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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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MinutePirateBug posted:I think a lot of people know Ukraine needs to win decisively against Russia and can't countenance anything else, because anything other than a decisive victory, there is going to be a post-war period where things get very ugly in Ukraine. Nah, no one cares about post war Ukraine. But I guess part of the hysteria now is the euro leadership realizing that going all in with the US, but then also losing leaves them in a pretty dire situation. Can't face the consequences of their actions
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 10:22 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 08:44 |
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Mr SuperAwesome posted:i still dont understand this one, how do they manage to cover up this many (lets say its at least 100) officers getting whacked? Stop. You don't get to spread disinformation like this. No NATO or U.S. troops have died in Ukraine war www.politifact.com posted:Claim: In Ukraine, 2,458 NATO soldiers and 234 NATO military trainers have died, some of whom are from the U.S.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 10:27 |
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Shogi posted:nah this one isn’t about the external audience, it’s about the internal critic. you gotta resist the temptation to edit while writing and just churn out slop first then edit later. perfectionism can paralyse you no matter how low stakes the project is if you’re built that way, it takes a concerted and weirdly counter-intuitive effort to get past quote:I. Anyone intending to embark on a major work should be lenient with himself and, having completed a stint, deny himself nothing that will not prejudice the next.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 10:36 |
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We are trapped in a hellworld of universal evil where America represents the best available option
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:05 |
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https://twitter.com/KELMAND1/status/1782633138252022019 The Shanghai Adult Products Exhibition is being held in China. This is what a sex doll produced by an Indian manufacturer looks like. He reminds me of someone 🤔
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:16 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:Speaking of Nazis I really shouldn't be surprised I guess
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:21 |
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genericnick posted:Nah, no one cares about post war Ukraine. But I guess part of the hysteria now is the euro leadership realizing that going all in with the US, but then also losing leaves them in a pretty dire situation. Can't face the consequences of their actions Oh, I am just talking about the average liberals in dnd, gbs, or internet vfw. I'm sure all the leadership in Europe are all ghouls. But for people in the US in general there is a secularized puritanical-Calvinist-elect of god strain which associates victory with moral goodness, so contemplating defeat and the consequences will lead to Havanna-syndrome style anxiety attacks. In the end they get over it, because they don't really care about this, and there will be another war to distract them. This is all a performative display in some weird secularized Salem. At least as a disaffected former Liberal that's my personal experience. Maybe this will hurt them more because the Ukranians are white and not brown like say the Kurds or any other group the US has chosen to screw over recently. MinutePirateBug has issued a correction as of 11:41 on Apr 23, 2024 |
# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:26 |
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note that the Helsinki Commission is the monitoring body of the 1975 Helsinki Accords, which was arguably the first salvo in the West's weaponization of the concept of "human rights violations" as an avenue of attack against target nations
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:27 |
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Homeless Friend posted:We are trapped in a hellworld of universal evil where America represents the best available option Did you mean Trump or otherwise…
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:27 |
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AmyL has issued a correction as of 11:51 on Apr 23, 2024 |
# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:37 |
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https://x.com/Reuters/status/1782730249823768655
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 12:19 |
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Weka posted:https://twitter.com/KELMAND1/status/1782633138252022019 Some poor indian r&d guy is gonna get fired when it turns out those unhinged liberals posting poo poo like ''if I found zelensky loving my wife in my bed I would salute him and suck him off so he gets his money's worth'' doesn't translate to actual sales
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 12:36 |
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Okay, well if it's not even the most powerful army in Ukraine, no intervention required, let Ukraine win her war. It really just is NAFO/OSINT poo poo all the way down its absloutely insane
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 13:10 |
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been on a posting sabbatical and only saw that the big grift package finally got passed, but has there been anything else of note happening in the recent days?
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 13:46 |
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Weka posted:https://twitter.com/KELMAND1/status/1782633138252022019 It took me a whole minute to realize the guy sitting down is not an Indian sales guy but a sex doll. I am an idiot.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 13:47 |
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Doktor Avalanche posted:there could be a very ugly post-war period in the west in general, because the war has been relentlessly hyped as a "War for the Survival of Democracy" what? war for the survival of democracy is evolving! congratulations! your war for the survival of democracy evolved into meaningless inter-slavic squabble!
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 13:49 |
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As night follows day. FF gets a prob. The Russians get another town. Novobakhmutivka, directly south of Ocheretyne, to be exact.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 13:57 |
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https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1782743362094710847
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:06 |
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Source: Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-launches-military-charm-offensive-conscription-flags-2024-04-23/ Ukraine launches military charm offensive as conscription flags By Dan Peleschuk April 23, 20247:14 PM GMT+8 Updated an hour ago DNIPRO, Ukraine, April 23 (Reuters) - Far from the trenches, at orderly new centres across Ukraine, civilian recruiters armed with laptops and info packs offer patriotic volunteers opportunities to join the war. As Ukraine's efforts to conscript enough men to fight Russia are stymied by public scepticism, defence officials and military units are embarking on a multi-pronged charm offensive to recruit a citizens' army to resist the invasion. This softer call-up is being conducted on job-search sites and outreach centres, as well as billboards and social media, and offers a wartime novelty: an element of choice. Candidates can select their precise unit and roles suiting their skills, for instance, as well as how long they will serve. On city streets, billboards of Ukrainian soldiers implore citizens to join up and defend their homeland, offering QR codes for convenience. Online, the 93rd Mechanised Brigade assures countrymen that "Everyone can do it!" in a glossy video campaign showing civilians, such as a chef and tractor driver, switching to analogous army roles as battlefield cook and tank driver. Natalia Kalmykova, a deputy defence minister, said military planners recognised that in a democratic country, giving people some choice could be key in attracting them to the military. "The people who come to defend our country now are not those who chose the military as their career: it's civilians," she said during an interview in Kyiv. "And civilians are used to being able to choose." Kyiv is desperate to replenish its drained and depleted forces, which are vastly outnumbered and outgunned by Russia along a 1,000-km front as the war enters a third grinding year. The initial patriotic flood of volunteers who flocked to the army following the invasion of February 2022 has dried up. The government has acknowledged its conscription drive has run into difficulties, with thousands of people evading the draft and some seeking to flee abroad rather than risk the trenches... ... Reuters is the first news outlet to detail the extent of the defence ministry's outreach plan, designed to combat public distrust about enlistment and plug a gaping hole in the military by offering recruits a greater sense of control over their fate. Thirteen of the new recruitment centres have been opened since mid-February and the government plans to expand the number to 30 by the middle of the year, said Oleksiy Bezhevets, a ministry adviser who is overseeing the drive. At the first centre, in Lviv, about 300 people visited in the first month, Bezhevets said, without specifying if any signed up. The defence ministry is also working with four private recruitment companies to fill military vacancies, he added. He conceded the plans were no "magic pill" for the military, though he said the range of roles needing to be filled was so broad that it didn't matter so much what people chose. "The main goal is to give people the opportunity to conquer their fears and enter into the military sphere," said Bezhevets. He was among more than a half-dozen people involved in the new drive for voluntary recruits who were interviewed for this article, also including recruiters and service members. Michael Kofman, a military specialist at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace think-tank, said the recruitment drive was positive for the army but would not be a decisive solution to a severe shortfall of troops that could only be fully addressed by mobilisation. "It likely needs hundreds of thousands of men to sustain the fight - in particular infantry, which few are likely to volunteer for, because it's the most likely combat arm to suffer casualties," he added . MARINES TO MILITARY INTELLIGENCE Ukraine's conscription effort, launched in the wake of the invasion, has been hampered by local media reports of corruption, official abuse and administrative incompetence. Social media has been flooded with clips of officers corralling men off the street or barging into homes. Common concerns about military service include inadequate training, poor commanders and the fact that there is no cap on the length of service, according to a February poll, opens new tab by Kyiv-based research agency Info Sapiens for media outlet Texty.org. In the survey of 400 army-eligible men, only 35% said they were prepared to serve if called up... ... A handful of brigades and smaller units are launching or stepping up their own public relations drives, with more billboards promoting individual units springing up across towns and cities. Among the most prominent is the elite Third Separate Assault Brigade, which has honed its recruiting tactics over the course of a war in which it has excelled on the battlefield. The all-volunteer outfit has become renowned for its sleek social media presence, which includes gripping first-person videos from the front and frequent speaking appearances by larger-than-life fighters with colourful stories to tell. Reuters accompanied some members on a leg of a multi-region tour of Ukraine last month aimed at promoting the brigade, educating civilians on military service and recruiting members. At a social services centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kropyvnytskyi, brigade soldiers took turns fielding questions from passers-by and prospective recruits, and offered them spots on a free training course to test their mettle. In two days in Kropyvnytskyi, about 20 people agreed to attend the week-long course, according to one of the soldiers who goes by the call sign "Loft", a heavily tattooed fighter who carries camouflage business cards with his personal number. At a high school across town, two other burly fighters regaled the young teenage crowd with comedy, but also warned of war's grim realities and emphasized the importance of discipline and preparation. One of them, who introduced himself by his call sign Bull, said the brigade's distinct nationalist ideology means its success in attracting recruits may not be easily replicable. But frequent and honest outreach would be key to making military service a desirable path for more Ukrainians as the war drags on, he added. "We're playing a long game."
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:13 |
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OhFunny posted:As night follows day. FF gets a prob. The Russians get another town. sources tell me that they're also getting awful close to bahamutivka zero
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:28 |
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lmao @ FF’s mighty post
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:29 |
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fizziester posted:
Which battles did they win?
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:44 |
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the battle against defenseless civilians
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:46 |
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Pomeroy posted:The frustrated, the over-ambitious, those fundamentally lacking in steadiness of character, see the energy, the spontaneity of middle class reaction, and think they have found a short-cut past the slow, necessary work of organizing our class. If there was hope, it must lie in the proles
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:49 |
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Preferably if they are illiterate
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 14:54 |
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genericnick posted:Which battles did they win? They completed the defense of Mariupol. Well that might have been another politically enthusiastic brigade but I wanted to make the joke anyway
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:12 |
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fizziester posted:Source: Reuters That won't work long term. Either their infantry units will collapse du to lack of recruit or the choice will be ignored when the demand for infantry gets higher.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:28 |
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Also at a certain point Ukraine does need some infantry that is willing to fight and it sounds like if they are joining up it is for either less dangerous jobs or political units that don’t seem that interested in it.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:32 |
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supersnowman posted:That won't work long term. Either their infantry units will collapse du to lack of recruit or the choice will be ignored when the demand for infantry gets higher. In terms of bringing in motivated units basically nothing is going to work. Even NATO wouldn't be able to supply sufficient manpower. They won't go in with anything beyond a tripwire force that Russia will just trip without much hestiation.hesitation. I'm not actually sure what options NATO has to salvage this war besides fostering regime change in Russia to a pro-Western client state, or nuclear war. VoicesCanBe has issued a correction as of 15:37 on Apr 23, 2024 |
# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:34 |
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supersnowman posted:That won't work long term. Either their infantry units will collapse du to lack of recruit or the choice will be ignored when the demand for infantry gets higher. the moment you're in the system any promises made beforehand mean jack poo poo, basically
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:40 |
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Like there are reasons that Zelensky refuses to give the order for a total mobilization.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:41 |
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VoicesCanBe posted:
Fostering regime change in Ukraine by getting a new Guaidó to shore up cash, support, clicks, likes, and terror attacks on russia. Zelenskyy is spent, and I'm sure a lot of Ukrainians despise him.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:43 |
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I think the main outcome of the new US aid bill is that you'll see in increase in deep strikes for the next few months. But it won't drastically alter the battlefield situation (maybe just slow down the recently increased pace)
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:45 |
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gradenko_2000 posted:
wow, you quoted a judeo-bolshevist in the ukraine thread. that actually just happened. hello, mods?!
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:09 |
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VoicesCanBe posted:Like there are reasons that Zelensky refuses to give the order for a total mobilization. I thought he was arguing before that he couldn't do this because then he would have to start paying all the mobilized soldiers and he's too broke to do that lol maybe now that they have the 60 billion to splash around for the next few months..
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:10 |
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if even 1/4 of that money actually gets to ukraine id be surprised
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:11 |
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so what are the top 3 spots for zelenskys retirement
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:12 |
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fits my needs posted:so what are the top 3 spots for zelenskys retirement I don't know about exact placement but they're likely underground
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:13 |
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Starsfan posted:I thought he was arguing before that he couldn't do this because then he would have to start paying all the mobilized soldiers and he's too broke to do that lol Lmao I think we all know that none of that money will be going to soldiers' salaries.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:19 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 08:44 |
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Yikes. I guess I'll see if this affects my Ukrainian coworker. Not sure when his passport expires, but I don't think the office of migration here needs a passport to renew a residence permit / work authorization.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:21 |