What grinds my gears

Suppose a hypothetical scenario where there's a very large area of land at some remote location, divided into a hundred plots, each owned by a farmer, to do with them what they want. A few farmers do a decent job at cultivating the land and keeping a few animals for their own and their families' sustenance. Most of them, however, don't really know how to cultivate very well nor how to keep a farm, and they don't even work all that hard, and they seriously struggle to get even a minimum of sustenance. One of the farmers, however, works really hard day after day, building all kinds of tools to farm more efficiently, and doing a lot of work to cultivate the land plot, and to raise the farm animals. Where most of the other farmers hardly do any work and mismanage their lands very badly, this one farmer works really hard day after day and does it so efficiently that his farm absolutely thrives and becomes a cornucopia. His land becomes so fruitful that he gets an overabundan...

I think it's highly ironic that the very people who the far left absolutely hates and is constantly attacking and vilifying, the (what they call) "far right extremists", "gamergaters", "gamers", "trumpers", "racists", yada yada yada, seem to be a lot more tolerant when it comes to, for example, people's race, than the very far-leftists who call them "racists". The far left has been pushing this quite racist idea that, for example, only black actors can voice-act a black character. That a white actor voicing black character is somehow "racist" or otherwise inappropriate. Quite ironically, the very people that they are constantly vilifying, demonizing and calling "racist" in general do not show the same kind of sentiment, even when the difference between fictional character and voice actor is in the other direction. For example, in the Star Wars universe Anakin "Darth Vader" Skywalker is can...

One very prominent trait of the social justice ideology is that of psychological projection: They accuse others (the "enemy") of what they themselves do and think. Likewise, they believe that everybody else thinks similarly to them, for example when it comes to identity politics and dividing people into groups based on characteristics like race, and they cannot comprehend that not everybody thinks like them. A prominent example of this is when a white person (most often a white man, because they think that white people will pay more attention to a man than a woman) who is a full-on social justice activist, writes an article or makes a video where he talks about "we white people", about how "we, as white people, should do this and that, and think this and that". I'm sorry, but there is no "we". I don't know you, I don't know who you are, and I don't give a flying fuck about your skin color. I feel literally zero kinship towards a s...

Need I even comment? Welcome to the Jim Crow Laws v. 2.0. We are traversing back in time.

Gamergate, the massive online consumer revolt against corruption in video game journalism, was the perfect storm, in conjunction with the raise of far-leftist social justice ideology. It just happened exactly at the right (or wrong, depending on your perspective) time at the right place, and it just caused a shitstorm among the social justice idologues, that wouldn't be surpassed until they contracted Trump Derangement Syndrome some years later. "Gamergate" became the biggest scapegoat for pretty much everything (even though the vast majority of social justice warriors couldn't even define what it meant, but of course they didn't care). Years before Trump, before "white supremacists", before "fascists", before any of that became the preferred scapegoat for every problem, there was "gamergate". Its Wikipedia page is probably the one that kind of kickstarted the absolutely humongous political bias at that website, as the page became the...

Biden has not been the President of the United States even for a week, and he's already breaking records on how many campaign promises he's breaking and how many people who supported him are being disappointed. Did you know that Trump's administration created a rule for the United States Department of Health and Human Services to lower the prices of insulin? I bet you never heard of this. The mainstream media didn't really like to highlight the positive things that Trump did. Do you know what was one of the first mandates of Biden's administration when he took office? You may already guess it: Put that order on hold. Immediately raising insulin prices. When Biden was elected president, the American Alliance For Diabetes (AFD) congratulated him in an exalting tweet. When the insulin praises suddenly went through the roof, the exact same account posted a tweet lamenting that fact. "I am really saddened by the fact that price of Insulin is really shooting up in Am...

At face value it feels very strange that pretty much all of the largest megacorporations headquartered in the United States support a far-leftist political ideology set on destroying those very corporations, destroying the entire capitalist system that made those corporations possible and rich. Are they stupid, or are they playing some kind of "4D chess", as the saying goes, where they seemingly seem to support something that goes against their interests but that actually benefits them in some way? In a previous blog post I presented one piece of evidence for the latter . Many people have pointed out another way in which supporting the far left actually helps the interests of the megacorporations, rather than it working against them. Almost ten years ago, in 2011, the far left in the United States organized a massive demonstration and protest (which was actually mostly peaceful... those were different times) that lasted for several months. This movement was called "Occ...