The UK referendum about whether to leave the European Union is a dispute about "which is the better way for citizens to be ripped off, as part of the EU or as an independent UK?"

Like many other referendums, it is a recognition that democracy has been corrupted so much by the elite that we can't trust it to work for the public good.

I love the last sentence: "Whether you back red or black in the tawdry, crumbling casino of neoliberalism, and whatever the slimy croupiers of the mainstream media urge, it’s the house that invariably wins."

We the People need to take control of our house. Any politician that the plutocrats are happy with is not on our side.

Hissène Habré, former dictator of Chad, has been convicted of crimes against humanity including torture and summary execution.

Now we need to put Dubya on trial for torture, in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and someone (Obama?) on trial for the summary execution of Osama bin Laden (who deserved a trial for the murders he was accused of).

Women in general frequently need to de-escalate confrontations with pushy men, and most men don't even know about the problem.

I agree with the writer's position except on one point: about being looked at. No matter what the reason, you don't have a right to demand that people not look at you. Just being too young to have a driver's license doesn't entitle you to tell people where to point their eyes.

A universal basic income would not solve all of society's problems. We would still need democratic control over important social issues.

However, I don't think this means that the universal basic income is a bad idea. And even though plutocracy and business-dominated globalization have an important role in inequality, that doesn't mean there is no technological unemployment.

It seems that frequent viewing of porn often leads men to sexual difficulty, but it could be a matter of how and how often they masturbate.