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gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

quote:

the desire for systems that imply radical change often lead to terrible things in history.

There's no telling how bad a socialist might screw the whole nation up given the cultural climate, you understand how terrible the desire for the removal of the oligarch system and 'biased media' led to the administration of, and blind support for, a populist (and maybe even more of that), and the manner that these things played out.

People applauded the attacks on the media and the coastal elites. People revised history to suit their ends. They don't think. They just promote the things they are told.

There's lots of rhetoric about "democracy" going around, there's a news post on Facebook detailing how Erdogan imprisoned a journalist for criticizing him, and I saw some comments approving of the move, and how they should do the same thing here since the journalists here don't 'respect' the rule of the president.

If the relative population catches on to some other big thing like socialism, something that promises a great change, though requires great reform through non-peaceful means, shouldn't that dangerously lead to imitation of the other countries that tried that, on their part, in terms of implementing that system?

I don't need an angry wave of people constantly reinforcing some allegiance to some ideology that rarely gets implemented in a manner that doesn't end in total ruin, and simultaneously paving the road to totalitarianism, no matter how far-off.

Though to be fair, there's nothing wrong with wanting more rights and fairer policies as a non-rich person, that's fine, I just don't like the unpredictable elements of third-world cultures promoting something they don't have a grip on. The promise of grand revolutions is too tempting before some angry minority of people go apesh*t.

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sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

I love that even in her empty shell of a skull where she thinks this is happening all she's got is 'film them killing you and say 'THIS IS SUCH A BAD LOOK FOR YOU RIGHT NOW' while you do it'.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Let's see ol Вова wriggle his way out of this jam.

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

what is the america kolmya that we can make into the posters gulag

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021


decolonizing foreign policy by expanding nato

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Feb 2, 2009



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bro you are lucky that my friend isn’t dead and that I didn’t see this tweet on the day of his funeral.

I’d cry and poo poo my pants

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

terrell starr does actually speak russian though so in that respect he is 10 million times better than most american russia experts

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

quick, find more things to bully these cowards with

Gene Hackman Fan
Dec 27, 2002

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Smythe posted:

like it or not GBS is the flagship forum of this website. thats just facts. Respect GBS.

I am giving it all the respect it deserves.

joepinetree
Apr 5, 2012

lobster shirt posted:

terrell starr does actually speak russian though so in that respect he is 10 million times better than most american russia experts

Lol. He's the guy who went to the neonazi aligned restaurant designed to make fun of jews and claimed it was a restaurant celebrating Jewish heritage

https://sputniknews.com/20181228/Reporter-Ukraine-Expert-Anti-Semitism-1071082228.html

Edit:

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/917865430445944832

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000


Ultra Carp

Some Guy TT posted:

Dems have discussed putting a chunk of revenues/savings to deficit reduction as an enticement.

Havana Syndrome and the National Debt. Our govt just loves spending money on make-believe bullshit

Tricky D
Apr 1, 2005

I love um!

Smythe posted:

like it or not GBS is the flagship forum of this website. thats just facts. Respect GBS.

GBS was closed years ago. Don't be fooled by forumid=273.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

joepinetree posted:

Lol. He's the guy who went to the neonazi aligned restaurant designed to make fun of jews and claimed it was a restaurant celebrating Jewish heritage

https://sputniknews.com/20181228/Reporter-Ukraine-Expert-Anti-Semitism-1071082228.html

Edit:

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/917865430445944832

yeah hes extremely stupid lol

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
doing imperialism and foreign adventurism, but blackly

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

https://twitter.com/valdemings/status/1489407104993529857?s=20&t=y6bRUZG21K71ubeGunvATg

kneeling on M4A's neck for 8 minutes

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004


loving cop needs to lose my mailing address already ffs

ate shit on live tv
Feb 15, 2004

by Azathoth

loquacius posted:

I don't really get why they couldn't build MOST of the boat, then have it leave the city, then put the masts on later, but I guess this is why I'm not a billionaire

I am not an expert boat builder, but I think the Main Mast has to be integrated with the "Frame" of the boat. Meaning that it's one of the fundamental structural elements of a boat. I think they are also solid pieces like the blades of a windmill, so you can't build half the mast, and then move the boat and put the top half of the mast on it.

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

Welp I stumbled upon a post so brick-stupid I had to crosspost it.

quote:

"Hey guys, everybody is going on and on about this so called "apartheid" but have you seen what AMERICA is doing in Nicaragua at the moment? Easily 100 times worse. Maybe this Mandela guy should shut the hell up, at least until America ceases to exist."

- A C-SPAM poster in the 1980s


quote:

Just gonna sidle over to C-SPAM real quick and inform them that it's completely wrong to criticise anything Israel ever does. Because it turns out America is really bad and also evil, and if a bad country exists, all the slightly less bad countries can do no wrong.

I'm sure they will all accept this flawless and excellent logic.

He really thinks he's devised an incredible gotcha

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
I hate US coverage of the olympics

they only show sports that the US does well in which okay I understand. but they're dong daytime coverage and instead of showing actual competitions they're doing a look back on the olympics after 9/11

every thing the US does sucks

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique


The CIA analyst doesn’t know that if Russia - which probably has the best EW going - can jam NATO comms and GPS, it would be trivial for them to jam cell phones?

What the gently caress?

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1489667899551674368

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014


The democrats will not stand for this.

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle

Chillgamesh posted:

Welp I stumbled upon a post so brick-stupid I had to crosspost it.



He really thinks he's devised an incredible gotcha

Is Adrian Zenz supposed to be Nelson Mandela in this analogy?

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
"The Nazis were the real victims of soviet oppression" -- Mandela probably

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

https://twitter.com/apantazi/status/1489262460594839560

an extremely american story lol

for non americans a fifth of vodka is 750 ml, and for those unfamiliar with alcoholism, non-alcoholics (i.e. people who dont have very high tolerances) are generally unable to function at all after drinking that much if they even can drink that much

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004


let your final action be a noble one: pushing the tweet button to show Vladimir Putin doing a spin-kick at you

spacemang_spliff
Nov 29, 2014

wide pickle
if you think about it, China having a Uyghur light the torch just shows how committed they are to hiding their genocide

ScootsMcSkirt
Oct 29, 2013


This is why we MUST

KEEP 👏 PUSHING 👏 BIDEN 👏 LEFT👏

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

lmfao

Gunshow Poophole
Sep 14, 2008

OMBUDSMAN
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Clapping Larry

*machine gun fire whizzing past my head, my children screaming*

shhh settle down aleksi daddy's chasing clout

Chillgamesh
Jul 29, 2014

spacemang_spliff posted:

if you think about it, China having a Uyghur light the torch just shows how committed they are to hiding their genocide

Furthermore it's actually extremely hypocritical of you to condemn the atrocities of America Jr. while America Sr. is also committing crimes

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

I don’t want to downplay how lovely it was! It’s just that West Germany found ways to be lovely in a legalistic sense that had better optics, as liberals do, and I don’t want people to come away thinking that if they didn’t comically close the gates after letting everyone else out, that they didn’t find ways to make life hell for gay men. The depiction of homosexuals in postwar West Germany was apparently pretty negative, whereas other victims of Nazism were depicted more sympathetically, which I think is interesting, and an understated way people can be victimized.

The sentence “They were not specifically German, though—their impact was noticeable in the United States, the rest of Europe, and elsewhere at the same time—and so it is no surprise that the Allied powers made no real effort to uproot these prejudices after their victory in World War II.” stands out to me as other example of how half-assed denazification left all of these awful traces in West German society, and the Americans were content to leave all sorts of things intact if it didn’t directly threaten their interests. I understand that in the 60’s West Germany had a bit of a reckoning about how incomplete denazification was, but I don’t think we have, if you know what I mean. We were complacent in creating a culture that 20 years on picked and chose what aspects of Nazi rule were okay.

The idea that Germans in 1946 were going "Say what you want about Adolf, at least he put those kind of people in the ground" is harrowing but I suppose shouldn't be surprising

PoontifexMacksimus
Feb 14, 2012


Uuuh wait, who is this person

Amp
Sep 10, 2010

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Crazypoops
Jul 17, 2017



PoontifexMacksimus posted:

Uuuh wait, who is this person

Guy who murders civilians with an Xbox controller

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Feb 2, 2009



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altnoaa is a very funny account

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pinned xkcd comic edit lmao

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randall munroe if you are still on this site eat my rear end

redneck nazgul
Apr 25, 2013

looks like we got a stormfront chaser

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Amp
Sep 10, 2010

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a new study bible! posted:

randall munroe if you are still on this site eat my rear end

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