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I think there's a big red button on top of those turrets that you push to shoot out a little plastic missile
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Nov 12, 2023 12:17
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Lammasu posted:Since second in line to the U.S. Presidency and young Earth creationist Mike Johnson is attending a conference in Paris are other right-wing movements in Europe as religious? There's definitely a large throughline of "traditional values" running through many of them, which often includes saying they are christian as gently caress, largely as a cudgel against non-christian immigrants and other people they don't like and view as incompatible with the CORRECT CHRISTIAN values. I'm not a huge expert on the topic or anything, so take this with a grain of salt, but it feels like a somewhat recent thing. For instance here in Finland our far right loonies were traditionally either anti-religion, or outright self-proclaimed satanists, probably because back in those days that was how you rebelled against the still mainstream (although not nearly to the level as in the United States) establishment, and how their idols were still literal nazis. It would be interesting to look into how this shift in their politics came about. Undoubtedly some of it is just them aping their new idols, the American alt righters and republicans, and their paymasters, the "pro-christian" Russian government. It's kinda wild how many of them have just blatantly stolen American alt right rhetoric and talking points, and parrot them either directly, or by just replacing "the democrats" with whatever political group they don't like. Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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Nov 12, 2023 12:17
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I feel like our politics in Sweden are just getting dumber every year and it's becoming more of a circus like America so it probably won't be long until we have a christian fundamentalist ruling us here as well
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Nov 12, 2023 12:19
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Der Kyhe posted:The one thing everyone should have picked up by now, after two years of this war and seeing how the Russian disinformation and propaganda system operates, is that you never should take any war-related news at face value, if its A) something that is completely out of line from the other sources and B) if it comes from source that has a connection to the Russian government. I didn't read the article, but the Andromeda yacht/Ukraine theory is also what the German criminal investigation is mostly focusing on and AFAIK the only theory that produced physical evidence. khwarezm posted:Boohoo that they got the Germans to go cold turkey on their Russian gas addiction. It didn't. Russia had already stopped gas deliveries through NS by then and the sabotage didn't even destroy all the pipelines. AFAIK Russia and Germany can still resume deliveries through the remaining NS2 line at any time, if they both want it. Overall, I think the government and the majority of the population didn't give much of a poo poo about the pipeline explosion. A lot were even happy that it was gone since it's now considered one of the worst political mistakes in decades. If it really turns out to have been Ukraine, the fallout will probably be pretty limited.
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Nov 12, 2023 12:46
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you're telling me that Ukraine might have sabotaged some infrastructure of the enemy that is invading them? how outrageous (???) btw germany is set to double their aid to ukraine so i feel like they don't really mind quote:FRANKFURT, Nov 11 (Reuters) - German chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition has agreed in principle to double the country's military aid for Ukraine next year to 8 billion euros ($8.5 billion), a political source in Berlin said on Sunday.
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Nov 12, 2023 13:37
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Right wing Euros love Christian fascism especially Russia who is the god king of it.
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Nov 12, 2023 14:50
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Looks like Russia had another adventure in Avdiivka again. Similar outcome as before.
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Nov 12, 2023 15:25
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Putin is a real piece of poo poo.
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Nov 12, 2023 15:27
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What are odds the russians will bakhmut avdiivka?
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Nov 12, 2023 15:28
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Der Kyhe posted:The one thing everyone should have picked up by now, after two years of this war and seeing how the Russian disinformation and propaganda system operates, is that you never should take any war-related news at face value, if its A) something that is completely out of line from the other sources and B) if it comes from source that has a connection to the Russian government. I'm more referencing the fact that you've also posted multiple times about how the Hamas attack was orchestrated by Russia among other weird conspiracy theories. Unless I'm confusing you with someone else, in which case I apologize.
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Nov 12, 2023 15:35
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Sedgr posted:Putin is a real piece of poo poo.
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Nov 12, 2023 15:36
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Oscar Wilde Bunch posted:I blew up the pipeline. It was me. I AM the pipeline  
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Nov 12, 2023 15:38
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Toxic Mental posted:It's pretty insane that someone that zealously religion actually gets elected to positions of power in the late 2010s Why is it insane? The majority of Americans are religious, after all. I think it’s normal and even expected that a constituency would elect a politician that reflects their personal beliefs. Yes, on the internet it may seem as though everyone is a rational thinking atheist like yourself, but if you were to go out and talk to people IRL, you might find a different outcome 
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Nov 12, 2023 15:54
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New Perun video dropped. This is a sequel to the gamechanger systems appraisal video released three weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaWVrphbHXI In the video, Perun rates the following systems:
Jasper Tin Neck fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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Nov 12, 2023 15:59
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EasilyConfused posted:I'm more referencing the fact that you've also posted multiple times about how the Hamas attack was orchestrated by Russia among other weird conspiracy theories. Sure. If you cherry-pick the stuff I have written and deliberately misunderstand things then why not. Hamas, Iran and Russia are practically allies, or at least seem to help each other to a very large extent. Or are you saying that for example those Hamas-Russia meetings that were reported did not take place, or that Russia isn't benefiting from the global attention turning to other places than Ukraine? Because those two things I have said, and the timing for the Hamas attack that sparked to current Israel-Palestine war seems terribly convenient for also the Russian efforts in Ukraine.
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Nov 12, 2023 16:05
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Lammasu posted:Since second in line to the U.S. Presidency and young Earth creationist Mike Johnson Lol
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Nov 12, 2023 16:12
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mobby_6kl posted:I do hope Zelenskyy personally went diving and blew them up Why not? He has his own cereal... 
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Nov 12, 2023 16:13
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everyone in this thread letting everyone else know they have no knowledge about each other's countries while making dire predictions. sa will never die
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Nov 12, 2023 16:15
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I don' think Russia is capable of organising what Hamas did lol. They'e paid lip service to them sure. But this IP stuff is just Palestine has had enough of having a boot on it's neck for decades.
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Nov 12, 2023 16:15
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What the civilians (now dead) thought was never relevant, but some Gulf squillionaires were very moved by the common peoples' plight
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Nov 12, 2023 16:22
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Strategic Tea posted:What the civilians (now dead) thought was never relevant, but some Gulf squillionaires were very moved by the common peoples' plight 
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Nov 12, 2023 16:24
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:New Perun video dropped. This is a sequel to the gamechanger systems appraisal video released three weeks ago. While I'm in agreement with Perun over Starlink and EW, I admit I'm surprised Kinzhal rated so badly- I knew the Russians were using them badly (in both the military and moral senses), but I never knew they were such a boondoggle.
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Nov 12, 2023 16:42
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CommissarMega posted:While I'm in agreement with Perun over Starlink and EW, I admit I'm surprised Kinzhal rated so badly- I knew the Russians were using them badly (in both the military and moral senses), but I never knew they were such a boondoggle. I'm in the same boat with you, while I assume that nearly all of russia's acquisition is terrible, I always try to give them the benefit of the doubt, but russia proves us wrong all the time.
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Nov 12, 2023 16:44
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Toxic Mental posted:I think there's a big red button on top of those turrets that you push to shoot out a little plastic missile One of the fun parts with the design is that the turret has basically zero protection for the cannons and atgm launchers. So even if you can't kill it with a little FPV drone hitting the top you can definitely mission kill it. Very smart design for an urban combat vehicle.
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Nov 12, 2023 17:14
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The Ukrainian way of war depends to a great degree on Stalin. is what my defective ears insist Perun says, when talking about Starlink.
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Nov 12, 2023 18:24
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CommissarMega posted:While I'm in agreement with Perun over Starlink and EW, I admit I'm surprised Kinzhal rated so badly- I knew the Russians were using them badly (in both the military and moral senses), but I never knew they were such a boondoggle. It's worth remembering that everything said in that video applies in the context of the war in Ukraine only. The Kinzhal is built to be an aircraft carrier killer, so it's a bit pointless in this war.
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Nov 12, 2023 19:24
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:It's worth remembering that everything said in that video applies in the context of the war in Ukraine only. The Kinzhal is built to be an aircraft carrier killer, so it's a bit pointless in this war. Yeah I'm pretty sure it'd suck for that as well.
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Nov 12, 2023 19:34
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Passive aggressive rereg guy deciding to stick around, wonder which one he is.
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Nov 12, 2023 19:40
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:It's worth remembering that everything said in that video applies in the context of the war in Ukraine only. The Kinzhal is built to be an aircraft carrier killer, so it's a bit pointless in this war. Unless you're putting nukes on it I'm pretty sure an unguided, air launched ballistic missile isn't gonna be a great tool for carrier killing even if it goes somewhat faster than the radar guided, merely supersonic missiles the US Navy has been designing its defenses to deal with for 40 years.
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Nov 12, 2023 19:42
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mobby_6kl posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure it'd suck for that as well. I guess it's better in the sense that the high cost and low number makes using it to take out carriers a lot more reasonable than whatever Russia has been trying to do with them recently. Of course that only matters if they can hit one. I don't know how the AA capabilities of a carrier group compares to Patriot, but at a guess it's not worse against this kind of dedicated anti-ship missile.
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Nov 12, 2023 20:03
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And that missile's name? Ozymandias
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Nov 12, 2023 20:11
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Runa posted:Passive aggressive rereg guy deciding to stick around, wonder which one he is. Doesn't matter... Ignore Button, like Justice, is blind.  ------------ Perun always does quality work on his vids. Those Russian Orlan drones seem to be quite effective in the current conflict, too disruptive to ignore, but troublesome to actually hunt down. Blocking Russian access to their components will be difficult, maybe using Chinese parts would be viable in a re-engineered form would be possible that ever comes to pass.
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Nov 12, 2023 20:59
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Der Kyhe posted:Sure. If you cherry-pick the stuff I have written and deliberately misunderstand things then why not. Is it cherry-picking to quote the last thing in the thread you said on the topic? Because it was this: Der Kyhe posted:https://yle.fi/a/74-20054074 "Putin: West caused the war in Gaza - Russia is fighting the same enemy in Ukraine"
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Nov 12, 2023 21:22
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Karate Bastard posted:What are odds the russians will bakhmut avdiivka? It sure loving seems like the meat wave is working. The losses are horrible but the front keeps moving.
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Nov 12, 2023 21:38
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Collapsing Farts posted:There are videos of drones bombing several of the new high tech terminator tanks though "You're terminated, fucker!" -Sarah Conner
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Nov 12, 2023 22:02
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EasilyConfused posted:Is it cherry-picking to quote the last thing in the thread you said on the topic? Because it was this: Yes. and the newsitem was about how Russia wants to increase their military support to Hamas because they share enemies. How is that not Russia being involved in the conflict? Did you even read the article I was referring to, when it was in the YLE newsfeed? Of course you didn't. Der Kyhe fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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Nov 12, 2023 22:13
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Ok, now kiss
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Nov 12, 2023 22:29
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please. get a tent.
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Nov 12, 2023 22:31
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Just Another Lurker posted:Those Russian Orlan drones seem to be quite effective in the current conflict, too disruptive to ignore, but troublesome to actually hunt down. Yeah, the combination of Orlans and Lancets is no doubt a major headache for anyone planning the next Ukrainian offensive. While it's worth trying to go after the most obvious sanctions evaders, there's always going to be someone to supply the Russians the necessary hardware. I think Zaluzhnyi's conclusion that Ukraine and its allies will have to take a page from the Russians and invest heavily in electronic countermeasures is correct.
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Nov 12, 2023 22:54
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ah, as there is less news we have cracked open the time honoured tradition of eating ourselves. pepper anyone?
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