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Marshal Prolapse posted:I’m not going to make fun of the Epic Store for awhile. Fantastic loving work by Tim Sweeney, Epic, its partners, and (slight vomit) fortnite players. That's cool, not just profit but their entire turnover for that period. I know the game is a money printer but this is a fantastic thing to have done.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:(slight vomit) fortnite players. Rumour goes they have a strong lobby in this thread.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:my guess is they realized how bad this looks and how it looks like the early "holocaust by bullets" days and realized they had to at least say something. Have to think there has been some pressure from the thousands of Jewish Ukrainian refugees who have fled to the country as well.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I’m not going to make fun of the Epic Store for awhile. Fantastic loving work by Tim Sweeney, Epic, its partners, and (slight vomit) fortnite players. It's like finding out that guy fieri is a really nice guy. You just can't hate them anymore.
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Israeli government, probably: "Hey, gunning down unarmed protesters in occupied territory is our shtick!"
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Kenya ambassador to UN laying it down. “Ukraine May now become a model for a new generation of disastrous wars.” E: and calling for reform of the security council.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:I’m not going to make fun of the Epic Store for awhile. Fantastic loving work by Tim Sweeney, Epic, its partners, and (slight vomit) fortnite players. Sergei Galyonkin, creator of Steam Spy and currently Director of Publishing Strategy at Epic is originally from Ukraine, so no doubt that he pushed that, good job on him
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Coquito Ergo Sum posted:VDV: "Where we droppin', boys?" I thought you said kickin kievvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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Ashenai posted:It looks like the Mariupol surrender video was faked. Foreign volunteer in Mariupol says its real https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1511233051816337409?s=20&t=UUC9YLSG_2Py8agOVTgaDA
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Ashenai posted:It looks like the Mariupol surrender video was faked. This article is weak poo poo.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:https://twitter.com/sergiykyslytsya/status/1511374281887911943?s=21&t=-o_wE8xp-s4sLbhtnUa0Bw "Peace through Force"
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Ashenai posted:It looks like the Mariupol surrender video was faked. Do Marines really wear their berets in combat? I thought they were just an annoying thing you had to wear for parade?
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Random Integer posted:Foreign volunteer in Mariupol says its real Some disagreement, apparently (also some lack of clarity regarding what units exactly were involved--501st? 503rd? Something else?): https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1511238804690153478 The Express is tabloid garbage, though (and Ponomarenko obviously has biases). Ultimately, I'd go with "probably real," although numbers and units are less clear. Sir John Falstaff fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:People speculate it’s https://theaviationist.com/2020/07/...e-dircm-system/ CommieGIR posted:Yeah this is similar to LAIRCM in the US DOD: https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97...eat%20missiles. Hrm, are you guys sure? In the first article it says, "The Russians refer to the system as invincible." That claim doesn't seem to tally up with the footage we're seeing.   (on a more serious note, interesting articles, thanks for the clarification!)
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UN SC lazy summary Mexico - standard, similar to Gabon, less pointed than Albania/Kenya India - "negotiation is the only way to end this" "none of this should be ~politicized~ and the UN needs to remain impartial" "we've sent humanitarian support to Ukraine and to neighboring countries" "we reiterate the importance of respecting 'territorial integrity' of every nation" China - Similar to India but slightly more aggressively hitting on the points that the UN should be neutral and keep responses to this conflict 'non-political'. Unsurprisingly China is very concerned about the sanctions imposed, says they qualify as 'weaponizing international trade'. Say they qualify as unwillingly involving countries in the conflict due to the knock-on effects of sanctions, and the UN needs to avoid such things. Seems to aknowlege that this conflict will rightfully make small/medium sized countries concerned about the risks to themselves, and the UN needs to be more active in trying to 'bring Ukraine and Russia to the table to resolve their many differences'. Pointedly states that China does not 'sit on the sidelines passively' and want this conflict to end. Not surprising that China is worried about sanctions - it sets an unfortunate for them precedent of consequences for invading territories where your country has staked a historic claim. I wonder if they are leaning a little harder on Russia in the background now that the EU has shown they aren't planning to drop sanctions any time soon. France speaking now - similar to Albania so far Edit: note on India: They did condemn the killings but IMO did not explicitly assign responsibility to Russia, so the below is accurate but not as big a deal as implied https://twitter.com/Rezhasan/status/1511376080250490882?s=20&t=mYbJg1B9eO8I9XlRdu_6Sg KitConstantine fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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Staluigi posted:Claims that russia is assembling militarily against Ukraine is hysterical russophobia 
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quote:Ukraine will become a “‘big Israel' with its own face,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared on Tuesday, indicating that his country intends to emulate the Israeli security state in the wake of Russia’s invasion. https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-zelenskyy-says-post-war-ukraine-will-emulate-israel-won-t-be-liberal-european-1.10721395 Later in the article Zelenskyy says Ukraine won't be authoritarian. So I guess an "illiberal democracy" of some sort is what he pictures
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 Can someone help me and my Russian wife relocate from Hungary before this whole poo poo burns to the ground? Thanks!
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 https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1511346270853545997 some little shits bragging about his war crimes. he is going to kharkiv now.
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Count Roland posted:https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-zelenskyy-says-post-war-ukraine-will-emulate-israel-won-t-be-liberal-european-1.10721395 This seems... unfortunate?
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https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1511331834663247873?s=20&t=CHwxmlBNPUeTmNvvWQsCVw Unless I'm missing something this latter move being considered sounds like it's inching dangerously close to letting Ukraine use Slovakia and the Czech Republic as a staging area which is the kind of thing Biden and Stoltenberg would absolutely oppose.
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SourKraut posted:This seems... unfortunate? Thank Russia for that, I think it also seems like they’re borrowing from the older Swiss model too. You can’t really blame them.
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Count Roland posted:https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/.premium-zelenskyy-says-post-war-ukraine-will-emulate-israel-won-t-be-liberal-european-1.10721395 It’s just going to be heavily militarised, with military being a societal cornerstone, akin to South Korea - which was entirely predictable, and called before itt. You don’t need enamour yourself with religious fascism (Poland) or elect a pseudo-dictator (Hungary) to build a strong military tradition.
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PerilPastry posted:Unless I'm missing something this latter move being considered sounds like it's inching dangerously close to letting Ukraine use Slovakia and the Czech Republic as a staging area which is the kind of thing Biden and Stoltenberg would absolutely oppose. It's probably a lot safer now that the western half of Ukraine is clear of Russians and entirely out of danger. It's in 'what are you going to do about it?' territory.
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SourKraut posted:This seems... unfortunate? "big Israel" meaning the country is under existential threat from its neighbors (even though the situation is obviously very different as to how it got there), so things like mandatory conscription will be necessary. I also think Zelensky is looking at the strong foothold Russia managed to gain in the liberal democracies of Europe and in its neighboring illiberal democracies and is trying to figure out how to balance combating the aggressor at its border with allowing freedom of speech and freedom of association. Ukraine is going to be in a precarious situation always looking over its shoulder as long as the Russian Federation is allowed to exist in its current form, and especially as long as Putin is in power. edit: Why are they letting the Russian ambassador speak again? Going full speed ahead with claiming all the civilian killings have been staged. Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:It’s just going to be heavily militarised, with military being a societal cornerstone, akin to South Korea - which was entirely predictable, and called before itt. You don’t need enamour yourself with religious fascism (Poland) or elect a pseudo-dictator (Hungary) to build a strong military tradition. Well he specifically said it wouldn't be liberal, which is why I used that term.
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Youth Decay posted:"big Israel" meaning the country is under existential threat from its neighbors (even though the situation is obviously very different as to how it got there), so things like mandatory conscription will be necessary. I also think Zelensky is looking at the strong foothold Russia managed to gain in the liberal democracies of Europe and in its neighboring illiberal democracies and is trying to figure out how to balance combating the aggressor at its border with allowing freedom of speech and freedom of association. Ukraine is going to be in a precarious situation always looking over its shoulder as long as the Russian Federation is allowed to exist in its current form, and especially as long as Putin is in power. I mean that’s what we hope it means. It could easily go a much darker direction.
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PerilPastry posted:Unless I'm missing something this latter move being considered sounds like it's inching dangerously close to letting Ukraine use Slovakia and the Czech Republic as a staging area which is the kind of thing Biden and Stoltenberg would absolutely oppose. Good! We've been pussyfooting around 'oh no, Russia will see this as escalation and they have scary nukes' for long enough, it's high time to let THEM worry about having to attack NATO members for a change.
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uXs posted:Good! We've been pussyfooting around 'oh no, Russia will see this as escalation and they have scary nukes' for long enough, it's high time to let THEM worry about having to attack NATO members for a change. The military analysts I've read suggest that's been happening all along: Supposedly the fear of a NATO intervention is precisely what's forced the Russians to keep a lot of their airpower in reserve. Alchenar posted:It's probably a lot safer now that the western half of Ukraine is clear of Russians and entirely out of danger. It's in 'what are you going to do about it?' territory. I suppose you're right. What truly baffles me is why these potential plans keep being aired semi-publicly? Is it to gauge the Russian response and give back channels time to find the red line of "we'd consider you a co-combatant if you do this"? As I understand it that's what killed the send the MiGs via Mannheim airbase scheme. PerilPastry fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Apr 5, 2022 |
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PerilPastry posted:https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1511331834663247873?s=20&t=CHwxmlBNPUeTmNvvWQsCVw
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Count Roland posted:Well he specifically said it wouldn't be liberal, which is why I used that term. He specifically said “absolutely liberal, European”, which rather transparently reads as code for having militarised society and large peacetime army, since EU is not famous for its military prowess. This will mean a surveillance state, yeah, but that doesn’t necessitate an autocracy or an “illiberal democracy”, cf. United Kingdom.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:He specifically said “absolutely liberal, European”, which rather transparently reads as code for having militarised society and large peacetime army, since EU is not famous for its military prowess. This will mean a surveillance state, yeah, but that doesn’t necessitate an autocracy or an “illiberal democracy”, cf. United Kingdom. The UK is not really an example of an illiberal democracy, Singapore is a far more accurate one. Honestly, I think one most Singaporeans would agree with.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:The UK is not really an example of an illiberal democracy, Singapore is a far more accurate one. Honestly, I think one most Singaporeans would agree with. That confirms my point then, since I was bringing an example of a surveillance state that remains a broadly liberal democracy.
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Marshal Prolapse posted:The UK is not really an example of an illiberal democracy, Singapore is a far more accurate one. Honestly, I think one most Singaporeans would agree with. I think they meant the UK is a survellaince state with IE: a metric fuckton of cameras everywhere. E: f/b.
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