What grinds my gears

Some American far-leftists have been so indoctrinated and so deeply fear-mongered into being scared of the mythical "far right" that they think is prevalent everywhere in the country, that they have contracted literal delusional paranoia to the extent of being outright life-crippling and self-destructive. One particularly notable (and hilarious) recent example is a woman, a self-proclaimed "scholar of the far right" (whatever that's supposed to mean), who had become so utterly paranoid about said "far right" that she recently moved to Canada, for the explicitly stated reason to "flee" the "fascist" regime of the United States and the "far right". And mind you, she lived in Los Angeles, one of the most if not the most far-leftist city in the most far-leftist state of the country. It's not like she lived in some backwater rural town in the Deep South or something. She made several TikTok videos about her harrowing "...

"First Amendment auditing" is a practice done by many people, most often in the United States (and to lesser extent in some other countries), where they simply go to public places or public governmental buildings with a camera to see if their First Amendment right to film in public is respected by officials, police officers, governmental workers, security guards and citizens in general. As you might guess, First Amendment auditors come in all sizes and shapes, and I'm not here referring to physical appearance, but to tactics, behavior and personality. 1) The absolutely best kind of auditor: The one who is always polite and respectful, knows all the relevant laws and statutes and always stays strictly within them, never bothers anybody, never even engages anybody unprompted, never does anything to deliberately or even indirectly provoke anybody, never even speaks to anybody unless spoken to. When engaged by other people, he responds politely and with professionalism, is ne...

For over 20 years now the United Kingdom has been on a self-imposed path of destruction which has only been accelerating at an exponential rate in later years. It is the outright stated goal of the people in power to replace the native population with immigrants, and not just any immigrants but most particularly those that are the least compatible with British culture and values as possible, people who are least likely to integrate and the most likely to cause crime rates to soar and to take over when they gain absolute majority. It's cultural and societal suicide. There are already political parties in the UK, especially the Green Party, who are openly advocating for the destruction of British culture and the entire British national identity. They are carrying flags of foreign nations during their campaigns, and making political campaign videos in foreign languages, and are openly intent in not only bringing in as many illegal immigrants as possible, but to just legalize them and ...

As I wrote in November of last year , Zohran Mamdani, an open socialist, was voted as the mayor of New York thanks to his promises of raising taxes for the rich and offering free services to the public, such as free public transportation. Unsurprisingly, none of that has happened. In fact, it has only gotten worse for the citizens of New York, who are now realizing the error of their ways. I wrote in that previous post how the mayor of one city has no say on the tax levels of the state (in other words, the mayor of one city cannot just raise the taxes of certain people willy-nilly). However, I have to make one correction: There is at least one tax that the city can decide, and that's property tax within the city limits. That's indeed one thing that an individual city and its mayor can decide, because it only affects the people living in that city, not in the entire state. And what do you know, that's exactly what Mamdani has done: Raise property taxes because his government...

The answer is very simple: Recoil. Surely you are familiar with the concept of recoil? The most famous example of this is, of course, with firearms: When you shoot one, you get a "kick": The firearm experiences a strong force back, ie. the opposite direction that the bullet goes to. That's recoil. (The reason why that happens is due to conservation of momentum, but that's not all that important. The important thing is to understand that it happens, and firearms are the perfect most practical example.) And yes, the exact same recoil happens even if the firearm is shot in a vacuum: Put one in a vacuum chamber, suck all the air out, and fire it using some mechanism: It will experience the exact same recoil. It being in air or in vacuum makes no difference. And this happens with everything: Push a friend with great force, and you will be shoved back in the opposite direction by your own push. That's also recoil. If you were floating in a weightless environment (even i...

AI-generated videos are becoming more and more convincing by the month. Where just a year ago they looked absolutely ridiculous, at the moment of writing this blog post they are already reaching that critical point where you can  barely  distinguish that it's AI-generated. In most videos there are still some telltale signs that you can see if you know what to look for, but it's becoming harder and harder. It's without the shadow of a doubt that within the year AI-generated slop will be completely indistinguishable from actual videos. The scary thing is that YouTube is actually  encouraging  this. They want  AI to become a tool for people to use to create videos. Their rationale is that it allows people to easily express their ideas, so that video creation becomes available to everybody, not just the microscopic minority of people who have the talent, knowledge, experience, resources, tools and time to put their ideas in video form. This view, although it might s...

A dozen or so fully armed and heavily armored police officers engage in a special operation to arrest someone outside their jurisdiction, and they go there in the middle of the night when the suspect is sleeping, start banging on the door, and soon shots are fired and the suspect is killed. The problem? They went to the wrong house and killed a completely innocent man who had done nothing wrong. The house number, which they had been told by dispatch several times, was 489. So they got confused. Perhaps the house where they incorrectly went to had a very similar-looking number, like 488, or 498? Easy mistake to make? Nope, the house that they wrongly went to was number 511, which looks nothing like 489. And yes, the house number was clearly visible from the front. So, why did they go there in the first place (particularly because the house was outside their jurisdiction)? Was the (original) suspect some kind of wanted criminal who had committed armed robbery or murder? Was he a known dr...

What is "toxic positivity"? Well, it's one of the several things that happens when a company hires a bunch of political activists who have been brainwashed, indoctrinated and trained at American colleges and universities. As these brainwashed drones have gotten more and more power and influence in these companies, by now often having (for some inexplicable reason) climbed the corporate ladder into positions of power within the company, they have been doing their hardest to make these companies an extension of the university campuses that they came from. To apply the same rules with an iron fist, the same conduct requirements, the same ideologies. What they were taught and lived at university, they are now enforcing in these companies. These rules are authoritarian, extremely strict, and very numerous (most of it relates to illegal discrimination in hiring and promotions), but one of them is what has been coined by critics as "toxic positivity". And what is that?...

For some years now the American far-leftist activists and politicians have adopted the word "democracy" as one of their pet buzzwords. Everything they don't like is "a threat to democracy", and many of their insane demands are "to protect democracy" according to them (even though quite often it does the exact opposite, like for example allowing anonymous voting, ie. not demanding people to ID themselves to vote.) I predict that in the following years their tune will change, especially when they finally realize that their fear-mongering and abuse of the buzzword isn't working. I expect one of two possible changes: 1) Less likely but perfectly possible (because the far-left is completely happy to reverse positions on the blink of an eye), they will actually start  opposing  democracy. After all, democracy allows people to vote for the "wrong" candidates. If they do this, they will argue that democracy has failed and is not a good system bec...

Quite a while ago I wrote a blog post about one of the biggest flaws in the Finnish judiciary system . You see, unlike for example in the United States, in Finland the winning party in a lawsuit gets automatically his legal fees paid by the losing party, no questions asked. On paper this makes sense: If you are innocent, you must not be punished in any way, shape or form, and losing money to pay for attorney fees would be such an unjust form of indirect punishment. Thus, the legal system has been built onto the foundation that the losing party pays for the legal fees of the winning party, period. If you are guilty, your victim must not suffer any monetary losses because of the lawsuit. If you are not guilty, then you must not suffer any monetary losses, because you did nothing wrong. On paper, and at first glance, that makes a lot of sense and seems very justified. The problem? It actually gives the lawyers of the winning party pretty much free range to punish the losing party however ...

The YouTube channel BantuCityDiaries is run by an African black man who, rather unusually, is completely open about all the problems that sub-Saharan African countries are experiencing (including chronic poverty, systemic corruption, and so on), and is not ashamed of telling and explaining the actual situation and the actual reasons, rather than taking refuge in the European far-leftist multiculturalist propaganda and rationalizations. He doesn't soften the blows, he doesn't use rationalizations, he gives the middle finger to "political correctness", and just states the situation as it is, without shame. He is clearly showing an attitude of "I am an African, I have lived my entire life in Africa, I have visited a lot of African countries, I see what is happening here and I'm completely tired of pretending and making excuses, and I'm completely tired of European/American leftist multiculturalist propaganda that's trying to hide and distort the issues ...

In the United States you: Can't get a driver's license nor drive a car without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't open and own a bank account without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't rent, lease or buy an apartment or home without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't apply for a job without an ID (mostly for taxation purposes). Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't travel by airplane without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't purchase a firearm without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't purchase prescription drugs without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this.  Can't buy alcoholic beverages without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Can't buy "medical" marijuana without an ID. Leftists are A-ok with this. Yet, because legislation is being introduced that would mean that you: can't vote in congressional and presidential elections without an ID, suddenly that's a huge problem and crime against human...

Jay Jones is a representative of the Democratic Party of the United States who is a candidate for the position of Attorney General. Some time ago quite a controversy arose when text messages he had sent to a colleague surfaced, which directly and unambiguously wished violence and death against the children of Republicans. The text messages have been corroborated as genuine, including by Jay Jones himself, so they indeed happened and are real. As I have come to conclude, all American far-leftists are psychopaths , and Jay Jones is no exception. He has absolutely no empathy and no value for human life. Not only does he fantasize about the murder of the children of people he doesn't like, but he's so consumed by it that he openly told about it to a colleague. Recently he was interviewed on a news channel owned by ABC, and he was asked about those text messages. His response: "Well, again, I so deeply, deeply sorry for what I said, and I wish it hadn't happened, and I woul...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has always been infamous for having astonishingly lax enforcement of their own rules and the laws of the country in general, and pretty much granting any patent application that it receives, with about the only requirement being that the patent form is correctly filled. Infamously, it has granted probably hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions, of patents that should have been invalid because they do not fulfill the requirements of the law nor the rules of the USPTO itself (such as, for example, granting patents for inventions and methods that have existed for decades and were not invented by the people filing the patent.) The general policy of the USPTO has pretty much always been one of "grant all patents by default, let the private corporations and citizens fight about it between themselves in court." That's how you get completely ridiculous patents, of things that are not patentable according to the law of the United...

This is one of those misconceptions that not all flat-earthers hold (strangely enough), only some of them, but there are several examples of the latter, who have made YouTube videos about it. And that's the strange idea that "you wouldn't be able to see the Sun and the Moon at the same time on a globe Earth". That seeing them on the sky at the same time somehow disproves the globe Earth and proves the flat Earth. I seriously and genuinely have no idea why they think that. And, in fact, in none of the videos I have seen about this do they explain their reasoning. They just make that statement and... that's it. They don't explain any further. They don't even attempt to explain why, or what their reasoning and logic is. They never show graphics or pictures, or give any sort of geometric explanation. Or any explanation of any kind at all, geometric or otherwise. They just say it, and that's it. It just goes to show the complete inability of some people to ...

After several years the United States Department of Justice finally released to the public all the files that it had confiscated from the late Jeffrey Epstein. All 3 million pages of it. Unsurprisingly, 3 million pages contain the names of a huge amount of people. Also unsurprisingly, a lot of people are abusing those files and people's appearance in them for political purposes and attacks. One has to remember that that's a raw dump of all business documents, correspondence, contracts, emails and everything else that the DoJ could gather from the late Epstein. If he sent a "happy birthday!" or a "Merry Christmas!" email to someone, it will be there. Epstein had a huge amount of contacts and business deals with a huge amount of powerful people over the decades. Not all of it had anything to do with his infamous island and the illegal activities being done there. Much of this correspondence was probably just completely normal and legal business dealings or per...

I have been writing for quite a while now about my realization after the Charlie Kirk incident that far-leftists are psychopaths . Not a metaphor, not hyperbole, not exaggeration, not a random insult ignoring the meaning of the word. Actual literal bona fide psychopaths. Thus, there's nothing new about this. However, it's appalling to encounter clear examples of this again and again and again. Take, for example, one Giancarlo Esposito, a Hollywood actor most famous for his role in the TV series Breaking Bad, as well as others. He said recently in an interview, and I quote: "They can't take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin's doorstep, or on the Iranian's doorstep, or in Washington, they would kill five hundred, or fifty million or whatever, but the rest of us would survive with the new... This is time for revolution. It's time for it, and they don't even know that's what they have started." He is advocating for and promoting vi...

In a previous blog post I wrote a bit about the reasons for the absolutely astonishing difference in technological advance between Eurasia and most of the rest of the world, up until the age of imperialism (when all that technological advancement was pushed onto that rest of the world.) After all, Europe and large parts of East Asia had astonishingly advanced technology compared to the rest of the world: They had million-people cities, a very advanced money-based international economy, the printing press, firearms, ships that could sail across oceans, absolutely massive castles and cathedrals,big multi-storey buildings, extremely advanced and meticulously crafted musical instrument that were used in huge concerts in enormous lavish concert halls and theaters, and so on and so forth. At the same time, in most of Africa and the American continent people lived literally in the Stone Age, in straw and mud huts, used tools made of wood and stone, very few had even figured out how to use me...

"Veritasium" is one of those huge and world-famous YouTube channels that has 20 million subscribers and creates such high-quality documentary style videos that they rack up about 10 million views per video on average. Some of the videos are extremely interesting and didactic. Perhaps the most brilliant of such examples is his "Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED" video, which is not only technically and historically very interesting, but something that most people don't know. Given how technical many of his videos are, sometimes dealing with deep scientific subjects, some of his videos are not without their criticism and, perhaps, slight controversy. Perhaps one of the most infamous ones is the video "The Big Misconception About Electricity", which was criticized by many experts. Not in that what he was presenting was wrong per se, but in that the explanations and the video overall was needlessly complicated and cryptic for something that...

Modern far-leftist activists can be roughly divided into two major groups: The brainwashed drones, and the "larping revolutionaries". The first group forms the bulk of far-leftist activists, probably 99% of all of them, if not more. These are the activists who have been deeply, deeply indoctrinated into supporting, promoting and being activists in support of whatever happens to be the current agenda this particular week. They do not think, they do not question, they do not criticize, they do not doubt, they do not have their own opinions that might differ from the rest (or even if some of them at some semi-subconscious level do, they are way, way too scared to express them and act according to them.) They do as they are told, to support the positions they are told, without hesitation, without question, without skepticism, without criticism. It doesn't matter if today they are told to support a particular cause and tomorrow the exact opposite cause: They will just do what ...

All the way back in 2017 I wrote a blog post about " individualism vs. collectivism " where I posited the (quite widely known) fact that the modern far-leftist ideology is a fundamentally collectivist one. This is not a mere wild conjecture, "reading between the lines", doing some analysis and discussing at the meta level something that leftists are doing but are not actually directly saying. No, this is  directly  one of their stated principles. Zohran Mamdani, the recently elected mayor of New York City, who is very openly and brazenly a socialist, said it very directly and unambiguously in his inauguration speech: "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." And that was not just some kind of throw-away poetic sentiment or a metaphor. It summarizes the exact context of what he says in that part of his speech. This is, once again, one of the most evil, destructive and discriminatory ideas in modern far-leftism,...

On January 30th of 2026, a first-of-a-kind lawsuit was settled in New York for 2 million dollars: A 22-year-old woman sued two doctors for malpractice because those doctors coaxed her into getting her breasts surgically removed when she was only 16 and confused about her gender. She currently fully identifies as a woman and sued the two doctors for having pushed her into the operation. What's worst, the girl's mother opposed the surgery, but the doctors fear-mongered her to consent to it. She was essentially intimidated by the doctors to consent against her will. As a first in the country, the victim won the lawsuit and was awarded 2 million dollars in compensation, as the jury found both doctors liable of medical malpractice. This might give hope for the future. Those psychopathic quacks committing crimes against humanity do not understand reason and have no compassion, and the only thing they understand is the language money. Such lawsuits need to become much more common. So ...

That sentiment actually goes all the way back to the 1990's, especially in the leader of European multiculturalism, ie. Sweden. Indeed, already in the 90's and early 2000's there were newspaper articles and opinion pieces written by leftist multiculturalist journalists (who were already a scourge especially in the Nordic countries back then) pretty much directly and unambiguously stating that it's unfair that some white people get to live in peace and quiet in their almost-100%-white rich neighborhoods and towns, and how the government should make plans on how to forcefully introduce immigrants into those places. (And, obviously, by "immigrant" they meant people from the Middle East and North Africa. Because for some reason those two areas have always been the "foreign enough" places all the way since the 90's. You never, ever saw them pushing for, say, Japanese or Canadians or Italians or even South Africans, particularly if white, to invade the...

LegalEagle is a lawyer and very popular youtuber with millions of subscribers. His channel started with quite interesting content: For the most part, commenting on legal procedure shown on movies and TV shows and grading them by their accuracy, or commenting on the crimes made in movies and TV shows, and sometimes making videos about some current real life events regarding lawsuits. He seemed to be mostly politically neutral. In fact, during Trump's first term in office he made a video about some random lawsuit against Trump, and covered the facts very neutrally and keeping to the facts (and, in fact, if I remember correctly, even defending Trump's position, as incredible as it might sound.)  Then, for some reason, one day he turned a leftist activist. It primarily started with an infamous video where he commented on a deleted scene in the Captain Marvel movie where the eponymous character completely illegally assaults some douchebag and steals his motorbike... and LegalEagle d...

The worldwide far-leftist mob first were making a huge ruckus about Ukraine, but they have made an even bigger ruckus about Palestine, and have been doing so for literally years now, non-stop, and not just with their endless violent protests, but even to the point of harassing and assaulting Jewish people (who have never even been in Israel and have absolutely nothing to do with the entire thing.) They are all against genocides and humans rights violations and so on and so forth. Yet, where are they now, when Iranians are being butchered on the streets by the Iranian government by the tens of thousands? Where are they now when Christians are being massacred in Nigeria? Where are they when the Kurds are being massacred by the tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands? And there are in fact, many more examples of this happening around the world. The exact same people who have been pestering western countries for years about Palestine are 100% silent about those massacres. Why? Sure, ...