My Two Cents

Thursday, June 25, 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 up 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 the 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