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What is the most powerful flying bug?
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🦋 15 3.71%
🦇 115 28.47%
🪰 12 2.97%
🐦 67 16.58%
dragonfly 94 23.27%
🦟 14 3.47%
🐝 87 21.53%
Total: 404 votes
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Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1uTsqJVAeo

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Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

euphronius posted:

Think about it: An army invades Russia, race right up to Moscow, and no one gets hurt? With just a few thousand men, it achieved what Hitler with almost a million men wasn‘t able to?” she wrote.

omg even Hitler couldn’t do it ?!

Almost a million? Wtf the Axis invaded with like what? 1.6 million men? And then added more from there.

ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

Isn't saying holodomor genocide similar to saying chai tea or koi carp?

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020

Frosted Flake posted:

The Russian Military Intervention in Syria, Geukjian

Hell yeah. Now I can watch my kid trash the playground in peace.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

ughhhh posted:

Isn't saying holodomor genocide similar to saying chai tea or koi carp?

They know the holodomor wasn't a genocide, op

OctaMurk
Jun 21, 2013
Per a WP article on F-16s today, the UK apparently offered to train Ukrainian pilots on Typhoons (and presumably give them typhoons at some point?) but the Ukrainians wants F-16s instead, I would guess because theres a lot more spare parts and training available for F-16s than for Typhoons

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique


I see they finally have enough carbohydrates

Marenghi
Oct 16, 2008

Don't trust the liberals,
they will betray you

ughhhh posted:

Isn't saying holodomor genocide similar to saying chai tea or koi carp?

It's a double genocide.

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?
going to drunk drive the holodomor bus

Akaiku
May 17, 2013

Frosted Flake posted:

I see they finally have enough carbohydrates

do not step on this rake

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

Cerebral Bore posted:

anyway, i kinda missed a lot of the recent conversation, so sorry if i'm belaboring the obvious, but it's actually kinda wild that the west has created a culture of governance where openly refusing to acknowledge inconvenient facts is not only acceptable but basically a requirement

i suppose it's not that unusual in dying empires, but still


C P Cavafy posted:

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?

The barbarians are due here today.


Why isn’t anything going on in the senate?
Why are the senators sitting there without legislating?

Because the barbarians are coming today.
What’s the point of senators making laws now?
Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating.


Why did our emperor get up so early,
and why is he sitting enthroned at the city’s main gate,
in state, wearing the crown?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and the emperor’s waiting to receive their leader.
He’s even got a scroll to give him,
loaded with titles, with imposing names.


Why have our two consuls and praetors come out today
wearing their embroidered, their scarlet togas?
Why have they put on bracelets with so many amethysts,
rings sparkling with magnificent emeralds?
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and things like that dazzle the barbarians.


Why don’t our distinguished orators turn up as usual
to make their speeches, say what they have to say?

Because the barbarians are coming today
and they’re bored by rhetoric and public speaking.


Why this sudden bewilderment, this confusion?
(How serious people’s faces have become.)
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought?

Because night has fallen and the barbarians haven't come.
And some of our men just in from the border say
there are no barbarians any longer.


Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution.

DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017


Wtf even is Vogue? I thought it was a fashion magazine.

Regarde Aduck
Oct 19, 2012

c l o u d k i t t e n
Grimey Drawer
turns out every piece of western media was an op

wynott dunn
Aug 9, 2006

What is to be done?

Who or what can challenge, and stand a chance at beating, the corporate juggernauts dominating the world?
gently caress, my oma was right

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


lmao come on my posters

https://vogue.ua/article/vogueuainenglish/ukrainian-vogue-presents-its-2023-summer-issue-53067.html

Popy
Feb 19, 2008

sorry my copy of vogue ukraine didnt come in yet

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012

I thought the holodomor ended

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

oh this wasn’t a Holodomor “museum”

January 6 Survivor
Jan 6, 2022

The
Nelson Mandela
of clapping
dusty old cheeks


( o(

ughhhh posted:

Isn't saying holodomor genocide similar to saying chai tea or koi carp?

chai tea refers to a specific way to brew tea that is not the commonly used way in parts of the world where people say "chai tea"
koi carp refers to a several kinds of carps bred for the colors and patterns on their skins

and holodomor refers to a specific kind of genocide in that it didn't happen

so yeah in a way

Marenghi
Oct 16, 2008

Don't trust the liberals,
they will betray you

Regarde Aduck posted:

turns out every piece of western media was an op

Vogues owned by Conde Nest, the same company that owns reddit who's most active user until her arrest was Ghislaine Maxwell. They also own the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, among others.
In 2003 a Vanity Fair journalist was contacted by 2 young women who claimed to have been abused by Jeffrey Epstein, she had a story ready to run exposing him but her editor killed it. Epstein had connections to the top brass and managed to get the story squashed.

So at least there's Conde Nest and all the media they own which stinks of an op. Between reddit being the CIA's modern Radio Free America for the youth, and the Maxwell/Epstein/Intelligence connections.

Akaiku posted:

do not step on this rake

There's just too many good famine jokes to be made but I don't want to give in to lazy fatphobia.

But given it was just a month ago RFA reported she was planning to sue trolls online for making comments about her appearance in relation to being director the Holodomor Museum, being on the cover of Vogue seems like a Honeypot. It's a trap so they can say tankies are fatphobic trolls.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-holodomor-museum-lawsuit-bullying/32522875.html

Marenghi has issued a correction as of 22:13 on Aug 12, 2023

BearsBearsBears
Aug 4, 2022

DiscountDildos posted:

Wtf even is Vogue? I thought it was a fashion magazine.

I don't know about Vogue but Teen Vogue is somehow the leading socialist magazine in the United States.

What 'Capitalism' Is and How It Affects People
Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar
The Red Scare: How Joseph McCarthy’s Anti-Communist Hysteria Left a Mark on the U.S.
Teen Vogue is Fundraising to Buy and Restore an Armored Train
Tear Gas and Pepper Spray: What to Do if You're Exposed
Socialist Feminism: What Is It and How Can It Replace Corporate ‘Girl Boss’ Feminism?
What Is Democratic Socialism and Why Is It So Popular?

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021


cavafy ftw

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003

my girl looking like she ate all the grain






is probably what the bullies are saying

Egg Moron
Jul 21, 2003

the dreams of the delighting void

I’m just asking about how Someone posted a theory online about how the holodomer victims were all just standing behind her the whole time ?

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die



this is a trap, it has to be

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

thinking about the teen vogue gang tags here and laughing

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

why gritty is the socialist icon we deserve

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

stephenthinkpad posted:

FF, what's the title of the good book you mentioned many pages back about Russia involvement in Syria? I hope it is on libgen.

For future reference, it's on

https://annas-archive.org/

Isentropy posted:

someone needs to figure out how to make a list of all the books he’s recommended

sadly the one about the Algerian civil war wasn’t on there because I’d love to hear about the Algerian army apparently doing Gladio to deal with the political islamists (???)

Both on there for me at

https://libgen.li/

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


if it’s a socialist publication or organisation in America and its members haven’t had their teeth kicked in by police/been murdered by the FBI, then it’s either a spook-filled trap or so ineffectual that the state leaves it intact to misdirect energy away from anything real

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Endman posted:

if it’s a socialist publication or organisation in America and its members haven’t had their teeth kicked in by police/been murdered by the FBI, then it’s either a spook-filled trap or so ineffectual that the state leaves it intact to misdirect energy away from anything real

And/or they are pretty much just sheepdog organizations/publications that will bring younger voters "home" to their natural place.

Most of the articles there were printed in the run up for the 2020 elections.

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

OctaMurk posted:

Per a WP article on F-16s today, the UK apparently offered to train Ukrainian pilots on Typhoons (and presumably give them typhoons at some point?) but the Ukrainians wants F-16s instead, I would guess because theres a lot more spare parts and training available for F-16s than for Typhoons

The brass must have liked



Over



Which lol


quote:

The story of the game posits Russia quickly invading the eastern countries of Europe. Iceland is the next one on the list, as NATO has abandoned the country in an attempt to protect the Western countries of Europe. The ICEFOR is outnumbered, but is able to deploy a small number of the new Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft to turn the tide of the war. The game also features a very extensive virtual battleground over Iceland, some of the most advanced created at the time. A dynamic camera enables watch the war in real-time. As the war unfolds, news will be delivered by an online newspaper.

The game allows the player to take over the destiny of six pilots. Each one will be assigned different missions depending on their abilities such as bombing, interception, Wild Weasel, with several of these missions even going on at the same time. The player can switch at any time between pilots, taking charge of the most critical and dangerous tasks of the mission, and leaving up to the AI the others. As the war goes on, each pilot can be injured, lost behind enemy lines after an unlucky ejection and waiting for the rescue helicopters, or taken prisoner and even be interrogated by the Russians.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

I’d like to report a suspect in the case of the missing grain

HallelujahLee
May 3, 2009

nixon voice "mr stalin we have found the cause of the holodomer"

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Please do not fall into the comically obvious open manhole with the “making fun of the fat lady” sign pointing to it

0 rows returned
Apr 9, 2007

what kind of exhibits does a holodomor genocide museum have anyway

real question

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
A lot of people actually died during the 1932-33 famine, it wasn't exactly a pretty era of history, the issue is the context in which that period in presented.

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Bad news for Russia - By the admission of Russia's own state propaganda outfit TASS, a Russian Su-30 fighter jet has crashed in Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad Region during a training flight due to technical malfunction, killing all crew members aboard, and testimony to Russia's own-going incompetence and/or the ingenuity of Ukrainian sabotage programme


https://tass.com/emergencies/1659591

Su-30 crashes in Kaliningrad Region, crew killed - Western Military District
12 Aug, 23:06

MOSCOW, August 12. /TASS/. A Su-30 fighter jet crashed in Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad Region during a training flight, the crew were killed, the Western Military District told reporters.

"On August 12, a Su-30 aircraft crashed in an uninhabited area while flying a training sortie in the Kaliningrad Region," the Military District said, adding that the flight was performed without ammunition.

"The fighter crew died. According to preliminary information, the crash was caused by a technical malfunction," the district said.

The Su-30 is a Russian two-seat, multirole heavy fighter aircraft. In the mid-1990s, an export version of the fighter, the Su-30K (‘commercial’), was developed based on the Su-30.

nigel thornberry
Jul 29, 2013

lol remember in April when the US army had to ground all aviation cause they couldn’t stop crashing helicopters

fizzy
Dec 2, 2022

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Bad news for Russia - Russia continues to be unable to stop Ukraine from firing missiles at the vital bridge connecting occupied Crimea to Russia. Ukraine only needs to be lucky once, but Russia needs to be lucky every time. Eventually, the bridge will go down and the Russian occupation force in Crimea will be cut off.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/12/ukraine-fires-missiles-at-kerch-bridge-connecting-crimea-to-russia

Ukraine fires missiles at Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea to Russia
Daniel Boffey in Kyiv
Sat 12 Aug 2023 15.54 BST

Ukrainian forces fired three missiles at the bridge connecting occupied Crimea to Russia, forcing Russian authorities to cover the structure in white smoke to deter further attacks and prompting a furious threat of retaliation.

In the latest example of Kyiv taking the war to Russia, multiple guided S-200 rockets were fired at Kerch Bridge but they were seemingly shot down by local air defences.

A further 20 Ukrainian unmanned drones attacked targets in Crimea, the Ukrainian territory illegally annexed by the Kremlin in 2014, but Russian officials said they had also been successfully neutralised.

Russia’s foreign ministry condemned what they described as a terrorist attack and warned that it would not go unanswered.

White smoke was seen billowing from the bridge on Saturday morning but Russian air defence forces said they downed the Ukrainian missiles. The cloud of smoke was said to have been deployed in an attempt to deter a further attack.

“Air defence forces shot down two enemy missiles over the Kerch Strait. The [bridge] was not damaged,” said Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed governor of the Crimean peninsula, as he urged those living in Crimea to remain calm.

He later said that a third had been downed over the Kerch Strait.

Interfax news agency reported that the bridge had been briefly shut to traffic but that it had later reopened.

Of the 20 unmanned drones launched at targets in Crimea, 14 were downed by air defence systems and six more through electronic warfare, the Russian defence ministry said.

Kerch Bridge, which is the only direct link between the transport network of Russia and the Crimean peninsula, was a flagship project for Vladimir Putin, who opened it for road traffic to great fanfare by driving a truck across in 2018.

It was badly damaged last October in a blast that Russian officials said was caused by a truck that blew up while crossing it. Three people were killed. Ukraine’s SBU domestic intelligence agency later claimed responsibility for the sabotage operation.

Also on Saturday, a Russian warplane crashed in the Kaliningrad region, a Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea located between Lithuania and Poland, during a training mission, killing the two pilots on board.

“The Su-30 aircraft crashed in a deserted area,” the local military authorities said. “The flight was carried out without ammunition. The crew died.”

According to officials, a technical malfunction was the likely cause.

In south Ukraine, several beaches in the Black Sea city of Odesa were officially opened for swimming for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion.

Until now the local authorities had banned swimming due to the risk of mines in the sea washing up near bathers. Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port and naval base, has been repeatedly attacked with missiles and drones and the sea was littered with hundreds of sea mines as a result of the invasion in February last year.

The governor of Odesa, Oleh Kiper, said on the social media platform Telegram that the decision to open the beaches had been made jointly by the city’s civilian and military administrations.

He said the beaches would be open from 8am to 8pm but would close when air raid sirens were sounded. Nets have been set up to catch sea mines that might otherwise end up close to shore.

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Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

fizzy posted:

Bad news for Russia - Russia continues to be unable to stop Ukraine from firing missiles at the vital bridge connecting occupied Crimea to Russia. Ukraine only needs to be lucky once, but Russia needs to be lucky every time. Eventually, the bridge will go down and the Russian occupation force in Crimea will be cut off.

Didn't the IRA say the same thing about Thatcher? :thunk:

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