What grinds my gears

On December of last year I wrote about how the popular YouTuber and debunker of viral video hoaxes Captain Disillusion apparently broke a decade-long silence about his political views and appeared to be at the very least a sympathizer of the regressive leftist social justice ideology. In other words, as the meme was back then (although it seems to have fallen a bit out of use), he has chosen the metaphorical "blue pill" of the political spectrum. In a live presentation he gave at Skepticon Australia 2017, he went on a completely unnecessary and superfluous attack against prominent famous anti-SJWs, calling them "assholes" (to what appeared to be a rather agreeing audience). Back then I hoped it doesn't become a pattern for him. While he hasn't exactly become a YouTube activist, unfortunately it appears that it has become a pattern, at least when it comes to his live presentations at conferences. Recently he gave a live presentation at the Blender Confe...

The crusade of the big Silicon Valley tech corporations against the alternative anti-establishment pro-free-speech platforms continues, and is only gaining traction. This time, the free speech alternative to YouTube, BitChute, is on the chopping block. PayPal has now cut ties and banned BitChute from their services. BitChute will no longer be able to perform any transactions through PayPal. And what was the reason given by PayPal for this ban? Nothing. No reason given whatsoever. PayPal simply banned them, without even giving any reason or rationale. Of course we all know what the reason is: BitChute is for free speech and against censorship. BitChute does not conform to the Party line, the regressive leftist Silicon Valley orthodoxy. BitChute is not part of the establishment. But above all else, and once again, BitChute does not censor free speech. For some reason the year 2018 is the beginning of an internet war. A war between huge leftist tech megacorporations, and smaller...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post, I can't understand why people hate furries so much (a topic I have actually written previous about as well.) By chance (or perhaps because Google's algorithms see what I write here), I stumbled across a video made by a furry who is leaving the community, explaining why, and what's wrong with that community. I think it's worth watching it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDa9w_XoP7Y

Just like social justice warriors, also extreme leftist "multiculturalist" politicians have in recent years become more and more open and blatant about their policies and intentions. They aren't afraid of stating outright, directly and openly to millions of viewers things like, for example, "native people will become a minority in the larger cities, and that's a good thing". Or that the government's policy is one of "dehomogenization" (meaning that they want the population of the country to become significantly less uniformly white). More and more European countries have in recent years taken a very aggressive policy of mass immigration. While in the past the amount of immigrants and "refugees" could be counted in the thousands, in the past few years we can literally count them in the millions. Germany has been on the forefront of this trend, with over 2 million immigrants during the past few years, but Germany is not alone in this....

When we think about a person having two very different personalities, we often think of mental problems like multiple personality disorder, or bipolar disorder. However, in many cases I don't think there needs to be anything wrong with the person. It's just that their personality is, for some reason, such that they behave very differently in different situations, their attitude is very different, so much so that they almost feel like different people. When I was at university, I had a professor of English (who himself was Irish, if I remember correctly), who was very much like that. I don't think he had any sort of problem. He simply had this strange personality quirk. During class he was the most amicable and talkative person you can think of. He had tons of anecdotes to tell, and he constantly encouraged his students to speak and have conversations (it was, after all, an English class, for Finnish people). Overall, he seemed like a really nice, warm, friendly and amic...

Harvard, one of the most prestigious universities in the world, is a racist institution that engages in racial discrimination. The admission process to Harvard includes a test that contains verbal and math components, and is scored up to 1600 points. The minimum points required for an applicant depends on the race and sex of that applicant. I kid you not. For black, Hispanic and Native Americans this requirement is 1100 points. For white people, it's 1310 points. For Asian-American women, it's 1350 points. For Asian-American men, it's 1380 points. That's right. Harvard University is looking at people's race and sex, and making it harder for some people to be enrolled if they have been born into the wrong ones. They look at an applicant, look at how he or she looks like, and change the requirements depending on this outwards appearance. If the applicant looks Asian, then the requirements go up. If the applicant looks black or Hispanic, the requirements go d...

If you start paying attention to what "intersectional feminists", social justice activists, and in increasing numbers more and more corporations are saying, you'll probably start noticing that they are fond of using the word "equity" instead of the word "equality". (Likewise they may use the word "equitable" instead of the word "equal".) This is not a coincidence, nor is it just them trying to sound fancy and academic, nor is it just a buzzword. (Well, it is a buzzword, but not in the sense of being a completely meaningless word. It has a very concrete and deliberate meaning.) Because the average person doesn't know what "equity" really means, and may think it's just another way of saying "equality", they may be fooled into agreeing with a sentiment that uses that word (like "our company strives for equity for all people"). The actual meaning is a bit like surreptitiously sneaked in, withou...