Wednesday, June 24, 2026

The Right can't actually debate

As Pam Bondi showed us during the Epstein hearings, she can't debate. Sure, she learned a few debating tricks but isn't really good in utilising them. Perhaps Jordan Peterson can give her a few lessons. Like 'shouting doesn't help cover a lie'. 

But maybe Jordan Peterson isn't the best teacher when it comes to debating; he loses it as soon as his conversation partner makes sure he can't use one of his debating tricks:
Just name any right winger who ever got in a debate (Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk...) with a sane person and a pattern emerges: right wingers have to resolve to using debating tricks because there are simply no arguments to prove their racist and misogynistic ideas.

Ben Shapiro's only debating trick is to never answer questions:
Charlie Kirk's main debating trick was the ad hominem: trying to throw his conversation partner of by throwing insults at them, hoping they would forget to talk about the subject at hand. And always lost teh debate when his conversation partner saw through that:
That's why it's funny to see a right winger pushed to come up with actual arguments. Like when Jeremy Carl (racist, antisemite commentator and therefore he qualified as government official under Trump) was heard by Senator Chris Murphy (sane person) over racial discrimination:
Want to have a laugh? Ask a racist for arguments for their racist retoric and their definition of 'white culture'. 

Can you help right wingers and come up with actual arguments for racist and misogynistic views or at least give them sort of a definition of 'white culture' and why it should be preserved?

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Friday, June 19, 2026

A Pawn entering the Room (a #CirclePoem)

A pawn entering the room
is like a king without a crown,
a witch without a broom,
going up instead of down

The queen knows
it's not all black and white,
that the bishop is really grey
and so is the knight
when it's too dark to see
and too silent to hear

I am you and you are me,
a new door opens and we agree
it's
a pawn entering the room


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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Contact!

Currently there are some 1300 names in my phone's contactlist. Take out the dead people and the people I called only once because they were the contact person at some venue where I worked in the past and some 1,000 contacts are left. Which is about the same number of contacts on Facebook. Who are not all friends or relatives. It simply means that one day we expressed the wish to stay in touch.

Over the decades I've learnt a thing or two about friendship. Like:

Does true friendship revolve around money?
If a friend is only willing to help you if you offer them money, that person may not be a true friend. Do you ask for money if friends asks you for your help?

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That I know some 1,000 people doesn't mean I send all of them a message for their birthday. And not just because some of them are Jehovah's Witnesses. Just the logistics of staying in touch with everyone I know is a nightmare. So I don't. Instead I simply live my life, my contacs live theirs and occasionally our paths cross.

Are you often in touch with all the contacts in your phone's contact list?