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Been camping with my son's boyscout troop since Thursday. Anything major happen in the war over this weekend?
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May 2, 2022 01:03
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Cimber posted:Been camping with my son's boyscout troop since Thursday. Anything major happen in the war over this weekend? https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1520765814781186049?t=4X5xdTj-NpPpko0CpK0lUQ&s=19
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May 2, 2022 01:08
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Cimber posted:Been camping with my son's boyscout troop since Thursday. Anything major happen in the war over this weekend? Russian generals were also camping out but you came back alive Also your Boy Scouts could probably fight better
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May 2, 2022 01:13
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1520765814781186049?t=4X5xdTj-NpPpko0CpK0lUQ&s=19 So another Russian General gets waxed eh? THis guy a big deal?
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May 2, 2022 01:16
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The med kit you took along in a fanny pack on the trip is still 10x better than the russian armys.
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May 2, 2022 01:17
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Alan Smithee posted:Russian generals were also camping out but you came back alive  Also, the US acknowledged that we've been training Ukrainian soldiers to use various weapon systems inside the US. Purportedly also training the first team of Ukrainian Air Force pilots to fly F-16s, though that's less well sourced.
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May 2, 2022 01:18
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Cimber posted:So another Russian General gets waxed eh? THis guy a big deal? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerasimov_doctrine
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May 2, 2022 01:19
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Cimber posted:So another Russian General gets waxed eh? THis guy a big deal? he was just put in charge of the entire ukraine war by Putin personally as a 'right the ship' effort. Actually insane if Ukraine managed to hit him with a shell within a couple of days. +1 to the pile of 'insane if true' things from this war. Most of which have ended up true.
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May 2, 2022 01:19
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1520765814781186049?t=4X5xdTj-NpPpko0CpK0lUQ&s=19 Latest ISW report claims Gerasimow had just left the command post. quote:Ukrainian forces likely conducted a rocket artillery strike on a Russian command post in Izyum on April 30 that struck after Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov had left but killed other senior Russian officers.
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May 2, 2022 01:23
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Starting to see an awful lot of rumblings about Russia being dead serious about invading Moldova, presumably to use it as a staging point to level Odessa to the ground and completely cut off Ukraine from the Black Sea. Not sure how they would swing that manpower wise, but I wouldn't put it past them. https://twitter.com/ivanastradner/status/1518920744876576771
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May 2, 2022 01:31
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So …. Would Ukraine give back Moldavia to Romania after they take it or only keep certain parts?
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May 2, 2022 01:35
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Invade Moldova from where, with what army
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May 2, 2022 01:36
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Invade Moldova from where, with what army Don't forget that Russia hasn't been contested on the Black Sea The Moskva doesn't count, it was an accident
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May 2, 2022 01:39
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They don't have enough troops to conquer Moldova, and they don't have much access to resupply or reinforce them. It would make a lot more sense for Russia to attack Odessa with the troops in Transnitria (granted, that doesn't make a lot of sense, either).
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May 2, 2022 01:40
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Invade Moldova from where, with what army Just barge on in, Sealion style.
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May 2, 2022 01:41
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An actual sealion
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May 2, 2022 01:44
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Invade Moldova from where, with what army  Some of y'all never heard of DEEP BATTLE.
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May 2, 2022 01:46
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Naked Bear posted:From the air, obviously. https://youtu.be/wjCjgjk9n0o
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May 2, 2022 01:53
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Herstory Begins Now posted:he was just put in charge of the entire ukraine war by Putin personally as a 'right the ship' effort. Actually insane if Ukraine managed to hit him with a shell within a couple of days. New ISW assessment is skeptical of both claims: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-1 quote:Ukrainian forces likely conducted rocket artillery strikes against a command post of the Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) and 2nd Combined Arms Army in Izyum on April 30.[14] Advisor to the Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Oleksiy Arestovych claimed that the strike may have killed Major General Andrei Simonov (reportedly the head of the Western Military District's electronic warfare troops), the chief of staff of the VDV, and other Russian officials.[15] A senior US defense official reported that Chief of the Russian General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov was present at the headquarters in Izyum but had departed to Russia before the strike.[16] Gerasimov may have been conducting a battlefield circulation (BFC) to evaluate the state of the Russian offensive in the Izyum direction. Gerasimov may have been trying to establish why the Russian offensive has largely stalled out on the Izyum axis and whether it is worth continuing to invest in strengthening their offensive grouping in that area instead of switching the operational focus to the Lyman axis of advance in Donetsk, where Russian troops are having more relative success, or other areas.[17] Commanders, even senior commanders, often conduct such BFCs in important areas to gain a better concrete and specific sense of the situation and, importantly, of the morale and capability of the individuals and units operating there. It is more likely that Gerasimov was conducting such a BFC than that he had actually taken command of military operations on this axis, as unconfirmed sources had previously reported.
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May 2, 2022 01:59
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I give the rumor undue credit purely because rumors of Ukraine injuring named Russians have been accurate an entirely disproportionate amount of the time, but yeah it's purely rumor still as far as anyone knows lowkey I also have no idea how much it's even in their interest to target people that high up the hierarchy, it seems to have a ton of potential to backfire compared to continuing to blow up essentially the russian military's middle management and logistics
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May 2, 2022 02:08
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Herstory Begins Now posted:I give the rumor undue credit purely because rumors of Ukraine injuring named Russians have been accurate an entirely disproportionate amount of the time, but yeah it's purely rumor still as far as anyone knows Shooting down Yamamoto was pretty useful in WWII. Taking down the big shots is always a huge morale boost, as well as disruptive to the decision-making process.
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May 2, 2022 02:14
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Navies are unusually top-down in heirarchy and things were a bit different back when you were a kid, det. Ukraine is running a very Americanized military currently which post Afghanistan/Iraq/Isis settled on a strategy of blowing up anyone competent in the middle of the hierarchy, which apparently was far more tangibly impactful than decapitation efforts. Apparently figure head idiots to fill a fancy uniform are a dime a dozen but competent, motivated mid-level guys in positions that they have expertise for are basically irreplaceable. I'm curious how much that has transferred over. I suspect heavily.
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May 2, 2022 02:22
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Defenestrategy posted:I dont remember people burning harry potter recently, but I do vaguely remember a bunch of religious weirdos burning copies of harry potter when it was first released because they thought it was teaching their kids about witchcraft. If true very funny. Alamogordo New Mexico! My wife's uncle worked at White Sands National Park for a while and told me how weird it was to be in a town where having a military base nearby pulled local politics to the left.
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May 2, 2022 02:25
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cruft posted:Alamogordo New Mexico! My wife's uncle worked at White Sands National Park for a while and told me how weird it was to be in a town where having a military base nearby pulled local politics to the left. Imagine having the kind of brain poison that leads you to believe that Doom, a game where you do nothing but kill demons from hell, is Satanic.
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May 2, 2022 02:34
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A.o.D. posted:Imagine having the kind of brain poison that leads you to believe that Doom, a game where you do nothing but kill demons from hell, is Satanic. It's not even that they believe it, because that assumes they put any thought into it. They just feel like it's satanic, and that's enough. I remember my aunt flipping out about Diablo at Walmart and telling her that it wasn't about joining satanic legions and partaking in rape and torture, it was actually about fighting AGAINST those things - and even recruiting friends to fight evil with! but nah its wrong to have ugly red man with horns on poster, this is clearly turning children to pagan orgies, and furthermore,
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May 2, 2022 02:53
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Flikken posted:Don't forget that Russia hasn't been contested on the Black Sea The Moskva doesn't count, it was an accident Russia can’t maintain supply across a border contiguous with them for hundreds of miles that has extensive modern road networks. That they are going to mount an offensive that requires constant resupply from the sea isn’t credible. Well, that they are going to do it for very long anyway. I suppose they could start it and then completely fail.
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May 2, 2022 03:06
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Deteriorata posted:Shooting down Yamamoto was pretty useful in WWII. Taking down the big shots is always a huge morale boost, as well as disruptive to the decision-making process. Also the Allies offing Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 was a major boon at the very least so he couldn’t escape at the end of the war. It wasn’t a Union effort but Stonewall Jackson’s death was a huge blow for Lee, dunno if it was decisive but him not being around at Gettysburg was definitely a good thing.
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May 2, 2022 03:15
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Also the Allies offing Reinhard Heydrich in 1942 was a major boon at the very least so he couldn’t escape at the end of the war. Jackson would have been able to tell Lee that Pickett's charge was a bad idea, just like Longstreet did. But Jackson would have made Lee actually listen. Fun fact, I was at Gettysburg this past weekend with my son's boyscout troop. We did the hike around the field (10 miles), and the ending of the march was us crossing from the Confederate to the Union side the same route as the charge. Gave me some chills thinking about it when I was doing that.
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May 2, 2022 03:30
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Cimber posted:Jackson would have been able to tell Lee that Pickett's charge was a bad idea, just like Longstreet did. Whoa that’s cool, sounds like a good experience. While it’s firmly in the category of speculation I’ve seen it wondered if Jackson’s presence would have mattered more on day one of Gettysburg when the confederates had numbers and if they’d been more aggressive could have meant the US would have been in worse positions on the following days.
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May 2, 2022 03:36
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I'm still gutted Goonysburg never happened.
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May 2, 2022 03:37
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EasilyConfused posted:New ISW assessment is skeptical of both claims: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-may-1
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May 2, 2022 03:45
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Cimber posted:Fun fact, I was at Gettysburg this past weekend with my son's boyscout troop. We did the hike around the field (10 miles), and the ending of the march was us crossing from the Confederate to the Union side the same route as the charge. Gave me some chills thinking about it when I was doing that. What do you get out of having your son take part in a pseudo-fascist organization? I ask this as a person who's attained Eagle Scout but has a hard time seeing anyone signing their kids up these days
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May 2, 2022 08:16
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Suicide Watch posted:What do you get out of having your son take part in a pseudo-fascist organization? I ask this as a person who's attained Eagle Scout but has a hard time seeing anyone signing their kids up these days The gently caress? What kind of hosed up unit were you in as a kid?
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May 2, 2022 08:20
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I got me Eagle Scout at 17, and scouts (and philmont) were some of the most formative years of my life. What makes you say they’re a fascist organization, now? They’ve made several quite progressive changes over the years.. arguably anti-fascist changes.
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May 2, 2022 08:29
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cant wear a brown shirt without being a fascist, cuz that's the defining feature of fascism or something? hell if i know
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May 2, 2022 09:02
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Suicide Watch posted:What do you get out of having your son take part in a pseudo-fascist organization? I ask this as a person who's attained Eagle Scout but has a hard time seeing anyone signing their kids up these days Dude
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May 2, 2022 09:15
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Blind Rasputin posted:I got me Eagle Scout at 17, and scouts (and philmont) were some of the most formative years of my life. What makes you say they’re a fascist organization, now? They’ve made several quite progressive changes over the years.. arguably anti-fascist changes. Mine too, and sure there's a lot of local discretion in which policies to implement. The past decade showed the national organization swinging hard right before the mormon units left in a schism. Fwiw, did you recall there being any atheists in your troop? There's evidence to show that Baden Powell was promoting a militaristic society, that he hated the gays, and looked admiringly toward fascist rulers of the 30s https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/01/christopher-hitchens-on-the-mildly-fascist-founder-of-the-boy-scouts/272683/ The same outdoors self-reliance and leadership skills developed through the scouts can be obtained through other activities and organizations that don't necessarily involve celebrating some old fascist. Oh yeah, remember this? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/boy-scouts-trump-apology.html Suicide Watch fucked around with this message at 09:34 on May 2, 2022 |
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May 2, 2022 09:18
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The Boy Scout troop I was in was super hosed up (multiple molestations, heaps of racism and fascism) and made me harshly distrust the entire organization when the only other troop we interacted with turned out to be the same way. I'm glad some of y'all had some decent experiences with the Boy Scouts, but it was very fertile ground for some pretty terrible poo poo and lots of awful people took full advantage of that.
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May 2, 2022 09:22
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Suicide Watch posted:Mine too, and sure there's a lot of local discretion in which policies to implement. The past decade showed the national organization swinging hard right before the mormon units left in a schism. Fwiw, did you recall there being any atheists in your troop? Do you extend this level of retrospective historical consumer activism to every aspect of your life, or are you just really hung up on the boy scouts? Like I'm sure as an enlightened individual, you'd never volunteer to serve in an organization with a history of genocide or excluding blacks or gays. Or one that still celebrates those who fought to defend slavery.
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Bayer ( Aspirin) was a subsidiary of IG Farben. I hope you stick to Tylenol for your aches and pains.
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