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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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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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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The epic liberal female Nazi is the biggest innovation to come out of Eastern Europe since serfdom. and none of them are ilsa - she wolf of the SS 
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Aug 1, 2023 14:24
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Tankbuster posted:and none of them are ilsa - she wolf of the SS It's hard to match a cinematic classic. It probably still plays on screens in western ukraine and lithuania.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:25
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Good news for Ukraine - Statements about the alleged ungratefulness of Ukrainians for Poland's help are untrue and unacceptable https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-calls-polish-envoy-over-unacceptable-comments-by-presidents-aide-2023-08-01/ Ukraine calls in Polish envoy over 'unacceptable' comments by president's aide Reuters August 1, 20239:10 PM GMT+8 Updated 8 min ago Aug 1 (Reuters) - Ukraine's foreign ministry called in Poland's ambassador to Kyiv on Tuesday over what it said were "unacceptable" comments made by the Polish president's foreign policy adviser Marcin Przydacz. "During the meeting, it was emphasized that statements about the alleged ungratefulness of Ukrainians for Poland's help are untrue and unacceptable," foreign ministry spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko said. The Polish foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Kyiv and Warsaw have been staunch allies throughout the full-scale invasion launched by Russia in February 2022. Polish media quoted Przydacz speaking on Monday about the possible extension of Poland's import ban on Ukrainian agricultural produce, and calling on Kyiv to show appreciation for the support shown to it during the war with Russia. "What is most important today is to defend the interest of the Polish farmer..," Przydacz was quoted as saying. "I think it would be worthwhile for (Kyiv) to start appreciating what role Poland has played for Ukraine over past months and years." Five central European countries, including Poland, want a European Union ban on grain imports from Ukraine to be extended at least until the end of the year. The ban is set to expire on Sept. 15. Poland would not lift the ban on Sept. 15 even if the EU did not agree on its extension, its prime minister said earlier this month. A parliamentary election is due in Poland, a NATO and EU member, later this year.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:27
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Frosted Flake posted:I wish someone could explain this, because I've noticed it too, and the English-speaking Europhile epic liberal female Nazi is a very real thing. 
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Aug 1, 2023 14:29
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Al-Saqr posted:lol why would hungary hold out theyre in the imaginary The bigger turks take care of their little brother  but are wary of the yakubian snow ape nation.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:29
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showing my gratefulness by summoning your ambassador and chewing him out
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Aug 1, 2023 14:30
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Comrade Koba posted:critical support to femen for inadvertently creating the funniest putin reaction image ever Lmao
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Aug 1, 2023 14:41
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Frosted Flake posted:
I know two examples of this IRL, both Latvian-born Russian speakers who moved to the UK, one with a highly affected posh English accent, both ostensibly liberal and flyers of the rainbow flag (nothing wrong with that in itself ofc) yet when the war started they both went full-throated in their support for Azov Heroes and I believe continue to organise funding drives, although I wouldn't know as they both very performatively unfriended me on FB last year along with a Ukrainian Canadian guy I met traveling once. Where are they coming from???
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Aug 1, 2023 14:41
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they were always there
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Aug 1, 2023 14:44
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Frosted Flake posted:“The Lynx also has a highly accurate 30mm cannon from Rheinmetall subsidiary Mauser, but it is gas operated and requires proprietary steel cased ammunition, unlike the aluminium cased rounds used by the Bushmaster. This means that in-theatre supply would probably be more complex for the Lynx because it needs its own ammunition. While the Mauser can only fire steel cased ammunition – softer aluminium risks being shredded in the breech and jamming it – the Bushmaster can use both types.” im starting to get the feeling that any well functioning military procurement system needs to have standing orders to the effect that the moment somebody even broaches the topic of proprietary ammunition said person is to be taken out back and summarily executed
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Aug 1, 2023 14:46
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the obvious bare minimum the west could have done to maintain functioning militaries is make it offlimits to the neoliberal project. But they couldn't because it is intrinsic to that project that it is perfect and not to be hidden from. To protect the military from its destructive influence is to admit that it is destructive in the first place. When it's supposed to be the perfect end of political history. The one system that cannot change for the better because it cannot be better.
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Aug 1, 2023 14:59
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Cuttlefush posted:ff whichn autocannon is best There are some incredibly engineered ones, mostly aircraft and naval guns though. I’m going to have to go with QF 1-pounder pom-pom for sheer simplicity.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:06
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Regarde Aduck posted:the obvious bare minimum the west could have done to maintain functioning militaries is make it offlimits to the neoliberal project. But they couldn't because it is intrinsic to that project that it is perfect and not to be hidden from. To protect the military from its destructive influence is to admit that it is destructive in the first place. When it's supposed to be the perfect end of political history. The one system that cannot change for the better because it cannot be better.  Also it’s probably the most profitable area for graft because no matter how much they gently caress around tax dollars will always flow in. The largest defence order in Australian history was the $8 billion they just spent for less than 200 vehicles.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:10
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Cluster bombs transferred to Ukraine exceeded expectations - expert (Trustworthy News)
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Aug 1, 2023 15:15
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Regarde Aduck posted:the obvious bare minimum the west could have done to maintain functioning militaries is make it offlimits to the neoliberal project. But they couldn't because it is intrinsic to that project that it is perfect and not to be hidden from. To protect the military from its destructive influence is to admit that it is destructive in the first place. When it's supposed to be the perfect end of political history. The one system that cannot change for the better because it cannot be better. I don't think it's that complicated; there was copper to be stripped so someone stripped it
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Aug 1, 2023 15:20
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i was just a bit overwrought because yeah it is that simple, neoliberalism is 'stripping the copper out the walls' the ideology with what is essentially a religious following
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Aug 1, 2023 15:23
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Frosted Flake posted:
are those made of solid gold
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Aug 1, 2023 15:24
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1686009465319927808?t=z6rD738FHZ4ci6PDJtvsjw&s=19 
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Aug 1, 2023 15:27
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Regarde Aduck posted:i was just a bit overwrought because yeah it is that simple, neoliberalism is 'stripping the copper out the walls' the ideology with what is essentially a religious following Well, you nailed it. Because they are only able to view what is “good” in terms of what is profitable, more profitability in the defence industry is good, and that’s all that matters.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:27
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https://twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1686311993651650562 there were THREE holodomors?? why didn't the forums tell me
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Aug 1, 2023 15:29
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:https://twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1686311993651650562
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Aug 1, 2023 15:29
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I saw a headline about some Israeli freighter "running" Russia's "blockade"
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Aug 1, 2023 15:31
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Zodium posted:diving between ff and his His phone.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:31
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:https://twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1686311993651650562 drat, holodomor inflation hits hard
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Aug 1, 2023 15:34
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the nafo guys are calling her a russian bot in the comments lol
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Aug 1, 2023 15:35
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It’s holodomor not holodoless
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Aug 1, 2023 15:35
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KomradeX posted:I saw a headline about some Israeli freighter "running" Russia's "blockade" USS Liberty 2: Repensum Est Canicula
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Aug 1, 2023 15:36
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Aug 1, 2023 15:37
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Frosted Flake posted:
The best part is this kind of poo poo always gets sold by the media as if this means it is the largest defense purchase, in terms of being a huge expansion to the military. The key bullshit word here would be "capability", as in "biggest expansion of military capability", where the assumption just is that more dollars = more capable = more expansion. If a neoliberal government spent a trillion on a single golf cart (painted green and up-armoured or otherwise) the neoliberal media would proclaim the next day that said golf cart contained more military capability than the entire combined Allied militaries of WW2 or whatever.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:38
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Regarde Aduck posted:i was just a bit overwrought because yeah it is that simple, neoliberalism is 'stripping the copper out the walls' the ideology with what is essentially a religious following but since it is ideology, the people there don't realize they are taking out the copper wiring, instead they think they are reforming the building and making it better like, almost everything in military industry immediately drives it towards a natural state monopoly, it loses advantages when under market dynamics. It creates perverse incentives right from the get-go once with any significant private share in it. Like, a state fighting a war and has to do a bidding contract to procure ammunition? That it needs a whole legal effort to make sure none of the bidders are doing cartel efforts or conspiring in any other form etc? Lol gently caress that
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:https://twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1686311993651650562 Holodomor 2: Electric Boogaloo and Holodomor 3: Holodomor with a Vengeance? Incredible. Russia trying for Holodomor 4: A New Hope, as we post.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:39
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dead gay comedy forums posted:but since it is ideology, the people there don't realize they are taking out the copper wiring, instead they think they are reforming the building and making it better Yeah but as soon as you allow the logic that one thing is better-off under state control because it avoids perverse incentives, cartels and conspiracies etc etc or even just plain is a core function of the state ensuring its own continuity, you're going to get people asking difficult questions about other things for which it would then be very difficult to argue the same logic does not hold. Like say, utilities and transport infrastructure. Edit: basically as soon as you start asking "wait, how does this actually benefit the state" and you believe the state is actually there for "the people" then, if you are intellectually honest and curious enough to keep up your inquiry and read what you find, you're going to end up at socialism. The only reason our actually existing states act differently is because they are bourgeois states, aka, they are dictatorships of the bourgeoisie and thus furthering the bourgeoisies class interests is their sole function. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 15:47 on Aug 1, 2023 |
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Aug 1, 2023 15:44
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Am shocked and disgusted to discover that this forum isn't just denying genocide, but no less than 3 historical Ukrainian genocides, plus the one that is happening right now! Making for a total of 7 genocide denials! Do you know no shame!?!
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Aug 1, 2023 15:45
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dead gay comedy forums posted:Oh, that stuff is good. The apex of that reasoning is about Heron of Alexandria and his steam engine, leading of course to "why there was no industrial revolution" which is loving lmao. Very good post. The fetishization of technology is inextricable from the fetishization of capital. Capital is dead labour, but imagined as existing separately from (above, really) that mere human activity. In the same way technology is imagined not as tool intrinsic to some process of human and social activity, but as a plug-and-play Platonic form that radiates good results by its mere presence like a magic talisman. Country needs to improve healthcare? Just airdrop some iPhones with CT scanner apps. Need a better army? Hand them some random pieces of the hotest kit. Just like the strength of an economy must obviously be measured in its accumulation and growth of capital regardless of what social good it serves, the strength of an army is obviously measured in how much advanced technology it has piled up regardless of how it performs. And the denigration of labour into imagined irrelevance before apparently self-sufficient capital will certainly continue to spread into the military as into all spheres of life under Capitalism. It's funny how much American war schools seem to obsess over Prussian ~operational art~ considering the military craftsman will inevitably go the way of the industrial craftsman.
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Orange Devil posted:Holodomor 2: Electric Boogaloo and Holodomor 3: Holodomor with a Vengeance? there were 3 holodomors, a world war, and communists executed every single ukrainian speaking member of academia and that was just from 1931-1936
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Aug 1, 2023 15:50
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Or, it's not like there is a choice between investing into weapons technology or into human military professionalism. Destroying professionalism is a goal in itself; it's Capitalism's raison d'être.
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Desiderata posted:Am shocked and disgusted to discover that this forum isn't just denying genocide, but no less than 3 historical Ukrainian genocides, plus the one that is happening right now! if you get to 10 you can exchange it for mod status
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Aug 1, 2023 15:51
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Which is how it turned out the miraculous NATO standard military created in just a few short years really just meant apps. They thought they could skip actual material reality - training, equipment, doctrine, institutions - with technology.
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Aug 1, 2023 15:52
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Vomik posted:there were 3 holodomors, a world war, and communists executed every single ukrainian speaking member of academia And even with all that still 31 million of them survived. Incredible.
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Capitalism's reason for existence is to accumulate capital, that's it. It's a very simple feedback loop.
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