Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن

What if I told you there is one clear problem and one clear solution for all of humanity?

The hallmark of privilege is viewing socialist and jihadist revolutions through romantic eyes. How fortunate one is to be untouched by their brutal reality. How luxurious it is to have worldviews from books and not experience. How distant one must be to disregard flesh and blood…

The cognitive dissonance & denial people are suffering from really is worth studying. // Anti-zionist archetypes on the far left and right explained by Elica Le Bon youtu.be/j1HKHQ9OSRI?si… via @elicalebon

Somebody openly running for office on socialism should be as terrifying to the public as somebody openly running for office on fascism. Except one small detail. If you’ve ever read a single history book, you’d know it’s not that bad. It’s worse.

It's strange. If one were to observe almost any mass movement, mass belief system, mass perception, mass political fervor, mass psychosis, mass framework, one cannot help but notice the eerie absence of one thing above all: truth.

In all my years skirting the fringes of right-wing groups, I’ve never once been at a meeting or rally where a crowd openly chanted death to anyone, let alone thousands screaming it in unison.

The chants of "death to America" and "death to Israel" have emigrated from Tehran's schoolyards, where children are begrudgingly forced to recite the surveillance state's motto, to Glastonbury. Only this time, it's rebranded from terrorism to "progressiveness." Isn't it sad, the…

I think about a lot of things a lot of the time, but one thing I stay stumped on daily is the paradox of people who don't understand things being filled with confidence in the understanding they lack. It needs to be a documentary. I remember one time this British teenager who…

Online discussions are torn in many different directions right now, but since yesterday I've been seeing this quiet rumbling from people who are eager to find a platform where sensible people can debate opposing viewpoints. One that is conducive to meaningful challenges,…

In defense of liberal democracies, individual rights, moral clarity, and systems that work for human beings. The “right side of history” is not in the madness of crowds, it’s in the clarity of solitude.

You are truly one of the biggest demagogues of our time. Truly. I explained how your commentary has been harmful to Iranians and because you are chronically incapable of self-reflection, you respond with an emotionally manipulative deflection about “the children of Gaza,”…

Let me tell you why I decided that yesterday's appearance on Piers Morgan, alongside Dave Smith, would be my last. First, I had spent the past couple of months being so emotionally exhausted and above that, genuinely devastated by Dave Smith's online rhetoric. It's hard to…

Hey @HausdorffMedia - are you out there? 🔦

This conversation I had on Bryan Callen’s podcast was recorded a few months ago but couldn’t be more relevant to today. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZI_i_…

“Look what the Mullahs have done to us, that the news of a ceasefire is scarier to us than the war”

“How do we know Iran won’t be another Iraq or Afghanistan?”

The road to war is paved with appeasement.

Follow any Iranian freedom activist around the world, in any language, and you will find a near-identical shared narrative (echoing the sentiments of 90% of Iranians in the world statistically, inside 81% and outside of Iran 99%). We have always been peace lovers. We have…

For those that say we left the last deal, remember that it was replete with 10-15 year sunset provisions which meant 150bn$+ enrichment, only temporary curtailment, military expansion, and later nuclear proliferation, which is why co-signatories understood they'd only be kicking…