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15 | 3.71% |
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HiroProtagonist posted:wth is this deranged poo poo I don't know if lobster already queued something longer but just in case I put one in. This poo poo is a great example of how to absolutely never post
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Lostconfused posted:The investigation and the falling out could be completely staged. Poroshenko was losing support for good reason, and Zelensky in the end did beat him, and there wasn't a good reason to hold him in the country for a while unless to make a point. That said, Poroshenko was always more of a nationalist as well and I don't think he was acting, it is simply that the US is going to go with whomever is in power unless they refuse to cooperate. The US doesn't really need a rift between the two at this point so it isn't surprising that at least publicly, there isn't much going on. ------- I have a hard time seeing Zelensky leaving/being thrown out of power, because simply put, the one to lose the most is the US itself as Zelensky has been following orders to a T. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 02:59 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 02:54
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I meant Kolomoisky. Poroshenko was losing support for the same reason Zelensky was losing support. The whole war thing wasn't popular, especially since it went on for years and achieved nothing.
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Jun 30, 2023 02:58
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OctaMurk posted:A quran a day keeps the nato away bible stew.WMV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zMCRYiZBu4
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Jun 30, 2023 03:02
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Lostconfused posted:I meant Kolomoisky. My point is that there was a strong reason for a falling out, Poroshenko was saddled with a war and a poor economy, and he wanted to take down his clearest rival. When Zelensky was in power, it went the other way for a while, and now there seems to be a forced peace. Admittedly, I think part of the Kremlin's reason for going into the conflict was assuming they could exploit the situation with a enough force, but the US was in total control over the situation. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 03:05 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 03:02
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You're not really saddled with a war when you start it.
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Jun 30, 2023 03:07
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Lostconfused posted:You're not really saddled with a war when you start it. Eh, I think you can, you just did it to yourself. ------- Also, just not a lot to talk about, unless the Ukrainians have some other big wave planned for the offensive, we are back in waiting mode. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 03:12 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 03:09
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is the wagner guy still alive?
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Jun 30, 2023 03:10
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Jun 30, 2023 03:11
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stephenthinkpad posted:I am paraphrasing from memory. The number one conclusion the Chinese studied and drew from the collapse of the Soviet Union was Khrushchev's public destalinization created a deep and long lasting ideological rift inside the eastern bloc. The crack became bigger and bigger and made the younger generations lost faith in the USSR. And eventually the young generations (Gorby) became the leader. there's also "left" and "right" in a western context and "left" and "right" within a communist party. so you'll sometimes hear terms like "ultra-left," "left," "right," and "ultra-right" which refer more to deviations within a system. mapped onto mao/deng it would look something like this: quote:ultra-left: mao good / deng bad quote:ultra-left: reevaluate you also see western media play this game all the time. when china uses markets to help develop the country, that's not socialism but "capitalism." when china reigns in the power of private capital, that's not socialism either but "authoritarianism" or "state capitalism." when the u.s. deploys the power of its own state to sanction chinese companies to protect its own firms from competition which has "disrupted the market," or uses its military to destroy competitors, that's "defending the rules-based international order." but who sets the rules? these are all ideological terms. you could also see "democrats" and "republicans" as two deviations of the "right" if we define left as socialism / anarchism / communism and the right as capitalism. like the democrats are left-right and the republicans are right-right. everything has an opposite and there are also opposites within opposites. tucker carlson picked up on the term "white left" (baizuo) which is used in china and he took it out of context to abuse the left in the U.S., but i learned recently that the term "white" here is used similar to "white army" or "white terror," the color of reaction, not skin color. there's another term "white right" (or baiyou) that would refer to him. so the "whites" (the right) have their own lefts and rights. BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 03:14 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 03:12
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Frosted Flake posted:So one thing not clear to me is if Zelensky was just some guy who was drafted or if Servant of the People (the show) was a long term project with Servant of the People (the party) as a long term goal. Chesno posted:Only officially, from September 2018 to September 2019, "Servant of the People" collected 226 million hryvnias in contributions. Another 200 million went to the election accounts of Volodymyr Zelenskyi and majoritarians from the party. The ability to accumulate significant resources in a short period of time became one of the important factors in the success of "Servant of the People". The paradox is that, despite such crazy support, the party has fewer donors than deputies in the parliamentary faction (248 people). I'm sure its all super legit
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Jun 30, 2023 03:31
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Just to quickly resurrect denim chat, there are no more American-made denim mills any more now that Cone Mills has shut down. There's still deadstock floating around that some brands could get a hold of - I have a pair that Levis made in a short run on I think their LVC label, in a neat throwback 1940s cut. But now the good poo poo is all imported from Japan, which has (had?) a whole subculture around vintage Americana. They all boil down to Levis repros and are often over constructed and heavier weight - I like Iron Heart, who do a 21oz denim as part of their main line. You're spending nerd money for your imported pants, though. I can recommend Naked and Famous (and its cheaper sub-brand Unbranded) for more reasonably priced jeans in sturdy weights - you're not paying 60 bucks a pair, but they're a good product and have a few different cuts. They frequently do novelty releases in ultra-heavyweight denim - I think their heaviest has been 32oz fabric that was a short run since it kept breaking the sewing machines. Anyways, that's enough about pants.
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Jun 30, 2023 03:34
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KomradeX posted:It rules that the future of humanity was destroyed because people couldn't get bananas, and didn't like the quality of jeans. Now East Germany has Nazis everywhere again. gently caress I need a drink The system in the metropole has managed to drag the masses so far down into their own dirt that they seem to have largely lost any sense of the oppressive and exploitative nature of their situation, of their situ- ation as objects of the imperialist system. So that for a car, a pair of jeans, life insurance, and a loan, they will easily accept any outrage on the part of the system. In fact, they can no longer imagine or wish for anything beyond a car, a vacation, and a tiled bathroom.
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Jun 30, 2023 03:36
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fizzy posted:Tsikhanouskaya convened a video call of her “transitional cabinet”, half based in Vilnius and half in Warsaw
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Jun 30, 2023 03:36
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dieselfruit posted:come on Juan Guaido pledges his government's support
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Jun 30, 2023 03:38
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Nix Panicus posted:I'm sure its all super legit Yeah, the party was thrown together in a very short time, but the reason people were voting for them was pretty clear, there was plenty of exhaustion from the Poroshenko period, especially its language policy and the "political elements" that were being used along with everything else. Zelensky had seemed to be a way to get beyond this without going back to a more openly Russian-aligned party (although their support was slowly returning). It is why I think those polls posted before were probably legitimate, a lot of people really didn't like the hardline direction taken previously, they weren't crazy for Bandera and Azov even if they had supported Euromaidan. It is part of why the situation is screwed up because not only are there still plenty of Russian speakers (and even some of them are still very silently pro-Russian), but the majority, despite everything that has happened, is still not a fan of the politics occurring. I think in part some of this war was bearable due to the fact that the guys on the frontlines were either professionals/reservists/volunteers, basically guys who were expected to fight and signed up for it (at some point at least), or that the conscripts were coming from the more vulnerable parts of the population. I don't know what will happen if the Ukrainian government demands more and more out the general population, though.
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Jun 30, 2023 03:45
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I feel theres a distinct difference between 'the party was thrown together in a very short time' and 'the party had under 100 donors, many of them deliberately trying to circumvent banking laws' Yes, Zelensky campaigned on his TV character's anti-corruption reputation (and even used advertising for his third movie as advertising for his political campaign) and also emphasized a peace platform, but lmao if you think that character and concept wasn't premeditated to make a popular anti-corruption candidate
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Jun 30, 2023 03:55
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Военный Осведомитель posted:
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I'm listening to a series of stuff about the Su-27 and early sino-russian co-operation. In the late 80s the Chinese were in talks with the French to buy the Mirage 2000, since they were already cooperating with France on helicopters and missiles, and there were at least talks in the early 90s to sell the Su-27 to Taiwan, since the new Russia had no particular reason to be friendly to western-aligned China and a significant number of people in Yeltsin's government really believed China was close to collapse anyway and wanted to align with Taiwan instead. it was just luck that the opposite happened.
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Jun 30, 2023 03:58
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speng31b posted:I don't know if lobster already queued something longer but just in case I put one in. This poo poo is a great example of how to absolutely never post ty i pmed lobster about it and they said they wanted to consult but yeah poo poo was Not Posting Buddy type thing
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Well the good news is that now whole cities are being prepared to get drafted, we'll get to find out just how much abuse the average Ukrainian can take. So don't even need to spend too much time speculating about it.
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Jun 30, 2023 04:08
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Nix Panicus posted:I feel theres a distinct difference between 'the party was thrown together in a very short time' and 'the party had under 100 donors, many of them deliberately trying to circumvent banking laws' It was clear that it was a constructed party, but the show came out in 2015 when Poroshenko was honestly riding relatively high in the polls and the show could have easily just been a bomb. It was later on (2017-2018) when he started to lose ground then surpassed by Tymoshenko there was more of an opening and even then Zelensky didn't dominate the polls until he pushed a stronger peace message. Throatwarbler posted:I'm listening to a series of stuff about the Su-27 and early sino-russian co-operation. In the late 80s the Chinese were in talks with the French to buy the Mirage 2000, since they were already cooperating with France on helicopters and missiles, and there were at least talks in the early 90s to sell the Su-27 to Taiwan, since the new Russia had no particular reason to be friendly to western-aligned China and a significant number of people in Yeltsin's government really believed China was close to collapse anyway and wanted to align with Taiwan instead. it was just luck that the opposite happened. Russia and China both started to turn more against the US (if not slightly) around the same time in the late 90s. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 04:13 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 04:09
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HiroProtagonist posted:ty i pmed lobster about it and they said they wanted to consult but yeah poo poo was Not Posting Buddy sanctioned It could be an innocent, well meaning warning that if anyone *was* collecting clues they could probably hazard a guess, rather than an ominous threat they almost had their Clue notebook filled out and were on the verge of making an accusation Some people are just autistic as hell and don't understand how things can look
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Ardennes posted:It was clear that it was a constructed party, but the show came out in 2015 when Poroshenko was honestly riding relatively high in the polls and the show could have easily just been a bomb. It was later on (2017-2018) when he started to lose ground then surpassed by Tymoshenko there was more of an opening and even then Zelensky didn't dominate the polls until he pushed a stronger peace message. So you're saying they got lucky with their political project Also forever lmao that Big Z got elected by promising to grovel at Putin's feet for peace and then declared the Minsk agreement dead and sought to open the door to NATO
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Jun 30, 2023 04:13
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Nix Panicus posted:It could be an innocent, well meaning warning that if anyone *was* collecting clues they could probably hazard a guess, rather than an ominous threat they almost had their Clue notebook filled out and were on the verge of making an accusation I have heard that Leandros apologized privately and the intention was not bad and I believe that, but at the same time people need to use common sense before they post stuff that can be extremely misconstrued. Leandros has a history in this thread that can be described as low key hostility to everyone so I am willing to believe they didn't intend that post in the worst way possible, but they still ought to pay the bad post tax for making a bad post. Just don't post about how your forums enemies are "potentially doxxable" even if you mean it as a friendly warning. It's weird as gently caress. speng31b has issued a correction as of 04:16 on Jun 30, 2023 |
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Jun 30, 2023 04:13
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Starsfan posted:well I don't know if that's everyone's idea of war, but in this case certainly western audiences have been propagandized into believing that if Ukraine surrenders any territory to Russia the Russians will instantly move to genocide the entirety of the ethnic Ukrainian population that is unlucky enough to end up inside the new Russian borders. That's why we have to keep on unquestioningly send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine to pay for them to keep fighting against the existential threat. I mean, we just have to remember a lot of people in the west think the Winter war was a Soviet loss because of casualty figures but somehow forget/don't know about the fact the Finns gave up more than the initial Soviet requests after the shooting happened.
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Jun 30, 2023 04:16
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FF's dad fell out of a guard tower? dieselfruit posted:They all boil down to Levis repros and are often over constructed and heavier weight - I like Iron Heart, who do a 21oz denim as part of their main line. You're spending nerd money for your imported pants, though. I can recommend Naked and Famous (and its cheaper sub-brand Unbranded) for more reasonably priced jeans in sturdy weights - you're not paying 60 bucks a pair, but they're a good product and have a few different cuts. They frequently do novelty releases in ultra-heavyweight denim - I think their heaviest has been 32oz fabric that was a short run since it kept breaking the sewing machines. 21 oz is really heavy cloth I would expect more in a backpack or heavy duffel bag. Maybe a jacket? 32 oz probably folds like cardboard. That's so stupid heavy.
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dieselfruit posted:Just to quickly resurrect denim chat, there are no more American-made denim mills any more now that Cone Mills has shut down. There's still deadstock floating around that some brands could get a hold of - I have a pair that Levis made in a short run on I think their LVC label, in a neat throwback 1940s cut. But now the good poo poo is all imported from Japan, which has (had?) a whole subculture around vintage Americana. They all boil down to Levis repros and are often over constructed and heavier weight - I like Iron Heart, who do a 21oz denim as part of their main line. You're spending nerd money for your imported pants, though. I can recommend Naked and Famous (and its cheaper sub-brand Unbranded) for more reasonably priced jeans in sturdy weights - you're not paying 60 bucks a pair, but they're a good product and have a few different cuts. They frequently do novelty releases in ultra-heavyweight denim - I think their heaviest has been 32oz fabric that was a short run since it kept breaking the sewing machines. It rules that menswear chat is becoming more and more acceptable in 2023.
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Good news for Ukraine - Their staunch ally, the UK, is expecting a defence command paper in July that will set out fresh plans to reshape Britain’s military in light of the war in Ukraine, and these plans include more investment in artillery, which has been heavily used in Ukraine. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/head-of-british-army-could-quit-in-row-over-further-cuts Head of British army could quit in row over further cuts Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor Thu 29 Jun 2023 19.42 BST The head of the British army could resign, allies say, amid a fierce row over further proposed cuts to land forces in the run-up to a special defence review responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Interviews have already begun to replace Gen Sir Patrick Sanders, who has served only a year as chief of the general staff, and friends of the military leader say he may quit even sooner if the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, imposes further cuts. “He told Wallace that he could not deliver without more headcount and budget, and Wallace didn’t like that,” an ally of Sanders, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. “It looks like cuts are coming and [Sanders] may use this as an opportunity to resign.” Sanders is said to have repeatedly clashed with Adm Sir Tony Radakin, the chief of the defence staff, who beat him to the top job as head of the armed forces in October 2021. Radakin was previously head of the Royal Navy, and army sources complain that he favours spending on costly warships. A defence command paper is expected in July that will set out fresh plans to reshape Britain’s military in light of the war in Ukraine, but there is little money available for extra commitments without cuts being made elsewhere. No firm date for the paper has yet been confirmed and some believe it could now be delayed until September given the growing rift between the army and the rest of the military establishment. In March, the Ministry of Defence was given £5bn over two years, with £3bn going into Britain’s nuclear submarines and £2bn to restoring stockpiles of ammunition given to Ukraine to help it fend off the Russian invasion. Army sources say it has been asked to cut its core numbers further from 72,500 to 70,000, with no new money available until after the election, and that infantry units will be cut further to make way for more investment in artillery, which has been heavily used in Ukraine.
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Men's wear? We're talking about US chauvinism erasing all cultures by dominating foreign markets with exports.
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Jun 30, 2023 04:25
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i buy my pants on ebay
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Nix Panicus posted:So you're saying they got lucky with their political project More or less, there was an opening in the field, and they went for it. Basically, though there was a significant portion of the population that wasn't happy with the Russians but nevertheless wanted peace with them. Zelensky's platform was more "peace with honor" to some effect, but he was supposedly was willing at least negotiate while Poroshenko was a hardliner. That obviously flipped (and his polls dropped like a rock for one way or another, just the 3 presidents before him). ------ I mean investing in artillery is probably a good thing, too bad it is for a 70,000 man army...
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Danann posted:(from t.me/milinfolive/102945, via tgsa) Cages of hope, not cope
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fizzy posted:Good news for Ukraine - Their staunch ally, the UK, is expecting a defence command paper in July that will set out fresh plans to reshape Britain’s military in light of the war in Ukraine, and these plans include more investment in artillery, which has been heavily used in Ukraine. why is an island reshaping its pitiful army to defend against a land invasion?
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Jun 30, 2023 04:46
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hifi posted:i buy my pants on ebay i started wearing black scrubs. they're somewhere between pajama pants, cargo pants, and sweatpants.
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Jun 30, 2023 04:48
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Nix Panicus posted:It could be an innocent, well meaning warning that if anyone *was* collecting clues they could probably hazard a guess, rather than an ominous threat they almost had their Clue notebook filled out and were on the verge of making an accusation Am I autistic?
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Jun 30, 2023 04:51
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:FF's dad fell out of a guard tower? They break in eventually. One must suffer to appease the raw denim gods and look good. Also I rate 20oz jeans around the same worth as moleskins in cold weather. Combine with a jacket made of dead sheep, sturdy boots and you're golden.
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Real hurthling! posted:why is an island reshaping its pitiful army to defend against a land invasion? It's cheaper.
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just pump more sewage out and no one will go over
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At the pace of production posted in this thread it will take like a decade to get anywhere near the kind of changes they are going to be planning for, if they ever do anything at all.
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