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.

Kinda like the time Howard Dean went "BYAAAH" and it ruined his political career. It feels like we've been living in a bizarro world.

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.

Considering slrpnk.net is very niche, and catering to those with a certain mindset, I absolutely do feel some camaraderie with fellow instance-members.

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've got high hopes for Lemmy, and the Fediverse in general. Voat's issue was it was a haven for fascists and fascist sympathizers, and a centralized site made that the general vibe. The federated model makes it so they can do what they want in their own little corner of shit, and the rest of us can ignore them like they deserve.