mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

but they did it from first principles and without needing to update their priors!

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

at least the federation works even with auth fetch these days. (and yeah, it's a nice jank, the very different reply styles, the way the posts + replies are handled etc.)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

luis villa, who as a lawyer really should have known better, being self-reportedly a friend of behdad and a confabulation/war machine promoter decided to come to rescue, calling the above (a) attack, and (b) slander.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

obvious take is obvious

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

yeah, that was too much to expect

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

perhaps the fact that claude was used in war planning will give them a pause.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

you're misreading the room.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

call out his confabulation machine usage, and the block will be quick

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

plus, russian empire has a huge tradition of genocide as imperial policy (including, but not limited to, circassian genocide).

the conquest of other caucasian martins was almost as bad

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

entirely through forced acquisition and, with notable exception of finland until late XIX century, with very aggressive russification policy.

austro-hungary (i.e post 1848) is a better example.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

bloody polish-lithuanian commonwealth for fuck's sake.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

my apologies, i tend to visually stereotype stalinists very badly.

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