars call for this great actor to be allowed to act.
My interview: https://t.co/WrOrH45Ksl

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

If you only make time to listen to one thing this week, consider listening to this. An absolute masterclass in moral clarity from Sam Harris.

https://t.co/zPaTNxSwp0

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

Sam Harris explains how Qatari funding is contributing to the confusion on college campuses.

Qatar has given more money to U.S. universities than any other country, and is controlled by a regime that is governed by the theology of the Muslim Brotherhood (an organization that is genocidal towards Jews).

The Muslim Brotherhood funds student groups that have been organizing campus protests and support Hamas’s attacks on October 7th.

[Naftali Bennett נפתלי בנט @naftalibennett]

A few points:

1. President Biden has always been a friend to Israel, but the arms-halt for Rafah is deeply misguided.

Here’s why:
A. Israel’s leverage on Hamas leaders is that we’re coming to kill them and nobody likes dying.
If you prevent Israel from entering Rafah, you’ve taken away Hamas leaders’ incentive to cut a hostage deal.

B. It may create a miscalculation for Hezbollah and the other Jihadists in the neighbourhood.
They might mistakenly think that Israel doesn’t have enough arms and ammo-depth, which might tempt them to attack us.

C. If we run short on precision-bombs we’ll have to use less precise ones>>more civilians will die.
The precise opposite of everybody’s intention.

D. A halt sends a message of daylight btwn US and its ally Israel.
Bad here and everywhere.

E. It’s morally wrong b/c it accepts the false narrative that Israel is supposedly targeting civilians or is nonchalant about civilian death.
If we didn’t care we’d bomb the hell out of Gaza and finish this war in 3 days without losing boys in battle.
We just lost 5 boys over the weekend.
The fact is that almost half the Palestinian casualties are of Hamas members.
THAT IS PROBABLY THE LOWEST FIGHTER:CIVILAN DEATH RATIO IN THE HISTORY OF URBAN WARFARE.

2. Israeli government should have captured Rafah and destroyed Hamas four months ago.
I’ve no idea why our government is so slow and seemingly indecisive.
Neither do understand why we pulled out division 98 that had been sealing the Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah. Sort of like removing the lid on a can in which they were trapped, allowing them to disperse all across the Gaza Strip.

3. We can’t assume we have endless time.
This wavering is damaging: international pressure building,
Hamas has ample time to boobytrap Rafah and escape to other areas.
Speed and continuity are basic tenets of winning wars.
Stop talking, just do it. FAST.

4. If we accept the premise that civilian death is unacceptable in war, it guarantees that all terror groups in the world will adopt Hamas’ MO of human shields. Many more civilians will die. In NYC, London and Paris.

5. Israeli ministers must stop their petty political postering and infantile rhetoric, and stop causing self inflicted damage.
We in Israel know that it’s all hot air, but people around the world assume that a minister’s words are serious.
And Israel pays a tangible price for this clownship.

6. Somehow planning for post-Hamas Gaza has become a taboo in our government.
The mere discussion is portrayed as a“soft lefty defeatist” thing. It’s not.

It’s necessary so that when we capture a certain city (e.g. Han Yunus) in a tough and costly battle, we know who we hand it over to and who runs it.
This ensures that Hamas will not re-enter the moment we leave, thus causing us to have to fight 3-4 times to recapture the same place(!).
We can decide to keep Israeli temporary admin, or local Palestinian, or other options. But we need to decide SOMETHING.
Who fills the void.
Otherwise by default it’s Hamas, the worst of all options. And that’s what’s happening right now.
Thats like mopping water up a slanted floor just to have the water keep sliding down.
I think Israel’s leadership shuns this for (mistaken) political reasons.
So our government must get over it.

Bottom line:
We’ve lost precious time, but this is still winnable.
Israeli government must decide at last what it wants.
If we want to defeat Hamas, then let’s do it.
US should support Israel and if anything, urge its leadership to act more decisively and faster so we finish this ASAP.

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

“Dear Muslims, the world is scared of us. The world is laughing at us. The world is worried about us. And there are legitimate reasons for their worry that we cannot just deny. It is time to flush the word ‘Islamophobia’ down the toilet…” This is a MUST WATCH video:

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

When "activism" merges with narcissism, it's less about the cause and more about the ego.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of "Go back to Africa."

Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the eye with a flagpole.

Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that they ought to head home for Ramadan because campus public safety could not guarantee their security.

There would be relentless fury from our media and condemnation from our politicians.

Just remember the righteous—and rightful—outrage over the white supremacist “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, where neo-Nazis chanted “The Jews will not replace us.”

This weekend at Columbia and Yale, student demonstrators did all of the above—only it was directed at Jews. They told Columbia students to “go back to Poland.” A Jewish woman at Yale was assaulted with a Palestinian flag. And an Orthodox rabbi at Columbia told students to go home for their safety.

What will the response be?

https://t.co/HXph8WFidr

[Christopher C. Cuomo @ChrisCuomo]

President Biden, you're treating the war against Israel as if it were another political point of compromise. There is a primary reality: Hamas is a terror organization and they need to give the hostages back.

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

Funny! And exciting to see Stewart back in top shape.

But the “they’re both super old” angle—while true—fails to capture the much more important fact that Biden is experiencing serious cognitive decline and Trump just isn’t.

Voters don’t care about the number. They care about the underlying mental competence.

Just as we’ve seen the extreme cowardice of Republicans who would dare not oppose Trump even in his most dangerous actions, we are now witnessing the extreme cowardice of Democrats who are choosing loyalty to Biden over their party and their country.