Dear Pro-Nuke Liberal Doods: please shut the fuck up
I am glued to the coverage from Japan, okay? The last thing I need is yet another article from one of you Idiot Boys explaining that the real tragedy will be if the world backs away from nuclear power.
Jesus. What is wrong with you fucktwits? First Saletan, then Marshall and Yglesias, now that moron Easterbrook. Is the Nuclear Energy Institute paying you clowns by the word?
Just shut up. Shut the fuck up.
16 Responses to “Dear Pro-Nuke Liberal Doods: please shut the fuck up”
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tinfoil hattie says:
Well, come on, Violet! Don’t you know a nuclear accident only happens to “those kind” of people; i.e., not-USians? Stop sticking your pretty little head into things that don’t concern you! Yeesh!
March 15th, 2011 at 10:36 pm EST -
Adrienne in CA says:
Totally. And why has the conversation gone retrograde to where suddenly the ONLY alternative to nukes is oil and coal? Like no one’s ever even heard of solar or wind or anything else that’s not scarce, filthy, or dangerous. This Stanford Study (PDF) shows that the whole world could convert to renewable energy sources in 20-40 years at roughly the same cost as fossil fuels if we just have the freaking will to do it. Just do it already!
*****A
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Sameol says:
I’m enjoying how the pro-nuke liberals are mocking the concern, too, as if we all think that the levels of radiation are going to cause Star Trek-style spontaneous vaporization, instead of being concerned about things like the long-term effects of contamination of the food chain.
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SYD says:
They have received their talking points and marching orders from you know who. Now they all fall in line.
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DarthVelma says:
If I hear one more dood go on and on about how nuclear plants don’t contribute to global climate change, as if that somehow makes them “green”, I’m going to lose my shit.
So what if they don’t release greenhouse gasses…radioactive gasses and particles aren’t exactly environmentally friendly. Neither is all that nuclear waste that we still haven’t figured out how to store safely until it’s no longer a threat to the environment.
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Chris Dowd says:
Knowing the American media as I do- as a political junkie for too many misspent years- I think what we are seeing right now is not only the horrific meltdown occurring in Japan, though still not acknowledged as such by our media or political elites as I write this, but the meltdown of the American establishment.
They have no clothes. Man is it ugly to watch.
They have no idea how they sound. None.
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Chris Dowd says:
Oh- and by the way- China has made the natural and logical decision to suspend all nuke plant approvals until at least the experiences of the disaster in Japan can be studied and lessons learned.
Say what you will about the brutal suppression of dissidents in China- but at least China is run by sensible sober minimally responsible people. Of course that is what do in these circumstances. Something like this happens- a responsible nuclear industry would say- hey- we stop and examine and look and learn all we can about making these plants safer. Is that what we hear? Nope. What do see here? Media onslaughts from nuke industry flaks telling us not to worry. Down playing health effects in off the cuff manners so unconvincing and ill informed as to be appalling. Utterly amazing.
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Violet Socks says:
I was sobered when I got up this morning (very, very early this morning) and saw that the Emperor had gone on TV. If you don’t know how remarkable that is, here’s an excellent article in the LA Times: Emperor Akihito’s speech underlines gravity of Japan’s nuclear crisis.
I’ve been enjoying (as it were) the French play-by-play on the situation for the past several days. Japan is all, “we got it, we’re under control,” and the French have been like, “Uh, no. You are fucked. Admit it.” Since France is totally rigged up with nukes, I kind of think they might know what they’re talking about.
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Violet Socks says:
Of course, it isn’t just the nuclear situation, and in that sense I think the LA Times headline is misleading. I believe Akihito went on TV just because the scale of this whole catastrophe is unprecedented — the earthquake, the tsunami, god knows how many dead.
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Toonces says:
It’s not even just that nuclear is dirty. We have to so heavily subsidize nuclear power to even get the feggin’ plants built — and they take forever to build — if we just took that money and properly subsidized solar so that individual homeowners could buy panels like they do in Germany… *sigh* And I’ve asked before — what do the supposedly staunchly anti-war, pro-nuclear-power doodz think will happen when we need somebody else’s land to mine uranium or dump nuclear waste? Why is Dick Cheney so gung-ho on nuclear? (Because the oil men like that it’s centralized, they can charge rents, and their current “business” model transfers neatly?)
Although, I swear some of this just comes down to: nukes are MANLY and solar and wind are GIRLY.
I don’t even know what to say about Japan.
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Ciardha says:
Thank you! And they downplay what happened in Three Mile Island, officials are still trying to hide the numbers, that more people in Harrisburg, PA have cancers, etc… They spew that it’s “just a statistical anomaly”- I call bull on that. Three Mile Island was enough for me at age 12 1/2 to know nuclear was not the great wonderful thing the propaganda machine was selling us, at least back thing the media actually questioned that- but that was just as the corporations were starting to buy them out, they hadn’t laid down the law just yet.
I had a number of friends back in college that were Japanese exchange students, I lost track of them over the years (it’s been 18 years since we all graduated) but I look at my old address book with their names and old addresses in it and wish I could find them (most were women like me in their twenties and single, probably most are married now and have a different family name). I see those names and my old pictures of most of them and my heart trembles, and my eyes tear up- are they okay, how close are they to Fukushima, etc…
I think about Yoko Ono’s brother Keisuke Ono, his wife, four kids and grandkids (they are in Tokyo so the quake didn’t hurt them, but Yoko says emotionally it was bad for them, and now this situation with Fukushima… I think about all the manga writers I’ve enjoyed their stories, and I’m scared for the danger they (even in Tokyo) are in from Fukushima, several have families too- they’ve got to be looking at their children and wondering should they evacuate them, where would be safe, etc…
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julia says:
Americans may be pro-nuclear, but why are the health food stores sold out – all of the sudden – of iodine and kelp tablets? I think we’re pro-nuclear until it happens here. And then it will be too late.
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Adrienne in CA says:
BTW, finally found my way to Part II of the wind/water/sun-powered world study mentioned above. Links to parts I & II, and related materials & presentations are on Mark Jabobson’s page here.
Pro-Nuke Liberal Doods: Listen to this other, smarter Dood.
*****A
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Perry Logan says:
It hurts to see my fellow liberal doods gelded by Obama.
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m Andrea says:
Hi Violet, hope you are well! Are you going to do a post (or ten) on Libya? Because I really don’t understand what is going on and yours is the only opinion I trust on political matters. Disregard if you’re too busy of course.
Tried to find some background material last night and it was kinda confusing… Heard a rumor Obama has recinded the previous US relationship to Israel.
Be well!
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dcblogger says:
All of these fools were also for the Iraq war. Some people have an instinctive feel for getting it wrong. Also an instinct for trying to sound “sensible” while sucking up to power.
