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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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ianmacdo
Oct 30, 2012

ikanreed posted:

I mean if they were, who cares? What's Russia gonna do, double invade?

Isn't it better overall to blame Ukraine? If it's Ukraine's fault then maybe regular Russian idiots won't do any hate crimes against innocent random Muslims or Sikhs.

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KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

ianmacdo posted:

Isn't it better overall to blame Ukraine? If it's Ukraine's fault then maybe regular Russian idiots won't do any hate crimes against innocent random Muslims or Sikhs.

The point is to try and cause that ethnic conflict. They want hate crimes to justify Balkanizing Russia

Endman
May 18, 2010

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


ISIS-Kanada???

Starsfan
Sep 29, 2007

This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely

supersnowman posted:

Technically, they could decide the guarantee they gave multiple govt to not go after a few key people in the Ukrainian leadership are now null and void. I don't think they'd go after Zelensky but Budanov might become a "wanted" man for Russia.

I think its been more or less confirmed Budanov has been targeted for numerous assassination attempts over the last couple years.. probably mostly by the Russians.

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

ikanreed posted:

I mean if they were, who cares? What's Russia gonna do, double invade?

scale up the level of destruction?

Endman
May 18, 2010

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


Russia's going to start building Mammoth Tanks

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

True believer of freedom trapped in russia: Hey I think ISIS did that because of all of the historical reasons that the Korasan region have been oppressed by Russia specifically, and yeah sure america hurt them all worse, but and maybe we should listen to their struggles

Everyone else in Russia: are you did you just loving *stammering, unable to contain their orcish urge to kill*

edited for clarity

edit2: to be clear, america behaves this way. the world contains only humans. for us to be angry at them for our own sins.... colin powell aluminum tubes

Cool Bear has issued a correction as of 07:12 on Mar 25, 2024

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

It turns out we found the perpetrators. It was the worst right wing republican chuds that we could find. Yup look at him, we found him, what a loser. ISIS. Those guys again. Wow what a bunch of jerkwads. For just NO REASON, who ARE these guys!!

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

ALEXA!!! How many terrorist organizations have apologized to israel

fizziester
Dec 21, 2023

Stfu mlmp

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012


I know we all want M'Lumpy to post more, but I think you forgot to post this extremely good news for our favorite guys. I googled it, its really easy to find good news:


https://imgur.com/a/5xAlMDC

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Cool bear this isn't the place for your poo poo go home

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

Slavvy posted:

Cool bear this isn't the place for your poo poo go home

well i put in the effort of googling what happens when i type "good news for ukraine" into google. then i uploaded it to imgur and posted it here. so that people could see that.

I did work! and i just want to say things and see what people say. but ok fine. do what you were going to do.

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Anyone old enough to remember 9-11 should have no problem believing in American funded terrorist groups that can sometimes attack American interests. It's an age defining trope at this point.

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Anyone old enough to remember 9-11 should have no problem believing in American funded terrorist groups that can sometimes attack American interests. It's an age defining trope at this point.

thats a really good question. i bet someone can answer it easily without any weird poetry or stupid bullshit like i would normally do

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

Cool Bear posted:

thats a really good question. i bet someone can answer it easily without any weird poetry or stupid bullshit like i would normally do

For example, Slavvy definitely can, since he just busted my balls about this very exact thing.

Slavvy: answer this mans question now

edit: i think i misundertood and am just insanely angry online. i promise i only post here. i dont post. welp i guess i get probated now.

Cool Bear has issued a correction as of 07:28 on Mar 25, 2024

fanfic insert
Nov 4, 2009

euphronius posted:

yeah poor guy needs finasteride

nah just need to cut the stress out of his life and start on some good scalp relaxation techniques, get rid of that chronic scalp tension and get some blood flow going

fizziester
Dec 21, 2023

Good news for NAFOs!

____________________________________________


Source: Politico EU

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-faces-an-acute-manpower-shortage-with-young-men-dodging-the-draft/

Draft-dodging plagues Ukraine as Kyiv faces acute soldier shortage
BY JAMIE DETTMER
MARCH 25, 2024 3:55 AM CET

__________________________________________________


!!! WARNING !!!

NAFOS DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT!

!!! WARNING!!!


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KYIV — The 28-year-old is one of thousands of young Ukrainian men keeping their heads down, dodging conscription and avoiding registering their details as required. Artem is cautious when he ventures out, and avoids places like metro stations where police mount document checks looking for draft-dodgers...


... When Russia invaded their country two years ago, young and old Ukrainians swamped recruitment centers to volunteer...


... But that early burst of patriotic fervor has waned with the war now in its third year, the body bags filling, and men returning home injured and disfigured.

Pessimism about the future of the conflict is also taking hold, with ever more people questioning whether Ukraine is capable of defeating Moscow's forces.


'Sensitive' issue

Ukraine needs to draft many more men for a battlefield that is chewing up bodies, but authorities are conflicted over whether to cajole or coerce, and fear the political fallout if they choose the latter. Since the Russian invasion two years ago around 9,000 draft-evasion proceedings have been opened, according to the Ukrainian interior ministry, but that's just scratching the surface of the draft-dodging and the evasion of registration so enlistment notices can't be issued...


... The most immediate need now is to enlist more soldiers that can be deployed along the 1,000-kilometer front line ahead of an expected major Russian push toward either Kharkiv in the northeast or Odesa in the south...



... Ukraine is perilously short not only of ammunition — especially artillery shells and air defense missiles — but also of soldiers to see off a Russian attack. The average age of Ukraine’s frontline soldiers is 43 — and evidence of draft-dodging is mounting.

The BBC recently reported that 650,000 Ukrainian men of fighting age have fled the country in the past two years, most slipping across its borders with Poland and Slovakia, some with false exemption papers allowing them to exit Ukraine despite a ban on fighting-age men leaving the country.

Last year nearly 1,300 draft-dodgers found themselves before the courts, but officials acknowledge this is just a small fraction of those avoiding enlistment. A draft system is in effect to supplement the ranks of volunteers, but lawmakers say it is dysfunctional and is hampered by the failure of thousands to register their details and whereabouts. Enforcement is haphazard, depending largely on random spot checks of documents by police, who are more vigilant in some areas of the country than in others.

Moscow’s troop strength inside Ukraine currently exceeds 400,000 soldiers, with another 100,000 near Ukrainian territory. Overall Kyiv has around 680,000 active military personnel with around 200,000 on the frontlines; Russia, meanwhile, has 1.2 million, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Ukrainian army general staff said last year they feared Russia could be considering mobilizing 400,000 to 700,000 additional troops.

In December Zelenskyy said 450,000 to 500,000 extra soldiers would be needed to resist Russia in 2024. The Ukrainian parliament has for weeks been considering fresh mobilization legislation, which would see the minimum conscription age lowered from 27 to 25. The age was in fact lowered in separate legislation last July and approved by parliament, but Zelenskyy never signed it into law. He hasn't fully explained why.

The new draft legislation has been re-written several times and envisages a call-up of another 400,000 Ukrainian troops. It has stalled in the parliament, however, with lawmakers objecting to some punitive measures they regard as unconstitutional, such as restricting the property rights of draft-dodgers, impounding their cars and blocking their bank accounts.


'Hot political potato'

“That’s highly unpopular,” said Mykola Kniazhytskyi, an opposition lawmaker from Lviv. “Truth be told, mobilization is a hot political potato, and no one wants to be holding it. The army needs many more people. But Zelenskyy doesn’t want to take responsibility for the mobilization and says it is up to government ministries, and they’re afraid of getting their hands burned and say it is up to the parliament, which then passes the buck back....


... What isn’t helping, he and other lawmakers say, is the frequent talk from the frontlines about the lack of weapons and artillery shells. “You have officers going on television saying if we don't get more money and ammunition from the United States and Europe everyone at the front is going to get killed in a matter of weeks because the Russians produce many drones and have more shells,” Kniazhytskyi fumed. Such prognoses aren’t helping persuade reluctant Ukrainians like Artem to join up....


'One-way ticket'

Artem says he and his friends dodging the draft are also afraid of being stuck in combat for months or years on end. “I’m young and want to live my life, and to go there without knowing when I will return to my normal life is hard. I have friends who volunteered at the beginning of the war and they're still there fighting. So it is like a one-way ticket,” he says.

Prolonged time on the frontlines is also drawing bitter complaints from battle-weary Ukrainian combatants demanding to be demobilized or rotated out with lengthy recuperation time. Their relatives want the same thing: On Sunday, dozens of families of frontline soldiers crowded into Kyiv’s Maidan Square to demand their husbands, fathers and boyfriends be relieved from combat, arguing they’ve done their bit and now must be demobilized or given considerable rest and relaxation...


... Last month, Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Zelenskyy, said people will have to determine for themselves the price they are willing to pay for Ukraine’s independence...


... He also said that seeing the issue purely through the lens of mobilization misses the point. “It is nonsense to think in terms of sheer numbers when fighting against Russia. We live in the age of high technology. Why should people have to fight if you have enough precision weapons — drones, jammers, long-range missiles? The more tools we have in the form of precision weapons, the less gunfights we have,” he said.

But Ukraine doesn’t have enough of those high-tech weapons. Until they do, sheer numbers may well win out — and even if they do get the supplies, they still may not compensate for Russia’s greater manpower.

For Artem, there’s little that could persuade him to enlist. “My mother is a nurse and she sees the wounded and tells me firmly to stay out of it,” he says.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Cool Bear posted:

For example, Slavvy definitely can, since he just busted my balls about this very exact thing.

Slavvy: answer this mans question now

edit: i think i misundertood and am just insanely angry online. i promise i only post here. i dont post. welp i guess i get probated now.

My dude the probe threshold here is much higher than that, you could eg disingenuously argue Russia did nordstream for dozens of pages without anything happening

If you want to get probed just start an incoherent rant about tankies, or loudly announce you don't want to hug and kiss putin

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

Slavvy posted:

My dude the probe threshold here is much higher than that, you could eg disingenuously argue Russia did nordstream for dozens of pages without anything happening

If you want to get probed just start an incoherent rant about tankies, or loudly announce you don't want to hug and kiss putin

All I know is I say good stuff, then I wake up to purple. If you want to tell me that I said some other annoying thing that I dont remember, then well thats reasonable and thank you and im sorry. BUT THIS TIME

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

Slavvy posted:

Cool bear this isn't the place for your poo poo go home

what are you doing to me? how about read it and respond or YOU get a probation for this post

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

I should have said some stupid liberal talking point, then everyone would pay so much attention to me. duly noted

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

Is this really the best shitposting the CIA can manage?

Gpt has made them weak.

Putin, harden your heart!

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

what who me

BULBASAUR
Apr 6, 2009




Soiled Meat
tell us about your favorite drugs, cool bear

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

BULBASAUR posted:

tell us about your favorite drugs, cool bear

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

didnt even disagree with anyone

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

one time i said kratom was good if you were addicted to binge drinking. it worked for me to quit drinking like that. its not hard to quit kratom if you want to, which i did easily. unlike the alcohol. except like twice a year, which you all get to watch and judge, youre welcome. not tonight though, barely weird tonight.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*
he got threadbanned from the palestine/israel thread for stream of conciousness schizo posting so i guess he's here now. just lol and scroll past because it's not worth the effort to read his posts.

Cool Bear
Sep 2, 2012

crepeface posted:

he got threadbanned from the palestine/israel thread for stream of conciousness schizo posting so i guess he's here now. just lol and scroll past because it's not worth the effort to read his posts.

yeah just scroll. the guy told me to "go home" and it set me off. click my post history first please

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Stfu cool bear

platzapS
Aug 4, 2007

Homeless Friend posted:

getting sent to siberia on the straight talk express

Marenghi
Oct 16, 2008

Don't trust the liberals,
they will betray you

She should know. ISIS-K are obviously supported by the US like the Mujahedeen in the 20th century.

The US pulls out of Afghanistan and suddenly ISIS-K are active there. Attacking the Taliban, attacking the Chinese trying to prevent their infrastructure spending in Afghanistan. Also attacking Iran for 'reasons' and now Russia. Strange they only go for US enemies.

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

stephenthinkpad posted:

Stfu cool bear

I for one love our new main character.

Weka
May 5, 2019

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

lobster shirt posted:

i think we can all agree that terrorism, like war, is bad

Actually most of my favorite political parties are terrorists

ikanreed posted:

I mean if they were, who cares? What's Russia gonna do, double invade?

Yes

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

crepeface posted:

here's my copy pasta:

  • The USSR tried to form an anti-fascist alliance with Britain and France but they refused
  • Many countries in Europe (Poland, Rumania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Italy, Denmark, Britain, and France) made non-aggression agreements/military alliances with Germany months before the Soviets did
  • The Polish territories occupied by the Soviets in 1939 were previously part of the Belarussian and Ukrainian SSRs until Piłsudski decided to attack them during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919
  • Interwar Poland and Finland were fascist dictatorships with concentration camps like the Bereza-Kartuska Prison or the East Karelian concentration camps
  • The Polish territories occupied by the Soviets in 1939 were not majority Polish (rather Ukrainian, Belarussian, Jewish, Lithuanian, etc.); these minorities within Poland were being oppressed by the Polish state
  • Poland took part in the partitioning of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia; the USSR returned some of the land like Vilnius to Lithuania
  • The Polish Government had already fled the country via the Rumanian Bridgehead by the time that the Soviets intervened; so the Polish State literally did not exist
  • Hitler publicly admitted in a Berlin speech on 3 October 1941 that he was embarrassed that he made the agreement
  • Socialism good, you can't criticise Stalin for socialism in one country while simultaneously criticising him for his expansionism
  • The most important reason of them all, it was preferable to giving the Nazis all of Poland. Did you know that of the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust, over 3 million of them were Polish? The Soviet interventions in Poland, the Baltics, Rumania, Finland, and so on saved possibly millions of lives

good summary

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Being weird and complaining about getting probed for milquetoast opinions is the kind of thing that should get someone probed

Either talk about how much you think your enemies should be brutally vaporized so you can catch a ban (don't do this) or chill out in one of the few places that won't gaslight you over the contradictions of neoliberalism and the tragedy of war

Ballbot5000
Dec 13, 2008

Fabricati diem, pvnc.
I came for the explanations as to how Ukraine puppeteered IS into commuting horrifying atrocities; but I stayed for the Russian nazi torture cops.

BrotherJayne
Nov 28, 2019

How does one commute atrocities

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

BrotherJayne posted:

How does one commute atrocities

know why Nazis and tankies (but I repeat myself) like trains so much?

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