First of all, if you have already decided that the reason men get defensive when you point out the harmful things that some men do – like sexual assault and domestic violence – is because they’re weak, stupid, pathetic, self-centred, immature, or secretly bad themselves, and you’re not openly curious about the possibility of a different answer, then stop reading. Read More

Should We Defund—or Abolish—the Police? A No-BS Breakdown of the Debate “Defund the police” became a rallying cry in 2020, sparking passionate debate, media distortion, and endless social media hot takes. But even now, years later, the conversation often misses the real questions at the heart of the issue: What does defunding actually mean? Is police abolition even remotely realistic? Read More

You can’t ostracize people and then hope that they’ll join your team, right? You can’t reject people and then hope that they’ll come to you. That doesn’t make sense! So, you can go ahead and pat yourself on the back for being smarter in an argument, but consider how dumb it is to think that being mean to people would Read More

There’s a little something that the politicians and the media don’t really want you to know, and that is: If you sat down and just had a conversation with anyone that you think is on the “other team”, anyone you think you disagree with, and you just chilled and had a beer with them and talked about your different beliefs Read More

Rant.. The main reason the big issues never get resolved is because each side refuses to have empathy for the other. In the latest – the Roe v Wade abortion snafu in USA – it’s pretty clear that whoever feels strongly about this doesn’t give 2 shits about why the other side also feels strongly. They just make ungenerous assumptions Read More

In brief: this article argues the case that all world leaders are unfit to rule us due to being highly psychopathic – whether this is natural or learned – focusing in particular on one who most people would never consider: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Is Putin really worse than the others? I recently wrote a post about Vladimir Read More