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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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Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Futanari Damacy posted:

Your post is too smart. It has too many facts. Seems like bait. TROLL

I've had this happen in online debates in other spaces. If you start pulling out primary sources that directly contradicts whatever nonsense they're parroting the response is to say you're suspiciously well prepared and imply, or even outright state, that knowing things is a sign of well trained Russian propaganda

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Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

This is something I've wondered about from the beginning. Do Crimeans think of themselves as Ukrainian or Russian?

We have an answer, and democratic, free Ukraine is not happy it was asked!

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1631046414926225408

This is another thing people get extremely mad about. Asking what happened to the Crimean government in 1995, or the 90%+ vote in the 1991 referendum to join a new USSR under Russian leadership, or how Russia managed to take Crimea so quickly with so few casualties, or where the partisan resistance has been for the last eight years, or Ukraine's humanitarian attacks on Crimean civilians, are all just deflecting from Ukraine's territorial rights (which it only acquired in 1952).

Outright saying Crimea defected to Russia after the right wing coup is usually a block or a ban

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

i say swears online posted:

seems dece for early voting??

oh i didnt realize it was early voting, my lol has been rescinded

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

My favourite thing about Crimea is the Ukrainians with Neo-Pagan tattoos talking about the wonderful Muslim culture the evil Rus colonists suppressed through doing an Imperialism or whatever, while also gloating about their plans to ethnically cleanse the peninsula of Russian speakers and Orthodox.

Nazis playing to an international audience of western liberals produces bizarre results.

Morbus
May 18, 2004

Zodium posted:

"barbarism isnt real," i assure myself as i close my eyes and ram the world economy with my lovely f-35

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

Ramrod Hotshot posted:

This is something I've wondered about from the beginning. Do Crimeans think of themselves as Ukrainian or Russian?

We have an answer, and democratic, free Ukraine is not happy it was asked!

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1631046414926225408

That's because putin replaced all the crimeans with russians so there are no real crimeans in crimea anymore.

But don't worry if Ukraine gets it back they will fix it.

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

My favourite thing about Crimea is the Ukrainians with Neo-Pagan tattoos talking about the wonderful Muslim culture the evil Rus colonists suppressed through doing an Imperialism or whatever, while also gloating about their plans to ethnically cleanse the peninsula of Russian speakers and Orthodox.

Nazis playing to an international audience of western liberals produces bizarre results.

There's another turnaround here, and it's Ukrainians absolving themselves of colonizing the Wild Fields alongside the Russians. There was not a single Ukrainian, nationalist or otherwise, who gave a poo poo about the Crimean Tatars as they conquered them, and Ukrainian historiography vilified the Tatars as Asiatic slavers. But nowadays they've turned around and added them to the list of persecuted Ukrainians. My god, just pick a nationalism, you can't do the blood-and-soil bullshit AND the 1954 border nationalism at the same time.

Grimnarsson
Sep 4, 2018

Slim Jim Pickens posted:

There's another turnaround here, and it's Ukrainians absolving themselves of colonizing the Wild Fields alongside the Russians. There was not a single Ukrainian, nationalist or otherwise, who gave a poo poo about the Crimean Tatars as they conquered them, and Ukrainian historiography vilified the Tatars as Asiatic slavers. But nowadays they've turned around and added them to the list of persecuted Ukrainians. My god, just pick a nationalism, you can't do the blood-and-soil bullshit AND the 1954 border nationalism at the same time.

I recently dug up a nationalisms textbook from 2005 that I have and read the section on Ukraine and it really is a nation cobbled together with gum and duct tape. Not that there is anything wrong with that as long as it works, but the tension between the ethnic nationalism of Western Ukraine based on language and the territorial national identity of Eastern Ukraine (more in effect rather than as an ideology perhaps?) resulting in political instability seems inevitable in hindsight. Also the the dynamic between the two seems such that it favoured the ethnic nationalists in that they sought to centralise political power and then use it to enact their vision on the whole country as opposed to de-centralising power so that the regions can run their own affairs and express themselves however they want in terms of language, religion, culture. In effect one part of the country sought power and to use it and the other wanted give it up. Furthermore the extremists in the west were just more extreme about it whereas the extremists in the east would have been separatist thereby undermining their political cause as part of Ukraine.

It's hard to imagine any other context where European liberals fashioning themselves as post-nationalists or detesting nationalism would take up the cause of ethnic nationalism opposed to a more civic nationalist identity except here it aligns with their nationalist animosity with Russia that they don't recognise as existing because it's just the truth.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Grimnarsson posted:

It's hard to imagine any other context where European liberals fashioning themselves as post-nationalists or detesting nationalism would take up the cause of ethnic nationalism opposed to a more civic nationalist identity except here it aligns with their nationalist animosity with Russia that they don't recognise as existing because it's just the truth.

Georgia,
Moldova,
Any Baltic country with an ethnic Russian population,
Whoever they decide "rightfully" owns Kaliningrad

But you're right of course, it's just that they'll sleepwalk into the exact same thing somewhere else. I'm amazed they haven't convinced themselves Taiwanese aren't Han Chinese or whatever.

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

Some Guy TT posted:

https://twitter.com/nyuszami/status/1632056513085808640

in retrospect we should have been more suspicious when putin briefly started unbombing ukraine in 2014

it's sound strategy to build up momentum going into zero

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

iCe-CuBe. posted:

Zelensky... oh curse you you glorious bastard. He's... really doing it, isnt he? He's still loving fighting, after all this time. :unsmith:

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Frosted Flake posted:

Georgia,
Moldova,
Any Baltic country with an ethnic Russian population,
Whoever they decide "rightfully" owns Kaliningrad

But you're right of course, it's just that they'll sleepwalk into the exact same thing somewhere else. I'm amazed they haven't convinced themselves Taiwanese aren't Han Chinese or whatever.

lol there's apparently been work in Taiwan's education system by the DPP to redefine themselves as "Taiwanese" with their history being disconnected from China.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov – a close ally of Vladimir Putin – is reported to be seriously ill with kidney problems amid fears of ‘poisoning’.

Zvahl
Oct 14, 2005

научный кот


lmao at the op

https://twitter.com/mrs_socialista/status/1632069791375581185

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp



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ddinkins
Sep 5, 2012

they just can't help themselves, can they

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

ddinkins posted:

they just can't help themselves, can they

Why should they? It's the official line of the West that Nazis Are Good, OP.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

Nonsense posted:

Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov – a close ally of Vladimir Putin – is reported to be seriously ill with kidney problems amid fears of ‘poisoning’.

NO!

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy
Another dawn is breaking in Kyiv, and it's still Ukrainian. :unsmith:

:ukraine:

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

paul_soccer12 posted:

Another dawn is breaking in Kyiv, and it's still Ukrainian. :unsmith:

:ukraine:



it's 3am. is that a nuclear flash

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
Why is Kyiv labeled Kharkiv did they bring the Kharkiv camera by mistake

Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
new spelling

Zvahl
Oct 14, 2005

научный кот
it means it's a car in kiev you people are terrible with foreign languages

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

kharKEEV

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
Ukranians must really be suffering if they can only afford to have one car in their capital

And it's on a building :rolleyes:

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

paul_soccer12 posted:

Another dawn is breaking in Kyiv, and it's still Ukrainian. :unsmith:

:ukraine:



sad day

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

lol hes doing this cause europe has basically been unable to wean itself from russian uranium for obvious reasons


this trailer is sick btw

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
they took the nuclear plant hostage, shot at it, then hid at it

ok

Freezer
Apr 20, 2001

The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Homeless Friend posted:

lol hes doing this cause europe has basically been unable to wean itself from russian uranium for obvious reasons

Can't America just sell them uranium at 2-4x the price? Worked wonders for gas.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

lmao why is Bloomberg deindustrializing Germany?

https://twitter.com/MsQuitoSwarm/status/1632098836238745605

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer

jesus christ the stupidity of the EU is staggering and the US must be kicking themselves that they didn't loot the place earlier if it is this easy

But more worryingly, it's getting harder to pretend that this isn't actually WW III if bloc's start moving to 'war economies'

and if Russia can make the case it is officially at war with NATO...

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005


Germany finally doing to itself what it did to Greece et al. I say: bravo!

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Freezer posted:

Can't America just sell them uranium at 2-4x the price? Worked wonders for gas.

short: they're russian reactors, using a particular fuel mix(??) and there is no excess enrichment capacity.

https://twitter.com/POLITICOEurope/status/1629784619364040705

Homeless Friend has issued a correction as of 03:00 on Mar 5, 2023

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

Horseshoe theory posted:

Germany finally doing to itself what it did to Greece et al. I say: bravo!

a lot of US airports are run at the municipal or county level, it's going to rock when LA county ends up in charge of a bunch of german airports. the market must be opened up to competition.

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

lobster shirt posted:

a lot of US airports are run at the municipal or county level, it's going to rock when LA county ends up in charge of a bunch of german airports. the market must be opened up to competition.

Make all of the European airports run through the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey!

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
putting all your industry into the hands of the US just in time for 2024 elections and they just utterly destroy your economies only this time they don't bother bullshitting you, they just smile

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Regarde Aduck posted:

putting all your industry into the hands of the US just in time for 2024 elections and they just utterly destroy your economies only this time they don't bother bullshitting you, they just smile

They'll love Big Brother, OP!

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

dont quite think germany learned its lesson in ww2

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Cuttlefush
Jan 15, 2014

gotta have my purp
it's hilarious when people say they're gonna tell germany internet guys are doing humanity crimes with poo poo like this

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