What grinds my gears

In addition to some other institutions, most famously the United States military forces had for really long a semi-official "don't ask, don't tell" policy, meaning that if you are a homosexual that's fine, nobody's going to ask, nobody's going to discriminate, but it's better if you just keep it to yourself as well. What you don't know can't hurt you and, more relevantly in this case, what nobody knows can't hurt you. There will be no prejudice nor differential treatment (positive or negative) if nobody knows you are "different". Famously, this policy was officially ended recently. Apparently the "don't ask, don't tell" policy was considered oppressive, I suppose? But I have to ask: What's wrong with it? I'm asking 100% seriously. Why is it wrong to have such a "don't ask, don't tell" policy? Why would people want to go around telling other people, unprompted, that they are homosexual? W...

I wrote earlier a blog post envisioning the (realistically) absolutely best-case scenario, and also (somewhat pessimistically) the worst-case scenario of what happens if Biden wins this presidential election. The truth might turn out to be somewhere in between, perhaps with some details leaning more towards the best case, and others veering towards the worst case. If I had to predict what would actually happen, realistically, then perhaps something like this: Firstly, after Trump stops being the President, the American far-left will do its hardest to destroy his life, partially as some kind of revenge, partially to make an example of him and send a message. The very first form of this will be a boatload of SLAPP suits (ie. lawsuits intended to abuse the legal system to intimidate, hurt or attack a persona non grata .) The left is already talking about this, and it's their full plan already. It's pretty much a certainty that this will happen, the only question is how many lawsu...

I wrote a blog post on June of last year about how I used to quite avidly follow the YouTube channel of a lawyer who uses the nickname LegalEagle, because many of his videos very extremely entertaining and didactic at the same time (I learned quite a lot of interesting tidbits about legal practice from those videos) when, all of a sudden, out of the complete blue, he just decided to go full-on far-leftist social justice ideologue. (He might have been very sympathetic to the ideology for years, but up to that point he had, to my knowledge, always left it out of his videos and stayed off of that topic.) On 8th of June of 2019 he uploaded a video about a particular deleted scene in the Captain Marvel movie where the titular hero outright steals the motorbike of a dude who was being a bit of an asshole towards her. Not only did LegalEagle defend her actions, but moreover he proceeded to accuse people (ie. men) who criticize that scene of "mansplaining" and sexism. At no point ...

The Lutheran Church of Finland, which is the official State Church, has been for quite many years an official sponsor of the Helsinki Pride parade. Let that sink in for a moment. A Christian Church that has existed since the 16th century sponsors and promotes homosexuality and homosexual displays. This is not just question of "love the sinner, hate the sin". This is not a question of the Lutheran Church saying "while we don't condone homosexuality, such people should nevertheless be respected as fellow human beings and treated equally." This is them endorsing and literally sponsoring homosexuality and homosexual relationships and their acceptance in society. This is them saying, effectively, "homosexuality is ok in our books, and not only there's nothing wrong with it but we are actually promoting and monetarily sponsoring it." And if you still think that maybe they are just trying to say "homosexuals should not be discriminated against and t...

It's quite telling, and actually scary, how deep the political indoctrination and activism has become when one of the oldest and most reputable dictionaries in the world, Merriam-Webster, established in 1828, starts printing outright and direct lies for the purposes of political activism and social engineering. In the definition of the word "preference" said dictionary now says: The term preference as used to refer to sexual orientation is widely considered offensive in its implied suggestion that a person can choose who they are sexually or romantically attracted to. This was added like a few days ago, and it's a direct and complete lie. Nobody, and I mean literally nobody , not even the most radical social justice ideologues and activists, considered the expression "sexual preference" as offensive. In fact, people have pointed out numerous examples of that very expression being used by far-left people, activists, politicians and press, just a few weeks ag...

Some polls suggest that Joe Biden is ahead in popularity. And as we saw four years ago, polls are always completely accurate. However, let's assume that Biden does indeed end up winning the elections and becomes the President of the United States. What happens then, realistically speaking? I'll predict the best possible case scenario, the almost worst possible case, and the absolutely worst possible. Best possible scenario: The regressive left becomes completely insufferable, both in social media and in real life, for a month or two, before forgetting about it and moving to something else, to bickering about something else that's "racist" and "transphobic". In other words, after a few months they become the pre-Trump regressive left, continuing their ever-increasing campaign to take over all of society by invading everything. Likewise the leftist mainstream media will spend a month or two vilifying Trump and painting him as the worst person who has ever ...

Almost three years ago I wrote a rather pessimistic and cynical post about how the fight against the regressive left and the invasion of the totalitarian fascistic social justice ideology is most probably a lost cause and pretty useless. Not much has changed, really. The regressive leftist social justice ideology is invading more and more of western society, and not much has been achieved in terms of stopping them, or even slowing them down. I wrote back then that one of the main reasons for this is that the opposition, the anti-SJWs, are independent individualist free-thinkers who do not have a herd mentality nor a mob mentality, and thus trying to organize them into a long-term large-scale movement is like trying to herd cats. While it's good that people do not have a herd mentality and that they are independent free-thinkers who feel free to disagree with each other and present their dissenting opinions, the sad thing is that, indeed, it's pretty impossible to organize the...

Guinness World Records , originally (and for quite long) known as The Guinness Book of Records was, and to a large extent still is, one of the most famous and recognized organizations in the world, since its inception in 1955. Probably no household existed, at least in the western world, in the 70's, 80's and 90's, without at least one, often several editions of the eponymous book. In fact, year after year it was one of the best-selling books in the world, at least in those eras (and probably well into the 2000's), and often rather self-referentially appeared in the book itself as such. For many decades it was considered one of the best known and most respectable and trusted source of such information. Perhaps the major reason why the yearly book was so popular and famous, and sold like hotcakes for so many decades, is that it, essentially, filled a role that the internet would fill in the 2000's: It was a way for people to get and read about tidbits of curious and...

When Donald Trump announced that he was running for president some time in 2015 or so, and when it became apparent that not only was he being serious but in fact he became the primary presidential candidate of the Republican Party, for some reason the extreme leftist social justice ideologues in the United States went absolute bonkers about it. Even staunchly leftist Democrats who heavily criticized Hillary Clinton because of her corruption and shady political career, and even laughed at even the idea of her becoming the president, suddenly became her loudest advocates when Trump became the primary Republican candidate. (The most infamous example of this is probably Michael Moore, which I might write another blog post about.) Suddenly Trump became quite literally Hitler reincarnate. No, worse than that. Many of the social justice ideologues were shouting how Trump was worse than Hitler. That he was racist to the core, that he couldn't even open his mouth without something racist co...

While I do it sometimes, in general I nevertheless don't like to simply repeat and parrot what other political commentators are saying and paying attention to, unless I have some unique perspective to add, something that I don't see others saying or pointing out, or just a novel idea or perspective that occurred to me, which I haven't seen before. Sometimes this can lead to perspectives and criticism that I think are relatively important but which, for one reason or another, I seem to be the only one to pay attention to, or having thought of. For example, for many years now I have been railing against the blatant, obnoxious and rampant one-sided and pretty transparent political bias in Wikipedia. Yet, I seem to be pretty much the only person doing so. Although I need to clarify that there are several forums and subreddits out there that are highly critical of Wikipedia and its political bias, but most of them seem to be populated by American ultra-conservative conspiracy th...