What grinds my gears

I have recently written about how the popular youtuber and math popularizer Matt Parker has, deliberately or inadvertently (it's not clear to me which), started to litter his speech and is videos with an almost constant use of the word "they" when referring to one singular person, sometimes to quite excessive and unnecessary extents , probably as a form of social engineering in an attempt to try to make the usage of that pronoun normal and widely adopted (and again I'm not sure if he's doing this consciously and deliberately, or inadvertently), and how the use of that pronoun to refer to one single person, especially a friend, can be quite dehumanizing and even offensive . It has, in fact, become so bad and so frequent that I just cannot watch his videos anymore, even though I was quite a fan and subscriber for years. Out of curiosity I checked his latest video (as of writing this) which talks about Einstein's Theory of Relativity. I couldn't get past the ...

Somebody posted a poll on Twitter where she asked which people would vote for, Antifa or the "Fascists". Not very surprisingly a good majority of people voted for "Fascists", no doubt as a protest vote, especially given that the regressive left calls everybody "Fascist" who doesn't think 100% what their doctrine that particular week happens to be. But, let's take the question seriously: Let's assume a hypothetical scenario where either Antifa or Fascists are going to gain absolute power and run everything, and there's no third option. Which one would I prefer? And to make it clear, with "Fascists" I'm not here referring to what the regressive left refers to. I'm referring to the bona fide Hitler-loving Holocaust-denying Roman-salute-making genuinely-white-supremacist anti-semitic neo-Nazis who think that Jews are the scourge of the Earth and are in a huge world-wide conspiracy and running the economy everywhere behind the...

Some critics of the modern regressive leftist social justice ideology have started using the moniker "limousine liberal" to describe a certain class of people. A "limousine liberal" is a very wealthy member of the upper or upper-middle class that essentially swims in money and luxuries, who loudly espouses and talks about social justice ideological subjects, while either having zero self awareness, being extremely contradictory, or doing very little to help whatever cause he or she (most often a she) is promoting. Indeed, one of the key features of limousine liberals is utter hypocrisy. A limousine liberal may be, for example, an extremely rich and successful multi-millionaire black person (such as a world-renowned actor or athlete) who constantly complains about how oppressed black people are in the country. With literally zero awareness of the fact that he himself is a living counter-example. "Woe is me! Look how oppressed I am, in my multi-million-dollar man...

If you look at all the free democratic countries in the world, it's quite easy to notice a general trend: The ones with the most multiculturalism and "diversity" tend to have the most amount of violent crime, riots and discontent, while the ones with the least amount of multiculturalism tend to be very peaceful and prosperous, and with the most amount of average happiness. (Exceptions in both directions may exist, but they tend to be much rarer than the norm.) It's also quite noticeable that, in general, the countries with the most amount of multiculturalism and "diversity" are the ones where social justice warriors are the loudest, protest the loudest, and have by far the largest amount of sociopolitical influence, and with it the erosion of essential constitutional rights is the fastest. Conversely, the countries with the least amount of multiculturalism have likewise the least amount of social justice ideology (and, in some cases, may even oppose the ideo...

It's curious how the current mainstream narrative in most of the English-speaking world is that "sex" and "gender" are somehow two different things (perhaps related, but still not absolutely identical synonyms). It's curious because this is a relatively new thing. The original reason why many people in many countries started to use the word "gender" when talking about people is because the word "sex" is a bit embarrassing, and has so many different meanings, many of which are not very appropriate to speak about in formal settings. "Sex" is very commonly used to talk about sexual activities and anything related to sexual arousal. "Sex" is also sometimes used more informally to refer to someone's genitals. Thus it's perhaps a bit embarrassing to talk about a person's "sex", and especially a child's "sex". Thus the word "gender" started becoming popular as a nicer-sounding and...

History has shown time and again that far-left Marxist-Leninist Communist ideology (and other political ideologies derived from or closely related to it) is extraordinarily dangerous, and in its worst aspects not different from far-right fascist ideology. Time and again such political ideologies, when they get in absolute power, have resulted in millions of people killed. Marxism-Leninism in Russia, Maoism in China, Nazism in Germany, Kim Il Sung's North Korea... they all share the same destructive features: Violent uprising, absolutely totalitarian ideology and system of oppression, forcing people into submission by violence and extreme oppression, and ultimately the deliberate killing of millions and millions of political dissenters and "undesirables". What's worse, especially Marxism-Leninism has also, time and again, demonstrated how it leads to overall severe degradation of life quality of the people and the society that it controls: Oppression, corruption, expl...