What grinds my gears

It's amazing, astonishing, and in a certain way a bit scary, that sometimes well-known historical "facts" turn out to be completely unfounded, and when the origin of these "facts" is traced back, they can sometimes be attributed to one single person who, for one reason or another, pretty much essentially invented said "fact" out of thin cloth (or, at a very minimum, used an unknown source that pretty much invented it out of thin cloth.) As an example, for the longest time it was generally accepted that when Rome defeated Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War (in 146 BC), the Romans proceeded to "salt the earth" of Carthage, ie. spread salt all over the arable land of Carthage in order to make it infertile and cause a famine. More recently this story has been put into doubt for several reasons and is currently considered completely fictitious. For starters, there is no evidence whatsoever that Rome did this to anybody, especially since it

In 2021 the Joe Biden presidential administration orchestrated the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which American forces had been occupying for quite a long time. This withdrawal turned out to be an absolute disaster and shitshow, not the least because of the total abandonment of the people of Afghanistan, especially women and girls, to their horrendous fates. As soon as the American troops withdrew from the country, the Taliban immediately took over and established their old totalitarian Islamic regime which essentially made all women and girls sex slaves living in horrendous oppression. The fate of the Afghan men who the Taliban considered had "betrayed" the country to the Americans was not much better. The videos of the last American troops leaving the country are heartbreaking. Hundreds and hundreds, even thousands, of Afghan people, especially women and girls, had flocked the American military airport begging to be taken to safety, because they knew exactly

I have never acquired a driver's license, and thus I don't drive myself. For decades I didn't really think much of being in a car as a passenger. However, over time, over the course of a decade or two, I have gained a kind of mild anxiety, a mild phobia, at being in a car. Not so much that it would deter me from being a passenger in a car, but I just can't help but be slightly worried for the entire trip. There's a couple of reasons for this. For one, I have seen way, way too many times how careless people are when driving. Sometimes people are so careless as to it being outright scary. When I'm in the passenger seat, it would be best to not have any conversation with the driver at all. However, that's pretty much in essence impossible. Even if I were to sit there quiet, the driver will invariably strike a conversation. Why is that a problem? Because it seems to me that apparently there's this extremely strong psychological phenomenon that when you are

When Donald Trump was announced as the next President of the United States at the end of 2016 there were, unsurprisingly, massive riots. (Because, according to far-leftist logic, massive riots are going to help in some manner to stop him from becoming the President. Somehow.) In the city of New York alone there were literally thousands and thousands of rioters who caused an incalculable amount of property damage and injury to other people. From those thousands and thousands of rioters doing property damage, do you know how many were arrested? About a hundred. From that hundred of people who were arrested, do you know how many were convicted of a crime? Or even prosecuted for that matter? Not one of them. Zero. Nobody. Every single one of them was set free and charges eventually dropped. Since 2016 the situation in the vast majority of the United States, and in fact in some other countries too, as only become worse in this regard. Not better. The situation has become so bad that we can

On July 13, 2024, Donald Trump was almost assassinated by a gunman while he was giving a speech. I won't go into more details here because it's trivial to google for it. There is, however, one thing I would really, really like to know about the whole thing. The roof where the perpetrator was shooting from, was completely unsecured, both by secret service and the local law enforcement. This even though it's completely standard protocol to secure all building roofs that have such a clear line of sight to the VIP. As far as I know, the current explanation (or excuse) is that there was a miscommunication between secret service and the police forces. In other words, the secret service thought that securing that particular roof was the task of the police forces (because it was too far from their area), while the police forces thought that it was secured by secret service (because they thought it was within their area). And, thus, nobody secured the roof because everybody thought

Especially in the United States, and sadly to more and more extent in many other western countries, the far left is pushing extremely strongly putting very young people on "hormone therapy" of the opposite sex for even the mildest of symptoms of "gender dysphoria". There is a lot of evidence that in many cases this is extremely predatory by authority figures, especially school teachers and certain medical practitioners. Many school teachers, who are fully indoctrinated into the far-leftist cult, are literally and very explicitly preying on the most vulnerable children under their care, grooming them into becoming "trans" and inducing them to start hormone treatment as soon as possible. As testified by many people, also many doctors are doing so, using the most tenuous of excuses and alleged symptoms (which are oftentimes exaggerated rather than examined in a neutral way). (In my opinion that should be considered a bona fide crime against humanity, but th

Every single time there's some kind of notable shooting incident, the American left hurries to once again campaign for stricter gun control, and even banning gun ownership completely. Be it a school shooting, another kind of mass shooting (like the one that happened in Las Vegas a few years ago), or any other very notable shooting (with fatalities or not), the response by the American left is always the same. Well... that's actually incorrect. Not always . Just take the right person, in this case one Donald J. Trump, and what do you know... crickets. How many American leftists who vocally rallies against guns every single time a notable shooting happens, are now doing the same? There's only one thing that's consistent about the American left, and that's their hypocrisy. (This isn't a pro-gun-ownership or anti-gun-ownership post. This is a criticism of the hypocrisy of the American left, and the criticism is completely valid regardless of one's personal opini