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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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Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1772529449814171886

Shock! Surprise! How could this happen to the rules-based international order!?

Oil has been the thing holding the DPRK back for the most part. They got plenty of iron ore and coal, and they do still have a steel industry even through it has suffered under sanctions. Otherwise, plentiful oil could also flow into their agriculture as well.

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Phigs
Jan 23, 2019

All that soft power lost like... tears... in rain...

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

One swift kick and the rotten structure will collapse, turns out the rotten structure was the rules based international order.

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

my bony fealty posted:

thinking about that guy who said Putin is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler didn't kill Germans

after the horror of WW2, Hitler decided not to use chemical weapons against anyone

/holds hand to earpiece

tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

DaysBefore posted:

You were looking at your Wishlist

Starsfan
Sep 29, 2007

This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely

my bony fealty posted:

thinking about that guy who said Putin is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler didn't kill Germans

Thinking about the poster who said that everyone in Poland from his grandparents generation liked the German occupation more than the time under the Soviets because atleast the Germans were polite.

Leandros
Dec 14, 2008


I was reading about the Hamas sniper and came across this one which is manufactured by a company that works mainly in lubricants lol

Looking forward to what the baby factories will pivot to for their patriotic death purveyance
e: oh my

quote:

In September 2011 Xádo started to cooperate with one of the most titled football clubs of Ukraine, “Shakhtar”.[7]

Leandros has issued a correction as of 21:46 on Mar 26, 2024

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

It is a good comparison, because when the Hapsburg Empire broke up, the industrial nodes in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland etc. were all hosed overnight because they had all relied on flows of goods and workers, as well as the markets, of the different regions of the empire. So, when the USSR collapsed, yeah it turns out that SSRs were not designed to be self contained nations.

Oops.
exact same thing happened in ex-yu. all our heavy industry went bust in like 5 years, not really because it was unworkable, but because suddenly most european customers disappeared. on purpose

quote:

and then for those same ingrates who betrayed Mother Austria, and then later, the spirit of socialism, to beg and plead for admittance into a transnational economic bloc... it sickens you.
lmao gently caress off, austrians hosed up by popping off ww1 and 2, they deserve all the scorn they get

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

antipattern posted:

Is there a similar selection of Putin games? Asking for a friend.

i have an animated putin steam avatar somewhere on there lol

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1772529449814171886

Shock! Surprise! How could this happen to the rules-based international order!?

another obvious W for humanity imo

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

It is a good comparison, because when the Hapsburg Empire broke up, the industrial nodes in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland etc. were all hosed overnight because they had all relied on flows of goods and workers, as well as the markets, of the different regions of the empire. So, when the USSR collapsed, yeah it turns out that SSRs were not designed to be self contained nations.

While I do get where you are coming from with this comparison, it's rather different in terms because of the fundamentally different economic policies. The collapse could have been much worse technically, but given the fact that the USSR didn't consider redundancy a problem made places like Almaty, Samarkand, Baku, Yerevan and Tashkent (and elsewhere) to have significant productive capabilities by themselves - not to mention agriculture outside those hubs.

Of course, that capacity of resilience didn't mean much with shock doctrine affecting in accord to how much each place went along with it - Lukashenko in Belarus opposed liberalization with success, the country maintained its full suite of metallurgy/mechanical industries, petrochem and it has one of the largest fertilizer concerns of the world. Meanwhile, Kazakhstan went full market reforms under Nazarbayev and became a primary resource exporter, losing much of its own self-reliant capacities - much to the benefit of Chinese industry (and Russian, later on). It had tremendous GDP growth, but a crash of individual welfare throughout the 90s and only started to recover in the 2010s (thanks to not only to Chinese trade but also direct investment)

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

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

lobster shirt posted:

dont think we need handmaids tale recaps in this thread please

Let him cook, bitch.

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!"

my bony fealty posted:

thinking about that guy who said Putin is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler didn't kill Germans

That was Michael McFaul lol

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

VoicesCanBe posted:

That was Michael McFaul lol

Michael McFail

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011

dead gay comedy forums posted:

the mob and neoliberal banditry are pretty similar things in the end of it lol

Capitalism is ultimately gangsterism, a predatory few get to have all the nice things at the expense of everyone else. That's why the empire gets along so well with organized crime, they share the same ideological hostility towards socialism and have a common value system in how wealth should be distributed. They successfully weaponized organized crime against the commies, from japan to italy/france to south america.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Al! posted:

hitler fucks. putin kills

marry mao

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

VoicesCanBe posted:

That was Michael McFaul lol

no way lmfao

Endman
May 18, 2010

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


marry hoxha so you can live in the nice bunker :)

Weka
May 5, 2019

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

lobster shirt posted:

dont think we need handmaids tale recaps in this thread please

This is the thread for chatting about liberalism, including how it is reflected in its media

Endman posted:

marry hoxha so you can live in the nice bunker :)

Hoxhaism-Hamasism ftw

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

my bony fealty posted:

thinking about that guy who said Putin is worse than Hitler because at least Hitler didn't kill Germans

we know he killed at least 2

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

lobster shirt posted:

dont think we need handmaids tale recaps in this thread please

yo just wanna say i would have respected this if id seen this post when you first made it thx for making the margaret atwood thread anyway

hmhb fan
Feb 4, 2024

Al! posted:

we know he killed at least 2

Well one was Austrian

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1772664248855834886?t=z2TqibBOhZfXsx-55z-Wog&s=19

I wonder why Ukrainians had to go start looking for jobs outside of Ukraine recently...

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

hmm. hmmmmmm.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1772664248855834886?t=z2TqibBOhZfXsx-55z-Wog&s=19

I wonder why Ukrainians had to go start looking for jobs outside of Ukraine recently...

$10.2k USD a month to crash big boats??

sum
Nov 15, 2010

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1772664248855834886?t=z2TqibBOhZfXsx-55z-Wog&s=19

I wonder why Ukrainians had to go start looking for jobs outside of Ukraine recently...

The maritime industry is a big source of remittances to Ukraine. Supposedly that was one of the reasons why they were so anxious to get Odessa's port functional again.

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019

Homeless Friend posted:

another obvious W for humanity imo

Yup. Unironic even. Big credit to the guy signing our cheques here, Putin ignoring neoliberal sanction wars is very based

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

sum posted:

The maritime industry is a big source of remittances to Ukraine. Supposedly that was one of the reasons why they were so anxious to get Odessa's port functional again.

another reason is the massive amount of international arms trafficking Ukraine did through Odessa

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1772664248855834886?t=z2TqibBOhZfXsx-55z-Wog&s=19

I wonder why Ukrainians had to go start looking for jobs outside of Ukraine recently...

wow, so Russia is directly responsible for this attack of American infrastructure

Endman
May 18, 2010

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


gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1772664248855834886?t=z2TqibBOhZfXsx-55z-Wog&s=19

I wonder why Ukrainians had to go start looking for jobs outside of Ukraine recently...

Pilots boats safely?

No, crashes!

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1772664248855834886?t=z2TqibBOhZfXsx-55z-Wog&s=19

I wonder why Ukrainians had to go start looking for jobs outside of Ukraine recently...

Queue up the Blowback theme song

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

crepeface posted:

wow, so Russia is directly responsible for this attack of American infrastructure

To show that Russia could collapse other bridges

If they wanted to

Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009

crepeface posted:

wow, so Russia is directly responsible for this attack of American infrastructure

it would actually be hilarious if Russia destroyed a bridge near DC as retaliation for a US sponsored terrorist attack in Moscow

US military planners sitting around saying "wait, they can do that?"

Ferdinand Bardamu
Apr 30, 2013
fake news I'm afraid

https://twitter.com/SamDoak5/status/1772653907124056404

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

what part of Ukraine is he from.

edit

oh well

Puppy Burner
Sep 9, 2011

Some Guy TT posted:

did u know theres an episode of mash where this korean woman is insisting that they give her son a circumcision she claims its because her husband is a jewish american soldier one guy says this is obviously some sort of ploy to get a free circumcision to which another guy says what possible reason could she have for wanting a circumcision aside from the one shes telling us

i thought that was very interesting

Lmao that's wild

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

If he was real they'd have managed to take out the Kerch Bridge.

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

the crashed ship was being piloted by a local harbor pilot anyway

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

lobster shirt posted:

the crashed ship was being piloted by a local harbor pilot anyway

and putin got to them anyway? incredible. this is why we need to fight him over there

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Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.
Probably the boat was hacked by a Russian troll farm

hmhb fan posted:

Well one was Austrian

That is a type of German

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