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  • @Shrike502
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    171 year ago

    Word is, Moldova has closed down its airspace, citing an appearance of a “Russian UAV”. That has apparently made it past ukranian air defence and is so stealth, nobody else is reporting on it

    Edit: and it’s back open. Not suspicious at all

    • @redtea
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      101 year ago

      The question is, what flew through from the other side while nobody else was in the air to see it coming?

      • @Shrike502
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        91 year ago

        That was my thought as well. Perhaps something had come eastwards over Moldova? Given other such “curious” events (i.e. the radioactive plane in Greece) I am worried

  • DankZedong A
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    151 year ago

    Happy Valentine’s and Belgian Public Transport Strike Day ✊🏼

    Today a large number of trains and buses will be cancelled.

  • @Shrike502
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    151 year ago

    Was browsing youtube for this comedy show that’s been going for decades, stumbled upon a game from 2003. Nice, says I, they had some good jokes back then.

    So I do some other things, while the show plays in the background. The host announces a team from Krivoy Rog, which I haven’t noticed at the moment. The team starts doing scenes and I realize the voice sounds familiar. Badly familiar. Pause, zoom. It’s fuckin Zelensky. It’s fuckin Zelensky telling silly jokes on Russian federal TV. Can’t escape, man.

      • 小莱卡
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        101 year ago

        Trump has been on media for a lot of time unfortunely. Like just watched American Psycho and even there he is mentioned, its like a 2001 film lol.

        • @redtea
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          71 year ago

          He was in Home Alone, too, iirc.

          • SovereignState
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            71 year ago

            Also made an appearance on an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, with Carlton salivating all over him of course.

            • @redtea
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              71 year ago

              Someone should go back through and replace him with a CGI Jabba the Hutt like they did to the original Star Wars.

    • @Eat_Yo_Vegetables69
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      61 year ago

      Sounds similar to what they were doing with Xinjiang with Turkey’s support.

      • Here is a good article of what you are speaking of :

        http://www.china.org.cn/english/2002/Jan/25582.htm

        Here is a piece from the article :

        “Besides engaging in terrorist violence within China’s borders, the “East Turkistan” terrorist forces have also been involved in violent incidents beyond the borders. In March 1997, “East Turkistan” terrorists opened fire at the Chinese embassy in Turkey, and attacked the Chinese consulate-general in Istanbul, burning the Chinese national flag flying there.

        On March 5, 1998, they launched a bomb attack against the Chinese consulate-general in Istanbul.

        In March 2000, Nighmet Bosakof, president of the Kyrgyzstan “Uygur Youth Alliance,” was shot dead in front of his house by members of a terrorist organization named the “East Turkistan Liberation Organization” because he had refused to cooperate with them.

        In May 2000, members of the “Uygur Liberation Organization” beyond the boundaries extorted US$100,000 as ransom after kidnapping a Xinjiang businessman, murdered his nephew, and set the Bishkek Market of Chinese Commodities on fire. On May 25, 2000, terrorists attacked the work team of the Xinjiang People’s Government which went to Kyrgyzstan to deal with the above case, causing one death and two injuries. The culprits then fled to Kazakhstan, killing two Kazakhstan policemen who were searching for them in Alma-Ata in September the same year.

        The ironclad details of these bloody facts are irrefutable proof of the nature of the “East Turkistan” forces as a terrorist organization that does not flinch from taking violent measures to kill the innocent and harm society so as to achieve the goal of splitting the motherland.”

        • @Eat_Yo_Vegetables69
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          61 year ago

          The riots in the late 2000s and the terrorist attack in 2014 as well, but of course western media tiptoes around that because they’re “freedom fighters”. It fits the western definition of “freedom” as bringing death and destruction all to benefit the empire.

          • You are absolutely right. They (Amerikkkan Regime) will do anything to keep themselves from dying , but I hope the Amerikkkan empire dies much sooner than later.

            Death to Amerikkka!

  • @Darkerseid
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    111 year ago

    why do people bringing up their harvard graduation smh? isn’t harvard built upon slave trade and opium trade?

    • @knfrmity
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      111 year ago

      All the Ivy League schools are social clubs for the kids of the ruling class. It’s not about learning anything or the bad history of the institution, it’s about showing potential employers and investors that you’re well networked with the ruling class. For the “academics” who work there it’s a fancy name to put on their work which makes their gaslighting and smokescreening for the ruling class automatically accepted and parroted by media.

    • DankZedong A
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      101 year ago

      Mostly to flex and because it impresses people. I have a Cambridge degree, and when people find out they act as if you’re the shit (I almost never bring it up myself). I think it may just be an ego thing.

      • @Darkerseid
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        71 year ago

        well i have top indian degree and people start comparing that with harvard and it just pisses me off

  • DankZedong A
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    91 year ago

    Intensely follow a court case about a local serial killer for the last two days. The guy killed and raped four women in the 90s (while already having committed multiple crimes before and it’s unclear if he did so afterwards). Finally got arrested in 2017 when he had to give up DNA because he stole some metal for his company (he was a window cleaner). It matched with DNA found on his latest victim.

    The case had it all. He already admitted to two of the murders but remained silent on the first two. Eventually a daughter of his second victim held a speech and he suddenly confesses everything. Even the judge was confused for a second.

    He was a typical serial killer. Father abused all of his daughters and beat him. Youth filled with trouble and crime. Abusive relationships later on. Started small with theft, eventually got into sexual violence and later on killed random women. Great insight in how society failed him and he also failed society. All these things were not taken into account for the verdict.

    There were very gruesome details being reported, lots of emotional speeches by victims’ families, his own lawyers who basically didn’t even begin to prove his innocence after he confessed and eventually the verdict, which is life in prison.

    I don’t know why I did this to myself lol. I’m exhausted.

    • JucheBot1988
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      31 year ago

      Great insight in how society failed him and he also failed society.

      The USSR had one high-profile serial killer: Andrei Chikatilo, who committed most of his crimes during the 1980s – the period of perestroika – and was finally caught (and executed) in the 90s. At the time, people widely considered his crimes a symptom of the breakdown of society attendant on market liberalization.

        • Comrade Goatfucker
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          61 year ago

          Controversial indeed. I personally prefer it without, but don’t really mind

          • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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            71 year ago

            Same. I just occasionally like a sweet tangy taste, but it’s not my “most-liked” pizza at all, if I’m being honest.

            I just find it, well, fine and not really worth the arguing.

            • @redtea
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              31 year ago

              What about anchovies on pizza?

              • @nour
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                21 year ago

                Yes

                • @redtea
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                  31 year ago

                  Me too. With the same amount of aggression.

      • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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        51 year ago

        Good. I’m writing articles for 'em. There’s also been lots of activism in my area in the past 3 years (where there wasn’t any before).

        • alunyanneгs 🏳️‍⚧️♀️
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          31 year ago

          That’s great news, but I’m wondering somethings about the CPUSA.

          Does it still preach Communism/ML-ism? I heard rumors that it tried to be “more liberal”. Also, Given that it’s a Communist Party in an Anti-Communist Country, how much of it is still genuine communists/leftists and how much of it are feds?

          Also, do you guys get attacked regularly by the right/far-righters for being “COMmIE TerRORs TRYiNg To DESTroy amErIca”?

          • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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            21 year ago

            We aren’t feds and we have Marxism-Leninism in our Program.

            And yes, regularly. Daily, practically.

            • alunyanneгs 🏳️‍⚧️♀️
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              31 year ago

              Sounds exactly what a fed would say! 🤨🤨🤨 (Kidding of course, but I’m wondering if there has been a case where a member of the CPUSA was found out to have ties with the feds. Not saying that you guys are feds…)

              How do you guys protect yourselves from rightists/far-righters?

              • Makan ☭ CPUSA
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                21 year ago

                Can’t say much on this front and it depends on the exact district. We’ve certainly gotten rid of a few infiltrators, especially as the PatSoc entryists are concerned.

  • @Shrike502
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    91 year ago

    Anyone knows what’s happening in Ugledar? Photos I’ve seen make it look like the city is straight up being deleted from the map

    • @Leninismydad
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      71 year ago

      Serious battle there and in Prechistovka, described as stubborn and rough fighting

      • @Shrike502
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        71 year ago

        With all the attention on Bakhmut, there’s not a lot being said about that area

  • @Shrike502
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    81 year ago

    So there’s a video going around the net. Supposedly Wagner soldiers adress the MoD and criticize it for “cutting them off from supply lines” and not providing them with enough artillery and tank munitions. IF the video is real, and those are indeed Wagner soldiers, there are two matters of note:

    1. It comes on top of several stories of the same soldiers being victorious in several battles, capturing villages and crossroads. Often after heavy fighting. This begs the question of visibility of the Wagner group and the nerve to address the MoD in this fashion (compared to reports from regular army). It almost looks like a PR campaign.

    2. Apparently Wagner, a “private security firm” as it is listed legally, has its own howitzer artillery, anti-tank artillery, friggin tanks, fighter jets and air defences. Sounds a bit too much for people not part of the military.

  • DankZedong A
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    81 year ago

    So this sort of twitter famous Belgian girl decided to post a picture of her going to a party, wearing a see through top. Nothing outrageous, right? Wrong! A self proclaimed leftist columnist decided to dedicate an entire column to her ‘shoving her tits in his face’ (after looking for the picture himself, btw) and he compared it to men showing their balls (because balls and boobs are the same) and to receiving an unwanted dickpic (???).

    He unironically starts his column stating that he’s a white man, so he probably doesn’t have a valid reason to complain. If only he stopped writing there. He got right fully blasted in the aftermath though.

    • DankZedong A
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      81 year ago

      As a bonus, here’s a cartoon version of him that’s used by the paper he writes for:

      Yes, he looks like a wojack lmao

  • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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    71 year ago

    The Russian general Mordvichev, who was supposedly killed by Ukrainians last March, has now officially replaced General Lapin as the commander of the Army Group Center. Juche Necromancy, much?

    • @Shrike502
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      51 year ago

      Wonder what’s up with all the replacements? There’s been several generals swapped in the year that the war has been going on

      • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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        51 year ago

        Surovikin is and always has been Gerasimov’s subordinate, he just had the “spotlight” for a few months. And I think rotations are pretty normal in war if a general underperforms, overperforms, or performs period; fronts shift, troops get redeployed, etc. Practically every side in a major modern war has switched things around here and there even if they were winning.

        • JucheBot1988
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          31 year ago

          It may be so Surovikin can focus on the air war (aerospace is apparently his specialty). Which is bad news for the Ukrops.

  • @Shrike502
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    61 year ago

    Does anyone have any data on the percentage of private vs government ownership of companies in China? Specifically the trends in ownership