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nutri_void
Apr 18, 2015

I shall devour your soul.
Grimey Drawer

chitoryu12 posted:

Are you still living in Russia? Just going on SA seems dangerous.

If I must make sacrifices to shitpost in TRP, then sacrifices I shall make!

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tsa
Feb 3, 2014

Discendo Vox posted:

I don't know, I've read online that he's not a credible actor.

I'm sure he could figure it out from watching a couple youtubes.

TildeATH
Oct 21, 2010

by Lowtax

Discendo Vox posted:

Go with Mr. Tumble. Highest credibility of the names mentioned so far.

Can he do a good polonium death bed scene?

Let's make sure to pick the actor based on the role not the look.

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer
You wouldn't believe what those drat muslims are responsible for. Now they're making the British beat up Polish immigrants!

A Pale Horse
Jul 29, 2007

anilEhilated posted:

You wouldn't believe what those drat muslims are responsible for. Now they're making the British beat up Polish immigrants!

Haha, here's the actual quote:

quote:

The British are frustrated by the influx of immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa. But because of the rules of political correctness they cannot unload their frustration on these people, so they turn it against the Poles, who are Christians, and culturally similar to the British. So it seems to them (British) that you can attack them - said Mariusz Blaszczak, Minister of Interior and Administration

lol.

He also denied that there's a problem with Xenophobia and racism in Poland and blamed the media for making a big deal out of the 496 incidents of racial violence in Poland since the beginning of the year. :downs:

A Pale Horse
Jul 29, 2007

So in addition to the complete abortion ban working its way through our parliament there are now two new proposals, sponsored by the Catholic church of course. The first is a ban on Plan B (morning after pill) the second is a total ban on all contraceptive pills. The second was referred to parliament because they managed to gather 100,000 signatures demanding the ban which means the parliament has to take the issue up. I don't think even PiS is that insane, but we'll see.

Anne Frank Funk
Nov 4, 2008

As a compromise they will let the contraceptive ban slide but we will get everything else put in place. All part of the game.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

54.4 crowns posted:



If USA breaks up will get a new bout of Russian style foreign policy ranting and raving about spheres of influence, and cool cyborgs.

No I have no idea what the background for the Russo-American alliance is, but I'm sure more thought went into this fictional setting then the pizza cutter over there.

(don't judge me, some anime is actually...good)

This is largely borrowed from Shirow's other work, Appleseed...


Masamune Shirow posted:

U.S.-Soviet Alliance - A nation spanning both the old superpowers - the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Policies lean toward those of Olympus. Currently squared off against Imperial Americana

Imperial Americana - A right-wing nation based in the south of the old U.S. in a struggle with the U.S.-Soviet Alliance, and on bad terms with Olympus

Although, TBF, he wrote this sometime in the 1988-1989, since the Appleseed timeline has entries regarding "perestroika", the Iran-Iraq war ending, Seoul Olympics and Tiananmen Square before diving into the counterfactual projections.

Horns of Hattin
Dec 21, 2011

Brown Moses posted:

My 2 year old seems to think Seth Rogan looks like me, or Mr.Tumble.

If you have a 2 year old, then you should seriously consider getting this children's bed they're bound to love:

http://kidsmebelstore.ru/korabli-i-parovozy/detskaya-krovat-raketnaya-ustanovka-buk-m-1

With the currency exchange rate, it's practically a steal. Slightly charred children's plush toys sold separately.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


So I've got a buddy convinced Russia is reactivating all their old military units and modernizing their military, as well as moving troops and an aircraft carrier to Syria (which I know they've done all of these things) because they truly fear a first strike by an increasingly imperialistic and aggressive United States, that will only get bolder under Hillary and that our strike on Assad's goons is proof of this anti-Russian war footing. Oh, and also that Russia can afford this coming war, because Russia Stronk and Always Win. Is there a place he is getting these loving idiotic ideas and a take down of them? I mean other than the fact that Putin's Russian annexed a neighboring nation's territory and continues to send irregular military forces and weapons to aid an uprising in the same neighboring state.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

KiteAuraan posted:

So I've got a buddy convinced Russia is reactivating all their old military units and modernizing their military, as well as moving troops and an aircraft carrier to Syria (which I know they've done all of these things) because they truly fear a first strike by an increasingly imperialistic and aggressive United States, that will only get bolder under Hillary and that our strike on Assad's goons is proof of this anti-Russian war footing. Oh, and also that Russia can afford this coming war, because Russia Stronk and Always Win. Is there a place he is getting these loving idiotic ideas and a take down of them? I mean other than the fact that Putin's Russian annexed a neighboring nation's territory and continues to send irregular military forces and weapons to aid an uprising in the same neighboring state.

What aircraft carrier? Russia only has one, the Admiral Kuznetsov. The rest have either been scrapped or sold to China or India. And the Kuzentsov is about the equivalent of an amphibious carrier, not anything like the Nimitz where it can maintain long-term force projection.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


Young Freud posted:

What aircraft carrier? Russia only has one, the Admiral Kuznetsov. The rest have either been scrapped or sold to China or India. And the Kuzentsov is about the equivalent of an amphibious carrier, not anything like the Nimitz where it can maintain long-term force projection.

That's the one, and apparently they haven't even sent it yet and delayed the planned launch because of reasons (probably no qualified crew or the thing leaks like holy gently caress).

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

KiteAuraan posted:

That's the one, and apparently they haven't even sent it yet and delayed the planned launch because of reasons (probably no qualified crew or the thing leaks like holy gently caress).

Yeah, the force projection of the Kuzentsov is laughable. The Kuzentsov is 30-40 fixed-wing plus a dozen or so helicopters, but a Nimitz, on average is something like 80-90 various aircraft, with typically 64 fixed-wing aircraft, but can host up to 130 F/A-18s.

Dusty Baker 2
Jul 8, 2011

Keyboard Inghimasi

Young Freud posted:

Yeah, the force projection of the Kuzentsov is laughable. The Kuzentsov is 30-40 fixed-wing plus a dozen or so helicopters, but a Nimitz, on average is something like 80-90 various aircraft, with typically 64 fixed-wing aircraft, but can host up to 130 F/A-18s.

And there's 10 of them.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Young Freud posted:

Yeah, the force projection of the Kuzentsov is laughable. The Kuzentsov is 30-40 fixed-wing plus a dozen or so helicopters, but a Nimitz, on average is something like 80-90 various aircraft, with typically 64 fixed-wing aircraft, but can host up to 130 F/A-18s.

The USA have a gigantic fleet of supercarriers because they have infinite money to spend, but 30+ fighters-bombers isn't "laughable". I don't think the doctors in the bombed-out Aleppo hospitals are laughing.

The real limitation of the Kuznetsov isn't that it doesn't carry a bajillion planes, it's that it's a STOBAR design, so the planes that take off cannot carry their full payload. With catapults, the jets are accelerated to take-off speed so they can carry as much as they could on a normal runway; with a ramp they only have the speed their engines give them and the jump merely buys them some time to keep accelerating while in the air, so they need to be relatively light weight.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Cat Mattress posted:

The USA have a gigantic fleet of supercarriers because they have infinite money to spend, but 30+ fighters-bombers isn't "laughable". I don't think the doctors in the bombed-out Aleppo hospitals are laughing.

The real limitation of the Kuznetsov isn't that it doesn't carry a bajillion planes, it's that it's a STOBAR design, so the planes that take off cannot carry their full payload. With catapults, the jets are accelerated to take-off speed so they can carry as much as they could on a normal runway; with a ramp they only have the speed their engines give them and the jump merely buys them some time to keep accelerating while in the air, so they need to be relatively light weight.

TBF, they're not really sending fighter-bombers off a Kuzentsov, either, for reasons you explained. The only reason they can bomb Syria with aircraft is from airbases inside the country. The Kuznetsov's aircraft seem to only provide air cover for fleet operations.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

KiteAuraan posted:

Oh, and also that Russia can afford this coming war, because Russia Stronk and Always Win.
Their GDP went down by 40% in a span of 2 years or so. Good luck affording anything with that.

Dwesa fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Oct 2, 2016

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Dwesa posted:

Their GDP went down by 40% in a span of 2 years or so. Good luck affording anything with that.

It'll go back up as soon as oil prices go back up. OPEC is planning to cut production to raise prices again, so Russia Stronk will return.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Cat Mattress posted:

It'll go back up as soon as oil prices go back up. OPEC is planning to cut production to raise prices again, so Russia Stronk will return.
OPEC deal is far from being implemented and their competitors in shale oil production already adapted to lower prices. I wouldn't be sure that OPEC will increase prices to their 2014 level.

Brown Moses
Feb 22, 2002

Finally, South Front has made a conspiracy video about Bellingcat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1byfe5vUM

Skip to [url=https://youtu.be/ro1byfe5vUM?t=199[/url]3:19[/url] for the truth.

Also I discovered RT broadcast this on the morning of the JIT press conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lwPS_1E2w

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
oh russia

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37533473

quote:

"Some grow up to be doctors, others bakers and some soldiers."

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Why not a Topol 2-M shaped-bed - let your little operator dream about bringing on the nuclear apocalypse.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Lovely website that South Front, it's new to me. So Russian soldiers donated 1,5 ton of humanitarian help to Aleppo? My god, what an amount, what a generosity, it touched my heart. Not a pro-russian website at all. I didn't even bother watching the whole video, too much tinfoil hat for me. Nice quote from wiki article on them: "They even stated that "[it] portrays itself as being a crowdsourced project, but it looks more like a professional info-war project run or backed by the Russian military."

And that was the worst 'debunking' video I have seen. In most debunking videos, they present counterarguments to specific points based on newest facts. RT video just uses lot of flashing images (what for? to induce epilepsy?), ad hominem and then arguments with stuff covered by bellingcat months ago.

fatherboxx posted:

Why not a Topol 2-M shaped-bed - let your little operator dream about bringing on the nuclear apocalypse.
Topol-shaped sex toy would fit its shape more. It wouldn't be homoerotic, but patriotic :ussr:

Dwesa fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Oct 2, 2016

Lucy Heartfilia
May 31, 2012


NGOs fighting against Aids = foreign governments trying to destroy Russia

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Cat Mattress posted:

It'll go back up as soon as oil prices go back up. OPEC is planning to cut production to raise prices again, so Russia Stronk will return.

Russia will cleverly finance their war against the homonazi West by selling gas to western degenerates, who will need it to fuel their armies to defeat Russia.

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA

Cat Mattress posted:

The USA have a gigantic fleet of supercarriers because they have infinite money to spend, but 30+ fighters-bombers isn't "laughable". I don't think the doctors in the bombed-out Aleppo hospitals are laughing.

The real limitation of the Kuznetsov isn't that it doesn't carry a bajillion planes, it's that it's a STOBAR design, so the planes that take off cannot carry their full payload.
Also worth pointing out that its escort vessels are undoubtedly even more obsolete and poorly trained than it is. Even the mightiest carrier is hosed if its screens are full of holes.

HUGE PUBES A PLUS
Apr 30, 2005

Brown Moses posted:

Finally, South Front has made a conspiracy video about Bellingcat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1byfe5vUM

Skip to [url=https://youtu.be/ro1byfe5vUM?t=199[/url]3:19[/url] for the truth.

Also I discovered RT broadcast this on the morning of the JIT press conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lwPS_1E2w

Confirmation you are legit. Congratulations.

Please don't buy that bed for your children. I thought the USA was bad for glorifying the military to children.

Jygallax
Oct 17, 2011

Every human being deserves respect. Even if if they are a little different.
They just have to now start selling a downed jet-liner bed

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Please don't buy that bed for your children. I thought the USA was bad for glorifying the military to children.

Why would you let your children sleep in such a treasure.

It's for responsible adults.

Back Hack
Jan 17, 2010


Dwesa posted:

Lovely website that South Front, it's new to me. So Russian soldiers donated 1,5 ton of humanitarian help to Aleppo?

Someone tell the Russians that dropping bombs on hospitals and cluster munitions on residential areas does not constitute "humanitarian help".

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Dwesa posted:

Lovely website that South Front, it's new to me. So Russian soldiers donated 1,5 ton of humanitarian help to Aleppo?

I didn't know Molotov was still foreign minister of the Russian federation.

OddObserver
Apr 3, 2009

Cat Mattress posted:

I didn't know Molotov was still foreign minister of the Russian federation.

I guess thermite cluster bombs ought to be renamed Lavrov's Candle?

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
That's gotta be one of the ugliest stupidest-looking bombs I've ever seen

kinda making me hungry for bread though

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Punkin Spunkin posted:

That's gotta be one of the ugliest stupidest-looking bombs I've ever seen

kinda making me hungry for bread though
It'd look much more impressive if it wasn't so cold outside.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Punkin Spunkin posted:

That's gotta be one of the ugliest stupidest-looking bombs I've ever seen

kinda making me hungry for bread though

It's not a bomb in itself, it's a bomb dispenser. The fins make it rotate, and the actual bombs are inside, and they get yanked out by centrifugal forces as the dispenser's rotation speed increases. The aim is to spread the bombs randomly around.

Uranium Phoenix
Jun 20, 2007

Boom.

Cat Mattress posted:


It's not a bomb in itself, it's a bomb dispenser. The fins make it rotate, and the actual bombs are inside, and they get yanked out by centrifugal forces as the dispenser's rotation speed increases. The aim is to spread the bombs randomly around.

So it just sort of... shoots its load everywhere?

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer
For a very brief moment.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
As long as that doesn't happen while it's still inside the bomb cavity...

Banana Man
Oct 2, 2015

mm time 2 gargle piss and shit
Would someone be able to give a brief summary of the events in Ukraine since the initial invasion and now? I'm way behind the news. I'm

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Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
https://twitter.com/marta_ter/status/782867256824979456

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