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| 🦋 |
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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% |
| dragonfly |
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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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Need a video of the cat meowing at the broken span. It's like panda tiktok videos, but with Russian militarized characteristics.
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Jul 17, 2023 10:42
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Regarde Aduck posted:that cat is unapologetically pro-russian and so against thread rules Good news for Ukraine: 
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Jul 17, 2023 10:43
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Orange Devil posted:Thinking of a second book featuring our dashing Austro-Hungarian artillery officer where he, following his decision at the culmination of the first book to support the socialist revolution, fights heroic battles and has pages-long discussions and internal monologues about the function of the state and its productive forces. But all against a dark backdrop where he is oblivious that the forces of monarchy are part of the forces of reaction, with his ideological musings becoming less coherent over time. The importance of symbolism is a recurring motif throughout the book. Yet during the climax, with final victory within the revolutionary grasp, our now not so young artillery officer fails to fire on the armored train evacuating what is left of the royal family. The rest of his battery does not and the train is obliterated. Our officer is distraught and accuses his fellow revolutionaries of treason. His ideology has become fully incoherent and possibly reactionary at this point. He is summarily executed by firing squad on the final page, as the rest of the country is entering a new and better age. lol, we really could do with a sharpe remake
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Jul 17, 2023 10:45
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Regarde Aduck posted:that cat is unapologetically pro-russian and so against thread rules the cat will be petted
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Jul 17, 2023 10:47
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gradenko_2000 posted:how the gently caress is this a good thing?! I reckon the Ukrainian government is having enough trouble just keeping the lights on, and since they've already been neoliberalized ideologically this is the only solution they can conceive of. He's kind of admitting in the interview that a distributed and privatized system of development isn't capable of the kind of scaling up they need to produce combat effective drones, but it can't all be doom & gloom for the CNN audience.
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Jul 17, 2023 10:56
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My analysis on the attacks: Zelensky was upset about the non-news, non-commitment coming out of the NATO summit. He commanded SBU unleash all new drones on the Crimean targets.
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Jul 17, 2023 10:57
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we may be seeing a conflict within a conflict, a war between laser cat and Kerch cat cat war
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Jul 17, 2023 11:00
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:somebody’s been reading this thread. wow.. tankies on cnn
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Jul 17, 2023 11:03
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if anything happens to Mostik the Cat then its total war
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Jul 17, 2023 11:08
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Homeless Friend posted:wow.. tankies on cnn I guess google really did drop their "don't be evil" motto, now that they're stanning for Putler
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Jul 17, 2023 11:12
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DancingShade posted:I think we need to look at history with a bit of Squire perspective. His team seems to get it right. Haven't watched the video, but the MG42 always struck me as an odd weapon since Germany was always industrially stretched to breaking point, and the loving thing fires 1200 rounds per minute.
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Jul 17, 2023 11:16
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Gimme a bren gun any day wotwot
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Jul 17, 2023 11:16
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Counterpoint: brrrrrt
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Jul 17, 2023 11:21
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Endman posted:Haven't watched the video, but the MG42 always struck me as an odd weapon since Germany was always industrially stretched to breaking point, and the loving thing fires 1200 rounds per minute. And the guy firing the MG42 is still a human made of human. Thus any weapon will work on stopping it, especially any allied weapon.
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Jul 17, 2023 11:21
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weird how ukraine keeps attacking the bridge that's mostly used for civilian purposes rather than the actual russian military supply linesEndman posted:Haven't watched the video, but the MG42 always struck me as an odd weapon since Germany was always industrially stretched to breaking point, and the loving thing fires 1200 rounds per minute. as i understand it a high rate of fire can actually save ammo in the long run because it kinda forces you to fire in short bursts
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Jul 17, 2023 11:24
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Cerebral Bore posted:weird how ukraine keeps attacking the bridge that's mostly used for civilian purposes rather than the actual russian military supply lines Attacking a fixed GPS co-ordinate is easy. Attacking something that might move requires training and they're all out of that.
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Jul 17, 2023 11:39
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Cerebral Bore posted:weird how ukraine keeps attacking the bridge that's mostly used for civilian purposes rather than the actual russian military supply lines Weird how Russia keeps bombing schools and hospitals rather than the Ukrainian military.
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Jul 17, 2023 11:51
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fizzy posted:Weird how Russia keeps bombing schools and hospitals rather than the Ukrainian military. I know you're doing a bit however for the benefit of our slightly troubled collective friends from ahem elsewhere: quote:Ukraine’s Ministry of Education and Science has acknowledged that Ukrainian government forces have used schools for military purposes. The Ukrainian government should deter the military use of schools by, among other things, endorsing the UN Safe Schools Declaration. I don't think much of UN sources on anything since it's an institution under full regulatory capture. But if they're saying it for an "ally" (or lets face it "puppet") then yeah.
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Jul 17, 2023 11:56
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They are using human shields! Nothing to do but bomb the schools and hospitals sadly I just wish Ukraine hadn't forced Russia into this...
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Jul 17, 2023 12:21
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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1680824973227868161?s=20 Found a video of the damage to the bridge taken from the completely unharmed train. Looks like something blew up the support from below rather than an attack from above
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Jul 17, 2023 12:27
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Communist Thoughts posted:They are using human shields! Nothing to do but bomb the schools and hospitals sadly Agreed. Its unfortunate that, despite several warnings, Ukraine chose this war. If only Zelensky had been a reasonable person, but, alas.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:28
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Slavvy posted:You have just pushed me over the edge into just watching the mosfilm war and peace instead of trying to finish the book itself Totally worth it. The way they did the Battle of Borodino is one of the most epic sequences in film history. I wonder how Ridley Scott's Napoleon will compare to that.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:28
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Alright, if Putin is hitler and Zelenskyy is Churchill, who is Stalin? Like, can we get a good guy in this war plz?
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Jul 17, 2023 12:28
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gradenko_2000 posted:how the gently caress is this a good thing?! The War Production Board was communism and would never be tolerated in the modern era
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Jul 17, 2023 12:29
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Egg Moron posted:Alright, if Putin is hitler and Zelenskyy is Churchill, who is Stalin?
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Jul 17, 2023 12:31
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Egg Moron posted:Alright, if Putin is hitler and Zelenskyy is Churchill, who is Stalin? Stalin Uther Genghis Khan. In a mech suit.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:37
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DancingShade posted:Uther the Paladin?
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Jul 17, 2023 12:38
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Regarde Aduck posted:there's simply so much more money to be wrung out of us before they retire to their catastrophe domes or whatever contingency they have for when the whole project comes down Here is the terrible secret: there are no catastrophe domes, no contingencies for when the whole project comes down. A few people have some half assed bunkers out in remote areas but thats no more a plan than the prepper in Wyoming totally dependent on ordering buckets of food because there isnt enough labor to set up a subsistence farming community. Nobody at the top has any plan for what comes next. They just do things and assume the good times will last forever, or that should the party somehow stop it simply won't affect them. The ruling class doesn't have a planning horizon beyond their lifetimes at best, and honestly its six months 99% of the time.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:40
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all the smartest posters have repeatedly assured me that the elite ukrainian army will easily rout the primitive orc hordes, and given this it seems somewhat perplexing that the ukrainian army would hang out in schools and hospitals because that seems more like a thing you'd do when desperately outmatched, but what do i know?
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Jul 17, 2023 12:40
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gradenko_2000 posted:the Paladin? Part Stalin, part King Arthur's dad, part Mongolian, part robot. Anyway that's why my character needs to be piloting a 60ft tall rune covered atlantean mecha robot that looks like its half from robotech and half from wolfenstein 3D in our realistic historical RPG campaign, you don't mind right?
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Jul 17, 2023 12:44
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Nix Panicus posted:Here is the terrible secret: there are no catastrophe domes, no contingencies for when the whole project comes down. A few people have some half assed bunkers out in remote areas but thats no more a plan than the prepper in Wyoming totally dependent on ordering buckets of food because there isnt enough labor to set up a subsistence farming community. Nobody at the top has any plan for what comes next. They just do things and assume the good times will last forever, or that should the party somehow stop it simply won't affect them. The ruling class doesn't have a planning horizon beyond their lifetimes at best, and honestly its six months 99% of the time. I love those "bunkers" which are basically a tin foil shed buried in the ground with some plastic buckets of freeze dried food. Like, that's neat I guess. They'll be fine for the first month or two. Or until the water supply runs dry. Or until the countryside gets stripped bare by the ravenous horse of city dwellers looking for people exactly like them because without uber eats the ignorant masses don't know where food comes from. And of course the 3-12 months supply of freeze fried raisens and breakfast cereals will last the rest of your natural life. Let's hope it doesn't rain and fill up their survival bunker with ground water.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:48
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Nix Panicus posted:Here is the terrible secret: there are no catastrophe domes, no contingencies for when the whole project comes down. A few people have some half assed bunkers out in remote areas but thats no more a plan than the prepper in Wyoming totally dependent on ordering buckets of food because there isnt enough labor to set up a subsistence farming community. Nobody at the top has any plan for what comes next. They just do things and assume the good times will last forever, or that should the party somehow stop it simply won't affect them. The ruling class doesn't have a planning horizon beyond their lifetimes at best, and honestly its six months 99% of the time. It's all like the submarine, basically.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:50
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https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-crimea-russia-collaborators-purge-tamila-tasheva-1813033 posted:Hundreds of thousands of Russians are believed to have moved to Crimea since the peninsula was seized by President Vladimir Putin's forces in 2014. Estimates vary, but Tasheva has said the figure is between 500,000 to 800,000 newcomers. All those Russians who have entered illegally, she said, will be subject to "forced expulsion. This will go great.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:51
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ukraine can do a little bit of ethnic cleansing, as a treat
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Jul 17, 2023 12:52
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Honest Thief posted:This will go great. cant believe russia just shot all its own people 1 second before the azov 1488th death squad, codename "ethnic cleansers", got there to save everyone
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Jul 17, 2023 12:57
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Honest Thief posted:This will go great. lmao google just randomly suggested this for me. You missed another banger though quote:Tasheva says Kyiv may also punish as many as 10,000 Ukrainians on the peninsula for cooperating with Russian occupation authorities.
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Jul 17, 2023 12:59
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Nix Panicus posted:lmao google just randomly suggested this for me. You missed another banger though Lmao
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Jul 17, 2023 13:01
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Honest Thief posted:This will go great. At that scale they won't bother differentiating Russians who have lived in Crimea since before 2014. If Ukraine were to ever retake Crimea we would see probably something like half the population deported (so well over a million people)
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Jul 17, 2023 13:01
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DancingShade posted:I get the impression that slightly damaging a bridge was the big trump card. lol since this would have required extensive planning, I think 6 months ago the plan was something like this: - Glorious Ukrainian Army breaks through Russian front lines - Cowardly Russians thrown into disarray by brave Ukrainians - Chaos in Russia - Hot Dog Man revolts, cutting supplies from Rostov, and driving towards Moscow - Crimea Bridge is cut - Russian Army, having lost both Rostov and the Bridge is cut off and must surrender - Ukraine wins war The lightbulb went off a few pages ago when someone said Ukrainian narratives do this thing where they talk about things they would like to happen as happening. From the moment of the counteroffensive, there was discussion about the Russian Army falling back because the bridge and land bridge would both be cut. Also, in his article about drawing NATO into a war, Zaluzhnyi mentioned more or less this concept of operations. Also, it's what the Telegram author was fantasizing about, so presumably people in contact with the Ukrainians were being pitched the rough outlines of the master plan.
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Jul 17, 2023 13:01
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Can you imagine any western aligned source voicing that same plan for Palestine?
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Jul 17, 2023 13:01
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