What grinds my gears

Representative democracy is, by far, the best form of government that humanity has ever developed. While it may in a few cases fail to do so, in general it ensures that tyranny, dictatorships, oligarchies and oppressive regimes do not get in power, and that the rights and freedoms of people are maintained. The very concept of representative democracy, something that's clearly stated and enshrined into the Constitutions of many such countries, is that the government belongs to the people. While they are represented by a handful of elected representatives, ultimately the "ownership" and control of the government is in the hand of the people, who can choose by fair elections who will represent them in said government. If the current government is not doing what's best for the people and is becoming tyrannical and oppressive, the people can simply vote them out of the government at the next elections. (In general, at the most fundamental level, this system is enforced and...

(Note: Parts of this post are directly copied from another post, but I'm repeating it here because I wanted to create a succinct post about this subject that I can link to from other posts as a reference.) I have for quite a while now come to the serious conclusion that modern far-leftists are psychopaths. Actual  bona fide  psychopaths who are  incapable  of feeling true empathy. That's not a metaphor, or hyperbole, or an exaggeration, or just using the word as a random insult with no regard to what it actually means. I'm being 100% serious. If they had actual empathy, they would be at least bothered by over 40 million babies being murdered by their mothers and doctors every single year. Most of them are not. If they had actual empathy, they would not celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk . Even if they heavily opposed what he was saying, they would heavily condemn his murder. If they had actual empathy, they would not consider 50 million people on their own sid...

I wrote earlier about a completely delusional American far-leftist activist who fled Los Angeles and moved to Canada on a temporary visa, in order to flee "fascist" America... only to find out that Canada was not the socialist paradise that she assumed it to be, and found herself quickly running out of her life savings because Canada wasn't actually giving her free money and a free apartment (because she wasn't an actual refugee, she was just an American in the country with a 6-month visa.) The entire saga is completely hilarious because of how delusional she is (and how much of a "main character syndrome" she is clearly suffering from.) Of course she isn't the only one. In another example a "trans" guy who was living in San Francisco, of all places (again, one of the most far-leftist places in the entire country), fled the "persecution" he was experiencing. What kind of "persecution", you might ask? The fact that, apparent...

During Biden's administration there were literally  millions  of migrants moving from the South American continent to the United States, through Mexico, and Mexico did very little to stop them. They just opened their borders and allowed millions of South American migrants to pass through, to their northern border. The country didn't care. Not their problem. But now that Trump has quite effectively closed the border, Mexico has found itself in quite the pickle: While perhaps not as many, there are still massive amounts of migrants trying to enter Mexico from the south. Problem is: Now they are stuck in Mexico because the US is not letting them in. Thus, now it's Mexico that's becoming flooded with illegal migrants from the south. The flow through has been blocked, so they are amassing in Mexico itself. And with them, all the related problems have been skyrocketing in the country. Nowhere to house the millions of illegal migrants, increased governmental tax-funded spendin...

The YouTube channel Don't Walk, Run! Productions recently (as of writing this) published a video where the author comments on a socialist recruitment webinar , where a socialist activist tries to explain and exalt the virtues of socialism, to try to convince people and recruit them to that political ideology. Ironically, that speech is so scary that it made my anti-socialist convictions even stronger than ever before. Not that I needed any convincing that socialism is a very, very bad idea, but that speech made that fact even clearer and stronger. Consider what she says that the goals of her political party are in the United States: * Violent revolution. While she doesn't say it directly outright, she very clearly implies that the democratic voting process is not good enough and the only way to establish the American Socialist Utopia is to bypass it and engage in violent revolution, whether the majority of people want it or not. She speaks in lengths about this revolution, with...

I wrote before how the popular Veritasium YouTube channel has in later years started to suffer from what I call the "Numberphile syndrome" . In other words, an immensely popular channel with millions of subscribers and millions of views per video, which for many years was very interesting and published very interesting didactic videos, has in later years started producing videos that are longer and longer, more and more tedious, and containing way too much irrelevant detail and minutia, with explanations that are needlessly long and boring for things that wouldn't really have to be. His latest video, as of writing this, is no exception to that: (What a boring and unusual thumbnail for his channel. Although I'm sure that he will change it in the next days to something else entirely. Probably several times, as he always does. The title might also be changed, like he also most of the time does.) The video is almost 40 minutes long. For a subject matter that could very we...

Can you guess how many of the characters in the recent live-action version of Disney's Moana film were acted by actual native Polynesian people? All of them. Every single one of them. Can you guess how many of the characters in the recent The Odyssey film, by Christopher Nolan, were acted by actual native Greek people? Not one of them. None. On the contrary, there are several actors in the main cast that are absolutely not period-accurate nor faithful to the source material (and that's completely on purpose.) On top of that, the creators of the live-action Moana film went to excruciating length to represent Polynesian culture, traditions and aesthetics as accurately and faithfully as possible. In contrast, Christopher Nolan didn't give a flying fuck about being period-accurate... or accurate at all, regardless of the time period, to ancient Greece, as almost everything in the movie is not just completely anachronistic but outright fictitious, not corresponding to real ancie...