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lol This is your brain on AMERICA BAD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVmeYgo1Iw 
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Jul 26, 2023 04:44
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e: toxic mental says no more
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Jul 26, 2023 05:09
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Toxic Mental posted:lol  Good God that was literal dog poo poo. I barely pulled through to the end just out of morbid curiosity to see how bad it would get. What in the gently caress was that 
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Jul 26, 2023 06:54
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bob dobbs is dead posted:vassal fiefs. peeps with fiefs, if you will Prigozhin: Chef Boyar Z i stole that from someone i know
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Jul 26, 2023 07:44
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Jul 26, 2023 07:55
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Ass_Burgerer posted:Airlines are getting BAD, even in the US. Repairs and mantainance are more frequently being delegated to 3rd party contractors rather than in-house mechanics. These cheaper mechanics SUCK, btw. Constantly messing up jobs, misaligned holes for rivets and they like, fudging paperwork, etc. Lots of shortcuts. Didn’t US carriers started sending planes to el Salvador for major work? I remember qantas was sending planes to the Phillipines and started having issues with their repair work.
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Jul 26, 2023 07:55
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HonorableTB posted:https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1683868781372747778?s=20 can confirm source: flew Aeroflot even back in the day I joked about seeing a flight attendant on the wing duct taping the wing Nightmare at 20,000 Feet style
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Jul 26, 2023 08:03
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Ass_Burgerer posted:Airlines are getting BAD, even in the US. Repairs and mantainance are more frequently being delegated to 3rd party contractors rather than in-house mechanics. These cheaper mechanics SUCK, btw. Constantly messing up jobs, misaligned holes for rivets and they like, fudging paperwork, etc. Lots of shortcuts. this isn't meant to contradict anything you just posted and in fact i presume you know a lot more about the situation than me but every time you posted plains instead of planes i felt my eyebrow twitch
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Jul 26, 2023 08:31
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one ticket on the aeroflop please
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Jul 26, 2023 08:37
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Toxic Mental posted:lol what the gently caress is this? oh god no
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Jul 26, 2023 08:43
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Toxic Mental posted:lol 
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Jul 26, 2023 09:07
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lol rich dude writing a song (massive air quotes) about money like it's some arbitrary thing.
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Jul 26, 2023 09:56
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Ass_Burgerer posted:Airlines are getting BAD, even in the US. Repairs and mantainance are more frequently being delegated to 3rd party contractors rather than in-house mechanics. These cheaper mechanics SUCK, btw. Constantly messing up jobs, misaligned holes for rivets and they like, fudging paperwork, etc. Lots of shortcuts. This is more or less the kind of trend Putin is counting on. That this kind of unrestrained neoliberalism - of cutting everything to the bone, shovelling as much money upward and making inequality even worse, will basically continue to hollow out and erode Western economies, societies and politics as they become ultra-capitalist hellholes. This will lead to democracy and social cohesion breaking down and more countries going far-right authoritarian/fash, destroying any semblance of internationalism/unity as they bicker like Trumps and Orbans, and creating opportunities for him to isolate Ukraine from Western support, finish it off, militarise and pick off others. He knows he is militarily and economically outmatched against the West, but believes time is on his side on this and he has at least a chance at outlasting us. Whether he's right is up to us Tigey fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Jul 26, 2023 10:18
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Tigey posted:This is more or less the kind of trend Putin is counting on. But russia is an ultra-capitalist hellhole 
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Jul 26, 2023 10:30
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If you look hard enough, like really really hard, it's an utopian communist perfect state that some people dream of.
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Jul 26, 2023 10:32
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If you disregard everything you hear about Russia and ignore every warning sign and evidence to the contrary, its a perfect socialist utopia and a paradise on Earth.
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Jul 26, 2023 10:57
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mobby_6kl posted:But russia is an ultra-capitalist hellhole Spoiling everything and dragging everyone down to Russia's level is part of the strategy. Because then countries will be weaker, and focus on their more immediate, local interests. He sees Ukraine as an immediate, regional Russian strategic interest. But a lesser, distant 'luxury' interest for most Western countries (at least the ones that matter - who cares what the weak ones think).
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Jul 26, 2023 10:58
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numptyboy posted:Libya was going on full on civil war before the west got involved and the the arab league was completely onboard with intervention. It's a Western myth that governments that become unstable will eventually become stable again. It's our inability to think outside of the nation-state paradigm. Things can just stay unstable for decades like in Somalia. The thing is, people in a certain geographical area have to first buy the idea of statehood before they can take steps in to forming one and while this isn't a problem in Europe it is most definitely not something to take for granted elsewhere. I'm not defending Gaddafi or the intervention. Just pointing out that the West has a hard time understanding that things don't always work the way we think they should and that influences decision making all the time.
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Jul 26, 2023 11:03
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Oldsmobile posted:It's a Western myth that governments that become unstable will eventually become stable again. It's our inability to think outside of the nation-state paradigm. How do you feel about opposing oppressive strongman dictatorships as a principle? I was educated last night that as it turns out, opposing such autocrats actually means that I also want to kill refugees by drowning them to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Jul 26, 2023 11:13
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Alan Smithee posted:can confirm Years ago I was on a press trip to see some 1C Company games in Moscow, and the tickets their PR company got for me were Aeroflot. We flew from Helsinki to St. Petersburg for refueling and de-icing, and then onwards to Moscow. This was in the dead of winter, back when we still had snow at winter. I had a seat by the wing and I was extremely surprised to see that instead of the pump trucks that shoot purple stuff all over the wings to de-ice them, the ground crew at St. Petersburg used some kind of weird low powered flamethrowers to not blast the wings or anything, but just kinda ... sweep over them. A bunch of very bored looking Russian guys chain smoking in a blizzard and standing there waving these weird heat blower things around. I've spent a long time trying to figure out exactly what they were doing and if those things are actually something a reasonable airline should be using in .... I wanna say like 2006? E: on the way back I had a seat by one of the emergency exits, and a smiling flight attendant explained to me prior to take-off that the door will make a lot of noise in flight and it will look bad, but don't worry, it cannot fall off. And sure enough, the thing sounded like this washing machine the entire flight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq6T5BojXc8&t=17s Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Jul 26, 2023 11:15
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:Years ago I was on a press trip to see some 1C Company games in Moscow, and the tickets their PR company got for me were Aeroflot. We flew from Helsinki to St. Petersburg for refueling and de-icing, and then onwards to Moscow. This was in the dead of winter, back when we still had snow at winter. Ah I remember this from the documentary The Fifth Element
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Jul 26, 2023 11:17
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Tigey posted:This is more or less the kind of trend Putin is counting on. Putin is 70, I am not sure whether time is really on his side especially if it means waiting for another few election cycles in Western countries.
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Jul 26, 2023 11:18
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Trump and Biden are close to or north of 80 now. While I hope it doesn't happen, putin may see at least two u.s. presidential cycles come and go. Unless the reaper deploys tactical assault windows, the elite/super rich can regularly expect to make it to 80+ due to cutting edge modern medical tech.
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Jul 26, 2023 11:32
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Watched all of it.  Then found out he took his own life in 2019. 
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Jul 26, 2023 11:37
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https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1684143192654983169#m 
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Jul 26, 2023 11:57
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Oldsmobile posted:It's a Western myth that governments that become unstable will eventually become stable again. It's our inability to think outside of the nation-state paradigm. I don't disagree with anything here and I'm not being critical of the idea that somehow military interventions bring about good things. It just could have been much worse. Military interventions don't build institutions, robust and fair government/law systems. Neither do the gadafi's or the Putin's of the world. I'm sure a lot of interventionalists hoped that somehow it would settle down like the Balkans did. There is a limit to what outside forces can do in a situation like this. I'm pretty sure at least some of the people staring down the barrel of a gun gadafi had pointed at them woild not be alive, if not for the UN intervention. numptyboy fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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Jul 26, 2023 11:58
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:what the gently caress is this? just Roggo continuing to be clueless about what people found appealing in his past art/wanting to pretend he was solely responsible for it's success
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Jul 26, 2023 12:06
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Der Kyhe posted:How do you feel about opposing oppressive strongman dictatorships as a principle? I was educated last night that as it turns out, opposing such autocrats actually means that I also want to kill refugees by drowning them to the Mediterranean Sea. Lol
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Jul 26, 2023 12:10
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https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1684017287458615296?s=46 https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1684015527637688321?s=46 Rfk jr cosplays more as his grandpa.
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Jul 26, 2023 12:11
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1684128463320391682#m And in the meantime, Murz took over terrorist Strelkov's position as doomposter in chief. He reports that all POCCNR can do is make attacks as expensive as possible for Ukraine, the quality of the soldiers available at the front are steadily growing worse, supplies are getting more and more strained, transfer of troops to various sectors is slow at best, and Ukraine is steadily making technical improvements in both the quantity and quality of their soldiery and equipment. The only chance is urgent mobilization and that as fast as possible, because if the last reserves of combat ready troops are gone, all they have left is cannon fodder.
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Jul 26, 2023 12:13
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my takeaway is the ones who had their cities bombed to hell by the aggressor managed to win?
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Jul 26, 2023 12:27
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:
tbf they probably strap one to the other side of the door
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Jul 26, 2023 12:32
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is an incredible emote and I love it.  gently caress Russia, slava Ukraine.
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Jul 26, 2023 12:37
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1684128463320391682#m Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1684017287458615296?s=46 https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1684015527637688321?s=46
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Jul 26, 2023 12:38
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mobby_6kl posted:Wow that's too much doomerism even for me lol. My guess is that monke will wait until the last possible moment to hit the mobilization button again. Probably lose a bunch of territory in the process, before managing to slow things down again for a bit. Unfortunately, a lot of people subscribe to the Russian cult of the war.
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Jul 26, 2023 12:53
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Ah yes, invasions of other countries, known to be started to preserve territorial integrity of your own country. Ronwayne posted:Trump and Biden are close to or north of 80 now. While I hope it doesn't happen, putin may see at least two u.s. presidential cycles come and go. Unless the reaper deploys tactical assault windows, the elite/super rich can regularly expect to make it to 80+ due to cutting edge modern medical tech.
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Jul 26, 2023 13:02
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I just wanted to use the new emote, it's fuckin sweet
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Jul 26, 2023 13:15
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https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1683969096105205760?s=20 Who must be denazified? *cups ear*
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Jul 26, 2023 13:23
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mercenarynuker posted:
The way it appears to be waving “good bye!” makes it even more special than it already is
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Jul 26, 2023 13:41
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Another great success of the Russian mir, new multipolar world order, BRICS, monke, good faith efforts regarding Ukrainian grain and whatnot Two-thirds of African leaders refuse to attend Putin’s summit quote:The majority of African nations' leaders have chosen not to attend the upcoming Russia-Africa summit, with 38 out of 55 countries opting not to send their heads of state, The Moscow Times reported on July 25. Previous "Russia-Africa summit" was held in 2019, 43 heads of state or government were in attendance. quote:Russian Foreign Ministry Special Envoy Oleg Ozerov responded to the boycott saying, "We won't kick up a fuss because, firstly, they might have other pre-planned events requiring the participation of heads of state; and secondly, those who could attend, attended." Other heads of states already planned to wash their hair, so they could not attend.
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Jul 26, 2023 13:50
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