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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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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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Everyone who isn't CIA raise your hands.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:15
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lol that traffic jam doesn't even have visible traffic at the start of it.OhFunny posted:The Chechens also spearheaded the drive into Severodonetsk and Lysychansk. Overall from the limited information we have they seem like some of the most effective fighters of the SMO.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:16
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Free fizzy
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Jun 26, 2023 02:18
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Ardennes posted:I don't even think it is subterfuge, it was just a weird, ridiculous stunt. But, it really seems like the West bought it line and sinker. This is literally conspiracy-brained.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:19
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Vernii posted:Oh cool the thread is starting to get Qpilled. Nothing can ever just be dumb and insane, everyone is always a rational actor operating on perfect information and anything that goes against this must by an op by "them". It must be awesome to have a brain so smooth you reflexively scoff at ideas like "it's so weird it looks like it could have been coordinated." I wish i could live in such a world of wonders again
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Jun 26, 2023 02:20
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Vernii posted:This is literally conspiracy-brained. Hey man, this is cspam, it ain't D&D. But yeah it is very clear the Chechens were just sitting there, and if the Chechens were also in on it, it means everyone with any real power was in it as well. It doesn't mean there wasn't some accident or friendly fire incident or whatever, but nothing from the videos suggests there was anyone the least bit concerned. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 02:24 on Jun 26, 2023 |
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Jun 26, 2023 02:21
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I haven't seen anyone show evidence that a dumb person could pull of a military rebellion as badly as prigozhin did 
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Jun 26, 2023 02:23
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Vernii posted:This is literally conspiracy-brained. 
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Jun 26, 2023 02:24
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Cut through the tangle of conjecture with one question: cui bono? And you have one answer: Lukashenko. platzapS has issued a correction as of 02:29 on Jun 26, 2023 |
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Jun 26, 2023 02:24
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:It must be awesome to have a brain so smooth you reflexively scoff at ideas like "it's so weird it looks like it could have been coordinated." I wish i could live in such a world of wonders again None of that looked coordinated. It looked like an insane pileup of bad decisions that got defused at the last minute.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:26
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Vernii posted:None of that looked coordinated. It looked like an insane pileup of bad decisions that got defused at the last minute. Thanks for the definitive report, pseudonymous forums user Vernii
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Jun 26, 2023 02:26
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putin and jefferey of yospos organized this event to re-energize the Forums, and it was successful given the excellent engagement over the weekend
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Jun 26, 2023 02:27
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Vernii posted:The perfidious Russians are clearly masters of subterfuge Unironically
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Jun 26, 2023 02:28
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CODChimera posted:how do you even arrive at the logic that well wagner did it so ukraine can too? https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1672937229478424577
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Jun 26, 2023 02:28
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Mods??????
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Jun 26, 2023 02:29
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conspiracy theories are just a rhetorical device, it's not really important if they're true or not it's about beating your enemies
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Jun 26, 2023 02:30
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paul_soccer12 posted:Mods?????? sorry you feel left out, paul_soccer12 here's one just for you https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1673011796750245891 (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 26, 2023 02:30
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Frosted Flake posted:tl;dr, liberal states can't mobilize and have spent a great deal of effort trying not to. im starting to see it. I don’t quite have a handle on all the material threads but I can sort of see an arc of korea being necessary to install the permanent war economy, vietnam proving it to be unacceptably expensive to private capitalists (and forcing the neoliberal economic realignment), something about the establishment of the petrodollar, the discovery of the “technology” of imperial management by intelligence agency buying another few decades, then the real rot at the end of history with iraq i, ii, afghanistan, and now ukraine. the us losing to a resource nationalist “near peer” power must be driving beltway people insane.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:39
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I have ruminated on it and I've come to the conclusion that it's funnier if Prigozhin legitimately thought he could overthrow the Russian government and got talked down by the Big Man of Belarus So that's what I'll believe
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Jun 26, 2023 02:40
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heres the thing: we dont actually know poo poo
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Jun 26, 2023 02:43
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Lostconfused posted:I can't be CIA, I don't have the money or the drugs to be CIA. Money no, drugs yes
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Jun 26, 2023 02:44
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Filthy Hans posted:sorry you feel left out, paul_soccer12 shut the gently caress up
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Jun 26, 2023 02:44
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drat I typoed the probe reason. oh well, that is what pitchbot deserves in terms of effort
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Jun 26, 2023 02:47
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Ardennes posted:Hey man, this is cspam, it ain't D&D. Maybe they were scared stiff by wagner’s magical pantsir that can hit targets at 60km.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:51
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CODChimera posted:heres the thing: we dont actually know poo poo It doesn't seem like anyone does, so might as well go for it.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:52
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Even if someone out there leaked the real story, nobody would believe it anyway. In practice though nothing happened besides an epic day of posting.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:53
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Vernii posted:Oh cool the thread is starting to get Qpilled. Nothing can ever just be dumb and insane, everyone is always a rational actor operating on perfect information and anything that goes against this must by an op by "them". Oh I forgot you're the "it's good for the west if we make russians bleed" guy Vernii posted:Lol if you think I'm being pro-Russian, I'm pro-neutrality. Give Ukraine weapons and intelligence, donation drives, etc, absolutely. The Russians having to bleed for their prize is good for the west. Vernii posted:Because Russian imperialism needs to feel consequences, and if the war had gone well for them (3 days to Kyiv, total surrender, etc like they were expecting) it would embolden the revanchist faction of the Russian foreign policy establishment to press their luck with the Baltics next. Additionally nations have a right to self defense so its good to see an aggressor getting its nose bloodied by what it thought would be easy prey.
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Jun 26, 2023 02:54
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speng31b posted:Oh I forgot you're the "it's good for the west if we make russians bleed" guy Lol
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Jun 26, 2023 02:54
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Centrist Committee posted:im starting to see it. I don’t quite have a handle on all the material threads but I can sort of see an arc of korea being necessary to install the permanent war economy, vietnam proving it to be unacceptably expensive to private capitalists (and forcing the neoliberal economic realignment), something about the establishment of the petrodollar, the discovery of the “technology” of imperial management by intelligence agency buying another few decades, then the real rot at the end of history with iraq i, ii, afghanistan, and now ukraine. the us losing to a resource nationalist “near peer” power must be driving beltway people insane. There are two interesting phenomena that happened between Korea and Vietnam, though I'm not sure exactly how they're related - The number of soldiers who suffered severe lower-limb injuries and even amputation in the Vietnam War was about 300 per cent higher than during the Second World War and 70 per cent higher than during the Korean War, while multiple amputations had to be carried out three times more often than in the Second World War. While I'm fuzzy on that math, it means that Korea saw a huge increase in amputations from the Second World War also. The literature says that even before televised images of war, which everybody blames for Vietnam's unpopularity, encountering the wounded meant that civilian populations could never been entirely shielded from the impact of fighting. Governments throughout the 20th century tried to find a way to manage this, because wounded soldiers and disabled veterans are demoralizing, but you can't not give them medical leave or let them return home to their families. As historian Marilyn Young has argued, the Korean War was a ‘hard sell’ from start to finish. Truman’s administration worried constantly that Americans, barely recovered from the epic mobilization of the Second World War and disappointments of postwar adjustment, would refuse to accept the costs of a war so far away and of such doubtful centrality to American interests. Political scientist John Mueller contends that public disapproval of the Korean War mounted in lock-step with rising casualties. Support decreased by 15 per cent every time casualties rose by a factor of ten, prefiguring a pattern apparent again in Vietnam. Scholars agree that Korea was, from a fairly early stage, an unpopular war. It garnered progressively less American civilian approbation as rapid reversals of military fortune on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and early 1951 gave way to protracted stalemate. For over 18 months, fitful armistice negotiations remained deadlocked over the issue of prisoner repatriation. In an unorthodox departure from the Geneva Conventions, President Truman insisted that POWs must be allowed to reject repatriation to their country of origin at the war’s end. In other words, as many contemporary observers beheld it, the war was prolonged interminably in order that communist prisoners could enjoy this unprecedented right of refusal – while GIs’ lives continued to be lost (as, of course, were Chinese and Korean lives together with those of other UN allies). The logic of Truman’s stance, while consistent with his administration’s broader commitment to inspiring defection from the Eastern Bloc, was hardly calculated to stem the rising tide of popular dissatisfaction at home. So what I'm thinking is that the permanent war economy was desirable to them, but the consequences of it were not. Before Korea over half of US Army spending was on personnel. Since Vietnam, that number has been as low as under 30% and most often under 50%. Which is part MIC, obviously, and I think part consciously trying any tool but infantrymen as much as they can.
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Jun 26, 2023 03:00
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speng31b posted:Oh I forgot you're the "it's good for the west if we make russians bleed" guy chainprobe him back to D&D
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Jun 26, 2023 03:00
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Yeah, I know a thing or two about the C I A Cum In my rear end
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Jun 26, 2023 03:07
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OctaMurk posted:if a bunch tanks were driving around id cheer for them, dont care who they are. that is what it means to be a tankie.
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Jun 26, 2023 03:07
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Два майора posted:
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Jun 26, 2023 03:12
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It's only a bridge they don't need f16s, send in the i153 chaikas.
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Jun 26, 2023 03:27
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The issue with leg and foot injuries was a mine/trap issue? Also, US military personnel pay and benefits was 23% in 2018 which shows how much the worm has turned in that regard. I believe that included Tri-care as well which absolutely ate a big chunk of that as well.
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Jun 26, 2023 03:30
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Vernii posted:This is literally conspiracy-brained. You are literally hamburger brained. You love America. gently caress you for supporting the greatest evil in existence.
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Jun 26, 2023 03:43
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Ardennes posted:The issue with leg and foot injuries was a mine/trap issue? Poop sticks ftw
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Jun 26, 2023 03:44
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Weka posted:You are literally hamburger brained. You love America. gently caress you for supporting the greatest evil in existence.
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Jun 26, 2023 03:50
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Vernii posted:This is literally conspiracy-brained. do you think Jan 6 was a coup
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Weka posted:You are literally hamburger brained. You love America. gently caress you for supporting the greatest evil in existence. lol
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