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It's not like Putin's Russia being extremely anti-LBGTQ is new in any way. I don't expect this to change anyone's mind.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:27 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 11:57 |
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One of the few regrets I have is that I didn't buy that Putin in drag makeup T-shirt the last time I was in Tallinn before COVID-19. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/06/russia-bans-picture-of-vladimir-putin-in-drag
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:31 |
beer_war posted:It's not like Putin's Russia being extremely anti-LBGTQ is new in any way. I don't expect this to change anyone's mind. Will just increase the support from the Republican voters and put more pressure on the politicians to end support of Ukraine.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:39 |
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Tigey posted:Yeah, 'denazifying' by adopting similar tactics to the nazis - in that during a losing war they massively ramp up the victimisation and persecution of an already heavily marginalised and vulnerable segment of their own population - primarily due to the fact that the West is perceived to 'care' about that group. Pretty much just malice and spite and infection of western right wing narratives - Putin namedropped JK Rowling and her "persecution" last year
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:45 |
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Warbadger posted:Timed fuses programmed as they're fired seems to be the preferred way - so not far off from what you're suggesting. The mad scientists at Rheinmetall go one further, they set the primer as the shell is leaving the barrel so the speed of the round (never exactly possible to predict) can be taken into consideration.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:46 |
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CeeJee posted:The mad scientists at Rheinmetall go one further, they set the primer as the shell is leaving the barrel so the speed of the round (never exactly possible to predict) can be taken into consideration. Are the WW2 era type VT proximity fuses too large for the ammo and/or obsolete for anti drone work?
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 11:57 |
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beer_war posted:https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1679761541174902786?s=20 Anti-imperialist goals achieved
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:12 |
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zone posted:
I think that the secret ingredient to a substantial part of far left and far right people's politics is just contrarianism. A pathological need to be opposed to whatever the mainstream consensus at the time, because it makes them feel like the smartest person in the room. The politics are then used post-hoc to justify that, although probably not consciously. You never see these people just support Russia, it is almost invariably packaged by a whole host of other contrarian-born views like being antivax. This is why you can see Marxists and other far lefties supporting a imperialist, colonial genocidal war of aggression by a fascist revanchist government. Because it is so obviously evil, and that is the unanimous view of mainstream society on both sides of the political divide. Because most people believe it, it must surely be wrong. And because these people just feed on contrarianism, they are extremely vocal about it. They are by and large also extremely online, so their voices are disproportionately present in online discourse. That is not to say that all far lefties are motivated by contrarianism, or even a majority. I know quite a few Marxists and other far lefty types, and all of them are staunchly pro-Ukraine - Because being anti-fascist war of subjugation is obviously in line with these ideals. But these are thoughtful and intelligent people who aren't motivated primarily by contrarianism. Geisladisk fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Jul 14, 2023 |
# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:13 |
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If people are Pro-russia they must have already became OK with the targeted genocide of a civilian populace so a genoicide against LGBTQ people is not going to bother them.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:16 |
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Geisladisk posted:I think that the secret ingredient to a substantial part of far left and far right people's politics is just contrarianism. its literally 100% contrarianism every step of the way I hate present times
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:35 |
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hemale in pain posted:If people are Pro-russia they must have already became OK with the targeted genocide of a civilian populace so a genoicide against LGBTQ people is not going to bother them. Again, never underestimate the ability to still consider Ukraine the evil party based on the absolute power of "Amerikkka Bad".
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:38 |
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Geisladisk posted:I think that the secret ingredient to a substantial part of far left and far right people's politics is just contrarianism. A pathological need to be opposed to whatever the mainstream consensus at the time, because it makes them feel like the smartest person in the room. The politics are then used post-hoc to justify that, although probably not consciously. You never see these people just support Russia, it is almost invariably packaged by a whole host of other contrarian-born views like being antivax. This was absolutely me in high school. Thankfully I grew up.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:46 |
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Ikasuhito posted:Very much one of those "not even living on the same planet" takes. Russia has shown for the past 500+ days that any move like this is laughably outside their abilites. Not only could they not beat NATO, I think they would get crushed. It wouldn't even be close. Russia would lose extremely badly to just Finland, or Poland All of NATO would be a hilarious stomp like the Gulf War
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 12:53 |
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It's pretty funny that all of the Russian hyper manly traditional values Christian army could be destroyed in an instant by one US zoomer catgirl pressing a button.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 13:08 |
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Geisladisk posted:I think that the secret ingredient to a substantial part of far left and far right people's politics is just contrarianism. A pathological need to be opposed to whatever the mainstream consensus at the time, because it makes them feel like the smartest person in the room. The politics are then used post-hoc to justify that, although probably not consciously. You never see these people just support Russia, it is almost invariably packaged by a whole host of other contrarian-born views like being antivax. That fits. An old friend of mine is staunchly pro-Putin; he's always had a Thing about bring the smartest guy in the room , the one who really sees what is actually going on. Et cetera. Certainly puts in a new light his 15 years of getting fired for Boldly Telling the Truth in every workplace he's been in. Hmmm.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 13:19 |
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BREAKING: America betrays Ukraine by providing lend lease weapons to Russia WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:It's very hapsburgian to have like 35 different ammo types my man have you seen Prigozhin's jaw?
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 13:40 |
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beer_war posted:https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1679761541174902786?s=20 But WHAT about AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 13:45 |
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Nelson Mandingo posted:But WHAT about AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Don't worry, some states are working to be at parity with Russia on this issue. Which just shows that America Bad!
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 13:52 |
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Ah but you see senior Azov commander @hitler88 also hates trans people so who is to say if Russia is good or bad. And also the IMF. if the ukronazis don't surrender soon, the globalist bankers will swoop in and haul away the entire country, you see. Just devastating. It's deeply immoral to continue resisting. Btw the holodomor never happened, wikipedia is controlled by the bilderbergers and IMF stooges, china's mandatory vocational training program for the Uyghurs is completely not done under coercion and at gunpoint. I'm very smart. *puffs imaginary pipe*.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 13:54 |
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You see this contrarianism with a lot of old hippies and increasingly old punks. They seem like reasonable enough people when the topic was, say, the War on Terror or drug decriminalisation but it turns out that they don't actually hold any sincere beliefs. I've not seen any wild tankie takes in "real-life" because I tend to not associate with these people any more.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 13:58 |
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big day for https://i.imgur.com/LpcZ0th.mp4 Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Jul 14, 2023 |
# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:05 |
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Tiny Timbs posted:big day for drones getting shot at by poo poo Would rule if it spun around and the excavator attacked
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:07 |
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boofhead posted:Prigozhin seized the nuclear sub fleet while everyone was watching the march on Moscow. he's already half colonised Antarctica with his all-male army of convict settlers, and 200 years from now their parthenogenetic descendants will make the internet so thoroughly unpleasant that the whole world unanimously decides to switch it off and go back to reading shampoo labels on the shitter the locals call him Penguiozhin
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:13 |
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Broke brained tankie centric leftists also seen to forget that Russia is the CSAM capital of the world.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:14 |
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NihilCredo posted:Wouldn't going back to old-style timed fuzes be quite effective against drones? Much like early 20th century aircraft, they are slow, fragile, and fly at low altitude, so I would guess they can be taken down by airbursts pretty well? The fancy sensor suite you mentioned will be needed to spot and target the drat thing, but the ammunition ought to be as cheap as possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZD5zFN-rps note, nothing in this video is new, it's 10 or 20 years old
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:15 |
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Broke brained tankie centric leftists also seen to forget that Russia is the CSAM capital of the world. CSAM mods knew
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:16 |
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Explains why Ritter went there
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:25 |
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1679841114784768001?s=20 Russia isn't sending their best.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:27 |
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beer_war posted:Russia isn't sending their best. That's because their best either fled the country or were already sent to Ukraine and turned into a fine mist.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:32 |
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Well depending on if the vdv is allowed to surrender we could be seeing it encircled with supply corridors Under fire control
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:33 |
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beer_war posted:https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1679841114784768001?s=20 russia will strike fear into the hearts of nato by demonstrating their new decimation weapon outside their embassies
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:35 |
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CannonFodder posted:I think what makes the new paradigm of small quadcopters used as recon drones and occasional "drop a grenade" drone so effective is that it is difficult to detect and then precisely locate them. Now, once that hurdle has been passed, and the anti-quad-copter-drone laser operator could properly put the laser on target, then yeah it would work. Except drones (aside from electromagnetic radiation) are nearly indistinguishable from birds. You'd make a fancy system that most of the time is wasting ammo into the sky shooting at birds (which aren't even real anyways). Come to think of it a russian system wasting ammo shooting at make believe targets does sound pretty plausible...
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:44 |
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beer_war posted:https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1679841114784768001?s=20 I don't think it'll be armed until it goes BWFOOP so it's fine. Then again I guess it's a Russian grenade-thrower so
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:49 |
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OAquinas posted:Don't worry, some states are working to be at parity with Russia on this issue. There's a reason the GOP likes Russia, and its not because its Russia. Its because they have a common hypermasculine christofascist interest.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:51 |
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the russians are having pretty good results w electronic warfare, jamming and the like, nearly all the ukrainian losses are from that. this gives me the depressing certitude that autonomous drones are inevitable as part of that arms race
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:52 |
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The command of the Black Sea Fleet issued a warning to seamen about the danger of mines on the shipping route in the northwestern part of the Black Sea - Russian Defense Ministry
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:54 |
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bob dobbs is dead posted:autonomous drones are inevitable as part of that arms race This has been true for a while.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:56 |
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to the best of my knowledge in the clear, they havent taken that final step of making the drone figure out targets yet. but they will.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 14:57 |
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Ukraine already have had some Brimstones which can do target selection based on some sort of database of possible targets for its milliwave radar. Plus Brimstone supports salvo fire where multiple missiles talk to each other to ensure they don't pick the same targets. Autonomous target selection is how Ukraine have had to use them; without integration to a plane it's been ground launched out of visual range in the general direction of Russian hardware.
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# ? Jul 14, 2023 15:14 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 11:57 |
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CommieGIR posted:There's a reason the GOP likes Russia, and its not because its Russia. It's this^ The Russian regime doesn't support the GOP because they are mastermind trolls or something: they genuinely believe the same insane Nazi poo poo that white masculinity is dying and they must save the world from ??? They are true believer nutcases themselves
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