What grinds my gears

The answer to the question of whether actual bona fide extremist full-on Hitler-worshipping Jew-hating holocaust-denying non-parody non-ironic serious neo-nazis exist, the answer is very simple: Yes, they do exist. You can easily find their vile rhetoric eg. on Gab.com by searching with certain keywords. While Poe's Law is in full effect here, and it may well be that some of those accounts are just trolls, I believe many of them are bona fide neo-nazis with some of the vilest and most racist opinions and conspiracy theories you can think of. One question that may arise: Should they have the same right to free speech as everybody else? Should they be allowed to express their opinions online, for anybody to see? Well, that's also in my opinion an unequivocal yes. The right to free speech is not conditional. It's not contingent on those opinions being "politically correct". As long as they are not inciting to and causing actual criminal activity, or solicitin...

It might be theoretically possible to survive on a purely vegan diet without getting nasty side-effects in the long run, but this requires an extraordinary amount of work in order to get and eat the proper amounts of the proper kind of food, which will ensure that you don't get too little or too much of a particular nutrient. With some nutrients, like some vitamins, this can become extraordinarily difficult and laborious. Most non-vegans, however, can easily live a completely healthy life without much worry, just making sure to not over-eat junk food. If you have a normal varied diet, you'll get all the nutrients you need in sufficient (but not excessive) amounts. Life is much harder for a vegan, who wants to stay healthy in the long run. But veganism is not only a choice of food. It's an ideology. For many, it's an outright religion. They will defend veganism to their deaths (even if they are clearly dying from their diet), and furiously attack anybody who is not...

The radical regressive left is gaining more and more power in the western world by the month. For quite a long time it has not been limited to just some radical activist groups in university campuses, but (through mostly their indoctrination of university students, and influence on society thanks to this and their overall control of universities) they have been successful in invading more and more influential branches of society, such as the scientific community, huge megacorporations and, in many countries, even the government. A consequence of this gain of power is the erosion of the basic human rights of citizens. Most prominently freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of congregation is being eroded at an ever-increasing rate. Presenting the "wrong" opinions will not only have social consequences in the form of harassment, but in many countries there is an increasing amount of legal consequences (which is an erosion of the right to free speech in all poss...

During the past couple of years Europe has become mentally insane, taking literally millions and millions of migrants from Africa and the Middle-East, and there are no signs that this is stopping or even slowing down (with some estimates being that even currently something between half and one million migrants are entering Europe every year). Germany alone has taken something like 2 million migrants so far, pretty much completely indiscriminately. For the first year or so of this so-called "migrant crisis" the media used the war in Syria as the go-to excuse to justify all this. However, since it has become clear to everybody that well over 90% of all the migrants entering Europe are not from Syria, even the press has pretty much stopped using that excuse. You don't see the term "Syrian refugee" used much anymore (even though it was pretty much the only term used back when this madness started). Even the press doesn't bother to pretend anymore, probably becau...

With everything that has been happening in the United States, the rhetoric that has been common during the past year about the regressive leftists making sure that Trump will be re-elected in 2020 seems to actually be becoming reality, as Trump's approval rating and public image among non-regressive citizens seems to be on the raise. If Trump reruns for president in 2020, I predict this: The extremist regressive leftists will become so desperate that they will actually start harassing, intimidating and even assaulting people at many voting places. It may even be that in some instances the voting place itself will be attacked and vandalized, requiring heavy intervention by the police. If they have been compared to the so-called "brownshirts" (who were groups of fascist Nazi Party supporters in Germany in the 1930's who went around in gangs intimidating and assaulting people, especially at voting stations) in the past, it will be nothing compared to what it's co...

Once upon a time, from the time of the inception of the award to about 50 or so years ago, the Academy Awards, or "Oscars" as they are better known as, was quite a truly and astonishingly discriminatory and racist event. Especially black people were routinely shunned from ever getting any significant nominations or wins, and very infamously there were cases were black actors were actually forbidden from attending the ceremony. The racist prejudices of the time were really strong in Hollywood at the time. Luckily those dark times are long past, and we have since moved to more reasonable egalitarian times, where things like movie awards are granted solely on merit and quality, without any sort of discrimination or preferential treatment based on things like race. Right? Of course not. The Oscars have always been a joke, and they keep being a joke. And now that Hollywood at large has contracted the social justice ideology disease, it's only becoming worse. Like always ...

Sometimes you see the term "gatekeeper" thrown around in the current political discourse, especially from the anti-SJW side. What does this word mean in this context? A "gatekeeper" is someone, or some entity (such as a media corporation), that feels the need, and thinks of itself as being in a position where it's their moral duty, to "guard" the general public from information, especially political opinions, that it deems "harmful", information that it feels could sway people's views and opinions the wrong way. It feels the need to filter, block, hide and censor this information, and only allow selected information that it approves, to go through. Optimally, the wider public doesn't even become aware that the censored information even exists (so they can't get even curious about what that information might be). In the best case scenario (from their perspective), even its mere existence has been hidden. If the existence of the...