Suicidal Empathy': Is the West Committing Suicide-by-Compassion?
Posted By: FlyRight, 1/30/2026 5:48:19 AM
According to [Gad] Saad's thesis, empathy becomes misdirected into a type of benevolent altruism that prioritizes the perceived feelings and needs of "marginalized" or external groups at the expense of the survival, security, and interests of one's own group and its values. The outcome is the weakening, and ultimately the destruction, of the very civilization that expressed this emotion. The problem? This concept of suicidal empathy unfortunately does not work. As the term predicts, it ends up killing its host. What we observe, however, in many people, is a highly selective empathy, precisely the opposite of caring about everyone.
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According to [Gad] Saad's thesis, empathy becomes misdirected into a type of benevolent altruism that prioritizes the perceived feelings and needs of "marginalized" or external groups at the expense of the survival, security, and interests of one's own group and its values. The outcome is the weakening, and ultimately the destruction, of the very civilization that expressed this emotion.
The problem? This concept of suicidal empathy unfortunately does not work. As the term predicts, it ends up killing its host.
What we observe, however, in many people, is a highly selective empathy, precisely the opposite of caring about everyone.
The arrest of narco-dictator Nicolas Maduro, the quarantine imposed on Venezuela’s oil industry and the collapse of the European Union’s “renewable energy” strategy all have raised a big question in the minds of many Americans: What role should foreign energy play in our policy efforts?
This month’s I&I/TIPP Poll’s online national survey of 1,478 adults, taken from Jan. 6 to Jan 9, provides a very clear answer: Access to foreign crude oil and other energy sources is very important to a majority of Americans. The poll’s margin of error is +/-2.9 percentage points.
Congress lurched a day closer to a partial government shutdown on Wednesday after Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) laid out a list of major reforms that Democrats want to make to the Department of Homeland Security, proposals that will likely encounter resistance from President Trump.
Democrats say they will block the six-bill government funding package the Senate will vote on Thursday, which includes the Homeland Security appropriations bill, putting Washington on the brink of another shutdown less than three months after the longest shutdown in American history.
Radical mob hijacks LAPD meeting and attempts
to silence California Post journalist
in chaotic scene 11 replies
to silence California Post journalist
in chaotic scene 11 replies
Radical leftist agitators ambushed a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Tuesday, screaming obscenities at officers and accusing the department of being murderers — before viciously turning on a California Post journalist.
Around 40 agitators — many of them obscuring their identity with medical masks or keffiyeh scarves — chanted “F–k the police,” assailed officers as “pigs” and shouted anti-law enforcement slogans as their increasingly disruptive antics ground the proceedings to a halt until order was restored a short time later.
The unhinged radicals tried to use their intimidation tactics against Post reporter Jamie Paige, who was covering the public meeting, peppering her with insults and attempting to physically block her camera
Trump revealed the “historic investment” while touting the economy and affordability during his remarks in Clive, Iowa. And I think it’s going to pay off very, very big. And if it doesn’t, I have nothing to do with it,” Trump joked, drawing laughs from those in attendance. “But if it does, I’m going to take…full credit.”
“I love those excavators, believe it or not, I know a lot about them. We don’t make them here. This is going to be the only excavator entirely made in the United States of America. I love it,” he added.
This level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis. It is the direct consequence of far left agitators, working with local authorities,” Vance wrote in a social media post: His comments came after a Border Patrol agent-involved shooting occurred in the city Saturday, which set off more chaos and saw crowds fill the streets, Breitbart News reported.
“What began as a rapid gathering of onlookers quickly devolved into a volatile confrontation, with agitators blocking roads, surrounding vehicles, and forcing federal officers into defensive positions amid a fast‑escalating wave of unrest,” the outlet said.
will spare you a discussion of the hows and whys of my discovery of it, but a little more than a decade ago, I discovered one of the most interesting and informative little books I have ever read. As a student of American politics and public policy and an analyst specializing in the intersection of politics and markets, it’s a book I’d never expected to read, much less to find as fascinating and edifying as I did. As (mostly bad) luck would have it, however, it’s also a tome that explains a great deal about what is going on in our country right now and offers practical advice—to both sides—
Independent journalist Cam Higby, on Saturday, blew the lid off the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests by revealing their training and communications methods, including some very interesting specifics. Mr. Higby also presents what is claimed to be the entire training manual for these patrols.: Both of these threads bear reading, but here are a few key points:
These training materials and the setup of this online system indicate that someone with some money is behind all this. These materials mention "patrol training" and mention the use of the Signal chat system. Mr. Higby presents some rather sophisticated maps, with the city broken up into patrol zones, based loosely, they say,
At the annual shindig in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made himself the folk hero of the anti-Trump crowd (that would be basically everyone). In remarks billed as receiving a "standing ovation" but which look pretty tepid on video, Carney proclaimed that Canada was going its own way because the "American hegemon" could no longer be trusted.Shortly before Carney arrived at Davos, he paid a visit to China,
The wife of a homeless charity boss who allegedly cheated California taxpayers out of $23 million dollars was spotted dashing out of her $7 million dollar mansion Sunday — as neighbor’s dished on the couple’s lavish lifestyle.
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“The neighborhood is buzzing,” one local resident said.
The heartbroken father of a 5-year-old girl who suffered life-altering injuries in a multi-vehicle pileup caused by an illegal-immigrant truck driver says Gov. Gavin Newsom has stonewalled the family’s desperate calls for help.
Dalilah Coleman, now 7, was left nonverbal and is relearning how to walk after her family vehicle was srtuck in a 2024 wreck by an 18-wheeler driven by Partap Singh, an illegal immigrant from India. Singh, who had been given a commercial driver’s license by the state despite his immigration status, was speeding through a construction zone and failed to stop his truck for traffic, leading to the horrifying crash, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Washington Post could shut down its entire sports section after management informed staffers that it was abruptly scrapping its planned coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics two weeks before the opening ceremony.
The decision by the Jeff Bezos-owned publication to cancel coverage of the Winter Games coincides with a report from Puck News journalist Dylan Byers, who tweeted on Saturday that “massive layoffs” at the paper were imminent.
According to Byers, there is increased chatter that the Washington Post’s “sports desk could be shuttered entirely” and that its “foreign desk will be hit hard too.”
A Washington Post spokesperson was not immediately available to comment.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Wednesday that his time as an elected official will permanently end when he finishes his term as governor. “I will never run for an elected office again. Never again,” Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said in an interview with MS NOW. Walz had said this month that he would not seek re-election as governor — sending shock waves through state and national politics — but he did not go so far as to say he would not consider another elected position down the line. In explaining his decision Wednesday, Walz talked about the
Mamdani Casts Blame on Eric Adams for
NYC $12B Deficit Budget: NYC Facing ‘Serious
Fiscal Crisis’ 23 replies
NYC $12B Deficit Budget: NYC Facing ‘Serious
Fiscal Crisis’ 23 replies
New York City (NYC) Mayor Zohran Mamdani cast blame on former NYC Mayor Eric Adams for the city’s $12 billion deficit budget, stating that the city is facing a “serious fiscal crisis.”
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Hillary Clinton took to social media to express support for the rioters in Minneapolis even as the disgraced former candidate and her husband were dodging a congressional subpoena looking into their relationship with family friend and Clinton Foundation co-founder Jeffrey Epstein.
After condemning the Trump administration’s push to deport illegal alien criminals from Minneapolis, despite the obstruction of violent leftist rioters who had tried to murder federal law enforcement agents and bit off an agent’s finger, Clinton urged directing funding to the rioters.
“In Minnesota, scores of ordinary people are bravely looking out for their neighbors, defending their communities, and protesting lawless violence,” she tweeted. “Here’s how to stand with them.”
Ex-NFL star who swapped football for FBI
quits with brutal swipe at Donald Trump
over ICE raids 17 replies
quits with brutal swipe at Donald Trump
over ICE raids 17 replies
Former NFL star Charles Tillman swapped footballs for rifles and pistols after hanging up his cleats, swapping a career on the field for one in it.
That was until one day in January 2025 when ICE descended on Chicago.
After 13 seasons in the NFL, the former cornerback joined the FBI, enrolling in the bureau's 20-week training program in Quantico, Virginia in 2018, two years after retiring from football.
And the Chicago Bears icon embraced the role, previously citing a desire to 'do my part and give back' as his reasons for joining up in an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail last year.
However, Tillman, 44, has now revealed
Augusta, Maine - Democratic state Rep. Deqa Dhalac will not seek reelection to represent House District 120, and says the decision comes after "serious reflection and conversations" about the political climate for Black elected officials.
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Homan Says Minnesota Dems Ready to Cooperate
with ICE, Allowing Agency to Begin Pulling
Officers Out 15 replies
with ICE, Allowing Agency to Begin Pulling
Officers Out 15 replies
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Somali-born state Rep. Yusuf Yusuf (D-Portland) runs a home care business with apparent ties to an interconnected network of Somali-operated companies drawing millions in Medicaid funding, and operating out of a Portland office equipped to funnel taxpayer money back to Africa.
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Minnesota Cops Beg Walz, Pols To Let Them
Work With ICE, Say They Could Have Prevented Shooting 14 replies
Work With ICE, Say They Could Have Prevented Shooting 14 replies
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