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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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spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Hey guys, get yourselves some Nazi Soldiers for your model diorama.

No....it's not WWII.

https://www.nobleknight.com/Products/Russian-Ukrainian-War-Series-1to35-Master-Box

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Endman
May 18, 2010

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


spacetoaster posted:

Hey guys, get yourselves some Nazi Soldiers for your model diorama.

No....it's not WWII.

https://www.nobleknight.com/Products/Russian-Ukrainian-War-Series-1to35-Master-Box



The loving refugee children box set, good lord

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
ukraine must have had most of the soviet union's plastic injection plants, they have four major model companies whereas russia just has zvezda

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

spacetoaster posted:

Hey guys, get yourselves some Nazi Soldiers for your model diorama.

No....it's not WWII.

https://www.nobleknight.com/Products/Russian-Ukrainian-War-Series-1to35-Master-Box



https://www.nobleknight.com/P/2148047048/Bucha-Clean-Up-April-2022

This one looks ominous.

Dukemont
Aug 17, 2005
chocolate microscopes

clean-up ie. murder “collaborators”

wasn’t it the tornado battalion or some other explicitly nazi unit that got there first?

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Dukemont posted:

clean-up ie. murder “collaborators”

wasn’t it the tornado battalion or some other explicitly nazi unit that got there first?

Special regiment Safari of the Ukrainian national police.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014


Yes that does.


I checked out their website. They're making more models for the Ukraine war.

https://www.mbltd.info/

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

The Top G posted:

Was your copy printed in this Wingdings-rear end font too?



I read my copy through ebook service Everand (formerly known as Scribd) so it looks like this on my browser:



(highlights added by myself)

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

I read my copy through ebook service Everand (formerly known as Scribd) so it looks like this on my browser:



(highlights added by myself)

still find it hard to believe the soviets were so easily and willingly bamboozled by the west during the negotiations to dissolve the soviet union. I know gorby really, really wanted to be in a pizza hut commercial but is that everything? Why would you trust at all the promise of someone who hated you so profoundly that they would literally destroy the world? Why surrender every advantage, every defense against the former, implacable enemy changing their mind and simply not living up to their side of the agreement?

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

I guess by the time 1990 rolled around the soviet elites were devoted to tearing up the soviet union and didn't care how it happened

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
I mean there are plenty of liberal English-speaking Russians who desire nothing more for Russia to collapse. It happens.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Look at the rest of europe, always going westward.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/lingerence/status/1722808348142153821

yellowcar
Feb 14, 2010

those are some of the shittiest tattoos i have ever seen

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy


Walking into a Ukraine parlour:
Hello yes I would like your Hitler tattoo please. But can you make his neck look extra fat?

Clip-On Fedora
Feb 20, 2011

Hey guys, check out my hand Hitler. Wanna see it do... the verboten spider dance ;)

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

i can't fix her

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

https://twitter.com/vicktop55/status/1722652275015905402

Grem
Mar 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 25 days!
What happened to the pilots whose plane they flew was destroyed by Russia in the like the first hour of the war? Do they just get to sit around and collect a paycheck?

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Grem posted:

What happened to the pilots whose plane they flew was destroyed by Russia in the like the first hour of the war? Do they just get to sit around and collect a paycheck?

They get a rifle shoved in their hands and pointed towards the frontline meatgrinder to see if the Russian artillery still works.

A couple went to the USA to learn the ways of the F16. One returning Ace was shot down immediately on his first flight back in Ukraine. Like, immediately. Also the one called Juice had a mid-air collision with another guy. Who was at fault, who knows.

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
i feel like either juice or the partaking of a different kind of juice might be responsible

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Cerebral Bore posted:

i feel like either juice or the partaking of a different kind of juice might be responsible

In the supplied photos he did look a bit on a lot of things yeah. Strung out enough you could probably reel his plane back to base using a winch.

evilmiera
Dec 14, 2009

Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

"disarm" doing a lotta heavy lifting there, so to speak

BearsBearsBears
Aug 4, 2022

Grem posted:

What happened to the pilots whose plane they flew was destroyed by Russia in the like the first hour of the war? Do they just get to sit around and collect a paycheck?

DancingShade posted:

They get a rifle shoved in their hands and pointed towards the frontline meatgrinder to see if the Russian artillery still works.

A couple went to the USA to learn the ways of the F16. One returning Ace was shot down immediately on his first flight back in Ukraine. Like, immediately. Also the one called Juice had a mid-air collision with another guy. Who was at fault, who knows.

I don't think the pilots are being turned into infantry. The ground crews are though. Source is a bit spotty so take it as it is.
https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1695939205279424569

Herbert Stencil
Aug 25, 2023

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
if there's any oversight left at all they probably need to have at least a few pilots left if they're going to base a lot of their state's continued existence on begging for planes from america

i could see them still trying it after sending all the pilots to get killed by artillery but even that might be a step too far

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Grem posted:

What happened to the pilots whose plane they flew was destroyed by Russia in the like the first hour of the war? Do they just get to sit around and collect a paycheck?

not exactly an answer to your question, I just like book-posting.

from Buttar's "Meat Grinder":




Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe
fill one more square on the desperately scraping the barrel for manpower bingo card, i guess

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

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

Cerebral Bore posted:

i can't fix her

2 to the back of the head should do it

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

how long until interviews have to be conducted using a balaclava, as in, the war survivors left to the interviewed seem to be increasing in their politics

Jel Shaker has issued a correction as of 10:33 on Nov 10, 2023

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

Cerebral Bore posted:

i can't fix her

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

DancingShade
Jul 26, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

Jel Shaker posted:

how long until interviews have to be conducted using a balaclava, as in, the war survivors left to the interviewed seem to be increasing in their politics

Fortunately Hugo Boss sell balaclavas.

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

dead gay comedy forums posted:

What I'd argue going from what was learned (and in other discussions we had elsewhere here) was that the intent lacked more substantial efforts. The OGAS theoreticians and the technical-scientific Leninist line of political economists were warning and elaborating on the need to develop the technical means of planning, because the computational costs and technical lag were causing cascading overhead costs. This then goes into the bureaucratic-political quagmire, where divergent forces ("khruschevists", old stalinists, cryptoliberals etc) had trouble understanding the "scientific" part of scientific socialism, to say the least

Also, on the theoretical front, Brezhnev failed. I don't think I have seen anyone reference him in a significant work of Marxism. Hoxha gets more cred than him there lmao

I appreciate this read-back, by the way. I tend to agree that, setting aside the deliberate attempt to bury Brezhnev-era "Developed Socialism" as a school of thought, I didn't get the impression that there was a lot of impetus behind it beyond its establishment.

The Top G
Jul 19, 2023

by Fluffdaddy

gradenko_2000 posted:

I read my copy through ebook service Everand (formerly known as Scribd) so it looks like this on my browser:



(highlights added by myself)

Frustrating. It’s a great book, thanks for suggesting it, but th online edition I checked out from my local library seems to be bugging out. Looks like I’ll have to wait for the physical copy to be returned.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Luftwaffe Field Divisions also famously worked out really well.

supersnowman
Oct 3, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

Luftwaffe Field Divisions also famously worked out really well.

Goering didn't lose control over his men so it achieved the objective. Effort to win the war were secondary objectives.

VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"
I just found out pretty recently that Ukraine supporters claim that there were 100,000+ civilian casualties in the siege of Mariupol

....where on earth are they getting that number from

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

VoicesCanBe posted:

I just found out pretty recently that Ukraine supporters claim that there were 100,000+ civilian casualties in the siege of Mariupol

....where on earth are they getting that number from

Just like the "Holodomor", Gaza +1, I would imagine.

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VoicesCanBe
Jul 1, 2023

"Cóż, wygląda na to, że zostaliśmy łaskawie oszczędzeni trudu decydowania o własnym losie. Jakże uprzejme z ich strony, że przearanżowali Europę bez kłopotu naszego zdania!"

Frosted Flake posted:

Just like the "Holodomor", Gaza +1, I would imagine.

This has come up recently in the context of the UN's confirmed civilian deaths in Gaza coming close to surpassing Ukraine's, so yeah I guess the point is to claim there's a huge uncounted civilian death toll.

Maybe they're using the same playbook as Israel and claiming military dead are actually civilians.

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