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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who is really pulling the strings and come for them, not just their puppets …

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Meet one of the proposers of the Zionism is Racism Green Party motion. Her name is Rebecca Jones and she’s a suspended GP. She once said that a reading of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s last will and testament was “beautiful” and posted an Israeli flag on fire saying “Burn Zionism to the ground”.

Just to be super clear of the vileness of the motion’s pushers.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Antisemite of the Week Zohran Mamdani is celebrating his birthday today, asking for one wish - for people to vote.

We couldn’t agree more - if more people had voted in the Democratic Mayoral primary, NYC wouldn’t be stuck with this man.

[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.

[Gabriel Ballerini @BalleriniOK]

Los musulmanes votarán a la izquierda hasta ser mayoría.

Cuando lo sean votarán a los suyos.

Y entonces, los tontos útiles de izquierda serán ejecutados por los que votaron a los suyos, tal como hicieron en Irán en 1979.

[J @JayTC53]

🚨Nick Shirley was on the ground in France and interviewed some of the rioters...Their answers will infuriate you.

They are Antifa members, they blame Trump and regurgitate the same nonsensical leftist talking points.

The enemy of humanity and society is leftists and Islamists.

[Jonny Bell @Jonnywsbell]

Images that should horrify the world.

France has fallen, the rest of Europe and the UK will be next.

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do.

It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors.

For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, @EmmanuelMacron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel.

Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite.

So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for.

It never ends with the Jews.

[Craig Kelly:🇦🇺Foundation for Economic Education @craigkellyAFEE]

Galeries Lafayette is the most beautiful department store in world.

In Paris it’s being looted by barbarians.

This is what happens after decades of putting multiculturalism before assimilation and running mass migration programs from the third world.

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Another angle of a lynch mob attack on an Israeli woman walking alone in a mall in Turkey.

Monsters. https://t.co/pNuNavpifY

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

A picture worth a thousand words.

[Kalina Ann🍆 @KalinaAnnGG]

Ni una sola bandera de Francia en las "protestas" "estudiantiles". Solo banderas de entidades islámicas.

[New York Post @nypost]

NYC teacher posts antisemitic meme of Lionel Messi https://t.co/HwECcJODWJ

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Thoughts @JessicaTarlov?

[Ô.Mercedes @DolceVenezia74]

Pour moi, c'est l'image la plus horrible de ce 17 octobre:
Un couple d'octogénaire dépouillé de tout, en pleine rue, laissé à moitié nu.
Comme si les Rolex, les Vuiton, les Hermès, les Dior, les Sephora pillés n'étaient pas suffisants pour la revente.

L'image qui devrait être un signal d'alarme pour tout l'occident.

L'image d'un pseudo président qui a perdu le contrôle. Qui a totalement échoué envers son peuple.

L'image d'une gauche radicale qui a sacrifié votre propre identité pour faire de votre pays une zone de guerre, aux arrières-plans culturels qui n'ont rien à voir avec les vôtres.

Cette image est effrayante!

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Las Vegas residents were shocked to see this man standing near the Adelson Jewish School Friday holding up this atrocious sign and throwing up Nazi salutes to drivers.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

This is who they are.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: The Haverford professor who stalked his Jewish colleague and threatened to murder his newborn baby is now being defended by CAIR, along with about a dozen Haverford professors.

What kind of upside down world do we live in?

[Itai Cellier @hikelikeme]

תקשיבו זה הסרטון הכי מטורף שראיתי עד עכשיו. תראו איזה זעם ואיזה טירוף. יש פה איבוד שליטה טוטלי של כוחות הביטחון במרסיי. לא ברור מה הולך להתרחש. אם מקרון לא יפעיל את החוק משנת 1955, יכריז על מצב חירום, יפעיל את הצבא וירחיב את סמכויות המשטרה - צרפת בסכנה רצינית. הבנאדם לא באירוע!

[Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf]

Told you. Not students. Adult mercenaries. People are willing to believe anything