Oh, thank goodness! I always wondered what happened. I wish him the best!

I’m betting we’re about to see the Venezuelan political pendulum swing with the impertus of a howitzer shell towards fascism.

Implying it’s not already fascist?

Hey, if it isn’t my favorite ableist!

Just a reminder that the comm has moved to !historymemes@piefed.social

Yeah, prefer not to use that option yet.

There’s a pinned post explaining

Damn, sorry, I’m still adjusting to Piefed markup. !historymemes@lemmy.world

Does that work?

For context, this was on a post about Uyghur genocide denial.

If one’s first response on a post about Uyghur genocide denial is to deny the genocide and defend genocide denialists, walking it back when called out is not particularly believable.

Denying genocide and then walking it back later, whilst defending genocide deniers does not inspire much confidence in the walking back.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.

Unruffled denying Uyghur genocide

Holodomor denial left up in a comm where the only two mods are dbzer0 admins, they both participated in the thread, the material was reported, it was specifically pointed out to one of them, and the comm regularly removes Zionist genocide apologia and denial under the (legitimate) justification that genocide denial is against the rules

Saxon customs on facial hair, one presumes. Many Germanic peoples of this period wore thick mustaches as a cultural affectation, and depict themselves/are depicted with such.

Fun fact: there’s no Classical Latin word for mustache. The term ‘Gothic Beard’ (‘barbam Gothicam’) is suspected to refer to it.

Perfection

Yeah, don’t fucking come here. Not now, not in the future. We can’t be trusted again for a very long time - longer than just an election or two.

Roller skates, definitely

The Romans did like a bit of the ol’ ultraviolence…

Explanation: The legendary founders of the city of Rome, Romulus and Remus, supposedly were suckled by a wolf. A great story beginning with a tall glass of wolf milk!

(alternatively, ‘lupa’, ‘she-wolf’, was Latin slang for a prostitute - something the Romans themselves speculated may have been the true meaning of the story)

You’re right that it changes nothing about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine being reprehensible, but those are two different polities, with different leadership.

Explanation: In pre-modern pitched battles, both sides would typically be camped close to one another so as to be able to ‘present battle’ - ie force the enemy into a fight. The thing is, each camp would also be filled with food, equipment… and hard-earned loot and pay! For obvious reasons, for many poor troops (and some not-so-poor ones), getting their hands on that plunder was an immensely tempting prospect, and there are numerous occasions when one side’s forces, thinking the battle was won, would break off to loot the enemy’s camp - either letting many of the enemy escape, or, worse, having the enemy rally and drive them off instead!

For this reason, many successful commanders in pre-modern history emphasized discipline in the ranks, including discipline regarding looting. Looting was fine - but it had to be at the proper time!