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. 🙄

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

Gemini is having a go at it.

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.

Have we all collectively forgotten that the whole world kinda fought a war about this a while back? Giving fascists any opportunity to espouse their views is giving them a platform. The only "debate" a fascist deserves is a bullet.

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

People can be concerned about more than one thing.

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

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.

Meta doing something specific and deplorable

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

Love these arial shots! There's a load of pictures people have uploaded to Google Maps, and there's even "street" view throughout the island. Pretty incredible stuff.

Very disappointing. Guess I'll buy it when it's released DRM free.

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.

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but Sydney Sweeney is a cretin, and a eugenicist. I understand not wanting marginalized groups going after each other, but white supremacists and their ilk need to be ostracized into nonexistence.

It's Dr Manhattan's origin in Watchmen, chapter 4.

lol when are you gonna "get to" this one?

I don't have to work tomorrow, so that makes it Friday.

if (!workTomorrow) {
  today = "Friday";
}

Well, then, have a nap!

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.