I especially like the dude relitigating the Continuation War from the orthodox Russian historiographical position that the Second World War started on 22 Jun 1941:

https://lobste.rs/s/ewofl9/several_russian_developers_lose_kernel#c_h7ecjy

Edit I wondered about the curious term "genocide-siege" and lo and behold, reading the Wiki page on the Siege I found this nugget

On 18 March 2024, the Russian foreign ministry issued a statement via TASS to the German foreign ministry saying that the siege of Leningrad was a genocide.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago

…and that's one of the dudes personally invited to the site by its main moderator (see, the public invite trees can be useful sometimes).

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The tankies are giving each other high-fives and are labelling me as a "Eurocentric Swede" which isn't exactly the insult they think it is.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a leftist, I don’t think I’ve drunk enough red kool aid to come around on Russia. I just don’t get it.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you tried looking in the mirror and repeating the phrase "I am the imperialist and it's not ok"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the thing. What Russia under Putin is doing is textbook imperialism, not the weird alt-left definition which defines it as "what the US and its allies does". But hey, mangling and redefining terms is a Soviet/Russian tradition.

Stepping back, take a look at what the Russian duma is legislating and point to the "leftist" content. Just the other day they decided that "childfree propaganda" should be outlawed. Breed more cannon fodder for the Motherland!

[–] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh I was definitely being sarcastic

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

damn Poe's

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

[Comment removed by moderator pushcx: Don't pour gas on the fire by adding even more geopolitics.]

What does it take to cross the line of incendiary geopolitics in this thread?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I actually recently made a little script to preserve the nuggets of ~~wisdom~~shit produced by the esteemed commentariat and then either deleted by them in shame or purged in righteous mod fury.

The deleted comment is this:

There are a lot russians who don’t support Russian aggression. Discrimination based on a trait people are born with, be it skin color or nationality, is racism. Linus is racist.

Can they also ban Israeli settlers from contributing to Linux or is that inconvenient for mossad agents to back door linux?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 3 weeks ago

Assigned Baikal Electronics employee at birth

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

Russian defense contractor stans accusing a Finnish guy of being racist is just perfection.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

Mod pushcx woke up and applied the deletehammer, enjoy this archive of deleted comments

https://gerikson.com/hnlo/lo-deleted-ewofl9.html

(note that everything below a specific comment is deleted, so even the "good guys" are included". For details, see the modlog)