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We can’t let this happen in America & I won’t let it happen in Ohio. The stakes are clear.
France's cost-of-living protests take a destructive turn as rioters torch a historic town hall, leaving much of the 143-year-old landmark in ruins. In Limoges, flames engulf the building before its roof collapses. The local prefect calls the attack deliberate, while France's interior minister blames radical far-left groups for violence breaking out during demonstrations nationwide. President Emmanuel Macron is condemning the destruction and warning that those responsible for attacking public buildings and businesses will face prosecution. The unrest is spreading well beyond one city. See where masked groups are attempting to storm government buildings: foxnews.com/world/limoges-to…
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Mark Hodder retweeted
Maybe I’m not very smart But my mind is simply not capable of comprehending how one could willingly vote to bring what’s happening in France to their own doorstep Can someone help explain?
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Mark Hodder retweeted
“Diversity is our greatest strength”
NOW - Chaos at Place de la République in Paris, France.
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During the early Blitzkrieg campaigns of World War II, German soldiers were issued Pervitin, a powerful methamphetamine-based stimulant often described as a “miracle pill.” The drug helped troops stay awake for extraordinarily long periods, sometimes reportedly up to 72 hours, while suppressing fatigue and boosting their confidence as they pushed across Europe. But the temporary surge in energy came with dangerous consequences. Prolonged use and sleep deprivation could trigger hallucinations, paranoia, aggression, and severe mood swings. By 1941, German military doctors were raising concerns about the drug’s harmful effects, including psychological disturbances that could compromise soldiers’ judgment and performance. Although Germany’s rapid military advances were primarily driven by tactics, coordination, and mechanized warfare, stimulants played a role in helping exhausted troops maintain their relentless pace. Behind the lightning-fast offensives was a disturbing reality: some soldiers were pushing their bodies beyond normal human limits with the help of methamphetamine.
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Mark Hodder retweeted
I care more about saving this statue than about the fate of the entire Third World.
NOW - A rioter climbs onto the statue of Joan of Arc, a patron saint of France, at the Place des Pyramides in Paris.
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Mark Hodder retweeted
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.
She voted for it. She welcomed them. Faced with the encore, she begs them to stop. In her heart she knows they will not. Everything she believed. That they were French like her, fighting for the same cause. That the ones who warned her were full of hate. That she would be safe. It all falls apart in this moment. She is terrified of what comes next. In her heart she knows. Only remigration can save her.
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After watching what's happening in France... I want to TRIPLE ICE funding. I want thousands of agents: - In every city - At the polls - At the courthouses - At the border
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The idea that mega billions in social welfare fraud ended up in the hands of ragtag recent immigrants is hilarious. There is no way that the powerful didn't cut themselves in on -- and organize -- one of the greatest orgies of legalized theft in human history.
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Ok it’s time for the backup…Julian Sayin is absolute trash
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Julian Sayin needs to be investigated for points shaving…this is horrendous
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Fact Check: TRUE
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The "far-right" is developing flying cars, spaceships, and epic military technology. The far-left is sterilizing themselves, killing babies, and a death cult that does nothing but destroy. We are not the same.
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Mark Hodder retweeted
If you think Democrats care about lowering the price of gas, just remember that on Day One of the Biden admin, two of the first things they did were cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and halt all new oil and gas leases.
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The BEST possible NFL offense in history. Any changes?
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Bunu izlerken tüylerim diken diken oldu. 📹: BBC
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I watched Charlie Kirk get murdered. So no, I won’t be voting for a Democrat. And no, I’m not sitting out the midterms.
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Mark Hodder retweeted
Some of you are so obsessed with making DONALD TRUMP lose that you’re not even paying attention to who you’re helping WIN. You think you’re punishing Trump, meanwhile you could be punishing YOURSELF for the next 4, 8, 12 years. Trump is temporary.The people WE elect, the policies they put in place, the damage they can do to your city, your state, your neighborhood, THAT SH*T can last for generations. You wanna hate Trump? HATE TRUMP. Knock yourself out. LFG, But don’t get so caught up in your hatred for one man that you hand over your future to somebody you haven’t even bothered to look into. These politicians ain’t moving into YOUR neighborhood. YOU LIVE THERE. Your taxes.Your streets.Your schools.Your safety.YOUR LIFE. When you walk into that voting booth, Trump ain’t standing there with you. THINK FOR YOURSELF. You’re voting for YOUR FUTURE, not your favorite enemy.
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Mark Hodder retweeted
I just don’t get why women are so dishonest. Like — just admit that you dress like that because you want people, especially men, to think that you’re hot. And by hot I mean sexually attractive. That’s why the shorts are short and tight and scrunch up around your butt to make your butt look bigger and rounder. Why? Because you think men like big round juicy butts. You wear low-cut tops because men find breasts attractive. Cut the bullshit that you do it just for you or that it’s more comfortable because you don’t and it’s not. Just freaking own it. And if you are going to dress like that, don’t expect people not to look because that’s specifically why you chose the outfit you did. Furthermore, don’t get mad when people you don’t think are hot hit on you. You can’t have it both ways. Aside from it being problematic for society and relationships between men and women, thing that frustrates me the most is the dishonesty in all of it. You know why you do it, we know why you do it. I am so tired of people expecting others not to be honest about things that are blatantly/obviously/objectively true.
Shane Gillis hit a nerve because his joke had truth in it. I mean just look at this outfit. Women should be able to admit that what he said is true. It’s okay.
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