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wit
Jul 26, 2011
And with that, a mighty cheer rose up from the heroes of Russia. They had banished the awful Caesar Kunikov forever....because it was haunted. Now let's all celebrate with a cool glass of turnip juice.

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wit
Jul 26, 2011

beer_war posted:

Remarkably, it turns out Tucker Carlson is even dumber than I thought.

https://x.com/chrissteinplays/status/1758180518535799296?s=20

I don't think dumb is the word to describe this. He's a preppy rich elite that wouldn't even know the name of the servant who buys the groceries for his house or carries luggage, let alone get them himself.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Der Kyhe posted:

Navalny was one of the other brands of "Russia should be allowed to draw its own borders"-buffoons, so not exactly a huge loss from the viewpoint of countries bordering Russia.

But more interesting questions is 'why now?'; The guy was already a write-off, spending rest of his life in jail unless Putin's regime topples, so why poison the guy now instead of using him as a living reminder for the people with similar ideas. Now there is a chance that he becomes a martyr to factions opposing Putin, and that surely cannot be what the ol' shitpants wants.
Have you any idea how hard it is to push someone out of a window to their death when theres like 5ft of snow on the ground most of the year? There's probably 20 snow angels around where he died of marking all the previous attempts.

But seriously, why kill a known anti-corruption and election fraud person ahead of an election?

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Karate Bastard posted:

You can join truthsocial instead, to complain about "disease X".



Stolen from trumplol thread

"get ivermectin without seeing a doctor" reads a lot like "psst, hey kids, wanna see something cool? dont tell your parents..."

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Nice piece of fish posted:

What pisses me off the most about letting Ukraine down with vehicles, weapons and ammo is how loving good they are at this. Like they are making Russia hurt like they haven't been for over half a century, and all with leftover poo poo. It is insane value for defence dollars.

Europe needs to arm the gently caress up anyway because Putin's ambitions won't stop in Ukraine. And for that we need factories and actual ability to produce. Juice that the gently caress up and send the first batches of everything to Ukraine, how hard can this be? Useless goddamned politicians.

Well Europe needs to arm up anyway because Trump is a cert to get in and do everything he can to line his own nest with Putin. I think everything happening right now is just trying to make sure the US can't be forced to pull out of efforts when he gets in again. Its a genuine feeling that the US could flip in 2025 regardless of the public, you're already seeing the media change and bizarre pro putin stump speeches.
The lovely thing is that noises in europe to that effect have taken the form of "give less to ukraine, we'll need it soon".

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

Sure, we have to wait for the results to come in.

In the meantime, Trump is pissing off judges and threatening their court clerks, still slandering E Jean Carroll despite not one but TWO judgements against him (and neither were criminal cases) and he's doing everything he possibly can to solidify the justice system against him.

The man is going to gently caress himself completely, and there isn't a legal team that can bail his stupid loving mouth out.

Well this is really the thing. There is no sitting and waiting for results to come in for europe and ukraine. You can't make plans and have something as ludicrous as him hovering over them. Even beyond him, its been a bit of a given for years that NATO isn't strategically as important to direct threats like china/iran to the states so even in the obama era while no public noises were made, it was known that the BFF status would wane eventually. Its just that Trump is literally the only dude that would leave nato and ukraine with their dicks in their hands in the middle of an effort mostly sabre rattled by the UK in the west. Any other candidate would at least have a team around them smacking that poo poo out of their hands. Even the nato childlock that congress had to push through to stop him unilaterally deciding to pull out of nato means nothing. He would still just refuse to send any support in.

Its terrifying that millions of lives in ukraine depend on how much people at the other side of the world like that guy from The Apprentice.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Computer viking posted:

And that is exactly why it would be interesting to ask them - maybe they would actually say yes in the interest of earning dollars, maybe they would claim to not have the capacity, maybe they would claim to be sadly busy making ammunition for their own purposes. All of those would be interesting in their own way.

Weirdly, I think the most damning thing about the Russia/China relationship is how little concern other countries pay attention to it. If it was a thing, you'd have heard in business news it was a thing, the world is not peeling back goonpost after goonpost to find out what's happening with superpowers.

wit
Jul 26, 2011
Let's be honest, if a US/UK/German soldier defected and took a helicopter and this happened it would be met with cheers.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Disco Pope posted:

I'm leaning towards assassination, but people get shot in parking lots everywhere, especially if they've fallen in with gangs as suggested.

The methods are very different though - no poison and it wasn't made to look like a suicide.

Its a little silly to suggest it was anything other than assassination. I'm sure we could build up some Sammy the bull type scenario in which he was a jerk, went into witness protection of sorts, relocated and proceeded to do all the crimes, but why write that novel?

wit
Jul 26, 2011

beer_war posted:

So the German Bundestag is set to vote on a resolution tomorrow, formulated by the governing coalition, calling for "the delivery of additional necessary long-range weapons systems and ammunition to enable Ukraine to carry out international law-compliant, targeted attacks on strategically important targets deep in the rear area of the Russian aggressor."

So Taurus, right? :wrong:, says Olaf Scholz and don't you dare say that name.

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-political-crisis-taurus-cruise-missiles-ukraine-marie-agnes-strack-zimmermann/

I'll be really suprised if this passes and they dont decide they need it themselves. Hopeful and optimistic about it. Which is sad because im hopeful for bombs and ammo to kill poor Russians thrown into the war as fodder.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

HonorableTB posted:

They had a chance to surrender and be heroes but instead uh, they didn't.

Yeah the whole thing about him taking hostages/kidnapping isn't mentioned enough.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

quote:

They were allegedly misled into taking up 'security personnel/helper' jobs in Russia by a man from Maharashtra, who runs a YouTube channel. A vlogger exposed the fraud being perpetrated on gullible youth.
This is all kinds of yikes. There's a lot of private work during wars sure, but this is straight up human trafficking.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Mulva posted:

I feel really bad for the mercenaries that were just trying to get paid off other people's suffering.

No wait, what's the other thing?

gently caress'em.

well here's the video in question of the youtuber/agent accused of duping people. You can make up your own mind I guess, but a cursory scroll through that channel suggests lots of easy street jobs for people to get and how to get visas. If you watch the video it definitely sounds like he's blowing smoke up their asses about how simple a job in russia it will be and how you'll never actually go to ukraine. Basically say's you'll be in russia answering the phone and painting your nails because they just need the manpower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRX7LQio2Sg

Interestingly he focuses a lot of how close to finland russia is and how easy it is to go there. Finland are currently furious at russia for the waves of migrants crossing over from there, so I'd say poo poo like this guy is the reason why.

Also I got the youtuber name and channel from this news article, if you're interested in the source: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/duped-by-agent-indians-forced-to-fight-in-russian-war-claims-asaduddin-owaisi-5100448

E: If mods think linking that guy's channel is too close to poop touching, by all means delete both links.

wit fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Feb 23, 2024

wit
Jul 26, 2011

This will also be the line when Navalny is buried or cremated.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Karate Bastard posted:

Does this mean making GBS threads into both nostrils at once?

Its a forbidden spell from the Vladdy Putter series.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

I'm sorry but this is an objectively, laugh out loud stupid choice of music.

e: link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68427413

wit fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Mar 1, 2024

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Wheany posted:

He was an enemy of my enemy.

The enemy of my enemy = enemy^2

wit
Jul 26, 2011

I honestly don't believe either side completely. Russia should just start showing the footage in reverse and say they can now build planes in the sky.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Just Another Lurker posted:

If you wish to learn how to destroy a society and language then you will be off to a good start with the English in Ireland. :shrug:

Yeah its always been the sandbox for oppression.
Without flying miles off topic this popped up on BBC and amuses me: The 'banned' Star Trek episode that promised a united Ireland. Commander Data was a ra man. Only 9 months left, irish goons, pull the finger out.

wit
Jul 26, 2011
Serious question, what is the definition of tankie these days? Putin sycophants? Tacit supporters of pulling support for ukraine under the guise of X country first?

wit
Jul 26, 2011

LashLightning posted:

Supporting a perceived socialist/communist (or socialist/communist-some-time-in-the-past) state's colonial or otherwise expansionist aggression, due to the idea "well, they're socialist/communist, so what they're doing must be good".

Yeah thats the jump I didn't get. Russia is an oligarch empire that's loved by the right, its not even vaguely commie. Tankie was always used for soviets-can-do-no-wrong babble.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

the holy poopacy posted:

A tankie is a self-identified leftist who hates liberalism more than they hate fascism, so it's Good when the fascists are winning as long as the libs are losing, just as it was Good when the Soviets sent tanks to suppress reform movements in Hungry and Czechoslovakia for being too liberal.

I think this is the 6th variation of an answer which is comforting in not knowing if the definition had changed.

So right now, tankie means people who are pro-russia/anti-involvement. It doesn't mean british commies or stalin or marxist leninist. Can we not just say orc botherers?

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wit
Jul 26, 2011

Tai posted:

Sure if you fancy being racist
Well now I'm caught in a web. How about oligarch adjacent fuckheads with a penchant for doodling on maps?

e: didnt realise orc was now considered a slur applied to russians in general. Early on it was specifically the invading meatwalls.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

DiomedesGodshill posted:


How?

Then again it is Russia. :blyat:

Was probably on the helicopter landing pad.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

Scam Likely posted:

Drone technology feels like a really huge doctrinal shift in every domain of warfare.

Who knew the toy helicopter guy from san andreas would end up a General some day. But yeah, its terrifyingly available technology that can hit drat near anywhere. A really big issue is that a lot of it seems beholden to starlink owned by someone with a messiah complex, who loves to tamper with politics and prone to really, really stupid choices. We really are in the militarized space era.

wit
Jul 26, 2011

shadow puppet of a posted:

Found a big Russia enthusiast and their wholly coherent message to the pussies of the western world on the way home from work today.



Be careful, all great wars were written on cars first.

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wit
Jul 26, 2011

Avirosb posted:

Alex Jones is also CIA.
There's no other explanation for him still being alive after dropping all those truth bombs.

Silly as that sounds, I'd guarantee you he's passed names of actual crazies not crazy-for-money like him to authorities. I've never ever see him stand with anyone, and he sure as hell doesn't let his fans anywhere physically near him.

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