If part of your solution isn't ending the pollution, then I don't want to hear your stories told.
Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex
Fidget Sinners w/
@AuntTed
This is a very common Russian military tactic. They did this in Syria as well. Declare a ceasefire for "humanitarian" reasons, then state that anybody who stayed in the city is CLEARLY a jihadi or a Nazi or whatever, and bombard the civilian areas with that as your PR line.
Before he died Yevgeny Prigozhin told a confidant that he had information that would lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton, and furthermore that he was working steadily toward the creation of a United States of Africa when he was
Gonna start celebrating six days of nautical gift-giving every March 23-29 to commemorate that time a boat got stuck in the canal and fucked everything up but was still unspeakably hilarious.
This interview, conducted by
@Babylon13UA
with civilian evacuating from Bucha and Irpin, is absolutely haunting and relevant. 95-year-old woman who lived through both the Holodomor and WWII describes this war as the worst thing she has ever seen.
One of my best friends is looking for one of his cats. The poor fella has been missing for over a week. My friend made little wooden signs and put up flyers on them all over, and somebody, within less than 24 hours, ripped his "missing cat" stuff down and put his own ads up.
One of the most profound sources for disagreements between NATO and the Soviets, and later the Russians, is the latter's inability to see NATO as a true bloc of equals with mutual interests. They see it as the Western version of the Warsaw Pact, a top-down defense org.
If he pulls it off, "thwarting Vladimir Putin's plans to conquer Ukraine and install a puppet regime" will be, hands-down, the funniest thing
@ZelenskyyUa
has ever done.
Pour one out for the YouTube account "btm0815ma"; they spent the better part of several years uploading thousands and thousands of archival news videos, some going back to the 1960s, others from the 2000s, but all of them valuable historical artifacts.
I learned the name of America's top flying ace in WWII one time, and one time only. I never needed to learn it again. It is etched into my memory, forever.
Wild. Five days after
@MaxBlumenthal
was featured on Al Jazeera, his post mocking victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria is just gone. He's not just a nitwit servant of tyrants with the blood of innocents on his hands, he's a spineless coward as well.
The inability to see states like Estonia or Iceland as capable of independent thought and political direction is something Russian politicians seem not to understand. They fundamentally cannot understand that NATO states are not mere Myrmidons of the US.
Excuse the bad source here. This is astounding. Russian helicopters so terrified of ground fire that they're lobbing unguided rockets in a large arc toward the target, like the twisted child of lob-bombing and MLRS strikes.
It is with a heavy heart I announce the sale of my long term ape, Salazar. Most of my early followers know me as this ape. My kids know me as this ape. I met my wife when I WAS this ape and had my first kid when I was still proudly wore this ape. By extension, it is part of me.
I double-checked and there's literally nothing in my apartment rental contract that prevents me from buying and parking an inflatable 2K12 Kub in the parking lot, and Alibaba has them ON SALE right now
Note the differences between the Czechoslovak and Hungarian attempts to break away from the Warsaw Pact, and that of France withdrawing from NATO military command.
It's sorta wild to me how supplying Europe with a mere 3% of their natural gas allows Azerbaijan to just...ethnically cleanse a place. I get it, nobody cares about the plight of the Armenians, but damn I would have expected double digit gas supply at least.
I wish folks on the left would drop this terrible line. The US is doing everything it can to *avert* a war without military means. That's the whole point of publicizing all the intelligence. That's the whole idea. If we wanted a war with Russia we'd have one lol
This is so backwards. IRL libraries also offer you free copies of books on limited-loan basis. Just like
@internetarchive
. Book publishers act just as archaically as the MPAA/RIAA. Get with the program. The world has changed. People want digital copies of things.
A federal judge on Monday will weigh pleas by four major book publishers to stop an online lending library from freely offering digital copies of books
The account has been deleted for "copyright violation" issues. Frustrating, not the least because there's NO alternative for accessing that footage. It's just...gone.
Pedo Guy
@elonmusk
: "Twitter is a free speech Mecca"
Also Pedo Guy: "Mods plz ban
@GravitysRa1nbow
for being a meanie to my rich-kid crypto-fascist podcast buddy
@DavidSacks
"
I can now proudly and happily announce this. We (the friends of
@LivFaustDieJung
/
@MENA_Conflict
) wanted to make something out of the tragedy that was his loss, and together we managed to raise $3,000 for the
@SyriaCivilDef
. The money has been deposited into their account!
@nackvid
The US plays a leading role in NATO, yes. That doesn't mean the US dictates NATO policy. This is not hard to understand if you're not, you know, a complete dipshit.
Extremist Israelis making Tik Tok videos mocking Palestinians getting bombed. Leftists and pro-Palestine folks in the West making jokes about the victims of the October 7th attacks. The logical end-point of the normalization of mocking victims of war in Syria all those years ago.
One of my best friends is looking for one of his cats. The poor fella has been missing for over a week. My friend made little wooden signs and put up flyers on them all over, and somebody, within less than 24 hours, ripped his "missing cat" stuff down and put his own ads up.
@NataliaAntonova
@IAPonomarenko
Getting into arguments with him is the colloquial equivalent of stepping in really bad dog shit, it'll follow you around for a bit and stink up everything you try to do but in the end it won't matter at all.
There's some cringe-worthy fan art of Zelensky as "Captain Ukraine" and on top of being cheesy and weird, they overlooked the obvious opportunity to name him Blyatman
I reported their campaign for violating the terms and conditions of GoFundMe and I'll keep doing it every time they create another one. I encourage everybody else to do the same.
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@GoFundMe
has indefinitely frozen donations to The Grayzone, citing “external concerns.” This follows repression by the UK & Ukrainian regime.
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@heatloss1986
Apparently he's got a very violent past and my friend is extremely worried now. He just wants his damned cat back and this scumbag has become the focus of the entire affair.
Anybody who thinks America doesn't have culture never got to see the look on my Syrian refugee friend's face when I took him to his first monster truck show.
I vividly remember the people of the baltic states slaughtering visa workers and putting Russian children in cages to throw off the yoke of Soviet oppression.
Oh wait no they didn't do that because grotesque violence in the face of superior weaponry guarantees violent failure.
Imagining violent savagery as a natural function of oppression is such a disgusting mainstay of the anti-imperial left - displaced bloodlust of intellectual - when almost all successful social and political revolutionaries shared the quality of mercy and forgiveness.
Apparently
@TwitterSupport
took it upon themselves to lock
@nezumi_ningen
out of her account for dubious reasons. Sarah is a well-known voice in the far-right and cult research communities and this action actively hurts our research. Please restore her account.
Again. If Israel wants to sit by idly while the rest of us send equipment and aid to Ukraine, the United States should refuse to fund Iron Dome. If the IDF wants Iron Dome they can pay for it themselves. No more handouts for unhelpful "allies"
Scoop: The Biden administration asked Israel for the old Hawk anti-aircraft missiles it has in storage in order to transfer them to Ukraine. Israeli ministry of defense officials rejected the request. My story on
@axios
Rather than putting his own signs up on the pole right next to the missing cat sign, the dude thinks it's okay to do this. I tried calling him and he got super defensive and started swearing at me. Anyway, if anybody has any "cars" for "sale" in remote parts of the state...
If you want to know why the Armenian community has been so adamant about getting the Turkish state to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, consider that, to us, 1915 never ended. As evidenced by recent actions by Azeri forces. That's why we haven't moved on yet.
The Red Cross had to stop painting markings on their hospitals in Syria because of precision Russian strikes. Tens of thousands of people were killed trying to flee Ukrainian cities along Russian-designated deconfliction routes.
@JeremyKonyndyk
is either a simpleton or an asshole
To expand on this a bit - Russia has definitely struck aid sites in Ukraine (and many civilian sites) in stark violation of IHL. But they have generally respected the safety of convoys notified to them by the UN. The point is that the IDF isn't even meeting that lowest of bars.
Just trying to figure this "russian sphere of influence" thing out. So Armenia, with a defense treaty with Russia, gets nothing in terms of military support despite a foreign invasion. Donbas, with no defense treaty, gets priority on 6+ Russian army divisions. just lol
Oh my god can we stop with the stupid commentary on this? Obviously Zelensky had to ask NATO for membership, and obviously NATO had to say no at the moment. Obviously Zelensky has to act upset by this "Turn of events" and obviously the alliance has to play it cool.
🔊🇺🇦 NATO has rebuffed Ukraine’s hopes for membership anytime soon.
@kimvinnell
explains how President Zelenskiy’s charm offensive faltered with the allies on Reuters World News daily podcast
The lights of the entire area around Mariupol going dark in this night-time satellite imagery courtesy NASA NPP/VIIRS -- Left-side imagery from 18 June 2022, right-side from 10 June 2021