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| 🦋 |
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15 | 3.71% |
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115 | 28.47% |
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12 | 2.97% |
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67 | 16.58% |
| dragonfly |
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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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the lovely thing about the zizeks and chomskys of the world is that criticizing capitalism is so astoundingly easy that even an anarchist can do it these guys have both contributed pretty useful ideas to the understanding of modern capitalism and ideology but they're ultimately not capable of actually approaching imperialism and geopolitics and the material world as it actually is, they're still loving chauvinist western pigs i guess that's why they're allowed to do the work at all, the censorship of the liberal empire is extremely strong by virtue of how hard it is to see
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Feb 12, 2024 14:29
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Jel Shaker posted:i just listened to a recent interview with slavoj sizek and his argument was that it was a good thing that we armed Ukraine at the start of the conflict, because it has led to a stalemate, which potentially means that Ukraine can win the war… Zizek has always been the type who identifies as an intellectual communist but disavows any examples of actual existing communism. He is a thinker and a writer but kind of stupid when it comes to the real world. He swallowed wholesale the image of Ukraine as plucky freedom fighters against the totalitarian Russian invaders without understanding at all what America and NATO see the role of Ukraine as.
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Feb 12, 2024 14:30
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yea, i dunno when exactly the collapse will come, but when it does i'm thinking it's gonna be faster than anybody expects
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Feb 12, 2024 14:30
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RedSky posted:Zizeks always been a piece of poo poo, a useful one for western narratives.
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Feb 12, 2024 14:31
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Ardennes posted:Basically, the dudes who lived up to their words are dead/wounded/on the front line still, and then there are bunch of dudes who are very supportive of the war as long as nothing changes for them personally. This is a huge part of the equation and is probably the fault line that will lead to an eventual collapse. A big chunk of the population, mostly in west Ukraine, falls into this category of fanatically supporting rhe war effort but not wanting to themselves fight. There's gonna come a point where this pool will have to be recruited from.
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Feb 12, 2024 14:42
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Flournival Dixon posted:I feel like the war goes until the government surrenders or collapses (then the new government surrenders), Russia won't have to march to Kiev to end the thing. They'll keep throwing bodies at the front until the state fails. Since the current government will never surrender they'll have to be overthrown by the military or the people at some point. The issue is also one of mechanics, the Russians could probably overwhelm large parts of the country with the force they have now but urban warfare is extremely nasty even if it is in relatively small towns (look how the IDF found out). Drones, better optics, and ATGMs etc haven't made it better. Arguably the Russians probably could come in and slowly turn every large city in Ukraine into a Grozny but very clearly that is simply a waste and counterproductive (especially in terms of men, equipment, ammo, and it just makes any post-war situation much harder). Really, they need a situation where Ukraine is not only so chaotic and divided that the frontlines fall apart but there is just no one left who really cares to festung cities beyond some scattered milita and political units. The tricky part is that they continually need to fight set-piece makes like Bakhmut and Avdiivka to keep on sapping manpower. It is why Ukrainian society really does need to be brought to the brink because that is the only thing that is going to stop Kiev from attempting some last ditch Berlin-style defense of where-ever.
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Feb 12, 2024 14:46
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It's weird because as a Yugoslavian, he should know how the game is played
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Feb 12, 2024 14:46
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Frosted Flake posted:It's weird because as a Yugoslavian, he should know how the game is played He was literally one of the dudes responsible for breaking it up.
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Feb 12, 2024 14:54
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https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1756927248936951929 Reduced Company of Heroes
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Feb 12, 2024 14:54
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Ardennes posted:Really, they need a situation where Ukraine is not only so chaotic and divided that the frontlines fall apart but there is just no one left who really cares to festung cities beyond some scattered milita and political units. The tricky part is that they continually need to fight set-piece makes like Bakhmut and Avdiivka to keep on sapping manpower. It is why Ukrainian society really does need to be brought to the brink because that is the only thing that is going to stop Kiev from attempting some last ditch Berlin-style defense of where-ever. Yeah it's a depressing thought, I feel like earlier in the war they just surrounded a couple cities and let the soldiers inside just run out of supplies and surrender to sustained light pressure, but I can't remember specifics anymore. Frosted Flake posted:It's weird because as a Yugoslavian, he should know how the game is played If I had the time or brainpower I'd be interested to understand the way that political theory got liberalized and weakened in the post-kruschev years of the USSR. History is so loving big and I only care about the stuff after 1867 and even that is just so much that i'll never fully understand.
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Feb 12, 2024 14:58
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Cerebral Bore posted:yea, i dunno when exactly the collapse will come, but when it does i'm thinking it's gonna be faster than anybody expects Slowly at first, then all at once.
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Feb 12, 2024 15:01
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Flournival Dixon posted:I only care about the stuff after 1867 and even that is just so much that i'll never fully understand. 🇨🇦⚖️🇦🇹🇭🇺
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Feb 12, 2024 15:03
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lmao i picked that date because its when capital vol 1 got published but i guess that's not the only thing that happened that year
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Feb 12, 2024 15:07
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Flournival Dixon posted:Yeah it's a depressing thought, I feel like earlier in the war they just surrounded a couple cities and let the soldiers inside just run out of supplies and surrender to sustained light pressure, but I can't remember specifics anymore. Some units got pocketed and surrendered early on, and some cities were nearly cut off, but none of the major ones surrendered; I think a lot of it is just that the Russians do see Ukrainians as "their own people" in a sense. There was little desire to push a full siege beyond individual units that got separated. I don't think there is any real desire to starve Kiev or Kharkov into submission. It is why the strategy is to slowly weaken the government out of Kiev as they are forced to enact less and less popular and more draconian methods. The political units are simply not numerous enough to fight the war on their own while keeping a lid on the population.
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Feb 12, 2024 15:07
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That makes sense, I'd like to think that even Kiev could be reunified with Russia and my perception of irreconcilability of the western ukrainians is just a result of my being located on the other side of the world. Such things feel distant now that North Korea finally gave up on reunification but the world is still large.
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Feb 12, 2024 15:10
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Flournival Dixon posted:lmao it is the only thing that happened that year
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Feb 12, 2024 15:20
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lobster shirt posted:it is the only thing that happened that year hello? the invention of dynamite? 100s of millions dead due to Alfred Nobel?
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Feb 12, 2024 15:27
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gradenko_2000 posted:hello? the invention of dynamite? 100s of millions dead due to Alfred Nobel? And even more artillery shells.
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Feb 12, 2024 15:30
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gradenko_2000 posted:hello? the invention of dynamite? 100s of millions dead due to Alfred Nobel? never heard of it
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Feb 12, 2024 15:31
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Бумажная Zмея/СВО posted:In Avdiivka, the enemy went on the offensive.
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Feb 12, 2024 15:45
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ЗеРада posted:
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Feb 12, 2024 15:48
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Lostconfused posted:(from t.me/bumaznayaZmeya/42993, via tgsa) is that a ukrainian account?
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Feb 12, 2024 15:49
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Should be Russian.
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Feb 12, 2024 15:52
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Megamissen posted:is that a ukrainian account? that accounts bio says "volunteer in the SMO zone" so almost certainly russian
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Feb 12, 2024 15:53
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seems insane for the ukrainians to go on the offensive there
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Feb 12, 2024 15:55
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https://i.imgur.com/UTNAdPs.mp4
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Feb 12, 2024 15:57
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Megamissen posted:seems insane for the ukrainians to go on the offensive there Bad news about the Ukrainian general staff…
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Feb 12, 2024 16:00
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https://twitter.com/DefMon3/status/1756619842482815189 One of the more prominent OSINT guys has been turning on NAFO lately. Weird.
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Feb 12, 2024 16:00
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It makes sense that there'd be a split between the bandera guys and the USA guys with big Z firing little Z. That guys bio says "Vote Zaluzhnyi 2024" lol
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Feb 12, 2024 16:08
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zizek is also 74 and pretty old.
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Feb 12, 2024 16:13
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Flournival Dixon posted:It makes sense that there'd be a split between the bandera guys and the USA guys with big Z firing little Z. That guys bio says "Vote Zaluzhnyi 2024" lol The problem that the political types are supposed to hold the whole thing together in the end after anyone else committed to actually fighting is gone, and there is only going to be more pressure on such an "alliance" as harder choices need to be made. Basically, big Z has better have some concessions rolled out. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 16:21 on Feb 12, 2024 |
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Feb 12, 2024 16:14
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euphronius posted:zizek is also 74 and pretty old. He should run for president.
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Feb 12, 2024 16:16
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i don't know much about the new guy, does he also have a weirdly proportioned bandera portrait in his office
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Feb 12, 2024 16:16
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Megamissen posted:seems insane for the ukrainians to go on the offensive there I saw reports on my timeline that supposedly the weather was very poor in Avdiivka area today, meaning the drones could not be up in the air. It was speculated that both sides took this opportunity to bring in a bunch of reinforcements into the city, which could be what the Russian source is referring to. There still doesn't seem to be any indication that Ukraine is considering pulling their troops out of the cauldron, they want to keep on fighting for now at least..
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Feb 12, 2024 16:20
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Frosted Flake posted:It's weird because as a Yugoslavian, he should know how the game is played man from Yugoslavia named Slav
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Feb 12, 2024 16:21
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all slavs slav the same.
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Feb 12, 2024 16:23
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rip https://twitter.com/UnseenOps/status/1756828052909101276
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Feb 12, 2024 16:24
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the fall of the ussr was a tragedy for mankind
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Feb 12, 2024 16:28
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lobster shirt posted:the fall of the ussr was a tragedy for mankind yep
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Feb 12, 2024 16:28
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the sino soviet split was a tragedy for mankind, the fall of the ussr is just an extension of the original sin of chauvinist revisionism
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