The Thinking ‘Kat: Democracy vs Theocracy
In the wake of a number of conversations with Citizen Tom, Derrick Thiessen of Theology Archaeology decided to wade in, and decided to argue in favour of a Christian Theocracy (well, that or a...
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The Thinking ‘Kat: Why is so Difficult to Trust Conservative Republicans?
Recently, I read an interesting ‘exercise’ from Tom of Citizen Tom, where he went through a list of his own concoction as to why people shouldn’t trust Democrats. Of course, this is unfortunately a...
The Thinking ‘Kat: Cognitive Disassociation
It’s curious as to how the human mind will work incredibly hard to justify certain stances and beliefs, whilst doing what it can to deride and dismiss them in other circumstances. For many years...
The Thinking ‘Kat: Tyrants gonna Tyrant…
It seems the Tangerine Toddler is stamping his foot and whinging all the more about Greenland. Trump has announced tariffs against a host of countries, unless Greenland is sold to the USA. Somehow the...
The Thinking ‘Kat: The New Age of Perversion (Content Warning: Sexual violence, exploitation)
One of the recent trends that people have taken to using AI for is also one that if translated into real life, would be considered a crime (or at least, one hopes it would...
Meerkat Prompts: Sympathy & Empathy
Sympathy and empathy are two qualities that I sometimes fear are becoming increasingly absent from the human condition. To have sympathy is to have ‘feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune’. To...
Meerkat Prompts: Fragile Masculinity
I popped this into an upcoming Meerkat Muse, as it reflects a direct and rather entertaining moment that happened when bringing my daughter home the other day, but the subject is too good to...
The Thinking ‘Kat: A Fear of Educated Women
Loiter on Twitter long enough, and you will soon find examples of how it has become a cesspit. Today’s example comes from misogyny, and specifically the fear of educated women. I cannot speak to...
The Thinking ‘Kat: The Follies of Farage
Owing in no small part to the unwarranted and thoroughly disproportionate coverage they get from Britain’s mainstream media, Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is doing well in the polls. Quite why such a small party...
The Thinking ‘Kat: Perfunctory Outrage
Yesterday two men boarded a train at Peterborough, about an hour north of London. Shortly after getting on, they began to attack passengers with knives. Nine people were hospitalised, and as of the time...
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