• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Every year I post a screenshot of my aunt’s rant about everyone dying from the covid vaccine in 3 years.

    Every year people tell me that’s not polite, and every year I reply that admitting you were wrong is free.

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      I like to repost my mother-in-law’s posts about how she 100% guaranteed Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine. (From 3 months before the start of the Ukraine war.)

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        Ouch, I said that too. I honestly thought Putin wouldn’t be that stupid, because the guerilla war that followed the occupation would be insanely costly.

        But I’ll admit I was wrong.

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            Yea, we thought it wouldn’t happen because of all the bad things that would happen to Russia as a result.

            And all those bad things happened, and more.

            But we forgot that when it’s about a dictator’s grip on power being on the line, none of that matters. It’s all about the dictator’s grip on power.

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      Is your aunt dead or does she get to live with the shame and ridicule? If she is dead, then this a definitely a way harder flex than if she isn’t.

      I deleted my Facebook because I would be going scorched Earth on everyone, mostly family, in my friends list. I don’t associate with most of them IRL, but at least I haven’t put in writing my true feeling about them and people that think like them. My thoughts are abundantly clear on Lemmy behind the veil of anonymity.