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Like I said it is very Tom Clancy. What army? it is composed of conscripted 18 year olds who just want to go home. There was a scandal when it turns out some commander in the far east was just selling their kidneys to China. You are ordered into medical wing, given an injection, wake up without a kidney lol. What kind of fighting force is that. As for Russians who want to live in Russia, they want to live in different Russias. Some want the empire restored, some want communism restored, most just want roads that aren't crap. Russians were the first to experience the whole fake news technology, and also the first to be hungover and disillusioned from it.
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Sekenr posted:As for Russians who want to live in Russia, they want to live in different Russias. Some want the empire restored, some want communism restored, most just want roads that aren't crap. Russians were the first to experience the whole fake news technology, and also the first to be hungover and disillusioned from it. They want different futures for the same Russia, like people in literally any other country. And no, propaganda wasn't invented in Russia, and Russian people are not the first to realise that politicians lie.
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One of the main things in Russian regional provinces is the mindset of the people that the local government is terrible and can only be solved by an "authority" which in turn is usually simply "Putin" or the central Moscow government. So everyone hates the government but q lot of people love Putin.
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The Estonian parliamentary elections are over. Seats won and previous result in parentheses Reform party 34 (30) Center party 26 (27) EKRE 19 (12) Fatherland 12 (14) Social democrats 10 (15) EKRE the conservative racists made the most gains, including one neckbeard hitler getting a seat. Fatherland came back from nearly not making the threshold a few months go. The current coalition adds up to 48, so it looks like we're getting our first female prime minister. I don't really care anymore.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:I know the Lithuanians have been complaining about this loudly for years. What is the possibility it won't be finished or ever go into operation? Zero, but Lithuania is keen not to buy any electricity produced on that nuclear plant and is planning to cut the lines that connect Belarus to the EU. This leaves the option of transferring the electricity through Russia into Latvia though. In any case batka instructed belarussians to start building electromobiles so you can be sure they knew what they were going to do with the excess power besides selling it to Europe
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Karmalis posted:One of the main things in Russian regional provinces is the mindset of the people that the local government is terrible and can only be solved by an "authority" which in turn is usually simply "Putin" or the central Moscow government. So everyone hates the government but q lot of people love Putin. "The Czar wants justice but the boyars resist."
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in more Estonian election news, the Reform party (center-right liberals) who won the elections proposed a coalition with the center party (social-liberal centrist populists). But the center turned it down and now it looks like the center party is instead forming a coalition with the conservative racist party and Fatherland party (national conservatism and something like christian democracy without Christianity). The latter two will probably try their utmost to make sure the voters know who the top patriot is. The conservative racists will of course set some conditions, one of them will be the same-sex partnership bill. Center party's Russian electorate will probably not mind at all repealing it. But this whole coalition deal is not yet certain, and there could be plenty of things that the center's Russian electorate would mind. Or the other way - some supporters of conservative racists figure that their party would never give in and doing otherwise would be betrayal. Poop. jonnypeh fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Mar 11, 2019 |
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Poland news: PiS has a new scapegoat. Since the anti-refugee hysteria has mostly run out of steam (and simply left a massive contingent of aggressive racists as a fixture of our society because I guess that's the country we live in now) they need a new conflict to galvanize their core supporters ahead of the European election. Plus with the massive influx of economic immigrants from Ukraine that the government needs to keep wage demands down, xenophobia is a risky card to play. Teachers are about to go on strike so they tried that one, but it turns out that they're too popular and that would center the conflict on an actual issue, which is clearly undesirable. What moral threat to the fabric of society does that leave us with? You guessed it: it's The Gays. They've rolled out a full-on offensive of open homophobia. No dogwhistles either. Since there's a new party led by an openly gay man and the mayor of Warsaw just signed a pledge to support LGBT rights, well, now YOUR CHILDREN are going to be force-fed sexual education by gay people! It's basically grooming! There's going to be lessons on how to masturbate! They're taking away the right to instill your values in your kids! etc., the entire playbook of the American 1980's-1990's evangelical right. Of course, the usual suspects are at it as well: the right-wing press is tooting that horn, Catholic Church fell right into line and has of course condemned the indidious whispers of heathen perverts. And some football hooligans have made huge banners of anti-gay slurs to hang in the stands at games, so we're probably going to see an uptick in outright hate crimes from those loving troglodytes. Christ, this goddamn country. 
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Hools will write whatever bullshit that gives them news and recruits from fringes. Remember "Jihad Legia"? And I'm not sure it will grant additional support to PiS, old racist folk already either support them or hate them for not being strict enough with immigration.
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It's not about gaining new support, though. The European Parliament elections are pretty much won and lost on turnout because it's so low. It'll probably be higher than usual this year, but still certainly not as high as parliamentary elections, so getting strong emotions going among the electorate is important. Of course the average homophobe supports PiS anyway, but they might not actually care enough to go to the ballot box. But when the opposition is framed as representatives of the advancing Gay Agenda that will indoctrinate your children, said homophobe is more likely to go vote against that. I mean, it might not work, I hope it doesn't, but it's still depressing that it's happening at all.
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An end to the Jewish question in Polish parliament? For sale at the Sejm's newsstand https://twitter.com/a_szczesniak80/status/1105780559278735360 HOW TO SPOT A JEW surname, anthropological features, manner of speaking, looks, character traits, methods, disinformation, how to win against them?, this can't go on!!!
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pls post, I am terrible at spotting Jews
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Nenonen posted:pls post, I am terrible at spotting Jews do they disagree with me ---> yes ---> definitely a Jew ---> no ---> maybe a Jew
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Polish Catholic Church had a conference where they reported findings of pedophiles in church. The findings are: - it’s the sexualised kids that are groomed by big contraception to be sexually active from earliest times - stop concentrating on pedos, there are child soldiers, organ harvesting, human trafficking, sex tourism and other crimes concerning children (the report was about Poland - those things either don’t happen or are very minor) - zero tolerance sounds like something Germans used against Jews during WW2, why get Nazi on poor Church What didn’t happen: - we’re sorry, it won’t happen - guilty parties will be punished to the whole extent of law and excommunicated - we’ll do our utmost to help the victims :let’s sharpen the stakes and get polish traditional on rapists emote:
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Korwin should have been invited as a guest speaker: „The touch of an adult man can only help a girl flourish.”
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Interesting poll results were published recently by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=832&page=1 This poll shows that only about 8% of people want to stop teaching the Russian language at schools, while almost 30% say that it should have the same amount of hours dedicated to it as Ukrainian. 28% of Ukrainian also speak Russian either exclusively or most of the time compared to 46% who speak Ukrainian, and 25% speak both Russian and Ukrainian. More surprisingly, the poll shows that more than a half of Ukrainians would agree to DPR/LPR autonomy, if it meant a peaceful end to the war there. 28% would definitely support this, and 23% would probably support it. Even in Western Ukraine, it's a 35%/38% split among those who agree and disagree. Another poll shows that general attitude of Ukrainians toward Russia is getting more positive lately. https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=en&cat=reports&id=831&page=1  (blue is the attitude of Ukrainians towards Russia in general, orange - of Russians towards Ukraine) Of course, only 13% of Ukrainians view Russia's government positively, compared to 77% when it comes to just Russians as people. Yet another poll shows that the majority of Ukrainians see ban on Russian TV channels as a mistake. https://www.kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=833&page=1 Despite that, there is a growing number of people who say that there are too many pro-Kremlin media in Ukraine, and not enough is done to mitigate this (35% now compared to 30% in 2018). Paladinus fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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I, for one, am in favor of more attention being placed on English, a language spoken in the EU member Ireland.
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So what's happening with the anti-government demonstrations in Serbia?
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OddObserver posted:I, for one, am in favor of more attention being placed on English, a language spoken in the EU member Ireland. Don't forget Malta! The new language law in Ukraine in its current form goes to absurd lengths to exclude specifically Russian, while, say, Dutch is nominally on a better standing due to being a EU language. Most likely there'll be a push to pass it prior to elections to get support of more nationalistic-oriented audience, but should Poroshenko lose, the law will also most likely peter out (pun intended).
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So there's a new early access game on steam that allows you to build your very own Soviet Republic. https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources_Soviet_Republic/ It's very early-access but I've been enjoying it so far. Has a lovely soundtrack of grand soviet marches and sweet soviet synth. It has an interesting community of 75% folks larping that they're soviet leaders and 25% making it very clear that although hey are playing this game they are NOT a communist and capitalism will win.
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Baronjutter posted:25% making it very clear that although hey are playing this game they are NOT a communist and capitalism will win. They're charging their crystals.
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Wholly Chao https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1107995560181669889 deleted for some reason but lots of other news sources are saying the same 
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To remain head of National Security Council.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Wholly Chao Holy poo poo.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Wholly Chao It's still on BBC, maybe they just deleted the tweet. And yeah pretty huge news, I guess it's too soon to tell if this will make things better for people but I can already feel Putin rubbing his hands behind the curtain.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Wholly Chao Wow! Kind of nice to see such a long-serving president just resign. Hope that starts a trend. Did he name his successor?
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mobby_6kl posted:It's still on BBC, maybe they just deleted the tweet. I get that feeling too and wonder if Batka's next. Paladinus posted:Wow! Kind of nice to see such a long-serving president just resign. Hope that starts a trend. Did he name his successor? Senate Speaker Tokayev will act as interim. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kazakhstan-president-idUSKCN1R01N1 quote:Nazarbayev, 78, has led the former Soviet republic since 1989, first as its Communist leader and then as president. Totally unrelated I'm sure but a large filing of court documents on the Michael Cohen/Trump investigation were released today. It contained this gem. https://twitter.com/ErinBanco/status/1107996814698008576 HUGE PUBES A PLUS fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Mar 19, 2019 |
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It seems like an organized transition and Nazarbayez probably will be sticking around behind the scenes. It doesn't seem like the Ruble budged much, and the Tenge dropped 1%.
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Ardennes posted:It seems like an organized transition and Nazarbayez probably will be sticking around behind the scenes. It doesn't seem like the Ruble budged much, and the Tenge dropped 1%. Not really "behind the scenes" --- he is still chairing the security council and the ruling party.
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OddObserver posted:Not really "behind the scenes" --- he is still chairing the security council and the ruling party. More or less, he is transitioning into retirement, but very slowly. Putin may do something very similar.
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Was Nazarbayev the last of the former Soviet forever presidents? Lukashenko is young enough he could be around for another 20 years if he wanted.
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Was Nazarbayev the last of the former Soviet forever presidents? Lukashenko is young enough he could be around for another 20 years if he wanted. Depends on how exactly you define that: https://mobile.twitter.com/grudkev/status/1108062133504364545
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OddObserver posted:Depends on how exactly you define that: Man I forgot Niyazov died such a long time ago.
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OddObserver posted:Depends on how exactly you define that: Nice burn on Medvedev.
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OddObserver posted:Depends on how exactly you define that: Rahmon is still holding on. Paladinus posted:Nice burn on Medvedev. lol
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