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15 | 3.71% |
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Are they called vatniks because they come from the spawning vats?
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Corky Romanovsky posted:If you check the replies you can see someone supposedly did the jpeg artefacts hunt and showed that there appeared to be anomalies in the patch (please please please ignore the anomalies around the man's face, phone, arm, hand, ...). And purportedly the image isn't new so the story must be apocryphal, so ignore the photo. I inspected the pixels and not only do they prove this man is a nazi, they show conclusively he has a smaller nazi in his bag.
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Nov 7, 2022 15:38
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Corky Romanovsky posted:What's the one in Russia east of Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Krasnov The map is interactive. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1sW6RPe7rwDKlFNa7micTeQezCpomKof3&ll=46.654618391614356%2C44.621218119146015&z=5
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Nov 7, 2022 15:40
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mags posted:seems like both sides of this capitalist war are shitlibs throwing words around to affect, unconcerned with historical accuracy, but it doesn't help that Ukraine actually does have nazis all the way up into the higher echelons of government with an explicitly neo-nazi death squad as an official army battalion This is from a fair way back but I feel obliged to point out to any lurkers or infrequent visitors that Ukraine has a great deal more than one explicitly Nazi unit in it's army. speng31b posted:nationalising wartime industries, hmm These dudes are apparently the biggest manufacturer of transformers in Europe and one of the 10 biggest in the world, so I guess that's a good thing for Ukraine's ability to repair their grid.
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Nov 8, 2022 00:25
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America is #1 at hamburger related technology.
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Nov 8, 2022 02:11
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Thanks mlmp for that article, it's nice to see an analysis based in reality on what has been one of the more confusing parts of the war.Seatbelts posted:Can we no longer post an insanely dumb hot takes without ridicule?! Without ridicule?! That's never been possible. Anyway my smart and good take is that Iraq should annex the USA. Turtle Watch posted:speaking of food I can’t believe that only yesterday it was reported an entire division was anally vored but y’all tankies wanna pretend it never happened. A division? I thought it was only 500 troops.
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Nov 8, 2022 05:56
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Lord of Pie posted:Ted Cruz being so widely disliked that he lost Texas' claim to melted cheese Especially ironic seeing as I think he is about 1/4 melted cheese by volume.
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Nov 8, 2022 07:26
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I saw a Ukrainian flag graffiti this weekend with what looked like bleeding bullet holes and I couldn't tell if it was pro or anti Ukraine.genericnick posted:Not even sure that was the plan. When they rolled over Georgia they didn't really leave any occupation troops behind after Saakashvily hosed off. Neither did they set up a new government. They annexed Crimea in 2014.
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Nov 8, 2022 09:41
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Here is a selection from famed Ukrainian author Mykola Hohol. 
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Nov 8, 2022 22:01
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Majorian posted:Gotta admit, I'm surprised to see only one Israel. I'm counting 112 total for both.
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Nov 9, 2022 06:50
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Lol that Russia has waited for USA elections to announce this withdrawal. My hot take is they've had this in the works for a while but didn't want to give the Dems a win. I think you all are making too much of it tbh, all it means is that Odessa is off the table for at least the near future. If Russia wants a lasting peace they're not stopping until they have more of a buffer zone around Donetsk city. I also think you all are forgetting Russia's major territorial gain of this war, the land bridge to Crimea. This conflict back to 2014 has been mostly about Sevastopol and now they have a much more robust water supply. dk2m posted:"Russia will have again preserved its manpower and equipment while Ukraine is forced to stretch out and expose its forces further at a time they are unable to replace both trained manpower and heavy weapons." What? Ukraine gets to make use of the natural fortification of the river too. dk2m posted:what’s going to be so loving funny is what Russia will do once Ukraine actually marches into Crimea from Kherson They will come from Zaporizhzhia city if they march to Crimea. Alpha 1 posted:My takeaway from this debacle is that neoliberal austerity states are incapable of fighting full-scale industrial wars. It doesn't matter what resources they have on paper, because they don't have the capacity mobilize their societies for the fight or demand sacrifices from their people. As soon as Russia crossed the border, it was in the final battle to the death with NATO. Russia needed to mobilize in a way it hasn't mobilized since WW2, but these limitations forced it to fight the way America fought Iraq, with similar results. I think Russia could mobilize more but chooses not to. This is not a final battle to the death, it is a fight for a peripheral territory. If Russia is completely expelled from Ukraine including Sevastopol it is a big loss but Russia continues existing as a powerful(ish) entity. Genuinely threaten it's continued existence and you will see a multi million person army and car factories converted to arms factories again. Frosted Flake posted:Greece is the Fourth Rome, long live Greece, I guess. Greece was the second Rome. fits my needs posted:https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1590089376138416128?s=20&t=xGwBuGCwN1b8PK1DPg_m2A Zelenskiy: Hi Sean nice to meet you Sean: Nice to see you again
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Nov 9, 2022 21:39
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Frosted Flake posted:I know this is the popular line of reasoning among some of the left, particularly absent control of any institutions, but you need people in service to the state to believe in it. Consequently any national institution that requires duty, service and sacrifice requires belief and belonging and that is best grounded in the nation. Why fight under the colours? Because of what the colours represent. What if your piece of geography just didn't fight offensive wars? Then your soldiers could be motivated by defending their families and such. OctaMurk posted:being a nationalist in general is cringey . . . like lol ur proud of being randomly born on some piece of geography? wtf? Generally sure, but have you seen my piece of dirt?
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Nov 9, 2022 21:48
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OhFunny posted:Do they? Doesn't the water supply flow from a dam near Kherson?  It flows from the Kakhovka hydro dam reservoir, so I guess Ukraine could blow up the dam, but it seems at worst Russia is just going to have to put a hardened pumping station there. dk2m posted:Russia used denazification the same way we used fighting terrorism. Except Russia didn't finance the founding of Azov afaik. Frosted Flake posted:right wing nationalist vs liberal conflicts Both the USA and Russia are right wing nationalist liberal democracies. Frosted Flake posted:It’s sort of reminiscent of Obama deciding on a troop count for Afghanistan guaranteed to not win, and in fact eventually lose the war, all because the “smart” political decision was by far the worst military one. Deciding on half of what was asked was worse than either leaving or committing the unpalatable amount required for a good result. You, personally, losing in Afghanistan was a good result.
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Nov 9, 2022 23:32
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Frosted Flake posted:Insofar as it created "reading books" as a job for me as opposed to "reading manuals", I suppose so. My apologies, to be clear I don't think it was good you were injured. I think it was good you and your colleagues were expelled from the country. Zodium posted:China isn't capitalist I thought China was capitalist. They're a mixed market economy. Pretty similar economically to many of the liberal democracies historically. You're much smarter at that stuff than me though.
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Nov 10, 2022 00:53
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euphronius posted:the ccp is not a capitalist party. I agree but the CCP and China are two different things.
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Nov 10, 2022 01:14
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Thanks Zodium for the insightful as all ways answer.
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Nov 10, 2022 01:25
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Al-Saqr posted:When was the last conflict where someone did something like this? America typically goes whole hog in their invasions, when was the last conflict that the bigger side settled for a tiny slice then hoped for a better peace terms? Georgia? Both South Ossetia and Abkhazia have been independent since the early nineties and have held most of their current territory for that time, so I don't think it's really the same sort of thing.
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Nov 10, 2022 09:04
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gradenko_2000 posted:people wouldn't keep needing to come up with scenarios about China invading Taiwan if people didn't keep insisting that it's going to happen I mean, Xi recently said that they won't rule it out so it seems to me like he wants people talking about it.
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Nov 10, 2022 11:19
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Majorian posted:I mean, "patriotic" also comes from the same root for "father" in English: pater in Latin. (which itself has its own proto-Indo-European roots) Nah. It's from patriōticus, from patriōtikós, which are late Latin and ancient Greek respectively. Same PIE root though. Frosted Flake posted:Incapable, because domestic defence industries would require state ownership or at minimum direct investment which neoliberalism is not going to allow. They can’t imagine not depending on the US for defence because it’s beyond their ideological horizon to do what would be required for that to happen. This got me curious so I went looking and found this. https://www.avascent.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Avascent-State-Ownership.pdf "A close examination of all European companies generating more than €400 million in defense sales in 2011 reveals a remarkable statistic: governments owned some 20% of a combined value of €€84 billion." "In a quarter of Europe’s top defense companies, the state is the sole or predominant stakeholder, with majority voting rights and thus control over key strategic decisions. Another 15% of the sampled companies has a government ownership share in excess of 25%. State ownership is absent or negligible in only 19 of the 32 analyzed companies. "
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Nov 11, 2022 06:05
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Here's a little Russian politic explainer for anybody wondering how Putin is still in charge.
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Nov 11, 2022 06:12
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Calibanibal posted:thats correct, I agree that the mod/admin staff has been unfairly lenient towards the most irritating and stupid group of posters in the entire forum I love the occasional serious Calibanibal post.
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Nov 11, 2022 08:47
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Tankbuster posted:yes, the soviet finland war, where the finns won by...hang on If this war was to finish with current borders, the Finns would have done much better than the Ukrainians.
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Nov 11, 2022 10:17
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I think it was the worst war in history personally.
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Nov 11, 2022 10:40
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Frosted Flake posted:Conscript armies led to a dramatic decline in war in Europe in the 19th c. as the forces unleashed, socially and politically, could not be contained. Rulers began to see war as a last extremity because of the domestic, social cost. So, while there continued to be wars abroad with small armies, at home many crises that would have certainly been wars in the 18th c. were resolved diplomatically. When war did come in 1866 and 1870, it caused at times dramatic reorganizations of the society of both the victor and the vanquished. Park of Bismarck's genius was realizing that the German Empire's junkers had an iron grip and so Germany was able to go to war in a way that Austria and Denmark could not. Similarly, the French officer corps was able to gain political power after 1871 on the premise that France would have to steel herself to retake Alsace Lorraine, leading to the army and society that lost 40k men between August 20-27 1914, and over 300k by the end of that year. You seem to be ignoring a few really big wars in Europe, namely the Carlist wars, the war of Greek independence and the Crimean war. Including the Napoleonic wars and the Austro - Prussian and Franco - Prussian wars you refer to there's a huge war every couple of decades. Compared to the previous century where there were three European wars with casualties over 25,000. It's not just a size thing either, there were constant small wars in Europe in the 19th century. Frosted Flake posted:I’ve had at least ten angry Russians quote the Art of War at me in 72 hrs. Hasn't this happened a lot from the deck of a ship? Hatebag posted:russia killed hundreds of thousands of people, destroyed a country, hardened a nazi puppet state, and lost a bunch of their trading partners to occupy almost the same territory they had when they started the war except now the only bridge into crimea is destroyed. You're confusing casualties and deaths. Al-Saqr posted:the volksturm is only a sign of collapse when you don’t have financial and military backers and don’t have the equipment to keep going, which the ukranians did. How about the proxy war just south of you there bud? Certainly bigger if you want to measure by death. Probably more successful especially given the relative disparity between each sides belligerents and their backers. Homeless Friend posted:lol @ dugins meltdown over kherson Link?
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Nov 11, 2022 22:54
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Frosted Flake posted:Two of those were focussed on Turkey, which was peripheral. The Russo-Turkish Wars, siege of Plevna etc. weren’t really relevant to the continental state of affairs. Similarly, the Greek War of Independence was a largely irregular war, the force sent to Crimea was a small expeditionary force, Carlist Wars were civil wars. The British army has only ever practiced conscription during the world wars and sent over 100,000 soldiers to Crimea. What's the most they ever had on the continent for the Napoleonic wars, it can't be much higher? Those wars happened in Europe and I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest Russia's rise to prominence at the expense of the Ottomans was incredibly relevant to the continental state of affairs and was one of the major causes of WW1. Frosted Flake posted:When I saw Russian commentators abandon Deep Battle this week, my heart broke. I appreciate you taking on board my prior criticisms. Majorian posted:Yeah it's just funny to see folks like Mishustin saying, "I know what'll work to turn our fortunes around - PRIVATE FUNDRAISING!" That's not what this is about. They are going to buy things from the private sector.
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Nov 12, 2022 09:22
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I mean yeah, obviously. It wasn't like a criticism. Also if you want to chat with me privately I'm happy to give you an email address.
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Nov 12, 2022 09:44
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Specifically the kolovrat. I said I wouldn't presume somebody is a Nazi for wearing one. The Nazis themselves never used it afaik.
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Nov 12, 2022 09:51
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I'm referring to your edit.
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Nov 12, 2022 09:54
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OK bud.
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Nov 12, 2022 09:59
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I doubt the patch was produced innocently but my position is that in the absence of any other evidence, for which I looked, that the woman in question wearing one might not be a nazi and may have been given it. It may have been a unit patch. It may have been because she is a Nazi though. IDK. I'll drop it however.
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Nov 12, 2022 10:10
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NeatHeteroDude posted:Is there a triple-swastika? Black sun kinda.
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Nov 12, 2022 11:30
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Tankbuster posted:they really want those blue jeans and rock and roll music, and will sell their livers for it. Who would buy?
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Nov 12, 2022 20:04
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In other Organization of Turkic States news, Orbán took a big delegation of over 50 people including the foreign minister and has reportedly significantly strengthened economic bonds with Uzbekistan, looking at setting up manufacturing there and Hungary's biggest commercial bank is buying an Uzbek bank. Some mention of Azeri gas was made too.Tankbuster posted:the actual economic centers in the EU would love for the status quo to return and the way the russian government is flopping around the EU can just ask them to destroy their contracts they have been signing. Sure, china will get off scot free, but the rest of the third world gets shafted. Just a Russian liver joke.
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Nov 12, 2022 21:13
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How much influence does the UAE have at OPEC+ meetings?
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Nov 12, 2022 21:52
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I think Vlad mostly impaled dead dudes, thereby saving Wallachia from Ottoman invasion. IMO we could do with more leaders like him. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 13, 2022 03:30
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mawarannahr posted:gently caress you lol
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Nov 13, 2022 03:58
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Al-Saqr posted:so not only are you a Nazi symbol fan you’re also super wrong because not only was vlad the impaler defeated, beheaded and had his head on display by the ottomans his brother was Mehmet’s personal gay lover and was installed as ruler of Romania afterwar Vlad got owned. Radu, Vlad Dracula's brother, was Vovoide of Walachia only before Vlad's death and died around the same time as him. You may be partially confusing him with Radu the Great, their nephew, although his father was Vovoide before him and both Vlad Dracula and Radu the Handsome (Mehemet II's lover) replaced each other as Vovoide. Romania didn't exist, large parts of modern Romania were part of Hungary. Most of Vlad Dracula's reputation is slander. I think it's amusing that your position is that Turkey should conquer the Balkans and that you think I am a psycho. We is humanity in general and I'll leave you with this Stalin quote from earlier that might make my position clearer. Comrade Koba posted:
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Nov 13, 2022 07:35
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I think also agricultural workers frequently move a lot for work but that is different from traditional nomadism. e: This claims 1/4 of people in Mongolia live a nomadic lifestyle. https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/counting-uncounted-how-mongolian-nomadic-survey-leaving-no-one-behind Weka has issued a correction as of 23:12 on Nov 13, 2022 |
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Nov 13, 2022 23:10
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Are Wagner ideologically Nazi? All I've seen on it is Utkin's neck tattoo and I think the suggestion they had some nazi members. Obviously they presumably still suck generally regardless and certainly in this case.
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Nov 14, 2022 03:30
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Lol that article puts even my hesitancy to ascribe nazism to shame.
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