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Hey everyone. Please read the rules in the OP. Main rules: 1. Bloodthirst/War Porn: Reveling in the death/misfortune of soldiers or civilians is explicitly and definitively punishable by probation or ban. Please remember that it's human beings on both sides of this conflict. War is not good and people getting hurt and dying is not good, even if it's people we don't like. Don't wish death on people, wish for Russia to pack up its poo poo and go home and work backwards from there. Horndogging for war materiel is weird, don't do it. You've been warned. 2. Posting about posters: NO DISCUSSION OF OTHER FORUMS OR THEIR POSTERS IN THIS THREAD. This will be strictly enforced via time off and/or bans depending how severe the violation is. This includes trying to be cheeky and sly about "some other forums" or "other people on SA" or something along those lines. Everyone knows what you mean, don't try to skirt the rules with vaguery. 3. 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We do take every report into consideration, and we would encourage you to use it if you think rules are being violated. Please don't report people who just disagree with you. That's petty and dumb. If you see a reply you don't like, call out specific posts, not the whole thread. These rules are subject to change, so please check back every so often. We want GBS to be a great community, even in the midst of all that's going on. If you have any concerns/suggestions/complaints about the rules please PM one of the IKs/mods/admins. We want this thread to stay on topic and be a relatively chill place to read and post about the war. Don't gently caress that up for everyone, we're all going to try and do better. We discussed the rules in SAD and solicited feedback from the D&D and GiP threads as well. If you have any questions about the rules of this OP, please post them in SAD's general chat thread or create a new thread. Thanks! For your consideration, here are some anonymized examples of how not to post: quote:drat that missile goes 550km? Okay now I'm hard quote:lol Hopefully this leads to more mobiks being turned into ground meat quote:I'd rather not engage with a forum full of genocide deniers quote:[A really lovely cringe reddit meme] quote:I sincerely wish all Russian invaders die, and there’s not a loving thing wrong with that. gently caress em🖕🖕 Toxic Mental fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 04:44 |
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gently caress Putin.
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This again?
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Hello
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We are back at it.
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The situation at bakhmut appears to be grim. The bridge is leading to the east of town have been destroyed as Ukraine continues to move troops to the west side of town. Now there's a pretty large water crossing on the east side and I would surmise that Russia is going to close in the pincers instead of going off frontal assault on this but that could definitely be wrong. Solov almost got killed in vuhledar. This is important because he's one of Putin's leading propaganda mouthpieces. So for him to literally almost get shelled is quite interesting in comparison to Biden rolling up to Kyiv in a train and hanging out. Aswell as Zelensky visiting the Frontlines with no reprisal. I doubt that the ukrainians were specifically targeting him. In other news and kadyrov apparently is having a crisis of the kidneys. People are claiming that he has been poisoned. As the kidneys backup once the liver starts to fail it could be other things. With this poisoning we could see a reconcentration of power however this may not be by Putin exactly but by other elements in the Russian government who are trying to solidify their grasp on the future post Putin Russia. More time will tell.
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# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:14 |
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Putin pooped his pants
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# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:16 |
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Me too
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# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:18 |
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Let's have a clean and friendly war, lads.
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Grrrround floor
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EorayMel posted:gently caress Putin.
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Putin is a bullshit and so are his friends His judo is weak and he has no hair. What a piece of poo poo
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late is v.fashionable
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putin bad
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Slava Ukraini war thread
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FIRST PAGEToxic Mental posted:Hey everyone. Please read the rules in the OP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIR3grlLmmc
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Horse cum
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Tai posted:Horse cum not thanks I'm full
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I'm not reading the whole OP, whats the haps on saying the LOTR word, is that off the table still?
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I would also like to say that Putin is a bad man.WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Solov almost got killed in vuhledar. This is important because he's one of Putin's leading propaganda mouthpieces. So for him to literally almost get shelled is quite interesting in comparison to Biden rolling up to Kyiv in a train and hanging out. Aswell as Zelensky visiting the Frontlines with no reprisal.
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Toxic Mental posted:Hey everyone. Please read the rules in the OP. Sorry Toxic Mental, but the admins are loving idiots. This rule is stupid, and repeating it is stupid. I sincerely wish all Russian invaders die, and there’s not a loving thing wrong with that. gently caress em🖕🖕 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Toxic Mental posted:Hey everyone. Please read the rules in the OP.
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Nooner posted:I'm not reading the whole OP, whats the haps on saying the LOTR word, is that off the table still? Please don't call Putin a greedy dwarf
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Nooner posted:I'm not reading the whole OP, whats the haps on saying the LOTR word, is that off the table still? It's off the table. No bigotry and dehumanizing language
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Welcome back, old friend. Here's some content. Here's noted Tank Grandpa David Willey talking about five of the tanks being sent to Ukraine - I don't think there's any combat footage, it all looks like training and Tank Days footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvG64vqLrw In Part 2, David Willey recaps some of the war and addresses claims that the tank is obsolete and propaganda from both sides - this one DOES have some combat footage but mostly quick clips from a distance, no bodies - There are two 'kamikaze drone' clips, and the one at the end has some dudes visible before it cuts So maybe close when the Patreon logo pops up. I'm posting it mostly because he raises some good points and figure if a museum that deals with this poo poo professionally decided it could be shown on Youtube, it should be OK here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEmWE83P2LA And if you don't want to watch all that, here's an important part where he quotes from a Royal United Services Institute report on the dangers of getting High On Your Own Supply (of Propaganda): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEmWE83P2LA&t=838s And on a much lighter note, here's Max Miller making Ukrainian Borshch and talking about the history of Ukraine and borshch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DPu-Ve_luU
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:In other news and kadyrov apparently is having a crisis of the kidneys. People are claiming that he has been poisoned. As the kidneys backup once the liver starts to fail it could be other things. My impression is that the FSB's poisoning methods tend to be a bit more decisive, so I'm not sure how officially sanctioned this was. I imagine he has no shortage of enemies though.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:The situation at bakhmut appears to be grim. The bridge is leading to the east of town have been destroyed as Ukraine continues to move troops to the west side of town. Now there's a pretty large water crossing on the east side and I would surmise that Russia is going to close in the pincers instead of going off frontal assault on this but that could definitely be wrong. Russia also attempted a massive armored assault at Vuhledar that went spectacularly wrong with them losing a total of over 100 tanks and BTRs in one day. On the 'Kadyrov is dying' front, this also happened: https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1631978452944404480?s=20 I can see this kind of 'boy-king' thing working for the Kim dynasty since they spent decades building up the family as gods and have the massive state-level structures to support it, but I don't see it lasting long in a place like Chechnya where Kadyrov dying would likely result in lots of internal infighting and purges. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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how can you expect ordinary gbs posters to conduct themselves according to rules more strict than even those the professional warfighters on the front lines they post about must follow? it’s an impossible situation
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:Sorry Toxic Mental, but the admins are loving idiots. This rule is stupid, and repeating it is stupid. You have to be very respectful when discussing russian conscripts raping and murdering ukrainian civilians and dumping their bodies in mass graves
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Why would FSB want to kill Kadyrov, though. He is an important state asset. Anyway, I'm afraid the sources reporting the supposed poisoning are dubious at best
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# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:33 |
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Glad to see this thread though I don't read it right now. I appreciate the resource being available to me, thank you
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Welcome back friends
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Tai posted:You have to be very respectful when discussing russian conscripts raping and murdering ukrainian civilians and dumping their bodies in mass graves They didn't want to be there, raping and looting and murdering civilians. They were FORCED to. So have some empathy!
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# ? Mar 5, 2023 20:34 |
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At least we have a thread to post in. Which is a pretty serious change from the previous answer. Can we just loving collectively do the right thing and follow the rules? I'm sure I'm going to be probated at some point for too much detail in an analysis. I'll use that opportunity to be more editorial and move on. Jesus.
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Just an aside, some people might find NAFO cringe. Sure sure. But NAFO came about to troll russian disinformation on twitter for example I'm fairly sure and not to make light of war.
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Was kadyrov causing enough trouble to get the ole spicy tea? It seemed like he was just a mostly harmless (for Putin) dumbass that was keeping Chechnya in line
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There is a war? IN UKRAINE?
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Tai posted:Just an aside, some people might find NAFO cringe. Sure sure. But NAFO came about to troll russian disinformation on twitter for example I'm fairly sure and not to make light of war. This is accurate. NAFO is pretty much a counterforce for Russian disinformation and propaganda. It's harder for things to stick if all their channels are clogged with cartoon dogs calling them idiots
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