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What is the most powerful flying bug? This poll is closed. |
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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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she's only 6'2". that's hardly a giant
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Mar 28, 2024 18:23
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gradenko_2000 posted:Why would you make a game about a conflict that's still ongoing you know what the answer is: the Russian lines were supposed to collapse with the start of the offensive season in 2023. The peace conference was even planned and the event space reserved and hotels booked! This was supposed to be a triumph of superior Western methods over the inferior Soviets and continue where the allies left off in 1945. bedpan has issued a correction as of 18:27 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Mar 28, 2024 18:25
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perhaps Ukraine should deploy its corps of giant women to the front?
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Mar 28, 2024 18:26
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Hatebag posted:she's only 6'2". that's hardly a giant That was my first thought and why I moved on immediately.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:30
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Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:I'm really proud of FF not posting about the giant Ukranian woman.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:31
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Ardennes posted:I think in the case of Brezhnev and Andropov you had old men who had been comfortable for quite a long time, and at a certain point they "tuned out" so to speak, and became more and more influenced by younger party members who had their own ideas. Granted, in the case of the Soviet Union, you had people in government who were not just not interested in the socialist project but honestly could barely contain their open hatred of the country, which is why it is so bizarre. Looking from the political angle, to call that the CPSU experienced a "dramatic" fall of leadership quality after Stalin would be an understatement for the centuries. When 1950 came up, there was only Kollontai and Stalin of the original Bolshevik vanguard. In that sense of party formation, imho, Stalinism failed. The departure from certain Leninist principles of organization is understandable from the survivalist outlook that Stalin had in relation to the union, but the CPC critique of the CPSU denotes how that doesn't matter if the party becomes a shambling mess and suddenly has its leader bringing revisionism.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:32
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo one liner
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Mar 28, 2024 18:33
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I prefer ratio of Ukraine war news chat vs random East Europe chat in this thread is 50:50 And no weird dude kramer in.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:34
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, the Ukrainians tried to do a Volksstrum thing in the first days of the war by handing out AKs to random people, it didn't seem to go over well. I don't doubt they would try again if the front-line cracked and the result would be utter chaos again. Post/videos about preparation of Molotov cocktails to throw at tank and "instruction" on mixing fuel with styrofoam to make improvised napalm... Odd souvenirs...
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Mar 28, 2024 18:36
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Hatebag posted:she's only 6'2". that's hardly a giant to say only 1.87m, lmao
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Mar 28, 2024 18:36
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Ardennes posted:Yeah, the Ukrainians tried to do a Volksstrum thing in the first days of the war by handing out AKs to random people, it didn't seem to go over well. I don't doubt they would try again if the front-line cracked and the result would be utter chaos again.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:37
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I will not stop with the physics jokes, no matter how bad
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Mar 28, 2024 18:37
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dead gay comedy forums posted:to say only 1.87m, lmao that's right, i demand bigger Ladies. problem?
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Mar 28, 2024 18:38
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someone post the cabbagepots post. you know the one.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:40
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Anyway, back to that post about conscription, they said 40% of the armed forces were "refuseniks" I don't see how that could be possible unless they just mean back of the line support staff. dead gay comedy forums posted:Looking from the political angle, to call that the CPSU experienced a "dramatic" fall of leadership quality after Stalin would be an understatement for the centuries. When 1950 came up, there was only Kollontai and Stalin of the original Bolshevik vanguard. Granted, the CPC had a similar bloodletting, and had its own periods where it highly flittered with liberalism and a closer relationship with the US. Arguably, both parties had a very similar trajectory but Tiananmen Square gave the CPC much of the push it needed to give itself a little bit of space and even then Jiang and Hu generally started to push the country on a Gorbachev-esque trajectory for a bit. Arguably, the CPC showed more internal strength and could course correct, but it had its own brand of revisionism for a time. Ardennes has issued a correction as of 18:51 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Mar 28, 2024 18:42
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I’ve posted before but the PzHs in Afghanistan were always broken to one degree or another.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:43
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Russia vetoed the renewal of UN monitoring of sanctions on North Korea, per Reuters
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Mar 28, 2024 19:45
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VoicesCanBe posted:Russia vetoed the renewal of UN monitoring of sanctions on North Korea, per Reuters that's what friends are for
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Mar 28, 2024 19:46
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fizziester posted:“The period ahead could be very painful for the country, and we shouldn’t be held hostage by mistakes. Two hats are better than one. A government of national unity would be a good thing for the country. And with more people involved, there will be fewer chances to make mistakes,” he added. is this a real ukrainian idiom or is he punch drunk?
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Mar 28, 2024 19:56
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I’ve posted before but the PzHs in Afghanistan were always broken to one degree or another. german engineering...
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Mar 28, 2024 20:13
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Ardennes posted:Anyway, back to that post about conscription, they said 40% of the armed forces were "refuseniks" I don't see how that could be possible unless they just mean back of the line support staff. I imagine that the Lennist streak is stronger in the CPC, ans it seems like Xi has put considerable energy into shoring it up for the future, while the CCCP decayed under and after Stalin. It seems from the outside like a crapshot being the only reason it didn't but, there must be internal party structures that more throughly explain whyfor a while it seemed like China was going to go the way pf Gorbachev but pulled back
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Mar 28, 2024 20:18
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That or people who would otherwise act as liberal wreckers inside the CPC just picked up and moved out during the much more liberal hu or jiang administrations.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:30
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KomradeX posted:I imagine that the Lennist streak is stronger in the CPC, ans it seems like Xi has put considerable energy into shoring it up for the future, while the CCCP decayed under and after Stalin. It seems from the outside like a crapshot being the only reason it didn't but, there must be internal party structures that more throughly explain whyfor a while it seemed like China was going to go the way pf Gorbachev but pulled back It could have just been the example of Gorbachev himself that, together with the events of 1989 across the second world created the impetus for more internal opposition. That said, I would say another factor probably was that the Chinese Civil War never ended in any real sense and there was never the same attempt to let former White and anti-Bolshevik forces back into the party. I know plenty of Russians who had family who stayed in the Soviet Union after the Civil War that were always waiting for its demise. I think the split was a lot more clean inside the PRC. That said, it took Xi to essentially lead a quiet inter-party coup to re-direct the party after Hu.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:30
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Thoguh posted:PV = N(azi)RT i am assured that russians have zero degrees of freedom, so not sure that the ideal gas law holds
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Mar 28, 2024 20:33
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Thoguh posted:PV = N(azi)RT ah, the racial ideal gas law. concerned about what gases they're studying, though
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Mar 28, 2024 20:41
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KomradeX posted:I imagine that the Lennist streak is stronger in the CPC, ans it seems like Xi has put considerable energy into shoring it up for the future, while the CCCP decayed under and after Stalin. It seems from the outside like a crapshot being the only reason it didn't but, there must be internal party structures that more throughly explain whyfor a while it seemed like China was going to go the way pf Gorbachev but pulled back Chinese domestic politics go on cycles of "more open up/liberal" and "more strict" in terms of how much you can discuss history (cultural revolution, Tiananmen, Mao) literary freedom, bbs freedom, economic experiments, financial investment policies etc. Comparing Hu era to the Xi era, the Hu era was definitely the more relaxed phase and Xi era is the more strict phase. It's hard to put the Jiang era in a hole because it was just a pretty chaotic era. So it's reasonable to assume the next era will be more open up and more "relaxed". I think there are some long lingering issues needed to be resolved first before PRC get to the new relaxed phase.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:55
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With the US openly preparing for war with China, and having supported the Hong Kong thing, whatever they're up to in Taiwan, and probably setting a bear trap in Xinjiang, I would advice against ingenue idealism and "relaxed" policy, like Gorby after detente.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:05
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Ardennes posted:That said, it took Xi to essentially lead a quiet inter-party coup to re-direct the party after Hu. Absolutely correct to do so imho The party reform, the strengthening of the party schools and cadre formation, the expansion of Marxist education really contributed to the ability to act against local political cliques and attack corruption - Hu Jintao getting escorted away from the Party Congress in front of him was a proper show against a man who did an awful job at the helm
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Mar 28, 2024 21:32
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I wouldn't give all the credit to Xi, the party elders chose Xi because they wanted to reign in on the party corruption. It was one of the first things he did after he became general secretary. Also, always put a wall between the party and the billionaire merchants.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:48
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bedpan posted:someone post the cabbagepots post. you know the one.
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Mar 28, 2024 21:59
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:I don't know if that's true for the Russian economy, because they embraced liberal capitalism and sold off state assets that might have been retained for central planning. Communist states have a massive bullshit gap with capitalist states. For example GDP, China outproduces the US in everything material but has less GDP. Why? Less complex financial products. What are complex financial products? Bullshit. East Germany had less PR and marketing than the US. What is PR and marketing? Bullshit. The science of communism causes states to focus on producing material things with use value. Capitalism is rife with bullshit jobs which primarily produce bullshit. But it's top quality, prime grade, high octane bullshit. Communist countries can't hope to compete. Unless... unless they make a pact with the all-time greatest purveyors of bullshit: religion. The time has come FF, for the synthesis that is communism with catholic characteristics.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:31
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I've been saying that.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:35
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Glad we agree on communism, religion and bullshit, comrade.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:42
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I made that post on my phone by the way.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:45
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Good discussion with Brian Becker and Eugene Puryear:0 https://twitter.com/TheSocProgram/status/1773318306646175803 Direct youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLzOjZsuGuI Speculation that AFU casualties are around 30k k/w monthly Pomeroy has issued a correction as of 22:50 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Mar 28, 2024 22:46
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I've really been noticing those: "Terrorist attack in Russia leaves Putin weaker and more isolated than ever and proves he's fighting the wrong war" articles in the western media and it's so unsettling lol.
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Mar 28, 2024 22:51
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Pomeroy posted:Good discussion with Brian Becker and Eugene Puryear:0 i like how nuland's hate has transformed her appearance over the years
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Mar 28, 2024 22:53
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Spergin Morlock posted:i like how nuland's hate has transformed her appearance over the years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4RQEEyTZWU&t=145s Pomeroy has issued a correction as of 22:58 on Mar 28, 2024 |
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Mar 28, 2024 22:56
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Nuland's evil husband looks equally as hosed up and evil too
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Mar 28, 2024 23:05
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Leandros posted:The number density of Russians on captured ground is decreasing
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