It's been real, ChaCha, but this isn't the place for me. Time to log off.

Good luck posters. A better world is possible. :kropotkin-shining:

Do whatever you want, but don't say you're doing it for me. We may not be enemies but we're not comrades either.

Fine then. Be a butcher. You're no comrade of mine.

Not sure if it's too early to ask, but what kind of lizard are you willing yourself into?

Maybe so. But it's better to struggle with that question than to pretend that we're absolved of responsibility just because it's a war.

You can find figureheads anywhere, and even if one didn't exist, they could have dredged up a "Romanov" from somewhere or tried to turn the family into martyrs. Lord known enough people over the years have claimed to be descendants. Killing the kid provides just as much of a de jure right for other monarchists as keeping him alive, and maybe even a stronger one.

Magical what-if trolley land is nice and all, but it doesn't take away from the concrete facts here. And the concrete facts here are that they put a child on the wall and the fighting kept going because killing him did fuck all.

Y'all ever had those extra toasty cheezits? Good shit

What do you mean it's only about power? Bad shit isn't suddenly not bad because you're fighting for a cause. Revolution is not an amoral act. Revolution is the ultimate moral act and the ultimate moral decision. You cannot divorce morality from revolution without destroying the justification for revolution itself. The quicker you can realize that the better you'll be able to respond to questions like "do I kill the Romanov children?"

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It's also a part of the discourse because there are people who legitimately think similar things should be done to children of elites in the future. There's stakes behind this because there might be a day where the revolution is in your backyard. You might be wearing a uniform. You might be one of those handful of soldiers. If you are, and if you find yourself in a similar position, I hope you make a different choice.

I don't give a shit about who does or doesn't make history, and murdering them created martyrs that made raising an army just as easy. They put a child on the wall. Children don't get the wall. That's what matters.

Fuck yeah I'm mad. I'm allowed to be mad at the fact that millions of children died needless death because of a merciless system of exploitation and cruelty. I'm also allowed to be mad about the fact that someone shot children to death and people don't care.

It's fucking terrible what happened to the peasant kids. The Russian Revolution was a good thing. Shooting a 13 year old still wasn't necessary. Even if you don't care about the fact that it involved putting a bullet in a literal child, shooting them risked turning them into martyrs that would inspire further monarchist action. We're still talking about this shit today, and we'll still be talking about it in decades, because of the Romanov kids. They were and are worth fifty times more to monarchists and elites dead then they were alive.

Motherfuckers two of them were under 18. One was a 13 year old boy. They aren't responsible for the fucked up shit their parents did. I seriously thought people were doing a bit when they said that shooting kids who happened to be born to the wrong parents is good. You all were being serious?

Disgusting.

The thing that sucks about this is that no matter what happens ChaCha is worse off. Either it's legit, which would be just fucking horrible, or it's a fraud, which will further the destructive and fake narrative that many accusers are liars. This whole situation has to be absolutely shitty for people who have been abused in the past. Whether or not it turns out that the story is true, I hope that when the dust settles, we find a way to show our support to people who have suffered sexual violence but are afraid of coming forward because they think they won't be believed.

wait who got this pic of me in lipstick

Man I just wanted to virtually hang out with my internet peers why'd things have to get so weird :deeper-sadness:

Man beer and soju is good stuff. I'm a lightweight, so just one or two of those was usually enough for a good time for me.

Nobody likes Teddy either so they make a good pair

Yo what's the deal with Ted Cruz and Dasani memes

When I visited Korea people drank soju like water. Not exactly hard alcohol, but definitely more alcoholic than beer.