Tom Lavin

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[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

My new album:

https://t.co/Ju2Nx3our9

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@Lieboisout You asked why it angers so many people. I think what "some people do during pride month" is perfectly relevant as to why people dislike it

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

This is a Libertarian-like response.

Essentially "anything goes as long as rights aren't violated".

This is fine if you're talking about what should or shouldn't be legal, but something being legal doesn't mean you can't be angry about it.

Pride is a celebration of aesthetic perversion for the most part; a chance for weirdos to rub their weirdness in our faces, under the protection of the modern woke politcal correctness.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I draw the line at walking down the street in a gimp suit, wearing a furry mask with a 7 inch dildo stuck to your leather underwear.

[Michael Liebowitz @Lieboisout]

If you don’t like Pride Month, don’t celebrate it. Why does it anger so many people?

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@paullewismoney How noble of you to selflessly offer up yours and other people's money to the poor and suffering

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@KevinLamb74 I will always love this film. Fuck the haters, it's just good. It's flaws are massively outweighed by it's virtues

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

A very sad announcement.

I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration.

In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least.

Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration.

In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.

Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth.

Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration."

You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible.

Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it.

The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration.

Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail.

Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win.

If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM.

If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

Seriously. What the actual fuck is wrong with these judges

[Anglo @TheAnglo_]

You can stab a boy, hunt him down and stab him again, steal his phone, lie to the police, cry racism so they handcuff him and leave him to drown in his own blood, hide the weapon, admit you lied in court, but you only get trial for manslaughter because he's White and you're brown.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@louisvarge Back then it was actually normal to punish and or deport foreign criminals (in fact it was an overtly prejudicial system which assumed the worst of immigrants from the start). Not saying that's what we need now but we certainly need to move towards a more "no tolerance" approach

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

The numbers on inflation are obviously bs. Apart from the fact that measuring the increase of price of *everything* over time is incredibly difficult, those measuring inflation also have a massive incentive to make it look lower than it really is.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

In 1988, a tube of smarties cost 18p and a first class stamp cost 19p

Going by Bank of England inflation calculator that would now be 51p and 53p.

In fact they are £1 and £1.80.

Other than technology nothing seems to have got cheaper.

Perhaps the Bank of England has got inflation wrong?

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

An 18-year-old kid gets stabbed in the street. He’s running for his life, begging for help, and instead of saving him, the police handcuff him while he bleeds out because the attacker claimed “racism.”

They let him choke on his own blood. No urgency. No humanity. Just cold, ideological policing.

Months later? Still no names. Still no suspensions. Still no accountability.

Meanwhile, the same UK police have arrested over 12,000 people for social media posts.

They move at lightning speed to jail citizens for tweets and online comments, yet they can’t even name or discipline the officers who allegedly let a stabbing victim die in handcuffs on the street.

This is the definition of two-tier policing: aggressive against ordinary people speaking online, but protective when it comes to their own failures and protecting the narrative.

The British people deserve real justice, not another cover-up.

Justice for Henry Nowak.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@RusGarbageHuman Jesus h christ

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@abidurrehman89 @ZacGoldsmith Ohhh no terrorists tied up

[Chatnoir @Mschatnoir]

right....here I go...

Christopher Nolan is reportedly giving us a “dumbed-down” Odyssey — simplified language for today’s attention spans and, crucially, “modern L.A. population casting.” The statement that sparked this thought piece nails the problem in one brutal analogy: Gladiator was a hit because it was done right. Russell Crowe’s Maximus growls, “I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next… father to a murdered son.” Imagine that same line delivered as “Daddy to a murdered son.”

The spell breaks. he said what? eh? The weight evaporates. You’re no longer in ancient Rome; you’re watching a Hollywood product winking at you.

That is exactly what race- and ethnicity-blind casting does to a story like Homer’s Odyssey.The Narrative Is the WorldMyths and epics are not abstract morality plays floating in a vacuum. They are rooted. Achilles is not just “a great warrior”; he is the Achaean demigod, the son of a Greek sea-nymph and a mortal king, the blond-haired terror of the Trojan plain whose rage is sung in dactylic hexameter.( The form of meter used in greek and latin poetry, I'm not being too fancy with my words Mr Nolan don't worry)

Helen is not a generic beauty; she is the daughter of Zeus and Leda, the face that launched a thousand Greek ships. Athena is not a random goddess of wisdom; she is the patron deity of Athens, born from Zeus’s head, olive-eyed protector of Hellenic civilization. These characters carry the DNA — literally and culturally — of the ancient Mediterranean world that birthed them.When you cast actors whose visible ethnic origins clearly contradict that world, the narrative itself is altered, because the audience’s suspension of disbelief is shattered. You stop experiencing the story and start noticing the casting director’s résumé.

The moment Elliot Page appears as Achilles (or any actor whose phenotype screams 21st-century coastal California rather than Bronze Age Thessaly), the brain does a tiny, involuntary calculation: “This is a statement.” That calculation pulls you out of the bronze spears, the wine-dark sea, the gods walking among men. You are now watching a parable about modern identity politics dressed in Greek drag.

Gladiator worked because every frame cemented the illusion. The armor looked Roman, the accents felt Mediterranean, the faces matched the historical milieu. The emotional stakes landed like a gladius to the gut. Change the visual language and the emotional language changes with it. “Father to a murdered son” carries the gravity of patrilineal honor cultures that defined the ancient world. “Daddy” sounds completely bonkers, what's next? 'Yeah Telemachus, bruv, what's up?'

Modern Critics will immediately cry “racism.” (yawn) That word has been stretched so thin it now means “any preference for historical or cultural fidelity.” But fidelity is not supremacy. No one calls it racist when a Japanese director insists on Japanese actors for a samurai epic, or when a Nigerian production keeps Yoruba faces for an adaptation of their own legends and rightly so.

We understand that a story’s power is tethered to the people who lived it. Ancient Greek literature is the foundational mythos of Western civilization; it emerged from a specific people in a specific place and time. Pretending otherwise is not progressive — it’s erasure by another name.

Opposing this casting is not about hating any group. It is about refusing to let modern Hollywood turn every historical or mythological setting into a Benetton ad. The Greeks themselves were not a monolith — they had fair-haired heroes in the epics precisely because their own population included northern Indo-European strains alongside Mediterranean ones — but they were not “diverse” in the contemporary American sense.

To impose that diversity retroactively is to colonize (and come on lefties...you HATE colonisation so...) the past with the present’s demographics. It is the aesthetic equivalent of making King Arthur Black or Cleopatra Korean: it can be done as fan-fiction or satire, but when presented as the definitive version, it treats the audience like children who cannot handle a story that doesn’t mirror a 2026 college campus.

Nolan built his reputation on rigorous internal logic — dream worlds with rules, time-bending plots that still make sense, historical films that respect their eras. To watch him soften Homer’s language and soften the faces of the heroes is to watch a filmmaker surrender to the same corporate timidity he once transcended. The audience is not literal idiots; we simply know when we are being condescended to and it's been too long. The recent Mandalorian and Grogu trailer vexxed me when the Hutt's started talking english.

I crave the full weight of the Iliad and Odyssey — the alien honor codes, the brutal beauty, the gods who look and sound like the culture that invented them. Strip that away and you do not get universality. You get dilution.Gladiator proved that authenticity sells. It grossed hundreds of millions because it let the past be the past and trusted the audience to meet it there. A “modern L.A.” Odyssey will not fail because audiences are bigoted. It will fail — artistically, if not financially — because the spell never forms. The ships may still sail, but they will never feel like they are crossing the wine-dark sea.They will just feel like they are crossing Sunset Boulevard and, well it's not the flex it used to be.

[Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA @DrDiGiorgio]

The honest answer is yes.

Imagine a wealthy individual who had a traumatic brain injury.

I’m talking super wealthy.

He and his family build a home gym, hire a score of physical, occupational, and speech therapists. He gets 24/7 home care from RNs. He has multiple neurosurgeons a phone call away. Every minor thing is scrutinized by multiple highly paid physicians and nurses. He has access to an exoskeleton robot to help him walk.

He does great.

A middle class or poor person in his situation would have a much worse outcome.

They might even die.

The same is true for cancer. The wealthy can fly to MD Anderson or MSK, pay out of pocket, hire advocates, get second and third opinions, and rearrange their entire lives around treatment.

We cannot expect everyone to have the level of access of the super wealthy.

Which means many will have suboptimal outcomes because they can’t afford the same access to care.

So, yes, some people will die because they can’t afford healthcare. Just like some will die because they can’t afford a personal trainer to get them to an ideal weight, or a dietician to ensure they eat healthy, or a low-stress job.

It’s not fair. It’s unfortunate. But pretending it can be otherwise is a fairy tale.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@KenGardner11 Interesting, is this the "following" tab or the "for you" tab? I can't remember the last time I saw one of your posts. I mostly use the for you tab, probably part of the problem.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

I like quite a bit of the changes to twitter since Musk's takeover, but what ruins it is the change to the prominence of small accounts you follow on your timeline.

I never see posts from these accounts anymore. I thought most of them had left twitter. My followers also basically never see my posts. I used to get a few likes on almost anything; now I may as well be posting into a void.

The whole thing is a waste of time at this point

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

You have to understand, someone like this is not an idiot. They aren't so dumb that they can't see how damaging this would be. They are either refusing to face the truth that the policies they support are completely destructive, or they know they are destructive - but are refusing to acknowledge what that says about their soul.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The Mail doesn't think seem to think workers, of all ages, are worth £15 an hour.

That's fair pay for a fair day's work, with money workers will put back into the economy.

We are the party for workers. Vote Green on 7th May.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

These people vote...

[Kenny Edwards🕊️☘️ @KennyEdw]

@KonstantinKisin Do billionaires create wealth for anyone but themselves? Show me a billionaire who hasn’t made his money by robbing the public purse. I’ll wait.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

@stuckgear @joemichalczuk True, and immigrants taking advantage of the system are a problem.

But socialised medicine as an idea doesn't work regardless of immigration restrictions. The NHS only "worked" before because it had taken over a functioning private system. It was always going to decay over time.

[Tom Lavin @Rational_Obs]

The Iran war is unfortunately going similarly to all the recent wars of pulled punches America has been involved in. Trump has at least put some fear into America's enemies, but he hasn't got the backbone to actually commit to winning this war completely.

The simple fact is that in war, there can be no half measures. You cannot go to war and consider the safety of the opposing country's civilian population - in such a case that country's government can simply hide all of its important targets in and amongst civilians and draw out the war indefinitely.

This is exactly what happened in all of America's previous wars in the middle east, and also Vietnam, in which the Americans pursued a war goal of simply "killing all enemy combatants", while leaving the towns and cities of North Vietnam essentially untouched.

In order to win the war in Iran, all America has to do is as follows: bomb anything and everything that is a military or government target, regardless of collateral damage. Make it clear to the Iranian regime that they are completely doomed, and make it clear to the Iranian population that if they don't overthrow the regime they might well be caught in the crossfire.

America would also have to mercilessly target all of Iran's little proxy terrorist groups, regardless of which country they are in. Make it clear to these groups that continuing to fight on behalf of Iran means certain death.

To be honest, such a strategy is probably impossible to pursue in the current political climate - America politicians and generals alike would most likely revolt against Trump and force him out of office. Such is the problem of our age: the correct policies are forbidden from even being considered by the corrupt morality that has infected Western culture. Nevertheless, this strategy is the only strategy that can actually work in war.

America has a completely dominant military in basically every possible measurement, but it can't win a war until it regrows its moral backbone, stops pulling punches, and fights for total victory. Until that time, terrorists and dictators around the world will continue their little schemes, and innocent people will pay the price of America's moral bankruptcy with their lives.