@frippa@lemmy.ml also i hate eugene like you wouldn’t believe. i would imagine it stings their admins to see an unprincipled greedy nerd called out, deep down

you said “first world country” and their blood ran cold

Sure but lots of people have superficial attachments to phrases they pick up online. I’ve just seen a lot of incoherent/bad irony-mixed-with-sincerity posting and I give people a shot across the bow first. If the followup to being debunked is more playing dumb then you know.

It’s not like everyone visiting the site can remember how to counter this story. Keep in mind Montefiore is a very mainstream historian so this will keep coming up. I’ve seen a lot of people fail to reply to this in full. It’s good to remind people about the extent to which the historians we don’t read make fallacious claims and how to approach them.

It’s a shame, because the entire debunk sort of exposes how desperate people were to heap lies on his legacy.

I really see the whole Lemmy/Reddit moderation strategy as a failed experiment but it hasn’t completely killed the sites at least. Extreme pruning down to seriously out of touch people.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/4213400

@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml

Yeah, a shame they immediately removed and banned this person, this was probably just an idiot child. It’s not like their one sentence is going to destroy Stalin’s legacy.

I would have been happy to explain the other flaws in the historical works of Simon Sebag Montefiore.

To put it simply, he is a pro-Romanov British man who was in Jeffrey Epstein’s contact book.

But the “Siberian comedy” treats the alleged victim like a punchline without providing any evidence. He clearly finds it funny.

My first thought is this is like Verso Books and old Zero Books but for the ScheerPost style limited hangout Seymour Hersh/John Mearshimer-quoting spook journalism cultists

I immediately identify a bunch of figures in the ANSWER-Brian Becker-PSL activist NGO complex here.

I don’t know why I assumed this would be dwindling in the current Polish climate.

big ouughs from me this week

I think a lot of them are just in a position to have the imaginary class position of being petit boug in the same way a guy with a retirement package and a mortgage has the option of convincing himself the stock market and real estate’s ability to Maintain Value are the most important things in the world.

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the barista shit is so good but you have to also appreciate them saying prostitutes are petit boug by pointing to people on top of porn multilevel marketing schemes. it’s seriously what feds would do if trying to misdirect from real takes abt the labor aristocracy and prostitution, because these guys focus on getting attention to the exclusion of anything else

Interesting find, I haven’t had any issues with opening stuff in Firefox yet but could be handy

You don’t think Lemmy.world’s botting, sockpuppetry, and heavy-handed moderation is extreme lol?

ben should post more and stop worrying about that silly masters degree

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Lmao @ the name

A lot of people approach every new idea with a system of paranoias instead of critical thinking.

In general I focus more on talking about external affairs that are not meta-social discussion. I have found I will wonder if people are hinting I am being an idiot or something when referencing, for instance how stupid a lot of fitness and diet trends are. In my case the suspicion comes from like, “do they also view me that way?” if that makes sense.

Libs are really ferocious about their “disinformation” shit

I do the same but I complain about everything they say and make a show about it. Worship me as your God.

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