Mark Lipse

100% Nuclear

[Hidde Boersma @Hiddemhigh]

Als ik vrienden vraag of het Nederlandse milieu er beter of slechter voor staat dan 40 jaar geleden, denken de meeste mensen slechter. Niet gek ook, als je het nieuws volgt. Maar tegenovergestelde is waar. Lucht, water, natuurareaal staan er allemaal beter voor. We gebruiken minder kunstmest, minder bestrijdingsmiddelen en minder grondstoffen per capita dan toen.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

For more than a decade, the media, Democrats, and Hollywood have told us that Western civilization in general and the United States in particular are white supremacist, genocidal, and unsustainable. The founding of America occurred not in 1776 but rather in 1619 with the beginning of slavery, whose effects are felt more strongly than ever. The original colonies and the expansion of the Western frontier depended on the extermination of indigenous people and theft of their lands. And our crimes against nature have resulted in apocalyptic climate change, which requires radical changes to the way we live our lives.

The consequences of this self-hating Woke ideology can be seen today in catastrophic fires, mass evacuations, and burned rubble of Los Angeles. So-called progressives finally achieved what they supposedly warned of but in truth wished for: the eviction of the affluent descendants of colonizers, the incineration of their homes, and the destruction of a city that, more than any other, represents our bloody history of white supremacy and conquest.

I’m not suggesting that Democrats consciously sought to destroy Los Angeles. The entertainment industry professionals in Malibu, Topanga Canyon, and Pacific Palisades, who voted overwhelmingly for California’s progressive Governor, Gavin Newsom, and LA’s radical Left mayor, Karen Bass, thought they were voting for social justice and sustainability. They didn’t imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down.

And yet that’s what their votes resulted in. Over the last 24 hours, the evidence of gross mismanagement and incompetence by Newsom and Bass has only grown more overwhelming. On January 2nd, a full eight days ago, the National Weather Service urgently warned of extreme fire conditions. To drive home the point, the National Weather Service’s Los Angeles office held a press briefing warning of impending catastrophe.

On that day, Newsom and Bass should have called out the National Guard. They should have had planes and helicopters circling over Los Angeles spotting fires and putting them out immediately upon detecting them. They should have issued emergency warnings to residents. And they should have used various methods to spray water, including mobile sprinkler units alongside normal firefighter hoses, to wet down vulnerable areas.

Instead, the following day, Karen Bass flew to Ghana on a frivolous junket. And Gavin Newsom only called out the National Guard yesterday, seven days later than he should have.

In truth, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Newsom and Bass should have constructed two to three times more water reservoirs than Los Angeles has in order to deal with fires of that magnitude. Newsom and Bass should have not only built water recycling and desalination plants, like they have in Israel, they should have built them with excess capacity so that, in an emergency, those plants could have pumped fresh water to supplement the water in the reservoirs.

And instead of emptying the prisons and jails, subsidizing rampant homelessness, eliminating penalties for breaking the law, and allowing addicts the mentally ill to camp everywhere and start fires, Newsom and Bass should have cracked down on the rampant disorder and violent crime, all of which has skyrocketed under their misrule.

It now appears that at least one of the fires was started by a homeless man. Whether or not that’s the case, over half of all fires put out by the Los Angeles Fire Department are started by the homeless, which has diverted the agency from doing what it should have been doing, which was preventing catastrophic fires, including by putting them out as soon as they started.

Why didn’t they? Why did Newsom and Bass make so many catastrophic errors?

Part of the reason is that they are self-centered and craven politicians, typical of the people who hold office in California. They claim to care about society’s victims; in truth, they care only about themselves and their self-image. Newsom, Bass, and other California politicians are uninterested in doing a good job and instead obsessed with their own personal promotion. For that reason, they have long been focused like a laser on playing politics rather than governing effectively.

Another reason is that they are beholden to affluent, radical Left environmentalist and social justice donors who live in places like Marin County and Hollywood. These are the same people who bankroll radical Left groups like the Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council, who have successfully blocked desalination and water storage plants, the proper clearing of flammable debris in forests, and effective management of landscapes around housing development, for over 45 years.

Before that, the same groups and financial interests halted the expansion of nuclear power, which is the perfect energy source for desalination.

And these are the same people who demanded that homeless encampments be allowed to spread throughout the city and that addicts and the mentally ill be given free housing with no strings attached.

All of these things were done in the name of saving the environment, social justice, and saving black lives. The result of them was the destruction of the environment, grotesque injustice, and the disproportionate loss of black lives, including from violent crime, which increased 15% since Newsom took office and grew to be 31% higher than the national average.

For decades, Hollywood cranked out movies and TV depicting the exhaustion of natural resources and climate as causing the apocalypse. Yesterday, some reporters and scientists blamed climate change for the lack of rain in LA. That’s ridiculous. There's no trend in annual rainfall from 1877 to 2024. We have wet years and dry years.

Destroying civilization turned out to be expensive, not cheap. Californians pay the highest taxes for the most expensive gasoline, electricity, and water in the nation. Under Newsom, we spent $24 billion to increase homelessness by 40%.

Both ancient wisdom and modern psychology teach us that one can understand a person’s motivation by the consequences of their actions.

California’s Democrats, progressives, and politicians lied when they said their highest priority was protecting the people of California. They lied when they said they cared about social justice. And they lied when they said they cared about protecting the environment.

Instead, what they cared about was destroying the civilization they had long ago decided was evil. All civilizations require a story. The story that built Los Angeles and California was one of human progress. The story that destroyed it was of human sin. For decades, progressives, Democrats, and the news and entertainment media preached that civilization was evil and doomed. Slavery, indigenous genocide, and climate change were proof.

And now, as the city of angels smolders, it’s clear that progressives reaped what they sowed.

[René Kemp ⭐ @rkemp59]

Voor wie het nog niet gelezen heeft dit mooie verhaal van Ronald Plasterk.
Vooral het laatste stuk van de column

Efficiëntie en lafheid hadden in Nederland een dodelijke combinatie gevormd 🔥

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

Maybe we can entice them with a knish.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

The mental gymnastics, reverse causality, and revisionist history that far leftists engage in to normalize jihad is no accident, and I’m no longer pretending that it is

[Mark Lipse @LipseMark]

@BeaglesResist @TheRickWilson Hallelujah? Hallelujah, anyone?

[Bijan @Bijan63]

Rake Arjen Lubach over de zogenaamde asielcrisis. #angstzaaien #PVV #Wilders

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

The Jews are a nation of great morals, a school of respect. Yahya Sinwar killed their children and raped their women, and on the day of his demise, they did not drag his body as some did with Gaddafi. They did not cut off his head as Hamas did with the Israelis. They did not stomp on his corpse with their feet as some Iraqis did with Saddam, nor did they spit on his body despite the utter vileness of this being. Instead, they placed the body in a black bag and transported it with full respect. This is the difference between barbarism and civilization, the difference between the children of darkness and the children of light. It is the difference between those who respect both the living and the dead, and those who respect neither. This is the distinction between the morals of the brave, victorious knight and the cowardly fugitive whose end came without a single companion, like a rotten, perished rat.
#YahyaSinvar #Israel

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

This ad goes hard.

Wow.

[Caroline van der Plas @lientje1967]

Motie BBB ingediend: bufferzones rond herdenkingen, vieringen en andere bijeenkomsten van Joodse gemeenschap.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Trans people already have full rights and legal protections in this country, so why should society at large adopt an ideology that not only has 'holes in it', but far-reaching repercussions for freedom of speech, safeguarding of minors, and women's and girls' rights?

[Mark Lipse @LipseMark]

@lientje1967 Als ik die giftige reacties op deze goede wens lees, dan vraag ik mij af waarom deze mensen bozer zijn op Israel dan op die Sinwar die meedogenloos blijft doorvechten ook al gaan daardoor duizenden kinderen dood. Had Nederland in WW2 na Rotterdam moeten doorvechten?

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

People and organizations that condemned Israel’s strike on Nasrallah:

- Hamas
- Khamenei of the Islamic Republic
- The Houthis
- Owen Jones
- Jackson Hinkle
- Alex Crawford
- Rashida Tlaib

Guess who isn’t mourning? The Lebanese, Syrians, Iranians, Israelis, and all the normal people standing against terrorism.

[Somnath Dey @Somnath92332127]

@TimesAlgebraIND Iranians are celebrating the fall of Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies.
Iranians hate current Iranian regime.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

When we took out Deif, they told us we crossed a red line.

Then we took out Haniyeh and they told us we crossed a red line.

After we took 5000 commanders out with pagers, they told us we crossed a red line.

Then we took out the entire Radwan leadership, and again they told us we crossed a red line.

So we took out the entire Hezbollah leadership including Nazrallah, and yet now they are telling us we crossed a red line.

Perhaps they can just send us the full list of their red lines… we’d be more than happy to cross every last one of them.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

The Palestinian population has grown 400% since 1948, yet they call it a ‘genocide’.

Christians are on the verge of extinction in the Middle East, and yet no one calls it a genocide.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

To the terrorists of Lebanon, Hezbollah: You burn your country to the ground and then stretch out your hand for charity, but the days of crocodile tears and false victimhood are over. No crafted lie, no fabricated video, will fool us again. You slaughter innocent women and children, fueled by antisemitic hate, and expect the world to weep for you when Israel, with precision and brilliance, eliminates your terror. You destroy, not build. You shattered your own land—now, rebuild it if you dare. But you won’t, because destruction flows through your hands, not creation. Israel sought peace; Lebanon chose war. And Israel gave them the answer they asked for.
Any aid given to the suffering people of Lebanon will flow directly from hand to hand, never through the corrupt veins of a broken regime. Lebanon’s ruin was not caused by Israel, the USA, or any external force. It was brought to ruin by Hezbollah’s terror and the thieves in power, who now see the crisis as an opportunity to fill their pockets with the world’s aid. These same people, who hid weapons beneath schools and hospitals, have traded their children’s future for rockets of war.

[Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸 @AngelicaOung]

“The most beautiful word I know is baseload.”

Ebba Busch, Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden.

“Let’s take politics out of energy policy and put physics back in. There’s a difference between terawatts and terawatt hours and there’s a lot of politicians and financiers who need to learn.”

By the way, for the financiers who are learning and looking for nuclear projects to fund… “Sweden is open for business”

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[Gijs Zwartsenberg @g_zwartsenberg]

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