Says the one that imported so much Longbottom Leaf that the Southfarthing all but ran out.

Please note that Tsar Nicholas II was a horrid authoritarian ruler with a lot of fucking blood on his hands. We're talking to the tune of millions.

The Podcast Behind the Bastards did an excellent, four part series, on good ol' Nicky the Second. Great listen.

But this is what many authoritarians look like. Ordinary people, with ordinary fascinations and family.

A lot of people like to cut him some slack, like "oh but he loved his family and was a great family man!" It reminds me of people who say Hitler was a great public speaker and artist or whatever. 🙄

People have left Lemmy because it is to political and is constantly far left. This meme is not helping.

Gonna dredge up an old one here:

And nothing of value was lost.

People can be concerned about more than one thing.

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Do No Harm bills itself as a group of doctors who are concerned about ideology influencing the medical profession.

And yet they're doing exactly that?? Conservatives really are either some of the least self-aware people on the planet, or conservativism is a giant fucking sham, and I think I know which one it is.

Gemini is having a go at it.

I now love Debian more than I previously thought possible.

brb installing Debian on all my hardware.

edit: there's a fortune-anarchism too, amazing.

Pretty low bar you've set there...

I get where you're coming from, but honestly, I think Facebook's history is enough evidence.

Meta doing something specific and deplorable

Does their history not count? Threads doesn't exist in a vacuum.

Friendly reminder that it's all arbitrary and made up anyway.