I read that article this morning. It’s a well oiled routine at this point. Russians are using human wave tactics in the first half, then the second half talks about massive Russian artillery and air superiority, and how the UAF is taking enormous losses.

I almost think that the reporter knows that their regular readership only reads headlines. But they still want to tell the truth.

Taking away the landowner’s serfs of course.

I very rarely click on video links. But I watched this one. It’s honestly not that earth shattering IMO. Russia has nearly encircled a fairly large area where there may or not be a sizeable chunk of UAF.

I do think that the end of the war is fast approaching, and we’ll see some real change this winter. But this isn’t it. This is a tactical victory, not a strategic one.

Completely agree. I haven’t worked up the courage, but it’s something I absolutely would like to do as a part time job. It’s a service like any other, and it should be treated as such.

A phenomenon I’ve noticed many a time, and I’m not a tinfoil hat wearing type. This is why anything smart gets removed when I want a serious talk.

Fun fact: in 1950, there were only 500 million people in China. That means that Mao killed half the population of China. That’s a little less than the raw percentage of population loss from the native population of North America in the 19th century (~600k in 1800 to 250k in 1890). Funnily enough, in 1979, the population of China had nearly doubled from the 1950 figures.

I guess we’ll never know what happened in North America, but that Mao guy sure was evil.

Not an American, but have spent a lot of time there. They have two right wing liberal parties, and a political system that actively resists any changes to that setup. As a result, they think that those are the two political extremes, and everything between them is centrist. Anyone outside of that is an extremist and not worthy of consideration. So when you criticise their party of choice, you obviously must be on the “other” side of the political spectrum, which to them is the other US political party.

They just don’t know any better, it’s outside of their realm of experience.

I’d not been following the war that closely until the Kursk invasion. I strongly believed it to be the beginning of the end. It makes absolutely zero strategic sense. Zelensky himself has waffled on what the point of it is. At this point it seems to be just a terrorist attack/PR stunt aimed at harming Russian civilians. That’s not really a good use of your best troops if you want to win a war. As we can see with the collapse of the Ukrainian fronts, which Ukraine is still not doing much about. This just isn’t sustainable.

Thank you. I’m drunk.

I know you can’t read my response, but thank you.

Lawn dart.

right here. Please repost for hexbear. They can’t see my posts in my own instance.

It matters to Canada because the US told them to care. I have absolutely no clue about the US. Presumably they spent a lot of money getting those judges appointed and don’t want to lose their investments?

For anyone else out of the loop: From what I gather, Mexico is currently trying to make it so that judges are elected, rather than appointed. Canada and the US are fussing about this and threating trade sanctions, claiming that electing judges will somehow harm Mexico’s democracy (as you might expect, the reasons I found were a bunch of FUD without much substance). Mexico wants them to mind their own fucking business.

Americans dub English language TV shows. They yell at people speaking Spanish. It’s entirely unsurprising that they would find Chinese language ads offensive.

The last person, I was curious about WTF they were on about. It was wartime propaganda from WW2. They’re openly comparing the war to the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany.

To be fair, my history teachers taught me a lot of propaganda.

This Indian says he can fuck right off.

I got yelled at to go home the other day. By a black guy. I’m somewhat used to it from white people, but I was shocked enough that I actually engaged with him, and told him that I was native.

He told me that everyone was native because of Pangea, and wouldn’t listen to me when I said Pangea was about 200 million years before people even existed (creationist I think). I disengaged very quickly at that point, but I was pretty unsettled by that event for a few days afterwards.

I still have no explanation. Or any idea of where he thought I should be going home to.

That’s the first time I’m hearing about Hitler being a saviour. God what a terrible time to be alive.