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PookBear
Nov 1, 2008

Sergg posted:

Yeah if I were to throw out an offhand clinical diagnosis Putin is obviously a sociopath. I would say he has narcissistic traits but probably not full-blown NPD because having narcissistic traits is just a common endpoint of being rich and powerful for decades, and a sociopath would long-term self-select for people who won't challenge their dominance, so you also end up surrounded by yes-men. One of the big tells, aside from unnecessarily assassinating people & poo poo, was the KGB assessment that he had a reduced threat response, which is a classic trait of sociopaths to have a reduced fear response to threats, which causes them to engage in excessively risky behavior.

Which Hogwarts house do you think the sorting hat would have put Zelensky in?

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Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Zelenskyy's a total Hufflepuff

A Festivus Miracle
Dec 19, 2012

I have come to discourse on the profound inequities of the American political system.

Not gonna lie, Russia threatening to bomb NATO convoys when its been struggling mightily with the airforce of a country it should have flattened b now is kinda cute. hosed with a honey badger, and now while it's tearing your arm off, threaten the bear.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
are the supply convoys even driven by NATO peoples? I figure that would have been the first rules lawyering NATO would dot and cross

also lol Russia threatening everyone at the bar for looking at their ex gf now and always

RFC2324
Jun 7, 2012

http 418

A Festivus Miracle posted:

Not gonna lie, Russia threatening to bomb NATO convoys when its been struggling mightily with the airforce of a country it should have flattened b now is kinda cute. hosed with a honey badger, and now while it's tearing your arm off, threaten the bear.

No comrade, glorious russia IS beink great bear. Everyone is knowng this since days of glorious ussr.

silvergoose
Mar 18, 2006

IT IS SAID THE TEARS OF THE BWEENIX CAN HEAL ALL WOUNDS




A Festivus Miracle posted:

Not gonna lie, Russia threatening to bomb NATO convoys when its been struggling mightily with the airforce of a country it should have flattened b now is kinda cute. hosed with a honey badger, and now while it's tearing your arm off, threaten the bear.

Okay but honey badgers are mean af

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
lmao looney tunes poo poo

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I’ll take oof for 1,000!

https://twitter.com/jakecordell/status/1502689396293787653?s=21

Torrannor
Apr 27, 2013

---FAGNER---
TEAM-MATE

Alan Smithee posted:

lmao looney tunes poo poo

I don't care whether this is fake or not, I want to believe. This is incredible.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Torrannor posted:

I don't care whether this is fake or not, I want to believe. This is incredible.

I am a flag tank truther

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May
My wife just became part of the most :black101: office email chain I've ever seen.
She works for the botanical garden's scientific publications division, which does a lot of technical and professional publishing for botanists globally. The garden director sent an email wishing luck to a Ukrainian colleague who will be out of communication for a while "defending the priceless Ukrainian herbarium."

Then the colleague replied all with some bloody pictures and the text "Territorial Defense helped patch me up and stop the bleeding. Banshees are howling tonight. I don't give a gently caress. Army are heroes. Forward this to the office."

Again, this is a botanist.

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA
I just lol at the folks that get legit upset about people celebrating things like the Ghost of Kyiv, Snake Island, etc. while knowing that they are either non-factual or embellished. The people of Ukraine are being brutalized and murdered by a lovely villain, don't get upset that they and those who support them find joy and resolve in stories of heroism.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Cugel the Clever posted:

I just lol at the folks that get legit upset about people celebrating things like the Ghost of Kyiv, Snake Island, etc. while knowing that they are either non-factual or embellished. The people of Ukraine are being brutalized and murdered by a lovely villain, don't get upset that they and those who support them find joy and resolve in stories of heroism.

Those people need to read the chapter of The Things They Carried where he discusses what a true war story is.

Also they need to shut up.

KitConstantine
Jan 11, 2013

A tale of two marches
https://twitter.com/hakaanyzb/status/1502682681083060229?t=atGZ778ySPFuqAD_5FWbVQ&s=19

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

what if the russians learn this top secret info :ohdear:

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

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


Stultus Maximus posted:

My wife just became part of the most :black101: office email chain I've ever seen.
She works for the botanical garden's scientific publications division, which does a lot of technical and professional publishing for botanists globally. The garden director sent an email wishing luck to a Ukrainian colleague who will be out of communication for a while "defending the priceless Ukrainian herbarium."

Then the colleague replied all with some bloody pictures and the text "Territorial Defense helped patch me up and stop the bleeding. Banshees are howling tonight. I don't give a gently caress. Army are heroes. Forward this to the office."

Again, this is a botanist.

That is loving metal. Good poo poo.


e: every Botanist I have met is a totally chill, composed, hyperintelligent pothead. I imagine if you got one of them actually angry they'd be a goddamn berzerker.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Wonder if there’s any krocidili in there?

https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1502711495544684548?s=21

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Marshal Prolapse posted:

SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Wonder if there’s any krocidili in there?

You go to war with the synthetic opioids you have, not the synthetic opioids you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Marshal Prolapse posted:

SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Wonder if there’s any krocidili in there?

https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1502711495544684548?s=21

Imagine how embarrassing it would be if they had to crowdsource body armor...

Just Another Lurker
May 1, 2009

Stultus Maximus posted:

Imagine how embarrassing it would be if they had to crowdsource body armor...

Have they run out of cardboard as well?!? :suspense:

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Just Another Lurker posted:

Have they run out of cardboard as well?!? :suspense:

Yeah, I was going to say the Russian stuff makes the US in Iraq look like logistic gods by comparison. Not to ignore US gently caress ups.

Ukraine Propaganda is some top tier stuff.
:stare:
https://twitter.com/buddnicholas/status/1502625729003110406?s=21

Richard Bong
Dec 11, 2008

Stultus Maximus posted:

Imagine how embarrassing it would be if they had to crowdsource body armor...

Yeah can you imagine. That would be wild…

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Holy crap.

Stultus Maximus
Dec 21, 2009

USPOL May

Richard Bong posted:

Yeah can you imagine. That would be wild…

It would truly be something awful.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Package five does not age well.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

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

Arrath posted:

I mean, I know life goes on and all that but who is looking to buy apartments while the war rages on just down the road.

China will buy them all then annex Crimea as the majority landowner. :troll:

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Marshal Prolapse posted:

Package five does not age well.

yeah

it's not in podcast form

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Marshal Prolapse posted:

SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Wonder if there’s any krocidili in there?

https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1502711495544684548?s=21

can't wait for "Ukraine captures box of baby ruths, never eaten"

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008


I read the fascist thread and they're convinced that footage of Russian incompetence is either misleading or cherry-picked, and that they're exercising extreme competence and have already won the war. It only makes sense for Ukraine to surrender immediately.

Also screeching about whatever they think liberals are but that's a given.

Edit: ok im done lol

quote:

yeah the western response has been hysterically disproportionate to a limited war with small (relative) aims

Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Mar 12, 2022

Nystral
Feb 6, 2002

Every man likes a pretty girl with him at a skeleton dance.

Tiny Timbs posted:

I read the fascist thread and they're convinced that footage of Russian incompetence is either misleading or cherry-picked, and that they're exercising extreme competence and have already won the war. It only makes sense for Ukraine to surrender immediately.

Also screeching about whatever they think liberals are but that's a given.

Uhh que???

Stravag
Jun 7, 2009

I thought we weren't supposed to talk about cspam in this thread?

Jimmy Smuts
Aug 8, 2000

Marshal Prolapse posted:

SUPPORT THE TROOPS! Wonder if there’s any krocidili in there?

https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1502711495544684548?s=21
Apparently it's an international thing that civilians think troops want candy. On my deployment to Afghanistan, we got spammed with so much candy care packages that we gave all of it to the Afghans, as none of us wanted it. We wanted coffee and tobacco

Soul Dentist
Mar 17, 2009
Putin just needs to eat one of those Snickers bars and troops will pull out immediately!

Snickers: You're Not You When You're HungryTM

E4C85D38
Feb 7, 2010

Doesn't that thing only
hold six rounds...?

Jimmy Smuts posted:

Apparently it's an international thing that civilians think troops want candy. On my deployment to Afghanistan, we got spammed with so much candy care packages that we gave all of it to the Afghans, as none of us wanted it. We wanted coffee and tobacco

spc candies georg, who lives in fob and eats over 1,000 twix each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

ChubbyChecker
Mar 25, 2018

Soul Dentist posted:

Putin just needs to eat one of those Snickers bars and troops will pull out immediately!

Snickers: You're Not You When You're HungryTM

Tomn
Aug 23, 2007

And the angel said unto him
"Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself."
But lo he could not. For the angel was hitting him with his own hands

Tiny Timbs posted:

I read the fascist thread and they're convinced that footage of Russian incompetence is either misleading or cherry-picked, and that they're exercising extreme competence and have already won the war. It only makes sense for Ukraine to surrender immediately.

Also screeching about whatever they think liberals are but that's a given.

Edit: ok im done lol

One of their other talking points they have is "Ukraine is going to lose because all their war-making industry is either lost or too under threat to produce, meanwhile Russian war-making potential is intact and they can churn out an endless horde of tanks."

So does anyone here have any hard numbers on how long it takes to produce any of Russia's heavy military equipment? Also, don't a number of them rely on specialist parts produced outside of Russia that aren't accessible anymore because of sanctions? Also how long does it take to train up a crew to actually work one of those tanks adequately anyways?

cult_hero
Jul 10, 2001

E4C85D38 posted:

spc candies georg, who lives in fob and eats over 1,000 twix each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted

He's just trying to get SFC.

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

Soul Dentist posted:

Putin just needs to eat one of those Snickers bars and troops will pull out immediately!

Snickers: You're Not You When You're HungryTM

I can see it.

Hitler across from advisors at a super long table. "Vhat do you mean? Ve must expand ze lebensraum for ze glory of our people. Ve must liberate our peoples trapped when our previous governments stabbed us in the back!" The rhetoric has hit a fever pitch, the miniature mustachioed menace is beet red while advisors look on muttering in confused Russian. One slides a snickers all the way down the long table like a chocolate shuttlecock.

Putin appears, "Sorry about that, I dont know what came over me. Pull back all troops." He then gets up and rides out on a horse.

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Tomn posted:

One of their other talking points they have is "Ukraine is going to lose because all their war-making industry is either lost or too under threat to produce, meanwhile Russian war-making potential is intact and they can churn out an endless horde of tanks."

So does anyone here have any hard numbers on how long it takes to produce any of Russia's heavy military equipment? Also, don't a number of them rely on specialist parts produced outside of Russia that aren't accessible anymore because of sanctions? Also how long does it take to train up a crew to actually work one of those tanks adequately anyways?

Probably comes from the same line of thinking that comes up with gems like "Russia sent their worst equipment in first on purpose"

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Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

E4C85D38 posted:

spc candies georg, who lives in fob and eats over 1,000 twix each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted



EDIT: To be fair, I was a disgusting fatbody when I was in and I'm not in much better shape than that guy now, but I'm also a depressed lazy 40 year old who's been out for 12 years.

EDIT 2: Jesus, 12 years.

Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Mar 12, 2022

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