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Odesa hit by Kalibr missiles. bomb footage, no gore as far I can see, but replies and such may contain it. code:
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GaussianCopula posted:There would be no legal kung-fu required to shuffle Scholz out if the majority of the SPD group in the Bundestag wants to do that, but they are supporting his Russiophile course of action so little chance of that happening. Thinking the CDU is suddenly going to grow a pair and stand up to Putin is the most delusional thing I've read in this thread.
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Apr 23, 2022 14:39
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jazzyhattrick posted:poo poo like this is why we've had 12 years of tory government and there's no end in sight. I'm enjoying the idea that Boris Johnson isn't both a coward and a scumbag. When he's courageous it's with other people's lives.
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Apr 23, 2022 14:42
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Unkempt posted:Apparently this is the form for the visa process: You remember that “nudge” concept that Cass Sunstein and various other well meaning liberal types were hawking in the late 00’s, where government making processes and choices easy for people would lead to a utopia where everyone recycles and helps old ladies across the street? The real world application is realising that if you make the process awful enough, you can discourage employees from claiming expenses and immigrants from entering your country legally.
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Apr 23, 2022 14:44
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THE BAR posted:My great-grandfather was a bastard of Wilhelm II's brother, I'll take this responsibility. We were, at one point, their serfs. Then they sent us off to Russia. Later, we came back to Mittelfranken. After that, we went and fought the Russians in two world wars. gently caress me, we just can not stay away. Never works out well for anyone involved. There are Russen-Deutsch who emigrated during the early 2000's into our village. Some of them are Jewish. They speak Russian at home and fuckin' hate Russia (not Russians, obviously). This war has brought their families closer to our families. They speak less Russian now.
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Apr 23, 2022 14:45
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Wuxi posted:Thinking the CDU is suddenly going to grow a pair and stand up to Putin is the most delusional thing I've read in this thread. Germany’s political parties have all supported their Russian-friendly fossil fuel-oriented economic policies for decades now. If there’s going to be any change, it’s going to come from a new generation of opposition politicians sweeping out whomever is in power. https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-merkel-germany-scholz-foreign-policy-ukraine-war-invasion-nord-stream-2/
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Apr 23, 2022 14:48
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Unkempt posted:Apparently this is the form for the visa process: Good lord. Although having imported a cousin from Russia and doing the paperwork to get my wife citizenship status in the US (even tho she's been here legally for a million years) this is not a uniquely british style of bullshit  End passports end borders end masters
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Apr 23, 2022 14:51
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https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1515028375798173701 This is great.
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Apr 23, 2022 14:53
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ummel posted:Odesa hit by Kalibr missiles. Local press: https://dumskaya.net/news/rossiyskie-natcisty-obstrelyali-odessu-163431/ Includes building damage, and pictures of a burning van with a report that a person died in such circumstances.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:00
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Russia Roundup More in 'we're super not facists guys' from Russia https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1517833610899955715?s=20&t=UJSzQQ7NhS1GpIFZ_0gk9w Edit: Protest in Latvia I mistook for in Russia. I like the outfits so it stays https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/status/1517864375352184832?s=20&t=pnLiLXmA4gqhVW4ACumFaA Interesting article on Russia's history of War Crime Denial https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1517854844685623298?s=20&t=pnLiLXmA4gqhVW4ACumFaA Article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/23/propaganda-russia-atrocity-bucha/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921 quote:The explosion of contradictory explanations for what happened in Bucha was not Russia’s panicked response to being caught. It was part of a time-worn pattern: Russian media and politicians slowly dismantle the truth and then replace it with a forgery. The process starts with the idea of wanting to ask questions about the event in question. Once enough doubt has been sown, Russian media then begin offering and hyperbolizing alternative explanations. Frequently, these are expressed as mere suggestions or hypotheses, since the truth is ostensibly unknowable.  Sanctions don't work. That's why Russia is now hiding it's economic information, even internally! https://twitter.com/ChadBown/status/1517823080051130368?s=20&t=pnLiLXmA4gqhVW4ACumFaA Article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia..._mobilewebshare quote:In recent days, authorities stopped publishing data on government debt, trade statistics and oil production. The central bank limited the volume of financial information that local banks have to publish regularly while lawmakers are working on a bill banning lenders from sharing data with foreign states. KitConstantine fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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Apr 23, 2022 15:06
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the white hand posted:I'm enjoying the idea that Boris Johnson isn't both a coward and a scumbag. When he's courageous it's with other people's lives. The guy's a loving prick. Unfortunately his last electoral opponent's defence policy consisted of getting rid of trident, followed presumably by bending over and asking putin to be gentle. There are few people less qualified to be Prime Minister than Boris. Unfortunately Corbyn is one of them.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:16
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This is a random thought after two months of this horrible and unjust mess, but it seems so crazy and unlikely that poo poo kicked off with “russian warship go gently caress yourself” and a few weeks later that actual warship got hosed over. I don’t think Clancy would come up with this poo poo.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:22
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KitConstantine posted:Thankfully there are some more protests popping up in Russia Riga is not Russia.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:23
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Paladinus posted:Riga is not Russia. Oops my mistake. I'll correct the post
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Apr 23, 2022 15:24
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jazzyhattrick posted:The guy's a loving prick. Unfortunately his last electoral opponent's defence policy consisted of getting rid of trident, followed presumably by bending over and asking putin to be gentle. Yeah but a lot of Labour wanted to keep Trident, it wouldn't have actually gone anywhere. Corbyn's labour would have been a thousand times better better than BJ, who is not only a coward and a scumbag (as a student he used to burn 50 pound notes in front of homeless people for fucks sake) but also leads a cabinet of inept psychopaths. The only reason he's even doing the stuff he is now is to distract from his scandels at home, half of the Tory war chest is Russian money (did they ever release that report they sat on?)
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Apr 23, 2022 15:28
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yeah sorry I don't make the rules, to have an effective foreign policy you simply must have a scandal prone scumbag who will jump at any opportunity to distract from them
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Apr 23, 2022 15:31
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KitConstantine posted:
Economic data is made public to gain the confidence of international corporations, investors, and economists. This is pretty much them deciding that they'd rather have propagandistic control than the potential for foreign investment.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:32
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Paladinus posted:Riga is not Russia. Not yet, comrade!
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Apr 23, 2022 15:38
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Good morning everyone, except Russian officials. https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1517874325495455744?s=21&t=GpzDV6bmZ_xzzAymtyDthA
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Apr 23, 2022 15:39
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Unkempt posted:Apparently this is the form for the visa process: Yeah, I'm going through this process at the moment and Orwellian hardly covers it. The visa application needs to be filled in for each person, so for a mother and 2 children we had to enter the passport details for each family multiple times. Over 70 numbers entered in total. And the really fun part - the website to enter the information is privatised, and as it is a third party (lowest bidder) site, it is just a very very flaky front end. For security it is unable to receive information back from the visa system so it's one way communication only. You get no feedback for errors on a page, you get nothing. And once it has been submitted, you get a submission number, but logging in with the number tells you that nothing has been submitted, because the system can't query the state of an application. Ok, standard comedic conservative bureaucracy so far. Now for a family of three, we have (within out facebook group of several thousands) very few actual families making it after 4 weeks. The best we seem to get is all of the visas apart from the youngest child get approved. That way, the family still won't travel, but we have a 66% successful visa pass rate apparently! I swear its off the pages of Catch 22. It might even be slightly funny if I hadn't had to sit through half hour wait for Whatsapp to reconnect as they were trying to give me the details during an air raid in Kyiv. OzyMandrill fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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Apr 23, 2022 15:40
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Mokotow posted:This is a random thought after two months of this horrible and unjust mess, but it seems so crazy and unlikely that poo poo kicked off with “russian warship go gently caress yourself” and a few weeks later that actual warship got hosed over. I don’t think Clancy would come up with this poo poo. It's even better than that since according to the official Russian explanation of the incident, the ship did gently caress itself.
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https://twitter.com/kofmanmichael/status/1517856532976881664mobby_6kl posted:Not yet, comrade! Depends entirely on whom you ask.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:41
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Mokotow posted:This is a random thought after two months of this horrible and unjust mess, but it seems so crazy and unlikely that poo poo kicked off with “russian warship go gently caress yourself” and a few weeks later that actual warship got hosed over. I don’t think Clancy would come up with this poo poo. I am starting to more and more belive the people who've been arguing that we are living in a simulation. cinci zoo sniper posted:Depends entirely on whom you ask. 
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Apr 23, 2022 15:47
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https://twitter.com/HeleneBismarck/status/1517846781014458368 good thread and also lol @ the headline, feels rather indicative of current german concerns about scholz
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Apr 23, 2022 15:47
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KitConstantine posted:Oops my mistake. I'll correct the post No worries, an easy mistake to make with how many Russian-speaking people from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine had to move there.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:48
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Unkempt posted:Apparently this is the form for the visa process: Most to all of that is pretty necessary info; the big fuckup is the supporting document file formatting.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:53
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Alctel posted:Yeah but a lot of Labour wanted to keep Trident, it wouldn't have actually gone anywhere. It doesn't matter whether it would have gone anywhere. Saying he wanted to get rid of it made him completely unelectable. Hopefully Starmer will be successful at kicking the commie nutjobs responsible for the abortion that was Jeremy "Jezza" Corbyn out of the Labour party. So that the tory nightmare can finally be brought to an end.
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Paladinus posted:No worries, an easy mistake to make with how many Russian-speaking people from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine had to move there. 2011 census data puts Russian as the primary language for 49.6% of people in Riga, which means the real number is 60-70%, due to self-censorship against xenophobia. This is way before we did get 3 Russian opposition newspapers, and began receiving various refugees or political immigrants. The only 2 localities with higher share of Russian speakers in Latvia are my hometown and my college town. Except for my home region, Russian-Latvian is urban-rural divide basically.
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Apr 23, 2022 15:56
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jazzyhattrick posted:It doesn't matter whether it would have gone anywhere. Saying he wanted to get rid of it made him completely unelectable. Starmer's Labour party is indistinguishable from the tories
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Discendo Vox posted:Most to all of that is pretty necessary info; the big fuckup is the supporting document file formatting. I know I carry a utility bill from before the start of the year with me when running away from war as a refugee. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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Apr 23, 2022 15:59
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Paladinus posted:No worries, an easy mistake to make with how many Russian-speaking people from Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine had to move there. The guy who posted it is a Russian expat who's reported on Russian protests back when they still happened, so that plus undercaffination is what I'm gonna choose to blame lol
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Apr 23, 2022 16:01
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jazzyhattrick posted:It doesn't matter whether it would have gone anywhere. Saying he wanted to get rid of it made him completely unelectable. The only Labour PMs in my lifetime were Tony Blair and Gordon Brown so maybe your trash island deserves Boris Johnson and Priti Patel.
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jazzyhattrick posted:It doesn't matter whether it would have gone anywhere. Saying he wanted to get rid of it made him completely unelectable. afaik his position was even if retained he wouldn’t use nuclear weapons under any circumstances. Which is fine and principled and all but rather negates the idea of a deterrent. For an avowed pacifist he spent a lot of time supporting terrorists which I imagine wouldn’t endear him to some sections of the electorate. https://order-order.com/2017/06/08/100-times-jeremy-corbyn-sided-terrorists/ So yeah, caught between the buffon and the deep red sea. Rapulum_Dei fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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Apr 23, 2022 16:05
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I suggest that Corbyn chat moves to UKPol.
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Apr 23, 2022 16:14
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KitConstantine posted:The guy who posted it is a Russian expat who's reported on Russian protests back when they still happened, so that plus undercaffination is what I'm gonna choose to blame lol Geographically Inept added to your title roster
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Edit: Also, a Jomini update. I have a stronger and stronger feeling that the fall of Kherson early on historians will describe as Russia’s greatest success/Ukraine’s worst mistake in the early months of war. Beefeater1980 posted:You remember that “nudge” concept that Cass Sunstein and various other well meaning liberal types were hawking in the late 00’s, where government making processes and choices easy for people would lead to a utopia where everyone recycles and helps old ladies across the street? Yeah, bad UX design is often a choice and seen as a feature rather than a problem. eke out posted:https://twitter.com/HeleneBismarck/status/1517846781014458368 lol. In this timeline we literally call heads of state cowards on the front page. It's okay, he is a coward. Or a bought man. Maybe both.
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Apr 23, 2022 16:27
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Alctel posted:Yeah but a lot of Labour wanted to keep Trident, it wouldn't have actually gone anywhere. Corbyn is pretty decent person, and as far as left or labor policy party leaders in advanced industrial countries go, I agree he would have been a far better PM for the British people; however, and this is a big however, he would have absolutely failed to live up to this historical moment with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Boris Johnson is a rich, pro-capitalist, walking clown… but he’s managing to live up to the global historical moment. My suggestion to British goons is they find a labor leader who wouldn’t have let Germany get away with invading Poland, or Russia invading Ukraine.
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"* Ukrainian military fully controlled Bezruky, Slatyne, Prudianka in Kharkiv region "" Sumy borders are being shelled by Nazi troops. Aand BREAKING: Russian Ministry of Defense accusing U.S. in preparation of "provocations with weapons of mass-destruction" in Ukraine
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:"* I’ll need you to start posting source links to your tweet posts.
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Beefeater1980 posted:You remember that “nudge” concept that Cass Sunstein and various other well meaning liberal types were hawking in the late 00’s, where government making processes and choices easy for people would lead to a utopia where everyone recycles and helps old ladies across the street? You can also exclude a lot of the very elderly just by making it online only. (Slightly off topic) if your customer services are bad enough and you have a premium rate complaint line your complaints department can turn a profit.
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