What grinds my gears

The answer to the question of whether actual bona fide extremist full-on Hitler-worshipping Jew-hating holocaust-denying non-parody non-ironic serious neo-nazis exist, the answer is very simple: Yes, they do exist. You can easily find their vile rhetoric eg. on Gab.com by searching with certain keywords. While Poe's Law is in full effect here, and it may well be that some of those accounts are just trolls, I believe many of them are bona fide neo-nazis with some of the vilest and most racist opinions and conspiracy theories you can think of. One question that may arise: Should they have the same right to free speech as everybody else? Should they be allowed to express their opinions online, for anybody to see? Well, that's also in my opinion an unequivocal yes. The right to free speech is not conditional. It's not contingent on those opinions being "politically correct". As long as they are not inciting to and causing actual criminal activity, or solicitin

It might be theoretically possible to survive on a purely vegan diet without getting nasty side-effects in the long run, but this requires an extraordinary amount of work in order to get and eat the proper amounts of the proper kind of food, which will ensure that you don't get too little or too much of a particular nutrient. With some nutrients, like some vitamins, this can become extraordinarily difficult and laborious. Most non-vegans, however, can easily live a completely healthy life without much worry, just making sure to not over-eat junk food. If you have a normal varied diet, you'll get all the nutrients you need in sufficient (but not excessive) amounts. Life is much harder for a vegan, who wants to stay healthy in the long run. But veganism is not only a choice of food. It's an ideology. For many, it's an outright religion. They will defend veganism to their deaths (even if they are clearly dying from their diet), and furiously attack anybody who is not

The radical regressive left is gaining more and more power in the western world by the month. For quite a long time it has not been limited to just some radical activist groups in university campuses, but (through mostly their indoctrination of university students, and influence on society thanks to this and their overall control of universities) they have been successful in invading more and more influential branches of society, such as the scientific community, huge megacorporations and, in many countries, even the government. A consequence of this gain of power is the erosion of the basic human rights of citizens. Most prominently freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of congregation is being eroded at an ever-increasing rate. Presenting the "wrong" opinions will not only have social consequences in the form of harassment, but in many countries there is an increasing amount of legal consequences (which is an erosion of the right to free speech in all poss

During the past couple of years Europe has become mentally insane, taking literally millions and millions of migrants from Africa and the Middle-East, and there are no signs that this is stopping or even slowing down (with some estimates being that even currently something between half and one million migrants are entering Europe every year). Germany alone has taken something like 2 million migrants so far, pretty much completely indiscriminately. For the first year or so of this so-called "migrant crisis" the media used the war in Syria as the go-to excuse to justify all this. However, since it has become clear to everybody that well over 90% of all the migrants entering Europe are not from Syria, even the press has pretty much stopped using that excuse. You don't see the term "Syrian refugee" used much anymore (even though it was pretty much the only term used back when this madness started). Even the press doesn't bother to pretend anymore, probably becau

With everything that has been happening in the United States, the rhetoric that has been common during the past year about the regressive leftists making sure that Trump will be re-elected in 2020 seems to actually be becoming reality, as Trump's approval rating and public image among non-regressive citizens seems to be on the raise. If Trump reruns for president in 2020, I predict this: The extremist regressive leftists will become so desperate that they will actually start harassing, intimidating and even assaulting people at many voting places. It may even be that in some instances the voting place itself will be attacked and vandalized, requiring heavy intervention by the police. If they have been compared to the so-called "brownshirts" (who were groups of fascist Nazi Party supporters in Germany in the 1930's who went around in gangs intimidating and assaulting people, especially at voting stations) in the past, it will be nothing compared to what it's co

Once upon a time, from the time of the inception of the award to about 50 or so years ago, the Academy Awards, or "Oscars" as they are better known as, was quite a truly and astonishingly discriminatory and racist event. Especially black people were routinely shunned from ever getting any significant nominations or wins, and very infamously there were cases were black actors were actually forbidden from attending the ceremony. The racist prejudices of the time were really strong in Hollywood at the time. Luckily those dark times are long past, and we have since moved to more reasonable egalitarian times, where things like movie awards are granted solely on merit and quality, without any sort of discrimination or preferential treatment based on things like race. Right? Of course not. The Oscars have always been a joke, and they keep being a joke. And now that Hollywood at large has contracted the social justice ideology disease, it's only becoming worse. Like always

Sometimes you see the term "gatekeeper" thrown around in the current political discourse, especially from the anti-SJW side. What does this word mean in this context? A "gatekeeper" is someone, or some entity (such as a media corporation), that feels the need, and thinks of itself as being in a position where it's their moral duty, to "guard" the general public from information, especially political opinions, that it deems "harmful", information that it feels could sway people's views and opinions the wrong way. It feels the need to filter, block, hide and censor this information, and only allow selected information that it approves, to go through. Optimally, the wider public doesn't even become aware that the censored information even exists (so they can't get even curious about what that information might be). In the best case scenario (from their perspective), even its mere existence has been hidden. If the existence of the

There's a video of a woman recounting her experiences with veganism. I'm going to summarize her story, as she tells it: Some years ago she and her boyfriend were, essentially, "converted" into hard-core veganism, and they started a pure vegan diet. After a few months, both of them start having strange symptoms. Not only do they feel constantly sick in the stomach, including stomach pains, but they also develop sporadic bouts of skin acne (she shows a photo of her face when she was suffering from severe acne). The symptoms of the boyfriend are much worse than hers. They ask about this at some vegan forums, and they get convinced that they are just "detoxing", so they do nothing about it. However, as the symptoms don't go away and only get worse with time, they finally go to a doctor. After examination and testing the doctor concludes that they have a gut infection, bacterial overgrowth of the intestine, which is causing all the symptoms. The underlyin

By virtue of being a Finnish citizen, I am also automatically a citizen of the European Union. However, I am as much a citizen of the EU as a prisoner is a resident of a prison. It's not by choice. EU citizenship is imposed and forced onto me by my government and by the tyranny of the EU parliament against my will, regardless of whether I want it or not, and I have no choice over the matter. I am, thus, a de facto prisoner of the European Union. I can leave its borders, but I cannot get rid of its citizenship, and thus the laws that the EU parliament decides to impose onto me, even when those laws are in direct contradiction with the laws of my own country. Getting rid of this citizenship would be extraordinarily difficult and troublesome. There are only two ways for that to happen: Either Finland leaves the EU (which is not going to happen any time soon because neither the Finnish government nor the majority of Finnish citizens have the least amount of willingness to do so, and

Epic Games has been building up an online digital market for video games as a direct competition to Valve's Steam platform. For some strange reason many people have received this announcement with negativity. I think this is a positive thing. Healthy competition is good for the end consumer. It keeps the companies in check, and makes them compete for the benefit of the consumer (eg. by lowering prices and offering better deals). A week or two ago I created an Epic Games account for the first time, because why not. It costs nothing, you get a free game twice a month, and there could be genuinely good offers at that store. There's nothing to lose. I don't have anything to complain here. However, there's a technical design decision, or policy, whichever might it be, related to linking your Epic Games account to other accounts, that's rather idiotic. After I created the account, I tried to link it to my PlayStation Network (PSN) account. However, when I tried that

The so-called "regressive left" (which is a mockery of them calling themselves "progressive") is called "regressive" for a reason: Their values are going further and further back into the darker times of humanity, where racism and prejudice was prevalent. For quite many years now they have demanded more and more things that sound eerily similar to the racist attitudes of the past, such as racial segregation. Since there seems to be no limit to the extremes to which regressive leftists are willing to go in order to gain power, I predict that the trend will just continue and become worse and worse. They will start advocating for outright racial purity. Rights and privileges will be granted based on the degree of racial purity of people. At first it may be based on how a person looks outwardly, but this may end up involving DNA testing. They will start discriminating against people more and more, if they are not racially pure enough. Mixed-race people, es

There are many YouTube videos that do nothing more than browse some "incel" chat groups out there and mock and get outraged about the worst messages there. And sometimes not even the worst. There doesn't seem to be much point in these videos. Most usually is just people doing nothing more than searching these forums high and low for the worst and most outrageous messages, and reading them out loud in the video. Sometimes the messages they are showcasing are quite horrendous. Othertimes, not so much. The messages may show a lot of frustration and desperation, rather than outright misogyny, yet they still get mocked and laughed at by these YouTubers. I once watched one of such videos, and the guy who made the video had such a smug air of moral superiority, often using a really smug tone of voice and such a smug grin, that it was actually incredible. I wrote a comment on his video, saying something along the lines of "it's easy to have a sense of superiority and

Somehow the overwhelming majority of the online social media market of the entire world has become concentrated into the platforms of a small handful of megacorporations, almost all of which are headquartered at and owned by people living in a very small area, within one single state in the United States, and the majority of who hold the same rather extreme sociopolitical and cultural views. These social media platforms often have liberally billions of users, which is a very significant portion of the population of the entire world. More and more of these corporations are enforcing their political views onto their users. They are sanctioning and banning people for the smallest of slights, like calling a man a woman. These corporations do not care what the local culture of their users is. They do not care where their users are from, what the social norms in their society is, or what their sociopolitical or religious views are. These corporations are enforcing a very narrow set of po

Modern regressive leftist feminists have this concept of "toxic masculinity", and the idea that this form of masculinity is learned, not innate, inculcated into men by society, by other males. They seem to think that boys and men are expected to talk and behave in a certain manner, and all deviation from this is met with bullying and ridicule. Boys and men are pressured into behaving like this, and they have to bottle up their true emotions and true instincts. Of course this is for the most part completely false. In real life this kind of bullying-boys-into-conformity by other boys happens very rarely, and even if some form of it does happen, it seldom causes any permanent change in thinking and behavior. It most certainly does not make otherwise nice men become abusers of women. But where does this concept come from? Recently the answer to that dawned on me: 99% of modern feminism comes from the deepest pits of hell ... eh, I mean universities. Universities have been i

As a thought experiment, let's put ourselves for a moment in the shoes of a modern anti-racist intersectional feminist. Let's look at the world from that perspective. We want all racism be eradicated from society. We want change. We want people and society to change. We want the old mentality to be eradicated, and a new mentality of tolerance, universal acceptance and diversity to become the norm. We want people to be educated into this. We want people to discard the old way of thinking, and become tolerant and accepting. We want people to stop being racists. We hear of this old man, a government high-ranking elected official. A very old photograph of him, from something like 20 or 30 years ago, has surfaced, where he was being extremely racially insensitive, even back in those times. He was wearing blackface, alongside someone wearing a KKK white hood. Even 20 or 30 years ago, even considering the society of the time, this was extremely racially insensitive. But today, t

No, the title is not hyperbole nor exaggeration. Nor is it reflecting a single action of some individual person or very small group of people. Nor is it an allegory for pro-abortion stances. I'm being completely serious and literal. Consider this article from the Journal of Medical Ethics: After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? Some selected quotes: "the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled." And now let me really emphasize the following quote, because it goes to the absolute crux of the ideology: "Merely being human is not in itself a reason for ascribing someone a right to life." And no, this is not just some fringe blog, or the opinion of one random deranged zealot on the internet. This is a highly-cited peer-reviewed medical journal (one of the most cited in the world, in its category). And