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Showing content with the highest reputation on 04/05/22 in Posts

  1. I posted early on in the active war portion of this thread how my wife had ordered some Etsy thing from Ukraine (a wooden step stool for a kid to help cook) and they sent a thing saying roughly “sorry we’re at war now we’ll ship it asap wish us luck Slava Ukraini “. The motherfuckers shipped it. It got shipped from Poland. Slava Fucking Ukraini. I would have given them precisely zero negative feedback for absconding with my money and surviving, and they shipped the stupid stool. Slava Ukraini
    39 points
  2. This post and article is a cope cage. Please tell me you understand how outrageously idiotic it is to compare 2 billion a year in aid to the astronomically high reparations demanded of Germany. Please also tell me you understand that the Marshall Plan wasn’t just for Germany but for 17 fucking counties in Europe- winners and losers. Blaming America for Russian corruption and failure in privatization and shock therapy is cope. Amazingly, other former Warsaw Pact nations were able to navigate that process and it worked. I tip my hat to you, as this shit perfectly echoes Kremlin propaganda. “Russia is great, powerful, strong, rich in resources, vigorous and deserving of respect yet is helpless against the wiles of the perfidious West, which are bringing it to its knees.”
    27 points
  3. Surprised he wasn’t charged for hijacking
    21 points
  4. @MillerEP, please don't take these posts as a message to stop the aggregating that you're doing. It's FANTASTIC, and a great source of info. I should posprep you more for it. But yes, maybe putting most of it in a spoiler would help the mobile view. Again, appreciate all you're doing.
    17 points
  5. In a world of asininetakes, the idea that helping Yeltsin via the IMF defeat a potential Communist re-takeover in 1996 means we are responsible for Putin and what he is doing in 2022 falls right below “maybe all those corpses are really alive.” Perhaps next we can talk about how this is all due to the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, which created the IMF. Flooding the zone with bullshit and distractions like this is a time-tested Kremlin troll tactic.
    17 points
  6. One more jewel from that dumbass article: Let’s imagine a world where some other country, say, Germany, openly proclaimed solidarity with and protection of “fellow Aryans” a bedrock principle of its foreign policy. Oh, actually I don’t have to imagine it. We don’t accept shit like this from other countries, why is Russia some special snowflake. If anything, the world has not been hard enough on Russia and its bullshit. Russia’s endless fucked-upedness and its mutant Imperial Bolshevik view of the world around it are not anyone else’s fault.
    14 points
  7. Story on motocross riders in Europe refitting/tuning used bikes and smuggling them into Ukraine to hand off to the UKa. https://riprawlings.com/2022/03/31/wzd20-stud-motorcycle-smugglers/
    14 points
  8. Spirit would've charged him after the 1st one.
    14 points
  9. "The USA is responsible for Russia's current attempt to ethically cleanse Ukraine because they only gave Russia about $2,000,000,000 in charity per year in the 1990s" is an immediate contender for the dumbest argument ever published. And I used to read TexAgs.
    13 points
  10. It is absurd to say that but for US foreign policy Putin would not have risen to power. No one who knows the history of the fall of the Soviet Union and Putin’s subsequent rise is going to take time to refute that as it is prima facie ridiculous. I find it odd that you maintain that the US political landscape could yield President Trump with no interference from Russia (which I agree with for the most part) yet the Russian people have no agency and are now in the clutches of Putin solely because of the evil American empire. Just stop
    13 points
  11. It pains me to say this, but if I were in those soldiers' shoes, I'd be executing every Russian soldier that surrendered. I suppose that makes me a monster, too.
    12 points
  12. The repubs don't like this because the repubs want to do here what Putin is doing in Russia and Ukraine. They want America to be a repub led authoritarian nation so they can legally persecute gays, minorities, etc. while also stealing from and ripping off Americans even more than they are doing now. Having a Putin taking over the US and making the repub politicians his oligarchs is their dream. Putin's failure is their failure. The world turning against Putin is the world turning against them and what they stand for and want to accomplish.
    12 points
  13. Joe Biden is a Democrat and he must not be allowed to be seen as successful in any way, shape, or form. It’s that simple.
    12 points
  14. It's all relative. Go back to the beginning and you'll find the Kyivan Rus founded Russia, so technically Ukraine came first. So Russia belongs to them.
    11 points
  15. 11 points
  16. I had a fun conversation with a family member yesterday about how all of the videos/casualties were fake and murdered by the Ukranian secret police, zelensky and his Nazi thugs will not be looked at fondly by history, and how he never thought he’d see the day where so many people in the world are blatantly supporting Nazis. Lots of rt.com source documents. Our great grandparents immigrated from Ukraine. I think my jaw is still dragging on the floor.
    11 points
  17. I do. After I answer the actual question. Analogies are a good way to explain a position or answer….once you’ve already given it. You skip straight to “pretend to be clever by being obtuse” without actually speaking plainly. It’s tiresome and chickenshit. Say what you actually think, or STFU. If people have to engage in mental gyrations to try to figure out your point, it doesn’t mean that you’re clever or they’re stupid: it just means that you’re a terrible communicator.
    11 points
  18. well... just about a month later and I think today's the day for Maggie❤️💔 have an appt with the vet at 5pm... my sister is coming with, this is pretty much us saying goodbye to mom as well. I've had her for three years im sure I'll post more later, just this for now. my heart hurts.
    10 points
  19. Oh geez. Josh White’s decision was made before he even entered the portal. Please stop being such a whiny fucking cunt.
    10 points
  20. Russian Nazis shot at a monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv region. ^I saw it yesterday, they were claiming it was revenge for Bucha. This is going to get out of hand on both sides now. Mushroom season in the forest
    10 points
  21. Man this is some top-shelf shithousery by annie. It's fun to break down his method: He plays a game. He gives you a long anecdote and in that anecdote, he's very clearly making an argument. It's not a complicated argument, you can follow it, it's pretty explicit. Then, next to the anecdote, he includes a conclusion. So it looks like [Long story about how America supported post cold war RU via the IMF] / [conclusion: America is directly responsible for putin's power and his aggression]. Now, any logical person makes a leap and says, "Okay, but America didn't start this war and has stayed uninvolved....why does that apply?". He comes back and says, "I never said that America caused this war, you cannot read, you didn't understand, you're stupid". Obviously not in that language. So he's constantly constructing what he's saying in this very slippery way that anyone engaging with his ideas on his terms is going to naturally draw conclusions about how he's getting to his ideas, but the way he constructs them isn't an argument with evidence, it's very loosey-goosey and so he can constantly call you out on misrepresenting his point and claim he never said the thing you are attributing to him, etc. So what results are these "debates" or confrontations where people try to talk to him or engage him about his ideas in a critical way and he can shut them all down, which is fun for some people. It's a display of intellectual superiority for some, and a frustrating and puzzling experience for his opponents because he'll immediately backtrack on anything you try to pin him down on. So it produces....great content! It produces a lot of videos where some fumbling liberal/leftist is trying to engage with what he said and he stomps all over them by claiming they don't get it and that's some gooooood youtube. Ben Shapiro and Crowder do the same schitck, and if you don't know that you're going into that scenario when you talk to them, you'll lose just based on the rhetorical stratgies. They look smart and cool without even really talking about the ideas, because the POINT is not to talk about the ideas.
    10 points
  22. I assume you're posting from a foxhole near Kharkiv, correct?
    10 points
  23. Closetojumping how old are you? I’m 53 and you seem like a grumpy old man to me.
    9 points
  24. Mariupol: Bucha Kharkiv Donetsk What to expect as the Russian army withdraws: I sorta don't care about presidents and foreign policy gaffes from last century. Not today at least.
    9 points
  25. The U.S. military industrial complex enriched itself under the guise of opposing fascism and ending the depression via the lend-lease program which needlessly prolonged and escalated the war in Europe, which otherwise might very well have been over by early 1942. The symbol of American military aid being the Studebaker deuce and a half truck, which allowed for Soviet logistical support across the Eastern Front. The subsequent victory of the USSR, which otherwise would have at the very least been reduced in size and power, led to the Cold War and our unrelenting efforts to undermine our erstwhile Soviet allies and encourage liberation movements in Eastern Europe. This of course led to the inevitable post-Cold War politics of the 1990s, which created a kleptocratic oligarchy that craved the type of return to order and national renewal that Vladimir Putin offered. And so here we are. We can’t talk about Bucha or this war in Ukraine without considering FDR and Studebaker’s role in creating this tragedy.
    9 points
  26. @MillerEP I dig your thread contributions and taking the time to translate, but fuck man, this thread is becoming unreadable on mobile with the constant tweet storms. Can you edit down or hide them in a spoiler? It's impossible to read this thread because the page skips around like crazy as each tweet loads and resizes the page
    9 points
  27. Decent president and human vs worsest person eva. You were close.
    9 points
  28. Maybe it was a protest, bring back the nuts.
    9 points
  29. Senator Cotton should take a look at who acted as defense counsel for the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
    8 points
  30. 8 points
  31. You know, I actually agree that Biden gets a lot of credit for meeting a depressingly low standard. The people most upset about that are the ones who set that bar.
    8 points
  32. Of course, everyone knows the US goaded Hitler in to invading Poland. He basically had no choice because a neutral Poland was necessary for Germany's national defense.
    8 points
  33. There is only one President in the history of the United States that has asked a hostile foreign power to help him find and circulate kompromat on his American political enemies.
    8 points
  34. Truth hurts, don't it? I hate to break it to you, but reflexive contrarianism isn't actually critical thinking.
    8 points
  35. I truly don't understand the right's opposition to the way we're aiding Ukraine. We're not getting sucked into an escalating war. We haven't gotten ROI like this in an international conflict since we armed Afghans and brought down the USSR. We don't need a "clean exit" because we're not fucking there. It's Putin that has to figure out the exit plan. The right has been happy to be the world's police for decades, but THIS TIME when we don't actually have to put our sons on the ground, THIS TIME when we have a real opportunity to bring down an adversary and perhaps instigate regime change that may make the world safer, we should just look the other way. Fuck that. Just acknowledge that Biden is doing a decent job walking this tight rope.
    8 points
  36. I was going to post this weeks ago, but had to keep it quiet.
    8 points
  37. Fil left one exactly like this. I’m about to have it.
    8 points
  38. Definitely wasn’t 4 discreet occasions
    8 points
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