What grinds my gears

Some decades ago some critics of the multiculturalist ideology coined the term "ethnopositive existence" to describe the Orwellian doublethink of the far-leftist multiculturalists of the 1990's and early 2000's with regards to human race (a phenomenon that still exists to this day among the left). It means that the concept of "race", when it comes to humans, either is an actual real thing that exists, or something that is not real and does not exist and should be got rid of, depending on which one of those is the most convenient for the current conversation at hand. More particularly (and most usually), if the existence of human race in a particular context somehow puts white people in a negative light and/or non-white people in a positive light, then it most definitely exists and is a real thing. In contrast, if the existence of human race in another context puts white people in a positive light and/or non-white people in a negative light, then it most defi...

For pretty much as long as humans have existed, who were able to communicate complex ideas with each other, there have existed "snake oil salesmen", people trying to sell other people panaceas, miracle cures for a wide range (if not all) diseases. All the way from very early prehistoric times to this day. We may often think of these "miracle cures" to just be a thing of the past, but they are very alive and well to this very day. In fact, thanks to the Internet they are going stronger than ever. If you just do a bit of research you'll find tons and tons of people out there making wild claims about all kinds of substances and their purported ability to cure a wide range of diseases. Sometimes these substances are harmless so the only thing you'll lose is your money. Othertimes these substances can be outright dangerous and do real physical harm to you (such as bleach or black salve, both of which are being sold as "miracle cures"). And it hasn't...

I'm not here talking about any particular President of the United States (although Joe Biden really is the biggest clown that has ever been the leader of any country; he's even a bigger clown than Justin Trudeau, which is quite an achievement). I'm talking about the role of the President. In Finland, when someone is elected the President of the country, it's not required but it's customary for him to leave his political party, if he belonged to one, and become unaffiliated for the duration of the presidency. This is a symbolic gesture done to indicate that the President of Finland represents all citizens equally and impartially, without taking political sides or favoring one political party over another. All citizens are equal in the eyes of the President, regardless of their political stances or any other opinions, and the role of the President is to represent all of them fairly and equally, and to drive everybody's interests and benefits. Not so in the United...

A couple of years ago I wrote a (somewhat popular, according to view counts) blog post named " how to destroy a nation, step-by-step guide ". The first "step" that I listed there was: "Destroy the sense of national identity, culture and history." This is not just theoretical, a hypothesis, exaggeration, hyperbole, or metaphorical. This is literally and explicitly happening at this very moment, and has been happening for years. The far left in many western countries have been destroying, erasing, changing, distorting and bastardizing every single piece of western culture and history, one by one, at an even increasing rate. Historical statues are being destroyed, books are being banned and changed (in an eerily Orwellian manner), schoolbooks are being changed, historic figures are being "cancelled" and banned from being celebrated, remembered or even talked about, historic names, like street names, building names, institution names and so on are be...

To make it absolutely clear before any confusion could settle in: I'm strongly and categorically against the death penalty, as a form of punishment for a crime. So, don't get me wrong. The reason why I'm against it is the same reason why I'm against abortion: If, from all the fundamental human rights, we had to choose the most important one, the one that goes above every other right, it would be the right to life. This is because it's the only right that, if infringed, cannot be reversed, cannot be remedied, cannot be compensated, cannot be made amends for. Every other human rights infringement can be fixed, alleviated or compensated for in some manner. This is the only one that's irreversible. And, on top of that, it's the greatest loss that a human being can suffer. But the thing is, even the death penalty is not as bad as abortion is. At least the death penalty (at least in countries with a modicum of civilization) is usually only applied to adult crimi...

The modern radical far-left has in the recent decade or two succeeded in infiltrating and invading almost every single aspect of western society. There's almost no company, corporation, institution or even governmental agency that doesn't preach its tenets from the rooftops, often implementing absolutely draconian (and often self-destructive) policies. If there's one institution that one would think that they would have very hard time infiltrating and taking over, it would be the United States military forces. It's run by very strict old-fashioned men and is ruled by extremely strict rules, mandates and traditions that go back decades and even centuries. One would think that if there's one unshakeable rock that the extremist far-left cannot shake, it would be the military forces. Yet, somehow, and I literally have absolutely no idea how, in the past 10 or so years they succeeded in doing so. Very high-ranking army generals started making speeches about "diversi...

Recently the far-leftist media (which includes almost all of the media) has been fawning over an incident that they so much crave (because of the sheer lack of them, even though they keep claiming year after year that such "hate incidents" are constant and daily). According to the narrative some pro-Palestine crowd was peacefully protesting somewhere in the United States when a truck driven by some islamophobic white supremacist rammed onto the crowd, in a clear case of terroristic hate crime. They made one mistake in their narrative, though. And that was actually releasing the video footage of the incident. Which, unsurprisingly, gave a rather different picture. For starters, the protest was, unsurprisingly, illegal because it was blocking traffic without permission, which is against the law. (But, as we have been seeing for the last 8 years or so, it appears that in most western countries, including the United States, committing crimes in the name of "protesting" ...

It is actually incredible how many hiring quotas there are in many (perhaps even most) western countries, even though at the same time discrimination and preferential treatment in hiring is very explicitly illegal (and in many such countries outright unconstitutional). If you live in a western country, chances are that if you dig enough you'll find all kinds of companies, businesses, institutions (both private and governmental) etc. openly engaging in hiring quotas. Not just under the hood hush-hush let's-keep-it-on-the-downlow, but as an open stated practice, with numbers and goals published every year or so. And, somehow, they don't get sued because of illegal discrimination in hiring, perhaps because of contrived legal loopholes or because the government outright seems to just not care. Anyway, putting all that aside, what is the justification for these hiring quotas, eg. gender-based hiring quotas? What is the underlying doctrine and belief system that justifies them, i...