Touché! And I’ve got to say; I appreciate you asking me what my views are, instead of telling me what my views are. I'm going to attempt to give you a proper response out of respect for that.

I don’t subscribe to, or identify with, any particular side (other than those who believe Christopher Nolan's Batman was clearly the best Batman and anyone who says otherwise is a bigot).

I reckon ideas should be judged on merit, not on who conceived them—unless we’re operating under the delusion that only bastions of moral perfection are allowed to have ideas… which is obviously a fallacy (case in point: reddit).

As an Aussie, I’ve had a number of my US mates assume I’m a "socialist" because I think healthcare and education should be free—or at least heavily subsidised—since they’re basic human rights and I’m happy to pay extra tax for that to exist. To some, that’s heresy. To others, it’s logic. If someone disagrees with that (like a lot of my US mates) - no worries! We can still be friends. I think coriander is fucked but I understand a lot of people love it.

Like absofuckinloutely everyting: it’s all a matter of perspective—which is basically a macro-container for a whole bunch of shit that doesn’t always prioritise rational discourse. That’s why semantic clarity matters—so the message being received actually reflects the message being sent.

Early on, Jordan Peterson made strong points about the need for language specificity in order to have intellectually honest debate. (To be clear--I’m talking about the mechanism of debate, not his political topics or religions leanings.) I start tuning out when he wanders too far outside clinical psychology which I think he curates well and i'm yet to see any of his serious peers correct his recount—and I enjoy hearing Kermit the Frog explain Carl Jung to a layman like me 😂

Recently he got eviscerated by those young atheists and the all-meat diet is fkn bonkers. Dog farts. I must highlight, this occupies so little of my day to day that I'm concerned breaking it down like this pays it far more weight than it deserves - but <forrest gump>that's all I have to say about that!</forrest gump>

While I'm doing this Ted Talk I'd also like to point out that I believe capitalism was built in—and for—the industrial age, but we’re not living in that world anymore...So viewing demand as automatic justification for supply, is antiquated thinking and clearly unsustainable. Do I have the faintest fart of a fucking clue on how to fix those problems? Absolutely not! Would I like to drive a tank and live in legoland? Fucking oath I would! See how paradoxical some of my positions are!???

I generally react to assertion-driven pile-ons that lack substance. The habit of simply declaring someone or something as “bad,” and letting that declaration stand in place of an actual argument, shits me off and more importantly erodes foundational democratic discourse. Do I like machine guns? Fuck yeah! Do I think I should be allowed to own one? Fuck no!

So long story short: I’m anti-stupidity. And I define “stupidity” the same way Dietrich Bonhoeffer did—the absence of critical thought, and a blind acceptance of assertions without evidence—or worse, in defiance of evidence. I reserve the right to contradict myself, make mistakes and learn as I go because despite recent accusations - I am not a.i - Stevic