TheOldGuy @TheOldGuy@social.cleverlibre.org

#DefundPolice ‘It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Happy Jan 6th! Remember, 1st coup always fails!🙂

Hitler. Saddam. Castro. All the big names took at least 2 shots, regardless of political philosophy!

And in the USA the rules of civility discourse meant that after Jan 6th, Biden had more to say to Black folk than he did to the far-right politicians that supported it.🤡 He made a big show of saying that he would fire any member of his admin that was "rude" to a member of the far-right.

He asked us to move on. Our answer was no.

It's still no.

Rishi Sunak ignores environment in speech as UK breaks another climate record

Not a clue

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/01/06/rishi-sunak-ignores-environment-in-speech-as-uk-breaks-another-climate-record/

Bleak New Year for millions, while rich struggle for reservations at the Ritz https://www.socialist.net/bleak-new-year-millions-rich-struggle-reservations-ritz.htm

Vasyl Semenovych Stus, Ukrainian poet, was born today (1938-1985)
He spoke about the need to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture, for which he was repressed by the Soviet dictatorship. His work was banned. He was sentenced to a long stay in prison, where he died.

Another example. “Perilous quest”…”Congressional dysfunction”…you read this thread and you’d never know we are talking about a far right authoritarian party with a supermajority of representatives in the parliament who voted to overturn a valid election two years ago. It’s all horse race, game, and theater. And “Congress” is the culprit. It’s just so predictably, woefully, pathetically inadequate to the moment.

https://twitter.com/reuters/status/1611375433316192257?s=46&t=_3YjrEtiZE9UqflXDcXBww

Wexler quotes Marianne Duddy-Burke of DignityUSA, who states that Benedict

"forced our [LGBTQ] community out of Catholic churches, tore families apart, silenced our supporters, and even cost lives. He refused to recognize even the most basic human rights for LGBTQIA+ people. Many of us experienced the most harsh and blatant religiously justified discrimination of our lives as a result of his policies."

#Benedict XVI #misogyny #homophobia

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DISINFORMATION ALERT
The strategy followed by Putin's shills is to spread that "the vaccine does not reduce mortality".
It reduces mortality DIRECTLY by 90% (and indirectly as well).
They drown you in detailed arguments to confuse you.
Repetition of lies Soviet-style.
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RT @april_harding
Will the New York Times be able to persuade their readers that a vaccine which doesn't reduce mortality, somehow qualifies as *miraculously effec…
https://twitter.com/april_harding/status/1611288400455237633

"His church not only didn't give more power to women; it actively tried to suppress them.

In 2012, his Vatican chastised U.S. nuns for being influenced by 'radical feminism,' and for purportedly straying from U.S. bishops' positions on homosexuality and women's ordination. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious was placed under the supervision of three conservative American bishops for its 'serious doctrinal problems.'"

#Benedict XVI #misogyny #homophobia

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If anyone ever tries to convince you that your nation would be better served by a private health insurance system, rather than having government managed healthcare, that person is your enemy. They are trying to kill you.

Sincerely,
Someone paying 10x as much for Insulin.

My old teacher used to tell me that I'd never be any good at poetry due to my dyslexia.

Well I've recently made three jugs and a vase, so up yours Mr Jones.

She writes,

"Nicknamed 'God's Rottweiler' for his zeal in 24 years at the head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, whose roots date back to the Inquisition, he not only opposed the ordination of women to the priesthood but claimed the ban could never be lifted.

As pope, he fired an Australian bishop for merely suggesting that ordaining women might to be a good way to address the shortage of male priests."

#Benedict XVI #misogyny #homophobia

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Andy Ngo and Elon Musk apparently confirm that Musk personally suspended my Twitter account at Ngo's request, following Ngo's multiple failed attempts to silence my reporting on Ngo's ties to violent right-wing terrorist groups.

I call on Musk to release all his communications with Andy Ngo. Let's bring some transparency to Twitter. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1611118439812456448

I don't do a lot of hard griping on here because rage-tweets are for Twitter but completely appalling that the University of Waterloo has dropped its mask mandate - a literally just a day after one of our local hospitals publicly pleaded with people to stop going to its overwhelmed ER.

I'm some combination of outraged and despondent at this point.