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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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i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

https://twitter.com/Lev_Melnyk/status/1633160196066275358

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Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005


It owns how all our media/journalism is just people reading Twitter and then writing the same articles about whatever's trending

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
i think people who fight and die for their country are chumps, im running and living, bitch.

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat

Frosted Flake posted:

The belief that doing so could be done without social and political consequences, specifically the Roman ruling class blocking the expansion of citizenship and other rights and privileges to allied people and cities, led to the Social War which really and truly came close to destroying Rome. Only the eleventh hour decision to surrender to the political demands of the coalition assembled against them averted catastrophe. This was a recurring theme in Roman history, and earlier the Athenians too. Acting as if all's well that ends well, that the status quo can be maintained regardless of circumstances, is as dangerous as losing the war.

Oh cool, so its the same poo poo today, and the only cure is violence

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

It might be a bit notable because this was only a few months ago.

Lostconfused posted:

Special Unit of Ukrainian Armed Forces "Wolves Da Vinci" started by Dmytro Kotsyubaylo from Right Sector and an honored hero of Ukraine, posing in front of humvees and I guess M777 or whatever guns that NATO is sending them?

https://mobile.twitter.com/anno1540/status/1610411356016218113

I assume this counts as NATO directly arming Nazis but, some of this could be wrong because I only spend like 10 minutes googling this poo poo.

I think they have a few more photos on their telegram or whatever that these were stolen from

Шепот Фронта posted:







ДУК Правый Сектор получил полную комплектацию подразделений из США и Германии...
(from t.me/Tatarinov_R/4370, via tgsa)

Well, things happen quickly in war, and I'd probably need to do more searching to see if these guys were with him.

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1633165392280694784?s=20

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Lostconfused posted:

Let's call it a staggered retreat. They're still throwing the raw conscripts at it, but if they had any trained regular forces there then they're getting pulled out.

There's been too many "Ok we're done, we're leaving Bakhmut now" reports and videos from various Ukrainian soldiers for it to be nothing.

I doubt just raw conscripts are keeping a delicate position together. They would only be sending in forces with new toys if it was only the extract even more valuable forces left behind. The mud is probably not helping things either.

The Ukrainians at least have one more row of defenses after Bakhmut, it is just not as strongly projective and the heights are generally to the east of the cities so if the Russians take those positions then they would have an advantage on the defender.

So at the moment they are trying to hold things together, get some units out but with Russia constantly hitting the last gravel road, they are taking high casualities and having to dump more troops in to get anything out of it.

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 19:06 on Mar 7, 2023

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Hmmm, Russian war correspondents reported that some of them were at Kupyansk two weeks ago.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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

Lostconfused posted:

On the other hand this Nazi didn't run quickly enough

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1633155673142820864

RIP bitch

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

i have really bad news for zelensky

also why are they making this media blitz after the city's been encircled shouldnt this have happened when they had more control over it. i feel like the ukranians have been getting louder about it long after its fate was sealed.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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

Al-Saqr posted:

i have really bad news for zelensky

also why are they making this media blitz after the city's been encircled shouldnt this have happened when they had more control over it.

didn't you hear? Everything is fine, they nearly captured it but then they only had shovels and Ukraine won.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Russians sourcing this from TASS
https://twitter.com/Levi_godman/status/1633162972280287236

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Al-Saqr posted:

also why are they making this media blitz after the city's been encircled shouldnt this have happened when they had more control over it. i feel like the ukranians have been getting louder about it long after its fate was sealed.

If he had retreated before the Russians had made a major move from the north it would have been "cowardly" and he probably would have been given a ton of grief for it so he basically had to wait until everyone agreed the situation was screwed...which it in fact it very much was.

For the love of god, if they put on the Ukrainians, have everyone in the Western press and on its site agree that it was of course them at the same time. Crash the internet with "Yes, of course, that makes sense"

Ardennes has issued a correction as of 19:13 on Mar 7, 2023

supersnowman
Oct 3, 2012


But I was told multiple time it was strategically irrelevant.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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

supersnowman posted:

But I was told multiple time it was strategically irrelevant.

it's cool how the story now changes hourly

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

where can i rent a virginia class nuclear submarine

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012


The Zeit livecrawl thingy sources the claims to an investigation by ARD.

quote:

Gaspipeline: Nord-Stream-Ermittlungen: Spuren führen in die Ukraine | ZEIT ONLINE]Die deutschen Ermittlungsbehörden haben bei der Aufklärung des Anschlags auf die Pipelines Nord Stream 1 und 2 offenbar einen Durchbruch erzielt. Nach einer gemeinsamen Recherche von ARD-Hauptstadtstudio, des ARD-Politikmagazins Kontraste, des SWR und der ZEIT konnte im Zuge der Ermittlungen weitgehend rekonstruiert werden, wie und wann der Sprengstoffanschlag vorbereitet wurde. Demnach führen Spuren in Richtung Ukraine. Allerdings haben die Ermittler bislang keine Beweise dafür gefunden, wer die Zerstörung in Auftrag gegeben hat. In der Nacht zum 26. September 2022 waren drei der insgesamt vier Stränge der Pipelines Nord Stream 1 und 2 auf dem Grund der Ostsee durch Explosionen zerstört worden.

genericnick has issued a correction as of 19:37 on Mar 7, 2023

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

so it clearly was the USA. who had the motive and opportunity

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
america should just say they did it its not like the europeans care theyll just say "thank you daddy" and bow down even harder theres not gonna be any sort of backlash if the brits would rather have no vegetables than vote for corbyn then the europes will absolutely vote for more italian style nazis who will bow even harder to america than actually stand up for themselves.

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

Clearly, Die Zeit was behind the bombing, according to this

Starsfan
Sep 29, 2007

This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely
no shot it was Ukraine, they would have announced they blew up the pipeline the day it happened along with a full explanation of how they did it lol.

Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

Regarde Aduck posted:

it's cool how the story now changes hourly

*brain goes into overdrive*

Actually, there's no contradiction here. Bakhmut was strategically relevant because of its role in allowing the Ukrainians to weaken the Russian forces, and now that it has accomplished this goal it is no longer strategically relevant.

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



“Russian Foreign Ministry, Reacting To Reports Of Probe Into The Nord Stream Blasts, Says Western 'regimes' Should Respond To Russia's Queries About The Incident Rather Than Leaking To The Media” lmao

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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

evilmiera posted:

Clearly, Die Zeit was behind the bombing, according to this

CASE. CLOSED.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

Tankbuster posted:

spoken like an illiterate indian who got into radical politics post 2016. Gandhi was always on the outs and outs after things like the quit india movement destroyed the INC's organization for the duration of the war.
The CPI, wedded as it was to the stalinist line couldn't either infiltrate congress cadre or link up with rural support until after independence. I don't think nationalizing industries wholesale, starting five year plans based on the model of the USSR, transforming huge swathes of rivers into productive farmland etc was "gandhian" in any sense of the word. The indian state "failed" because the export markets it was making the steel for just formed their own economic bloc with the ECSC. So the big two Five year plans took until the mid 1970s to deliver economic results.

Evil nehruvian politics was actually reducing the relative wealth disparity between the bourgeoisie and farmers; something the INC- CPM coalition government started returning to after 2004 with redistributive policies.

i didn't say that the CPI didn't gently caress up, i said it was a tragedy they didn't win. the INC was a massive failure in delivering results when it came to improvements in nutrition, literacy, life expectancy, healthcare and most metrics under the sun in comparison to maoist china. india is pretty much the best example of why communism was preferable to the alternatives for a post colonial country locked out of beneficience from the imperialist system. also gandhian primitivism did have an influence on (a completely failed) education policy. in summary

mila kunis has issued a correction as of 02:28 on Nov 1, 2023

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Zлой Русский Victoriam posted:


Обеденный перерыв, парни сообразили борща)
(from t.me/ZlorusV/507, via tgsa)

Torpor
Oct 20, 2008

.. and now for my next trick, I'll pretend to be a political commentator...

HONK HONK

maybe the word strategy is strong but whenever you hear military and politicians talk about some inconclusive fight killing a lot of bad guys instead of anything else it seems like it was from a lack of means to get closer to some tangible goal. body counts in vietnam seem like an exemplar of this

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

nice meme

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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

Torpor posted:

maybe the word strategy is strong but whenever you hear military and politicians talk about some inconclusive fight killing a lot of bad guys instead of anything else it seems like it was from a lack of means to get closer to some tangible goal. body counts in vietnam seem like an exemplar of this

I mean yeah I guess if they could Russia would just siege and take Kyiv but they can't so they'll settle for dismantling the Ukrainian military. But this is like saying the allies couldn't just take Berlin so they had to settle for grinding down the German military.

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Homeless Friend posted:

a shovel in human hands is already pretty lethal, but in the hands an orc...
beware the goonsquad entrenching expert
https://i.imgur.com/94WE0CX.mp4

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Lmao I wonder if they found the charges fornthe ones that didnt blow up and now they are damage controlling

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-underwater-explosions-finland-nord-stream-1754844

supposedly demining left over stuff from ww2, but that timing yo :tinfoil:

https://twitter.com/akihheikkinen/status/1584613951882469376

Z the IVth
Jan 28, 2009

The trouble with your "expendable machines"
Fun Shoe

Delta-Wye posted:

beware the goonsquad entrenching expert
https://i.imgur.com/94WE0CX.mp4

The virgin katana vs the Chad entrenching tool.

Are the edges normally sharpened or is it just a gimmick for the videos (both this and the Chinese one a few pages back). Would have thought any edge would be a bit of a liability and it would blunt quickly the moment you decided to start digging.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Al-Saqr posted:

yeah i once went to an american airshow with every military plane in it and it loving rocked i cant lie it was super awesome.

an f-22 and f-35 actually flew over my head, it was genuinely frightening not just because how loud and fast those things are but i was half expecting the f-35 to crash into me at any moment.

the best planes by far are the A-10 warthogs, by far americas coolest planes ever after the p-51 mustangs.

it was really incredible how almost immediately my anti-war socialist scrooge mood was lifted by how cool those death machines were and how glad i wasnt their targets.

Difficult to believe you had a quick change of mood tbh

Delta-Wye
Sep 29, 2005

Lostconfused posted:

On the other hand this Nazi didn't run quickly enough

https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1633155673142820864

denazification, one shithead at a time!


Z the IVth posted:

The virgin katana vs the Chad entrenching tool.

Are the edges normally sharpened or is it just a gimmick for the videos (both this and the Chinese one a few pages back). Would have thought any edge would be a bit of a liability and it would blunt quickly the moment you decided to start digging.

wikipedia, only the best in verified historical nonpov facts mixed with the best of government propaganda



at this point who knows if any of that is true lmao

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Orange Devil posted:

Difficult to believe you had a quick change of mood tbh

i am an even keeled person, i wake up in a frothing rage and stay that way until bedtime.

Isentropy
Dec 12, 2010

Well FF apparently the last Habsurg is having a tourney for who was the best. I have submitted my fave one, Max I of Mexico.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
i wonder who the leaders of estonian far right nationalists are

https://twitter.com/communist333/status/1632952654727983106?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

jesus loving christ

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

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

Delta-Wye posted:

denazification, one shithead at a time!

wikipedia, only the best in verified historical nonpov facts mixed with the best of government propaganda



at this point who knows if any of that is true lmao

well it says they used them in hand to hand fighting which means either the Ukrainian troops also ran out or they both agreed to have a melee

CongoJack
Nov 5, 2009

Ask Why, Asshole

Al-Saqr posted:

i wonder who the leaders of estonian far right nationalists are

https://twitter.com/communist333/status/1632952654727983106?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

jesus loving christ

combating the barbarism of communism by never going to the barber.

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mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

CongoJack posted:

combating the barbarism of communism by never going to the barber.

he obviously went to the barber, he just asked to be made to look like a lego

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