Ivan Jenkins

Libertarian and Entrepreneur. A retweet is not an endorsement. Opinions are mine.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

- In France they leave pallets of glass bottles to use in riots
- During the BLM riots they left pallets of bricks
- During the ICE protests throughout America they left stacks of bricks to throw at law enforcement

Same playbook, same people funding it. It’s a communist takeover

[墓碑科技 @mubeitech]

德国 DW 电视台拍过一部关于巴黎郊区移民的纪录片。
镜头对准了生活在同一片区域的两个群体。

一边是大约七万人的法国华人。
在巴黎北郊的欧贝维利耶，他们建起了欧洲最大的服装批发中心。
这批人的生活方式很简单：
起早贪黑，开小作坊、看店、跑货运。
赚了钱继续投入生意，遇到难处自己想办法扛。
平时低调安静，很少向政府伸手要特殊补贴，也不上街制造混乱。
几十年下来，越来越多家庭买了房，把生意做了起来。

另一边，是同样生活在这片街区的北非移民群体。
从整体上看，他们在当地的经济融入相对滞后。
但纪录片捕捉到了一个细微却现实的心态变化：
一种把自食其力者视作威胁的情绪，正在悄悄蔓延。

按片子里的观察，
一些融入受挫的人，习惯以受害者自居，觉得社会欠自己太多。
可当他们转头看到身旁的华人时，心态变了。
他们不仅没有去学怎么做生意，反而把华人当成了竞争对手。

这种敌意到底从何而来？

最现实的冲突在于：华人的日子越过越好，受害者叙事就越难自圆其说。
大家同样是外来者，同样面对异国他乡的壁垒。
甚至华人刚来的时候连法语都不会讲，更谈不上本地人脉。
如果有人靠一天干十几个小时，能把日子一点点撑起来，
那句“我们过不好全怪外界不公”，就很难再理直气壮地说出口。

一个闷头自立的人，往往会让习惯归咎环境的人感到刺眼。

更深层的错位在于对财富的理解。
在很多索取者的认知里，财富是一块固定死的大饼。
他们看不到那些批发店是怎样一箱一箱货物搬出来的，
只觉得华人的店铺赚到了钱，就是占了自己的便宜。

再加上华人素来习惯忍让，遇到纠纷往往选择息事宁人，
这种心态上的失衡，很快就落成了现实中的治安麻烦。
抢劫、尾随、街头袭击，接二连三指向这群只想安分过日子的人。

靠双手养活自己、靠信誉积累财富，放在任何健全的社会都是最基本的尊严。
但如果一个地方习惯了把受害者身份当成通行的筹码，
那个默默把日子过好的人，
往往最先成为被针对的对象。

[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.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: The man who stopped the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, has been identified as 36-year-old Kalub Giamanco.

Giamanco, a carpenter, was reportedly driving home for lunch when he heard gunshots.

After hearing the gunshots, Giamanco, who has a concealed carry permit, followed the suspect into the school.

He then shot and killed 16-year-old John J Griffin moments after the teen opened fire into a special education classroom.

Giamanco, who has two children of his own who attend the school, is family friends with one of the victims, a 7-year-old who uses a wheelchair and was shot in the face.

The 7-year-old survived and is in the hospital.

Three children at Silver Rail Elementary School were killed. Their ages are 5, 8, and 11.

According to Giamanco's brother, Giamanco doesn't feel like a hero because he feels guilty for not being able to save more children.

You are a hero, Kalub.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

"That's not democracy. That's a purchase order." Cute line, Elizabeth. Let's read the Democratic purchase orders out loud.

Start with yours. 2020, your presidential campaign is collapsing after Iowa and New Hampshire. A super PAC called Persist PAC shows up to rescue you. 96% of its money came from one Silicon Valley megadonor. One check. $14.6 million. Donors hidden until after Super Tuesday. You'd spent the whole primary telling everyone super PACs were corruption. Then you took the purchase order.

Now the rest of the catalog.

George and Alex Soros: $103.7 million this cycle alone, $102 million of it dumped into a single Democratic super PAC.

Majority Forward, the dark money nonprofit tied to your own Senate leader Chuck Schumer: $102 million. Donors? Secret.

House Majority Forward: $61.7 million. Donors? Also secret.

Michael Bloomberg: around $1 billion on his own 2020 primary, $100 million for Biden in Florida, and still writing eight-figure checks in 2026.

Reid Hoffman: $11.5 million into one super PAC for one Texas Senate race.

Bill Gates: reportedly around $50 million to a pro-Harris group in 2024.

Pritzker, Moskovitz, Steyer, Hastings: millions upon millions, cycle after cycle.

Kamala Harris: over $1 billion raised in under three months. Lost anyway.

Musk's money is disclosed, public, and on the front page of the New York Times article you just linked. Which, by the way, says $276 million, not "nearly $300 million." Schumer's money sits in an anonymous nonprofit nobody can see inside.

So which one is the purchase order, Elizabeth?

For twenty years, billionaire money was "saving democracy." Now it's "buying Congress." The only thing that changed is whose name is on the check.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The Democrats attacked Elon’s intelligence for years

“One of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met” - AOC

“One of the dumbest people on Earth” - Ilhan Omar

He just made flying cars.

[Steve · Millionaire Habits @SteveOnSpeed]

Only in the first world can you wear $200 shoes, drink an $8 coffee, own a $1,000 phone, and post on a billionaire's social media network about how capitalism has failed you.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

There is so much misinformation around owning Teslas, even till this day:

• No, you don’t get range anxiety. With a wall connector at home, you wake up to a “full tank” every day, and Tesla Supercharger stations are everywhere.

• Teslas make the BEST road trip vehicles because of FSD.

• Total ownership costs are much lower than a comparable gas car when you factor in fuel, and maintenance.

• Tesla batteries are engineered for longevity. They’re designed to lose only 20% of capacity after 250K miles.

• A Tesla is ~8x less likely to catch fire than a gasoline vehicle.

• Tesla FSD can drive you from point A to point B anywhere in the US, including cross-country. It handles all our charging stops, parking, etc.

• With FSD, you just press a button on the display, and the car will drive itself to your destination. You literally just relax.

• On road trips, Tesla Superchargers are conveniently placed along your route in locations where you can eat, shop, and rest.

• Average charging stops take 10–30 minutes. You do not charge to 100%, as that isn’t the quickest way.

• The average price per kWh in the US is $0.18. Charging a Model 3 Premium RWD costs only $14.70 for over 360 miles of range. (Can be way less in some states)

• Tesla vehicles are among the best to drive in winter. Heat pumps warm the cabin quickly and efficiently, while instant torque and traction control provide excellent grip.

• The only maintenance typically required is cabin air filters, tires, and windshield fluid.

• New battery replacements for the Model 3 and Model Y start as low as $8,000 to $12,000, not the “$30,000 to $40,000” some “experts” claim. The battery itself costs about the same as (or less than) a typical engine replacement, but with far less labor involved. Full battery replacements are extremely rare.

• The electric motors slow the car by recovering kinetic energy and sending it back into the battery, so the physical brakes hardly ever get used. They can last onwards of 250K miles.

• Teslas get frequent OTA software updates that add new features, improve performance, and fix issues without a service cost.

• Tesla vehicles have the highest safety ratings in the industry, and rank among the lowest fatality rates. Cybertruck is the safest pickup truck, by far.

• Model 3&Y, and Cybertruck can power our home during an outage with the correct equipment.

Best cars ever.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

🇬🇧 This is proper British (oh hush you progressives)

A 76 year old man is before the courts with a test of equality before the law! … pay attention.

Timothy Miller was arrested for wearing a burka at an anti-migration protest. So he’s turned up to court wearing it AGAIN!

Because Section 157 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026 provides a defence for face coverings worn for religious observance… It doesn’t say ONLY women. It doesn’t say ONLY Muslims.

And the Equality Act protects religion or belief, while Article 9 protects the freedom to CHANGE religion. And clever Mr Miller says he’s “exploring Islam”

So now the court is screwed (not a legal technical term) and must decide whether his actions qualify as ‘religious observance’

Because the law must be applied EQUALLY, regardless of sex, religion or political opinions.

He’s challenging whether equality before the law really means equality for EVERYONE. (I think I love him)

And I think that’s bloody brilliant!.. now we have to see if the law is going to show its cards! … Will it discriminate against this white man? exploring his religion? … of course it will.

And then you will know … that this brave man took one for the team.

Come on Team Britain 💣

[Kosher @koshercockney]

WOW. Holy shit. The best response to Palestinian bullshit ever.

Meticulous. Masterclass by @benshapiro

You’ve gotta watch this

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Anything to say here, @UN?

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

When Starlink helped save five lives at sea.

A boat called Magic Bus was sinking in a storm, far off the coast of North Carolina.

The captain tried to call for help using the boat’s radio, but couldn’t reach anyone. He then used @Starlink Mini to connect his phone and call the U.S. Coast Guard.

The five people left the sinking boat in a liferaft. Rescuers arrived by helicopter and brought everyone back safely. Starlink helped them reach help when their lives were in danger.

This life-saving technology should be available in every part of the world.

[Steve · Millionaire Habits @SteveOnSpeed]

If you think all Billionaires exploit people by underpaying them, now is your chance to start your own business and pay everyone at least $100/hour.

Show us how it’s done. Be the example.

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Dear Zoe, when you buy assets you buy them with money you were already taxed on.

The real question is why do you constantly want to steal from people? Did your parents not teach you stealing is wrong?

[QThestorm @17QStorm]

Elizabeth Waffle is 88 years old. She lives in a trailer in Milan, Michigan. No computer. Spotty phone internet. Modest pension after her house burned down.

Federal records put her name on 14,696 ActBlue donations totaling nearly $150,000 over five years. Roughly eight a day. Average under ten bucks each. Forty-seven of them to Abdul El-Sayed.

When Charlie LeDuff showed her the paperwork, she said the only thing that fit.

“Hell no. I don’t have that kind of money.”

Democrats spent years selling the country a “small-dollar grassroots” story. The machine that powered it is under House investigation for foreign donations, weakened fraud checks, passport “verification” that only counted characters, and a legal team that walked out after 2024. Their CEO took the Fifth.

The names stayed on the filings. The money still moved. El-Sayed is the nominee.
They call it small donors. She calls it impossible.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Electricity production is the best metric for the true strength of any large-scale economy imo

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

Britains's had enough. HD

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[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

"We weren’t aware the child was in the car I can tell you that. But do you know who was? Oscar. Oscar knew he had a child in his car. Oscar chose to accelerate at a high rate of speed and ram two different vehicles as it appears he was going towards officers. And so the public outcry should also be towards this criminal, this thug, this gangbanger, this possible murderer, the outrage should be with him for endangering the five year old.” @SecMullinDHS

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Here is @NYCMayor Mamdani 13 days after October 7th accusing Israel of genocide. Yet, Israel didn’t launch its counterattack on Hamas until October 27th.

How is it possible for Israel to commit genocide a week before it launched its response to the massacre of 1,200 citizens and the kidnapping of 251 of its people?

Mamdani’s genocide talking point was part of his hateful rhetoric even before Israel had a chance to defend itself.

It has as much credibility now as it did then.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin TORCHES Mayor Mamdani and Kathy Hochul for condemning an ICE shooting while remaining silent after an NYPD officer was stabbed SEVEN TIMES by two illegal aliens.

“Did anybody come out for the officer that was stabbed seven times by these criminals?”

“Not a word was said. Not a word was said by the mayor. Not a word was said by the governor.”

Democrats care more about illegal aliens than Americans.