What grinds my gears

One quite clear way to see how "woke" a corporation, or advertisement company probably is, is to see how many minority groups are present in their visual material aimed at a local audience (eg. advertisements targeting that one country). The smaller the minority in the country it is, the clearer it becomes. For example if 99% of the country is caucasian, and the company, which may well be a local company (ie, not a foreign company advertising in that country from the outside), regularly puts non-local people in their ads, the clearer it becomes that the company (or their advertisers) is "woke". This has several aims and agendas behind it, but the main reasoning they use is that of "representation". You see, the far left has come up with this idea that people feel "marginalized" and "oppressed" if there aren't people who look like them in media, advertisement, games, etc. To me, that sounds like a completely false argument and claim....

During Donald Trump's presidency, almost the entire 4 years of it, the leftist American mainstream media was constantly, constantly , picking on every single thing that Trump said or did (that they couldn't just use to declare him a racist or a dictator), no matter how normal or innocuous, and tried to claim that he was not mentally capable and competent to be the president. It probably cannot be even counted how many times the mainstream media mentioned the 25th Amendment (the one about the president becoming unable to do his job). Heck, several times news outlets like CNN brought some random psychologist to argue how Trump was psychologically incompetent to be the president (even though this kind of public declaration is in direct violation of the ethics of psychology in the United States, ie. it's absolutely unethical for a licensed psychologist to make public declarations about someone's mental health without having treated the person and without the person's pe...

The United States might be the only, or at least one of the very few countries in the world where most places do not require an ID to vote for the President of the country. In my country you need an ID to vote as a matter of course, no matter if it's for the representatives of your city council, the Parliament, or the President. Rather obviously this deters voter fraud, where one person issues more than one vote, or non-citizens meddle with the elections by casting votes they don't have the right to cast. In the United States, however, the far left, and the Democratic Party nowadays, argues that requiring ID for voting is "racist". You know, because according to them black people can't be expected to own an ID. Never mind that in the United States you can't drive a car without an ID, you can't rent an apartment without an ID, you can't get a bank account without an ID, and you can't get a job without an ID (because employers are required to keep an...

There's an astonishingly great irony in that the modern social justice regressive leftist "intersectional" transgender ideology teaches and promotes two polar opposites when it comes to "transgenderism", in a very Orwellian double-think way. You see, on one hand they are pushing really, really hard into society this notion that "gender is a spectrum", that there are literally millions of different "genders", "gender identities", "gender expressions" and the myriads of other made-up terms they are coming up with, that there are not just two categories, two boxes into which people can be put, and that you are what you think you are, and there's nothing anybody else has to say about it. However, you decide to "express your gender", that's your inalienable right and everybody else must respect (at gunpoint) it, and nobody has anything to say about it, and nobody has any business in interfering with it, and yo...

The Schengen Agreement was a treaty originally among five European countries, signed in 1985, that effectively abolished border control between those countries. During the next ten years a whopping 26 additional countries signed the agreement. In theory this agreement sounds really nice. If you are inside one of these countries, ie. in the Schengen area, you can freely move to any of the neighboring Schengen countries with no border checks of any kind. You can freely visit and travel other countries, you can for example easily have a job in a neighboring country on the other side of the border, you can easily visit friends and family at the other side. More beneficially, imports and exports, and all kinds of material transport, between these countries become a lot easier, simpler and cheaper because everything can move freely between them. If tourists arrive at one of the countries, they can visit neighboring countries on the same trip without having to worry about acquiring travel vis...

A year ago I wrote a blog post about " inconvenient perpetrators of hate crimes ", about numerous cases of egregious hate crimes committed in the United States and elsewhere, many of them very racially charged and motivated, but which the mainstream media stays mostly silent about. I particularly mention the significant raise in racial hate crimes against Jewish people in New York during 2019 (which were very clearly racist hate crimes because the perpetrators often made their intention completely clear). One would think that the mainstream media and the politicians would be all over it, and constantly shouting about it and demanding stern measures to be taken to eradicate this surge in racist hate crimes. Yet... nothing. Politicians were silent about it, the mainstream media was largely silent about it (only occasionally making very carefully written stories about it), the woke leftist Twitter mob was largely silent about it. Why? Because the perpetrators were by far and lar...

Historically speaking, when journalism has been free and independent, it has been one of the greatest checks against corruption and abuse from those in power. Journalism has been the "people's weapon" that keeps the politicians, the rulers, the rich, those in power, in check, and exposes any corruption and attempt at abuse of power. During the entire history of journalism there has been, of course, so-called "yellow journalism", sensationalistic journalism that would in modern terminology engage in "clickbaiting", flashy and catchy front page headlines that are nevertheless misleading, sensationalism, distortions and outright fabricated stories, even defamatory stories. However, the more serious journalism has always had a principle of integrity. After all, there does exist the notion of "journalism ethics and standards" which tries to ensure that serious journalism adheres to honesty, objectivity, fairness, diligence and accountability. Seri...

Recently a father in British Columbia, Canada, was put in jail because he refused to stop calling his daughter as his "daughter", and stop referring to her as "she". He was not just warned. He was not just fined. He was literally incarcerated. And that was the only reason for the sentence. What makes this even more shocking is that the father was actually fighting to stop doctors from injecting sex hormones into his daughter without his permission. The injections started when she was just 13. The father categorically forbid it, but the doctors did it anyway. This went to court, and the courts banned the father from interfering. Then the courts jailed the father because he refused to stop referring to his daughter as "she". That's it. The whole reason for the sentence. He refused to stop using the pronoun "she", and to stop referring to his daughter as "my daughter". No other reason. They literally put him in jail for speech. And th...

Recently a white man went on a shooting spree in Atlanta targeting some massage parlors run by Asian people. Obviously the mainstream media orgastically jumped to the opportunity to cry racism. Take for example this video and twitter post by The Daily Show: "The Atlanta shooter blamed a specific race of people for his problems, and then murdered them because of it. If that's not racism, then the word has no meaning." Note that this is a hard factual claim. There are no softening weasel words like "maybe", or "probably", or "we can assume" or anything like that. It's stated as a hard fact. What is this claim based on? Did the shooter, for example, have a history of posting racist comments on social media from which the claim can be deduced? Did the shooter write some kind of manifesto prior to the shooting, declaring those sentiments? Did friends and acquaintances describe him as such? Did the shooter declare or confess these sentiments to...

Imagine if two white teenagers were to break into the home of a disable black person in the United States, douse him with lighting fluid and set on fire before leaving, and the black person would then die of his burns four days later. Not only would the American mainstream media talk about it for weeks on end, but it would probably make international news. Most likely there would be gigantic riots, vandalism and looting on the streets causing billions of dollars in damage. The leftist politicians would likewise talk about it for months to come, and pass bill after bill, and law after law, inspired by this event, and create special governmental teams to squash down this horrendous act of "racism" and "white supremacy". The politicians and the media would add this event to their political arsenal that they would use for years and years to justify their totalitarian actions. Entire lengthy Wikipedia articles would be written about it. The curious thing is that that...

When thinking about which countries in the world pollute the most, countries like China, India and the United States come immediately to mind. However, one of the biggest polluters in the world has somehow kind of went under the radar, as it's not widely recognized by the general public. Namely, Australia. Do you know how many nuclear power plants there are in Australia? Not a single one. In fact, for example Queensland officially banned nuclear power in 2007. The rest of the country hasn't been much more nuclear power friendly either So, if there are no nuclear power plants, where are they getting all their electricity? Perhaps solar power? After all, Australia is a like a huge desert. Nope, about 1% of all energy production is solar power. Commendable, but still just a tiny fraction. Wind power is better at about 4%. Hydroelectrical power accounts for about 7%. Those and the rest of the renewable energy power sources account for a sizeable chunk of all energy production, but...

If there's one thing that the social justice ideology, and thus alongside them the mainstream media and a bunch of other indoctrinated entities, currently celebrates the most, is when a person becomes a "transsexual". For some reason they are so enamored with the concept that they not only celebrate and rejoice with every single case, but moreover, and most horribly, they outright encourage people, often very young and impressionable people, to become "transsexuals". Conversely, one of the things they most hate is people who have become "transsexual" but later regretted it and reverted back. To the social justice warriors, and many devout "transsexuals", those people feel like traitors. It's like a betrayal, one of the most heinous crimes against the ideology. Rather obviously, those people aren't talked about almost at all. The social justice warriors and the mainstream media don't bring them forth, don't talk about them, d...

Suppose someone said, for example, "Alexander Graham Bell, a white man, invented the telephone". At least to me that would sound a bit odd. Why is the speaker feeling it necessary to note that Bell was white? Suppose that this person keeps presenting more similar statements, like "Thomas Edison, a white guy, invented the lightbulb", "Johannes Gutenberg, a white man, invented the printing press", and so on. At least I would start thinking that this person is having some kind of racially motivated agenda. If subsequent conversations would confirm that yes, he is explicitly listing inventions by white people in order to emphasize and highlight that they were done by white people, I would quite quickly start suspecting that person of being some kind of racist white supremacist. Why the need to bring up the race of an inventor? What does the race matter? To me, the telephone was invented by "Alexander Graham Bell", not "a white man". I don...

Recently the enormously popular American conservative political commentator Ben Saphiro made a video about some radical activist calling the coronavirus vaccine a "vial of death", and how vaccine hesitancy was really high particularly among black people. The main point of his video, however, was not the vaccine itself, but how the far-leftist social justice warriors have tried to spin this phenomenon and blame it on "systemic oppression" or whatever. Ben himself, however, doesn't have any problems with the vaccines. Much unlike his audience. I estimate that I skimmed through something like 500 first comments appearing below his video. Can you guess how many of those comments were people saying that they will not be taking the vaccine? Every. Single. One. That's right. Not just "many". Not even "the vast majority". Every single comment that I read was someone saying that he or she would not be taking the vaccine. I didn't see a single ...

After the horrors of Nazi Germany were finally fully uncovered and exposed, not only did Germany, but in fact the majority of the western world, swear that this kind of thing would never be allowed to happen ever again. In other words, western society became hypervigilant about the raise of totalitarian regimes, of totalitarian extremism. "Never again!" is still the slogan of this "fascist watch" movement in Germany and elsewhere. "Never again" is written in many war memorials in Germany. It seems, though, that most of the western world has become blind to the fact that totalitarian extremism don't just take over just like that, when nobody is looking. Totalitarian regimes, during the entire history of humanity, have always sold themselves as the solution to a great problem (real or fabricated) plaguing society. While it does sometimes happen, quite rarely do totalitarian regimens simply make a military coup and take over the country, beating its exist...

The reasons for this are 100% practical, and have absolutely nothing to do with sexism, prejudice or politics. It is just a fact of biology that men are stronger, faster and have more endurance and stamina than women. Especially those men who are young and in absolute top fitness, like the ones that are trained as combat units in the military. The United States Navy Seals, the branch of the United States armed forces with one of the toughest and most rigorous physical training in the world, opened their ranks for female candidates many years ago. Do you know how many women have passed this training and become Navy Seals during all these years? Not one. And that's not for the lack of trying. There have been numerous female trainees in the Navy Seals. Most of them have been top athletes in their absolute prime fitness. The problem is that even in their absolute top fitness they just can't keep up with the men. They just don't have the physical strength and, most crucially, th...

I commented in a past blog post the behavioral phenomenon I have noticed in the comment sections of many SJW videos , as well as on social media posts of SJWs, which is quite different from the average behavior in anti-SJW and other skeptic videos. This behavior, which stands out in drastic contrast to the opposition, is the sheer amount of so-called "love bombing", or what could be much more crassly expressed as "dick sucking". In other words, a quite significant portion (often even the majority) of the comments are nothing but adulation and people thanking the person, and encouraging the person for doing this and to keep doing it. And nothing else. That's it. It's often message after message after message of almost nothing but people metaphorically sucking that person's metaphorical dick, with zero contribution to anything. No discussion, no additional further thoughts and points of view, no dissecting what the person is saying (either favorably or unf...

From the outside, from someone who has no personal experience on it, it might be a bit difficult to understand that, indeed, making YouTube videos can be a career and the only source of income for people who get enough views. I don't know what the exact numbers are, but it's my understanding that you get, at least on average, 1 cent (in US currency) for every displayed advertisement in your video (if you are a YouTube partner, or whatever the contract was). Now consider that the biggest YouTube channels, for example those making video game reviews, may make a couple of videos a week, and they typically get at least 100 thousand views per video. If even half of those viewers do not use an ad-blocker, that's about 50 thousand cents, ie. about 500 US dollars per video. Let's say the channel publishes on average 2 videos a week, and the average viewer count is that 100 thousand per video, and 50% of the views produce 1 cent, that's about $4000 US per month. This is a p...

Carl Benjamin, who goes by the famous nickname handle "Sargon of Akkad", was one of the first enormously popular big anti-SJW youtubers, who has been making videos for something like 10 years. His videos were generally really well presented and argued, and he was really eloquent and presented his views quite clearly and in an easy to understand manner. From quite early in his youtube career he started making one of his most popular "series": The "this week in stupid" series, where he would go through the most egregious and ridiculous things that the far-left had done or said that particular week (and given the amount and widespread of the far-leftist ideology, there was plenty of material for that every single week. "Slow" weeks were really rare, if not completely non-existent.) At the end of the year he would usually make a "this year in stupid" video where he would recap the most notorious examples that he had gone through during that...

I have commented several times how the fight against the far left seems to be a completely lost cause because the opposition just can't seem to be able to organize properly to stop them. The far left is gaining ground every single day, and our society is becoming more and more oppressive and totalitarian by the day. It may well be too late to stop it. Except for one thing, which might actually make it so that the far left never actually gains absolute power. What is this thing, you might ask? Perhaps to your surprise, the thing that may stop the far left from gaining absolute power is giant megacorporations. Have I gone completely bonkers? The giant megacorporations are absolutely invaded by far-leftists and are enacting far-leftist policies, censoring people who oppose the far left, and engaging in massive propaganda. They are one of the biggest driving forces of far-leftist politics! Isn't it absolutely stupid of me to think that it will be these exact megacorporations that...

When Biden was inaugurated as the president, one of the predictions I made was that he would remain in office for about 2 months at most (and that I would be really, really surprised if he was still the president by the end of this year). The inauguration was on January 20th, so only about 18 days to go as of writing this. He might last for a bit longer than the two months I predicted. However, the signs aren't very good for him. Biden was rather infamous (and ridiculed) during his presidential campaign for his numerous gaffes and lapses of memory. He would quite often fumble his words, forget what he was saying, name the wrong person, even forget in which city he was. This hasn't changed since he became president. If anything, it has become more and more frequent, and more and more obvious. In fact, many have noted that his administration seems to be keeping him away from the public eye as much as possible, and even in the few occasions that he has made public speeches he'...