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Joined April 2019
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All I know, is that I’m on the side that doesn’t murder people, nor celebrates the murder of people, nor fantasizes about the murder of the people... …just because we disagree That’s what side I’m on.
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You don't have a right to not be offended.
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Probablemente hayas visto el video. Una joven francesa en París, en lágrimas, suplicando a los saqueadores que paren. «¿Por qué hacen esto? Eso no es lo que representamos». Algunas cuentas se burlan de ella. «Ella votó por esto». Yo no lo haré. Porque lo que ves en su rostro no es estupidez. Es una enfermedad que ha infectado todo Occidente, y tiene un nombre: empatía suicida. El término proviene de Gad Saad, un científico evolutivo del comportamiento en la Universidad Concordia en Montreal. Un hombre que huyó de la guerra civil libanesa de niño, y que sabe cómo se ve cuando una sociedad se desmorona. Su nuevo libro, *Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind*, es la continuación de *The Parasitic Mind*. Aquí está la tesis, y por qué nos concierne a todos nosotros. La empatía es una de las mejores cosas que tenemos. Evolucionó por una razón: para cuidar de nuestros hijos, nuestros parientes, nuestra tribu. Estaba calibrada para un mundo en el que las personas por las que sentías eran las que estaban a tu alrededor, y en el que la empatía siempre venía acompañada de su contrapeso: el instinto de proteger a los tuyos y reconocer una amenaza. La empatía suicida es lo que ocurre cuando ese mecanismo falla. Cuando se dispara hacia los objetivos equivocados, en las cantidades equivocadas, sin freno. Cuando sentimos más por el criminal que por su víctima. Más por el extraño que rompe las reglas que por el ciudadano que las sigue. Más por lo compasivos que parecemos que por lo que nuestra compasión realmente produce. ¿De dónde viene? Cuatro capas. Primero, la biología. La empatía es un foco, como lo expresó el psicólogo Paul Bloom. Ilumina el rostro único frente a ti y deja todo lo demás en la oscuridad. El migrante llorando en el bote es visible. Las miles de futuras víctimas de un sistema roto son estadísticas. Un foco es una herramienta terrible para gobernar un país. Segundo, nuestra propia civilización. Occidente es la civilización que puso a la víctima en el centro de su moralidad. El cristianismo nos enseñó a cuidar del extraño, del pobre, del débil. Fue una de las mayores revoluciones morales de la historia. Pero cortada de su otra mitad —la justicia, la responsabilidad, el deber de proteger a los tuyos—, se convierte en algo más. Tercero, la ideología. En *The Parasitic Mind*, Saad describió patógenos de ideas, ideas que secuestran nuestro razonamiento. La empatía suicida es su contraparte emocional: una ideología que secuestra nuestra compasión. Ordena el mundo en opresores y víctimas, y luego exige empatía ilimitada para quien clasifique como víctima, sin importar lo que hagan. Cuarto, el estatus. En la era de las redes sociales, la empatía se ha convertido en una exhibición. Publicar «bienvenidos refugiados» no cuesta nada y gana aplausos. La factura la paga otro: la clase trabajadora, los suburbios, las mujeres que caminan solas de noche. Los resultados están por todas partes. Criminales tratados como víctimas de la sociedad. Agresiones sexuales por migrantes con sentencias indulgentes. La autodefensa marcada como agresión. Las fronteras tratadas como crueldad. La conclusión de Saad es simple: una sociedad muere cuando prefiere exhibir tolerancia infinita en lugar de usar su instinto de supervivencia. Ahora la parte que yo agrego, y que pocos se atreven a decir. En promedio, las mujeres puntúan más alto que los hombres en medidas de empatía. Es uno de los hallazgos más consistentes en psicología, a través de culturas, y tiene perfecto sentido evolutivo: durante la mayor parte de la historia humana, la supervivencia de los niños dependía de ello. Es una fortaleza. Pero eso significa que una ideología que arma la empatía golpeará más fuerte a las mujeres. Y los datos lo muestran: país tras país, las mujeres jóvenes se han movido bruscamente a la izquierda de los hombres jóvenes, especialmente en inmigración.
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Kids, if you want to change the world and not just tie up Monday morning traffic, this is the apartheid that desperately needs your attention: The Gender Apartheid.
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A lot of Europeans are going to find out that they owe a big damn apology to Israel.
France was one of the first countries to recognize “Palestine.” Now Palestine is recognizing France.
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I do. It's actually a really simple answer. Kids can understand it. I'll tell you the story now so you can be ready when you finally have grandkids, Mario Awful. For decades, Israelis tried to work with the Gazans, believing the impossible: that people who have declared that they want nothing more than to have Israel destroyed and Jews killed might be able to be persuaded to be friends by giving them land, money, resources, opportunities, and an infinite amount of patience. During those decades, huge amounts of humanitarian aid was sent to the Gaza Strip, which they used to militarize and to spend many years planning a savage surprise attack against the people helping them. Almost everyone in the world took up their cause, even many Israelis who lived right next door, even though the Gazans were taking advantage of all that help. They were offered everything but wouldn't accept it because all they wanted was Israel to be destroyed and Jews to be driven out or, preferably, dead. They were so fixated on that goal that nothing else mattered, and nothing else was good enough. They even used water pipes to build rockets and dug terror tunnels under their city and deep into Israeli territory to prepare for a surprise war. On an important Jewish holiday and their sabbath, the Gazans sprung their surprise attack. That was October 7, 2023. They launched over a thousand rockets at 6:30 am. The Israelis heard the sirens and knew they only had seconds to hide in their shelters from these attacks. By the way, every Israeli house has a bomb shelter in it because these kinds of attacks are so frequent. Also, every Israeli adult and child, little boys and little girls, knows from as soon as they can walk that when the sirens sound to go to the shelter because it is so important and so common. As the Israelis went, exhausted and sleepy, to their shelters to hide from the rocket attack, the Gazans sent a large armed force across the fence into Israel to do the most heinous things to the Israelis that you can imagine. Over a thousand were murdered. Things so horrible you cannot describe them to children happened everywhere. The Gazans celebrated and filmed themselves and put it on the internet, bragging and boasting about unimaginable horrors and murders. They dragged Israelis, including women, children, and babies and dead bodies, into their terror city and terror tunnels and started abusing and killing them slowly, using them and their corpses as collateral against the Israeli people and military. This lasted for over two years, with the last hostage's remains returned at the end of January 2026 after being taken in October 2023. The scale and nature of this attack is so horrific that it cannot be described politely, but its true evil wasn't just in the barbarity of its forces, which did unspeakable things to completely innocent men, women, and children everywhere they went, including many who openly supported them for years, but in how they took advantage of the trust and help they were given to do it. Gazans had spent years exploiting the goodwill of Israelis in the Gaza Envelope to gather intelligence, working as gardeners, housekeepers, taxi drivers, etc., to gather detailed intelligence of the neighborhoods and homes they would systematically attack starting on October 7. So many Israelis were betrayed at their trust and goodwill toward the Gazans, and by it. While they hid from those rockets in their shelters, Hamas terrorists systematically went through the carefully mapped streets of their neighborhoods, broke into houses, and shot them dead through the doors of their shelters, or crashed in through the walls from the outside using their own farming equipment to do it. Hamas terrorists knew the Israelis would be hiding from the rockets and knew where they'd be hiding, and they murdered them while they hid, deliberately, planned out in advance and for years. These people weren't just Israelis or Jews. They were innocents. In fact, as far as it goes, many of them were the greatest champions for the Gazans in Israel. Didn't matter. They were Israelis. They were Jews. They had to die in the most horrible ways you can think of. They had to be desecrated. They had to be taken hostage. It all had to be celebrated on video streamed live onto the internet to excite their radical friends around the region and the world. The horror is actually incomprehensible. Had this happened to Americans in the United States from one of its neighbors, the response Americans would have demanded cannot actually be comprehended. I stand in awe at how restrained and cautious and decent and good the Israelis have been, and it is to my slight embarrassment knowing that our own people, our own forces, wouldn't have managed a fraction of that decency, however much we would match the unparalleled effectiveness of these operations. That is, Mario Awful, I don't f*cking want to hear it, and neither do your grandkids. Respect them enough not to soil their minds with these lies, which are so evil that Hell itself would be slightly embarrassed to spread them. So, when Israel realized what had happened to them, what was still happening to them, how their trust, support, and patience had been taken advantage of in the nastiest and cruelest way human beings can possibly imagine, for zero good reasons and only unbelievably evil ones, they set out to make sure it would never happen again. They started a war of rescue and to end the military capacities of the Gazans, who were and still are governed by a radical terrorist group that even has in their charter that they want every Israeli driven out and every Jew that can be killed dead. Israel waged a patient war with the highest accuracy rate of any in the entire history of urban warfare, taking great pains and many casualties to spare innocent life, even when that innocent life openly supports the terror regime that governs them and wants them dead. The Gazans, however, had spent decades turning their entire city into a hidden military fortress, hiding weapons, entrances to terror tunnels, command centers, and every conceivable military target within civilian neighborhoods, including even homes, schools, hospitals, and houses of worship. Israel did what it had to do as carefully as it could be done. The devastation you see is the result of the evil of Hamas and the Gazans who support it having spent decades organizing their city to become a vast, sprawling military installation. The Gazans and their terrorist leaders took this organizational approach specifically for two reasons. One was to deter Israel from ever attacking or disabling their military installations at all. Even when the devastation seen here, that remained the case. Israel took great pains to minimize, including casualties, including complicated legal approvals, including warning both civilians and combatants in Gaza of incoming attacks against the installations, trying to save all innocent (and a lot of not-so-innocent) life. Another was to produce this propaganda, which Mario Awful, after having his account built to giant size by @elonmusk himself, spreads and promotes with foolish emotion-driven emojis and devastating lies of omission of these facts. Even as Israel dismantled the entire military capacity of Gaza bit by bit (which is what you see in the video here), they sent aid: more food, medicine, and other supplies than have ever been sent to a population controlled by an enemy military in the history of warfare, period. The terrorist leaders leveraged every bit of it against them, stealing it and starving their own people, creating propaganda campaigns about genocide and forced starvation, and even building more rockets out of raw materials including water pipes, which they then fired at Israel. Bit by bit, Israel dismantled as much of their military apparatus as they could and rescued or recovered all of their hostages, including among them Americans. The result is what you see. The result you see below is the most painstakingly moderate response a decent human being of even the slightest comprehension could possibly imagine, and yet that's what the Israelis have accomplished in Gaza. And they accomplished it while the world hated them for it, scrutinized everything not just for any legitimate breaches of perfection but for a litany of illegitimate accusations of things so voluminous that they could not even be recorded, except that they were in the relentless propaganda of social media, the global enemy propaganda channels, and even the mainstream press, almost all amplified and repeated by even allegedly good, decent conservatives who found these lies a perfect reason either to reveal their underlying but hidden hatred for Jews or to turn to that evil on false pretenses you are promoting, even now, even today. So when you sit down to tell your grandkids how humanity allowed Gaza to happen, tell them the real story. Humanity allowed Gaza to become a terrorist militarized city openly dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the murder and desecration of Jews and Jewish bodies by believing in some asinine humanitarian concept that defies all logic. It happened by creating a global political situation that, for reasons of Communist political correctness and soft-hearted and softer-headed compassion, refused to believe the simple reality of the situation. It happened because this delusion and misplaced trust persisted for decades while Hamas and its supporters turned Gaza into a terrorist military outpost that would simply have to be destroyed sooner or later, and then they pulled that trigger on themselves in the most obvious way possible on October 7, 2023, which stands as one of the darkest days of the last century. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't take Hamas at its word. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it lied to itself for decades about the nature of the Islamic currents that motivate Hamas and "Palestinianism" more broadly. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't address a problem correctly from the beginning, not least because it was terrified of being called racist and refused, nobly but stupidly, that human beings could be led by ideology and religion to the depths of evil and depravity that had captured the Gazans. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen, that is, because it refused to take Gazans at their word. Israel, starting in late 2023, finally woke up in the worst way possible to the need to STOP LETTING GAZA HAPPEN, the result of which your video depicts and the truth and moral of which you, like a demon, invert.
Years from now, my grandkids will ask me how humanity allowed Gaza to happen. I still don’t have an answer for them 💔 nitter.gq/mhmd_s09/status/209257…
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Great guide
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If you’re a 25 year old woman on a plane and the man next to you starts masturbating and the flight crew won’t deal with it properly, find a Gen X woman seated nearby. We have been preparing for this moment since 1999 and we would be delighted to handle the situation. @united should be embarrassed
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Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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This is one of the best and most moving political ads I have ever seen. New York... Vote BLAKEMAN for Governor this November. There are tons of 9/11 families in NY who feel this way. This type of pain doesn't fade. These kinds of wounds never fully heal. Do it for them.
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The prevailing view of so much of the young left in America is that we’re the worst country ever, so if someone attacks us, they can’t be all bad.
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September 11, 2001 NEVER FORGET 🇺🇸🫡
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BREAKING 🚨 75+ Club America @tpusastudents at Kingsburg High School in California kicked off the school year with a HUGE first chapter meeting! 🔥🎉🇺🇸 the Central Valley LOVES @TPUSA and Charlie ❤️ our CV field representative @Nayely_Gonz13 is making a monumental impact here 👏🏼☀️ – at Kingsburg, CA
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The way Kenny Rogers’ whole face lights up the moment he hears Dolly Parton’s voice coming from offstage. I have always loved this performance so much.
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Global icon and humanitarian, Dolly Parton, known to the world as a beloved singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actress, playwright, and author died peacefully today in Nashville, Tennessee. She was 80 years old. Dolly is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 59 years Carl Thomas Dean (1942 – 2025), her mother Avie Lee Caroline Owens (1923 – 2003), and father, Robert Lee Parton, Sr. (1921 – 2000). A rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see, Dolly will forever stand as an inspiration not only through her timeless music and prolific songwriting, but also her wit, warmth, and kindness that made us all feel like family. Dolly Parton’s legacy is one of love, compassion, and resilience. With a seven-decade career, she inspired multiple generations of artists and fans with her music and an unwavering commitment to making the world a better place. Her songs will continue to resonate with people of all ages, and her philanthropic work will have a lasting impact. At Dolly’s request, a small, private service will be held for immediate family. Dolly’s fans and friends from around the world are encouraged to pay tribute to Dolly on social media by tagging @DollyParton or by leaving a message at dollyparton.com In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at imaginationlibrary.com
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My favorite clip of Dolly.
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Awesome
One of the all-time great Rock Hall moments: Dolly’s “Jolene” with Rob Halford (Judas Priest), Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), Pink, and Sheryl Crow. Zac Brown Band held it down as the house band. Rest easy, Dolly 🤘 nitter.gq/JVPALT1/status/2092319…
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This sort of thing makes me militant…ja
Yesterday, I got a parking ticket in downtown LA—my bad. I pulled into what I thought was a loading zone but wasn't. I was only there for 6 minutes and 34 seconds. But I want you to see my surroundings—encampments in every single direction. @LACity can't clean the streets but sure can extort $70 a pop from those of us who aren't drug addicts.
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is guarded twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. It has been guarded, without interruption, since 1937. In September of 2003, Hurricane Isabel reached Washington. The National Park Service, out of concern, gave the sentinels of the Old Guard permission to stand down for the storm. They did not stand down. The sergeant of the guard on duty that night refused the permission, calmly, and without further comment. He would later say, in an interview, only that permission was not the same as an order, and that in the absence of an order, the walk continues. The walk continues. Twenty-one steps. Turn. Face the tomb. Twenty-one seconds. Turn. Face the other way. Twenty-one seconds. Twenty-one steps. The rain came sideways. A tree fell in the cemetery a hundred yards to the east. The wind lifted a portion of the roof from a nearby maintenance shed. The sentinel did not break stride. He walked. He turned. He walked. At 3 a.m. the wind reached seventy miles per hour, and a sentinel weighing 175 pounds in soaked wool, carrying a rifle, and wearing sunglasses in the dark because the manual requires them, walked twenty-one steps, turned, and walked twenty-one steps back. Nobody was watching him. Nobody could have watched him. The cemetery had been closed. The public had been evacuated. The only witness was the storm. He walked for six hours. He was relieved at 6:12 a.m. The tomb had not been left, at any point during the storm, uncovered. There is no medal for this. There is no ribbon. There is no citation. There is no commendation in his file. The Old Guard does not require one. The walk is the point. The walk was the walk before there was a country to record it, and the walk will be the walk after everyone who remembers this night is gone. Somewhere in America, at this moment, in whatever weather, a sentinel is walking twenty-one steps beside a marble slab, facing an unknown man whose name he does not know, for an oath he took to a country that will never see him take it. That is what the promise looks like when nobody is watching.
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I expect Mamdani's public grocery stores will not offer significant price discounts relative to budget grocers. Thinking about his mandate they make things cheaper reminded me of "parchment guarantees" and this speech from Justice Scalia.
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