Sander Janssen

Was gestopt met Twitter om het op Bluesky te proberen maar inmiddels met hangende pootjes weer een beetje terug aan het komen

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Dit mechanisme past zo treffend bij alle meningen, kletskoek, geschreeuw, gebeurtenissen en personen van de afgelopen jaren dat ik niet weet waar te beginnen. Het zou standaard boven elke tweet moeten staan (ja ook die van jou @sanderja)

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Hij is wel echt verschrikkelijk goed hoor

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

It's morning again in America.

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Jaarrekening energie van een kleine vakantiewoning.
Elektriciteit: €0 (zonnepanelen / batterij)
Gas: €150
Vaste kosten, leveringskosten, belasting etc: €1180
Ik snap alle maatregelen en onderschrijf de noodzaak maar dit lijkt wat uit balans te raken

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Holy shit 😂👏👏

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room. Donald Trump is an idiot. He has one genius which is getting attention. Because his dad never gave him enough, because he was a nepo baby, he craved attention and used the bullying tactics to get it. But the man is an idiot. Just a fool”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “We are being actively bullied by the dumbest people in the room. Donald Trump is an idiot. He has one genius which is getting attention. Because his dad never gave him enough, because he was a nepo baby, he craved attention and used the bullying tactics to get it. But the man is an idiot. Just a fool”

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Ik snap heus wel dat het ingewikkeld is en dat dit soort bedrijven diezelfde miljarden gebruiken om zich zoveel mogelijk aan belastingheffing te onttrekken maar als je als overheid iets wil doen tegen populisme en rechts extremisme dan moet je hier iets mee.

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Dus terwijl bedrijven miljardenwinsten maken als direct gevolg van de energiecrisis moet de belastingbetaler bijspringen om de energie armoede die daar eveneens het directe gevolg van is op te vangen. Private gains, public losses.

https://t.co/fJ3tM2wqgn

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

wonderschoon

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a member of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

There are five of us. Five people, appointed by a parliament most of the planet could not find on a map, who decide, once a year, which human being the world has agreed to call good.

I know. I know. I think about it on the tram.

We meet in a building on Henrik Ibsens gate, a street named after a man who wrote almost exclusively about people discovering they are frauds, which nobody on the committee finds funny except me. There is a room with a long table and the portraits of the dead laureates looking down, Mandela, the Dalai Lama, a great many earnest men in spectacles, and one portrait we do not discuss, which is Kissinger, 1973, awarded while the bombs were still falling, after which two of our predecessors resigned and the satirist Tom Lehrer said political satire was now obsolete. We keep him on the wall. A reminder. Every family has the uncle.

It is October in Oslo, which means the sun gives up around four in the afternoon like a civil servant, and it rains the particular Norwegian rain that isn’t quite falling, just hanging there, judging you. I arrive with wet shoes. I always arrive with wet shoes. There is coffee, because this is Norway and there is always coffee, we drink more of it per person than almost anyone alive, and someone’s wife has sent kanelboller, the cinnamon buns, and we sit, five Norwegians, damp, caffeinated, sugared, and we decide the moral standing of the entire species.

Let me tell you how it actually works, because the world imagines a cathedral and it is, I promise you, a book club with a mandate.

287 nominations this year. 208 people, 79 organizations. Anyone can nominate, that’s the secret nobody understands: a professor, a parliamentarian, a former laureate, so the “nominee” list is meaningless, it’s a suggestion box, and every autumn some congressman nominates his own golden retriever and the press writes “SHORTLISTED.” Nobody is shortlisted. There is no short list the public ever sees. There is us, and the coffee, and the rain, and the portraits, and a Norwegian stubbornness that is older than the prize itself.

We read reports. The institute’s advisers write them, thick dull documents, and we argue. Our chairman told the BBC once that in the final meeting “there is a high temperature.” High temperature, for a Norwegian, means someone slightly raised an eyebrow and then apologized for it. We don’t do high temperature. We do a long silence, and then Kristin says “well,” and everyone knows exactly what “well” meant, and it’s settled. That’s our shouting. “Well.” You’d have to be raised here to hear the violence in it.

Now. This year. I will not say the name, because we never say the name, but you know the name.

A certain head of state wanted this prize the way a child wants a thing in a shop window, which is to say loudly, and in public, and with the full belief that wanting it was itself the argument. He said he deserved it. He said he’d ended eight wars, a number that grew most times he said it, like a fish. He had other heads of state phone us. Israel’s prime minister posted it on the internet, “Give him the Nobel.” The leaders of Cambodia and Pakistan announced they’d nominated him, as though announcing it were part of it, as though we tally mentions. A man flew around the globe collecting endorsements for a Norwegian committee the way you’d collect signatures for a petition to the council about a noisy dog.

And here, uff da, is the detail I treasure, the one that makes me smile into my coffee. The nomination deadline is the 31st of January. He took office on the 20th. So for all the phone calls, all the posts, all the gilded lobbying, the only nominations that could possibly count for this year’s prize were filed in the first eleven days of his term, before he had, by his own arithmetic, ended a single one of the eight wars. He campaigned all year for a prize whose window had shut while he was still hanging up his coat. We didn’t have to reject him. The calendar did. We just watched. Norwegians are very good at watching. We have long winters.

People think we sit there weighing his deeds. We don’t. That’s the thing I can’t make the world understand. We’re not grading his homework. We don’t owe anyone the prize for a ceasefire, however real, however loud the announcement. “He made peace” is not a sentence that ends in a medal, the way he believes it does, the way he believes every good thing ends in his name on it. The will of a dead Swede says the prize goes to whoever did the most for fraternity between nations. A dead Swede, I should add, who made his entire fortune inventing dynamite and selling arms, and spent his last years horrified at his own obituary, which called him a merchant of death, and so bought his way to immortality as a man of peace. The whole prize is one guilty arms dealer’s attempt to launder his name. We are, all of us, administering a dead man’s public relations. I find this clarifying. It keeps me humble. It should keep everyone humble, and it keeps, by my count, no one humble at all.

So who did we give it to?

An eighty-five-year-old woman. A judge. Born in Durban, under apartheid, granddaughter of a Tamil man who came to South Africa as indentured labor, a bus driver’s daughter from the poor Indian quarter, who became the first non-white woman to run a law practice in her province, who defended Mandela’s people when defending them was dangerous, who sat on the Rwanda tribunal and the court at the Hague, and who, at eighty-five, is right now a judge weighing whether a genocide is a genocide. When we told the world, our chairman said the rule of law “underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace,” and that “peace requires justice.” She wasn’t even in Oslo. She was in Nuremberg. In courtroom 600. The actual room where they tried the Nazis. You cannot stage that. God staged that, and God, it turns out, is a better satirist than any of us.

She did not phone us. She did not post. No prime minister demanded it for her on the internet. She had, as far as our deliberations are concerned, the one qualification the loud man could never manufacture, which is that she wanted the work and not the medal. The medal finds those people. It flees the ones who chase it. This is not a rule we wrote. It’s just the only pattern the hundred-odd years of our mistakes has ever shown.

The reaction from across the ocean was immediate. His spokesman posted that we “place politics over peace.” Ja. Perhaps. We’re five damp pensioners in a rainy city; of course it’s political, it was always political, it was political when we gave it to a sitting American president nine months into his first term for the promise of things he had not yet done, and we have been quietly embarrassed about that one for fifteen years, so believe me, we had a particular reason this year to prefer a woman with fifty years of verdicts behind her over a man with eight wars in front of him and a deadline already behind him.

Here is what he will never understand, the thing I’d tell him on the tram if he ever took one. We are the one prize he cannot buy, cannot post his way to, cannot have a friendly dictator phone in for him. Not because we’re incorruptible, nei, we’re as vain and wrong and human as the portraits on our wall. But because the entire point of the thing, the only power a small cold country’s book club has ever held, is that it goes to the person not performing the wanting. The moment you demand it, you’ve proven you don’t understand what it’s for, and proving that is itself the disqualification. He ran the most expensive campaign in the history of the prize and the campaign was the reason. He was never losing to Navi Pillay. He was losing to the concept.

It’s dark now. Four o’clock dark. The buns are gone. Kristin said “well” an hour ago and we all went home. I’m on the tram with my wet shoes, and somewhere across the water a very powerful man is explaining to a camera that the prize is rigged, that we’re corrupt, that he’ll win it next year, and he genuinely might, we’re only five idiots and we’ve been wrong before, Kissinger is still on the wall.

But not this year. This year an old woman in Nuremberg, in the room where the law once stared down the exact kind of man who thinks wanting a thing loudly enough should make it his, got a phone call she didn’t ask for.

That’s the job. We don’t reward the man who ends the war and announces it.

We reward the woman who spent fifty years deciding what a war was.

He’ll never see the difference. That’s rather the whole point of him.

Takk for i dag. I have to change trams.

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Als ik de Franse of Duitse regering of eigenlijk iedere democratische regering was zou ik even gaan bellen met Zelensky over deze eigenlijk best voor de hand liggende mogelijkheid het nepnieuws en de trollen die overal de samenleving ontwrichten fors te verminderen

[Tomáš Zdechovský @TomasZdechovsky]

If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉

So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Openbare executie, verheerlijking van geweld, anonieme gemaskerde agenten met militaire bewapening, wreedheid en leedvermaak als doel, detentie zonder proces, massaal verbod op boeken, hoe ver zijn ze in de VS eigenlijk nog van een jaren 30 scenario?

https://t.co/sz3ESpGqSS

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Zorgwekkend als je ziet wat er op ons afkomt en we als Europa toch al achter dreigen te raken op de rest van de wereld maar als je 25 jaar best hard hebt gewerkt en je ziet om je heen dat je een van de weinigen bent die dat nog doet dan ga je je afvragen waarom ook alweer.

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Ik herken dit in mijn omgeving: veel mannen in de leeftijd 40 - 55 gaan minder dan voltijd werken. Niet uit noodzaak of vanwege zorgtaken maar omdat jongere collega's dat ook doen en zij geen zin hebben dat te blijven opvangen en het ook wel lekker vinden. https://t.co/e5R9QI8qjF

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

@WijkDerk Het is me een raadsel waarom we überhaupt nog een Russische ambassadeur hebben. Het liefst zou je die hele club het prettige leven in onze Westerse samenleving dat ze zeggen te verwerpen en proberen te ontwrichten ontzeggen. Zal wel met de-escalatie kanalen te maken hebben.

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Op Prinsjesdag een op het eerste oog gecoördineerde sabotageactie van mensen die weten hoe ze op effectieve wijze grote delen van het spoor plat kunnen leggen. Het is te vroeg voor conclusies maar het past helemaal in het beeld van hybride oorlogsvoering. https://t.co/lmsKbCPBbd

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

@rubenkoops Precies.

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

WAAROM moeten er eerst dodelijke slachtoffers vallen voordat slap gedogen van strafbare gedragingen wordt beëindigd? De straffeloosheid van barbecueën op de snelweg en massaal verkeersregels aan hun laars lappen is onuitstaanbaar en vooral gevaarzettend. https://t.co/zglPjg8bG3

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Ik zal vast iets belangrijks over het hoofd zien en natuurlijk is een bestorming van een grenspost onacceptabel maar zolang de migranten die @ceuta zijn binnengedrongen niet over de Middellandse Zee worden geholpen kunnen ze toch helemaal de EU niet in?

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Ik weet *niet* wie ze maakt damnit

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Ik weet wie deze video's maakt maar ze zijn steeds zo spot on en lijken zelf kritisch op het Iraanse regime dus als dit datzelfde regime is dan is het next level propaganda waar nog lange tijd over gesproken gaat worden

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

LMAO this LEGO movies starting to be too much for Trump 😭🤣😂

Keep the UFO Files, Drop the Epstein List | Fix America Before Judging Iran - via Brick Beat Battalion

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Het wordt nog ingewikkelder als het ook nog eens van behoorlijk veel gevoel voor humor getuigt. Van nog steeds dat moorddadige regime, over nog steeds deze schandalige, omhooggevallen, incompetente leugenachtige bootlicking oorlogsmisdadiger.

https://t.co/Tg6oRflgGO

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Het moorddadige regime in Iran maakt dit soort clips over de VS, in dit geval oorlogsmisdadiger en ontzettende eikel Hegseth. Vind je het gek dat mensen de weg kwijt raken. Wat een bizarre tijd om in te leven.

[Sander Janssen @sanderja]

Het moorddadige regime in Iran maakt dit soort clips over de VS, in dit geval oorlogsmisdadiger en ontzettende eikel Hegseth. Vind je het gek dat mensen de weg kwijt raken. Wat een bizarre tijd om in te leven.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

This doesn’t look like the work of someone stuck in the Stone Age or on their way back to it.

They seem way too confident and have good scriptwriters, we have to admit.