fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1600210971393372161?s=20&t=ecvse2eFnypIHBybwnl1QQ

Neurolimal posted:

Blood isnt that cartoon vibrant, especially not after a while exposed to air, smh

Futanari Damacy posted:

One good thing about the team responsible for suppressing inconveniently trending topics on Twitter being locked out of their own building is all kinds of stuff is allowed to trend now that never did before. My browsing habits on Twitter haven't changed, but I'm seeing a ton more #FreePalestine and the like. I'm finding it overall to be much more tailored to my interests, without the garbage that was being obviously pushed from on high and had nothing to do with any actual interactions.

Ytlaya posted:

To be fair, I didn't notice them until you mentioned it, but I'm also color-blind so that might have something to do with it lol

Weka posted:

I really appreciate the Bernie avatar buyer's attention to detail. (Yours is greyscale on the chance your colourblindness is that bad you can't tell).

Homeless Friend posted:

lol goons thinkin bodies instagib and blow red goo everywhere, in frozen conditions

Ytlaya posted:

This is what should have happen if you're healthy. A good test is to try pricking yourself with a needle. If blood sprays out you're fine, but if it just oozes out you need to improve your diet.

evilmiera posted:

I'm seeing the absolute opposite. Religious content, a bunch of forced memes by supposed CEOs, and things that have jack all to do with anyone I interact with. All propped up by bots.

evilmiera posted:

Nobody told me Assange got stabbed almost to death, I never get to hear anything fun

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Ytlaya posted:

This is what should have happen if you're healthy. A good test is to try pricking yourself with a needle. If blood sprays out you're fine, but if it just oozes out you need to improve your diet.

paul_soccer12 posted:

i miss pegleg. looks like he got his gofundme cash and ran. hasnt tweeted in 2 motnhs

PiratePrentice posted:

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look I'm not one of those psycho people who stare at gore pictures all day but those pictures clearly do not have blood in them, that is not what blood looks like at all lol

Futanari Damacy posted:

Believe it or not, some people like to see other humans get "red misted" for fun, amusement, I'm not really sure- but we don't stand for it here thankfully. I for one appreciate the vigilance in trying to keep that crap out.

Futanari Damacy posted:

Believe it or not, some people like to see other humans get "red misted" for fun, amusement, I'm not really sure- but we don't stand for it here thankfully. I for one appreciate the vigilance in trying to keep that crap out.

Vomik posted:

not sure if it was blood or not but the tweet itself thought it was blood since it had some message about how 4 Russians died with a kiss face with the picture. really the gross part is the celebration of death and violence not particularly blood itself

indigi posted:

isn't there though

Военный Осведомитель posted:

Модернизируемые на заводе чешской компании Excalibur Army пикапы с 14.5-мм зенитными установками ЗПУ-2 для последующей передачи Украине.

Скорее всего, данные легкие мобильные зенитные установки будут преимущественно использоваться противником для борьбы с дронами-камикадзе "Герань-2".

@milinfolive

Военный Осведомитель posted:

[ Album ]
The Ministry of Defense has received a batch of upgraded T-72B3M fr. 2022.

The distinguishing feature of this upgrade is the presence of dynamic protection around the perimeter of the tank hull and turret, as well as additional units near the gun mask.

@milinfolive

Военный Осведомитель posted:

В ЛНР прибыла партия новейших танков Т-90М

@milinfolive

paul_soccer12 posted:

i miss pegleg. looks like he got his gofundme cash and ran. hasnt tweeted in 2 motnhs

Danann posted:

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New batch of T-90Ms also appeared in Lugansk. Number thrown around was 200 or so.

Danann posted:

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Czechs are building 14.5mm gun trucks for Ukraine with the necessary stuff for AA fire.

Lostconfused posted:

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/VR_NSR500/status/1599904292894572546?t=4I7Il__B6bazwT4WvkoH3w&s=19

CODChimera posted:

on a scale of 1-10 how happy would you be to take a ride in this thing?

quote:

Introduction

In April, Basic Books published a second edition of Timothy Snyder’s 2010 book Bloodlands, advertising it as the “essential historical background to the war in Ukraine.” The extraordinary role that Snyder is playing in justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far right make it imperative to investigate this work more closely.

Since the beginning of the war in February, Snyder has appeared countless times on television, has published multiple pieces in the New York Times and the New York Review of Books and has spoken at numerous academic events. In his appearances, Twitter threads and other writings, he has buttressed US imperialist war propaganda against Russia with historical distortions and lies, ranging from false claims of “genocide” to an alleged “hunger plan” by Putin and the existence of a “fascist regime” in Russia.

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Most of Snyder’s current war propaganda relies on Bloodlands. At the heart of Bloodlands is the claim that the crimes of Nazism in Europe were a response to the crimes of Stalin in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933, which “began Europe’s era of mass killing” (p. vii), and the “national terror” that Stalin allegedly launched against Poles in the Soviet Union in 1937-1938. 

The focus of the book, Snyder claims, are the 14 million people that were murdered “by the Nazi and Soviet regimes” in Eastern Europe. Deliberately excluding most of the former Soviet Union, he only pays attention to what he calls the “Bloodlands” that extended “from central Poland to western Russia, through Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states.” (p. viii)



The reader is not given any coherent explanation as to where this focus on these “Bloodlands” is coming from and why much of the former Soviet Union was excluded. Snyder just makes up this new geographic category without even so much as an attempt at a historical justification. 

Nor is there any explanation given for why, suddenly, the famine in Soviet Ukraine of 1932-1933 should be seen as the beginning of “Europe’s era of mass killing.” Why not the First World War of 1914-1918, in which at least 20 million people were killed, and which led to both the October Revolution and the emergence of fascist movements throughout Europe? The fact that during World War II alone, at least 27 million Soviet citizens perished, almost twice the number of victims that Snyder chooses to focus on, is also simply ignored. With over 12 million victims of Nazism in the former Soviet Union left out of his account, Snyder insists that “Stalin’s own record of mass murder was almost as imposing as Hitler’s. Indeed, in times of peace it was far worse.” (p. x)

The significance of these claims can only be understood in their broader historical and political context. In advancing these arguments, Timothy Snyder echoes, in all essentials, the positions of the far-right German historian Ernst Nolte. Beginning in 1980, Nolte argued that the crimes of Nazism, including the Holocaust, were caused by the “violence” unleashed by the Russian Revolution of 1917. Nolte explicitly spoke of a “causal nexus” between the Russian Revolution and Nazism. He insisted that the crimes of Nazism could only be understood as a “fear-borne reaction to the acts of annihilation that took place during the Russian Revolution.” These “acts of annihilation” were, according to Nolte, the class war of the Bolshevik regime against the bourgeoisie and later against the peasants in the forced collectivization campaign that began in the late 1920s. These “acts of annihilation” were the “original,” Nolte claimed; those of Nazism “a distorted copy.” The Russian Revolution, in his words, was the “most important precondition” of the Nazi regime.[1]

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As this review will show, what Snyder presents in Bloodlands is not an “empirical” project. In fact, it cannot be called “history” in the actual sense of the term. Exploiting his prestige as a professor at Yale University, one of the most elite institutions in the world, Snyder presents an account of some of the most important historical experiences of the 20th century that is based on an amalgam of half-truths, lies, distortions and horror stories. Its central axis is the revival of the justification of fascism provided by Ernst Nolte, with modifications and additions that are derived primarily from the ideological arsenal of the Polish and Ukrainian far right.

PART 1: The false presentation of the Soviet famine as a “deliberate” policy of mass murder

The Soviet famine of 1931-1933 claimed the lives of an estimated 7 million people, roughly half of them in Soviet Ukraine. Even excluding the Urals, Siberia and the Far East—which also suffered famine—over 70 million out of the 160 million people in the USSR were living in famine areas. This included not only Soviet Kazakhstan and Soviet Ukraine, but also the Lower and Central Volga regions, the Central Black-Earth region and the North Caucasus.[2]

Yet even though Snyder offhandedly admits that “collectivization was a disaster everywhere in the Soviet Union” (42), his own discussion of the famine is limited almost entirely to Soviet Ukraine. Snyder claims that “the evidence of clearly premeditated mass murder on the scale of millions is most evident in Soviet Ukraine... Famine had struck parts of Soviet Russia as well as much of Soviet Ukraine in 1932. Nevertheless, the policy response to Ukraine was special, and lethal.” (p. 42, emphasis added)

Throughout the book, Snyder puts the famine on par with the killing policies of the Nazis, claiming that it served as an inspiration for the latter. Echoing Nolte’s claims that the crimes of the Nazis were a “copy” of those of Stalinism, he writes, “It helps to know that Nazi planners were aware that Soviet policy had brought about devastating famine in Ukraine in 1933, because then we understand that they sought to do the same thing.” (p. 415)

While Snyder himself is careful to not expressly use the term “genocide” for the famine in Soviet Ukraine, he clearly insinuates that it is appropriate. Thus, he mentions that Rafał Lemkin, “the international lawyer who invented the term genocide, would call the Ukrainian case ‘the classic example of Soviet genocide’.” (pp. 53-54) 

Yet Snyder fails to produce a single document proving the intention to kill a large number of people, let alone a large number of specifically Ukrainians, on the part of the Soviet leadership. This, however, would be the necessary precondition to substantiate the very serious allegation and historical assessment of a “genocide,” based on the definition provided by the United Nations. It must be stressed that such documents proving the intent to kill exist in abundance for the Nazi policies of mass murder of the Jews of Europe, several other victim groups, or, for that matter, Stalin’s Great Terror of 1936-1938.

Snyder cites no such documents because they do not exist. Despite many volumes of documentary collections and historical studies of the subject since the opening of the archives of the former Soviet Union since 1991, not a single document suggesting that Soviet leaders had the intention to kill a large number of people, let alone on an ethnic basis, has been found. The famine was the result of criminal policies, but these policies were of a very different nature than the genocide perpetrated by the Nazi regime against European Jewry.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/VR_NSR500/status/1599904292894572546?t=4I7Il__B6bazwT4WvkoH3w&s=19