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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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Spergin Morlock
Aug 8, 2009
Probation
Can't post for 5 hours!
Fun Shoe

my bony fealty posted:

Nuland's evil husband looks equally as hosed up and evil too



he looks like Ben Gvir if Ben Gvir brushed his teeth and shaved

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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!"

Pomeroy posted:

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

Will have to remind myself to listen to later

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

dead gay comedy forums posted:

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

I think that was because mr hu was having a senior moment.

BearsBearsBears
Aug 4, 2022

Orange Devil posted:

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.

About 9% of the US GDP is from imputed rent. Imputed rent is the money that homeowners don't pay in rent. The US just straight up adds this imaginary number to the GDP. The percent of GDP this accounts for is only growing.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eOZt

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024

Crazy that ISIS, which the west has no connections to, struck Russia at exactly the time when Ukraine needed a positive news cycle through a spectacular attack

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

my bony fealty posted:

Nuland's evil husband looks equally as hosed up and evil too



he looks like a round american.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

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

BearsBearsBears posted:

About 9% of the US GDP is from imputed rent. Imputed rent is the money that homeowners don't pay in rent. The US just straight up adds this imaginary number to the GDP. The percent of GDP this accounts for is only growing.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=eOZt

Exactly. Bullshit.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

Tankbuster posted:

he looks like a round american.

to me he looks like a fat European

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://x.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1773485978885259667?s=20

DJJIB-DJDCT
Feb 1, 2024


lol should have taken that ride bud

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

how is talking to Zelensky an exclusive hahah

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

The hotter, the wetter, the better

euphronius posted:

how is talking to Zelensky an exclusive hahah

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

The hotter, the wetter, the better
exclusively the only network that answers his calls anymore

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://x.com/CBSMornings/status/1773315470201897366?s=20

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

maybe they should surrender

CongoJack
Nov 5, 2009

Ask Why, Asshole

euphronius posted:

maybe they should surrender

the best time to surrender was a couple weeks in, the second best time is now.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

ffs surrender then

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

euphronius posted:

maybe they should surrender

and reward Russia?? nice try putler

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
zelensky is live love laughing his best life. Don’t listen to the haters mr president. 👍

fits my needs
Jan 1, 2011

Grimey Drawer
https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1773455083058991467?s=20

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008


how about some financial derivatives, can you fire those at the Russians?

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Maybe he should have actually purchased arms instead of funding a broken society that now wants to be part of Russia. Ukraine belongs to Russia.

DaysBefore
Jan 24, 2019


euphronius posted:

maybe they should surrender

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

euphronius posted:

maybe they should surrender

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.
If the situation is truly that dire, then even if massive aid passed this exact second and immediately started flowing to the front, it would still probably arrive too late to keep the frontline from collapsing and the Russians from snatching up a bunch more territory.

CongoJack posted:

the best time to surrender was a couple weeks in, the second best time is now.

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

The stupid dipshit should have taken the peace deal instead of getting hundreds of thousands killed and wounded for nothing. Ukraine delenda est

Oneiros
Jan 12, 2007



wait, what happened to the big batch of shells from [REDACTED] that the EU scrounged around in the couch cushions for? did they already blow thru it all or did it never materialize?

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

euphronius posted:

maybe they should surrender

Malleum
Aug 16, 2014

Am I the one at fault? What about me is wrong?
Buglord

Oneiros posted:

wait, what happened to the big batch of shells from [REDACTED] that the EU scrounged around in the couch cushions for? did they already blow thru it all or did it never materialize?

the czechs have announced a dollar amount theyre going to pay for it, and have only rescheduled the delivery date three times. everyone will be home by christmas

Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

Never materialized. They don't even have funding to make the deal

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!"

House Republicans just need to hold out for 8 more months

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!"

1stGear posted:

If the situation is truly that dire, then even if massive aid passed this exact second and immediately started flowing to the front, it would still probably arrive too late to keep the frontline from collapsing and the Russians from snatching up a bunch more territory.

Yeah this is starting to become absurd. Ukraine doesn't need a miracle, it needs like 12 consecutive miracles.

CODChimera
Jan 29, 2009

Oneiros posted:

wait, what happened to the big batch of shells from [REDACTED] that the EU scrounged around in the couch cushions for? did they already blow thru it all or did it never materialize?

happening in april, supposedly

Starsfan
Sep 29, 2007

This is what happens when you disrespect Cam Neely
Presumably this Zelenskyy interview is in response to all the people telling him that he should be more honest about Ukraines circumstances to increase their chances of getting emergency aid? Pretending that everything is fine and you are demolishing the Russians all across the front wasn't bringing in the dollars the way it did in the first year of the war, they need to turn to fear and guilt as levers to open the western wallets now.

Digital Jedi
May 28, 2007

Fallen Rib

euphronius posted:

maybe they should surrender

sullat
Jan 9, 2012

VoicesCanBe posted:

Yeah this is starting to become absurd. Ukraine doesn't need a miracle, it needs like 12 consecutive miracles.

It's a hanukkah miracle, the Czechs sent them enough artillery shells for a single day and it lasted 8 days!

BadOptics
Sep 11, 2012

Starsfan posted:

Presumably this Zelenskyy interview is in response to all the people telling him that he should be more honest about Ukraines circumstances to increase their chances of getting emergency aid? Pretending that everything is fine and you are demolishing the Russians all across the front wasn't bringing in the dollars the way it did in the first year of the war, they need to turn to fear and guilt as levers to open the western wallets now.

The thing is you have to make it seem like it's going well but not dire enough that you're backing a loser.

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!"

Starsfan posted:

Presumably this Zelenskyy interview is in response to all the people telling him that he should be more honest about Ukraines circumstances to increase their chances of getting emergency aid? Pretending that everything is fine and you are demolishing the Russians all across the front wasn't bringing in the dollars the way it did in the first year of the war, they need to turn to fear and guilt as levers to open the western wallets now.

Western press has been on that beat for close to 6 months, it hasn't really helped.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1773157966700782040

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Nix Panicus
Feb 25, 2007

sullat posted:

It's a hanukkah miracle, the Czechs sent them enough artillery shells for a single day and it lasted 8 days!

Yeah the wild thing is even if the Czechs come through with their million shells that gives them parity with Russia for a season and then its right back to shortages unless they can find a new supplier, and Europe isn't going to work out its industrial base in three months

It really feels like the west is willfully ignoring the scope and scale of the problem. They need to be putting forth plans to manufacture four million shells a year starting *now* to have any hope, not taking six months to scrape together a delivery that may not even exist

I know the answer is neoliberalism is incapable of fighting an industrial war and nobody gives a poo poo about Ukrainian lives, but it still infuriating to see the senseless waste

Nix Panicus has issued a correction as of 03:00 on Mar 29, 2024

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