What grinds my gears

For some years now the American far-leftist activists and politicians have adopted the word "democracy" as one of their pet buzzwords. Everything they don't like is "a threat to democracy", and many of their insane demands are "to protect democracy" according to them (even though quite often it does the exact opposite, like for example allowing anonymous voting, ie. not demanding people to ID themselves to vote.) I predict that in the following years their tune will change, especially when they finally realize that their fear-mongering and abuse of the buzzword isn't working. I expect one of two possible changes: 1) Less likely but perfectly possible (because the far-left is completely happy to reverse positions on the blink of an eye), they will actually start  opposing  democracy. After all, democracy allows people to vote for the "wrong" candidates. If they do this, they will argue that democracy has failed and is not a good system bec...

Quite a while ago I wrote a blog post about one of the biggest flaws in the Finnish judiciary system . You see, unlike for example in the United States, in Finland the winning party in a lawsuit gets automatically his legal fees paid by the losing party, no questions asked. On paper this makes sense: If you are innocent, you must not be punished in any way, shape or form, and losing money to pay for attorney fees would be such an unjust form of indirect punishment. Thus, the legal system has been built onto the foundation that the losing party pays for the legal fees of the winning party, period. If you are guilty, your victim must not suffer any monetary losses because of the lawsuit. If you are not guilty, then you must not suffer any monetary losses, because you did nothing wrong. On paper, and at first glance, that makes a lot of sense and seems very justified. The problem? It actually gives the lawyers of the winning party pretty much free range to punish the losing party however ...

The YouTube channel BantuCityDiaries is run by an African black man who, rather unusually, is completely open about all the problems that sub-Saharan African countries are experiencing (including chronic poverty, systemic corruption, and so on), and is not ashamed of telling and explaining the actual situation and the actual reasons, rather than taking refuge in the European far-leftist multiculturalist propaganda and rationalizations. He doesn't soften the blows, he doesn't use rationalizations, he gives the middle finger to "political correctness", and just states the situation as it is, without shame. He is clearly showing an attitude of "I am an African, I have lived my entire life in Africa, I have visited a lot of African countries, I see what is happening here and I'm completely tired of pretending and making excuses, and I'm completely tired of European/American leftist multiculturalist propaganda that's trying to hide and distort the issues ...

In the United States you: Can't get a driver's license nor drive a car without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't open and own a bank account without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't rent, lease or buy an apartment or home without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't apply for a job without an ID (mostly for taxation purposes). Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't travel by airplane without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't purchase a firearm without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't purchase prescription drugs without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't buy alcoholic beverages without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't buy "medical" marijuana without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Yet, because legislation is being introduced that would mean that you: can't vote in congressional and presidential elections without an ID, suddenly that's a huge problem and crime against human...

Jay Jones is a representative of the Democratic Party of the United States who is a candidate for the position of Attorney General. Some time ago quite a controversy arose when text messages he had sent to a colleague surfaced, which directly and unambiguously wished violence and death against the children of Republicans. The text messages have been corroborated as genuine, including by Jay Jones himself, so they indeed happened and are real. As I have come to conclude, all American far-leftists are psychopaths , and Jay Jones is no exception. He has absolutely no empathy and no value for human life. Not only does he fantasize about the murder of the children of people he doesn't like, but he's so consumed by it that he openly told about it to a colleague. Recently he was interviewed on a news channel owned by ABC, and he was asked about those text messages. His response: "Well, again, I so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said, and I wish it hadn't happened, and I woul...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has always been infamous for having astonishingly lax enforcement of their own rules and the laws of the country in general, and pretty much granting any patent application that it receives, with about the only requirement being that the patent form is correctly filled. Infamously, it has granted probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of patents that should have been invalid because they do not fulfill the requirements of the law nor the rules of the USPTO itself (such as, for example, granting patents for inventions and methods that have existed for decades and were not invented by the people filing the patent.) The general policy of the USPTO has pretty much always been one of "grant all patents by default, let the private corporations and citizens fight about it between themselves in court." That's how you get completely ridiculous patents, of things that are not patentable according to the law of the United...

This is one of those misconceptions that not all flat-earthers hold (strangely enough), only some of them, but there are several examples of the latter, who have made YouTube videos about it. And that's the strange idea that "you wouldn't be able to see the Sun and the Moon at the same time on a globe Earth". That seeing them on the sky at the same time somehow disproves the globe Earth and proves the flat Earth. I seriously and genuinely have no idea why they think that. And, in fact, in none of the videos I have seen about this do they explain their reasoning. They just make that statement and... that's it. They don't explain any further. They don't even attempt to explain why, or what their reasoning and logic is. They never show graphics or pictures, or give any sort of geometric explanation. Or any explanation of any kind at all, geometric or otherwise. They just say it, and that's it. It just goes to show the complete inability of some people to ...