Ep. 388 - Weaponized Empathy

Leftists all across the internet screw up what The Lord of the Rings is actually about. They believe it's about power, when it's actually about good and evil. And their own failure to identify evil is why they get the Right's (and the right) interpretation of the story so very wrong.The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it. | 67njHumble Flow on X: "At the heart of The Lord of the Rings is a very simple idea: Power corrupts. Always. Not sometimes, not just for the weak, not just for the selfish. Everyone who touches the Ring is changed by it. Even the good. Especially the good. https://t.co/R7Hr6uUqCi" / X

The art of making you feel bad to push an objective; broken down and explained so you can be as unmoved by bullshit as I am.Quickie Post — Weaponized Empathy | It's About Empathy – Connection Ties Us Together

Looking at some charts and data from an interesting article on X (I kind of like the format of the X articles, very similar to Substack), and follow that up (since it's relatively short and I think they go well together) with one about "speaking your truth."Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own alliesvittorio on X: "Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane" / Xstepfanie tyler on X: "The Problem with “Speaking Your Truth” " / X

After years of SJWs trying to turn the word in to a slur and make sure anyone who called someone else a "retard" was ostracized from polite society, now the worm has turned and we're back baby! Bring back the 90's when we could call everyone all the slurs we wanted.History of the R-Word, MAGA's Favorite SlurThe ‘R-Word’ Returns, Dismaying Those Who Fought to Oust It - The New York Times

America is moving past using "racism" as a takedown for anyone who says something even the slightest bit politically incorrect or, god-forbid, actually true. Axios blames Trump...naturally.How Trump flipped America's race conversationAppeals Monthly Zine... | APPEALS JAN2026 | MagCloud

What's the solution to lower population growth? Well, it's not to import a bunch of loud, dirty, third-worlders who can't integrate into western society. It's to get white people to start making babies! At least, that's what The Economist thinks the MAGA fertility fanatics want. And honestly, I'm 100% here for it!Make America procreate again: among the MAGA fertility fanatics

"The structural burden of men’s declining social networks" and how men's struggles with friendships are driving women away from the dating scene. Yes, this sounds insane, but it's also a little bit sad, and very pathetic. But I think worth exploring and discussing.Mankeeping Is Why Women Are Done With DatingThe structural burden of men’s declining social networks | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research

Some people will spend their whole lives killing themselves to get a high paying job just so they can afford to live in peace...and that's racist! According to some Atlantic author whose name no one can pronounce...Why Do Rich People Love Quiet? - The Atlantic

In the wake of a big win by a full-blown communist (I don't care how many leftists say Mamdani is a socialist, he's not), let's check in on someone who left the oppression of a red state to go live in New York, and just how well that's worked out for him.Blue State Blues - by River Page - The Free Press

Of all the things to get upset about, leave it to the soft-bellied, weak-chinned left to get their gender-neutral panties in a bunch over a bunch of college kids talking crap in a group chat..‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat - POLITICO