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meduza.io has some really wacky stories up rn. Is it Russian April 1st or something?quote:Burger King in Russia announces new meals inspired by the artist who nailed his scrotum to Red Square https://meduza.io/en/lion/2016/08/29/burger-king-in-russia-announces-new-meals-inspired-by-the-artist-who-nailed-his-scrotum-to-red-square
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Sep 15, 2016 18:45
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Darth Walrus posted:A little reminder: What are these percentages of? Edit: oh, percentages of worldwide average. Reading hard 
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Sep 15, 2016 19:27
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aphid_licker posted:meduza.io has some really wacky stories up rn. Is it Russian April 1st or something? No, it is real, the PR company working for Burger King in Russia loves dumb and provocative marketing.
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Sep 15, 2016 19:32
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They also did this: At first I thought it was some sort of Russia stronk thing but it's just a world of tanks tie-in.
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Sep 15, 2016 19:37
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Darth Walrus posted:A little reminder: Ah, 
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Sep 15, 2016 19:38
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mobby_6kl posted:At first I thought it was some sort of Russia stronk thing but it's just a world of tanks tie-in. Those are very much not mutually exclusive.
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Sep 15, 2016 19:51
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Who wants some nuts?
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Sep 16, 2016 01:48
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RT and Sputnik are now reporting on the "Anti-Bellingcat" report some anonymous Russian bloggers put together which is full of errors and conspiracy theories. Here's a little response from us https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/776705824303570945
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Sep 16, 2016 10:09
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Brown Moses posted:RT and Sputnik are now reporting on the "Anti-Bellingcat" report some anonymous Russian bloggers put together which is full of errors and conspiracy theories. Here's a little response from us Isn't Stratfor also one of those private intelligence industry companies like Jane's Defence? Like the way you can access their top secret confidential intelligence briefs is by having a subscription? RT's basically the whole bullshit you hear from a channer or a redditor whenever Lowtax puts up a paywall on a thread or forum. Just because you have to pay  for Dangaronpa LPs doesn't mean it's not publicly available.
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Sep 16, 2016 10:30
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Young Freud posted:Isn't Stratfor also one of those private intelligence industry companies like Jane's Defence? Like the way you can access their top secret confidential intelligence briefs is by having a subscription? Yeah, the "anonymous Russian bloggers" also claim you can't find the image used by Stratfor and Bellingcat on the Digital Globe catalogue search, and come up with this whole conspiracy theory about it. Thing is, you can, they just suck at using the search function. The report is long and full of errors like that, so we won't bother replying to the report, but if RT are dumb enough to quote it then I'm happy to take the piss out of them for it.
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Sep 16, 2016 10:33
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Oh man, BM, I know you retweeted this but this has to be shared... https://twitter.com/lennutrajektoor/status/776713637847265280
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Sep 16, 2016 10:42
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They also claim the smoke photos are fake because the colour is different: Problem is, the original uploader said he lightened the image to make the smoke clearer, and the photographer uploaded the original unedited version:  And they also claim the cables vanishing are evidence it was evidence, even though it's because the photographer zoomed under the cables. The whole thing is laughable, and anyone familiar with the back and forth on MH17 would be aware of all these claims already as they were debunked months ago.
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Sep 16, 2016 11:08
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Jesus, is it still going on, after dozen official reports, what is there left to talk about.
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Sep 16, 2016 11:11
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steinrokkan posted:Jesus, is it still going on, after dozen official reports, what is there left to talk about. It's because the criminal investigation team (JIT) is giving a press conference on Sept 28th, so Russia is making GBS threads itself and has started on the push back this week. Seems most of it's about going after Bellingcat at the moment.
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Sep 16, 2016 11:15
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Sep 16, 2016 11:30
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A reminder that Finns are Slavs after all.
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Sep 16, 2016 13:23
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Pizdec posted:A reminder that Finns are Slavs after all. Finns are 90% Mongols and Mongols are the ancestors of Native Americans/Puerto Ricans checks out
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Sep 16, 2016 13:46
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Here's the spin the Russian media is putting on the JIT press conference: https://twitter.com/mh17research/status/777453228871053312
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Sep 18, 2016 11:42
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"The Dutch used Bellingcat research for their report, therefore it is flawed and you can forget about it weeks before it's even released to the public." That's the jist I got from listening to the Russian voice over.
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Sep 18, 2016 13:38
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With all votes counted, in a surprising turn of events United Russia takes 37.7%, Communists - 13.93%, LDPR - 13.11%, Apple - 9.51%, and Rightful Russia - 6.55% of votes of the 2016 Gosduma elections. Election attendance in Moscow was 35.22%.
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Sep 19, 2016 15:49
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cinci zoo sniper posted:With all votes counted, in a surprising turn of events United Russia takes 37.7%, Communists - 13.93%, LDPR - 13.11%, Apple - 9.51%, and Rightful Russia - 6.55% of votes of the 2016 Gosduma elections. Election attendance in Moscow was 35.22%. All the votes and more, comrade!
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Sep 19, 2016 16:02
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Some election grahs, courtesy of The Insider.
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Sep 19, 2016 16:08
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cinci zoo sniper posted:With all votes counted, in a surprising turn of events United Russia takes 37.7%, Communists - 13.93%, LDPR - 13.11%, Apple - 9.51%, and Rightful Russia - 6.55% of votes of the 2016 Gosduma elections. Election attendance in Moscow was 35.22%. I think those vote numbers might be for Moscow only; Yabloko/Apple got <2% overall. Also tons of videos of blatant ballot stuffing around.
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Sep 19, 2016 16:29
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These transparent plexiglass ballot boxes are the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time. You can clearly see the ballot and who people voted for inside those things. They would make a tiny bit of sense if people at least put their ballots into an envelope before they throw them in there.
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Sep 19, 2016 17:02
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OddObserver posted:I think those vote numbers might be for Moscow only; Yabloko/Apple got <2% overall. Actual numbers: with 99.42% votes counted, United Russia has 54.18%, CPRF has 13.35%, LDPR has 13.16%, and A Just Russia has 6.21%. Overall attendance was 47.77%. Final and official results will be presented this Friday. And yeah, like every other Russian election, it was poo poo show all around, with people dumping wads of ballots into the boxes and whatnot. As usual, no real repercussions, beyond Nizhniy Novgorod (video with an election committee member below) and, surprise surprise, a journalist getting poo poo for looking into paid voting scheme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EsUxmXqVh4&hd=1 Edit: waitwhatno posted:These transparent plexiglass ballot boxes are the dumbest thing I've seen in a long time. You can clearly see the ballot and who people voted for inside those things. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Sep 19, 2016 17:20
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It's especially funny considering that Putin himself pushed for installing those webcams.
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Sep 19, 2016 17:52
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
Of course, showing that the box starts off empty in the morning isn't of much value when they just throw in a whole pack of ballots during the day, anyway. Actually, I am kind of bothered by lack of proper privacy envelopes here in MA, USA, as you pretty much carry the filled in ballot around w/o privacy protection. Where I lived earlier, they had a little folder to carry it in before putting it into the scanner machine.
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Sep 19, 2016 17:56
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Paladinus posted:It's especially funny considering that Putin himself pushed for installing those webcams. Well yeah, gotta make sure the election-tampering-with process isn't tampered with.
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Sep 19, 2016 21:35
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We have transparent ballot boxes in France too, the ballot themselves are in envelopes though.
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Sep 19, 2016 21:40
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Huh, Putin just fired 163 thousand people from interior ministry, and Russian finance ministry is looking into implementing higher, and more uniform, taxation.
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Sep 20, 2016 13:28
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In Finland no envelope (wouldn't that make it harder to make sure there's only one ballot?) but the ballot is folded from the middle, then before you slip it in it has to be stamped on the outside by an official.  cinci zoo sniper posted:Russian finance ministry is looking into implementing higher, and more uniforms my first reading of this "Vova, I know what would improve tax payer's morale - flashier uniforms for tax officials!" 
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Sep 20, 2016 13:35
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I guess this is Putin's way of looking for change amidst the cushions
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Sep 20, 2016 13:42
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Forums Terrorist posted:I guess this is Putin's way of looking for change amidst the cushions
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Sep 20, 2016 13:45
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Nenonen posted:In Finland no envelope (wouldn't that make it harder to make sure there's only one ballot?) You just need some simple rules. Ballot outside of envelope: blank, doesn't count Ballot with scribbling or defacement: blank, doesn't count Envelope with more than one ballot: blank, doesn't count Envelope with less than one ballot: blank, doesn't count
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Sep 20, 2016 14:57
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Trump has found another friend among Eastern European heads of state, this time it's a professional troll, Miloš Zeman of the Czech Republic. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/trump-wins-another-endorsement-from-ex-communist-eu-leader
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Sep 20, 2016 15:58
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Huh, Putin just fired 163 thousand people from interior ministry, and Russian finance ministry is looking into implementing higher, and more uniform, taxation. Apparently a lot are being re-hired into the National Guard though: https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/09/20/163-000-laid-off-police-officers-to-serve-in-russia-s-national-guard Shuffling the deck OMONs or smth.
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Sep 20, 2016 18:22
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NAT-T Ice posted:Apparently a lot are being re-hired into the National Guard though: https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/09/20/163-000-laid-off-police-officers-to-serve-in-russia-s-national-guard
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steinrokkan posted:Trump has found another friend among Eastern European heads of state, this time it's a professional troll, Miloš Zeman of the Czech Republic. 
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NAT-T Ice posted:Apparently a lot are being re-hired into the National Guard though: https://meduza.io/en/news/2016/09/20/163-000-laid-off-police-officers-to-serve-in-russia-s-national-guard OMON and other such Gendarmerie forces depend from the Ministry of the Interior. The new National Guard reports directly to the president and are slated to take the lead in a lot of internal law enforcement roles. Its a blatant power concentration move.
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