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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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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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Writing articles to a global audience about how your high school teacher who was mean to you is a collaborator and traitor who must be purged War really does open the floodgates for people to indulge in the most vindictive and petty depravity
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lol, missed this gem:quote:By Iuliia Mendel
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Nov 22, 2022 07:09
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:
serious post but a lot of people treat war like a video game and dont care that the people dying are actually people are happy to gloat over human suffering as long as their side is winning and putting out epic meme propaganda
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Nov 22, 2022 07:11
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or they want to act out their cold war fantasies because they missed out on it and want to cosplay red dawn
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Nov 22, 2022 07:15
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:or they want to act out their cold war fantasies because they missed out on it and want to cosplay red dawn No. No no no. I understand your sound logic but you are being far too cerebral about this. Allow me to explain: They want to act out their Michael Bay transformers fantasies where Remember this is a generation of adults whose favorite book is Harry Potter. A series written for young children. It's their classic literature and their mental machinations are about as deep.
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Nov 22, 2022 08:14
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:
Leandro Firmino as Li'l Zé: A power-hungry sociopath who takes sadistic pleasure in killing
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Nov 22, 2022 09:16
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Kind of a shame the current lot of "lol nuclear" nutters in charge of things never watched a bit of classic Doctor Who. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NClwFlFb_GY (The Doctor talks down Morgaine [yes, Arthurian Morgaine] from setting off a nuclear weapon)
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Nov 22, 2022 10:17
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evilmiera posted:Fairly sure investing in Russia is going to be seen as a big ol trap for decades after this no matter what happens. You are so loving stupid
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Nov 22, 2022 10:26
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Horizon Burning posted:would ukraine actually moving into crimea be the sort of thing that'd give russia/putin/the average citizen the stomach/ability to fight the war, draft up more people, whatever? like, would it'd be the weirdest of the one weird tricks? lol what Russia is in the process of mobilizing ~300k guys right now Ukraine is not going to move into Crimea when they can barely keep the lights on
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Nov 22, 2022 10:43
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lmao wouldn't the commies just straight up take control in this scenario? the only reason they didn't in 91 was because the russian people bought that west cared about them if putin's power disappears overnight, do liberals really think some nobody like navalny is going to take power and not the 2nd largest party?
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Nov 22, 2022 11:41
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isn't the KPRF just controlled opposition and their like of communism is stalin themeparks?
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Nov 22, 2022 11:48
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Truga posted:lmao it all comes back to the question of "is there a single Russian politician that wouldn't have invaded Ukraine for the sake of stopping NATO expansion when it comes down to the wire?"
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Nov 22, 2022 11:53
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Nato boosters are convinced yabloko will take power any day now, and constantly quote their idiot politicians as if they had any influence.
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Nov 22, 2022 12:01
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crepeface posted:lol what That's not very Westernly Narrative of you friend. Of course they will. They'll take Crimea. Then dance the dance of the leprechauns all the way or Moscow then everyone will have a tea party. There will be faerie bread.
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Nov 22, 2022 12:19
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...f082280a8a3a4a9quote:Russia reiterates that it does not want to topple Ukraine government Seems embarrassing for Russia, but probably good news to progress negotiations?
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Nov 22, 2022 12:37
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the ukranian bloodlust for teachers is disgusting. why don't you fight some soldiers you loving cowards
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Nov 22, 2022 12:54
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Tankbuster posted:isn't the KPRF just controlled opposition and their like of communism is stalin themeparks? the party might be a puppet, but I'm sure a large number of people in Russia believe in communism and want it to happen again. regardless if they are allowed a legit party, during a revolution those people are gonna make a move
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Nov 22, 2022 12:58
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KPRF is controlled opposition in the sense that they don't disagree with putin on most things and can't really fight where they disagree anyway, but i've seen russians report how united russia had to unskew election numbers really bad last couple times to keep their supermajority because too many people are voting for the commies dunno how much of that's true, but it's not impossible, and even if not, KPRF still has twice votes other parties get if KPRF would actually try doing a real socialism when they got into a position of power remains to be seen, but they would probably be more hostile to the ~intl community~, not less, on the account of how anticommunism is on the rise again and even corbyn is a turbo megastalin now lmao
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Nov 22, 2022 13:15
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...f082280a8a3a4a9 Didn't they say the same thing shortly after invading?
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Nov 22, 2022 13:22
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:
his head looks smaller there maybe it’s just camera angles
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Nov 22, 2022 13:22
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SplitSoul posted:Didn't they say the same thing shortly after invading? yes but people made up a bunch of maximalist war aims to show how Russia was losing almost instantly
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Nov 22, 2022 13:23
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https://twitter.com/kaylapop_/status/1591606521234063362?t=j06GACTc52DBeLnPbn5UQw&s=19
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Nov 22, 2022 13:25
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euphronius posted:yes but people made up a bunch of maximalist war aims to show how Russia was losing almost instantly They wanted to kick over the government in Kiev and either incorporate or make the Donbass region a nominally independent buffer state. Russia's drive on Kiev said as much.
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Nov 22, 2022 13:29
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I dont agree.
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Nov 22, 2022 13:35
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https://twitter.com/NetflixValhalla/status/1594767703230791681 the replies to this own. netflix has joined the war effort
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Nov 22, 2022 13:38
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Russian top brass wanted to dine at that racist restaurant chain... Denied!
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Nov 22, 2022 13:39
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SplitSoul posted:Didn't they say the same thing shortly after invading? Yes. Demilitarisation and Denazification, two of the main goals in February, would require a new government.
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Nov 22, 2022 13:45
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Zeroisanumber posted:They wanted to kick over the government in Kiev and either incorporate or make the Donbass region a nominally independent buffer state. Russia's drive on Kiev said as much. Did they? I guess there was the airborne assault on that airport, but otherwise the drive on Kiev looks pretty similar to the drive on Tbilisi. Except that it stalled out of course. Though it seems very reasonable to assume that they expected the government to either run or fold.
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Nov 22, 2022 13:45
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Sweden getting in on the arresting collaborators game too. https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1595030435452575751?t=TxUJOBJcB4FS9tbyTPA4WA&s=19
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Nov 22, 2022 13:48
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At the start of the invasion the only Nazis were the 6 people in Azov. Denazification wouldn't require a change in government.
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Nov 22, 2022 13:50
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studio mujahideen posted:https://twitter.com/NetflixValhalla/status/1594767703230791681 lol it owns how deranged people are
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Nov 22, 2022 13:53
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Zelensky the Magnificent!
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Nov 22, 2022 13:56
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gradenko_2000 posted:it all comes back to the question of "is there a single Russian politician that wouldn't have invaded Ukraine for the sake of stopping NATO expansion when it comes down to the wire?" If there was that sort of consensus, then why not mobilize and do it properly with 700k men in two Combined and one Tank Armies, and drive deep to Lvov and Kiev from the onset? There must be some political uncertainty reflecting the belief that it’s a bruderkrieg and that the Russian public is depoliticized and accepts liberal economics as long as there’s stability. If every Russian politician would have done it, making the case to the public should not have been difficult and there should be support among the political class to begrudgingly give the public something for their collective sacrifice. There shouldn’t have been pushback against renewing the social contract and political buy-in if it’s part of a project every politician agrees they must do. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 14:03 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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Nov 22, 2022 14:00
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Frosted Flake posted:If there was that sort of consensus, then why not mobilize and do it properly with 700k men in two Combined and one Tank Armies, and drive deep to Lvov and Kiev from the onset? I think there would have been consensus that something needed to be done but Putin being the right-liberal he is went with the cheapest and least effective option.
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Nov 22, 2022 14:03
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Ardennes posted:I think there would have been consensus that something needed to be done but Putin being the right-liberal he is went with the cheapest and least effective option. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ckbfS99N6jY
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Nov 22, 2022 14:03
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genericnick posted:Did they? I guess there was the airborne assault on that airport, but otherwise the drive on Kiev looks pretty similar to the drive on Tbilisi. Except that it stalled out of course. Though it seems very reasonable to assume that they expected the government to either run or fold. So did NATO, so did RUSI and the Atlantic Council. But as I said, they worked pretty hard to create a Ukrainian army and government that would rather give out AKs than sign a treaty so… I mean the problem is that it’s been so lionized as a moment of heroic resistance against neo-Hitler that you can’t really point out how unexpected that was, or how dire the consequences. Not that it absolves the planning. If you’re trying to pull off a coup de grace, it seems reasonable to always go in with a force bigger than you think you have to. That was a major difference between intervention in Hungary, where the first force was too small and bogged down in bloody fighting and Czechoslovakia which went off without a hitch and hardly a shot fired.
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Nov 22, 2022 14:09
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I would say the difference was also the Hungarian were expecting it while the Czechs were completely flat footed since the Soviets preempted them well ahead of a more organized movement. It was clear the Czechs wanted to pull away and tensions were building but the Soviets just skipped to the end and went in.
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Nov 22, 2022 14:13
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speng31b posted:did you just call the post Soviet shock therapy "investing in Russia" No this will be post-Putin shock therapy which as we all know would be quite different. It's got a U in it and everything.
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Nov 22, 2022 14:14
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Not So Fast posted:Sweden getting in on the arresting collaborators game too. loving lmao that they brought out two loving Blackhawks for this and had teams of ~elite operators~ rappel down into a garden to arrest two middle-aged homeowners. what did they do, serve up a meal for their guests? Comrade Koba has issued a correction as of 14:27 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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Not So Fast posted:Sweden getting in on the arresting collaborators game too. i bet they were sanction busting cheese into russia
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