Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[THE_WIZARD_]

My kinda gal...and beer...FB_IMG_1681829670548.jpg

[iam416]

I wish you were all STFU and more STFU.

[THE_WIZARD_]

hurtful

[Da Geezer]

You misunderstand the Greens, DSL. They aren't about limiting climate change. That's ancillary. They're about retarding progress. They're about reshaping the economy in ways that reduces the human footprint. "Green" energy is energy that accomplishes that goal. Nuclear energy is, therefore, not "green". That's why so many of us on the right -- but not far right -- of this issue have such a hard time taking these people seriously. Nothing short of dismantling the US Economy (so raved about by the Economist) will satisfy them.

Now, for those who are actually serious about the issue and are looking for politically and economically viable policies that will meaningfully address the issue, nuclear power is a ginormous compromise position that everyone should agree with -- it massively reduces emissions and produces cheap energy. And you can build a new one in a mere 30 years within the US regulatory structure!

All true.

What is true of the Left is that they view humanity as destructive to the planet. They have since The Population Bomb was published in 1968. The idea of diminishing resources and increasing demand took hold of my generation and has never let go. Climate Change is just another iteration of the overriding theme that man is a curse to the planet.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Just in time for Mother’s Day

[THE_WIZARD_]

TDS

[Dr. Strangelove]

The folks who have REAL Trump Derangement Syndrome are the chucklefucks who vote for him

[Tom W]

What is true of the Left is that they view humanity as destructive to the planet. They have since The Population Bomb was published in 1968. The idea of diminishing resources and increasing demand took hold of my generation and has never let go. Climate Change is just another iteration of the overriding theme that man is a curse to the planet.

It's unfortunate that they weren't truly vested in what they believe. If they were, they would stop reproducing and the whole problem would go away within a century.

[THE_WIZARD_]

TDS²

[iam416]

Wait, DJT is holding the Liberty Bell?

fuck ron desantis

[THE_WIZARD_]

The Dems will indict Trump for the crack in the bell...

[Dr. Strangelove]

Trump holding the Liberty Bell while signing "My Ding-a-ling". Good luck sleeping tonight.

[Dr. Strangelove]

45-BBQ.webp

[THE_WIZARD_]

Your TDS is growing by the minute...

[Da Geezer]

This is from an opinion piece titled "If Western Civilization Dies, Put it down as a Suicide" in the WSJ today:
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But the cultural revolution that began in the past decade is re-erecting those barriers and creating new elite power structures, elevated not by talent or hard work, but, curiously, by membership of the self-approved class, signaled by the right luxury beliefs and articulated by the right “inclusive” language.

Adrian Wooldridge, who has written a book on the rise of meritocracy, frames this in a recent article in the Spectator. The left, he says, is “creating a new social order based on virtue, rather than ability.”

Bear with me because I am going to extrapolate from these baneful developments to a much larger worry about the geopolitical conditions we confront.

As we survey the competition between global civilizations in the multipolar world we now inhabit, we see that the West is challenged as it hasn’t been in centuries. It’s axiomatic that a rising China and perhaps other powers look like formidable contenders for global leadership—with implications for our own security and prosperity.

But if we are losing that struggle, it isn’t because of the superiority of authoritarian, communist or autocratic systems. We know that liberal capitalism has done more for human prosperity, health and freedom than any other economic or political system.

If we are losing, it is because we are losing our soul, our sense of purpose as a society, our identity as a civilization. We in the West are in the grip of an ideology that disowns our genius, denounces our success, disdains merit, elevates victimhood, embraces societal self-loathing and enforces it all in a web of exclusionary and authoritarian rules, large and small.