What grinds my gears

Libs of TikTok is a twitter account that primarily focuses on reposting the craziest TikTok (and other video sharing platform) videos made by far-leftist activists and lunatics. Unsurprisingly, the far left does not like this and considers the owner of the account a "far-right extremist", a terrorist and so on and so forth, and doing the best they can to shut her down. The funny thing is that Libs of TikTok does nothing more than repost completely publicly available videos, published and made available to everybody by the authors of the videos themselves. She doesn't for example infiltrate some closed private online groups and surreptitiously leak material that's meant to be private. She doesn't hack into people's computers and steal their private videos. She doesn't disseminate hidden camera footage published without permission. The only thing she does is to repost videos that have been published and made completely public for the entire world, by the aut...

I have noticed a rather curious pattern about political parties in western countries: Most western countries have a "Green Party" (often named exactly that, in the local language) which in theory is a party whose main driving goal is environmentalism. However, every single such party I know and have ever heard of is always, always , very far-leftist in their political ideology. They are always the strongest supporters of leftist policies, including unrestricted mass immigration, fighting "racism" (which in practice means "non-far-leftism") by creating stricter and stricter unconstitutional laws, varying degrees of socialism (if not outright communism), "trans rights", and all the buzzwords and talking points of far-leftist intersectional social justice warriors. Always. I do not know of a single exception, in any country. In fact, their far-leftist "social justice" policies are most often, if not always, way more important to them and ...

Having watched quite a lot of video material from all sides of the political spectrum, which often tends to have a lot of distortions, fabrications, exaggeration and outright lies, one thought occurred to me: Is it possible to create a video (or other type of publication) that only presents well-established hard facts, but is still extremely misleading and fools people into believing falsities? The thought occurred to me especially when watching snippets of professionally-made history and politics documentaries with big budgets and very high production quality. Documentaries that present eg. historical facts in a very straightforward and seemingly unbiased manner, feeling more like a history textbook. The fact is that it actually is perfectly possible to mislead and deceive people even by purely stating well-established and accepted facts that are not under any kind of doubt. And that's by being selective about which facts are shown and which aren't. Essentially, lying by omi...

One thing that the far left in the United States, very much including the entirety of the Democratic Party, loves is to make completely spurious claims and accusations about something that the conservatives have done, and then stick to that narrative forever, repeating it over and over, ignoring every single argument that they are misrepresenting, distorting or lying about it (ie. essentially they just figuratively put their fingers in their ears and shout "la la la la I can't hear you!") There are many recent examples, but one particularly egregious one is the claim that Florida is "banning books" (quite clearly an allusion to Nazi Germany banning and burning books). The claim comes from a recent audit that the Florida government did on books available in primary school libraries, and deemed several of them not age-appropriate or against the primary school teaching policies of the state and thus to be removed from those libraries. That's it: They are banne...

I wrote in a previous blog post about the "Black Hammer Organization" (an organization that, perhaps a bit surprisingly, is actually widely considered a bona fide cult, including by ex-members) and their "Black Hammer City" project , which was their intent to build an independent "city" somewhere in Colorado that would be their personal communist utopia where white people and cops aren't allowed. Back then I said that I hope they actually go and do it, just to see it fail miserably because they quite clearly don't understand what it takes to actually create a functioning livable town full of people. I envisioned their little silly project ending relatively soon after it started, with just a few unlivable shacks having been haphazardly built, with no running water, no electricity, no food production (with any food being just purchased from some nearby town with their quickly diminishing funds), and overall completely unhygienic unlivable conditions...

Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns and produces material for several tabletop games including Magic The Gathering and Dungeons&Dragons, has shown since at least 10 years ago that they have swallowed the blue pill and are far-leftist activist bigots. The funny thing is that in many instances of their virtue signaling they are showing a disturbing amount of extreme racism. Not as in "the bigotry of low expectations". The most heinous forms of pure unadultered classical racism of the worst kind. A few years ago in response to the retarded riots in the United States they banned several of their own cards that they deemed inappropriate. One of those cards, "Stone-throwing devils" depicts, well, literally a group of demons throwing big stones. Apparently according to Wizards of the Coast this card is racist and thus they banned it completely. One has to ask, why would they think that a picture showing devils throwing stones to be "racist"? What or w...

In Finland, when someone is elected the President, if he belongs to a political party (which is almost always the case), it's not required but customary for him to leave that party and become unaffiliated, at least for the duration of the presidency. The reason for this is that the President is supposed to represent all citizens equally, regardless of political affiliation or leaning. Leaving the political party and becoming unaffiliated is a symbolic gesture to convey this message. The President should lead, represent and seek the well-being of all citizens equally and impartially. It would be rather preposterous and unprecedented, and definitely against the dignity and image of the President of Finland, if he gave a speech where he demonizes and vilifies a big portion of the population because of their political beliefs. It would be especially egregious if he vilified and disparaged the citizens who did not vote for him in the presidential election. This impartiality doesn't ...

Many countries in the west have become places where sex change castration surgeries are administered left and right, with an extremely low threshold, and to younger and younger people by the month. Such surgeries have always been monstrous mutilation that no doctor should agree to, but at least decades ago, in many of these countries, they were extremely wary of going so far, and it was essentially used as some kind of last resort, after all other avenues of treatment had been explored and tried. Many people who wanted to go through the surgery had to wait sometimes literally for years and fully demonstrate that it really was what they wanted, that they were absolutely sure and would not regret it. (It wasn't like this in all places in all countries, but in most of them it was, decades ago.) Today, however, the surgeries are prescribed like candy. In fact, there are some places, especially in the United States, where doctors are actually forbidden from even questioning the deci...

Japan is overall a quite safe and low-crime country, especially for a tourist. (Even the Yakuza, the biggest crime organization in Japan, leaves foreigners alone. In fact, Yakuza members are more likely to help you if you are a foreigner and are accosted by some punk.) However, that doesn't mean that there are no scams, especially ones targeting tourists (because they ostensibly have no experience on the scams in question, compared to locals who have lived there their entire lives.) One particular form of scam takes the form of street touts luring tourists into some bar or restaurant. Typically they make it enticing for example by offering the first round of drinks on the house, for free, and other similar benefits. These street touts can be extremely persistent and will most definitely not take a "no" for an answer. If the tourists accept the offer they will be guided to the bar... which will usually not be a fancy street-facing bar with large signs, but some shadier bar...