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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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Isentropy posted:Well FF I used to work for a certain company in Hali that made a dual use plane and saw Canadian procurement first hand. Let's replace a plane with good loiter time with something that's not that to track subs  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK9gLkXe0xw  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMYAEHE2GrM e: Though FR it sucks and I can only imagine what that process was like. You must've had the bad luck of not being Bombardier or an American company.
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Mar 7, 2023 15:08
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Al-Saqr posted:its pretty obvious america has decided to lay the ground for a cold war from a decade and its pretty obvious ukraine was the the event they wanted to kick it off and the western whites are gonna 100% fall in line. Xi Jinping is 100% right america wants this cold war and is actively gunning for it. It isn't going well right off the gate then.
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Mar 7, 2023 15:13
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Meeting people from a certain company that makes the P3/CP140 made me realize I dont wanna be in that industry no more It's all uh profit driven
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Mar 7, 2023 15:15
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mlmp08 posted:Among the biggest articles of faith regarding Bakhmut for the past several days is that: also everybody is just using human waves
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Mar 7, 2023 15:17
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Ardennes posted:It isn't going well right off the gate then. its going great for america they completely enslaved europe and taken it off the table as an independent politicl or economic power and britain cant even have loving tomatoes. Ukraine i would say is so far 70% an american success but that could change if russia manages any moves beyond bakhmut. Taiwan will be fortified massively and japan will be brought back to scourge the east. i dunno its going OK for america so far.
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Mar 7, 2023 15:17
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What industry are you in now that isn't profit driven?
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Mar 7, 2023 15:17
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Frosted Flake posted:It's funny because I'm giving a lecture on this today, but people now always ask about why it was considered a milestone for minority populations to be granted military service. Why "fight to fight" for a racist, colonist, imperialist and unjust etc. etc. society that denied you your civil rights ? Why did Native Canadians, Japanese Canadians, Black Canadians demand they be enlisted in the World Wars and participate at such a high rate? Why too has the state been weary of memorializing their participation until the 1990's? Isn't this contradicted by the actions of the British empire and it's ongoing poor treatment of the African and Indian troops? As far as Maori go, there were Maori MPs before Maori could enlist.
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Mar 7, 2023 15:19
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Isentropy posted:Meeting people from a certain company that makes the P3/CP140 made me realize I dont wanna be in that industry no more Orange Devil posted:In 2023, however,... These two things are why war, real war, is not really something a Neoliberal state is capable of, or rather, the state (read: ruling class) would have to choose between winning the war and preserving neoliberalism. War requires mass participation in politics and institutions as well as a strong state, neoliberalism exists to negate those two things. It's a contradiction that can't be reconciled. Weka posted:Isn't this contradicted by the actions of the British empire and it's ongoing poor treatment of the African and Indian troops? As far as Maori go, there were Maori MPs before Maori could enlist. It's why Britain lost her Empire. In recruiting millions of Indian soldiers, the British made them political actors. In failing to fulfil their demands, Britain lost India. Remember that the end of the Raj was cemented with the Royal Indian Navy mutiny. There were Maori MPs though an earlier series of events that were part of the same process. There were not enough white colonists to win the Musket Wars, and so loyal Maori tribes were recruited, providing much of the bayonet strength for the later campaigns. Their loyalty had to be rewarded with political participation. You can read this as similar to Rome rewarding loyal cities, citizenship was still selective. Mass Maori participation in the Great War Brought mass participation in politics in the aftermath, "citizenship" was extended from only loyal elites to all Maori. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 15:24 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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Mar 7, 2023 15:20
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Zvahl posted:Molk'te el'Dar! En Taro Zelensky
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Mar 7, 2023 15:21
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Al-Saqr posted:its going great for america they completely enslaved europe and taken it off the table as an independent politicl or economic power and britain cant even have loving tomatoes. Europe was already on the US' side and the UK going down the drain isn't to the US' benefit. A lot of Taiwanese people actually don't want to confront China and Japan maybe is silently doing worse than even the UK. I don't think people realize how bad their demographics/financial issues actually are. Even in Europe there is actually quite a bit a grumbling. The US expected the global south, including India to bow down to them, and instead they are all regularly trading with Russia, and America's "allies" are in either bruised shape or quickly loosing courage. Ukraine is actually fairly minor to what is going on. Hell Saudi Arabia used to 100% a US client and now it is playing both sides just like Turkey. Yeah, no
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Mar 7, 2023 15:24
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Pistol_Pete posted:To vaguely link the above post back to the Ukraine war, it does engender a certain awkwardness in trying to explain why we've got billions to throw at Ukraine, when we're also being told that we can't even afford the basics of a civilised society here in the UK. imagine how the americans feel https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1546846071078486016?s=20
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Mar 7, 2023 15:26
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Ardennes posted:
yeah im gonna be honest i genuinely thought americas grip on saudi would be alot tighter than it ended up being. i think theyre laying easy on MBS because they fully expect him to kiss israels rear end once he becomes king and nothing else matters beyond that.
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Mar 7, 2023 15:30
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Al-Saqr posted:yeah im gonna be honest i genuinely thought americas grip on saudi would be alot tighter than it ended up being. i think theyre laying easy on MBS because they fully expect him to kiss israels rear end once he becomes king and nothing else matters beyond that. Maybe the balance of power has shifted and they know they need him now, and he can play all the OPEC games he wants because Israel is screwed if he turns. The problem is of course that OPEC is keeping oil prices relatively high which is assisting Russia/Iran and playing havoc for the West, so it is actually quite a price. That said, there is a reason prices kind of just bump around in the $80s (Brent).
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Mar 7, 2023 15:33
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mlmp08 posted:Among the biggest articles of faith regarding Bakhmut for the past several days is that: One of the two sides is more concerned by public optics and image tough, and has a larger record of information obfuscation, fabrication and exaggeration. Although I guess depending on which thread you ask, you'll get a different answer as to which side is that!
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Mar 7, 2023 15:44
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https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1633116518245384192?s=46&t=fhRohXIGwtz71r02K1yeMw getting 8.5 years for 11 posts is wild, that’s some pretty impressive posting
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Mar 7, 2023 15:55
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Has the KSA started selling oil in something other than dollars yet?
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Mar 7, 2023 15:59
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Al-Saqr posted:nothing would make me laugh harder than the ukranians completely reversing the bakhmut situation due to putins stupidity and wierd insistence on always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by not helping Wagner at this critical juncture. looks like al-saqr got his groove back
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Mar 7, 2023 16:01
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dk2m posted:https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1633116518245384192?s=46&t=fhRohXIGwtz71r02K1yeMw And people here complain about Ban+30.
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Mar 7, 2023 16:07
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dk2m posted:https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1633116518245384192?s=46&t=fhRohXIGwtz71r02K1yeMw SBU -- hold my beer https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1625080035647361024
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Mar 7, 2023 16:08
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Ah, good!
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Mar 7, 2023 16:10
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euphronius posted:is this bad nah it's good that we will all be cleansed in nuclear fire
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Mar 7, 2023 16:14
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crepeface posted:nah it's good that we will all be cleansed in nuclear fire no i hate to break it to you but our end wont be that satisfying were gonna go through a couple hundred years of climate catastrophes and mass extinction of the flora and fauna. it wont be as mercifully fast as nuclear apocalypse will be.
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Mar 7, 2023 16:16
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Z the IVth posted:And people here complain about Ban+30. look at least he didn't get perma'd ok?
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Mar 7, 2023 16:16
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Frosted Flake posted:It's funny because I'm giving a lecture on this today, but people now always ask about why it was considered a milestone for minority populations to be granted military service. Why "fight to fight" for a racist, colonist, imperialist and unjust etc. etc. society that denied you your civil rights ? Why did Native Canadians, Japanese Canadians, Black Canadians demand they be enlisted in the World Wars and participate at such a high rate? Why too has the state been weary of memorializing their participation until the 1990's? something something the late BEIC/Raj basically upending it's entire military recruiting base during the course of the 1857 mutiny and then being forced to do that again in 1940 - in the second case because the Raj was competing with a bunch of increasingly left leaning libs they couldn't handle the strain on their society.
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Mar 7, 2023 16:18
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Frosted Flake posted:These two things are why war, real war, is not really something a Neoliberal state is capable of, or rather, the state (read: ruling class) would have to choose between winning the war and preserving neoliberalism. War requires mass participation in politics and institutions as well as a strong state, neoliberalism exists to negate those two things. It's a contradiction that can't be reconciled. In the case of the RIN mutiny; the ringleaders were explicitly members of the Communist Party of India and had managed to create an organized network of class solidarity among petty officers and naval servicemen. Their demands for political emancipation were also far more radical than just a change of the flag; explicitly calling for british and american withdrawal from places in Indochina and Indonesia at the same time indian troops were trying to do police actions and restore colonial rule in those places after the war was over.
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Mar 7, 2023 16:24
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Has the KSA started selling oil in something other than dollars yet? Xi said that there should be a path forward to pay in yuan but afaik, it’s symbolic. maybe there’s some bilateral payments going back and forth in yuan but the saudis have gone all in on the dollar to the point where they will collapse their own economy if they don’t maintain their us foreign reserves at appropriate levels. the Dirham is actually more represented as india is settling payments in that to avoid secondary sanctions
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Mar 7, 2023 16:25
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Al-Saqr posted:no i hate to break it to you but our end wont be that satisfying were gonna go through a couple hundred years of climate catastrophes and mass extinction of the flora and fauna. it wont be as mercifully fast as nuclear apocalypse will be. there's gotta be at least one sicko true believer evangelical with their finger on the button
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Mar 7, 2023 16:25
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kronix posted:The US did in 30 days what Russia couldn't do in a year and still failed to maintain control of Iraq which the entire point of my post from GBS. Phew, this was some crazy stuff
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Mar 7, 2023 16:27
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Phew, this was some crazy stuff dont look up the guy who fantasized raping someone
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Mar 7, 2023 16:32
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Phew, this was some crazy stuff he was so dumb too. he kept confusing a bunch of different people
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Mar 7, 2023 16:34
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Tankbuster posted:In the case of the RIN mutiny; the ringleaders were explicitly members of the Communist Party of India and had managed to create an organized network of class solidarity among petty officers and naval servicemen. Their demands for political emancipation were also far more radical than just a change of the flag; explicitly calling for british and american withdrawal from places in Indochina and Indonesia at the same time indian troops were trying to do police actions and restore colonial rule in those places after the war was over. leadership of indian independence falling to gandhian primitivists and congress instead of the communists is one of the biggest tragedies in indian history
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Mar 7, 2023 16:37
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gradenko_2000 posted:you qualitatively do NOT get improvements after taking over a city in Civ 3. The later ones let you keep some of them, but it was a key point in earlier Civs that a newly-conquered city has nothing except its pops, its tile improvements, and its wonders. The modern/endgame era combat of early Civ was obviously mostly patterned on the Gulf War - in Civ 2 you have 30-odd slots to cover all types of military units across human history, but you just gotta have both a Stealth Bomber and a Stealth Fighter in there (while there's just one type of "Armor" ever) - wonder if this war will have enough impact on the popcult war understanding to filter down to the Civ 7 devs... Al-Saqr posted:dont look up the guy who fantasized raping someone Missed that, and probably better off for it...
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Mar 7, 2023 16:45
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Mandoric posted:Ra-ra-ra-ra-rasputitsa!
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Mar 7, 2023 16:56
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We'd live in Paradise if Ambedkar won
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Mar 7, 2023 16:57
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1633128532833599488?s=46&t=Lil8vLMPVkfPh80ODFeUGg yeah, the US military
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Mar 7, 2023 17:10
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gradenko_2000 posted:However Atomic Heart discussion is germane to this thread I heard the game was pro-Soviet propaganda and would directly fund Tsar Putin, is this correct?
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Mar 7, 2023 17:11
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Al-Saqr posted:its going great for america they completely enslaved europe and taken it off the table as an independent politicl or economic power and britain cant even have loving tomatoes. i don't think Britain not having tomatos was actually a war goal for america
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Mar 7, 2023 17:13
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https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1633136670488039424?s=20
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Mar 7, 2023 17:17
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wait they're angry that Russian money went into a Hollywood propaganda film about how awesome America is?
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Regarde Aduck posted:wait they're angry that Russian money went into a Hollywood propaganda film about how awesome America is? i guess it didn't dehumanize the unnamed but presumptive russian bad guys enough
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