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Telsa Cola posted:Rome was pretty not okay with the whole Christianity thing at first so the whole it was a roman goverment conspiracy is pretty insane. I mean, the Romans did eventually take control of the whole thing, but that was more opportunism after Christianity had grown to be very popular.
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# ? May 25, 2023 02:51 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 13:28 |
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Ukraine is now within spitting distance of the t0513 highway they have also liberated Yahidne and are actively sieging berkhivka. Been somewhat harder to follow esp with OSINT being more focused on Belgorod (quite resonably) - is there a map showing the curent situation?
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# ? May 25, 2023 02:57 |
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I encourage the thread to research into Active Measures at least to the Wikipedia level. It will do a lot towards helping pick out Russian disinformation tactics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures?wprov=sfla1
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:06 |
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XYZAB posted:that's the power of JESUS I have that “Jesus was a Fabian psyop” book around here somewhere. It’s sorta entertaining, but it’s poo poo scholarship
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:10 |
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Sashimi posted:The biolabs line of bullshit goes back at least as far the 80s, when the Soviet Union tried to spread disinfo about HIV coming out of a lab. I had a hippie professor in college who believed the HIV is a myth thing. I gently questioned him on it and he gave me a D- lol.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:14 |
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Sashimi posted:The biolabs line of bullshit goes back at least as far the 80s, when the Soviet Union tried to spread disinfo about HIV coming out of a lab. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/27/south-african-intelligence-officers-spread-aids-black-communities quote:it also claims the group’s then leader had a racist, apocalyptic obsession with HIV/Aids. Keith Maxwell wrote about a plague he hoped would decimate black populations, cement white rule, and bring back conservative religious mores, according to papers collected by the film-makers.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:19 |
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Interesting if true. Take with grain of salt https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1661474151587016705?s=20 Arms supplies to Ukraine have increased in speed by 30% https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/05/arms-ukraine-flow-30-faster-us-relearns-cold-war-skills/386704/ Interesting bit in there about USA sending 2 million artillery shells as part of the latest tranche of aid HonorableTB fucked around with this message at 03:35 on May 25, 2023 |
# ? May 25, 2023 03:27 |
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Telsa Cola posted:Rome was pretty not okay with the whole Christianity thing at first so the whole it was a roman goverment conspiracy is pretty insane. I will see you and raise you internet atheists that become internet super religious crazy people. Many such cases! Imagine the sort of person who has a late life awakening and conversion due to Paradox map making games and wishes they could inflict a "Expel the Jews" decision on people in real life. This is the sort of person that turns into an online supporter of the russian government in its struggle against 'modernity'.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:30 |
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pop quiz for the thread: did you know that the united states did invade russia once with ground troops
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:33 |
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HonorableTB posted:pop quiz for the thread: did you know that the united states did invade russia once with ground troops Remember Archangelsk. Also remember the Brits using the Americans as cannon fodder in that lovely lovely little conflict. What was funny was the US was insanely close to getting units WIPED OUT 100% dead by the red army by the end of that campaign.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:34 |
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Wasn't it a Minnasotan unit they dropped into Siberia or something?
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:34 |
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did Salvia Eric start a ukraine live stream show?
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:35 |
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Ronwayne posted:Wasn't it a Minnasotan unit they dropped into Siberia or something? to be fair i would expect minnesotans to deal well with siberian climates
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:35 |
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The whole "wow ur fedora atheist cringe" thing hasn't really had any sway online since like 2013 and now we see poo poo like what is going on in Florida and Georgia with evangelicals mixing their religion into state politics and trying to interdict in funding to Ukraine, among a fuckton of other poo poo like Roe v Wade and LGBTQ harassment and suppression. The atheists were right the whole time and I would bet you just about anything that the strongest opponents of funding Ukraine and NATO are people who would call themselves highly religious
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:36 |
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The head of occupied Crimea said that the Crimean bridge was closed for exercises. Residents see smoke over the bridge.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:38 |
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HonorableTB posted:to be fair i would expect minnesotans to deal well with siberian climates You'd think so but Russian winter wrecked even the Swedes when they tried it under Charles XII. Climate change turning general winter into private mud is going to have some interesting repercussions in the future.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:39 |
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XYZAB posted:that's the power of JESUS I love the transition from "People that believe in Jesus are so loving stupid" immediately into the stupidest loving conspiracy theory nonsense. People are people, and I am endlessly entertained by that fact.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:40 |
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HonorableTB posted:The head of occupied Crimea said that the Crimean bridge was closed for exercises. Residents see smoke over the bridge. This is Russian propaganda. They send units to smoke up the bridge. It's fake at this point. "Exercises" or some bullshit. Legitimately. Until we have full confirmation
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:40 |
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Im sure smoke on a bridge is a good thing
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:40 |
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Toxic Mental posted:The whole "wow ur fedora atheist cringe" thing hasn't really had any sway online since like 2013 and now we see poo poo like what is going on in Florida and Georgia with evangelicals mixing their religion into state politics and trying to interdict in funding to Ukraine, among a fuckton of other poo poo like Roe v Wade and LGBTQ harassment and suppression. Reminder that Southern Evangelicals ≠ Christians.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:41 |
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HonorableTB posted:The head of occupied Crimea said that the Crimean bridge was closed for exercises. Residents see smoke over the bridge. To be fair, he never said whose exercises.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:41 |
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New ISW dropped on the Kremlin's Pyrrhic victory in Bakhmut as a retrospective. I won't paste the whole thing but it's a good read and worth your time: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/kremlin%E2%80%99s-pyrrhic-victory-bakhmut-retrospective-battle-bakhmut This is a great explainer for what happened with Bakhmut as it developed over time ISW posted:Russia declared victory in Bakhmut on May 21, 2023, after fighting for the city for nearly a year.[1] The battle marks the first claimed Russian victory over a large city since the capture of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in the summer of 2022. The Battle for Bakhmut is still ongoing as Ukrainian forces regained the initiative and are counterattacking Bakhmut’s flanks north and south of the city. The Russian year-long drive began as part of a theoretically sensible but overly-ambitious operational effort but ended as a purely symbolic gesture that cost tens of thousands of Russian casualties.
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:43 |
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Deteriorata posted:Reminder that Southern Evangelicals ≠ Christians. Tell that to them
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:44 |
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There we go. This is roughly the map at this point. Light blue is areas of real infantry manuevers. WAR CRIME GIGOLO fucked around with this message at 04:27 on May 25, 2023 |
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Deteriorata posted:Reminder that Southern Evangelicals ≠ Christians. coulda fooled me!
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# ? May 25, 2023 03:57 |
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Pekinduck posted:coulda fooled me! It's an error of generalization. Southern Evangelicals are a particular sect of Christians. The vast majority of Christians are not Southern Evangelicals. It's like claiming that all automobiles are Fords.
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# ? May 25, 2023 04:16 |
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HonorableTB posted:New ISW dropped on the Kremlin's Pyrrhic victory in Bakhmut as a retrospective. I won't paste the whole thing but it's a good read and worth your time: I meant to post this earlier but it got stuck in the drafts Good read
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# ? May 25, 2023 04:28 |
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Deteriorata posted:It's an error of generalization. Southern Evangelicals are a particular sect of Christians. The vast majority of Christians are not Southern Evangelicals. Fords aren't the only automobile manufacturer who preaches pro life and hates gays and minorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman obv
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# ? May 25, 2023 04:40 |
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How long does Putin stay up past his bedtime wondering if his luck finally ran out and he knows there is a non-zero percent chance someone tries pushing him out a window over the war
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# ? May 25, 2023 04:52 |
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:
Fixed ur img link
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# ? May 25, 2023 04:58 |
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EorayMel posted:How long does Putin stay up past his bedtime wondering if his luck finally ran out and he knows there is a non-zero percent chance someone tries pushing him out a window over the war It's like his primary driving force.
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:03 |
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EorayMel posted:How long does Putin stay up past his bedtime wondering if his luck finally ran out and he knows there is a non-zero percent chance someone tries pushing him out a window over the war I've always wondered what its like to be Putin, one of Stalin's toadies or similar. Any instant everything could turn on you. Perhaps the power is worth it for those types?
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:04 |
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Pekinduck posted:I had a hippie professor in college who believed the HIV is a myth thing. I gently questioned him on it and he gave me a D- lol. It is both tragic and hilarious that most of the AIDS denialists died of AIDS.
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:05 |
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sebmojo posted:Fixed ur img link If you did the edit before my edit it was super tiny so I ran the original link and then timg'd it
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:08 |
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Lammasu posted:It is both tragic and hilarious that most of the AIDS denialists died of AIDS. I don't view that as either tragic or hilarious so much as I view it as "well, what the gently caress did anyone expect?"
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:13 |
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Jimlit posted:It's like his primary driving force. No, putin believes in Russian greatness. Specifically, in grinding Russian greatness into a thin, gritty paste so that no one can threaten him with it.
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:13 |
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Deteriorata posted:It's like claiming that all automobiles are Fords. someone should remove all the endorsements of bigotry, misogyny, child abuse, domestic abuse, capital punishment, slavery, patriarchy, etc. from the bible once and for all if they don't want to be associated with it
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:39 |
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Pekinduck posted:I've always wondered what its like to be Putin, one of Stalin's toadies or similar. Any instant everything could turn on you. Perhaps the power is worth it for those types? I believe that people like Putin, Stalin, etc, are really very psychologically abnormal and don’t prioritize things the same way that most people do. Basically they’re the type of people who should least have power, but who are the most obsessed with getting it. It’s also why I think that in pre-modern times hereditary monarchy wasn’t that bad of a system. Yeah, it meant the ruler is just some guy who won the birth lottery, but a lot of times if there’s only going to be one leader, then just some guy with an ordinary personality who’s been groomed to rule is a significant improvement as leader over the type of person who’s motivated to connive their way to the top and seize dictatorial power themselves. Sucrose fucked around with this message at 06:04 on May 25, 2023 |
# ? May 25, 2023 05:49 |
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HonorableTB posted:The head of occupied Crimea said that the Crimean bridge was closed for exercises. Residents see smoke over the bridge. I love it when a band breaks into "Smoke on the Water"
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:51 |
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Isn't smoking a bridge typically used to hide unit movements and/or obscure the bridge against attacks? Though why they're just smoking a tiny part of it would be the question...testing?
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# ? May 25, 2023 05:53 |