If a bully keeps swinging his fist right next to your head, do you let him keep doing it? Or do you smash him in the face yourself before he actually hits you?
I feel like all the “zero tolerance” policies on bullying in schools have backfired… It’s best to learn how to fight back against a bully while the bully is immature.… read more “North Korea conducts longest-range missile test yet over Japan | Reuters”
The EPA justifies it’s enormous ongoing expenses by over regulating American industry out of business.
As a man, I find myself increasingly detesting other men who whine. Our society now wants all men to be able to cry just like women can and everyone should applaud. But we have a billion generations of evolution behind us pushing men who don’t cry in the face of problems, but fight and overcome. Maybe I am just a backwards throwback, but maybe not.… read more “Crying men”
https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/why-men-are-hard-to-help
Why do we still have Title IX in law if it has achieved it’s goal and swung the other way?
My theory for the gender performance gap… Men need productive work to be happy and motivated. Schoolwork, mostly filling in worksheets, is not productive work.
History is full of examples of leaders creating false divisions between people to kill those they dislike. Cambodian leaders in the 1970s said minorities weren’t human in order to kill a couple of million people. Rwandans in the 1990s said Tutsis weren’t human and killed half a million.
Based on this history, if I came to you and said that black people aren’t human, how would you react?… read more “Genocide”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/world/middleeast/iran-protests-haiti-russia-china.html
Unarmed protests never worked unless against a benevolent government. For example, Gandhi only had effective protests because the British government allowed it. Imagine Gandhi if he had protested against Stalin. Gandhi would have died in the early days and nothing would have happened.
Putin has been back into a corner. He is losing in Ukraine, and if he should lose he will lose power in Russia and probably be killed and his legacy forever destroyed in Russia. He would kill everyone on the planet before he let that happen.
So his options now are:
-Win the conventional war. He is focusing on this option with his call up of 1/3 of a million troops.… read more “Putin’s options”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-charges-ex-army-major-his-wife-over-alleged-plot-leak-military-health-data-2022-09-29/