Empathy is the lubricant and fuel for doing larger and greater things together. It's the connective tissue of any community project. Selfishness is your survival instinct. Sociopathy is indulging in selfishness and using empathy only in service to your own goals. @herominded /1

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation. Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention. In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust. But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming. American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time. Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical. Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself. Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office? This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest? Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse. This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price. The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most. So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television. History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

CBS has pulled this segment of 60 minutes. See if you can tell why.

Official story: 2 bombs were placed on J5 & sat for 16 hours. On J6, cops found bomb #2 within minutes of bomb #1 discovery, then quit looking. NEW VIDEO shows the bomber visited a third site on J5 and the same cops visited that third site 2 minutes before finding bomb #2 on J6.

.@RepRoKhanna and I achieved a 427 to 1 vote in the House and a 100 to 0 vote in the Senate using a “discharge petition,” which allows the House to function when the Speaker blocks progress. Now @SpeakerJohnson wants to eliminate the discharge petition, but we won’t let him.

For anyone hoping to use “ongoing investigations” as a reason to withhold Epstein files, please read the language of the bill. “narrowly tailored and temporary” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This is real.

Do yall realize the house is not his?

Lavrov said Russia never cared about territories but wanted to protect "Russian people." I've added what Russian "protection" looks like below.

Absolutely chilling audio of the initial call for multiple firefighters ambushed and shot while responding to an intentionally set brushfire in Idaho. Listener discretion is advised. This is hard to listen to.

RT @AdamKinzinger: Russia trolling Donald. But to Russia i ask: do you even have an army left bro?

no kings was the largest political protest in u.s. history

He was MAGA and crazy how we know all about him but nothing aboutThomas Matthew Crooks.

I've been very cautious about describing what the Armed Forces have been doing as law enforcement, given the concerns. But I genuinely cannot think of another word to describe this. Despite not conducting arrests, they are clearly part of the enforcement team.

Since the AG doesn't seem to be getting ethics guidance from her team these days, I wanted to make sure she has the rule in the Justice Manual in front of her, which expressly prohibits this.

Imagine saying that to the German Chancellor

When the Reddit bros leaves their home, you know shit's getting real. Take notes! This is how you do it!

Men need therapy.

They hacked the tabulation machines in the swing states nobody has ever won all the swing states and the down ballot was all democrat. How was that possible?