The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Nov 17, 2022

Apologies for relapsing and posting on #TwitterTakeover the last few weeks. It's just too much fun watching the platform implode.

I promise to catch up on all the follow-backs that have been accumulating here at Mastodon asap.

Twitter cross-post #mtcross https://mastodon.online/invite/5EbVez9H

Mastodon

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The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Aug 3, 2022

Gun violence: reflects "genocidal and racist past".

Saying "guns are too easy to access, isn’t good enough. While not wrong, […] such an answer avoids grappling with the fundamentally violent nature of American society".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/01/american-violence-guns-racism-genocide #guncontrol #mtcross

America is steeped in violence. And the roots of that violence go deep

America’s obsessions with guns and violence terrifies its citizens, but it also reflects its own genocidal and racist past

The Guardian
The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Aug 3, 2022

Kindly stop lurking at malls and tube stations. No one is interested in your proselytizing.

By all means, go to your little houses with the crosses or half moons, and prostrate yourselves before your Zeus du jour, but leave us be with your Iron Age poppycock. #atheism #mtcross

The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Aug 1, 2022

A reminder that #religion is never inclusive, ecumenical, tolerant.

Just as the Pilgrims did not come to US to flee persecution, but to persecute freely, so every religion see all others as superstitions in need of conversion.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/americas-true-history-of-religious-tolerance-61312684/ #mtcross #Atheism

America's True History of Religious Tolerance

The idea that the United States has always been a bastion of religious freedom is reassuring—and utterly at odds with the historical record

Smithsonian Magazine
The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Jul 30, 2022

5:26 AM. Woken by the 'ding' of a new #Ozzyman upload. I forgot how much fun #Mexico was. Life is good.

Perfect location for the next F1 city race:
https://youtu.be/jaLf7G23VUY via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

"A Fourth Car Absolutely Buggered!" - Deadly Mexican Street

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The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Jul 29, 2022

Closing the barn door after the horse burst into flames, are we?

"There isn't a 'position' on this, any more than there's a 'position' on the temperature at which water boils."

https://youtu.be/6CXRaTnKDXA via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

The Climate Change Debate Is Long Over And There Is Nothing We Can Do

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The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Jul 29, 2022

Too little. Too late. The US spent centuries, first nurturing the cancer, then denying its existence. It has now invaded all organs. No amount of radiation or chemo will work. The US should consider palliative care.

https://progressive.org/op-eds/pentagon-cant-counter-white-supremacy-taylor-220727/ via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

The Pentagon Can’t Counter White Supremacy

Biden is pitching counter-extremism as the antidote to white supremacist activity, but these programs are themselves rooted in racism.

Progressive.org
The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Jul 29, 2022

Exporting democracy again, are we?

I grew up in Central America, and am tempted to revisit an old sentiment of the day: "Go the fuck home, gringo." #Venceremos #Revolución

https://progressive.org/latest/the-other-americans-u-s-made-guns-are-fueling-crime-abbott-220723/ via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

The Other Americans: U.S.-Made Guns Are Fueling Crime Across Central America

A lack of U.S. regulation is undermining Guatemala’s gun control laws by allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal firearms to be brought into the country.

Progressive.org
The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Jul 29, 2022

There are reasons why the U.S. ranks 42nd on the 2022 Press Freedom Index (Saudi Arabia: 160th).

RSF Index: https://rsf.org/en/index
#Khashoggi Killer #MBS in Paris: https://rsf.org/en/saudi-crown-prince-paris-despite-khashoggi-murder-and-27-journalists-prison
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/17/biden-saudi-arabia-israel-journalists-kill/ via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross

The Irate Penguin 🇪🇺Jul 29, 2022

Excellent, even if thoroughly depressing @theintercept podcast describing a broken system in a broken society.

Season 1: Georgia
Season 2: Texas

https://theintercept.com/podcasts/murderville/ via Mastodon>Twitter crosspost #mtcross #CriminalJusticeReform #criminaljustice

Murderville

Murderville, an investigative podcast hosted by senior Intercept reporters Liliana Segura and Jordan Smith, examines the systemic failures that lead to wrongful convictions.

The Intercept