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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Randarkman posted:

Zelensky, the corrupt and spineless comedian, was supposed to flee Kyiv as Russian arms made their glorious entry and the whole edifice of Ukrainian statehood came crashing down and exposed Western weakness and perfidity. That was the script.

Oh, that makes sense, most people hate improv comics.

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Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
That's not true people love improv comics. Colin Mockery, Ryan Stiles, and the list goes all.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

how could you leave out Wayne Brady

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
Even Wayne Brady left out Wayne Brady

Tiny Timbs
Sep 6, 2008

Funky See Funky Do posted:

That's not true people love improv comics. Colin Mockery, Ryan Stiles, and the list goes all.

the list doesn't actually go on

the popes toes
Oct 10, 2004

Petitioning to turn Global South into Your Mother's Bum for lurkers who are not logged in.

tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

PICK UP THAT PRESENT.


Zelensky's Zealots

beer_war posted:

That's copium.

:eng101: actually it's hopium

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

thekeeshman posted:

"The Global South" doesn't exist as a unified political, economic, military, or diplomatic bloc. It's entirely a creation of NGO speak when they want to talk about most of the world's poor countries in a single phrase, just as the "BRICS" coinage just came from some Goldman puke and doesn't represent any kind of unified entity in any way.

Further a high proportion of non BRICS ~global south~ countries are cheap military dictatorships (sometimes even officially) and so the world's poor don't get an opinion at all, because the entire nation exists as cattle to protect one guy from coups and provide him a golden toilet.

Coquito Ergo Sum
Feb 9, 2021

The world was denied Fourth International Posadism.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006

Mr Teatime posted:

Why is nobody talking about the true perfidious devils, the global centre?

leave the belgians out of this

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Tankies: give up and pls end the war, what do you mean you would rather stand and fight against the powerful Russian Bear
also tankies: pls dont send weapons for free you are profiting off of global conflict and damaging the multipolar world order!!!!!!!! :dumb:

https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1660450361096785920
Russia waited one day and decided to have another monke rage moment. This time they aimed all their missiles and drones at Dnipropetrovsk instead to give their audience something to crow about. No operational information on what happened exactly.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006
hey wasn't the Su-35 supposed to be some kind of badass plane? anyways ukraine blasted one out of the sky today over the black sea

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


Maybe, it's unclear

https://news.yahoo.com/ukrainian-forces-down-russian-su-212338064.html

StoryTime
Feb 26, 2010

Now listen to me children and I'll tell you of the legend of the Ninja
I did a global south in the shitter and had to burn a match to get rid of the stank,

the popes toes
Oct 10, 2004

HonorableTB posted:

hey wasn't the Su-35 supposed to be some kind of badass plane? anyways ukraine blasted one out of the sky today over the black sea

Very badass. And if jet fuel is unavailable, it runs on beans. Soviet legacy engineering. One got shot down? Huh.

HonorableTB
Dec 22, 2006
Wouldn't surprise me if one of the Patriots got it, with how many planes have been getting shot down lately like the last four in Bryansk. Though the announcement did get deleted, so its possible it wasn't shot down

zone
Dec 6, 2016

HonorableTB posted:

Wouldn't surprise me if one of the Patriots got it, with how many planes have been getting shot down lately like the last four in Bryansk. Though the announcement did get deleted, so its possible it wasn't shot down

Some Russian telegram channels seem to have reported on it and those are still up. Anyway we'll see.

https://twitter.com/TreasChest/status/1660467638839959555
Very symbolic.

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
why hasn't zelensky met with Mozambique president Filipe Nyusi

this is concerning

plz stop killing my wagners war = bad

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1660510402021654529
This is totally a very good sign of a very stable army when you cut even the minimal training the mobiks get by half.

Oldsmobile
Jun 13, 2006

Funky See Funky Do posted:

That's not true people love improv comics. Colin Mockery, Ryan Stiles, and the list goes all.

Once watched improv where the comedian was told by the audience, for a skit, that his job was "coprophiliac". He did a really good job of it too and the audience was in stitches. Once he'd finished, he asked "what's a coprophiliac?". True professionalism right there.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1660510402021654529
This is totally a very good sign of a very stable army when you cut even the minimal training the mobiks get by half.

It really does seem like they've run out of conscripts now and haven't gone through the steps to aquire more.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
bRASIL

poor waif
Apr 8, 2007
Kaboom

Alan Smithee posted:

why hasn't zelensky met with Mozambique president Filipe Nyusi

this is concerning

plz stop killing my wagners war = bad

the leader of Pitcairn Island has been trying to get a word in for MONTHS but nothing from zelensky.. and yet he claims to not be a nazi.. makes you think

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1660402339604312064
Technological regression in full swing.

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1660537145499459584
loving bastards. I don't think anything looks salvageable.

zone fucked around with this message at 08:04 on May 22, 2023

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
t-34 chassis

so they can ram the leopards

Computer viking
May 30, 2011
Now with less breakage.

Storkrasch posted:

I think it's kind of messy even then. A big chunk of the Russian east still suffers from colonialism, but it's not the global south. Argentina has problems, but I'm not sure colonialism is the cause. China is solidly in the North, and is happy to colonise others, both presently and historically, but is a member of the global south. Ethiopia was never properly colonised. The term combines loads of countries that don't have much of anything in common.

If it's a matter of development, Brazil and Ukraine are basically equally developed, so it doesn't make any sense that Brazil should represent the global south any more than Ukraine does. I'd wager that the reason Brazil can call itself the global south has more to do with old first/second/third world categorisations from the cold war.

That clunky choice of wording was deliberate - Ethiopia suffers from having been opposed to the colonising powers even if they were never a colony, eastern Russia is not a country (yet :ninja:), and I'm not sure if China should be in the group in the first place, but they were certainly on the receiving end for a while.

Some of what we are dancing around is a vague "culture" thing, it would be about as useful to say "countries that did not compose western style classical music or eat sushi in the 1700s" or some other arbitrary way to say "places that feel more foreign than Eastern europe" while including Japan.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


zone posted:

Technological regression in full swing.

The bathysphere, charabanc and dirigible manufacturing sectors are going to be a hotbed next fiscal. Big market gains to be made once internal combustion goes back to topping out at a twenty horsepower average and using fuel:oil ratio mixtures when filling your tank.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1660296610088189954
This is.... really bleak watching. We know that these appeals basically only ever make it worse in the majority of the cases for those who appeal, but can you blame them for trying?

poor waif
Apr 8, 2007
Kaboom

Computer viking posted:

That clunky choice of wording was deliberate - Ethiopia suffers from having been opposed to the colonising powers even if they were never a colony, eastern Russia is not a country (yet :ninja:), and I'm not sure if China should be in the group in the first place, but they were certainly on the receiving end for a while.

Some of what we are dancing around is a vague "culture" thing, it would be about as useful to say "countries that did not compose western style classical music or eat sushi in the 1700s" or some other arbitrary way to say "places that feel more foreign than Eastern europe" while including Japan.

I don't think the grouping is very useful at that point. If it just means "countries that resent certain former colonial states but not others", what possible policy can be made targeting them?

Brazil is arguably a winner of colonialism in much the same way as the US is, so what gives them the right to speak for Zimbabwe or Vietnam?

It just seems like a way for people to speak in vague terms in order to sound like they're making a more profound statement than they are. Zelensky isn't snubbing an out of touch Brazilian president, he's snubbing the entire GLOBAL SOUTH and they are all very upset with him!

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1660296610088189954
This is.... really bleak watching. We know that these appeals basically only ever make it worse in the majority of the cases for those who appeal, but can you blame them for trying?

Good luck, Putin is the one that sent them there.

spankmeister
Jun 15, 2008






Computer viking posted:

That clunky choice of wording was deliberate - Ethiopia suffers from having been opposed to the colonising powers even if they were never a colony, eastern Russia is not a country (yet :ninja:), and I'm not sure if China should be in the group in the first place, but they were certainly on the receiving end for a while.

Some of what we are dancing around is a vague "culture" thing, it would be about as useful to say "countries that did not compose western style classical music or eat sushi in the 1700s" or some other arbitrary way to say "places that feel more foreign than Eastern europe" while including Japan.

It's funny because when you make a map it looks like this:



Mmmhm seems reasonable... :hmmyes: Wait Australia is in the North? And North Korea is in the Global South, but South Korea in the Global North?

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1660296610088189954
This is.... really bleak watching. We know that these appeals basically only ever make it worse in the majority of the cases for those who appeal, but can you blame them for trying?

Translator's note: Veterany means veterans

Shaman Tank Spec
Dec 26, 2003

*blep*




You fire that thing and it will immediately do a cartwheel backwards.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

spankmeister posted:

It's funny because when you make a map it looks like this:



Mmmhm seems reasonable... :hmmyes: Wait Australia is in the North? And North Korea is in the Global South, but South Korea in the Global North?

New Zealand in the global phantom zone

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1660555919732748290?s=20

Tree Bucket posted:

New Zealand in the global phantom zone

what does Middle Earth know of the affairs of the Global North and South?

ili
Jul 26, 2003


Someone's going to get terribly upset about Taiwan not only being its own country, but not even being in the same hemisphere as Beijing.

E: also lol nobody ever cares about New Zealand or Tasmania.

zone
Dec 6, 2016

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1660555919732748290?s=20

what does Middle Earth know of the affairs of the Global North and South?

Unusual that this slimeball talks about all this happening when this is already the default state of affairs in Russia.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Russia trying to make their own entry in the turret-throwing event.

tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

PICK UP THAT PRESENT.


Zelensky's Zealots

women will stop giving you money?
:confused:

is this some thoreau business

zone
Dec 6, 2016

tiaz posted:

women will stop giving you money?
:confused:

is this some thoreau business

https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1660559706081878016
seems like we both got our answer

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tiaz
Jul 1, 2004

PICK UP THAT PRESENT.


Zelensky's Zealots

ah cool, so it's worse than thoreau business :smith:

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