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.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 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 3 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)

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