Like yea Elon Musk deserves to be thrown into a mineshaft but these clowns want to do it because he wanted negotiations which would stop the fucking war.

Liberals are such clowns, in their weird world Putin himself invaded Ukraine just for the fun of killing Ukrainian civilians and wholesome Azov soldiers and not for their political interests.

Also the op name is AmericanVet304 lmao.

  • hostilearchitecture [any]
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    2 years ago

    I think the modern definition has absolutely changed.

    The origin of the word though is elucidating, because it did always mean a disaster, it's just that 10,% swings were considered massive. People nowadays are so used to :stonks-up: :stonks-down: that a change of 10,% is almost blase, so people assume "decimate" means a much larger change than 10,%.

    • build_a_bear_group [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      IIRC its association with devastation and tragedy was because it goes back to a Roman military punishment. As an extreme form of punishment for a group of soldiers, they would have to line up and every 10th man is killed, mostly at random.

      • Vncredleader
        ·
        2 years ago

        didn't the rest of the unit have to do the killing as well or am I misremembering?

          • Vncredleader
            ·
            2 years ago

            checked

            Each group drew lots (sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot of the shortest straw fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning, clubbing, or stabbing. The remaining soldiers were often given rations of barley instead of wheat (the latter being the standard soldier's diet) for a few days, and required to bivouac outside the fortified security of the camp for some time.

            particularly brutal shit