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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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As far as the average war booster is concerned, communism lost in the 90's and is proof that communism doesnt work, but also russia is still communist and only does capitalism as a joke
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Jun 13, 2023 18:54
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mawarannahr posted:interesting how the nafo subreddit is like the only one still open Like all the ones focused on the ukraine war. /r/worldnew and /r/ukraine as well. Pretty sure they think they are a valuable part of the Ukrainian fighting force and can't shut down lol
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Jun 13, 2023 18:54
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw Countdown till WSJ says Ukraine attacked the dam and provides pretense for US to leave.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:55
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw that’s how I read it face saving retreat
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Jun 13, 2023 18:57
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Regarde Aduck posted:how did Lenin get roped into this mess? Do they know he's dead? Lenin? More like Lenout.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:57
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I mean it’s probably true Biden told them not to do it (becuase he was already going to do it )
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Jun 13, 2023 18:58
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Regarde Aduck posted:i'm just a dumb civvie but it always seem remarkable both what satellites can see (remember those satellite images of Iran, i think, Trump presented that looks like someone had photographed them from a low flying helicopter) and what they still can't. They're amazingly omniscient until they're not. I guess atmospherics plays a major part? A satellite or drone is the same as a reconnaissance plane/chopper except nobody's life is endangered. Camouflage and misdirection are just as effective as they've always been. Recon photos can't tell you which holes are manned, which mine fields are full, which vehicles are real etc. It's made the cycle of gathering data -> formulating a plan much faster but it's still the same stuff.
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Jun 13, 2023 18:58
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Regarde Aduck posted:i'm just a dumb civvie but it always seem remarkable both what satellites can see (remember those satellite images of Iran, i think, Trump presented that looks like someone had photographed them from a low flying helicopter) and what they still can't. They're amazingly omniscient until they're not. I guess atmospherics plays a major part? they can look anywhere pretty much but they can't look at everything at once + weather + orbit & orbit period are the limiting factors yeah from what I've read about the amount of surveillance satellites up (there's like 20+ keyhole sats across nato countries afaik ) there's enough coverage to watch an area just about non-stop if weather permits, like sub 1-hr gaps in coverage, but watching things like the whole front or a significant portion in detail just isn't really possible without orders of magnitude more stuff in orbit the globalhawk drones can also image a stupid amount of ground in 3d-parallax composite FLIR superhigh detail (they're claimed to be able to photograph roughly the sq mileage of Iceland every 24hr, so maybe more or less but a lot) but they've gotta sit over the black sea & poland so they can't look everywhere they wanna & there's still the limiting factor of how many people can look at the imagery and signal data and all that to and extract useful information from it before it's useless just like with satellites i might be wrong tho about anything/everything here because I've only read about that stuff some & it was a while back
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Jun 13, 2023 19:04
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Raccooon posted:Like all the ones focused on the ukraine war. /r/worldnew and /r/ukraine as well. Interestingly, the warhammer fantasy sub is down but the 40k one is still up
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Jun 13, 2023 19:06
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now that the offensive is looking stalled, its time to unsheathe that sharpened knife
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Jun 13, 2023 19:10
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Futanari Damacy posted:I have always maintained that a smarter leadership interested in the safety of its people would have surrendered, and I don’t think the Russians ever intended to attack Kiev- the crux of the “feint” was wrongly assuming the Ukrainian leadership would have done the reasonable thing to prevent a needless and bloody conflict. Basically it was both smart to pretend to attack and to not actually attack; Z and co. being crazy doesn’t make it a dumb strategy! Idk I think the Russians were expecting a total collapse where then they could dictate terms unconditionally, and if they got high off their success enough who knows what they could have done. Plus I suspect that would have been deeply unpopular with a lot of the Ukrainian populace. My read is Putin basically expected a repeat of Afghanistan but massively guessed wrong on how weak and illegitimate the government was. Now of course Zelensky et al probably should have worked out a cease fire after that, assuming their NATO backers would have let them and the Russians were willing to call it even, but I dont think that trying to resist from the start was entirely crazy
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Jun 13, 2023 19:10
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw 
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Jun 13, 2023 19:11
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Tankbuster posted:did u like the murloc? it was a nice touch. overall decent movie, but happy that I watched it on the second screen while working instead of giving it 100% attention. would watch a followup if there was one. also the russian dub was weirdly inconsistent around usage of formal/informal language.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:12
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Raccooon posted:Like all the ones focused on the ukraine war. /r/worldnew and /r/ukraine as well. It's because all of those big subreddits are totally captured by various agencies and corporations and their only purpose is astroturfing. So of course they aren't shutting down.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:14
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw aren't they setting up another weapons package delivery tho? surely they'll stick it out until at least the election...
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Jun 13, 2023 19:17
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/04/daniel-ellsberg-final-advice-00099639 Someone interviewed Ellsberg about his career.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:19
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw Declares Ukraine blew up the pipeline -> triggers Article 5 -> Southwestern Poland is at last restored.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:28
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tazjin posted:it was a nice touch. with the benefit of hindsight, warcraft was born to be a netflix show.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:28
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Lostconfused posted:Satellites generate a lot of data, but someone still needs to interpret it and find anything useful in it. Those are balls.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:31
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw lmao the US is throwing them under the bus and dusting their hands off sorry ukraine, taiwan is more important now
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Jun 13, 2023 19:37
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw Russian news is reporting that Western outlets are reporting that "Zaluzhny was personally responsible" for the Nordstream attack. Since he seems to actually be out of the picture, they might try to do a setup where this already (brain?)dead guy becomes the fall guy.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:38
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Seyser Koze posted:Interestingly, the warhammer fantasy sub is down but the 40k one is still up The emperor shall keep the APIs open
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Jun 13, 2023 19:39
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i would like to think that by personally responsible they mean that zaluzhny literally dived down there and bombed the pipeline himself, and forgot his boot
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Jun 13, 2023 19:40
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Thoguh posted:https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1668676547585224704?s=46&t=vNKUIzc4nvqsPFaYLiXegw
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Jun 13, 2023 19:42
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yellowcar posted:lmao the US is throwing them under the bus and dusting their hands off Oh thank god, my condolences to everyone from China or with relatives living there.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:42
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this picture is like 2 years old, right
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Jun 13, 2023 19:46
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Nix Panicus posted:An Explosion on This Wonderful Leopard! lmfao Crimson Demons-rear end war
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Jun 13, 2023 19:49
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lmao
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Jun 13, 2023 19:50
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Enjoy posted:this picture is like 2 years old, right yea but it’s still pretty funny
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Jun 13, 2023 19:50
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tazjin posted:Russian news is reporting that Western outlets are reporting that "Zaluzhny was personally responsible" for the Nordstream attack. Since he seems to actually be out of the picture, they might try to do a setup where this already (brain?)dead guy becomes the fall guy. depending on his actual status this sounds very plausible unfortunately it also means it'll be neatly dealt with and the war can continue
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Jun 13, 2023 19:51
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CongoJack posted:yea but it’s still pretty funny just gives me strong  vibes at this point
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Jun 13, 2023 19:52
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1stGear posted:Scratch a liberal and you'll probably find an extremely cool guy with cool opinions underneath. She's a published author who writes steampunk stories about a fantasy Ukrainian kingdom. Literally on the same level as the guys who write Russian military sci fi about a paratrooper going back in time to save Tsar Nicholas. 
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Jun 13, 2023 19:54
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dad just went out for a pack of smokes, he'll be back any minute
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curious how imgur doesn't load if I'm connected to a VPN in Sweden, but does load if I'm just using my normal home connection. normally western sites block russia, not other western countries  Regarde Aduck posted:depending on his actual status this sounds very plausible if they finally announce his status in the next few days, we'll probably know that that's what they're going for
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Jun 13, 2023 19:56
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Regarde Aduck posted:well i always wondered in western propaganda was just for the plebs but this was answered it, turns out propaganda remains dangerous to the propagandizer if their own society has been allowed to become educationally deficient and feckless This is exactly what happened to the Nazis. The Gestapo was so heavily politicized, for instance, that they preferred promoting guys who believed in race theory.
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Jun 13, 2023 19:57
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Raskolnikov38 posted:from what I recall it did poorly everywhere outside of China where it did gigantic numbers for some reason the reason is because china is racist
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Jun 13, 2023 19:59
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John Charity Spring posted:The Last Ringbearer, which is a Russian book (tellingly!!) so what youre saying is that its kind of like harry potter and the methods of rationality
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Jun 13, 2023 20:01
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Horizon Burning posted:and is now doing a gran turismo film did those games have plots i thought they were just fancy car sims Horizon Burning posted:i think blomkamp was also dogged by racism complaints in d9 and chappie, too. not gonna lie the bit where the black gangsters talk about eating the main character to acquire his powers definitely had me going uhhh
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Jun 13, 2023 20:09
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Enjoy posted:this picture is like 2 years old, right I've been posting it for at least a year and have no idea where it came from originally Some Guy TT posted:did those games have plots i thought they were just fancy car sims It'll be the tragic story of how the first two entries were the best racing games ever to that point and then a long slow decline to the present day 4 and 5 were also pretty sick I guess but by that point there was more competition
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Raskolnikov38 posted:from what I recall it did poorly everywhere outside of China where it did gigantic numbers for some reason lots of chinese gamers were introduced to western fantasy via warcraft 3. It was the same for much of the third world. Pre diablo 3 blizzard had the best bang for buck entertainment value from their games.
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