As a Norwegian studying political science, I agree with you. Our systems rely on the goodwill of politicians as long as people are not informed enough to vote rationally, which we know is not the case. As long as the entire voting pool is not democratically minded democracy is a fraud. People vote mostly based on what their acquaintances vote or which politician is most relatable personality wise, not at all based on policy. Democracy as long as there is capital, as long as people are afraid for their livelihood, and as long as we do not all counciously agreeing on what is the point of democracy, is a distraction from actually taking responsibility and considering your own and your communities needs. We get to free ourselves of responsibility and lay it on the elected politicians, while there is no guarantee that they are actually responsible. It is a philosophical farce with no actual root in reality. When you ask people what they voted (which i do often) most people excuse their answer: "but I don't know that much about politics". Democracy is just market reliance at this point and most markets are not free.

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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。

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.

Five days of the Bovaer poison in the feed led to paralysis, with the cows unable to stand on their own, watery diarrhea, and a loss of appetite. The Follerbakken farm near Frederikshavn in Denmark, decided yesterday to remove this chemical from the feed for the entire herd. Sick cows are placed in a recovery stall for rest, where they are also milked using a mobile milking system if they are unsteady on their feet and cannot walk to the milking robots on their own. Bovaer leaves behind the waste product NOPA (3-nitrooxypropionic acid), which harms and kills calves. This waste product reaches us consumers through milk and meat and is released into the environment through feces and urine. The reason Danish farmers are forced to use the Bovaer toxin is that Denmark is participating in the UN’s “net zero” scam and has adopted the UN’s 17 totalitarian so called Sustainable Development Goals. These are, among other things, responsible for utterly insane measures like the Bovaer toxin and other attacks on our agriculture, animals, and, consequently, our food supply and freedom. Please watch this video on the subject: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFHHOB… Boycott Arla NOPA-Nofff.com (find us on Facebook) Kent Nielsen 10/8 2026

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