with both wicked and decent sides to them

that isn’t my point, if one of them had a decent side, i’d give a f. but they are human beings like you and me. i can only reiterate, we’ve seen that often enough and where this leads to.

there’s harm in completely demonize a person or group of people

particularly that it makes it more difficult to find a stable political solution to the underlying conflicts.

murdering hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and his own people.

luckily that’s an exaggeration. it might apply to russian combatants though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine#Casualties

could someone still hold a grudge regarding the many ‘free shots’ that the yanks delivered back in the days?

it’s called dehumanization and we know where that leads to.

other might nowadays create similar depictions of other government heads that can also be considered shit bags and are involved in a war making that obvious.

it was a kitchen job at that time and with the shutdown in place i would have had “personal free time”.

i was involved with a computer scene some years earlier than that. neither were videos or emails a use-case at the time, yet you could have playful and educating interactions with the available devices.

Hell, imagine if covid had hit 25 years earlier. The fuck would’ve we been doing?

playing computer games. organizing the CD collection. watching TV shows. mastering a skill like programming or image editing on the computer system at hand. masturbating to VHS porn. having long, undisturbed landline conversations. reading books.