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Tevery Best posted:No, it's "either we have it or nobody will". I understood that correctly, but they don't really have any way of preventing others moving in after they all die?
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Truga posted:I understood that correctly, but they don't really have any way of preventing others moving in after they all die? High concentration of toxic pollution that's really hard to get rid off. So, like what China is doing to itself.
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China is working really hard at that and they'll at best ruin a few % of its landmass, earth is pretty loving big. Also nobody is buying poisonous poo poo from Poland, so they can't afford to excavate it 
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Truga posted:No, see, what will happen is the arab people will gently caress everything up and turn it into a wasteland desert, same as what happened with their previous home. Which we certainly didn't have anything to do with The prevailing opinion among Poles is precisely that they had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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I don't think Poland had much to do with western imperialism, seeing as it didn't exist at the time
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Cat Mattress posted:So Russia or perhaps Kazakhstan has let rip a big ruthenium-106 fart. The articles I read said it was probably a "oops" at a reprocessing facility. Which wasn't very reassuring.
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steinrokkan posted:I don't think Poland had much to do with western imperialism, seeing as it didn't exist at the time They actually tried, they just weren't very competent at it. Poland couldn't into colonies; just like it can't into space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_attempts_by_Poland
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.e9201060a148quote:The seven survey questions — each one essentially asking “Do you agree with this?” — are preceded by what could only be construed as leading, if not negative statements about the supposed Soros plan.
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steinrokkan posted:I don't think Poland had much to do with western imperialism, seeing as it didn't exist at the time They're in NATO now, you can't just take the good and ignore the bad.  https://twitter.com/Bart_Wielinski/status/929796225959907329 This also seems pretty hosed up.
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Russia has a bunch of posters warning its military not to use social media: https://bmpd.livejournal.com/2948656.html https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/930372590987857920
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The Russian MoD just published evidence of the US working with ISIS https://twitter.com/mod_russia/status/930375703928983553 Unfortunately at least one of the images is from a mobile phone game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clL9yZSbcE0
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Haha they never learn, do they. Although there seemed to be a secret deal to let ISIS out of Raqqa that US approved despite Mattis earlier saying that no fighters would be left to return to their countries. But then it's on the front page of BBC so...
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Yeah, that appears to be true, so no idea why Russia felt the need to illustrate it with screenshots from video games, and now what appears to be at least two videos from Iraq 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8332HAX_04 http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/terrorism/iraqi-army-aviation-decimate-isis-convoys/5021631506001
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This is a major rollback from their earlier claims that Americans were peacefully directing ISIS garrisons away from SDF frontlines in the middle of the race to Deir Ez Zor. The Raqqa ISIS evacuation deal is not a secret, it has been announced by Kurd officials, and it is a direct mirror of the tactic Assad and Russia have repeatedly deployed throughout their campaigns.
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I must admit, concentrated fascism looks beautiful from a distance.
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 A gaping hole in the state budget of Estonia, which absolutely nobody saw coming. In the government anyway. blue = predicted, prediction for 2017 dates back one year. red = reality (2017 - government's updated prediction from June) green = prediction by alcohol producers black = collected so far in 9 months of 2017. Therefore we need another 77 million EUR in last 3 months of 2017 to meet the most negative prediction. : D Also the freshly elected Tallinn city council is shamelessly paying bonuses for themselves for, and here's an actual quote: "for receiving many votes in last elections". Also, for example a former deputy mayor is now the speaker of the council or whatever. Therefore he lost his previous job and gets 3 months worth of salary for that. Bleh. edit: one rationale for raising alcohol excises is to reduce consumption of alcohol. I bet they are starting from the wrong place. It's a social problem. jonnypeh fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Nov 18, 2017 |
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Zudgemud posted:I must admit, concentrated fascism looks beautiful from a distance. Only because it looks like they're all on fire.
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Happy Independence Day to all two fellow Latvians on this forums. 
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A Buttery Pastry posted:How..how large a percentage of total taxes does taxes on alcohol represent? Is the shortfall entirely based on an inability to collect this tax plus a drop in alcohol sales, or are there more gently caress-ups going on? Between 3 and 4 percent and apparently it's pretty much the same as in Finland. The drop in sales happened because alcohol is cheaper in Latvia. Tallink even started a cruise line from Helsinki to Riga. We've talked about this here before, anyway. I'm not really bothered by the price of alcohol. I don't drink any. More bothered by our current government dragging us to budget deficit because even with decreased revenue they're determined to do a lot more public spending next year.
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To what degree is this revenue problem being painted as a symptom of integration with the nefarious EU?
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Discendo Vox posted:To what degree is this revenue problem being painted as a symptom of integration with the nefarious EU? None whatsoever. If you´d want to blame a singlular thing, then you already have a social minister, who loudly pushes for higher alcohol prices in order to reduce consumption.
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https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/931480047503933445 I never knew Kadyrov and Basayev hung out. This isn't long after Basayev returned victorious from Budyonnovsk.
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Volkerball posted:https://twitter.com/NeilPHauer/status/931480047503933445 Kadyrov was a tribal warlord with a price on his loyalty, not a saint. He's only where he is because of his talents at suppressing unrest and rallying Muslims.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Kadyrov* was a tribal warlord with a price on his loyalty, not a saint. He's** only where he is because of his talents at suppressing unrest and rallying Muslims. *the older/dad **daddy warlord and his son
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Zudgemud posted:*the older/dad I'm talking about about Ramzan Kadryov's love affairs with Yamadaev, Kakiev, and Alkhanov, not the early 2nd Chechen War. And his contemporary role in Russian Islam.
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If you read the text it's pretty hardcore, Kadyrov Sr. declares jihad on Russia and then says "sure it's a problem that there are only 1 million of us and 150 million Russians, but each Chechen just has to kill 150 Russians and we'll win."
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jonnypeh posted:edit: one rationale for raising alcohol excises is to reduce consumption of alcohol. I bet they are starting from the wrong place. It's a social problem. cinci zoo sniper posted:Happy Independence Day to all two fellow Latvians on this forums.
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Ah, familial hot takes on the military parade. Mine was more of the same, a 10 minute failed state tirade that began with Austrian howitzers. At least we agreed that it is better for Latvia to buy howitzers from someone competent, than make them on our own.
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Arzachel posted:Sin taxes are a neolib's favorite, you get to screw over the poor without having to admit to doing so. I'm not even exactly sure how this government aligns themselves ideologically. It's a coalition of center party, social democrats and mainstream nationalists. This tax is pushed by a social democrat. Which on second thought is not surprising, considering that Nordic countries have had social democrats in power forever and they tax alcohol way more than we do, and some have state monopoly on sale of alcohol.
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vyelkin posted:If you read the text it's pretty hardcore, Kadyrov Sr. declares jihad on Russia and then says "sure it's a problem that there are only 1 million of us and 150 million Russians, but each Chechen just has to kill 150 Russians and we'll win." Chechen culture in the 90's is really fascinating. I remember a documentary around this time that interviewed Basayev and some other people, and my favorite story was of this battlefield where this Russian mercenary dude locked down a road or something for a couple days. The Chechens had to work hard to kill him and secure the area. They were proud when they finally took him down, so they cut his head off and paraded it around a bit to celebrate, like you do. The dude being interviewed is sitting there explaining this story and he's like "it's out of respect. If he died easy we would've just left his body there, but he gave us a good fight, so we wanted his head to celebrate." And you're just left there wondering what century these loving guys are from.
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That's straight up how some people act in multiplayer games. Collecting corpses of notorious enemies in eve online and similar. But it's IRL 
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Truga posted:That's straight up how some people act in multiplayer games. Collecting corpses of notorious enemies in eve online and similar. Hey, at least Basayev didn't teabag him on the video.
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There is no clean conflict, in the WWII American soldiers stole innumerable Japanese skulls, they sometimes cleaned them by tying severed heads to a line that was dragged behind a boat until all the soft tissues fell off. Sometimes they sent skulls to their families back in the States as a souvenir.
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steinrokkan posted:There is no clean conflict, in the WWII American soldiers stole innumerable Japanese skulls, they sometimes cleaned them by tying severed heads to a line that was dragged behind a boat until all the soft tissues fell off. Sometimes they sent skulls to their families back in the States as a souvenir. It's not news that Americans have no culture.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:It's not news that Americans have no culture. Especially not Eastern European news. For content, here's an overview of the documentary I was talking about. I'm gonna have to track it down. It's one of my all time favorites. http://combatfilms.com/phone/immortal-fortress.html Volkerball fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 21, 2017 |
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Something's happening in Luhansk I guess? https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/932927775643709440 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-luhansk/ukraine-rebel-leader-accuses-sacked-ally-of-staging-revolt-idUSKBN1DL1I5?il=0
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Flavahbeast posted:Something's happening in Luhansk I guess? Articles I'm seeing claims that the "unknown" Urals with DPR "spetsnaz" are just LPR "MoIA" anti-terrorism drills. They have allegedly blocked the access to administrative buildings, and let go of "government" and "parliament".
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