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Time until domino theory is mentioned by war mongering media in 3, 2, 1...
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 16:56 |
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Sinteres posted:I thought your entire position was based on idealism. If not for idealism, why should countries outside of the immediate neighborhood care about Ukraine? Throwing away your principles in favor of a stupid troll meme is a weird stand. I'm glad you're here to make sure we don't lose focus on the true tragedy unfolding in Ukraine: the US is bad.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 16:57 |
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Transnistria will be awarded a sea lane when they stop ukranians from escaping the onslaught.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 16:59 |
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Sinteres posted:Just speaking as an American I think it's hugely embarrassing for my country to be putting out troll memes that insult an entire nation (as opposed to just its political leadership) in the middle of a serious crisis, and I don't care if other countries do it too. Why is it embarrassing? Owning the enemy dujour has roots going back to Ur.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:00 |
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1496152850090663943?s=20&t=GdhIAk7Xko-lss9Nng4dsA Not sure if this was posted earlier as it's early AM on pacific time. White House now calling it an invasion.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:02 |
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Count Roland posted:I'm inclined to agree, it comes of as immature at best. some levity amongst the horror is generally preferable imo
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:04 |
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Herstory Begins Now posted:the idea that putin was just yanking nato/western europe/ukraine's chain and wasn't going to do poo poo really seemed pretty pervasive among, like, a lot of russians of all ends of the political spectrum. It was surreal seeing people from all sides politically yesterday just recoiling simultaneously. You never really see that. The various intelligence agencies telling the truth for the first time in their existences required a bit of digestion imo.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:07 |
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Moon Slayer posted:Gotta admit, I only learned about Transnistria yesterday when I saw a video of someone simulating a Russian/NATO war in Ukraine using Hearts of Iron IV. Edit: I suggest this thread as a bit of backstory on it. Slava can get overly snarky sometimes, but he is also literally a refugee from there, and can also be very entertaining: https://twitter.com/slavamalamud/status/1430939451069509639 Edit #2: more Transnistria-specific thread: https://twitter.com/SlavaMalamud/status/1431245560099508226 OddObserver fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Feb 22, 2022 |
# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:07 |
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Jarmak posted:I'm glad you're here to make sure we don't lose focus on the true tragedy unfolding in Ukraine: the US is bad. I'm not the one who posted it here, I just provided my honest response to it and other people obviously had opinions of their own. That doesn't make it the most important thing happening in the world this moment, but I don't think it's your job to decide what merits discussion and what doesn't.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:08 |
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Sinteres posted:Responding to ethno-nationalism with insults based on ethno-nationalism doesn't exactly defuse it. The US position is ostensibly based on universal principles of sovereignty and liberty and everything, and going down in the mud to post troll memes about how Russia's ancestors were primitives isn't helpful, regardless of who it's in support of. It's not that I think the US is genuinely better than this, it's just not appropriate and I don't want to see it. You're being a prig. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:10 |
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Duma has just approved the use of Russian force abroad, leaving essentially all specifics of implementation up to Putin.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:11 |
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:Duma has just approved the use of Russian force abroad, leaving essentially all specifics of implementation up to Putin. Interesting that sending forces into Donbass didn't count prior to this.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:15 |
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Relevant Tangent posted:You're being a prig. You're welcome to disagree, but this doesn't really seem like debate or discussion.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:17 |
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https://twitter.com/dsupervilleap/status/1496156553010888705?s=20&t=a_QjUYpKN6OyZVzuK13YzA Will this be announcing sanctions from US side? Calling it an invasion means the more "severe" sanctions kick in.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:19 |
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Sinteres posted:You're welcome to disagree, but this doesn't really seem like debate or discussion. At every turn your predictions and analysis over what is going to happen have been spectacularly wrong. Why do you think that is? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:20 |
Ah, so there is the rest of the escalation.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:21 |
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CommieGIR posted:Interesting that sending forces into Donbass didn't count prior to this. Well until now they've just been sending peacekeepers to an allied country.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:21 |
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Upgrade posted:At every turn your predictions and analysis over what is going to happen have been spectacularly wrong. Why do you think that is? ? I've been extremely open to the idea that Russia would invade if Ukraine didn't offer concessions, so I have no idea what you're talking about, and think you must be confusing me with other posters. I don't consider anything that's happening so far a new or distinct invasion from 2014 yet, but it still looks to me like there will most likely be one. It seems a little weird for your first post in the thread to be incorrectly attributing predictions to me. Dr Kool-AIDS fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Feb 22, 2022 |
# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:22 |
CommieGIR posted:Interesting that sending forces into Donbass didn't count prior to this. This permission is to invade somewhere, not to be invited somewhere, to simplify.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:24 |
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Gripweed posted:It's a bad meme Sure and Ukraines official Twitter is all about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/26/ukraine-russia-memes-social/ Pretty sure US the embassy meme was posted by them a couple of years ago.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:27 |
Owling Howl posted:Sure and Ukraines official Twitter is all about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/26/ukraine-russia-memes-social/ If Ukraine wants international support in this moment of crisis, they should probably stop being so cringe.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:29 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:This permission is to invade somewhere, not to be invited somewhere, to simplify.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:29 |
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https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1496160306581884931
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:30 |
Dwesa posted:I'm surprised they care about semantics It’s the gopnik mentality. When you get robbed in Eastern Europe, thugs will go at lengths to convince you that you owe them the money or what have you, because beating you up unprompted would be uncivilised. This is the international affairs version of that.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:31 |
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Putin is speaking right now. https://youtu.be/V0I5eglJMRI
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:32 |
Owling Howl posted:Sure and Ukraines official Twitter is all about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/26/ukraine-russia-memes-social/ These churlish Ukrainians should show some decorum, being invaded by Russia is no excuse for bad manners.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:32 |
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Gripweed posted:If Ukraine wants international support in this moment of crisis, they should probably stop being so cringe. It's pretty cringe, but it's not one hour long Destroying Ukraine with FACTS and LOGIC rant video cringe.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:33 |
Paladinus posted:It's pretty cringe, but it's not one hour long Destroying Ukraine with FACTS and LOGIC rant video cringe. We can not allow a Cringe Gap
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:34 |
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From now on, I'm going to start responding to every 'beautiful Ukrainian women are seeking you' e-mail that I receive. It's the least I can do for Ukraine!
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:35 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:This permission is to invade somewhere, not to be invited somewhere, to simplify. Thy could always just have Yanukovich "invite" them again. What's a second bit of high treason among friends?
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:36 |
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Gripweed posted:We can not allow a Cringe Gap Is that Scholz pornhub username?
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:37 |
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Watch Putin topple the big elephant in the room, the bureaucratic nightmare that is democracy. The economical fallout from this will further move EU into trump-town where people vote to close off their countries and enact leaders that poop out poo poo about "making *insert country* great again" because the current leaders "didn't do anything about this crisis", thus opening up potential allies to Putin in the shape of stupid political leaders that get off on fascism. This is my bleak vision of the future.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:37 |
OddObserver posted:Thy could always just have Yanukovich "invite" them again. What's a second bit of high treason among friends? I’m half-expecting the ghoul to come back as governor-in-exile, not going to lie.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:37 |
Putin says Ukraine needs to be demilitarized and Zelenskyy criminally prosecuted, sounds like a totally reasonable demand from a guy willing to negotiate.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:37 |
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Imaginary Friend posted:Watch Putin topple the big elephant in the room, the bureaucratic nightmare that is democracy. Putin's image of cold calculating autocrat melting into brain worms Slavic fox news grandpa if anything is kind of a blow to the "democracy sucks, autocrats so sexy" brand that has been getting around since 2016. That and the Kazakh shenanigans once again showing how crazy unstable that sort of thing is even in a country that is otherwise a prosperous success story.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:39 |
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Have Baltic foreign ministers cancelled their trip to Kyiv scheduled for this week yet?
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:39 |
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https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1496162056273371140 Even the bits still within Ukraine's control belong to Russia.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:40 |
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Have there been any good Sio Bibble memes with regard to this current event?
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:42 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1496162056273371140 jesus loving christ
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:42 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Even the bits still within Ukraine's control belong to Russia.
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# ? Feb 22, 2022 17:43 |