I only clarify because in a situation where every able body is fighting you’ve already lost, there needs to be logistics, maintaining utilities, growing food, etc

Conscription is actually a way to ensure that. In the Ukrainian War, as well as at least the US during WW2 (I’m less familiar with other countries’ conscription systems during WW2), conscription is used to prioritize those with skills which are not economically vital during wartime - during WW2, even, some skilled workers weren’t even allowed to volunteer, much less be conscripted, for military service.

Both of them have upvoted posts in the past 15 hours.

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Some casual history promotion

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Miniclip - now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time…

Google could actually find you things.

The first page of searches was almost never brimming with corporate shit, but very Web 1.0 looking niche websites.

Browser based games were all the rage.

Oh God, flash animations. Albino Blacksheep. Our sense of humor was… primitive.

Fuck, webcomics too. They were big back then. And mostly shit, lmao.

Everyone had a blog. Not like modern cookie-cutter blogs, but slapdash HTML pages with unintuitive layouts and garish backgrounds and graphics. 9/10 times that’s where super obscure information was. Midi files - god, do kids even know what midi files are anymore?

There were a million fansites for every fandom. No centralization.

There was a much stronger sense of the internet being a unique place, apart from meatspace. Maybe it was just the aftermath of the dotcom bubble busting, but everything was very… open. Communal. People just… freely sharing themselves and their work.

My point was that posting those kind of links in reply to comments that are suspected to be propaganda could counter their argumentation without having to silence them.

Platforming lies is platforming lies. “But someone further down in the thread refuted it!” doesn’t really matter when the entire fucking point of this kind of misinformation is “Repeat a lie loud enough and often enough and people will believe it’s true”. It’s no more worthy of staying on to show ‘both sides’ than contrasting vaccination with fucking anti-vaxxers.

Holy fuck, looking down through, how the hell do you not find these removals reasonable? “Poland forgave the Nazis for genocide, but not the Russians for a bloodless invasion”? A bloodless invasion?! “Poland were the REAL Nazis, the Soviets had to invade them”!? “You’re just a racist Nazi Pole”!? What the ever-loving fuck.

“We should platform misinformation so we can present both sides”

Fucking what.

Apologia for the USSR’s cooperation with the literal fucking Nazis is next level, and that’s the example that jumps out for you?

“Cool place, like a bunch of connected forums, but avoid the .ml instances and Hexbear”

Hell yeah!

I’m not into politics myself and it drives me crazy that we can’t rely on fine communities because they are on instances defederated by big instances because of their political views.

I didn’t realize genocide apologia and using admin powers to push it was such a minor concern.

Yeah, I made a specific point of avoiding participation in any .ml groups for that very reason.

Gish gallop. It’s a common tactic used by authoritarians with no real arguments.