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Three Mile Island produced zero deaths, a chest X-ray dose, and a 30 freeze on new American reactors. A stuck valve and a misread gauge caused a partial meltdown on March 28, 1979. “The China Syndrome”, a movie about a cover up at a nuclear plant, released in theaters 12 days earlier, so newsrooms had a field day with this one. While Thornburgh advised pregnant women and small children only inside a five mile radius, national coverage turned it into a regional evacuation. Panic eased when Carter walked the control room 4 days later, but the damage was done. Columbia’s 1990 study of 32,000 nearby residents found no significant cancer increase. Nuclear stayed one of the safest energy sources ever measured. But the movie and the headlines didn’t allow a return to normalcy.
Rothmus 🏴4,460,677 views • 9 days ago
East Germany failed to “guarantee” a car for every citizen, but it succeeded in (1) proving central planners can’t innovate and (2) replicating the breadline model to everything they touch. Because steel was never available for private citizens, the “Trabant” automobile was made out of Duroplast pressed over cotton waste and scrap. >same timeless design for 30 years >super innovative 23-horsepower two-stroke engine >no oil pump so people had to mix oil into the tank by hand at every fill up because labor itself is a worthy end And people still had to wait 10-13 years on a waitlist. 40 years by the late 1980s. So the government did in fact “guarantee” a car for every citizen. Just not that it wouldn’t be shit. Or that they’d ever get one.
Rothmus 🏴4,622,414 views • 11 days ago
No amount of penance will suffice to stop the suicide of the West. In 2006, Pascal Bruckner diagnosed the illness as “Western masochism”, a civilization so convinced its own sins explain every problem on earth that it turns self-hatred into a strange form of narcissism. >Corporate America pledged over $50 billion in racial equity penance after George Floyd >California set up a slavery reparations task force even though it entered the Union in 1850 as a free state that never legalized slavery >The New York Times pushed the 1619 Project claiming slavery was the real founding, then edited the most absurd claims instead of retracting them A nation that can only feel guilty eventually loses the capacity to feel proud of anything, and a people that cannot defend their own story will not keep one for long.
Rothmus 🏴5,601,386 views • 18 days ago
They knew girls were being raped and they chose not to stop it. But they did fire the woman who kept writing it down. Sara Rowbotham sent 181 separate referrals between 2005 and 2011 while running Rochdale’s NHS crisis team. Police and social services sat on every one of them and the abuse continued. 9 men were finally convicted in 2012 on the evidence she had already compiled. 2 years later the council made her redundant. In 2024, the official review confirmed what she had been saying for two decades that the authorities knew, and they chose to do nothing.
Rothmus 🏴352,293 views • 3 days ago
As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible. Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs. Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point. While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide. Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse. Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable. Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization. Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned. The lesson is clear. Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property. Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning. The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.
Rothmus 🏴27,708,727 views • 3 months ago
Every gun, mine, and guard tower on the Berlin Wall was pointed at East Germans. In 1957, the communist regime in East Germany made unauthorized emigration treason after an estimated 2.5 million people voted with their feet, fleeing the communist East towards the West. So in 1961, the authorities closed the border, called the wall “the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”, and gave border guards shoot to kill orders. People only ever risked their lives escaping in one direction.
Rothmus 🏴5,045,202 views • 1 month ago
This was the day every sane person realized these folks didn’t “just want to be left alone.” Colorado spent over a decade trying to force Jack Phillips to bake cakes his faith forbids, and a 7-2 Supreme Court win only bought him a short pause. He declined one custom wedding cake in 2012 and offered the couple every other item in the shop. The Civil Rights Commission ordered him to design cakes for same sex weddings anyway, retrain his staff, and file regular compliance reports. One commissioner compared his Christianity to the justifications used for slavery and the Holocaust. Kennedy wrote that this was hostility toward religion and the Court ruled for Phillips. Days later, Colorado opened a new case over a cake celebrating a gender transition and kept him in court for years. The state treated his conscience as a problem that needed monitoring and correction. Winning at the highest court did not change that.
Rothmus 🏴835,763 views • 8 days ago
In the UK, they let a 24 year old taxi driver keep a 14 year old as his girlfriend until he burned her family alive. Azhar Mehmood got Lucy Lowe pregnant in mid 90s Telford. Her dad heard the assault, smashed the door, chased him out, and still nobody called the police. Five years later he bought petrol at 3:28am, poured it through the house, and set it alight while they slept. Lucy was 16 and pregnant again. She died with her disabled sister and their mother while he walked out with their baby. Still in prison for 3 murders and later tied to Telford’s grooming scandal, where the same warning signs were ignored for decades.
Rothmus 🏴203,089 views • 2 days ago
So here’s how America ended up with Ilhan Omar and Learing Centers. The rebels in Somalia overthrew the Marxist dictator in January 1991 and then they started killing each other over who got to rule next. General Mohamed Farah Aideed and Ali Mahdi Mohamed both claimed the presidency, and then from November 1991 to March 1992, the two sides slaughtered an estimated 14,000 people in Mogadishu (the capital) alone. The clans united to remove Barre, but they failed to replace him with anything functional. And so, Somalia has been a failed state for 35 years and Minnesota has welfare fraud.
Rothmus 🏴3,439,342 views • 1 month ago
“We’re here to fuck all the white girls and fuck the government. We’re over here to breed, we are going to take over.” That’s what one of the Dewsbury grooming gang rapists told his victim. Not poverty. Not “cultural misunderstanding”. Not random crime by “Asians”. This was muslim men operating with a clear religious and racial ideology. White non-Muslim girls were “slags”, “trash”, and “kuffar whores”, fair game for grooming, gang rape, trafficking, and beatings. Muslim girls were “pure”. White girls deserved it. Some perpetrators quoted scripture and framed their actions as religiously justified superiority over infidels. When the government repeatedly sides with the ideological rapists over its own children, when it betrays fathers and communities trying to protect their daughters, don’t act shocked when people lose faith in the system and take matters into their own hands. This is demographic and cultural conquest. An existential attack on Britain enabled by the very people sworn to defend it. The absolutely filthy anti-white, anti-Christian racist Mehdi Hasan calls the Casey report and the whole push for truth “bullshit.” The rapists’ own words in court and the girls they destroyed say otherwise. Denial this loud only confirms who’s still protecting the narrative and why.
Rothmus 🏴8,602,053 views • 2 months ago
The original Antifa helped Hitler take power. Moscow ordered communist parties to treat social democrats as the main enemy under the “social fascism” line, so Antifaschistische Aktion spent its energy fighting the SPD instead of the Nazis. Their street fighters clashed with socialists more than with the SA, and in 1932 they even coordinated pickets with Nazis against an SPD-run transit company in Berlin. The two biggest parties that could have blocked Hitler were at war with each other, the left stayed fractured, and by January 1933 there was no united front left to build.
Rothmus 🏴891,963 views • 13 days ago
“Eat liver pie instead”, replied the commie Marie Antoinette director of the Novocherkassk locomotive plant when the workers asked him how they will afford meat. The Soviet government had just hiked meat and dairy prices while simultaneously slashing factory wages in 1962. The wage dispute escalated into an uprising. Marches headed toward the Communist Party HQ, protesters singing revolutionary songs, and holding portraits of Lenin in defense of “real” communism against the Soviet authorities. So they shot them. 7 organizers were executed, 26 dead were thrown in unmarked graves so there wouldn’t be any public memorials, and people living under the commie regime never found out any of this happened until the Soviet Union fell nearly 30 years later.
Rothmus 🏴932,766 views • 14 days ago
“But the Nazis weren’t socialists because they crushed labor unions!” It wasn’t until 1980 that the first independent union was legalized in the Soviet bloc. “Solidarity” in Poland reached 10 million members in a year which was absolutely terrible for the commies. So in 1981, the Communist Party declared martial law. They sent their tanks into the streets, shot protesting miners, and jailed tens of thousands just to keep their grip on Poland. Jaruzelski cut the phones, sealed the borders, banned the union, and imprisoned the their leader Lech Wałęsa for 11 months. 3 days after that, riot police stormed the Wujek mine and killed 9 strikers who refused to accept the crackdown. Internments, censorship, and surveillance continued for years afterward.
Rothmus 🏴1,076,004 views • 16 days ago
Communists and Nazis are two sides of the same totalitarian coin. After Stalin’s commies had spent years promoting themselves as true “anti-fascists” >they signed a non-aggression pact (Molotov-Ribbentrop) with the Nazis >a secret protocol to carve up Eastern Europe >they invaded Poland together >held a joint victory parade in Brest-Litovsk So the Soviets demanded every Communist Party in Europe and America to change their tune and push the narrative that their feud with the Nazis was an imperialist conflict not worth fighting. It wasn’t until Hitler’s sudden betrayal of their agreement and the Nazi march into Soviet Territory in 1941 (Operation Barbarossa) that the commies relaunched their anti-Nazi propaganda campaigns and declared the fight against fascism the moral struggle of the century.
Rothmus 🏴863,286 views • 14 days ago
The Bolsheviks declared war on the Russian Orthodox Church as soon as they seized power. They stripped it of legal status and property, then executed thousands of priests, monks, and believers in the Red Terror. Metropolitan Vladimir of Kiev was dragged from the Monastery of the Caves, tortured, and shot in January 1918. Patriarch Tikhon publicly excommunicated the Bolshevik leadership and spent his remaining years under arrest until his death in 1925. In 1922, while the country starved, the Soviets seized church gold and jewels under the pretext of famine relief. When believers in Shuya tried to stop them, troops opened fire on the crowd. Lenin then issued a secret memo ordering the most merciless suppression of the clergy possible, arguing conditions would never again be so favorable for crushing the Church’s influence for decades. By year’s end thousands of clergy had been shot and a 1000 year old institution was driven underground by the regime that claimed to liberate the peasants who built it.
Rothmus 🏴1,021,003 views • 17 days ago
Civilizations die from suicide. After spending 3 decades studying 26 civilizations, Toynbee found that civilizations rise when a creative minority actually solves hard problems and earns real loyalty from the people. Then that same minority hardens into a dominant minority that keeps power through force and habit while it stops actually leading. The majority disengages and a schism opens in the body social. External threats only finish what already started from inside. No invading army ever killed a healthy civilization, they only bury the ones that have already stopped believing in themselves.
Rothmus 🏴3,213,479 views • 1 month ago
Communist authorities engineered cannibalism on purpose. In May 1933 they dumped 6,000 ordinary people on a bare island in Siberia’s Ob River with no food, no tools, and almost no shelter. Local police had grabbed them off city streets to meet arrest quotas during Stalin’s collectivization drive, many still carrying valid papers, and shipped them east without trial. Guards left a single sack of flour on the shore and departed. Within days the starving started dying by the hundreds and the living began eating the dead. A Communist Party inspector documented the mass graves and the cannibalism in a secret report. 4,000 were dead by the time the survivors were pulled off the island 2 months later. That report stayed locked in a Soviet archive for 60 years until the regime that buried it finally collapsed.
Rothmus 🏴898,932 views • 16 days ago
THOMAS SOWELL: “if you’re going to have reparations for slavery, it’s going to be the greatest transfer of wealth back and forth, because the number of Whites who were enslaved in North Africa by the Barbary Pirates exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the United States.”
Rothmus 🏴13,484,722 views • 5 months ago
They smashed babies against trees and murdered nearly 2 million Cambodians in under 4 years chasing a pure agrarian communist utopia with no cities, no money, and no private property. On April 17 1975, the Khmer Rouge rolled into Phnom Penh and within hours emptied the entire city, marching hospital patients and the elderly into the countryside on foot as they declared Year Zero and set out to erase every trace of the old society. Anyone tied to the past became a target and wearing glasses alone could get you killed because it proved you could read, while doctors, teachers, engineers, and monks were executed as enemies of the revolution. They turned a high school into a prison where roughly 20,000 people were tortured into confessing crimes that never happened, after which they were trucked to mass graves in the killing fields where executioners smashed infants against the killing tree to save bullets. But they never achieved a classless utopia so it wasn’t like real communism.
Rothmus 🏴2,365,140 views • 1 month ago