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CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

BadOptics posted:

Well they are having to resort to missiles meant to hit aircraft carriers (i.e. big things on a relatively smooth surface with very apparent radar signature) because they had only a handful of their fancy propaganda weapons. So basically any big building ends up confusing the guidance system. The incompetence would be amazing except for the fact that the main purpose of the Russian military, except maybe for the strategic rocket forces, is to enrich corrupt officers and contractors rather than fighting/winning wars.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russias-secretive-long-range-bomber-operations-against-ukraine

Even the Strategic Rocket Forces are getting pruned to feed the Ukraine war.

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Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

Uhh, NAFO is basically anti-Russian disinformation that stinks of being an infowar op.

BadOptics posted:

It's the opposite of tankies but still intensely cringe, as everything on Twitter is. Half are just terminally online weirdos living vicariously through war porn and thirsting over the Finnish PM (President?) because she's one of the few world leaders under 80 and not male.

Thanks I hate it

Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Some Russian mouthpiece on Twitter misspelled NATO as NAFO and people latched onto it like covfefe and created the North Atlantic Fella Organization.

That answers my follow up question!

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

CommieGIR posted:

Even the Strategic Rocket Forces are getting pruned to feed the Ukraine war.

Well at least anyone too low on the totem pole or without the right connections, but yeah.

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Ordering heating oil and the price is €1.52/L. That's about triple what it was a year ago.

Worth it to fight fascism, though.

InAndOutBrennan
Dec 11, 2008
The answer to all tank chat is of course CV 90 120.

https://twitter.com/Revengeoft3plit/status/1263543672559321090?t=CeS3XbHCGpfXRxoTWNjlpg&s=19

E: Shared the whole thread it seems but you get the picture!

TK-42-1
Oct 30, 2013

looks like we have a bad transmitter



what does that say?

InAndOutBrennan
Dec 11, 2008

TK-42-1 posted:

what does that say?

CV 90 120 beautiful as a spring day

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
A dumb extremely stupid piece of Big Mac eating poo poo.

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1571663695541055488?s=46&t=QYgsAQ67S8GKEM0smRMsyg

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

There’s no way that guy doesn’t have an active account here

Discussion Quorum
Dec 5, 2002
Armchair Philistine
Idk I feel like if he had an account we would see spam parroting tankie/greyzone talking points. Do you see spam like that anywhere around here?

SlowBloke
Aug 14, 2017

Discussion Quorum posted:

Do you see spam like that anywhere around here?

add a c and you will find it plenty.

Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

SlowBloke posted:

add a c and you will find it plenty.

see spam

psydude
Apr 1, 2008

Speaking of Tankies, Die Linke (the literal remnants of the GDR's Communist Party) is on the verge of a split between their own Tankie faction (half of them) and those who aren't insane.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/19/germanys-die-linke-on-verge-of-split-over-sanctions-on-russia

psydude fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Sep 19, 2022

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Discussion Quorum posted:

see spam parroting tankie/greyzone talking points.

How right you are

joat mon
Oct 15, 2009

I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

TK-42-1 posted:

what does that say?

What is the best-looking military vehicle of all time? I nominate the Sugga.

(They're right)

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

Tiny Timbs posted:

There’s no way that guy doesn’t have an active account here

Going off of what I saw of his tweeting during the two years I was on Twitter, the guy is too stupid to avoid getting himself banned almost instantly.

Edit: Like the guy holds idiotic opinions that somehow makes every political persuasion angry. If it's not Holocaust denial in service of Russia then it's about "woke" Marxists pushing "CRT" in schools. I'd almost think it's a Glenn Greenwald situation where he takes the most extreme position to get eyeballs/clicks, but my god the guy is just far too dumb.

BadOptics fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Sep 19, 2022

highme
May 25, 2001


I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


Remember when Maxine Waters attacked him? Dude is an even dumber Dim Pool without the beanie.

kupachek
Aug 5, 2015

This man’s brain is trembling in the balance between reason and insanity, and as he stalks on with clenched fist and sword in hand, as though he still saw those murderous Russians gunners.

BadOptics posted:

Going off of what I saw of his tweeting during the two years I was on Twitter, the guy is too stupid to avoid getting himself banned almost instantly.

Edit: Like the guy holds idiotic opinions that somehow makes every political persuasion angry. If it's not Holocaust denial in service of Russia then it's about "woke" Marxists pushing "CRT" in schools. I'd almost think it's a Glenn Greenwald situation where he takes the most extreme position to get eyeballs/clicks, but my god the guy is just far too dumb.

Are you prepared to sigh?
https://www.nj.com/mercer/2009/02/amateur_video_shows_tcnj_arres.html
This incident gets brought up regularly after he makes stupid comments.
https://i.imgur.com/YQNnaao.mp4

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

BadOptics posted:

Going off of what I saw of his tweeting during the two years I was on Twitter, the guy is too stupid to avoid getting himself banned almost instantly.

Edit: Like the guy holds idiotic opinions that somehow makes every political persuasion angry. If it's not Holocaust denial in service of Russia then it's about "woke" Marxists pushing "CRT" in schools. I'd almost think it's a Glenn Greenwald situation where he takes the most extreme position to get eyeballs/clicks, but my god the guy is just far too dumb.

I think you'll find there's a substantial overlap in the audience for those two positions.

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

kupachek posted:

Are you prepared to sigh?
https://www.nj.com/mercer/2009/02/amateur_video_shows_tcnj_arres.html
This incident gets brought up regularly after he makes stupid comments.
https://i.imgur.com/YQNnaao.mp4

Yeah, I've seen that one and when Maxine Waters "assaulted" him.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

Steezo posted:

"Just following orders" as they line people up in trenches to gun them down wasn't a defense in the 1940's and it isn't one now.

It’s not a legal defense, sure. But there is a huge body of research from multiple disciplines that show that humans are a lot more capable of committing violence than we’d like to believe, especially when there is a perceived threat to the self. It doesn’t even need to be a threat that the person is consciously aware of. It’s the emotional trauma that comes after violence that the average human finds difficult to deal with, which is also why humans have developed a large variety of rituals from ritualistic shapeshifting to expelling warriors from a community before battle then ritually bringing them back in afterwards to help cope with that trauma.

Being told to go commit a war crime with a group of others reinforces the threat of reprisal and danger to the individual for refusing to comply. The individual often assumes the other members of the group are complicit or not, and then believes they must participate so that they do not then become the next victim of the group. In this way an entire group of people who inwardly dissent will force each other to comply out of fear and ignorance of the other individuals’ allegiances.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Some aren’t coping well today.

https://twitter.com/seveerity/status/1571900706646278148?s=46&t=45nwArVXt9aibeCFp8oIAA

Humbug Scoolbus
Apr 25, 2008

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
Clapping Larry
That mentioned video is gold.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


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

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
he sounds like he's doing jeff goldblum as his character in ID4 if there were no alien invasion and only conspiracy theories

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1571960305965473792?s=46&t=hMMtjLMwTR3NnhHB1w094g

:smith:

Rust Martialis
May 8, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 5 days!)


Can't spell "camps" without C-SPAM!

Icon Of Sin
Dec 26, 2008



Rust Martialis posted:

Can't spell "camps" without C-SPAM!

:vince:

pmchem
Jan 22, 2010


Rust Martialis posted:

Can't spell "camps" without C-SPAM!

:hmmyes:

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers






I hate everyone responsible :smith:

madeintaipei
Jul 13, 2012

Shamelessly yoinked from the GBS thread.

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Man, they could make so much money mass-producing those patches.

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Rust Martialis posted:

Can't spell "camps" without C-SPAM!

:wow:

Kazinsal
Dec 13, 2011

Rust Martialis posted:

Can't spell "camps" without C-SPAM!

:blyat:

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

Wow, Imperial Japan also responsible for accelerating the holocaust. I dont generally see a lot of people arguing that Japan should have attacked Pearl Harbor, but maybe this guy hangs out in places I don't.

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration
Nap Ghost
One of Tracey's funniest moments was rolling up to Polish gate guards to a base, asking the 19 year old what's going on, the guard being like "I dunno, I just guard the gate" and Tracey taking that as evidence of a vast conspiracy. His other evidence: He took a picture of Polish cargo trucks on the Polish base.

E: Another funny one was Greenwald saying it was mean to make fun of Tracey for not being able to get a date, saying that 1: we don't know if he can't get dates and 2: even if Tracey can't get dates, who are we to judge if no one wants to date or hang out with him!

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

mlmp08 posted:

One of Tracey's funniest moments was rolling up to Polish gate guards to a base, asking the 19 year old what's going on, the guard being like "I dunno, I just guard the gate" and Tracey taking that as evidence of a vast conspiracy. His other evidence: He took a picture of Polish cargo trucks on the Polish base.

E: Another funny one was Greenwald saying it was mean to make fun of Tracey for not being able to get a date, saying that 1: we don't know if he can't get dates and 2: even if Tracey can't get dates, who are we to judge if no one wants to date or hang out with him!

Right around when Glenn was white knighting Tracey's (non-existent) dating life he went to a college looking like a disheveled hobo and had a bunch of zoomers mock him while he tried to debate random people. This somehow proved the dangers of Marxism or CRT.

Edit:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/michael-tracey-connecticut-college-covid-speech/?amp

quote:

But supporters of Tracey argued in his defense. Fellow independent journalist Glenn Greenwald described Tracey’s actions as legitimate reporting on an important societal issue.

“Michael Tracey again did something his left-liberal critics won’t—got his rear end off the couch to go do actual reporting on a consequential societal and political conflict—and now they’re all holding hands to mock him as the outcast nerd in an attempt to feel tribally protected,” Greenwald wrote.

BadOptics fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Sep 20, 2022

Cimber
Feb 3, 2014

piL posted:

Wow, Imperial Japan also responsible for accelerating the holocaust. I dont generally see a lot of people arguing that Japan should have attacked Pearl Harbor, but maybe this guy hangs out in places I don't.

Why are we even giving this tool 2 brain cells? I'm not going to even bother trying to debunk his bullshit.

Steezo
Jun 16, 2003
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!


Cimber posted:

Why are we even giving this tool 2 brain cells? I'm not going to even bother trying to debunk his bullshit.

Just report him to twitter for being a Nazi and move on. It'll at least keep him off the German internet.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


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

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

Rust Martialis posted:

Can't spell "camps" without C-SPAM!

Lol

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HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

Just want to bring this back around from July 20th, specifically this part:

Logistics Collapse posted:

General Budanov correctly predicted when the Russian invasion would happen when others in his government were publicly sceptical and now says he is confident about predicting its conclusion.

The breaking point will be in the second part of August.

Most of the active combat actions will have finished by the end of this year.

As a result, we will renew Ukrainian power in all our territories that we have lost including Donbas and the Crimea.

This dude's been spot on the money the whole time. The Russians do appear to have started breaking in late August with the start of the Kherson offensive and definitely by the Kharkiv offensive.

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