fart simpson posted:

did you have any gang tags or text thats missing?

Flavahbeast posted:

Unfortunately the shelling is quite real, but for some reason all the big guns restricted by the accord that just showed up are being fired from areas not controlled by the government

https://www.osce.org/files/2022-02-19%20Daily%20Report.pdf

GoLambo posted:

Given this why in the gently caress would russia want to even risk Nordstream 2 being rejected, sanctioned or the deal otherwise being cut off? As a materialist I just don't buy the aggressive russian narrative, they appear to have way too goddamned much at stake as a petrostate to want to risk the one pipeline they have banked absolutely everything on not going through..

mila kunis posted:

i doubt your nazi buddies are too far behind with the armaments, they seem to be doing quite well shelling civilians with what they currently have though. unless the separatists are shelling themselves, which is very likely - russians don't value their own lives like we do.

Flavahbeast posted:

btw if you want to verify this, I just checked now and the original is still on Telegram: https://t.me/LIC_LPR/17431 (you'll need Telegram installed and linked to your phone to download the full 213mb file though)

Flavahbeast posted:

btw if you want to verify this, I just checked now and the original is still on Telegram: https://t.me/LIC_LPR/17431 (you'll need Telegram installed and linked to your phone to download the full 213mb file though)

Dante80 posted:

China state-affiliated shitposter

make it happen

Flavahbeast posted:

did u check this poo poo yet

The 'crisis' is a dogshit war project against Ukraine and you're gobbling it up

icantfindaname posted:

The dilbert guy?

Palladium posted:

i almost forgot china have been imminently collapsing since 1949

quote:

There is no logical reason that the country with the largest nuclear arsenal would need "buffer states" to deter dangers from the outside. Putin needs buffer states because he fears that democracies prospering on the borders of Russia would lead to internal pressures on his regime that might lead to a "color revolution" and maybe because he has the personal ambition of creating an imperial legacy.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1495136636165767168?s=20&t=leBRRtwkjm_LfVcH9Zclzw

exmarx posted:

k, last one

exmarx posted:

k, last one

quote:

You don't really know who you are until you're forced to fight for it. And it's been one big fight for my values and my profession since 2016. And it's made me stronger.... What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

This is my 36th year as a journalist. My life since 2016, the year that Rodrigo Duterte and Donald Trump were elected, has been a roller coaster.

[Maria Ressa] discusses surveillance capitalism: [It's] when our atomized personal experiences are collected by machine learning, organized by artificial intelligence, extracting our private lives for outsized corporate gain. Highly profitable micro-targeting operations are engineered to structurally undermine human will. It is a behavior modification system in which we are Pavlov's dogs experimented on in real time. The consequences are disastrous. This is happening to you, no matter how smart you are. This is happening to the world. This is insidiously shaping our future by encouraging the worst of who we are, the worst of human behavior. If you can make people believe lies are facts, you control them. This is why we have the rise of tyranny all around the world.

We cannot solve the global existential problems if we don't win the battle for facts – that's the foundation of everything. We cannot have integrity of elections if we don't have integrity of facts.

In 79 days, the Philippines will vote in an existential moment for our democracy. The frontrunner for president is Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of a dictator ousted by a People Power revolt 36 years ago. He's back, partly because history was changed in front of our eyes. [Networks of disinformation have] convinced Filipinos, some of them, that Marcos the dictator was actually the greatest leader the Philippines has ever had.

What do we do? We have to act with what we have. 79 days before the election, we're not willing to just do nothing 'cause that is not an option.

[Maria Ressa] discusses the #FactsFirstPH initiative and how it aims to champion facts as the May polls near.

This is the first time that 14 news organizations are working together, actually creating content that we can share. The news organizations sharing each other, what a novel idea. And then there's the mesh. This layer combines civil society, NGOs, businesses finally speaking, human rights organizations with the church. That mesh layer is our response to algorithmic amplification. We work together, we collaborate. The research groups will look at the disinformation research. And then we have the layer that's been quiet for too long: the law. Remember if you don't have facts, you can't have rule of law. That layer has already started filing cases. Someone who worked for Facebook told me, "Maria, fact checks don't spread." Yes I know. That's the way social media is designed. Guess what though, Filipinos know this is a moment we could lose everything.

And that's exactly what every member of this group, #FactsFirstPH, is going to do.

Journalists are under attack, discredited, because we push back against the lies. We hold power to account. But in this existential battle for facts, we can't do it alone.

So you have to ask yourself the same question that Rappler and I confronted in 2016: what are you willing to sacrifice for the truth? I know my answer...the idea that I didn't give it my all when it mattered, right now, when so much is at stake. Don't give up, because when you do, you make all of us just a little weaker. You have to act before it's too late. you must join the battle for facts, the battle for truth.

The time to act is now.

exmarx posted:

k, last one

CYBEReris posted:

is there a reason the (lib especially) assumption is always that the separatists are taking direct orders from russia? regardless of what they are and are not doing I would think they would have their own motives and goals and internal command hierarchy. for all we know the separatists want russia's aid but russia is refusing because they don't want war.

exmarx posted:

k, last one

exmarx posted:

k, last one

Ardennes posted:

According to that report, the vast majority of the areas being hit are in separatist territory which implies that government forces are the ones doing it unless the separatist are constantly firing artillery at themselves.

CYBEReris posted:

is there a reason the (lib especially) assumption is always that the separatists are taking direct orders from russia? regardless of what they are and are not doing I would think they would have their own motives and goals and internal command hierarchy. for all we know the separatists want russia's aid but russia is refusing because they don't want war.

exmarx posted:

k, last one

thatfatkid posted:

ah yes the prosperous democracy of coup-installed, nazi militia funding, Russian language speaking banning and pro Russian political party banning Ukraine

Zohar posted:

not sure if it was mentioned here at the time but the OSCE report for the 18th says Ukrainian police denied them access to the kindergarten that was shelled and they couldn’t determine the origin of the munition

exmarx posted: