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Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Bored As gently caress posted:

So would NATO actually intervene if Russia invaded Ukraine?

I mean, Russia could feasibly knock out all of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and then invade, and do the same for any country that helps the Ukrainians.

Our critical infrastructure is so loving vulnerable it's ridiculous. Any attack by the SVR's or GRU's hackers could mean disaster. Would we really risk that?

Lol no, Russia will steamroll everything between them the Polish border before NATO can schedule a conference call.

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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost

Bored As gently caress posted:

So would NATO actually intervene if Russia invaded Ukraine?

What do you mean by intervene? Ukraine is not a member nation.

There is a really wide range between “do nothin” and “start killing Russians with direct engagement.”

US Berder Patrol
Jul 11, 2006

oorah

mlmp08 posted:

What do you mean by intervene? Ukraine is not a member nation.

There is a really wide range between “do nothin” and “start killing Russians with direct engagement.”

what if we put cold war on the blockchain

Oxygenpoisoning
Feb 21, 2006

US Berder Patrol posted:

what if we put cold war on the blockchain

Someone screenshot my war crimes NFT, what do I do?

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

US Berder Patrol posted:

what if we put cold war on the blockchain

Pollution wins again!

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1461824550400888840

Living in this cool and good normal country

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned
drat guess we have to go high again

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
https://twitter.com/athertonkd/status/1462176339704913920?s=21

Godspeed, parents

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

I don’t, but I need context

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

I don’t, but I need context

A channel on youtube, for children, that will promote crypto and nfts

MA-Horus
Dec 3, 2006

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

I hate this timeline

Everything is so stupid

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

Pine Cone Jones posted:

A channel on youtube, for children, that will promote crypto and nfts

Babby's First Ponzi Scheme. Hook 'em young.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
The marshmallow test but if you wait for 2 marshmallows, all you hear is the clinical psychologist peeling out of the parking lot.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
Well now I know about BAYC and now I hate everything just a little more.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

maffew buildings posted:

drat guess we have to go high again

While I get your point, how the gently caress would they go lower than scum like Rittenhouse?

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

Oswald him on the courthouse steps as he walks in?

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

While I get your point, how the gently caress would they go lower than scum like Rittenhouse?

Easily and with great pleasure. Rittenhouse was an appetizer and now the chuds are hyped for the main course.

e: misunderstood, I thought you were asking how the far right could could lower

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/rittenhouse-jury-verdict-self-defense-legal-analysis.html

quote:

Put differently: Once Rittenhouse fired his first shots, he and his attackers plausibly entered a context in which neither could be held legally liable for killing the other. Whether one emerged from this confrontation legally innocent or lawfully executed hinged on little more than one’s relative capacity for rapidly deploying lethal violence.

Decent article. That's pretty much my takeaway from the trial, and the state of American self-defense law.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Lmao just lmao.

https://twitter.com/ScotMackRI/status/1462209487146819584?s=20

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Yes I do have growing fears that he's running again in 2024. A good headline.

pantslesswithwolves
Oct 28, 2008

But it’s her his her his turn!

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





pantslesswithwolves posted:

But it’s her his her his turn!

Yes, it is.

Blind Rasputin
Nov 25, 2002

Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

What the fuuuck. I just finished the Apple TV Eddie Gallagher documentary (The Line). I had posted about it when I started it a few days ago. Wow wow that confession of his at the end is the most vile poo poo I’ve ever heard. Even my kids, 11 and 14, who just happened to be in the same room and didn’t know anything about it were horrified that this guy was saying he basically used the prisoner as an opportunity to experiment medical procedures on. “The bomb marked him for death, this was just the cherry on top.” Why did he even say that. He just had to keep his mouth shut but he has to get recognition or something? In the psychopath mind one’s self can do no wrong?

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
“You fascist nazi!”

“Woah now, I’m not a nazi, per se.”

https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1462118546205466629?s=21

bengy81
May 8, 2010

mlmp08 posted:

“You fascist nazi!”

“Woah now, I’m not a nazi, per se.”

https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1462118546205466629?s=21

I learned from the recent school board fiasco that the Nazis are fine with being called Nazis, but boy are you on for am earful if you call them fascists too!

Also for a bunch of people talking about history, they sure missed the part where early leftists and antifascists used a bunch of loving bombs to make their point.

bengy81 fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Nov 21, 2021

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

mlmp08 posted:

“You fascist nazi!”

“Woah now, I’m not a nazi, per se.”

https://twitter.com/amconmag/status/1462118546205466629?s=21

"We just align with and support people who use the imagery of fascists, totally different!"

https://twitter.com/Zeddary/status/1462233708237307905?s=20

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Nov 21, 2021

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
Every "Biden's going to run in 2024" story is de facto stupid. The minute he says that he's not running, he will have near-zero power. Plus, if he's running, he's old as all hell and has 2-3 years to go in one of the most stressful jobs in the world. Best to just ignore the 2024 talk since a lot of who runs/doesn't in the democratic primary is going to be based on events not even close to happening yet.

Godholio
Aug 28, 2002

Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

facialimpediment posted:

Every "Biden's going to run in 2024" story is de facto stupid. The minute he says that he's not running, he will have near-zero power. Plus, if he's running, he's old as all hell and has 2-3 years to go in one of the most stressful jobs in the world. Best to just ignore the 2024 talk since a lot of who runs/doesn't in the democratic primary is going to be based on events not even close to happening yet.

It also doesn't really matter who the Dems put up.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
Yeah, stop worrying about losing 2024 when the Dems haven't even lost 2022 yet, for cryin' out loud.

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]
Nazi was slang for country bumpkin #themoreyouknow

Meshka
Nov 27, 2016

Godholio posted:

It also doesn't really matter who the Dems put up.

Its the only thing that will matter in the election. DNC cannot comprehend that concept, so of course it will be Kamala Harris and Peter Buttigieg.

Nuclear War
Nov 7, 2012

You're a pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty girl
Why would russia invade Ukraine? occupying a huge country full of angry people who don't want them there and with NATO (or at least poland and the US) making sure the occupation is difficult and expensive and makes the Russians destroy their fragile economy sounds counterproductive.
nah, they posture like this a few times a year, and i assume they get what they want from it domestically and by cowing Ukraine and reminding the West not to take any NATO membership applications seriously.

piL
Sep 20, 2007
(__|\\\\)
Taco Defender

Nuclear War posted:

Why would russia invade Ukraine? occupying a huge country full of angry people who don't want them there and with NATO (or at least poland and the US) making sure the occupation is difficult and expensive and makes the Russians destroy their fragile economy sounds counterproductive.
nah, they posture like this a few times a year, and i assume they get what they want from it domestically and by cowing Ukraine and reminding the West not to take any NATO membership applications seriously.

I dunno, why did they do it the last time?

Midjack
Dec 24, 2007



Nuclear War posted:

Why would russia invade Ukraine? occupying a huge country full of angry people who don't want them there and with NATO (or at least poland and the US) making sure the occupation is difficult and expensive and makes the Russians destroy their fragile economy sounds counterproductive.
nah, they posture like this a few times a year, and i assume they get what they want from it domestically and by cowing Ukraine and reminding the West not to take any NATO membership applications seriously.

They get a lot of good farmland, for starters.

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Fun Shoe

mlmp08 posted:

The marshmallow test but if you wait for 2 marshmallows, all you hear is the clinical psychologist peeling out of the parking lot.

drat this is good!

I literally laughed out loud.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Nuclear War posted:

Why would russia invade Ukraine? occupying a huge country full of angry people who don't want them there and with NATO (or at least poland and the US) making sure the occupation is difficult and expensive and makes the Russians destroy their fragile economy sounds counterproductive.
nah, they posture like this a few times a year, and i assume they get what they want from it domestically and by cowing Ukraine and reminding the West not to take any NATO membership applications seriously.

I dont think I've ever seen a post answered by the username before

Jimmy Smuts
Aug 8, 2000

From what I understand, during it's existence the USSR set up a shitton of industry in Ukraine, and it was also the breadbasket of the USSR. For Russia, losing that in 1991 must've sucked. After Russia took a bite out of Ukraine a few years ago, it sounds like they really liked what they got and now want more.

brb, deploying to Ukraine

Duzzy Funlop
Jan 13, 2010

Hi there, would you like to try some spicy products?
In case anyone missed it, I was thrown a bone in this hell-world of news by the announcement of the new coalition government that they're gonna legalize weed.

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-likely-future-government-supports-cannabis-legalization/a-59870689

Once this actually happens, I'm gonna celebrate by smoking up a whole bunch to balance all the poo poo-news in the world.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Pine Cone Jones posted:

A channel on youtube, for children, that will promote crypto and nfts

:allbuttons:

Hannibal Rex posted:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/rittenhouse-jury-verdict-self-defense-legal-analysis.html

Decent article. That's pretty much my takeaway from the trial, and the state of American self-defense law.

The real takeaway is that you need to be a right wing vigilante to get away with it, not a left wing one. There is no other lesson.

There was that shooting in Austin where a chud did a drive by on a legally carrying BLM guy who never fired a shot and the police detective involved actively sabotaged the investigation and it took heaven and earth to even get a charge.

And exact same semi-ambiguous situation with the sides swapped played out in Portland and we saw what happened there.

This has been true forever:

https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs

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That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Comrade Blyatlov posted:

I dont think I've ever seen a post answered by the username before

Hahaha

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