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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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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%
Total: 404 votes
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OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013

Weka posted:

I watched bits of a talk by a neo-nazi about the 2014 coup and the impression I got was he was interested in forming a society in keeping with his ideology but keeping a liberal government in power and that this was seen as a more efficient way of achieving his goals.

andriy biletsky introduces Neoliberalism with Ukrainian Characteristics

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PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Abiy only ended up winning the Ethiopian civil war because Amhara nationalists were charging into every city while Afari troops outfought the TPLF in the mountains. Judging from that (the most recent other war where the government Half-assed the war) Putin seems to have no hope

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007

NeatHeteroDude posted:

they used to be a mod lol.

I think the biggest C-SPAM mod flameout on record is still the universally reviled Flavius Aetass, chipmunk porn defender

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
I gotta say it is genuinely strange how little noise is coming out of Russians about how badly they hosed up in all this, not even their Twitter or telegram psychos are calling for putins head, either putins got an Arab dictators level of control and oppression or he was really successful in tuning out the Russian people from all this.

usually when you lose a war this embarrassingly you get deposed or something but now that I think about it when has failure ever been justly punished

don’t fight wars politically folks! it’s bad! nasty! you’ll end up a loser! loooooser! I like armies who win! like my guy! mark milley! :chaostrump:

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007

Southpaugh posted:

Reddit is representative of the worst normies, no matter what the subject or location.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Al-Saqr posted:

I gotta say it is genuinely strange how little noise is coming out of Russians about how badly they hosed up in all this, not even their Twitter or telegram psychos are calling for putins head, either putins got an Arab dictators level of control and oppression or he was really successful in tuning out the Russian people from all this.

usually when you lose a war this embarrassingly you get deposed or something but now that I think about it when has failure ever been justly punished

don’t fight wars politically folks! it’s bad! nasty! you’ll end up a loser! loooooser! I like armies who win! like my guy! mark milley! :chaostrump:

They lost face and land while the entire grouping on the side of Kherson got out basically intact.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Al-Saqr posted:

I gotta say it is genuinely strange how little noise is coming out of Russians about how badly they hosed up in all this, not even their Twitter or telegram psychos are calling for putins head, either putins got an Arab dictators level of control and oppression or he was really successful in tuning out the Russian people from all this.

usually when you lose a war this embarrassingly you get deposed or something but now that I think about it when has failure ever been justly punished

don’t fight wars politically folks! it’s bad! nasty! you’ll end up a loser! loooooser! I like armies who win! like my guy! mark milley! :chaostrump:

When did they lose the war...?

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Pro Russian psychos don't post on twitter :ssh:

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

The rus and uke hosts met on the field of zaporozhye, the rus shield wall collapsed and the uke cavalry is ravaging the routed stragglers, the war is over

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1591864975479304192

Meanwhile Russian nationalists are busy talking about the racoon.

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007

Rutibex posted:

when you want to be the edgelord but all your friends are already wearing SS patches

NeatHeteroDude
Jan 15, 2017

Gulping Again posted:

I think the biggest C-SPAM mod flameout on record is still the universally reviled Flavius Aetass, chipmunk porn defender

people keep referencing this but I have no idea who this is outside of what I've pieced together from c-spam and mod forum posts. I know he was bad but I have no idea why.

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007

Not So Fast posted:

"If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain. England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs. " - James Connolly

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Lostconfused posted:

Pro Russian psychos don't post on twitter :ssh:

RWA, Geroman, the multiple Z Twitter accounts.


Danann posted:

They lost face and land while the entire grouping on the side of Kherson got out basically intact.

Slavvy posted:

When did they lose the war...?

please explain to me what path to victory Russia has at this point. based on current performance what do you think Russia can do to actually win that isn’t fanfiction. I think it’s pretty settled that Russia will eat a face saving but humiliating peace deal that’s like 10% of what they wanted.

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007

NeatHeteroDude posted:

people keep referencing this but I have no idea who this is outside of what I've pieced together from c-spam and mod forum posts. I know he was bad but I have no idea why.

At the height of the Troubles he moved an entire thread to FYAD in an attempt to own Larry Parish.

Literally everyone thought that this was the dumbest move he could have done.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Al-Saqr posted:

RWA, Geroman, the multiple Z Twitter accounts.
exactly.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Al-Saqr posted:

RWA, Geroman, the multiple Z Twitter accounts.



please explain to me what path to victory Russia has at this point. based on current performance what do you think Russia can do to actually win that isn’t fanfiction. I think it’s pretty settled that Russia will eat a face saving but humiliating peace deal that’s like 10% of what they wanted.

What did they want? What does Ukraine want? Which of them got closer to what they want if a deal were signed tomorrow?

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

Gulping Again posted:

At the height of the Troubles he moved an entire thread to FYAD in an attempt to own Larry Parish.

Literally everyone thought that this was the dumbest move he could have done.

that part was funny tho

Chamale
Jul 11, 2010

I'm helping!



Al-Saqr posted:

RWA, Geroman, the multiple Z Twitter accounts.



please explain to me what path to victory Russia has at this point. based on current performance what do you think Russia can do to actually win that isn’t fanfiction. I think it’s pretty settled that Russia will eat a face saving but humiliating peace deal that’s like 10% of what they wanted.

Closest thing they have to a path to victory: Misery and starvation for years, Europe votes for politicians who won't support Ukraine, Putin remains in power and keeps fighting.

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007

OctaMurk posted:

andriy biletsky introduces Neoliberalism with Ukrainian Characteristics

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

NeatHeteroDude posted:

people keep referencing this but I have no idea who this is outside of what I've pieced together from c-spam and mod forum posts. I know he was bad but I have no idea why.

He got into a feud with FYAD or some other forum, I forget which exactly. Which lead to his crowning achievement, moving a cspam thread there which resulted in several days of chain probes for a bunch of cspam posters.

It's in the goldmine.

Edit: I am dumb, should have read up. In general they just sucked tbh. It was nothing special besides incredibly poor judgement.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

Gulping Again posted:

At the height of the Troubles he moved an entire thread to FYAD in an attempt to own Larry Parish.

Literally everyone thought that this was the dumbest move he could have done.

lol

Gulping Again
Mar 10, 2007

Lostconfused posted:

He got into a feud with FYAD or some other forum, I forget which exactly. Which lead to his crowning achievement, moving a cspam thread there which resulted in several days of chain probes for a bunch of cspam posters.

It's in the goldmine.

Edit: I am dumb, should have read up. In general they just sucked tbh. It was nothing special besides incredibly poor judgement.

He was also thin-skinned and insufferable and demanded he be respected.

It was extremely funny when he tried to crawl back in here after autobanning himself and giving up his mod star over chipmunk blowjobs and people just went nuclear on him.

16-bit Butt-Head
Dec 25, 2014

i will never respect the mods or putin who are one and the same

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
the flavor eatass saga owned because several trump thread (?) posters decided to, one at a time, get tricked into defending chipmunk porn in the qcs thread until their thread got gassed

Single file into the CBT machine, please

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Neurolimal posted:

the flavor eatass saga owned because several trump thread (?) posters decided to, one at a time, get tricked into defending chipmunk porn in the qcs thread until their thread got gassed

Single file into the CBT machine, please

cock-ball torture machine?

you could make good money off that if you have an idea you can patent

Proust Malone
Apr 4, 2008

I’m sorry for your loss, but I have some questions about the hat.

https://twitter.com/olenahalushka/status/1591844675874394119?s=46&t=6xPpDfXXaSpd_s8twhPFBA

NeatHeteroDude
Jan 15, 2017

I"m learning so much and appreciate it.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
a fat neck beard ukranian Nazi is not what I’d call ‘sorry for your loss’ material

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015

Gulping Again posted:

I think the biggest C-SPAM mod flameout on record is still the universally reviled Flavius Aetass, chipmunk porn defender

He was not universally reviled, he was/is? extremely close friends with CSPAM forums allstar Plinkey (who I personally respect very much and consider a pal)

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Calibanibal posted:

He was not universally reviled, he was/is? extremely close friends with CSPAM forums allstar Plinkey (who I personally respect very much and consider a pal)

no! nooo!

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

Al-Saqr posted:

please explain to me what path to victory Russia has at this point. based on current performance what do you think Russia can do to actually win that isn’t fanfiction. I think it’s pretty settled that Russia will eat a face saving but humiliating peace deal that’s like 10% of what they wanted.

Everything's going to sound like fanfiction to you even if it is pointed out that Ukraine spent a whole month sitting on their thumbs when the Russians were at their weakest in the north or that it took 5 months for them to finally reclaim land from an enemy bridgehead because you obviously don't factor time, geography, or other material effects like manpower and instead make conclusions off of internet vibes.

Calibanibal
Aug 25, 2015


This is fuckin badass

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Al-Saqr posted:

I gotta say it is genuinely strange how little noise is coming out of Russians about how badly they hosed up in all this, not even their Twitter or telegram psychos are calling for putins head, either putins got an Arab dictators level of control and oppression or he was really successful in tuning out the Russian people from all this.

Russian internet opsec has been very good throughout this conflict so it shouldn't be a surprise that they're able to keep a lid on the bad news when there wasn't exactly a lot of shitposting triumphalism when things were looking good

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

the war is still ongoing, and ukraine is still entirely dependent on external support which is itself dependent on difficult-to-control factors

the reconquest of kherson is a major victory, but it's a major victory from a pretty desperate position. plenty of people are going to die over this yet

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

Christ, I really need to stop catching up on the thread and just post



Lol, lmao

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/uncle_authority/status/1591941690180657157

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

well some hedge fund is going to make an absolute killing on the kyiv real estate market, so there's at least a silver lining to this whole grubby affair

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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

blackstone sets up a local holding company, whitestone

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