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Monday, February 21, 2022

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Ode To Joy"

from DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

***** LATE-ISH NEWS *****

By this point, you all have figured out that I've been bounced from 
Twitter for good. A few weeks ago, I was served with a "permanent 
suspension" with no reason given, no "offending" tweets cited, no 
nothing, just gone. They gave me an opportunity to appeal, but with no  1actual reason given...? Bah, screw it.

So... if any of you have the spare moments and are up to it, it'd be 
really sweet if you could post the links/titles/images out of your 
accounts when I drop a new piece... something just, like...

"Latest'n'Greatest from Mike Flugennock: 'the Title'
#HastagThis #HashtagThat
http://whatever the blog link is..."

...that I can toss in at the end of the 'press release'.

Meanwhile, you can find me on Mastodon (Twitter, but far better) at:
https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

...on Pixelfed (like Instagram/Facebook-ish, but far better) at:
https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/390704233319834702

...and I've begun regularly using my Instagram at:
https://www.instagram.com/flugennock/

Thanks again in advance, and now — after a few weeks' break to master some fresh new media tools, let's get back to the mayhem...!

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"Ode To Joy"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3397

Y'know that stupid game you play with fortune cookies in which you 
read the fortune out loud and add the phrase "in bed" at the end...? 
Well, that's apparently the favorite little fun game with the 
brain-rotted US media with regard to China, especially at the Olympics  this past week — find any news of any positive achievement of or any news that reflects well on China, and the US Boss Media will be right  on top of it with their shallow bitching and moaning about "human  rights", trot out their victims of the week, fling some over-hyped apocryphal stories around and wail "but at what cost"?

The front page of the Washington Post — where Democracy died long ago  and is now beginning to smell really pungent in darkness — put on  quite a show this past Saturday, pissing and moaning about the job the  Chinese did of keeping covid under control during the Olympics,  claiming that it "kept the joy out of the Games" and at "great mental  and financial costs". It was a headline so galling that I had to just  kind of stand there in the front hall, slack-jawed, sputtering and  giggling as I read and re-read it.

I was almost in awe of it, somehow — a gaggle of hacks from a 
corporate mouthpiece in the seat of the US Empire, which had twice as  many covid-19 deaths last week than China had all of last year, is 
having a tantrum about China taking the steps any responsible 
government should do during a public health emergency, filling its 
pants about how it took the joy out of the Olympics. Myself, I think 
any "joy" issues our friends here had came more from the shock of 
being shown up by a Chinese-American who chose to ski for China, and  by a government which treats healthcare as a public good rather than a  commodity.

Yeah, shame those horrid, awful Chinese commies took appropriate 
action to mitigate the spread of an infectious pathogen and took a 
little bit of the "joy" out of it for you — not nearly as awesome as 
here in the good old USA, where we're joyful and free and lost nearly 
a million people to covid19 last year.


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China, total covid deaths 2021: 4636
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/

United States, total covid deaths 2021: 959,412
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/#graph-cases-daily


"China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by  US-backed NGO and far-right researcher 'led by God' against Beijing",  the Grayzone 12.21.2019
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/

"'Independent' report claiming Uyghur genocide brought to you by sham  university, neocon ideologues lobbying to 'punish' China", the 
Grayzone 03.17.2021
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/17/report-uyghur-genocide-sham-university-neocon-punish-china/

Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock

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