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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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Russia is still playing at being a liberal democracy and mimic the west. Yeah they have laws on the books that can used against someone if they want to, but things aren't even nearly as bad as protesters getting black bagged during the height of 2020 protests in USA. While in Ukraine people regularly get a court trial behind closed doors and jail time for posting.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:12
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however i don't blame any of you from being unable to do anything about it tho
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Jun 22, 2023 03:13
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tristeham posted:read settlers bitch
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Jun 22, 2023 03:15
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yellowcar posted:however i don't blame any of you from being unable to do anything about it tho i will absolve anyone in itt for only 99.95, limited time offer
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Jun 22, 2023 03:16
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you keep saying "be gay, do crimes" well time to live up to the second part
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Jun 22, 2023 03:16
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Unlimited genocide on the first world? But I live in the first world...
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Jun 22, 2023 03:17
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Brain Candy posted:it's not about guilt, it's about causation. there's millions of people who benefit from empire who cheer for empire i love the dual reaction to pener being like 'nuh uh individual choise matterin... thats liberalism' and also 'i am giving everybody (read:myself) clemency', prompted by the claim that americans looooove amazon and don't want it to go away lol.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:19
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The US home ownership rate is still something like 66%. Maybe most of those aren't lavish villas, but Americans are a uniquely propertied population and the possession of that wealth no matter how relatively minor it may seem induces Americans into adopting the same interests as the petit bourgeois. How often are we going to keep going through political cycles where Friedrich Ebert faces off against Mussolini before we admit that Americans in a broad sense are ur-fascist slime? The US isn't even in the top 20 countries by home ownership rate. That's worse rate than most of the EU. Russia and China both have a higher home ownership rate.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:19
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I'm gonna vote Less Imperialism so dang hard next time
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Jun 22, 2023 03:19
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:The US isn't even in the top 20 countries by home ownership rate. That's worse rate than most of the EU. Russia and China both have a higher home ownership rate. Yes, and homeowners are the ones who vote. Being propertied has a material impact on their personal interest which makes them reflexively liberal and status-quo seeking, unless the change to the status quo is a lower property tax.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:23
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if u live in the first world, you have already sinned no amount self-actualization or critical awareness will wash that away
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Jun 22, 2023 03:23
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If American citizens are culpable for the crimes of the empire, does that mean every American has a duty to fight for hearts and minds of their country men to spiritually shift the course of the war? Have GBS and D&D been right all along? Is SomethingAwful really a front in the posting war for Ukraine? I am posting for freedom!
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Jun 22, 2023 03:23
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yellowcar posted:you keep saying "be gay, do crimes" What if you live somewhere simply being gay is a crime?
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Jun 22, 2023 03:24
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Nix Panicus posted:If American citizens are culpable for the crimes of the empire, does that mean every American has a duty to fight for hearts and minds of their country men to spiritually shift the course of the war? 
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Jun 22, 2023 03:25
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Fell Mood posted:What if you live somewhere simply being gay is a crime? Good job, very efficient. Work smarter not harder
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Jun 22, 2023 03:25
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Nix Panicus posted:If American citizens are culpable for the crimes of the empire, does that mean every American has a duty to fight for hearts and minds of their country men to spiritually shift the course of the war? no not at all the point is "every american is guilty" and that's that whether you should/could/would do anything about it is moot
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Jun 22, 2023 03:26
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Jun 22, 2023 03:27
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Bad news for Russia - Ukraine has many choices ahead of it, and a significant surplus of resources to pounce on opportunities. Ukraine’s counteroffensive has been brutal and slow. But Kyiv has many cards left to play Analysis by Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Updated 8:50 AM EDT, Wed June 21, 2023 ... For months, we have seen a patient bid by Ukraine to erode the readiness of Russian defenses. The slow drip of explosions at fuel depots, headquarters and on railway lines has been about weakening Russia’s ability to withstand and adapt to the first major assaults. This painstaking work continues, with a reported blast Sunday in the occupied village of Rykove, in the Kherson region, that leveled an apparent ammunition dump. Open-source analysts have noted the huge blast pattern suggests significant secondary explosions. The attack is also, they noted, more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) inside enemy territory, suggesting either an acute lack of awareness among Russian ranks of the new dangers they face from longer-range NATO-supplied missiles, or an inability to adapt and alter their presence accordingly. Rykove sits close to Crimea, in an area whose railway supply lines are already probably impaired by recent surgical Ukrainian attacks. No single strike is terminal, but a slow accumulation of damage reduces Russian options and can, eventually, lead to cracks in their forces’ defensive network, or their basic ability to function. As Russia has moved to respond to Ukraine’s advances in recent weeks, it will have given away key signals about its readiness, supply issues and priorities. Western satellites are likely providing clear information about Moscow’s recalibrations to Kyiv. ... Few analysts contend he can stomach the latter, and so we may face a long siege of the peninsula over the winter months, as Kyiv returns Moscow to the boundaries it stole in 2014-15, or worse. It is arguably a symbolic defeat for Moscow (and a definable victory for Kyiv) to see Russia’s past 16 months of carnage and losses end in no strategic gain. The question for July is how this is achieved. ... Yet there is reason for optimism in Ukraine’s capital. Last summer, silence and gridlock eventually turned into a Russian collapse around Kharkiv. The withdrawal from Kherson showed too that Moscow was still then able to recognize realities and react to them. Putin’s top brass will have learned from last year’s defeats, and he likely will be enormously emotional about the fate of Crimea. But, as the world has seen in graphic detail, the Russian military’s failings are abundant and losses horrific – and any steep tactical learning curve will not have been matched by a similar improvement in training and equipment. Russia has one option, to endure and hope this winter cements the survival of its current occupation. Ukraine has many choices ahead of it, and a significant surplus of resources to pounce on opportunities, even as the clock is now loudly ticking.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:27
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Fell Mood posted:What if you live somewhere simply being gay is a crime? well do more crime what's stopping you
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Jun 22, 2023 03:28
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istg americans are the most cuck mindset people in the world lol
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Jun 22, 2023 03:29
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how is ukriane going to siege crimea with no navy
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Jun 22, 2023 03:29
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Ardennes posted:A lot of it was emotional rather than logical, the American elite, particularly boomers had grown up being taught that not only the Soviets/Communists were the real threat that must be destroyed, but Russia as a concept. This is something the Russians never really got, they thought they problem was just political, it wasn't. Putin and other Russian liberals hated communism as much as American liberals "lets just be friends etc etc" but a fundamental part of liberalism is indoctrinated racial hatred (and it is), and that just wouldn't go away. I'm pretty convinced by the argument, made by Brian Becker, that the basic driver of the antagonism was that, were Russia allowed into the European club, America's junior partners on the continent would no longer be junior, that a German or Franco-German bloc with Russia would have been the natural development, and the US would have no way to keep them subordinated.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:30
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yellowcar posted:istg americans are the most cuck mindset people in the world lol we love rich and powerful people BECAUSE they're rich and powerful. We're absolute freaks.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:30
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BadOptics posted:Lol that the rest of the forum thinks CSPAM is a hotbed of TANKIE Marxist-Leninists and you have people in this thread talking electoralism and the culpability of the electorate as if capitalist "democracy" isn't a sham that benefits the dictatorship of the capitalists/bourgeoisie classes. Scratch an ultra, and a suburban radlib bleeds, you know.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:31
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it's very funny to post in a thread with an incredible capacity for understanding the nuance of material and political conditions that actually led to a criminal invasion by a neoliberal state taking place, without that being a condemnation of the Russian soul as liberals believe yet the average American is in control of the actions of the very same machine that set the stage for said criminal invasion, and not just a different population that has been subjected to decades of hard work to systemically crush any resistance to its desires
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Jun 22, 2023 03:31
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I don't eat the pedophile ice cream. What more do you want? fizzy posted:Bad news for Russia - Ukraine has many choices ahead of it, and a significant surplus of resources to pounce on opportunities. God drat how many people are dedicated to generating this content.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:32
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i shoplifted a breakfast taco today
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Jun 22, 2023 03:32
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The337th posted:it's very funny to post in a thread with an incredible capacity for understanding the nuance of material and political conditions that actually led to a criminal invasion by a neoliberal state taking place, without that being a condemnation of the Russian soul as liberals believe americans suck rear end and should stop existing
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Jun 22, 2023 03:33
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While I guess you can argue that many/most American are personally less "moral" by virtue of being okay with US imperialism, that just seems like a different flavor of the typical liberal focus on individuals being guilty of racism/sexism. Like it's technically true, but it's not particularly relevant. Hell, if anything the liberals are *more* correct here. They can at least argue that individuals being racist/sexist has an actual tangible negative impact on other people, but some random American just passively absorbing propaganda about our military or foreign countries and approving of it has literally zero impact on anything. All you're doing is meaninglessly assigning some sort of moral status based off a person's opinions.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:34
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yellowcar posted:americans suck rear end and should stop existing if only the ugly Americans weren't tainting the goodness of the other virtuous westerners
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Jun 22, 2023 03:36
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The337th posted:if only the ugly Americans weren't tainting the goodness of the other virtuous westerners they suck too
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Jun 22, 2023 03:37
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if anything it's immigrants who are most imperialist because they chose to come here
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Jun 22, 2023 03:37
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euphronius posted:how is ukriane going to siege crimea with no navy i think the idea is that once the Russian soldiers start retreating they just keep going all the way back through Crimea until they eventually fall into the Black Sea Ukraine is having a little bit of trouble getting that first part going right at this moment though...
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Jun 22, 2023 03:37
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yellowcar posted:america suck rear end and should stop existing revising two letters is all it takes to make this a coherent statement
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Jun 22, 2023 03:38
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Ytlaya posted:While I guess you can argue that many/most American are personally less "moral" by virtue of being okay with US imperialism, that just seems like a different flavor of the typical liberal focus on individuals being guilty of racism/sexism. Like it's technically true, but it's not particularly relevant. At the end of the day, they're still voting for Hitler.
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Jun 22, 2023 03:39
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Ytlaya posted:All you're doing is meaninglessly assigning some sort of moral status based off a person's opinions. Isn't this literally liberalism
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Jun 22, 2023 03:39
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i don’t think I would call 12 yo Guatemalans working under the table in suburban restaurants imperialists
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Jun 22, 2023 03:39
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guilty for all the trappings of a first world imperial subject not guilty for being unable to do anything about it there are your feelings unhurt now
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Jun 22, 2023 03:39
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euphronius posted:i don’t think I would call 12 yo Guatemalans working under the table in suburban restaurants imperialists yet they participate in the imperial core. curious!
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Jun 22, 2023 03:40
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:At the end of the day, they're still voting for Hitler. voting, lol
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