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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
So what can you guys tell us about Gitanes Nausea? Other than he should stop smoking if it makes him sick.

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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

mila kunis posted:

How has Ukraine been doing since the election? Are the neo nazis and fascists still ascendant in the country or has there been any success in clamping down on them?

According to Sputnik News, yes, 99% of all Ukrainians are Banderist homonazis, and it's critically important to liberate the oppressed Russian minority by having the Red Army invade and annex most of Ukraine's territory.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Xarn posted:

Our prime minister being a corrupt fucker and an idiot.

By that standard, pretty much the entire world should be on strike.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
"MH17: Brown Moses is a Nazi, therefore Russia is innocent"

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
"Some people collect stamps, butterflies, or bottlecaps. I collect air-to-air missiles. Just an innocent little hobby."

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I believe a ski resort near Cavalese was interested in getting some anti-air defense system...

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Crimea is rightfully Italian clay because it was a Genoese colony long before Russia even existed as a nation.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
what happened to the lighter cat?

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

aphid_licker posted:

Emigration from EE has been massive, from countries that had a low birth rate to begin with no less. It seems possible that it'll partially reverse itself once the German export economy racket collapses and the jobs dry up

Apparently East German Länder are getting positive migration for the first time since the reunification, thanks in large part to Ossies going back there after a prolonged stay in the West, so perhaps the process has already begins. It's just a question about whether that phenomenon will continue beyond the border.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence-policy/interview/russias-eu-ambassador-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-was-a-victory-of-common-sense/

Russia’s Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov posted:

It’s good that there are people for whom Russian gas is more important than NATO.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Paladinus posted:

Lukashenko is constantly going back and forth on deeper integration with Russia. [...] The man is an enigma.

IMO, the explanation is simple.
Back: wanna keep his personal power over Belarus, instead of giving it away to Putin
Forth: fully aware he can't stand up to Putin and will lose more if he's an obstacle to Vova's plans

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Bring back Pissflaps because we need something to keep the UKMT people contained in the UKMT thread instead of leaking all over Eastern Europe. Brexit means Brexit, no more Polish plumbers for you, etc.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

It's almost like western leftists would be better off to invent new icons for themeslves instead of reusing old ones from oppressive regimes.

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?

They did:


... but it has its own problems of association.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Nenonen posted:

I meant that sickle is just as outdated as a quill, which has already been used in this context (and which nobody uses any more, unless you're a calligraphist). :shobon:

And the save icon is a floppy disk.

The personifications of justice and liberty still wearing Roman togas. And what's up with Justice's scales?

Also all the military poo poo that still uses sword, shield, and arrows.

Plus the days of the week are still named after like Thor, Tyr, Odin, and Frigga.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Paladinus posted:

Speaking of symbols, would be nice to see modern Belarusian flags (red and green) at those protests once in awhile. Right now, for propagandists, it's easy to dismiss these protests by saying that only a small part of nationalistically-minded Belarusians oppose deep integration with Russia, and this is exactly what Russian propagandists do all the time. [...]

On the other hand, interestingly enough, even though it's not an authorised protest, unlike many times before, secret services didn't try to prevent it from happening. No organisers were detained, no participants were arrested, no provocateurs were deployed to disrupt it (might change later, admittedly). [...]

Maybe there's a correlation between these facts.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Paladinus posted:

I don't get what you're implying here.

If the protests are easy to spin, why not let them happen?

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Lichtenstein posted:

Yeah, no EU exit rhetoric has seriously taken hold here (thank God, given some stupid poo poo that did)

Just wait until Poland stops being a net recipient of EU money, and starts being a net contributor.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Budzilla posted:

Care to elaborate? Putin really wants wages to stagnate? He used Russians improved quality of life for many years to justify his leadership.

Can you think of even just one president/prime minister who doesn't want wages to stagnate?

I can think of one, and he's been ousted by a coup as a punishment for this crime against the oligarchy's compulsive hoarding.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

steinrokkan posted:

It's not that neolibs don't want wages to rise, it's in their interest; the problem is that they want them to rise by magic / expect somebody else to cause the rise while they sit on their money hoard waiting for the economy to spring to life.

No, because then if wages increase by magic (instead of being taken from oligarchs), you're increasing the monetary mass, aka inflation, and that results in a depreciation of the currency, making oligarchs less rich in the process. The consequences are the same as taxation.

What you want is to increase the monetary mass in a way that only benefits those who have more money than they can spend. So wages have to remain stagnating. This way, currency doesn't depreciate, and money gets to remain what it's supposed to be (personal high-scores for the filthy rich) instead of some sort of half-assed value token allowing the average people to exchange goods, services, and labor through a unified economic system.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
That'd be consistent with the two missile launches.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Paladinus posted:

One of the questions I keep seeing on social media is how did this video come about as in why would someone be filming a random plane at six in the morning? And I can't really come up with anything better than 'it's a huge coincidence' right now.

Everyone's got a camera in their pocket nowadays, and while my aging smartphone is slow enough that whatever I want to film is generally over by the time the camera mode pops up, that's not necessarily the case for other people. Even in poor countries besieged by the US.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Accidental invasions (i.e.: a bunch of military folks got lost during an exercise and crossed a border unwittingly) happen from time to time. Switzerland "invaded" Lichtenstein at least three times in recent history, for example.

Sometimes, accidental invasions even lead to accidental annexation, at least that happened when invading Canada.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Shut up and JAM! posted:

was dissolving prussia a mistake ?

No.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

bedpan posted:



Incredible the allies that Lukashenko calls upon to support his regime.

Finally, documented evidence of the homofascists.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
I want a Catzilla now.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Xarn posted:

the EU still won't do anything.
What would you want it to do? Stage an invasion to liberate the country and annex it to Glorious Liberal Capitalist Empire of Western Europe? The EU does not have the capacity to do anything else than some token sanctions here and there; even if it somehow had the will to do something.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Sekenr posted:

and they themselves couldn't because it was technically foreign soil, out of their jurisdiction.

Embassies and consulates are given extraterritoriality, which is an exemption from the host country's jurisdiction but not a grant of territory. The area remains the sovereign soil of the host country. The extraterritorial status of a diplomatic representation is not actually tied to the area where it is located but to the diplomatic personnel (the ambassador or consul and part of their staff), which extends to their workplace and residence. That's why an embassy can easily move from one building to another and there's no need for the two nations to sign treaties exchanging the territories.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Someone asked what changed, I am unsure, Realpolitik changed. But this was infront of us for the last few loving weeks and occuring in spats here and there in terms of rumors. This is a prepared effort.

Erdogan needs a win. That's why it's happening.

His gains in Syria were meager, could only ethnically cleanse Afrin canton. Turkish people not impressed by disappointing lack of real genocide. AKP lost elections in Istanbul and Ankara. In Libya it's even worse, he was starting to ramp up and got Al Watiya Air Base struck in the night by unknown forces, destroying the air defenses here. Then Russia came in and put redlines on the objectives he wanted to seize. poo poo! Things are looking bad for 2022 presidential reelections of Sultan Recep I! How about Mavi Natan? Let's just declare all Greek islands and the sea around them is Turkish clay and drill for g--wait, France is siding with the Greeks and telling Erdie-boy to knock it off. Poor Erdogan just cannot get a break. All he wants is some defenseless people he can oppress a bit so as to win elections, why is that so much to ask? Hey, the Armenians. Right in his backyard. Westerners can't intervene there, their military is puny, it's time to help brotherly turkic brothers the Azeri deal with the Armenian problem for good. This is easy win. Let's start by bringing in a lot of shia-hating jihadists who'll be sure to definitely side with the Shia Azerbaijanis and then assault the heavily-defended plateau of the Artsakh republic!

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Doctor Malaver posted:

What the hell they needed Nagorno Karabakh for... Even if they manage to keep it, with great effort and further depleting meager resources, it will never be successfully integrated into Armenia or recognized by anyone. A permanent wound, and one caused by themselves.
The population of Karabakh is like 90% Armenian. The area where Armenia committed war crimes to occupy is not so much the plateau itself but the lowland corridor between the Karabakh and Armenia proper, so as to have a connection between both.

Doctor Malaver posted:

The best thing that could happen to them is for Azerbaijan to retake it, hopefully without war crimes.
The only way Azerbaijan can hold the plateau is if it gets rid of the Armenians who live there. And if it is allowed to, it will do so without hesitation or remorse. Azerbaijan is led by ethno-nationalists who have a very poor track record wrt. human rights and they're assisted by jihadists recruited by Turkey who have been used to "ethnically rectify" Afrin of its Kurdish population.

When you have mixed populations in an area with one group being scattered between various mountains while the other holds the lowlands, there are usually historical reasons for that. Can you guess what happened?

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Vasukhani posted:

crazy how that coexistence just worked for 70 years in the middle of the 20th century

obviously we need the Soviet Union back. If we can have a Russian (or, even better, Georgian) dictator oppressing both Azerbaijanis and Armenians equally, they will stop feuding for as long as the boot remains applied on their neck.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747
Guess who is interested in freshly combat-proven drones useful against Russian systems?

https://defence-ua.com/news/zsu_hoche_pridbati_do_48_udarno_rozviduvalnih_bpla_bayraktar_tb2-1778.html

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Hal_2005 posted:

I expect the anti-journalism law will pass before June 2020

2021?

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Well, I saw a banner stating "STOP ARMENIAN TERRORISM" in the bay loving area/ California SF area

Don't worry, pretty soon Armenian terrorism will disappear along with the Armenians themselves.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Oh yes, nothing says STRONK US like Donald Trump, the president that dictators are rooting for because of how much he has weakened American influence worldwide.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Sekenr posted:

There are reports that entire shifts in Grodnoazot chemical plant just plain vanshed and failed to show up at work. This is a 24 hour operation which cannot be stopped due to some sorts of chemical process and work is being done by shift managers. Everything is hilarious right now because Luka specifically promised to finally restore order this weeked and it is the opposite of order, people don't give a gently caress what he says anymore.

From the "azot" part of the name I suppose they produce nitrogen? It's gonna stop being hilarious when the thing explodes, like the AZF plant in Toulouse in 2001. Or the dock warehouse in Beirut a few months ago...

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Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Rinkles posted:

threaten one, sure, but i don't think pis would dare try an exit.

The day Poland joins the ranks of the net contributors to the EU budget is the day Polxit happens. Not one day before, but not one day later.

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