AuchTwo

Puttup!
Only people of a certain age know what this means!

[Doctor Who Novels @DoctorWhoNovels]

Some of the covers we COULD have had.....that are all much better than what we actually ended up with!!

Time-Flight by @ColinHowardArt
Ultimate Foe original draft by Alister Pearson
Unearthly Child draft by @spuddemos
Terminus artist unknown

[Agent P @AgentP22]

#PrayForPatrickHarvie

😂😂😂😂😂

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

@LilithBlack25 Except they weren't black sub Saharan Africans.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

RAF fighter jets will help defend Saudi Arabia against aerial attacks from the Houthis.

The Ministry of Defence said the UK would send Typhoon fighter jets to provide additional defensive military support to the kingdom amid escalating attacks by the militant rebel group ⤵️
https://t.co/iEyOHBi0Yy

[Robbie @Robbie_Reasons]

A word of advice to the Pope.

The walls around the Vatican were ordered by Pope Leo IV and finished around 852 after Muslim Arab raiders sacked St. Peter's Basilica.

Do not lecture anyone on walls, immigration, war, or the virtues of Islam.

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

Idiot Liberal still doesn't realise what she has supported all along.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

What started out as peaceful protests against the rising cost of living, the state of public high schools and the erosion of public services in France, descended into violence and chaos on Saturday.

One woman can be seen attempting to stop masked rioters from looting a grocery store, yelling “Why are you doing this? Stop! Why are you doing this? This isn’t the issue.”

🔗 https://t.co/ewKFxVOyAf

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for."

Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it."

I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy.

The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us.

Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat.

Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces.

Where does it come from? Four layers.

First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country.

Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else.

Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do.

Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night.

The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct.

Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say.

On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength.

But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration.

This is where men have a responsibility.

Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves.

Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends.

That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women.

Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street.

A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left.

Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough.

Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

Piers after the interview with Zelensky.

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

@SkyNews @amandaakass Fatso Swinney is a clown, this is just bluster to keep the faithful for deserting.

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

HMS Agamemnon outbound from Faslane today for the first time -conducting sea trials and work up.

Via @MichaelGDeveney

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

@ayo776 Scientists have discovered that ancient Wakanda Man was actually white, which explains the civilisation and cities.

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

@ayo776 Pish! No powerboats and fast travel in the ice age. And the Cheddar Man skin colour was debunked within weeks: https://t.co/4dj7VqTLCY

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

@ChathamHouse @UKHouseofLords War Trophies are not stolen.

Losers tears!

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

Ha Ha!

How to say "I'm a leftist idiot!" by not actually saying: "I'm a leftist idiot!"

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Scottish Government will quit X after the SNP voted to remove the party and public bodies from the platform

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

Sky News and the BBC have been very quiet on this one.

[Military Summary @MilitarySummary]

🇷🇺 "Bear's Corner" - an operation to eliminate the "Vovchansk Cauldron" in the Kharkiv region.

[War Baby @barnsie40]

Well, I don’t know about you, but I think 76-year-old Mr Miller deserves a bloody round of applause
Arrested for wearing a burqa at a protest, then turns up to court wearing the fucking burqa again….. Complete with handbag !
Sir, your level of sarcasm is absolutely outstanding

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

@trevorbaxendale I was disappointed by and, having liked Anthony Horowitz's Sherlock Holmes novels, I'm now reading his Trigger Mortis 007 novel. Which I am enjoying immensely.

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

They can deport criminals when they want to! Funny that.

[Agent P @AgentP22]

Tommy Sheridan seems to be a supporter of genocide.

Who knew?

[AuchTwo @AuchTwo]

@AgentP22 Thing is that's not even a Missile that Tommy the idiot has posted, its far too big, even the Russian Sarmat ICBM aint as big as that. And the Iranians are nowhere near capable of creating something like that.