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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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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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Regarde Aduck posted:in a shocking twist, Zelensky wins, deposes Putin and then as ultimate supreme leader of the empire of Ukrainussia, reinstates FULL COMMUNISM concerning
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sum posted:This Bloomberg article on how Ukraine should rebuild is mostly what you'd expect, but I had a laugh at the final section moaning that Ukraine is centralizing too much and overspending on defense during a defensive war. You have to wonder how widespread this sentiment is among their foreign backers. lol because decentralized liberal states can't fight wars! The United States has "discovered" this in every major war. They have to rebuild the administrated state anew every time too.
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Apr 9, 2023 23:55
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Regarde Aduck posted:in a shocking twist, Zelensky wins, deposes Putin and then as ultimate supreme leader of the empire of Ukrainussia, reinstates FULL COMMUNISM Zelensky and Gorbachev would've been friends I know it
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Apr 9, 2023 23:58
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Corky Romanovsky posted:I saw this posted elsewhere and with this time stamp. I started watching it (watched nearly until the end) and I'm not sure if I'm following the subtitles correctly or if the subtitles are wrong. From this time stamp it seems like these people are human trafficking a minor (17y.o. girl). They get her father on the phone and he refuses to authorize power of attorney or whatever to get her out to him in Kyiv(?). Then they say her mother refuses as well, and wishes her daughter to get a Russian passport. No idea of the circumstances leading up to this, but it really reads like this Ukrainian organization is kidnapping and trafficking a minor. so this video was really interesting because its insanely loving vague about everything for no good reason but also seems to validate all of the talking points about russia kidnapping ukrainian children to do a genocide but only if you take everything the video says at face value and dont ask questions like why are the kids allowed to have cell phones at brainwashing camp or why theyre bothering to check in with their russian prison warden at the end when theyre back in kyiv and also why their russian prison warden seems to be mad mainly because children disappeared from the school so now shes dealing with the police and missing person reports like youd expect literally anywhere that a kid just disappears as far as masha goes the situation definitely sounds like her mom was taking advantage of the war to sneak her out of the country so she wouldnt have to deal with her ex anymore which is the main reason anyone kidnaps a kid whats going on with anastasia is way murkier because the reporter claims that anastasia has a home to go back to but then at the end shes moving in with some random woman in kyiv??? most of the problems described sound like bureaucratic ones that basically boil down "we wont sign the kid over to anyone unless theyre a relative or have power of attorney" and i read anastasias father going ehhh on the phone as being motivated mainly by the fact that a human trafficker could for real kidnap her if he signed over power of attorney so hes super reluctant to give that to somebody he doesnt know instead of waiting for an official solution on that particular question the ukrainian government doesnt appear to be doing literally anything to resolve this issue at all its briefly mentioned at one time that someone tried to contact a hotline and was surprised to find that there doesnt even seem to be a hotline which is why the whole operation is being masterminded by this random reporter the one woman in the middle talking about brainwashing children to turn them into jannissaries was wild because thats so obviously not whats depicted at all what the video outlines as happening is that some teacher in kherson organizes a trip to crimea probably for the explicit purpose of loving off to russia before ukraine retook the city at least some of the parents including mashas mother and maybe anastasias family too appeared to be in on it because they believed their kids would be better off in russia nothing in the video even comes close to asserting that this is putins evil master plan to genocide ukrainian children and the children in this case are like seventeen which really isnt what anybodys thinking when they read headlines about russias crimes against humanity
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Apr 10, 2023 00:04
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Some Guy TT posted:so this video was really interesting because its insanely loving vague about everything for no good reason but also seems to validate all of the talking points about russia kidnapping ukrainian children to do a genocide but only if you take everything the video says at face value and dont ask questions like why are the kids allowed to have cell phones at brainwashing camp or why theyre bothering to check in with their russian prison warden at the end when theyre back in kyiv and also why their russian prison warden seems to be mad mainly because children disappeared from the school so now shes dealing with the police and missing person reports like youd expect literally anywhere that a kid just disappears tbh it was better when i had to scroll past twitter embeds
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Apr 10, 2023 00:07
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Some Guy TT posted:so this video was really interesting because its insanely loving vague about everything for no good reason but also seems to validate all of the talking points about russia kidnapping ukrainian children to do a genocide but only if you take everything the video says at face value and dont ask questions like why are the kids allowed to have cell phones at brainwashing camp when the BBC ran their story on this they focused on this one kid who was 'kidnapped' by Russians and then immedietly cut to her with her grandmother who she was able to contact and meet with. Literally didn't explain anything inbetween claiming she was kidnapped and then her with her gran.
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Apr 10, 2023 00:11
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genericnick posted:At some point you will pay for your crimes
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Apr 10, 2023 00:21
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Regarde Aduck posted:when the BBC ran their story on this they focused on this one kid who was 'kidnapped' by Russians and then immedietly cut to her with her grandmother who she was able to contact and meet with. Literally didn't explain anything inbetween claiming she was kidnapped and then her with her gran. Me, a BBC reporter: Picks up piece of old washing machine from garbage dump in Syria, take a deep close sniff on camera. "Yeah I can definitely smell the chemical weapons"
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Apr 10, 2023 00:38
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evilmiera posted:Apropos of nothing I just had another of my delicious pizzas today but recalled too late that I hadn't taken a picture to share with the thread. I'll do better next time, I promise. You should share your next pizza in GBS, with your people
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Apr 10, 2023 01:05
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https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1645159196437151744 they just tweeted it out that they spent their ~counteroffensive~ reserves on bakhmut
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Apr 10, 2023 01:35
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Now thinking those docs got leaked in a lost cause, what could've been kind of way
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Apr 10, 2023 01:40
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1645159196437151744 USA: Where did all the things we sent you go? Where did they go? Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTPy9brBdAM
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Apr 10, 2023 01:41
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sum posted:This Bloomberg article on how Ukraine should rebuild is mostly what you'd expect, but I had a laugh at the final section moaning that Ukraine is centralizing too much and overspending on defense during a defensive war. You have to wonder how widespread this sentiment is among their foreign backers. Wait a minute...are you telling me...THAT WAR IS EXPENSIVE??? THATS BULLSHIT EVERYONE TOLD ME IT WAS PROFITABLE
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Apr 10, 2023 01:57
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1645159196437151744
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Apr 10, 2023 02:07
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1645159196437151744 that would also explain how Bakhmut went from looking overwhelmed to still holding on a month later
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Apr 10, 2023 02:08
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Ardennes posted:The front of a Leopard 1 is protective against 57mm rounds and its sides are protective against 30mm...great. My OG 1930s T-34 is gonna own its rear end  in World of Tanks
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Apr 10, 2023 02:08
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CODChimera posted:that would also explain how Bakhmut went from looking overwhelmed to still holding on a month later but IT. WASN'T. STRATEGIC!!!!!!!
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Apr 10, 2023 02:11
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:My OG 1930s T-34 is gonna own its rear end play War Thunder instead, its 1000000x better
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Apr 10, 2023 02:11
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Wait a minute...are you telling me...THAT WAR IS EXPENSIVE??? Depends who you are 
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Apr 10, 2023 02:12
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Endman posted:Depends who you are Yup. It’s a big club and you sure as poo poo ain’t in it.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:13
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Sorry im like, super conflicted cuz I "like" immigrants but gosh yknow what these immigrants have a "colonialist mindset" "violent immigrants bullying locals to speak their language" is literally a Euro Nazi talking point
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Apr 10, 2023 02:13
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Regarde Aduck posted:Boris Johnson even said it would be a 'new Dubai' a completely captured state of low paid white people to let corporations completely run all over with a government completely owned by the west so its a certified stamp of approval that your corporations will never be subject to future regulation. hell just drop their currency and make all economic activity take place in usd there
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Apr 10, 2023 02:14
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CODChimera posted:play War Thunder instead, its 1000000x better I guess I really should... TBH only thing kept me around WoT is how they kept introducing new fantasy Soviet tanks like that loving Red Alert two-barrel nonsense Edit: based on how tier levels work in War Thunder, could a T-34 ever meet a Leopard 1?
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Apr 10, 2023 02:16
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It's profitable but capital intensive so basically outside the purview of slash and burn neoliberalism.
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:I guess I really should... TBH only thing kept me around WoT is how they kept introducing new fantasy Soviet tanks like that loving Red Alert two-barrel nonsense yeah if you make it happen if you make a lineup of Leopard 1 era tanks and just slot a T-34 in there as well you can use it your highest battle rating vehicle is what decides who you're facing. So it'd be you in the T-34 most of the time but you might just come up against someone else who has decided to put a T-34 in their lineup while you're playing Germany. You wouldn't normally face a leopard 1 because you generally only see things 1 +/- your battle rating. So a T-34 with a BR of 3.0 doesn't see anything above 4.0. A leopard 1 is 7.3. But yeah, you can force the issue yourself. Regarde Aduck has issued a correction as of 02:22 on Apr 10, 2023 |
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Apr 10, 2023 02:19
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1645159196437151744 so no counteroffensive this year? the nine brigades were spent in protecting bakhmut?
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Apr 10, 2023 02:20
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:I guess I really should... TBH only thing kept me around WoT is how they kept introducing new fantasy Soviet tanks like that loving Red Alert two-barrel nonsense It's ±1 Battle Rating (BR) from the player's highest slotted vehicle. So if they are within 1 BR then yes, frequently. Otherwise yes, but infrequently because the lower BR vehicle would have to be filler in the player's lineup.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:24
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Frosted Flake posted:I think the idea was to fight battles of manoeuvre while retreating westward, right? Both had very good 105mm guns, so as long as they had planned turret and hull down positions with good sight lines, and masked/covered routes to fall back on, they could make use of their strengths and offset weaknesses. Introducing a piece of equipment universally, that is specifically designed to only perform well in a specific situation decided by peacetime planning, always seems like a bad idea...
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Apr 10, 2023 02:26
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Sure Jan https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1645216147443441665
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Apr 10, 2023 02:29
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russians suffered one gorillion casualties at bakhmut
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Apr 10, 2023 02:30
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bedpan posted:so no counteroffensive this year? the nine brigades were spent in protecting bakhmut? Depends on if that part is real or not. If it is, probably no big counteroffensive. If not, there may be one.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:32
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Very long-shot thought, but did the nuclear threat analysis of the cold war influence non-nuclear military planning? Not in the obvious ways like "giving the enemy uncontested air superiority is death" which the WW2 German front alone would tell you; but how did the way that nuclear weapons were tested and measured influence the testing and measurement of conventional weapon systems? Which is to say: nuclear weapons were only fired in anger twice in human history. All other assessments of the "quality" of a nuclear weapon had to be assessed by a number of abstract variables; yield, launch time, accuracy on a target a thousand miles away that you could obviously never actually try to fire against. How did this method of not just developing computer models for physical effects, but assuming these computer models gave a complete picture of your ability to target your opponent, impact the basic way in which militaries assessed how potential conventional wars would go? Or: did the way in which the insanity by which nuclear war could be reduced to comparative megadeths lead to armies making equally insane assumptions about non-nuclear technologies? I'm a bit drunk so this is probably not that well formulated...
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Apr 10, 2023 02:39
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if the situation was catastrophic in february then how come they're still holding on in bakhmut until now? also the russians lost the entirety of their SMO army in bakhmut alone trust me that totally makes sense dude.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:40
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I'm sorry, but the NYTimes tweeting out that the counter offensive is off based on leaked intel is too stupid to be true. I call shenanigans on this whole thing.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:42
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Frosted Flake posted:I'm putting this down as a reddit thing. Though my second guess is football hooligan clubs, metal bands or other Political groups. My simple idea would be CoD and the "online operator culture" born of that, not even Soldier of Fortune "operator culture" but the literal computer games thing
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Apr 10, 2023 02:48
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:Very long-shot thought, but did the nuclear threat analysis of the cold war influence non-nuclear military planning? lol bush used albeit small and well propagandized nukes in northern Iraq right?
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Apr 10, 2023 02:48
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I can’t keep track of who’s psyoping who anymore is that..is that the psyop all along
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Apr 10, 2023 02:48
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Maximum "comedy" option: the UKR did expend all of their planned offensive units in Bakhmut, but they're still going to attempt one anyway because they have to have some kind of aggressive action to keep the aid money flowing in.
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Apr 10, 2023 02:49
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:lol bush used albeit small and well propagandized nukes in northern Iraq right? No lol, they've only used conventional munitions unless there's some massive conspiracy theory no one told me about
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thought there was a nuclear component to bunker busters
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