What grinds my gears

In a previous blog post I wrote a bit about the reasons for the absolutely astonishing difference in technological advance between Eurasia and most of the rest of the world, up until the age of imperialism (when all that technological advancement was pushed onto that rest of the world.) After all, Europe and large parts of East Asia had astonishingly advanced technology compared to the rest of the world: They had million-people cities, a very advanced money-based international economy, the printing press, firearms, ships that could sail across oceans, absolutely massive castles and cathedrals,big multi-storey buildings, extremely advanced and meticulously crafted musical instrument that were used in huge concerts in enormous lavish concert halls and theaters, and so on and so forth. At the same time, in most of Africa and the American continent people lived literally in the Stone Age, in straw and mud huts, used tools made of wood and stone, very few had even figured out how to use me...

"Veritasium" is one of those huge and world-famous YouTube channels that has 20 million subscribers and creates such high-quality documentary style videos that they rack up about 10 million views per video on average. Some of the videos are extremely interesting and didactic. Perhaps the most brilliant of such examples is his "Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED" video, which is not only technically and historically very interesting, but something that most people don't know. Given how technical many of his videos are, sometimes dealing with deep scientific subjects, some of his videos are not without their criticism and, perhaps, slight controversy. Perhaps one of the most infamous ones is the video "The Big Misconception About Electricity", which was criticized by many experts. Not in that what he was presenting was wrong per se, but in that the explanations and the video overall was needlessly complicated and cryptic for something that...

Modern far-leftist activists can be roughly divided into two major groups: The brainwashed drones, and the "larping revolutionaries". The first group forms the bulk of far-leftist activists, probably 99% of all of them, if not more. These are the activists who have been deeply, deeply indoctrinated into supporting, promoting and being activists in support of whatever happens to be the current agenda this particular week. They do not think, they do not question, they do not criticize, they do not doubt, they do not have their own opinions that might differ from the rest (or even if some of them at some semi-subconscious level do, they are way, way too scared to express them and act according to them.) They do as they are told, to support the positions they are told, without hesitation, without question, without skepticism, without criticism. It doesn't matter if today they are told to support a particular cause and tomorrow the exact opposite cause: They will just do what ...

All the way back in 2017 I wrote a blog post about " individualism vs. collectivism " where I posited the (quite widely known) fact that the modern far-leftist ideology is a fundamentally collectivist one. This is not a mere wild conjecture, "reading between the lines", doing some analysis and discussing at the meta level something that leftists are doing but are not actually directly saying. No, this is  directly  one of their stated principles. Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected mayor of New York City, who is very openly and brazenly a socialist, said it very directly and unambiguously in his inauguration speech: "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." And that was not just some kind of throw-away poetic sentiment or a metaphor. It summarizes the exact context of what he says in that part of his speech. This is, once again, one of the most evil, destructive and discriminatory ideas in modern far-leftism,...

On January 30th of 2026, a first-of-a-kind lawsuit was settled in New York for 2 million dollars: A 22-year-old woman sued two doctors for malpractice because those doctors coaxed her into getting her breasts surgically removed when she was only 16 and confused about her gender. She currently fully identifies as a woman and sued the two doctors for having pushed her into the operation. What's worst, the girl's mother opposed the surgery, but the doctors fear-mongered her to consent to it. She was essentially intimidated by the doctors to consent against her will. As a first in the country, the victim won the lawsuit and was awarded 2 million dollars in compensation, as the jury found both doctors liable of medical malpractice. This might give hope for the future. Those psychopathic quacks committing crimes against humanity do not understand reason and have no compassion, and the only thing they understand is the language money. Such lawsuits need to become much more common. So ...

That sentiment actually goes all the way back to the 1990's, especially in the leader of European multiculturalism, ie. Sweden. Indeed, already in the 90's and early 2000's there were newspaper articles and opinion pieces written by leftist multiculturalist journalists (who were already a scourge especially in the Nordic countries back then) pretty much directly and unambiguously stating that it's unfair that some white people get to live in peace and quiet in their almost-100%-white rich neighborhoods and towns, and how the government should make plans on how to forcefully introduce immigrants into those places. (And, obviously, by "immigrant" they meant people from the Middle East and North Africa. Because for some reason those two areas have always been the "foreign enough" places all the way since the 90's. You never, ever saw them pushing for, say, Japanese or Canadians or Italians or even South Africans, particularly if white, to invade the...

LegalEagle is a lawyer and very popular youtuber with millions of subscribers. His channel started with quite interesting content: For the most part, commenting on legal procedure shown on movies and TV shows and grading them by their accuracy, or commenting on the crimes made in movies and TV shows, and sometimes making videos about some current real life events regarding lawsuits. He seemed to be mostly politically neutral. In fact, during Trump's first term in office he made a video about some random lawsuit against Trump, and covered the facts very neutrally and keeping to the facts (and, in fact, if I remember correctly, even defending Trump's position, as incredible as it might sound.)  Then, for some reason, one day he turned a leftist activist. It primarily started with an infamous video where he commented on a deleted scene in the Captain Marvel movie where the eponymous character completely illegally assaults some douchebag and steals his motorbike... and LegalEagle d...