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Tai posted:Now we know why russian soldiers are short on rations 
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Sep 12, 2023 18:25
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Drone_Fragger posted:Jokes aside would not be shocked if he has an eating disorder thats been bought on or encouraged by stress caused by the risk the FSB abducts him to like, moscow, or something, so he suffers an "accident", caused by his failure to win the war with Ukraine in 3 days. Serious question: Have Kadyrov's TikTok stormtroopers done anything of actual note thus far? Last I heard they were trying to take up Wagner's job and failing miserably.
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Sep 12, 2023 18:35
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No worries, the replacement token fat dictator just arrived: https://twitter.com/Kremlinpool_RIA/status/1701577404815208926#m
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Sep 12, 2023 18:38
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CommissarMega posted:Serious question: Have Kadyrov's TikTok stormtroopers done anything of actual note thus far? Last I heard they were trying to take up Wagner's job and failing miserably. I don’t believe so, and they even dragged rear end (or it certainly appeared that way) to avoid getting their poo poo kicked in by Wagner during the coup. I would think a force that absorbs resources and arms but is good for nothing other than terrorizing its own citizenry to keep them in line would be a luxury you could afford in peacetime but that Putin might start to take a harder look at when you are casting about for new meat for the grinder. If they had at least demonstrated value to be a palace guard and keep Putin’s own rear end safe that would be worth something, but they failed miserably there too.
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Sep 12, 2023 18:44
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CommissarMega posted:Serious question: Have Kadyrov's TikTok stormtroopers done anything of actual note thus far? Last I heard they were trying to take up Wagner's job and failing miserably. Losing spectacularly in the battles for Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, and to a lesser extent near Bakhmut, but nothing else besides that
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Sep 12, 2023 19:01
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HonorableTB posted:https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1701340210003329336?t=qrq95y8GMiU1fyDlfe2y7Q&s=19
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Sep 12, 2023 19:01
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Yeltsin was such a caricature of every Russian stereotype, it owned. I would've loved to party down with boris (but only once, I couldn't take that multiple times)
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Sep 12, 2023 19:10
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Payndz posted:Wandering around in your PJs while off your face in your own capital city? Pfft, amateur. Yeltsin did it in Washington DC. Oh my god, its true. And then when he was gently coaxed backed to the white house guest house he tried to do the same thing the next day, which resulted in the secret service nearly smoking him because they thought he was a drunken homeless man whod broken into the guest house basement 
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Sep 12, 2023 19:10
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Drone_Fragger posted:Jokes aside would not be shocked if he has an eating disorder thats been bought on or encouraged by stress caused by the risk the FSB abducts him to like, moscow, or something, so he suffers an "accident", caused by his failure to win the war with Ukraine in 3 days. Honestly Putin probably is well aware the tik tok warriors are a joke but Ramzan useful idiot in that he is a brutal shithead who is fine with torturing and killing political rivals and oppressing dissent for Putin. It's all about appearances though, posting tik toks of guys shooting into the bushes is fine, Ramzan drunk in his pajamas is not. CommissarMega posted:Serious question: Have Kadyrov's TikTok stormtroopers done anything of actual note thus far? Last I heard they were trying to take up Wagner's job and failing miserably. I mean they have given military instructors lots of great videos on what not to do. Every video I saw of them actually making contact with the enemy was just pathetic.
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Sep 12, 2023 19:17
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Payndz posted:Wandering around in your PJs while off your face in your own capital city? Pfft, amateur. Yeltsin did it in Washington DC. He just had the munchies for some pizza: quote:“Secret Service agents discovered Yeltsin alone on Pennsylvania Avenue, dead drunk, clad in his underwear, yelling for a taxi,” Branch wrote in his book. “Yeltsin slurred his words in a loud argument with the baffled agents. He did not want to go back into Blair House, where he was staying. He wanted a taxi to go out for pizza.”
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Sep 12, 2023 19:19
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B-Rock452 posted:Honestly Putin probably is well aware the tik tok warriors are a joke but Ramzan useful idiot in that he is a brutal shithead who is fine with torturing and killing political rivals and oppressing dissent for Putin. It's all about appearances though, posting tik toks of guys shooting into the bushes is fine, Ramzan drunk in his pajamas is not. It's pathetic when they aren't making contact with the enemy too. I think I remember the shooting-the-bushes video you're talking about, they're just walking down a path and then without saying anything one guy (and then the rest) start lighting up the shrubs to their right while still walking forwards at a leisurely clip? I mean sure there are more/better lessons from actual contact but I had uh several notes about the walking around one too.
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Sep 12, 2023 19:22
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Sep 12, 2023 19:27
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https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1701557530797687098 
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Sep 12, 2023 19:56
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Russia must act, withdrawing their forces to the 2013 lines and holding immediate armistice talks. Anything less is unserious.
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Sep 12, 2023 20:20
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I don't think Kadyrov could have put on that much weight since we last saw him looking normally. Even if you ate nothing but pizza and beer while not exercising I don't think you could pull that much off. He looks bloated from a medical condition (alcoholism is a medical condition i suppose)
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Sep 12, 2023 20:34
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https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1701327903651139958#m https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/11/world/ukraine-russia-decoy-weapons-intl/index.html quote:They are created with one single aim in mind: to be destroyed as quickly as possible. And in that, the steelworks company behind them boasts, these decoy weapons are remarkably successful: hundreds have been targeted by Russian forces almost as soon as they were deployed. 
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Sep 12, 2023 21:39
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zone posted:So far, he says, many hundreds have been destroyed and the company is struggling to keep up with the army’s demand. Now we know where Putin got his numbers of destroyed equipment from.
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Sep 12, 2023 21:48
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fatherboxx posted:I have recently learned that in the past ten years Russian airlines deliberately headhunted most military pilots straight from pilot schools. Military pilot doing bombing runs in Syria would get 100 000 rubles monthly salary (1,5k usd on prewar rates, barely above median federal salary, now are certainly higher because even cannon fodder mobiks get 200k+, but too late) while civilian pilots are paid 500k monthly. Various SEA airlines also have been offering competetive rates. tbf,  ditching an A320 in a field with complete hydraulic failure is some impressive piloting. There are not enough  in the world to describe the idea of a loving Airbus A320 ditching in a field because of mechanical failure. As much as Spirit and Frontier are poo poo-tier airlines, nobody is genuinely worried their SFO-ATX flight is going to have to The_Franz posted:No worries, the replacement token fat dictator just arrived: I've always wondered why they go with these ancient marching arrangements. They're dictators, they could have a Queen cover band play We Are The Champions while they walk out, or a full orchestra play the intro to Star Wars, because they're dictators, wtf is someone going to sue them for copyright infringement? Vampire Panties fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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Sep 12, 2023 21:51
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Vampire Panties posted:tbf, My guess is that that airframe isn't going anywhere from that field, besides being stripped for donor parts and cut to pieces. Too bad that the sanctions do not work, and that Tupolev was stripped down and grifted between the oligarch, as it seems that Russia sure could use a national company that can build airplane spare parts, even less than ideal jury rigged and reverse engineered ones, right about now.
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Sep 12, 2023 21:56
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dictators, including monarchs, have a lot harder time w legitimacy than democratically elected peeps. so they have more bling and theyre more conservative w the bling and theyre more constrained in how they have to behave wrt showing legitimacy
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Sep 12, 2023 22:01
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mohammed bin salman is forced to dress exactly like ibn saud, his ancestor. exactly or consider jadwiga of poland, who was a woman but had to be considered regnant and therefore took the title of king, not queen or consider the kim dynasty of north korea, who didnt have the ancient capital (seoul) so they took the moderately less ancient capital pyeongyang and made up poo poo about being heaven sent from baekdusan just like the joseon and goryeo did (because dangun wanggum is supposed to have been born of a bear there) despite the ostensible marxism bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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Sep 12, 2023 22:03
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The_Franz posted:He just had the munchies for some pizza: I forget who it was that got drunk with Nixon and disappeared around Camp David for a round of drunk driving.
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Sep 12, 2023 22:05
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maybe fat kadyrov will eat a gun
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Sep 12, 2023 22:10
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bob dobbs is dead posted:
If you told me this was an except from a Dr Seuss book, I would have believed you
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Sep 12, 2023 22:20
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zone posted:https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1701327903651139958#m I bet making those decoys is a pretty fun and satisfying job. 
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Sep 12, 2023 22:21
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Flyinglemur posted:If you told me this was an except from a Dr Seuss book, I would have believed you but if you are a korean king you gotta go hard at this kinda crap russian dictator, you gotta go hard at classical music and dead russian authors and ballet and poo poo whereas democratic leaders can just be vaguely normal bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Sep 12, 2023 |
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Sep 12, 2023 22:23
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bob dobbs is dead posted:whereas democratic leaders can just be vaguely normal someone remind me which british prime minister it was that hosed the pig as part of fraternity rituals
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Sep 12, 2023 22:38
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HonorableTB posted:someone remind me which british prime minister it was that hosed the pig as part of fraternity rituals David Cameron
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Sep 12, 2023 22:38
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TEMPLE GRANDIN OS posted:maybe fat kadyrov will eat a gun Shocking twist, Kadyrov gave himself obesity so the FSB agents can't hoist his bloated frame up stairs, let alone out of a 7th story window he was tragically inspecting.
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Sep 12, 2023 22:41
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HonorableTB posted:someone remind me which british prime minister it was that hosed the pig as part of fraternity rituals That's normal in Britain. Meanwhile:  Anyway, bob dobbs is dead is correct, autocrats lean hard into pageantry and show, very much like a feudal ruler. It's what happens when your authority and legitimisation stems from your ability to project power, instead of a democratic mandate.
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Sep 12, 2023 22:47
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https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1701711364442513866#m oops.
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Sep 12, 2023 22:48
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ORF.at posted:According to Russian media reports, two ponies belonging to ex-Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl have been brought to Russia on a Russian military transport plane. The online platform The Insider writes that two ponies landed at Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg on Saturday. They were transported by an Ilyushin Il-76, which, according to its registration number, belongs to the Russian Ministry of Defence. Presented without comment.
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Sep 12, 2023 22:55
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Antigravitas posted:Anyway, bob dobbs is dead is correct, autocrats lean hard into pageantry and show, very much like a feudal ruler. It's what happens when your authority and legitimisation stems from your ability to project power, instead of a democratic mandate. This is a very valuable Youtube to watch, it is 20 minutes well spent in order to better understand the mindset of people like Putin and Lukashenka, which imo is critical to understanding this war on a fundamental level. It is informative and it's pretty amusing too. Pro click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
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Sep 12, 2023 22:57
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fresh from the spigot for putin the bigot
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Sep 12, 2023 23:25
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I'm praying to Jesus that kadyrov makes it out okay
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Sep 12, 2023 23:27
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all of these random fires i have to wonder what the actual distribution of causes are like ok, smoking accidents, yeah i am positive there's plenty of those. terrible maintenance being revealed by wartime shortages and stressors, absolutely. a lot are also undoubtedly due to ukranian drones, though a TV station would be outside their usual targets. the part that i am curious about is cyberattacks. if you're using software, especially industrial software, poorly and don't have manual/hardware failsafes, some hacking can absolutely cause a gas valve to get stuck open and whoopsie poosums you're a spark away from a gas fire. the thing is, because russia's been so huge about DoMiNaNcE oF cYb0r and the perpetrators aren't really going to be interested in claiming responsibility for cyberattacks (because that increases the chances of the vulnerabilities getting fixed), everyone involved in a cyberattack wouldn't say a drat thing about it. i can't help but wonder how many of these fires are someone hacking various gibsons around moscow.
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Sep 12, 2023 23:50
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Sounds like a question that’s perfect for Russia’s meticulous and thorough set of public incident records to answer
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Sep 13, 2023 00:24
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They're just drones for the most part.
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Sep 13, 2023 00:26
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Drone_Fragger posted:Shocking twist, Kadyrov gave himself obesity so the FSB agents can't hoist his bloated frame up stairs, let alone out of a 7th story window he was tragically inspecting. Fat people are hard to
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