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Mokotow posted:It had a red wolf’s head on black background emblem on the back of the turret if it helps That's House Stark!
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RPG-7s in an indirect fire role is a grand tradition dating back to the Lebanese civil war (if not before)
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mlmp08 posted:Eh, it’s trickier than that. Politicians chose to amplify the rosiest possibilities, according to this NYT report:
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CommieGIR posted:How's it going Russia, did you get enough artillery shells from Belarus?
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He cut his arm off so that, technically, he is unarmed and can't be targeted. Yeah that's a tactic of desperation, but also a way to utilise two useless resources: huge RPG rocket reserves, and a guy with three limbs. Maybe he can suppress some enemies or even hurt one, and if he dies it's a net positive.
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Jul 7, 2022 21:28
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Nenonen posted:Also the sign says 'bred last' which is a dead giveaway if you’ve made a clever joke I’m afraid it went over my head, soz m8
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Jul 7, 2022 21:39
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Kraftwerk posted:Lucky you. It was really nice for me and if you're the competitive sort as it inspires you to better yourself to keep up with her. It shouldn't require inspiration from a woman from a specific region of the world in order to do things like your laundry and exercise, tbh.
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Jul 7, 2022 21:42
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mlmp08 posted:It shouldn't require inspiration from a woman from a specific region of the world in order to do things like your laundry and exercise, tbh. Agreed, but some people respond really well to outside motivation. It was more a comment on his specific situation than a general piece of advice.
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Jul 7, 2022 21:45
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:RPG-7s in an indirect fire role is a grand tradition dating back to the Lebanese civil war (if not before) Ahh! I remember seeing something about this in a real context and not just from playing too much multiplayer Operation: Flashpoint.
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Jul 7, 2022 21:49
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Despera posted:The Soviet Union lost soo many men in ww2 that the theory goes only the hottest of the hot women got to reproduce There’s no need for weird theories here. Eastern Europe, broadly, is conservative and sexist, which means women here are brought up in an environment that expects them to be aggressively prepared for serving as an eye candy on every occasion.
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Jul 7, 2022 22:03
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cinci zoo sniper posted:There’s no need for weird theories here. Eastern Europe, broadly, is conservative and sexist, which means women here are brought up in an environment that expects them to be aggressively prepared for serving as an eye candy on every occasion. EE also seems to not have as many issues putting women in leadership positions. It's a different culture.
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Ulf posted:Swedish for “Wide Load”?  it's a bad pun, bred is the past form of 'to breed' in english
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Eh. I worked in a somewhat shady industry in the early 2000s and somehow got an unhealthy amount of exposure to the parasocial romance / mail order bride circles and saw/read a lot of discussions between people in them. At the time, for avoidance of doubt. The stereotype at the time was that Eastern European men, on average, are backward, sexist, irresponsible, violently drunk manchildren (3 generations of men coddled by their mothers after all the decent men got killed off in the wars is another stereotype I've seen) Which, in turn, led to a very fierce competition for the few decent men that exist and supposedly made every blandly average Western man a catch. It wasn't entirely unwarranted (and it's been internalised as well), but I'm a little surprised to see it still living on 20 years later. As far as I'm concerned, it's racism/prejudice against EE folk.
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It's pretty simple. White blonde thin women are fetishized in western culture. Eastern Europe has more white blonde women than other parts of the world, except Scandinavia.
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Scuffy_1989 posted:EE also seems to not have as many issues putting women in leadership positions. It's a different culture. Oh, I know, Latvia is #1 in those stats. Most men, except for the more cooked of conservatives, recognize that women are their intellectual peers, especially when it comes to white-collar work. If you shift your view to blue-collar work, it’s a massive sexist poo poo show once again, with completely nonsensical categories and assumptions. Like, complete nonsense – people will say that women cannot work in construction due to being frail, while also saying that they are perfect fit for healthcare, to carry 150 kg alcoholics to toilet and back in hospital.  Business stats like https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/latvia-a-world-leader-in-gender-equality-under-the-law.a311353/ or  are nice, or course, but they don’t tell the entire story. When looking at the broader picture – https://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality-index/2021/country/LV – you’ll see that we basically have humanities and “caretaker” fields of study segregated for women. Furthermore, very lovely domestic violence protections (basically none compared to the benchmark for the current year), and a host of other social problems. I still consider it a mild miracle that by far the most accomplished politician of the second independent Latvia is a woman. A lot of that is much more likely attributable to her Canadian upbringing, rather than to the intricacies of Latvian culture. cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Jul 7, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:There’s no need for weird theories here. Eastern Europe, broadly, is conservative and sexist, which means women here are brought up in an environment that expects them to be aggressively prepared for serving as an eye candy on every occasion. Its weird to assume the demographic chaos of the second world war had no effect on the populace. When the nazis took ukraine they assumed every male of reproductive age was a partizan. During the first world war they told women growing up that most of them would never find a spouse
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Re: RPG7 rounds used as makeshift artillery. Doesn't a RPG7 round self detonate after a certain period of time? I figure if you're trying to lob it a long distance it would just blow up midair and never actually hit the ground.
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Kraftwerk posted:Agreed, but some people respond really well to outside motivation. It was more a comment on his specific situation than a general piece of advice. I like that marrying a pretty lady but sometimes wearing athletic shorts to walmart means I must never do laundry or exercise Content: The US basketball player plead guilty in Russia apparently. At this point would they risk keeping her locked up, or perhaps, at this point what would it change so they definitely will? Charliegrs posted:Re: RPG7 rounds used as makeshift artillery. Doesn't a RPG7 round self detonate after a certain period of time? I figure if you're trying to lob it a long distance it would just blow up midair and never actually hit the ground. You can disable that function.
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Despera posted:Its weird to assume the demographic chaos of the second world war had no effect on the populace. If you want to quote some WW2 historians on this, go for it, but until then “survival of the sexiest” about Eastern Europe is not strongly distinguishable from other orientalist bollocks foreigners like to say about it, especially when the topic in question has explanations that do not depend on superimposition of the Tinder model of relationships onto the society of 40s and 50s.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:If you want to quote some WW2 historians on this, go for it, but until then “survival of the sexiest” about Eastern Europe is not strongly distinguishable from other orientalist bollocks foreigners like to say about it, especially when the topic in question has explanations that do not depend on superimposition of the Tinder model of relationships onto the society of 40s and 50s. Saying a lot of men died isnt ""orientalist bollocks" its a sad fact of history (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Charliegrs posted:Re: RPG7 rounds used as makeshift artillery. Doesn't a RPG7 round self detonate after a certain period of time? I figure if you're trying to lob it a long distance it would just blow up midair and never actually hit the ground. This is true. I suppose there might be a special fuse that ignores this, or the ballistics they use makes it irrelevant because it lands within that time. Anyway, here's some interviews from people who live close to the Russian border in Finland, who want to go to buy cheap fuel there despite the war. The first lady in the interview, who is married to a Russian guy, tells in a video that she's conflicted because they have relatives in Russia and friends in Ukraine, but concludes that let all flowers bloom and don't judge anyone for their opinions  (maybe the flowers she means are Gvodzika (carnation), Akatsiya (acacia) and Pion (peony)?) she also runs a Facebook group for people who go to fill their tanks in Russiahttps://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12525516 quote:- It was nice to fill up when there were no queues.
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The idea of a "pretty Ukrainian blonde" is pretty funny when one considers that the traditional cultural notion of beauty is ...dark hair.
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A bit of UATV (Ukrainian funded) ham-handed propaganda. So only watch the first hilarious 5 seconds when the Russian lady breaks her Apple tablet with help from a sympathetic elderly bystander. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le4l4sfujrw
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Yeah, that's been a pretty consistent reaction by volunteers up to this point. ”Oh poo poo! They have bombs and artillery too?!"
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The X-man cometh posted:Did you go out again? Or did her trauma make it difficult to form a relationship? I didn't get a relationship vibe at all, so I just suggested coffee next time she was free. She was damned interesting to talk to, but I'm very interested in the war so I had to keep in mind that we didn't share an emotional distance towards it. When you have family you haven't heard from in weeks on the front line, I assume you go out to distract yourself not remind yourself. It sounds perverse, but I found it fascinating to talk to someone whose main concern wasn't that the store didn't have their color of hair dye, and they had to work overtime the previous weekend because their boss is just *such an rear end*. MassiveSky fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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Ikasuhito posted:Yeah, that's been a pretty consistent reaction by volunteers up to this point. I keep being surprised that they're surprised, and then remind myself that most Americans don't study war since the age of 7.
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Ynglaur posted:I keep being surprised that they're surprised, and then remind myself that most Americans don't study war since the age of 7. Most American combat vets have never been in a situation where they weren’t well-supported and supplied and could call in air strikes if things got serious. Overwhelming force has been American doctrine since at least Gulf War 1.
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Yup, they're the iraqs now, maybe not the iraqis in 2003 but definitely 1983
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Another dawn is breaking in Kyiv, and it's still Ukrainian.   
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Ynglaur posted:I keep being surprised that they're surprised, and then remind myself that most Americans don't study war since the age of 7. I'm pretty sure it's more that they're glory hounds and were just expecting, well, Oracle posted:Most American combat vets have never been in a situation where they weren’t well-supported and supplied and could call in air strikes if things got serious. Overwhelming force has been American doctrine since at least Gulf War 1. instead of a peer war.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Also there seem to be rumours about Medvedev’s wife getting tired of his alpha [alcoholic] dog shtick. Machine translation posted:Dmitry Medvedev’s wife left. This could have provoked his unstable mental state, which can be seen from posts in support of the war. Edit: CommieGIR posted:Also just noticed: The guy is missing an arm. (sorry... had to) Cable Guy fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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cinci zoo sniper posted:There’s no need for weird theories here. Eastern Europe, broadly, is conservative and sexist, which means women here are brought up in an environment that expects them to be aggressively prepared for serving as an eye candy on every occasion. Yeah agreed. When I traveled to Ukraine as a teenager, one of the immediate takeaways from the friends I made was that struggles with anorexia and bulimia were pretty widespread throughout the female population. The girls I knew were lovely, but they also were clearly under significant social pressure to conform to a feminine ideal.
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Cable Guy posted:I read that tweet as his deranged mental state and latest posting being caused BY his wife leaving him... You’re right, I had read that haphazardly when skimming Twitter. I maintain my speculation nonetheless, but a budding divorce could’ve definitely aggravated his behaviour, and would explain some of the more excessive outbursts he has had. Here’s the source post for it, by the way: https://t.me/mozhemobyasnit/12925 cinci zoo sniper fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Jul 8, 2022 |
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Staluigi posted:Hearing today that russia is taking a "pause" to relieve their overworked troops and for the first time since this whole affair began, 133 or so days in, no russian advances were recorded The Russians tend to make up excuses for this sort of thing, bit like how being forced off Snake Island was an apparent gesture of goodwill. I would not be surprised if the recent HIMARS artillery strikes on logistics and critical supply points have had a profound effect on them despite their relatively low number
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definitely seems like they're getting noticedАлексей Суконкин posted:HIMARS в действии. Идёт очень точная работа по командным пунктам. Потери очень серьёзные. quote:HIMARS in action. There is a very precise work on command posts. Losses are very serious. (Alexey Sukonkin is apparently a kind of 'military expert' cited by some Russian media, Bankovaya is the street in Kyiv that houses the presidential administration buildings)
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Staluigi posted:Hearing today that russia is taking a "pause" to relieve their overworked troops and for the first time since this whole affair began, 133 or so days in, no russian advances were recorded One might call it a pause but the past 24 hr view from NASA FIRMS might call it a conflagration. You know a war is bad stuff when you can clearly determine the front from space. (courtesy of Ponomarenko's twitter) 
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