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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% |
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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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The US occupation in Japan presided over a social transformation that kept japan from going full blown red and now they can't even bully simple mountain peasants into drinking coca cola. Its full of sugar and fizzy!
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Tankbuster posted:Lmao, can you imagine the Canadians doing limited land reform in Afghanistan so the Pathan would have material reasons to list in the army?  
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Apr 18, 2024 23:18
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StashAugustine posted:I go back and forth on how deliberate it was but having the antiwar candidate be an easily manipulated actor was a pretty big deal Zelensky has ties to Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskyi, particularly around Servant of the People, the show that launched him to nationwide fame. After Kolomoyskyi was dismissed from Ukrainian government and his bank was confiscated by Poroshenko Kolomoyskyi funded Zelensky's run for president and basically used his media holdings to give Zelensky free coverage with a dash of election fraud. The degree to which Zelensky was a direct puppet of Kolomoyskyi versus it being an opportunistic arrangement between a scorned oligarch and an aspiring TV clown isn't clear, but Zelensky was definitely put in office by an angry rich guy with an axe to grind. I wonder how much of Zelensky's antiwar stance was really just anti-Poroshenko, especially considering how quickly he stopped trying to do anything and hopped on the NATO train. Hilariously Kolomoyskyi was indicted for bank fraud in the US in 2020 and immediately lost influence with Zelensky, who stripped his citizenship and nationalized his stuff in 2022 before having him arrested in 2023. Zelensky has no loyalty for those who helped him rise, which might be why he's clinging so hard to western support.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:19
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yeah but most of them are and were in the raj anyways. Makes all the "afghanistan never conquered for a million years" thing all the funnier because the sikhs and the brits annexed the most pashtun parts of afghanistan in the 19th century and they have been part of the subcontinent ever since.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:21
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but yeah, if you read any of the stuff on "development" and "reconstruction" in Afghanistan, whoops all grift. There was never going to be anything that made people actually like or trust Kabul, let alone ISAF, because it was all skimmed along the way.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:23
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https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1781045500558418208 More evidence for the 67th brigade (one of the political enthusiast units) disbanding
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Apr 18, 2024 23:55
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https://x.com/kyleben3020/status/1781047237247639982
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Apr 18, 2024 23:59
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:but yeah, if you read any of the stuff on "development" and "reconstruction" in Afghanistan, whoops all grift. This article was very informative to nearly a decade ago me who was still struggling with liberalism https://www.vice.com/en/article/qv5pkx/millions-of-us-dollars-may-have-gone-to-ghost-schools-in-afghanistan
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Apr 18, 2024 23:59
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:It's actually one of the more disgusting and revealing things I've ever seen, but Orange Devil is going to make fun of me if I list all of the reasons why. Theres no bigger joke than being Dutch
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Apr 19, 2024 00:10
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Nix Panicus posted:Zelensky has no loyalty for those who helped him rise, which might be why he's clinging so hard to western support. Wow he has a lot in common with his western support
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Apr 19, 2024 00:12
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Nix Panicus posted:This article was very informative to nearly a decade ago me who was still struggling with liberalism That's stupid. Ghosts can't participate in the labor force.
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Apr 19, 2024 00:40
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super sweet best pal posted:That's stupid. Ghosts can't participate in the labor force. The planet sized communism ghost can
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Speaking of color revolutions, with Georgia in the news lately: https://twitter.com/bidetmarxman/status/1780684935499804737 This post is pissing liberals off on twitter lol
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Apr 19, 2024 01:19
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Nix Panicus posted:This article was very informative to nearly a decade ago me who was still struggling with liberalism lmao that india built a few projects and because they were mostly honest most polling wanted india to continue it's efforts in afghanistan.
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Apr 19, 2024 01:38
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super sweet best pal posted:That's stupid. Ghosts can't participate in the labor force. Wrong. https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/woman-wheels-dead-uncles-body-into-bank-to-get-loan/
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Apr 19, 2024 01:39
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Nix Panicus posted:I feel people are either discounting or just not considering the power of tradition and mythology in building national identity and propagating ideology. Khruschev rejecting Stalin took a hammer to the fundamental identity of the Soviet state and allowed liberalism to take root. If Stalin's steadfast dedication to communism, no matter what his errors in its implementation, was no longer the bedrock then the nature and future of the Soviet Union was up for grabs for any faction that could exert influence. Liberal reformers were no longer battling tradition and the legacy of the heroes of the Revolution and the Great Patriotic War, they were just another competing school of thought - and perhaps one that had been unfairly repressed so it was owed to them to be heard out! I think this is a very good point. And I think this is one thing that liberals seem to understand better with how they savagely defend everything and never concede that they or their heroes are or have been wrong. Maybe the fact that we have materialism makes the left less inclined to consider "the power of tradition and mythology in building national identity and propagating ideology".
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Apr 19, 2024 03:34
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VoicesCanBe posted:Speaking of color revolutions, with Georgia in the news lately: It's an excellent post tho
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Apr 19, 2024 03:58
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PawParole posted:I’m curious, have you ever read Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul i just want to post a general thank you to the regular posters in this thread, i am way behind, but the conversations you are having are fascinating and enlightening. getting this book 
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Apr 19, 2024 04:00
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https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1780517143924138170 turtle tanks are the future of tanks
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Apr 19, 2024 04:08
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What is a tank but a cannon mounted on an mobile armored hull? From that, it stands to reason that adding more armored hulls makes it more of a tank Ergo the turtle tank is the pinnacle of tank, the tankiest tank to ever tank, and as a tankie I want to hug and smooch it
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Apr 19, 2024 04:16
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1780517143924138170 any AP or HE would ignore the armor but, well, ukraine's supply situation
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Apr 19, 2024 04:19
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 Wow, General Millei!
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Apr 19, 2024 04:21
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Behind the Candelabra 2
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Apr 19, 2024 04:29
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I really think that the barn tank is an evolution of the previous Russian EW tank. The one where they just strapped all the EW equipment on top of the tank. Check it out https://twitter.com/RandyHiggins757/status/1780900122659827740 You can see the antenna jutting out from the barn tank and I think the barn contains all the EW equipment that doesn't need to be outside (electronics, battery, generator(s), power cords, etc.). The turtle tank may have been an assault vehicle but the barn tank is a dedicated EW vehicle.
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Apr 19, 2024 06:14
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wait i thought the libs declared russia is completely done when they captured that abandoned EW vehicle 2 years ago
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Apr 19, 2024 06:25
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I still bet it's remote controlled and they just roll it around watching Ukrainians waste ammo on it that they can't use on civilians
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Apr 19, 2024 06:58
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still bet it's remote controlled and they just roll it around watching Ukrainians waste ammo on it that they can't use on civilians I don't know how you would ever get living people to drive that thing.. the way it was just rolling around the streets completely separate from any kind of support outside of maybe drones flying over-head suggests that you might be on to something.
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Apr 19, 2024 07:04
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still bet it's remote controlled and they just roll it around watching Ukrainians waste ammo on it that they can't use on civilians its kind of surprising that we don't see more stuff like this. there was that time where Russia loaded up a tank(?) with HE and sent it forward into Ukrainian positions and it seemed really effective
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Apr 19, 2024 07:06
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Starsfan posted:I don't know how you would ever get living people to drive that thing.. the way it was just rolling around the streets completely separate from any kind of support outside of maybe drones flying over-head suggests that you might be on to something. Good luck automating the diving controls on a Soviet tank design. E: I take it back, the T-72B3M got an automatic transmission BrotherJayne has issued a correction as of 07:18 on Apr 19, 2024 |
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Apr 19, 2024 07:16
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killdozer would have dominated this battlefield
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Apr 19, 2024 07:16
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Nix Panicus posted:You can't get so far into materialism that you forget human social hierarchies are still based around belief in the validity of that system, and nurturing belief is as important to the continued existence of a hierarchy as making sure your believers are the ones with superiority in the material means to wage violence you can and should get all the way into materialism. belief is material and is produced and reproduced by societies through control of the niche, the set of opportunities for action that are supported by the animal-environment system. we may not have a full understanding of how to scientifically describe and engineer that yet, but the capability for ruling classes to groom the niche to those affordances which support their ideology is ancient, and the western bourgeoisie have hacked what is at least a proto-scientific solution together in cybernetic capitalism. the secret speech was akin to compromising a critical load bearing element, not all that different from loving up building a bridge before we had a full understanding of bridge building.
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Apr 19, 2024 07:56
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lol tacoma narrows speech
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Apr 19, 2024 07:59
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VoicesCanBe posted:Speaking of color revolutions, with Georgia in the news lately: yes, but also, no most revolutions or insurrections will have self-interested involvement of a major foreign power. since USA #1 in terms of economic and military power for most of post ww2 history, there's US involvement everywhere, it's really not that special though anyway, Marzzle posted:bimbos ftw
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Apr 19, 2024 08:01
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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BrotherJayne posted:Good luck automating the diving controls on a Soviet tank design. For the cost of the expertise and labor to engineer and produce a remote control system you could send in hundreds of mobiks to their death and collect their pay for months. No matter which way you look at it, it is just not a worthwhile investment for soviet commanders.
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Apr 19, 2024 08:06
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suck my woke dick posted:yes, but also, no you really can't bothsides, manysides this. there is only one country that has historically and currently backs para-military right-wing coups whose entire motto is always private everything, austerity ftw. no other country has backed right-wing privatization imf paramilitary coups
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Apr 19, 2024 08:09
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um the uk
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FirstnameLastname posted:um the uk
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america is british
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Zodium posted:america is british nuh uh
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simpsons "russia flipping the name sign on the desk to reveal the ussr flag" but it's the united states revealing the union jack
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