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🦋 | 15 | 3.71% | |
🦇 | 115 | 28.47% | |
🪰 | 12 | 2.97% | |
🐦 | 67 | 16.58% | |
dragonfly | 94 | 23.27% | |
🦟 | 14 | 3.47% | |
🐝 | 87 | 21.53% | |
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Ardennes posted:Athe same time, the Biden administration probably doesn't want this thing to last forever. The Republicans are not going to cut him off completely, but "accountability" is going to be a tricky issue considering what we know about where arms shipments are actually going. I could see them giving Biden some "rope" initially and then raise hell when some weapons obviously go missing. They're going to want it to keep going just as long as they feel they are effectively damaging Russia with it. I can only guess at their internal calculus for effectiveness but I'm assuming that right now the only real consideration is whether the funding is actually harming Russia geopolitically or whether it is just being siphoned off by oligarchs and allied groups, hence the "accountability" you mention.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 18:56 |
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Frosted Flake posted:I was thinking about a good way to explain what happened in terms readily comparable to the English-speaking world and I think I have one. something something all punjabis are sikh.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 18:59 |
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https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1589528686591897601
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:03 |
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Tankbuster posted:something something all punjabis are sikh. I'm not even going to touch how strong that is in Canada because ho boy. More Sikhs here than in India iirc, largest Indian group in Canada, and incredibly politically influential. Sikhs registered as NDP members en masse to ensure the leadership of a major political party by a Sikh, and now we can't get rid of Jagmeet Singh. Sikh Separatism, is a whole thing here, fundraising networks and all, responsible for Canada's largest terrorist attack. Washington Post, 2019: Fringe Sikh interests have outsize influence in Canada. Why is no one pushing back? I'm starting to think Canada acts as Sore Loser Island or something.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:04 |
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Those mathematical skills are endemic to Ukraine.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:04 |
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He is a former boxer
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:06 |
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Azathoth posted:They're going to want it to keep going just as long as they feel they are effectively damaging Russia with it. I can only guess at their internal calculus for effectiveness but I'm assuming that right now the only real consideration is whether the funding is actually harming Russia geopolitically or whether it is just being siphoned off by oligarchs and allied groups, hence the "accountability" you mention. The problem is if the war itself is damaging the West in way that it really doesn't want to have to sustain. The damage being done to the Russia military very well simply not be sustainable in its current form, less because of funding, but because putting pressure on Western economies that can't be easily addressed. You can destroy some Russians tanks etc, but that very well may be fairly minor in the broader calculus as much broader supply issues are gathering pace and interest rates are getting to where a recession may turn into effectively a depression. A lot of it depends on rates, and that the Fed (along with other major economies) may have to strangle their respective economies to get inflation under control, and the longer the war goes there is going to be a distortion in energy markets and broader global trade. It may not be public opinion that ends the war, but that there is very real material damage being done to Western economies. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 19:12 on Nov 7, 2022 |
# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:08 |
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Republicans are just going to make the consequences for the war a Dem issue even if the dems lose both houses. The dems messaging is so weak they wont even try to contest it If the war is still going on by 2024 theyll make it an issue against bidens melted brain even if they keep voting for funding
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:08 |
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/11/7/russia-ukraine-live-updates-zelenskyy-warns-of-more-attacks more mobilization kicking in quote:Putin has said that 50,000 reservists called up as part of his “partial mobilisation” drive are now involved in active fighting within combat units in Ukraine, according to a report by Russia’s Interfax news agency. Ukrainians have really been sold a bridge, um, so to speak quote:The majority of Ukrainians (88 percent) have said they believe their country will be a prosperous member of the European Union in a decade, according to a poll published by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology on Monday. Yes, Zelenskyy's stated negotiating position continues to be "maybe someone should kill putin" quote:Kyiv has never refused to negotiate with Moscow and it is ready for talks with Russia’s future leader, but not with Vladimir Putin, a senior adviser to Ukraine’s president has said. nationalising wartime industries, hmm quote:President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that a move by Ukraine’s government to take control of stakes in a top engine maker and four other strategic companies was needed to meet the country’s urgent wartime needs. speng31b has issued a correction as of 19:32 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Ukrainian energy infrastructure is declining but and at the same time every Russian missile targeting energy infrastructure is either missing or being shot down. so presumably the energy infrastructure issues have an unrelated cause.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:10 |
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Truga posted:
mildly suprised to see blue checks in australia and no blue checks in argentina
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:10 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Oh my God lmao never seen those before, though makes sense with the o neils (of ulster) being a big part of the flight of the earls. Frosted Flake posted:
Very funny stuff, don't worry they haven't gone away.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:15 |
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quote:A Ukrainian official accuses Russian forces of looting empty homes in the southern city of Kherson and occupying them with soldiers wearing civilian clothes to prepare for street fighting in what both sides predict will be one of the war’s most important battles. sure doesn't seem good for Ukraine to be setting the stage for "people who look like civilians are actually combatants" ahead of the kherson fight
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:16 |
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speng31b posted:nationalising wartime industries, hmm
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:18 |
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Lostconfused posted:No they're not, this is only targeting people that are already wanted or under arrest by the government. good thing they don't have a track record of expanding that definition arbitrarily but for now: quote:Ukraine’s government has invoked wartime laws to take control of stakes in a top engine maker and four other strategic companies, according to officials, signalling its most dramatic wartime intervention into big businesses.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:22 |
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Hadlock posted:mildly suprised to see blue checks in australia and no blue checks in argentina I think Peronism sucked a lot of the air out of the room when it came to that sort of thing.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:22 |
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speng31b posted:good thing they don't have a track record of expanding that definition arbitrarily I already posted it pages ago, this is purely a political play.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:24 |
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Lostconfused posted:I already posted it pages ago, this is purely a political play. i don't know what you're arguing with. i probably agree
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:26 |
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same.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:26 |
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the habit this guy has of posting stuff like "99 out of 100 missiles were shot down, and 99 substations mysteriously exploded today" has become kind of a running joke for a lot of the more russian-aligned twitter types speng31b has issued a correction as of 19:32 on Nov 7, 2022 |
# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:29 |
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the nafo derangement about BJG continues unabated, and gets funnier https://twitter.com/dolphin3njoyer/status/1589651440028758016?s=20&t=-KU9GWQ3cC4ikLZFGz7ILw "honorary POC" nafos telling BJG she false flagged the racism in her own replies is some big brained stuff
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:41 |
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Person of Carpathia
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:44 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Person of Caucasus
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:47 |
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if you don't support endless lethal aid to ukraine, you ain't black
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:47 |
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is there a big "cost of ukraine aid" ticker (like the national debt ticker) I can smugly send to all my fiscally-conservative-blood-liberal irl associates? seeking to exploit inescapable contradictions in political ideologies. all the conservatives I know already think ukraine is a scam
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:51 |
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Frosted Flake posted:More Sikhs here than in India iirc, largest Indian group in Canada, there are nearly more sikhs in india than there are people in canada
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:52 |
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i say swears online posted:there are nearly more sikhs in india than there are people in canada
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:54 |
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do the dishes
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 19:54 |
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Pfff, Canada isn't a real country, that's not an achievement. There's more people in Tokyo than Canada.
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speng31b posted:the nafo derangement about BJG continues unabated, and gets funnier "honorary POC" is literally making me angry
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:03 |
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Frosted Flake posted:More Sikhs here than in India iirc ???????
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:10 |
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lol https://twitter.com/business/status/1589643858622963713 Yyyyup, this is what a more unified Europe looks like.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:13 |
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i say swears online posted:there are nearly more sikhs in india than there are people in canada Might have meant per capita, idk. e: yeah, they're 1.72% of India as of 2011, 2.1% of Canada as of 2021. Majorian has issued a correction as of 20:18 on Nov 7, 2022 |
# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:15 |
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Well, if they were shot down they still had to land somewhere. The shot down missiles just happened to fall on the energy facilities. I don't see what is so confusing about this? Perhaps you vatniks don't understand basic gravity?
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:23 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Do you think we'll get any Russian operators in Modern Warfare 2 or are games staying away from Russians because of real-world events? maybe now we can finally get Bad Company 3 since BC2 ended with the Russian invasion of Texas
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:38 |
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Frosted Flake posted:
Its a shame the US was too baby brained in their attempts to conqeror Canada
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:41 |
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must have been per capita. Though outlier opinion, I love the Regimental and RCMP turbans and I hope we get more Sikhs under the colours.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:46 |
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Best Friends posted:Ukrainian energy infrastructure is declining but and at the same time every Russian missile targeting energy infrastructure is either missing or being shot down. so presumably the energy infrastructure issues have an unrelated cause. Obviously the recent privatization push has killed all maintenance to the system. These are just routine totoally not related to the war
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:48 |
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the US must denazify Canada
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:49 |
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tristeham posted:the US must denazify Canada Ok, but same deal here. Someone's gonna need to denazify US after.
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# ? Nov 7, 2022 20:49 |