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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Lord of Pie posted:Ted Cruz being so widely disliked that he lost Texas' claim to melted cheese Especially ironic seeing as I think he is about 1/4 melted cheese by volume.
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Weka posted:
Only if it's in working order. From a quick search, the factory isn't small so it could get bombed by various means.
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Nov 8, 2022 07:46
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Weka posted:Especially ironic seeing as I think he is about 1/4 melted cheese by volume. Now I'm imagining a big animate bowl of queso with James Adomian's "TED CRUZ!!!" voice.
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Nov 8, 2022 08:20
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukrain...nse-11667579127 quote:A good idea months ago would have been pushing aside Russia’s gossamer, largely hypothetical military blockade of Ukraine’s ports. The West finally had a chance this week when Vladimir Putin sought to revive the illusion of a blockade in Western minds by backing out of a U.N.-sponsored grain-shipping agreement. Result: He climbed down when other parties decided the ships would sail anyway. quote:Mr. Biden perplexingly also suggested that any use of a nuclear weapon must lead to Armageddon. In reality, nobody is obliged to do any particular thing if Russia were to detonate a nuke in Ukraine. And depending on the details, the right response might be to keep on keeping on. That said, while interpreting Mr. Biden remarks is risky, he may have sent a useful signal to Mr. Putin that, no, detonating a nuke won’t get you negotiations on terms you will like. quote:Perhaps less than serendipitously, a fairly conventional new history of the Cuban missile crisis by Max Hastings has been landing in pundit inboxes. Spare a moment for last year’s account of the same episode by Ukrainian historian Serhii Plokhy. It contains a fetching account of dealings between Bobby Kennedy and the KGB’s Yuri Barsukov
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Nov 8, 2022 08:42
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quote:Holman Jenkins This guy is seriously connected. Almost as if he has deep... ties. To something. Some sort of state of being perhaps.
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Nov 8, 2022 09:04
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send that guy to the frontlines
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Nov 8, 2022 09:08
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CODChimera posted:send that guy to the frontlines This but in the form of one of those comedy game shows where they wake the contestent up in a re-creation of their bedroom in front of a live studio audience. Exactly that, but the frontline of Ukraine in his silk pyjamas holding a toothbrush.
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Nov 8, 2022 09:11
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Ardennes posted:It honestly looks like civilians, I don't think it particularly puts the situation in a great light. Ah, but didn't you know. All the civilians in Kherson are actually Russian soldiers in disguise. Majorian posted:https://twitter.com/MargoGontar/status/1588665959656484864 Little poo poo whose upper class parents were kids when Communism fell: Let me tell you about my lived experience under Stalin. PawParole posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/uamemesforces/status/1589647639678971906 Not even sure that was the plan. When they rolled over Georgia they didn't really leave any occupation troops behind after Saakashvily hosed off. Neither did they set up a new government. V. Illych L. posted:this was the last major world conflict i recall where norwegian mainstream news covered it in a reasonably enlightening way. it was pretty clear from norwegian state broadcaster coverage that this was a border where there'd been tensions for a while, but the georgians had decided to settle the issue by military force and that ended up backfiring spectacularly Our state broadcaster still has like one older guy who actually spent a lot of time in Ukraine and tends to push back against the worst bullshit, but once he retires there'll be no unbroken brains left in the whole organization.
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Nov 8, 2022 09:33
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I saw a Ukrainian flag graffiti this weekend with what looked like bleeding bullet holes and I couldn't tell if it was pro or anti Ukraine.genericnick posted:Not even sure that was the plan. When they rolled over Georgia they didn't really leave any occupation troops behind after Saakashvily hosed off. Neither did they set up a new government. They annexed Crimea in 2014.
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Nov 8, 2022 09:41
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gradenko_2000 posted:if we're doing food chat, what is a Ukrainian dish that one could try to make? Ukrainian family recipe: Step 1. Chop and fry two onions and a garlic bulb Step 2. Decide what you're going to cook
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Nov 8, 2022 10:29
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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. It's like understanding "Cuban" by looking at Cubans in Florida OP.
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Nov 8, 2022 10:30
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Majorian posted:https://twitter.com/MargoGontar/status/1588665959656484864 Eastern Europeans seem to be a bunch of petulant, murderous children, so this rings true.
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Nov 8, 2022 10:41
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Armadillo Tank posted:every time i hear about that stupid bullshit i remember waking up at 5:00 AM hearing about georgian rocket arty firing and other attacks on headline news Just a little gaslighting, as foreign policy.
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Nov 8, 2022 10:46
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Eastern Europeans seem to be a bunch of petulant, murderous children, so this rings true. i know an orc when I see one
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Nov 8, 2022 10:52
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max Hastings has a new book?!?!
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Nov 8, 2022 10:58
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Raskolnikov38 posted:max Hastings has a new book?!?! "The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962"
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Nov 8, 2022 11:02
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lmao I love that tory dweeb’s books. you can hear his teeth grinding through the pages when communists do something good. I can’t wait to read how Britain actually won the missile crisis
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Nov 8, 2022 11:03
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lmao I love that tory dweeb’s books. you can hear his teeth grinding through the pages when communists do something good. I can’t wait to read how Britain actually won the missile crisis tangentially Antony Beevor also has a new book on the Russian Civil War
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Nov 8, 2022 11:09
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Nothing to see here, just the Guardian reporting approvingly on the drive to eliminate Russian culture from Ukraine: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/07/kyiv-ukrainians-culture-war-russian-decolonisation Not included in the article: any acknowledgment that approximately a quarter of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language, or how this drive might influence their opinions on whether they have any future in Ukraine as things currently stand.
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Nov 8, 2022 11:18
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Pistol_Pete posted:Nothing to see here, just the Guardian reporting approvingly on the drive to eliminate Russian culture from Ukraine: quote:Tchaikovsky himself was not only long dead, but had been an outsider and an internationalist – so the various arguments went. It took some careful explanation to convey that a piece of music glorifying Russian military achievements, and involving actual cannons, might be somewhere beyond poor taste when Russia was at that moment shelling Ukrainian cities – particularly when the families of orchestra members were directly affected. "Tchaikovsky's music referenced cannons, and cannons were being shot at Ukraine" - what a loving child! quote:In fact, such moments have been rare in western Europe. Chekhov and Lermontov continue to be read and Mussorgsky to be performed. Russian culture has not been “cancelled” as Putin claims, and Russian-born musicians and dancers with international careers continue to perform in the west – assuming they have offered a minimum of public deprecation of the killing and destruction being visited on Ukraine. "people are not cancelled as long as they toe the line. this is not canceling"
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Nov 8, 2022 11:24
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How do you 'decolonise' your nation from Russian culture, when 14 million of your citizens speak Russian as their first language? Better not think too carefully about what that would involve, hey?
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Nov 8, 2022 11:30
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mlmp08 posted:Pierogis. Fried potato pancakes. That's a latke
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Nov 8, 2022 11:52
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gradenko_2000 posted:tangentially Antony Beevor also has a new book on the Russian Civil War haven’t read it and never will, but I’m going to predict that he goes on at length about how the inhumane terrorist red guard cruelly murdered the political and spiritual visionary leader roman von ungern-sternberg.
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Nov 8, 2022 12:11
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Pistol_Pete posted:Nothing to see here, just the Guardian reporting approvingly on the drive to eliminate Russian culture from Ukraine:
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Nov 8, 2022 12:35
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It is almost a shock to return to the UK and hear Russian music blithely played on Radio 3.
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Nov 8, 2022 12:37
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Pistol_Pete posted:Nothing to see here, just the Guardian reporting approvingly on the drive to eliminate Russian culture from Ukraine: quote:The context for this rejection has to be understood, though: Ukrainians are emerging from a history in which the Russian empire, and then the Soviet Union, actively and often violently suppressed Ukrainian art. This has worked in a number of different ways. It has included the absorption of numerous Ukrainian artists and writers into the Russian centre (such as Nikolai Gogol, or Mykola Hohol in Ukrainian), and the misclassifying of hundreds of artists as Russian when they could arguably be better described as Ukrainian (such as the painter Kazimir Malevich, who was Kyiv-born but Russian, according to the Tate). Not sure that 'becoming one of the most celebrated and famous writers by a different and much larger linguistic and literary tradition' is a good example of your native art being violently suppressed
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Nov 8, 2022 12:37
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quote:such as Nikolai Gogol, or Mykola Hohol in Ukrainian “mykola hohol” sounds like a slur from pro-russian telegram channels
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Nov 8, 2022 12:43
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interesting that after England invaded the USA the USA did not try to exterminate English culture from America
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Nov 8, 2022 13:04
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Lesson from Cuban Missile Crisis: Don't try to put missile bases near a Great Power.
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Nov 8, 2022 13:24
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Al-Saqr posted:lol the Europeans all voted against a resolution that combats glorifying Nazism Same vote in 2018, for reference: 
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Nov 8, 2022 13:36
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Majorian posted:https://twitter.com/MargoGontar/status/1588665959656484864 Who are the Chinese communists in this brilliant metaphor?
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Nov 8, 2022 13:38
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/formulating-plans-for-a-new-iraq/IY4HUT3LCTJ5JL5WNVNCCTQLDU/  okay so the US was not going to annex Iraq, it was just going to do... that and never mind that this meme both acts as American imperial apologia, while also making it sound like Russia's invasion of Ukraine was all fine-and-dandy right up until Putin used the a-word
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Nov 8, 2022 13:44
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gradenko_2000 posted:"Tchaikovsky's music referenced cannons, and cannons were being shot at Ukraine" - what a loving child! Err Tchaikovsky doesn't reference cannons, the 1812 overture's finale is meant to be played using cannonfire as one of the instruments. Because Russians know how to celebrate a military victory over foreign invaders, in this case Napoleon and his Grande Armee. If Ukraine drives out the Russian invaders, they better bring their loving a-game for the celebration afterwards or they will suffer a moral loss in the third half imo.
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Nov 8, 2022 13:57
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https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1589859234484977665
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Nov 8, 2022 13:59
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It's a very good opportunity to shift the proceeds of Ukraine's endemic corruption from Democratic failchildren to Republican failchildren.
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Nov 8, 2022 14:09
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if there were huge American populations in some of the provinces of Iraq, the USA would have annexed them I mean the closer analogy is Texas not Iraq
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Nov 8, 2022 14:11
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I like how being born after the fall of communism means you still had first hand experience with it, kinda like how Gen X survived the blitz.
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Nov 8, 2022 14:18
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lmfao, world famous ukranian writer Mykola Hohol
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Nov 8, 2022 14:23
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christ this dense motherfucker
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euphronius posted:I mean the closer analogy is Texas not Iraq thinking of some weird fictional timeline where Texas stayed a republic or seceded and the US invaded to danizify Texas
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