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Ask Justina™ is a free community thinktank for finding answers and solutions based on common sense, fairness and real justifications. We organize everyone's mess into a sensible, shared roadmap— because pulling in a hundred different directions has taken us everywhere but forward.
Why is it so hard to get people to see the obvious? Because people are more interested in being right than being correct. Being right is just a popularity contest. Being correct requires cognitive competence, objectivity — and the courage to openly speak the truth when others won’t.
So instead of listening to reason and replying with logic, most people change the subject, resort to whataboutism, put words in your mouth, accuse you of bad motives, and attack you with labels and semantics. Somewhere inside, they know they can't be perceived as right as long as you can show you're correct. So instead of getting anywhere, you spend all your time sorting out the BS. Sound about right? Well, Ask Justina calls out all the BS for you.
Input: “What about the other side's debt?”
Justina’s response: This is whataboutism. The current topic is [Specific Point]. Please address the core claim first.
But most of our discussions are just spinning in circles on forums built for outrage and entertainment — anything but making sense of things. Meanwhile, issues like affordability, losing jobs to AI and automation, ever-rising healthcare costs, heightened political violence, and increasing executive overreach keep piling up, while people with good ideas keep getting ignored. As long as discussions keep spinning in circles, there’s no way to weed about bad ideas from good ones and come up with a plan — and without a plan, there's nothing to enforce and nothing to hold anyone accountable to. There's just complaints. Loud and forceful, but still just complaints.
What we need is a shared and enforceable roadmap with clear objectives and actions. A roadmap would put us on the same path and give us confidence that the issues we care about are on the radar. Collective demands that represent all sides are much harder to ignore than individual complaints, even those grounded in tribal outrage. And Ask Justina helps ensure those demands are reasonable and actionable — demands that cannot justifiably be ignored.
Collective demands for reasonable solutions may add up to less than the sum of everyone’s individual, maximal (unreasonable) demands — but they are far more likely to become reality. It's time to stop insisting on tribal all or nothing outrage. It's time to stop blaming politicians for not following a coherent plan when we can't produce one. And it makes no sense to expect them or some private think tank to come up with a coherent plan for us. It's time for us to come up with our own plan and Ask Justina makes this as painless and effortless as possible. If you’re ready to move beyond complaints, this is where that starts.
Ready to jump in?
You don’t need to know what goes on under the hood to participate.
- Vote on ideas, principles, and actions.
- Propose your own solutions and safeguards.
- Give feedback so the best thinking rises and the noise gets filtered out.
If you’re ready, scroll back up and start participating. If you want to understand how the system works under the hood, keep reading.
How does Ask Justina™ create our shared roadmap?
Ask Justina builds that roadmap by separating the things public debate constantly blends together. Instead of letting everything collapse into one endless argument, the system breaks discussion into a few simple pieces that can be voted on, compared, and improved.
- Objectives (Ideals): what “success” looks like — the outcomes we want to move toward.
- Proposals (Ideas): different approaches people believe could achieve those objectives.
- Actions: the concrete steps required to carry out a proposal.
- Principles: non-negotiable limits — actions that cross them get rejected, even if the goal sounds good.
Once those pieces are separated, people can’t “win” by dodging. The system forces people to deal with the substance: what the objective is, whether the proposal actually gets us there, and whether the actions violate rules we’ve agreed are off-limits. Ideas that aren’t linked to clear objectives are just pointless activities. Ideas that aren’t deconstructed into actions are just wishful thinking. And actions can only be challenged through shared principles — so it’s not just one preference versus another.
Over time, votes and feedback do what circular arguing never can: they narrow uncertainty. The strongest objectives rise, weak proposals lose support, actions get refined, and principles keep the roadmap from sliding into “anything goes.” That’s how the roadmap becomes clear enough to function as a mandate — and clear enough to hold leaders accountable.
Your role stays simple: bring your perspective. Vote, propose, and respond. Ask Justina keeps the structure consistent so we end up with a roadmap we can actually use.
Want the deep breakdown (including diagrams and the full framework under the hood)? Learn more here.