Shawn Ryan

He destroys himself.

That is the template for the way that men are.

And no one tells you that because, again, there are so few people who actually get what they want.

And there's no support group for people who won, but I know a lot of them, I know that you do too, and a consistent theme in every story is, the second I got what I wanted, I could feel myself starting to self-destruct.

And let's say, you know, you really, your life's goal was to help Black people, which I'm not against.

It's a fine goal.

Help Black people.

How long would it take you, if you really wanted to help Black people, to get to the solution

defund the police.

You would never arrive at that solution because obviously defunding the police is not going to help black people or white people or Asian people or any people.

It's not going to help people.

Make the police better maybe, but get rid of the police?

Like, how does that work?

How is that possibly going to wind up improving anybody's life?

And of course, the answer was it can't.

And it didn't.

But it was never going to.

So I watched that, and of course I'm opposed to it, you know, for the normal conservative reasons.

We need police!

But even the fact that we were having that conversation was a signal to me that this is a very different thing than I'm used to.