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pigdog posted:Meanwhile, the kidnapped Estonian law enforcement officer Considering Pussy Riot ended up in a Siberian gulag, that may not be such a bad moveahahahaaha, who are we kidding.
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StandardVC10 posted:My dad tells me stories of French people speaking English with a "Bob Dylan accent" because he had just hit it big. I met a guy that basically learned English from watching the Simpsons.
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Ardennes posted:I met a guy that basically learned English from watching the Simpsons. I regularly chat with a Finnish woman who learned English from playing the Pokemon game. Her language choices were English or Swedish.
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CeeJee posted:Aren't all American movies already pirated and dubbed by one guy doing all dialogues in the same voice ? That's rarely the case since nineties. Most films are dubbed in Russia for cinema releases and pirated after that. American TV shows are dubbed by enthusiasts and semi-professionals and sometimes are picked up and dubbed for TV. On that note, I know that when House M.D. aired in Belarus it was dubbed in Russian by Belarusian actors. Paladinus fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Considering Pussy Riot ended up in a Siberian gulag, that may not be such a bad moveahahahaaha, who are we kidding. Putin benevolently pardoned them for the Sochi Olympics.
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McDowell posted:Putin benevolently pardoned them for the Sochi Olympics. They were actually in the news here in Boston area recently, with a misleading headline: "Pussy Riot Spends Night at Cambridge Police Department Following Harvard Talk" http://www.boston.com/life/2014/09/...eU0O/story.html (They were supporting an activist whom Harvard Police arrested for trespassing).
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Maybe if we let Russia host the Olympics every year it'll be the moderate check to Putin's belligerence.
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Berke Negri posted:Maybe if we let Russia host the Olympics every year it'll be the moderate check to Putin's belligerence. Actually, looking at history of his invasions, canceling the Olympics outright might work better.
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Ardennes posted:In a sense it is predictable, simply because there isn't really any other major powers opposing the US, so there is a kneejerk reaction to one that does. Putin's Russia doesn't have anything to do with socialism though beyond some crippled public services. Yeah, it's pretty understandable why someone would find the US' neoconservative foreign policy objectionable and self-defeating. It's always funny when people decide to express their disapproval by backing a leader whose policies are arguably worse, though.
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Berke Negri posted:Maybe if we let Russia host the Olympics every year it'll be the moderate check to Putin's belligerence. Russia would go broke in a few years.
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Majorian posted:Yeah, it's pretty understandable why someone would find the US' neoconservative foreign policy objectionable and self-defeating. It's always funny when people decide to express their disapproval by backing a leader whose policies are arguably worse, though. Yeah, it is a kneejerk reaction, that includes a lot of mis-assumptions about what Russia especially is. If assumptions cycle-back on each other, conservatives proudly proclaim Russia is "just those old Soviets with their communism" and some self-proclaim leftists think they are right about that part. It has come up a bit in this thread at times.
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It's one of those points in history in which dumb leftists and dumb rightists (that last part is redundant, I know) believe the same thing: that Putin ruling the U.S. would be a good thing.
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Sep 17, 2014 19:39
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I've seen leftists on Facebook solemnly repost dispatches from Strelkov as if he is Che.
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I shouldn't be surprised at that. "He says he's fighting against Western imperialism? Welp, that's all I need to know about the guy!!! "
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Majorian posted:It's one of those points in history in which dumb leftists and dumb rightists (that last part is redundant, I know) believe the same thing: that Putin ruling the U.S. would be a good thing. Well duh. Having to work with Congress would literally kill him.
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In Estonia, ten year old girl tries to drive her drunk dad home. The police didn't think that was such a good idea. http://news.err.ee/v/society/cc4a019c-bcbb-4e0d-a877-eb4c6bfa9231
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double nine posted:Well duh. Having to work with Congress would literally kill him. He would just send in the army like Yeltsin did.
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Majorian posted:I shouldn't be surprised at that. "He says he's fighting against Western imperialism? Welp, that's all I need to know about the guy!!! There's people who support the revolutionary struggle of North Korea, though they're just the fringe of the fringe of useful idiots.
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Majorian posted:I shouldn't be surprised at that. "He says he's fighting against Western imperialism? Welp, that's all I need to know about the guy!!! I think part of it is there is ingrained distrust of the Western media, coupled with the fact that the Western media in general has done a terrible job of approaching the conflict. That said, I think there is a reason some far-leftists/far-rightist support Putin together (including Alex Jones), both want to see the current system go. The irony though is while Putin is far closer to the far-right side of the spectrum, both sides in Europe are basically supporting an authoritarian rightist on their own doorstep. It is bringing together groups who want to end the current system...for very different reasons, and to be honest some of it is the job Putin had done with his propaganda. RT attempts to appeal to libertarians, far-right types, leftists and conspiracy nuts all at the same time.
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Sep 17, 2014 20:14
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Poroshenko was in Canada today.  
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Russia calls on Europe to counter modern expansionism. http://rt.com/politics/188172-russian-romanian-moldovan-unification/ quote:Russia’s Foreign Ministry has denounced Romanian PM Victor Ponta’s plan to unify Moldova with Romania by 2018 as “inadmissible and irresponsible,” and called for all European countries to counter modern expansionism. Russia calls on Europe to counter modern expansionism. Russia calls on Europe to counter modern expansionism. Russia calls on Europe to counter modern expansionism.
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I agree, Russia, expansionism is bad.
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Bonus points for claiming that it hurts Transdniester which, last I checked, was not under control of Chisinau and Russian-occupied.
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Russia has projection down to a loving science, god drat.
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The Russian government really loves it's spiteful foreign policy statements.Mokotow posted:Poroshenko mentioned over 800 soldiers in his parlimentary address today, but that would be mostly volountary batalions. The regular army hasn't been really heard from since Slovyansk, except the victory day parade in Kiev.
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Are we sure Russia is real, and not some elaborate TobleroneTriangular kind of thing on a global scale?
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Discendo Vox posted:Are we sure Russia is real, and not some elaborate TobleroneTriangular kind of thing on a global scale? Boy, that would be a long con.
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What with the, uh, NATO and the ABM and the dastardly EU, does Russia really have any other option but to tie the damsel to the train tracks and laugh maniacally, twisting its mustache as the locomotive bears down upon her helpless virtue? Makes you think.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:In Estonia, ten year old girl tries to drive her drunk dad home. The police didn't think that was such a good idea. Actually, she was driving him to the liquer store to get more drinks. Fabulous Knight posted:Russia calls on Europe to counter modern expansionism. I loving love this. For years the Baltic states have pointed the finger at Russia and screamed at everyone in Europe "look, look at those guys! they can't be trusted! they're loving nuts!". To which they replied "shhh calm down, is all good" and now finally Russia has shown its true colours to the entire world by being absolutely the biggest dick of a country you can possibly imagine.
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OhYeah posted:Actually, she was driving him to the liquer store to get more drinks. Well, the really interesting part about this to me is how much it's reminiscent of Russia's geopolitical strategies in the same part of the world a hundred years ago: supporting the unification of some states into one, opposing the same thing in the countries next door.
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Fabulous Knight posted:Russia calls on Europe to counter modern expansionism. Russia is the worst/best troll on the planet.
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Fabulous Knight posted:Russia calls on Europe to counter modern expansionism. I think the Russian Foreign Ministry might be the greatest act of performance art produced this century.
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Welcome to Luhansk International Airport.  For reference: 
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If any of the soldiers defending it survive, I imagine they'd have some interesting stories to tell. Edit: or defended it/survived, since I don't know if Ukraine's still holding on to it.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Welcome to Luhansk International Airport. Come on, now you're just showing pictures of LAX.
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Majorian posted:Come on, now you're just showing pictures of LAX. I admit it has been several years since I was last at LAX, but it can't look this bad. 
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Whoa now, don't say things you can't take back. I didn't realize that Ukraine was walking down such a dark path.
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