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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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| 🦋 |
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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% |
| dragonfly |
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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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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/AZgeopolitics/status/1617644367380090884 Jackdaws!    
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the russian bray shamans are using flock of doom on keev
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Jan 24, 2023 04:42
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crepeface posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-7AynHoCIQ&t=34s the more I learn about this guy the more I don't care for him.
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Jan 24, 2023 04:55
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tristeham posted:reverse snobbery loving sucks too looks like the truth is in the middle
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Jan 24, 2023 04:56
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supersnowman posted:In barrack in peace time sure but on the front line? How fast can you shave a beard if the enemy decide it's gas o'clock? who cares about gas anyway? ff pointed out like a year ago that mustard gas has a lower ifr than covid, which is over
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Jan 24, 2023 05:00
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Slavvy posted:And the most popular movies are marvel bullshit. People mostly being idiots with no taste is the norm and always has been, doesn't mean there's no film or literary culture. smdh at this liberal garbage of assuming that tastelessness is the natural endpoint of human thought when taste itself is a cultural context thats actively being manipulated by capitalist incentives
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Jan 24, 2023 05:13
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Starsfan posted:the more I learn about this guy the more I don't care for him. Saw this today: Look at Zelensky's path to power - a comedian plays an average Josep who becomes President. The show becomes the launchpad for a political party named after the show, with the title character now available. Its like a Marvel Universe come to life - Iron Man for Prez. During his election campaign, Zelensky avoided all the traditional tests of a leader - he refused to participate in debates or answer the press. His whole campaign took place on Facebook and via social media. This is precisely how you'd run a put-up job, creating a cult of personality. Fighting corruption is the standard promise everyone makes in Ukraine. Zelensky was only unique because he made that (and implementing Minsk) the sole focus of his campaign. Shortly after being elected, Zelensky faced his first big challenge - getting Minsk implemented. There was a simple path to this - using the Steinmeier Formula, Kiev would ask the OSCE to run a referendum in Donbas while it was still under DPR control. Once the OSCE had validated that the referendum had taken place without violence or intimidation, Kiev would accept the results. The outcome was already known - ~75% would vote for reintegration with Ukraine under conditions that amount to a federalism model. Rather than go down this well-understood path, Zelensky chose to confront Ukraine's nationalists directly, and order them to back down. They refused. There's video of Zelensky going to visit Azov and them refusing his orders. Zelensky backed down. If the head of state tolerates open defiance from an army unit, he is effectively pro-corruption. (Private power trumps state power). If Zelensky had been who he claimed to be, he would have had no choice but to force Azov to back down, or disband the unit. Over the summer of 2019 Zelensky tried to find a way to implement Minsk. He was opposed by nationalists who ran a "No Russian Capitulation" campaign. Nationalists had won only ~10% of the vote, but they used the threat of violence to stop Zelensky. He failed to mobilize any support, and continued backing down. It very much looked like his whole plan was a fake out from the beginning. Once the protests grew, he decided that he was in danger of being ousted in a new Maidan, so he capitulated. Minsk was dead, and nobody had done more to kill it than Zelensky. In 2021, Pravy Sektor leader Sternenko was convicted of kidnapping and robbery. (He had gotten off on several serious crimes on multiple occasions). Nazis staged a riot in Kiev which ended up with over a dozen cops injured and trashed Zelensky's offices. Zelensky backed down. The courts corruptly overturned the conviction, and Sternenko went free. After the invasion, Zelensky banned a whole swath of political parties,. seizing their assets. Then he banned and shut down all Russian-language TV and radio stations. And he recently banned the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. It's normal in a war for there to be strict control of TV and radio. The government will often place censors in the producers booths. Politicians or priests engaging in treason can be charged and prosecuted in a court of law. Zelensky didn't bother with any legal process like that. He may as well have declared millions of Ukrainians to be traitors. Zelensky is the most corrupt President Ukraine has ever had. When te book on him is finally written, he will be emblematic of corruption in Ukraine. The only good thing about him is, the next President won't be able to avoid being a massive improvement.
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Jan 24, 2023 06:01
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Dixon Chisholm posted:who cares about gas anyway? ff pointed out like a year ago that mustard gas has a lower ifr than covid, which is over Gas is less useful than actual conventional artillery anyway, it's not like everyone abstained from it in WW2 because they were feeling honourable Some Guy TT posted:smdh at this liberal garbage of assuming that tastelessness is the natural endpoint of human thought when taste itself is a cultural context thats actively being manipulated by capitalist incentives There's dick jokes preserved at Pompeii dude, get a grip
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Jan 24, 2023 06:03
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if dick jokes are the platonic ideal of tastelessness than why is our culture buried in the marvel cinematic universe and not the dick joke cinematic universe drat suddenly i wish we had a dick joke cinematic universe
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Jan 24, 2023 06:17
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Frosted Flake posted:During his election campaign, Zelensky avoided all the traditional tests of a leader - he refused to participate in debates or answer the press. His whole campaign took place on Facebook and via social media. This is precisely how you'd run a put-up job, creating a cult of personality. I think it was Citations Needed that made the argument that "anti-corruption" is essentially a form of "anti-politics", a form of neoliberal depoliticization. If you're on the right, you want to do things: deregulate the economy, cut taxes, persecute minorities, and so on. Unregulated capitalism breeds corruption, of course, but you don't say that, and maybe you'll even claim the opposite, that by freeing corporations from the fetters of regulators, you are reducing corruption because it's the government bureaucrats that are corrupt. If you're on the left, you also want to do things: build trains, build hospitals, build schools, build houses, enact social programs that hand out money to the poor, taxing the rich, all that stuff. But if you're entering office in a country that's already corrupt, and every country on earth has corruption in one degree or another, then getting these things done requires involving yourself in corrupt processes. The construction of a hospital is going to involve bribing some, or even all, of the people up and down the chain. If you do it, then you're going to be nailed on corruption allegations. If you don't do it, then you have nothing to show for yourself and you get drummed out of office for having accomplished nothing. But, if you are of the third way, you can valorize the doing of nothing by running on a platform of anti-corruption. "I'm not trying to roll back abortion rights like the conservatives, and neither am I stuffing the pockets of the union bosses like the left", you might say. And again, because everyone is corrupt to one degree or another, you can use anti-corruption campaigns as a way to persecute your political enemies. Never mind that you don't do the same to your political allies: they're corrupt, you got them. Mission accomplished, right?
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Jan 24, 2023 06:24
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Slavvy posted:Gas is less useful than actual conventional artillery anyway, it's not like everyone abstained from it in WW2 because they were feeling honourable Japan used gas against China in WW2.
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Jan 24, 2023 06:27
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also they introduced kurosawa films to china and they were quite popular there ten years before they received international recognition anywhere else
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Jan 24, 2023 06:32
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Slavvy posted:There's dick jokes preserved at Pompeii dude, get a grip I'm not sure which idea is more offensive, that dick jokes are tasteless or that ancient Romans should be considered a model of a healthy society that would encourage good taste.
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Jan 24, 2023 06:44
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Throatwarbler posted:Japan used gas against China in WW2. Didn't know about this, like in combat, or just to massacre civilians? Weka posted:I'm not sure which idea is more offensive, that dick jokes are tasteless or that ancient Romans should be considered a model of a healthy society that would encourage good taste. I was just trying to say that tasteless poo poo is the norm throughout history, christ you people are deranged sometimes
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Jan 24, 2023 06:48
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Slavvy posted:I was just trying to say that tasteless poo poo is the norm throughout history, christ you people are deranged sometimes sometimes?
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Jan 24, 2023 07:03
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Oh so you're just going to double down on your insults towards dick jokes?
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Jan 24, 2023 07:28
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lol
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Jan 24, 2023 07:31
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Slavvy posted:Didn't know about this, like in combat, or just to massacre civilians? Yes. Japan was a bad country. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-51664-6_14
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Jan 24, 2023 07:43
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Mr Hootington posted:Based turkey loving lmao if it turns out that a danish nazi pedophile did more for world peace in 2023 than all EU elected officials put together
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Jan 24, 2023 07:59
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seems like there's alot of anger in Finland towards Russia though, I would like to see this resolved without the need for people to join military alliances like we are living in the 1800's if it all possible
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Jan 24, 2023 08:14
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https://twitter.com/2russophobic4u/status/1616542854569988096 Zamn!
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Jan 24, 2023 08:26
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It's always funny when people think Turkey is yet another pushover Western vassal state country then they get confused by Turkey acting exactly like Turkey always does.
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Jan 24, 2023 08:29
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olaf the tankie
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Jan 24, 2023 08:31
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Starsfan posted:seems like there's alot of anger in Finland towards Russia though, I would like to see this resolved without the need for people to join military alliances like we are living in the 1800's if it all possible It didn't seem like joining NATO in order to "punish" Russia seemed like a wise move though. Erdogan obviously his going to be upping his demands, and the question is the US relents (and Sweden/Finland have to bend backwards) and just gives him what he wants or actually start trying to "punish" him as well which is going to lead to a downward spiral especially with election itself being a big X factor.
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Jan 24, 2023 08:32
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All of Finland is 5.5 million people, or about the same as one large city in many other nations. Finland is angry at this. Finland is angry at that. The question is - when is Finland ever happy apart from the Finnish streamers who play My Summer Car on Steam? They seem pretty happy. Maybe they all just need to chill and play that game, it seems pretty cool.
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Jan 24, 2023 08:35
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Olaf's right
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Jan 24, 2023 08:37
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Ardennes posted:It didn't seem like joining NATO in order to "punish" Russia seemed like a wise move though. The USA already hosed Erdogan raw over a wooden fence on a lot of past promises. I doubt he's forgotten and every repeat perceived offense towards the Turkmen is likely both a source of ire and excellent domestic political capital. Which would be elementary if the current brain trust wasn't riddled with plaque and dementia.
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Jan 24, 2023 08:38
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Comrade Koba posted:loving lmao if it turns out that a danish nazi pedophile did more for world peace in 2023 than all EU elected officials put together You'd think CSPAM would be less happy about that but here we are
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Jan 24, 2023 08:41
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evilmiera posted:You'd think CSPAM would be less happy about that but here we are 
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Jan 24, 2023 08:43
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could they have picked a more flattering picture 😍
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Jan 24, 2023 08:44
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evilmiera posted:You'd think CSPAM would be less happy about that but here we are Let me channel a bit of NAFO: "But he's our nazi pedofile shaiser fetishist so its okay, don't worry about it. Photoshop those tattoos out."
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gradenko_2000 posted:I think it was Citations Needed that made the argument that "anti-corruption" is essentially a form of "anti-politics", a form of neoliberal depoliticization. great posts  didn't Xi start out as an anti corruption guy tho
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evilmiera posted:You'd think CSPAM would be less happy about that but here we are Do you have to wipe drool off your shirt when you type or does a nurse do it for you?
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Jan 24, 2023 08:49
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I said before that regardless of whether it’s Ukraine or Russia that loses, It will be Erdogan that wins. And time seems to keep proving me right.
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Jan 24, 2023 08:53
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Starsfan posted:seems like there's alot of anger in Finland towards Russia though, I would like to see this resolved without the need for people to join military alliances like we are living in the 1800's if it all possible hating the russians for no real reason is a time-honored pastime here though in somewhat saner times this was mostly suppressed in the name of national interest in not pissing off the military great power and major trade partner next door, but neoliberalism has apparently hollowed out the ability to conduct actual diplomacy in finland as well
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Jan 24, 2023 08:54
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evilmiera posted:You'd think CSPAM would be less happy about that but here we are This war has turned the west into clowns. The surviving non clowns will take any sanity they can find, from whatever source. Happiness has got nothing to do with it. If a scumbag accidently derails NATO's attempts to escalate then great. We're one idiot EU decision from ww iii Regarde Aduck has issued a correction as of 08:59 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Jan 24, 2023 08:56
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galagazombie posted:I said before that regardless of whether it’s Ukraine or Russia that loses, It will be Erdogan that wins. And time seems to keep proving me right. 
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Jan 24, 2023 08:58
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Quote tweets perfectly split between "wow based" and "derr tankie untermensch must be purged"
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gradenko_2000 posted:could they have picked a more flattering picture 😍 I know what you mean, I wish I had hair like that
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