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    • Awoo [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      Reminder that the founder of Vice and the founder of the Proud Boys are the same person.

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      a man who reputedly said, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

      love how you can literally Google this and the first one is the wikipedia page for "Anecdotal value" and the second one is a deep dive to check where the quote originally came from, but go off ig shrug-outta-hecks

    • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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      6 months ago

      so regardless of the whole attribution question, this isn't even a slightly unreasonable thing to say? It's not like he said "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic - and I think that's a good thing and I'm going to use it to kill seventeen billion kulaks", it's just a statement. It's been true about COVID, it was true about famine and drought in his own time, and it's true both intra-alignment and otherwise - smoking deaths are a statistic, Anne Frank's death was a tragedy, COVID-19 deaths were a statistic, Nex Benedict's death was a tragedy, etc. It's just observational and it's largely true, at least in regards to how people and societies react.

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    I Pretended to be a Young Joseph Stalin On Hexbear, and It Went Weirdly Well

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    say what you will but this is better researched than anything by Simon Dickbag Montefiore

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      Lmao it actually is, this was a great article!

      Honestly felt bad that Paul got ghosted in the end but that's life