What grinds my gears

The authors of the (in)famous TV series South Park are absolutely irreverent and unhinged when it comes to all kinds of modern sociopolitics, not shying away from parodying, making fun of, and even outright insulting left-wing politics, right-wing politics, religions (including Christianity and, quite unusually, even Islam), cults (most prominently Scientology), transgenderism, celebrities and politicians, and so on and so forth. Some of these parodies and mockeries have been so blatant that the targets of them have even tried to sue the authors. It is my understanding that the authors consider such lawsuits (and threats of lawsuits) badges of honor. Needless to say, the authors aren't afraid of being called names. They clearly don't care if they are called transphobes, islamophobes, "fascists", and so on and so forth. With one quite prominent exception: They quite clearly are morbidly afraid of being deemed racists. The authors clearly do not subscribe to any of the ...

Many have heard of and even seen some videos about so-called "sovereign citizens" in the United States (and in this day and age in a few other countries, such as the UK and Australia), although most of them have stopped calling themselves with that moniker because of its bad rep and bad publicity (which in itself is funny: They say "I'm not a sovereign citizen" yet follow the sovcit script word-for-word, going though every single talking point, every single claim, every single antic.) Most people, however, don't know much about them and only have the notion that they are just deluded individuals who have declared themselves as not being "citizens of the US" and instead being "sovereign", ie. they belong to their own mobile "mini-country" of sorts, population 1, and thus they don't need to follow the laws of the United States because they aren't citizens after all, that they have diplomatic immunity, like they were some k...

I have two friends who are a married couple, with two small children. They are extremely loving and caring parents, and those kids are quite literally the most important thing in their lives. They are also practicing Christians, at least to some extent. (People here are not preachy and tend to keep their private lives and beliefs private, but from what I have seen they are practicing Christians to at least some extent. They go to church at least sometimes and participate in some church-related activities, and they have enrolled their older son to church activities, and they have at least some Christian paraphernalia at home. They have also on occasion made some comments about their Christian beliefs.) They have also swallowed the modern far-leftist ideology. They are very supportive of the alphabet people and the related far-leftist activism. And, yes, embracing the far-leftist ideology does include being 100% in favor of abortion. So yes, these practicing Christian mother and father o...