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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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67 | 16.58% |
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94 | 23.27% |
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14 | 3.47% |
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87 | 21.53% |
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Homeless Friend posted:lol they should hold another referendum on leaving russia and joining ukraine
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Homeless Friend posted:lol they should hold another referendum on leaving russia and joining ukraine Hot take: I think there may have been Russian interference with the first vote. 
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Nov 11, 2022 21:03
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lol @ dugins meltdown over kherson
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Nov 11, 2022 21:04
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just imagine if the referendum fails
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Nov 11, 2022 21:05
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Idk, I think there are probably a lot of pro ukrainian people who are happy to be back in the fatherland's hands. The only other people that would have stayed are people who are neutral, or couldn't flee. Who are probably doing something like this quote:If I voted to join Russia and were now stuck in Kherson I'd cheer my lungs out too. yes ^ thats my point
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Nov 11, 2022 21:05
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Maybe they wanted to be a part of Russia until they saw how much they bungle.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:06
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Majorian posted:Hot take: Going door to door with a buff-bernie.png printout
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The elections in the oblasts were successful because they didn't run on a bernie or bust campaign.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:09
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Homeless Friend posted:lol @ dugins meltdown over kherson that dude has had a terrible 2022
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Mantis42 posted:Maybe they wanted to be a part of Russia until they saw how much they bungle. anyone who wanted to be part of russia either (a) fled because they know they're about to get murdered or (b) are gonna pretend they didnt want to be part of russia because of the aforementioned murder
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Nov 11, 2022 21:10
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I assume most people don't give a poo poo about which corrupt piece of poo poo is in charge and just want to not get shot at.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:11
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Lostconfused posted:I assume most people don't give a poo poo about which corrupt piece of poo poo is in charge and just want to not get shot at. also this. and are probably hoping their neighbors arent filing false reports about them to the SBU because of a traffic dispute or something
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Nov 11, 2022 21:12
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I think the last century shows that most people actually prefer for the corrupt rear end in a top hat who's ruling them to speak their language if given a choice.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:12
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I think the last century shows that most people actually prefer for the corrupt rear end in a top hat who's ruling them to speak their language if given a choice. Ehhhhh...that's led to some really ugly places over the last century, though.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:13
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I think the last century shows that most people actually prefer for the corrupt rear end in a top hat who's ruling them to speak their language if given a choice.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:13
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Dr Kool-AIDS posted:I think the last century shows that most people actually prefer for the corrupt rear end in a top hat who's ruling them to speak their language if given a choice. people sure do love to murder their neighbors who pronounce loaf of bread wrong
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Nov 11, 2022 21:14
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Majorian posted:Ehhhhh...that's led to some really ugly places over the last century, though. Yeah I'm not saying nationalism owns or anything. Lostconfused posted:Got bad news about Zelensky for you. lol fair, I forgot about that
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Nov 11, 2022 21:15
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Lostconfused posted:I assume most people don't give a poo poo about which corrupt piece of poo poo is in charge and just want to not get shot at. yeah, I forget where I read it, I think it was a book about North Korea, where the author speculated that in any given system, regardless of who runs it, about 10% of people are True Believers. Those are the people who drive things ideologically one way or the other, but the remaining 90% just want to get by and live a fulfilling life, whatever that definition is. That 90% will absolutely act bugfuck nuts just like the 10% if the situation calls for it, but they don't really care and are just going along to get along.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:15
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Dugin in grief his Kherson rental home has been occupied by NAFO
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Nov 11, 2022 21:18
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Lostconfused posted:I assume most people don't give a poo poo about which corrupt piece of poo poo is in charge and just want to not get shot at. it's been pretty terrible to live there since 2014 but being in the middle of a war zone seems worse.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:18
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putin really dugin to ukraine 🤣
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Nov 11, 2022 21:19
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Donetsk and Luhansk seemed to have a large minority of Russian speakers who wanted to declare independence or join Russia. When they had the competing referenda run by Russia and Ukraine in 2014, 2,700,000 voted to remain part of Ukraine and 2,350,000 voted to secede. Kherson and Zaporizhzhia are much more culturally Ukrainian, they just happen to be in the right place for Putin to form a land bridge to Crimea.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:38
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Kherson was majority ethnic Ukrainian but also majority Russian speaking by a slim margin. It also was somewhere in the middle politically before the war.
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Nov 11, 2022 21:43
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Homeless Friend posted:lol they should hold another referendum on leaving russia and joining ukraine
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Nov 11, 2022 21:44
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https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/status/1591166763815030784 didn't take long
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Nov 11, 2022 21:49
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I hope everybody ends up alright and wish everyone well!
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Nov 11, 2022 21:51
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extremely grim that all the replies there are just "happy hunting, kill them all!"
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Nov 11, 2022 21:56
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https://twitter.com/FilipeRoque2/status/1591167850672455681 seems bad
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Nov 11, 2022 21:57
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i think if anything is apparent over the last few centuries of incredible violence and forced dislocation is that most people would prefer not to leave their homes unless they have no other choice
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Nov 11, 2022 22:03
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i think we have all the proof present here on the something awful forums that people would prefer not to leave their homes
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Nov 11, 2022 22:05
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Homeless Friend posted:i think we have all the proof present here on the something awful forums that people would prefer not to leave their homes 
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Nov 11, 2022 22:15
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gently caress around, find out (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 11, 2022 22:27
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Sound posted:gently caress around, find out I hope "high-level" only means government officials, and not teachers and nurses like previously implied by others
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Nov 11, 2022 22:32
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Not So Fast posted:I hope "high-level" only means government officials, and not teachers and nurses like previously implied by others why even reply to him?
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Nov 11, 2022 22:33
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Sound posted:gently caress around, find out who was loving around and how
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Nov 11, 2022 22:35
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Sound posted:gently caress around, find out guys with 3+ gangtags ftw
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Nov 11, 2022 22:36
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speng31b posted:im not gonna debate about realistic enthusiastic referendum percentages with you, your take was "haha check out these happy people partying in kherson, they seem happy to be liberated" which is stupid CBC was cutting between footage of that and Canadians liberating cities in the Netherlands today as part of their Remembrance Day coverage lmao
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Nov 11, 2022 22:36
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AnimeIsTrash posted:guys with 3+ gangtags ftw don't check their rap sheet or post history
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On the arms control front, there's been some (qualified) good news recently. As some of you may remember, bilateral arms reduction inspections between Russia and the U.S. under the New-START Treaty have been put on hold for the last couple of years. This was initially because of COVID, but in August Russia claimed that U.S. travel restrictions meant that they wouldn't be able to resume those inspections. (the State Dept denies that this is the case) Well, the U.S. and Russia are going to have talks in Cairo to see about restarting those inspections and negotiating an extension to New-START (which expires in 2026). This is a really good thing, both because nuclear arms reduction between these two superpowers is A Good Thing, and because the U.S. taking Russia seriously on this issue could help hasten the end of the war with much less bloodshed. As many of us in this thread have theorized, Russia's war with Ukraine has been at least partially motivated by their perceived geostrategic encirclement by NATO. The fact that the GWB and Trump White Houses backed out of a slew of arms control treaties really didn't help matters. So reengaging with Russia on this issue certainly couldn't hurt. Now, of course, the Russian MFA is downplaying expectations for a breakthrough, but it makes sense that they would say that. They want to extract maximum concessions from the U.S. on arms reductions and on Ukraine, so they're going to make any sort of agreement seem like a tall order from the get-go. That's not to say that I expect there to be a breakthrough, but I'm glad they're having these talks at all. At the very least, they will hopefully be the basis for future talks in which they can negotiate a resumption of inspections and a successor treaty to New-START. It would be especially great if they could make that happen over the next two years, when the Dems will still (likely) hold the Senate. Treaties do require the Senate to ratify, after all. Again, not saying I expect it, but it would be nice. Majorian has issued a correction as of 22:42 on Nov 11, 2022 |
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