What grinds my gears

Given how incredibly infested universities (especially in the United States, but increasingly in other countries as well) are with regressive leftist neo-Marxists, it comes as no surprise that more and more of them are actually forcing students not only to toe the line and repeat the neo-Marxist social justice indoctrination, and to never express a differing opinion, but also making more and more indoctrination courses mandatory. More and more of these universities are, essentially, holding university degrees "hostage" from students, if they ever show any sign of dissent, differing thought, "wrongthink", or unwillingness to participate in indoctrination courses. In other words, the professors who have in their power to give passing or failing marks to students on mandatory courses, are withholding them from students who have shown any dissent or criticism of the social justice ideology. It's actually incredible how one single professor has the power to stop...

Question: Are these police officers? The title of this post may have spoiled the answer: No, they aren't police officers. They are private security guards. But it would be quite understandable for anybody, especially a random person on the street, to confuse them for actual police officers. (And these were just three random samples I took from literally hundreds of examples on YouTube.) Some of the uniforms worn by some of these security guards have an uncanny resemblance to an official police uniform. (The one on the left of the picture might be the most prominent and striking example.) Security guards may have some additional rights and authority granted to them by the government when they are acting within the premises of the private property of the company, entity or individual that's hiring them. However, it is my understanding that outside this particular private property they have no additional rights or authority over other people whatsoever. In a public spac...

In many states of the United States, the police cannot force a person to identify himself, or show ID, unless the police officer has reasonable suspicion that the person in question has committed a crime, or is about to commit a crime (in which case the police can either detain or outright arrest that person based on that suspicion of a crime, and demand identification.) If the person in question has not committed a crime, and especially if the police officer cannot name such a crime, in these states the person can lawfully refuse to identify himself or show ID. Finnish law, however, states that if a police officer orders a citizen to show ID (or if not carrying any, identify himself by name and social security number), then said citizen must comply. There's no requirement for the person having committed a crime, or even being suspected of such. Basically, if the police orders you to identify yourself, you have to do it, by law. The same law likewise states that any lawful comm...

A bit prior to the launch of the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus , an ad campaign caused a bit of a controversy when it drew clear parallels between the premise of the game, which is an alternate steampunk/dieselpunk history where Nazi Germany won, and invaded the United States, and the current real-life political accusations of the United States being governed by a Nazi-like regime (and conservatives being "Nazis"). This angered quite many people (and not only conservatives) because the creators of the game seemed to be indeed saying, not even so subtly, that they thought that American conservatives, and the current American government, were Nazis (and that this is a game where you can kill them.) Back then I thought that "fuck this game, I'm not going to buy it, just because of that stupid ad." Now, much later, I simply thought that it was a stupid ad. Probably some advertisement company thought they would make a clever political commentary, ta...

I have commented several times in previous blog posts how incredibly biased Wikipedia is with respect to politics. And the bias is pretty much unanimously to the extremist authoritarian regressive left. This bias can be seen in almost any article that's highly politically charged, dealing with a current political subject. Most articles of high-profile critics of extremist leftist politics will be nothing more than character assassination propaganda. These articles often go to great lengths to list all the possible "transgressions" of the person in question, no matter how unproven, exaggerated or out-of-context those claims may be. The same is true for any group of people, or movement, that the regressive left considers an "enemy". At the same time, public personalities and celebrities who are not the target of the regressive left, will have significantly more neutral articles about them. Even when the person in question has done something genuinely reproacha...

One aspect of the so-called Trump Derangement Syndrome is to blame Donald Trump for policies and laws that weren't actually created nor enacted during his administration. The latest, most high-profile case is, of course, blaming Trump for the immigration laws and practices on how to deal with illegal immigrants and their children. Trump is directly and solely blamed for all these laws and practices. The media narrative is that it's completely his idea and his fault. The thing is, Trump, his administration, or even the current government, has done absolutely nothing pertaining these laws and policies. These laws and policies were, in fact, created during the Bill Clinton administration, and carried over to all the presidencies since. In fact, the largest number of illegal immigrants that have been deported from the United States, using these exact policies, laws and practices, happened during the Obama administration. Those detention centers? Those "cages"? ...

"Film criticism is predominantly white. Brie Larson believes that needs to change." Anybody who sees the race of some people, and believes that's a problem that needs to be fixed, something that needs to be changed, is a racist pretty much by definition. Therefore Brie Larson is a racist. I don't think there's anything more I need to comment on that. It's a rather clear-cut case.