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-Great Cultural Revolution
If You're Reading This, Karine Jean-Pierre Probably Hates You. Here's Why.
[PJ] Old Joe Biden’s new check-the-woke-boxes press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, is a Democrat, and so it comes as no great surprise that she sees racism absolutely everywhere, and I do mean everywhere: the New York Post reported Saturday that it "looked at Jean-Pierre’s tweets between 2015 and 2020 and found a staggering 57 instances where she accused people, policies, ideas, or words of being ’racist.’ Also, Jean-Pierre accused people and ideas she was opposed to as ’racist’ at least 43 times in TV appearances too." That makes an even 100 accusations of racism or twenty per year; among Democrats today, that makes Jean-Pierre a moderate.

Jean-Pierre’s chief target, of course, was Donald Trump. Jean-Pierre tweeted in February 2019: "Yes, Donald Trump has been a racist his entire adult life. And, people still voted for him." The new press secretary no doubt believes that people still voted for the allegedly racist Trump because of "systemic racism" in the United States, for she is also an enthusiastic proponent of critical race theory.

As far as Jean-Pierre is concerned, Trump’s racism is an active menace. "Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric is dangerous," Jean-Pierre tweeted in July 2019 in response to a tweet from Obama aide Valerie Jarrett that said: "Not only is @IlhanMN a duly elected member of Congress, and an American citizen, but she is also a mom. What kind of person would put her and her family in harms [sic] way?" Jarrett was contending that Trump had put Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) in harm’s way by criticizing her, in a manifestation of the increasingly common Leftist tendency to equate any speech criticizing Leftists with violence (as a prelude to and justification for silencing such criticism altogether).

Trump also never mentioned Omar’s race in anything he said about her, but for Jean-Pierre, his criticism was nonetheless "racist," because essentially any criticism of a "person of color" is taken on the Left as "racism" except for criticism of non-Leftists such as Clarence Thomas and Candace Owens; criticism of black conservatives is neither racist nor incitement but a necessary expression of the prophetic voice of the marginalized. Are you getting the rules down now?

Jean-Pierre even claimed on MSNBC’s "AM Joy" in 2018, without bothering to produce a shred of evidence, that Trump was open about his racism and proud of it: "If it walks like a racist, talks like a racist, acts like a racist, it is a racist and we have a racist president in the White House who really pushes his racism like a peacock." In January 2020, she repeated this, tweeting: "Donald Trump is the most outwardly racist President that we have seen in generations and African Americans voters aren’t blind to that. He uses his megaphone to divide people, spew racism, and give cover to white supremacists." In 2016, Trump won six percent of the black vote; in 2020, this increased to eight percent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2022 03:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The incredible lack of awareness of Freudian Projection of the Left
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/15/2022 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  She 'hates you' as do those who have appointed her to speak for them. Yes, logic abounds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/15/2022 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Fine with me, I hate all of them also.
Posted by: Chris || 05/15/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||

#4  How does it go? "Bounces off me and sticks to you!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/15/2022 12:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Never know any Haitians. Really don't want to...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 12:04 Comments || Top||

#6  I have a couple of friends who moved to the north Ga. area, from what I heard you don't want to know any Haitians.
Posted by: Chris || 05/15/2022 16:46 Comments || Top||


The Lawyers Who Ate California: Part II
By Matt Taibbi

[TaibbiSubstack] The Activision Case, and the beginning of Tesla. Taking a strategy imported from the Department of Labor, the DFEH launches a series of media-centric cases

The failure of the federal case against Oracle had wide-ranging repercussions. For one thing, the firm moved its headquarters out of Redwood City to Austin, Texas within months of the judge’s decision. Oracle announced a move in the same week as Tesla, which was destined to be targeted by some of the same lawyers who’d worked the Oracle case. CEO Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal that California regulators had begun behaving like a “monopoly that cannot go bankrupt,” preaching a religion that “regulations are immortal,” while adding the following acid commentary:

If a team has been winning for too long, they do tend to get a little complacent, a little entitled and then they don’t win the championship anymore. California has been winning for too long.

State officials responded to the departures of Oracle, Tesla, and other companies like Hewlett-Packard by claiming that a combination of irrational resistance to the state’s strict COVID-19 laws and a reluctance by coddled white male executives to diversify was causing the exodus.

Eric Mellon, a spokesman for Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, told The Washington Post that California’s success was “not despite our progressive policies, but because of them… These are California’s fundamental values, and we’ll continue creating more jobs than any other state.”

Newsom then nervously insisted there was nothing to worry about. He pointed to a new law offering restaurants and other small businesses more flexibility in expanding outdoor dining — “eat your heart out, Paris,” he quipped — and reassured citizens the Silicon Valley departures were no big deal. “Our best days are in front of us,” the governor said.

“The ironic thing is, he was about six months from becoming a target of all this himself,” laughs one lawyer, referring to a state case that would soon far eclipse Oracle for sheer bile and bitterness.

“There’s ugly,” he added, “and then there’s Activision ugly.”

Way back on February 18th, 2018, Fortune magazine released its annual list of “100 Best Companies to Work For.” Game giant Activision Blizzard made the list for the fourth straight year, with a Fortune survey claiming 95 percent of its employees said it was a “fun place to work.” The firm’s PR department giddily noted it also made the “Most Admired” and “Most Innovative” lists the year before. Coupled with $7 billion in revenues, the news sent their share price skyrocketing to an all-time high of $78.25, as executives appeared to have reached gamer nirvana.
Read the rest at the link
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Matt Taibbi is rapidly joining Salena Zito in the "must read the whole article" club. Very good reporting and analysis.
Posted by: Tom || 05/15/2022 15:41 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Boomerang ‘Black Sun’
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

Update: See here for the report on the spree killing in Buffalo.
[ColonelCassad] How ironic.

The US is supplying weapons to Black Sun characters in Ukraine.

A character with the emblem of the "Black Sun" shot 10 people in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

The character is detained. Most of the victims are blacks.

In the video, 18-year-old Peyton Gendron (nickname "jimboboiii") gets out of the car and immediately opens fire on passers-by, after which he heads to the store, where he kills several more people with a headshot - all of his victims are predominantly African American. At the end of the video, the shooter points his weapon at the man under the counter, but then spares him by saying "sorry".

Gendron was detained by the police - he turned out to be an ideological Nazi. A weapon with Nazi inscriptions was confiscated from him - in particular, it had runes on it, as well as the names of the terrorists Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Oslo in 2011, and John Ernest. By the way, on the clothes of the criminal in the photographs from social networks, the emblem of the “black sun” flaunts, which is used, among other things, by the Nazis from Azov.

Video here (18+)
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 09:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "American NAZIS! Hooray!
If those monsters continue to slay
Random folks in the States
At historical rates,
In some years, more or less,
They'll have killed, I would guess,
What we Russians knock off in a day!"
Posted by: Guillibaldo Whusoting5316 || 05/15/2022 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  "Gendron wears socks. You know who else wears socks? Azov Nazis! Quod Erat Demonstrandum"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/15/2022 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  We destroyed the upper-case Nazis 67 years ago. I don't think the lower-case nazis are our problem. If Hitler hadn't declared war on America, the upper-case Nazis might not have been our problem either.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  77 years ago. Sorry for the Sunday math.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 10:54 Comments || Top||

#5  "And further research has determined
That kin of this murdering vermin
Recorded on cello
Some suites by a fellow
Whose background's suspiciously German!"

Posted by: Guillibaldo Whusoting5316 || 05/15/2022 11:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Eurine Con-servative will screech, but current day mainstream Chermans are closer to nazis than the azov morons.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 11:18 Comments || Top||


#8  Flashback (2019): Jewish veteran and US Congressman Max Rose plus 39 other House Democrats call on the US State Department to designate three European neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations.

The letter urged regulators to list Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, Britain’s National Action and Scandinavia’s Nordic Resistance Movement on the State Deparment’s list of Foreign Terror Organizations. This would give security officials more tools to monitor and potentially prosecute Americans who correspond or train with those organizations.
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 11:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Kind of peculiar that a website devoted to The War on Terror ignores (or tries to make jokes about) the role that Ukrainian Nazi organizations have played in inspiring and training terrorists across Europe, the US and Asia.

For many years, Ukraine's Azov Battalion and the larger Ukrainian Nazi movement ("UNUT") have hosted many different far right and white supremacist or Neo-Nazi movements and individual terrorists. They trained the fascist who perpetrated New Zealand's Christchurch massacre, for example.

"The infamous March 2019 attack on a mosque that killed 50 Muslims and wounded 49 in Christchurch, New Zealand also had a UNUT [ie, Azov] connection. The manifesto of the attack’s perpetrator, Brenton Tarrant, states he had trained with the Azov Battalion. He also often wore the neo-Nazi emblem, the altered German Nazi ‘Wolfsangel’ that is Azov’s own emblem.[67]

"In the wake of the attack an unidentified, encrypted site of a Ukrainian neofascist organization was reported to be selling the 87-page manifesto in hardcover, over which New Zealand protested, having banned its publication and dissemination in New Zealand.[68]"

Summary:

"UNUT [Azov] is rapidly becoming an international terrorist threat. It threatens not only democratization and stability of the regime in Kiev. The growing international network of ties with other ultranationalist, neofascist, and white supremacist groups threatens to bolster the international ultranationalist, neofascist and white supremacist movements and perhaps even radicalize it. As we have seen, the Ukrainian and Russian hub of the movements whipped up by the Donbass civil war has in turn energized the larger movement, producing plots and violence here in the U.S. as the California and Kansas arrests demonstrate."
Posted by: Crith Hupoth2461 || 05/15/2022 12:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Kind of peculiar that a website devoted to The War on Terror ignores (or tries to make jokes about) the role that Ukrainian Nazi organizations have played in inspiring and training terrorists across Europe, the US and Asia.

Not strange at all. This is a joke of a site, run by retired right-wing geriatric cranks and loons venting their hatred of all the Pentagon's bugbears of the last half century -- Russkies, congressmen, Muslims, journalists...
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 12:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Kind of peculiar that a website devoted to The War on Terror ignores (or tries to make jokes about) the role that Ukrainian Nazi organizations have played in inspiring and training terrorists across Europe, the US and Asia.

If it doesn't get posted, we can't know about it.
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#12  Not strange at all. This is a joke of a site, run by retired right-wing geriatric cranks and loons venting their hatred of all the Pentagon's bugbears of the last half century -- Russkies, congressmen, Muslims, journalists...

And yet, here you are.
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#13  ^ QED
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/15/2022 12:45 Comments || Top||

#14  Why pretend that the Ukrainians are not harboring Nazi terrorists who inspire, host and train violent terrorists drawn from around the world to Ukraine by their Nazi ideology and terror campaign?
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||

#15  #3 We destroyed the upper-case Nazis 67 years ago. I don't think the lower-case nazis are our problem. If Hitler hadn't declared war on America, the upper-case Nazis might not have been our problem either.
Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-15 10:53


...This. Oh, so much THIS.

Along those lines, I tell people that if the folks who screech 'NAZI!!!!' at every opportunity ever actually met an honest-to-Adolf, mid-30s Stormtrooper, or a member of SS Das Reich in, say, 1944, they would shiat themselves and run screaming for the nearest cop or American military member.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/15/2022 12:54 Comments || Top||

#16  They're terrorists. They attack and kill innocent civilians based on their race, religion, nationality. Congress, State, many international organizations recognize them as such. Why you're in denial about this is a mystery.
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 12:58 Comments || Top||

#17  *Snicker* Why do Russians and and those who love Russia insist this is a uniquely Ukrainian issue, when Russia has been involved in such things up to her swanlike neck?

Now do German neonazis in St. Petersberg:

Why are German neo-Nazis training in Russia?

[Deutsche Welle] German right-wing extremists are receiving paramilitary training in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to a new report by news magazine Focus. Who is running the training, and what do we know about the participants?

What kind of camp did right-wing extremists reportedly visit in Russia?
Participating in paramilitary training is legal in Russia. Such training takes place under the protective umbrella of DOSAAF (Volunteer Society for Cooperation with the Army, Aviation, and Navy), an organization whose founding dates back to the days of the Soviet Union. The actual training, in which Germans reportedly participated, is provided by a club appearing under two different names: "Rezerv" or "Partizan." It takes place at a military facility on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Until 2018, "Partizan" and its members were listed on the website of St. Petersburg's municipal office as a vigilante group in the Vyborg district. "That was prior to my taking office," a district representative told DW when asked about the matter.

Talking to local journalists in 2017, one of the organizers of the paramilitary camp confirmed that the center also provided paramilitary training for foreigners, "including Germans." Today, the center advertises both offline and online courses, including classes on handling weapons and on "military topography" — in June 2020 alone, it offers six different classes, bookable via the Russian social network Vkontakte.

Right-wing populists in Russia
Russia in the past has served as a meeting point for right-wing populists and radicals from around Europe. In 2015, St. Petersburg hosted the "International Russian Conservative Forum." Participants included the former chairman of the German extreme-right National Democratic Party (NPD), Udo Voigt, as well as representatives from Italy's extreme-right Forza Nuova party, Greece's neo-fascist Golden Dawn party and Italy's far-right League (Lega) party.


Lots more at the link, including discussion of the Russian Imperial Movement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#18  Why do Russians and and those who love Russia insist this is a uniquely Ukrainian issue

Stop lying. Start reading. No one says Russia doesn't have fascists. Again, here's what I posted, above:

"As we have seen, the Ukrainian and Russian hub of the movements whipped up by the Donbass civil war has in turn energized the larger movement, producing plots and violence here in the U.S. as the California and Kansas arrests demonstrate."

Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 13:10 Comments || Top||

#19  Since you're so obsessed with Russia, if it helps you to see more clearly I don't care for either side. It's a nasty civil war with brutal terrorists on both sides. We should definitely not be intervening and enabling one side's violent fascists.
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 13:13 Comments || Top||

#20  rl;dr. Rantburg looks at the big picture, where it can be seen that Ukrainian neo-nazis and Russian neo-nazis are comrades in arms speaking dialects of the same root language.

This makes current anti-Ukraine screeching on this subject a particularly tiresome variety of Russian propaganda.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2022 13:14 Comments || Top||

#21  "Tiresome," Lol

I pointed out the known documented link between one of our (western) fascist mass murderers, Brandon Tarrant, and an organization that Biden is insisting we fund with $60 billion of our money! And you're talking about the other side in this war. Redirect much?
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#22  We shouldn't be giving to EITHER side's Nazis. We should stay the fuck out and protect our homeland.

GW Bush used to say, "We're fighting them [terrorists] over there so we don't have to fight them over here."

Biden's (and evidently your) logic is, "We're fighting funding fascists over there and ginning up a domestic terrorist threat over here."

If you can't see the lunacy of that approach, I can't help you, dearie.
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 13:23 Comments || Top||

#23  We shouldn't be giving to EITHER side's Nazis. We should stay the fuck out and protect our homeland.

Well said. This mad intervention is even stupider than the Iraq War. It's killing us.

Not our circus, as they say.
Posted by: Pheans Jeang5257 || 05/15/2022 13:32 Comments || Top||

#24  As badanov has repeatedly pointed out, dear Grim Wheaper3336, based on his experience reporting on the first round in the Donbas in 2014-15, neither side can claim to be angels.

The international white supremacist movement, sometimes called neo-nazis, sometimes other names, is full of cross fertilizations. It doesn’t matter which particular branch any given individual is connected to, just as it doesn’t really matter whether a Muslim spree killer was inspired by videos posted by ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hizb’ut Tahrir, or a member of the Muslim Brotherhood — the various groups trade the things like baseball cards, and their self-radicalized fans in both cases drink from all the firehoses.

This is why, as soon as we knew that Mr. Tarrant was a racist, the exact provenance did not trigger excitement.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2022 13:38 Comments || Top||

#25  #22 We should stay the fuck out and protect our homeland.

GW Bush used to say, "We're fighting them [terrorists] over there so we don't have to fight them over here."

Biden's (and evidently your) logic is, "We're fighting funding fascists over there and ginning up a domestic terrorist threat over here."


Nice!
You've got my vote. Stay the fok out, indeed.
Posted by: Thosh Fillmore7079 || 05/15/2022 14:03 Comments || Top||

#26  "funding fascists over there and ginning up a domestic terrorist threat over here" pretty well summarizes how completely fokked up this Administration is. What was it Obama liked to say about 'counting on Joe Biden'?
Posted by: Thosh Fillmore7079 || 05/15/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#27  Biden's (and evidently your) logic is, "We're fighting funding fascists over there and ginning up a domestic terrorist threat over here."

A straw man, since I never thought or said anything like that.

Domestically we have a sociological problem of Critical Race Theory afficianados teaching white children that they are automatically and unchangeably racists, and feminists teaching boys that they are automatically and unchangeably sexist. It’s not surprising that some of them decide to make those identities into a positive instead of a negative, and that some of them decide to act on it, which is independent of my opinion of their ignorant stupidity. This is compounded in certain cities and states by prosecutors refusing to prosecute crimes by protected classes, creating an anything goes atmosphere until there is a predictable response, predictably with the broken and the mentally ill in the vanguard, just as so many among the Black Block cannon fodder have severe anxiety and depression issues, in many cases expressed by body dysmorphia.

Entirely separately, President Putin has been pursuing the reestablishment of the Soviet Union via economic pressure and military means for the past two decades. I think it’s stupid to create an unstable empire rife with resentment and revolt in this way when they could more easily have increased the attraction via trade and special relationships instead. My disapproval of President Biden in general and his administration’s habit of throwing huge sums of money at Iran, the Palestinians, Ukraine, and any other country or cause that might weaken America’s prestige and effectiveness at home and abroad has nothing to do with the specifics of the discussion here.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2022 14:06 Comments || Top||

#28  What was it Obama liked to say about 'counting on Joe Biden'?

"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up"
Posted by: Rupert Jones1584 || 05/15/2022 14:10 Comments || Top||

#29  #23 We shouldn't be giving to EITHER side's Nazis. We should stay the fuck out and protect our homeland.

Well said. This mad intervention is even stupider than the Iraq War. It's killing us. Not our circus, as they say.


Yeah... Bush & Blair's Iraq War was totally daft, and Blair will burn in hell for dragging us into it, but this one's even worse. These cvnts are punishing us this time. It's surreal

Fuel cost crisis sees 26 per cent of Britons go without heating while almost a third have cut back on food shopping, new poll shows
Posted by: Rupert Jones1584 || 05/15/2022 14:22 Comments || Top||

#30  You and us both, mate. These sick fucks are trying to distract us from their own failures. Like Carlson says, they're just making us poorer so they can control us even more.

If this asinine war were debated openly and honestly and put to a vote of the people in America and Britain, nobody outside Washington or Westminster would vote for it.

Stay the fok out!
Posted by: Thosh Fillmore7079 || 05/15/2022 14:39 Comments || Top||

#31  Give it a rest on the death head symbol, it dates back to the period of Fredrick the Great (100+ years before anyone conceived of socialism) worn by hussars among others. It would also appear on the shakos of the Brunswick hussars that fought with the Anglo Allies at Waterloo. However, don't let historical facts cloud your hate. We have people here that play that same game.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/15/2022 15:24 Comments || Top||

#32  "Stay the fok out" - exactly. Intervening in this cluster is just cutting off our legs to spite ...who knows what.

Of all our pointless recent interventions this is easily the most destructive and foolish
Posted by: Grim Wheaper3336 || 05/15/2022 15:33 Comments || Top||

#33  We’re probably arguing with a blogger in basement of some guy perpetually wearing pajamas mooching off their parents spewing their usual “information” about one jump from spam

This discussion went off the rails about two hours ago

Funny how this connection to the black sun or whoever attracted such interest and vitriol
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 05/15/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||

#34  ^ always a sign of a lost argument.

Face it, Biden's blowing your money and dragging America down to Russia and Ukraine's level. You'd have to be a masochist to support this madness
Posted by: Unash Elmeth7756 || 05/15/2022 16:16 Comments || Top||

#35  ^ Well said, Comrade. It's Sunday, you can clock out early
Posted by: Frank G || 05/15/2022 16:59 Comments || Top||

#36  "#20 rl;dr. Rantburg looks at the big picture, where it can be seen that Ukrainian neo-nazis and Russian neo-nazis are comrades in arms speaking dialects of the same root language.

This makes current anti-Ukraine screeching on this subject a particularly tiresome variety of Russian propaganda."


This is why it is really not worth paying attention to. Actions on the ground is all of which to concern. That ideology is not going far anywhere.
Posted by: newc || 05/15/2022 18:19 Comments || Top||

#37  #35:
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 19:05 Comments || Top||

#38  Stay the fok out!

YES. 1,000 upvotes.

Wish we had more Congressmen with Rand Paul's clarity and courage.

Why the fuck are we sliding into this stupid war without any debate at all? How us this happening in America?

Resist the insanity. Stay the fok out.
Posted by: Snakes Glineper5544 || 05/15/2022 21:58 Comments || Top||

#39  Retarded f@ggots with their Putin-Orban-Trump obsession + demented old Cold Warriors itching for WWIII: fuck off. Stop pushing us into another of your insane, self-destructive overseas interventions in a total shithoje that concerns us not in the slightest.

Your generation has trashed this country. You keep tryouts bg to distract us with your mindless wag the dog adventures. In Iraq. In Afghanistan. In Libya. Now in a total shithole that your corrupt Biden Crime Family has tried to pillage and loot for years.

Fuck your war profiteering.
Fuck your endless wars that benefit us not at all.
FUCK UKRAINE
FUCK JOE BIDEN
Posted by: Snakes Glineper5544 || 05/15/2022 22:05 Comments || Top||

#40  Whoa. Catchin' a buzz in here... and I don't even smoke.
Posted by: Tarzan Unoluse6094 || 05/15/2022 22:49 Comments || Top||

#41  ^ How good ideas get a bad name...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 22:49 Comments || Top||

#42  A $60 billion buzz.

B-O-H-I-C-A
Posted by: Omereck Joluting4364 || 05/15/2022 22:59 Comments || Top||

#43  Sixty. Fucking. Billion.

For fucking Ukraine, the cesspool of Easyern Europe, the shittiest most corrupt sinkhole north of Zambia.

For Ukraine. a shithole's shithole.
The Bidens' candy jar.
Unreal.
Posted by: Nero B. Hayes4518 || 05/15/2022 23:04 Comments || Top||

#44  Follow the money...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 23:09 Comments || Top||


Briefly about the significance of the Zmeiny Island
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

A photo from the opposite side - a foreign agent of Radio Liberty, which perfectly characterizes whose Snake

So that no one doubts whose island, which unsuccessfully and with heavy losses tried to storm the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian military put a large letter Z on the island. They mock the American tracking system. The picture was taken by the Maxar satellite.

In the meantime, launchers of the Tor-M2 air defense system are being transferred by landing ships. The Pantsir installations were also deployed there to provide air defense. Landing boats and other ships are actively used to deliver ammunition, ammunition, equipment, primarily radar stations and reconnaissance equipment.

From this island, the southwestern regions of Ukraine, the territory of Moldova and Romania are controlled by means of electronic intelligence. In particular, the airfield network from which the surviving Ukrainian aircraft take off. We cannot beat them on the territory of Romania or Moldova, but when they enter the airspace of Ukraine...

Hence the constantly growing statistics.

During the three days of attacks on the island before May 9, three Ukrainian assault boats "Centaur" with amphibious assault on board were destroyed; 14 Ukrainian planes and helicopters (some of them on the ground at the airport near Odessa), 30 military drones, nine of them are Bayraktar-TB2 attack drones.

In the modern information war, it is not enough to state dry facts and statistical data; the emphasis must be placed on the logic of the development of consistent actions based on success. Haste and formalism in this matter only harm. The defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Zmeiny was twisted for only a couple of days, then everything died out, because they issued a topic on an accelerated program.

Although, it was possible to first state a fact in order to attract attention, explain the value of this piece of land, then the efforts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an attempt to recapture it, unleash the unjustified losses of the enemy, then talk about the actions of our forces, reinforcing with specific examples of participants.

Well, to sum up, that all this was a deeply thought-out trap for the military-political elite of Ukraine and its curators. And all this had to develop for at least a week.
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#1  How old is this propaganda piece? I recall seeing recent pictures of the destruction of Russian landing craft and equipment on it, and bomb/ missile impacts on the Russian occupation forces on that island.
Posted by: Greater the Anonymous5721 || 05/15/2022 3:05 Comments || Top||

#2  What I heard - call it rumor:
The battles are getting insane. The other day the Russians lost everything and every one on Snake Island 7 times and reoccupied and equipped each time. So 8 separate sets of troops and equipment in one day.
Snake Island also controls access to known unexploited oil and gas fields in the NW Black Sea.
No buildings remain on the island.
Posted by: 3dc || 05/15/2022 3:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Those losses are nothing new for the Russian Army in modern times. They will send troops to a meat grinder until resistance ends.

Find stories about the fall of Melitipol in October, 1944.

Russians had a ten to one advantage in infantry, six to one in tanks. Still it took the two weeks and 30 attacks until they achieved their objectives.

You can knock out every tank they have and spike every cannon, but they will keep coming until they achieve their victory.
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 4:08 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^^... і вони продовжуватимуть розрізатися на шматки, оскільки вони продовжують НЕ досягати успіху, і на будь-якому фронті, товариш «Кріс»...
Posted by: Багз МакГерк4586 || 05/15/2022 6:35 Comments || Top||

#5  бля укол
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Оставайтесь на диване, товарищ
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 6:58 Comments || Top||

#7  ^Добавил пикантности дню.
Posted by: Dale || 05/15/2022 7:42 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ Yes,#3. "
You can knock out every tank they have and spike every cannon, but they will keep coming until they achieve their victory". The Russian dread of the cold winter is ever present. It is expected. It is to be endured.
Posted by: Dale || 05/15/2022 7:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Boy, howdy, those Ruskis sure can be proud of how they throw the lives of their soldiers in the trash!

Ever read the war memoirs of Oto Carius? Once he was transferred to the western front he did nothing but whine about how Americans can't fight. He thought they should line up in front of his guns and die in large numbers, like the Russians, until he was forced to withdraw. Instead the stupid Americans would bypass his position or bring down artillery or air strikes! How DARE we value our soldiers more than our ammunition!
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/15/2022 9:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Большинство из нас не говорят по-русски, пожалуйста, добавьте субтитры
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/15/2022 11:25 Comments || Top||

#11  La plupart d'entre nous ne parlent pas russe, veuillez ajouter des sous-titres

Annoying isn't it!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/15/2022 11:27 Comments || Top||

#12  Большинство из нас не говорят по-русски, пожалуйста, добавьте субтитры

First iteration was about the stink coming from Russian dead. He said my given name in quotes.

Second Iteration, I called the writer a fucking prick; not very gracious of me.

Then I said The writer should stay on the couch. If the writer was Ukrainian or Russian, it was an insult.

Then Dale added some nonsense.

That brings us up to date. HTH.
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 11:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Speak English or Die. You are the one we hate. You can't communicate...

Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 11:48 Comments || Top||

#14  Thank you badanov.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/15/2022 11:52 Comments || Top||

#15  "I speak a foreign language."
"So?"
"We might have to deal with foreigners."
"Not if we are smart..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 11:54 Comments || Top||

#16  ^10 google translate is a big help. I am all over the world and google translate is a basic requirement. Do you know Icelandic women are among the tallest women in the world. So when it comes to looks never be honest. The women attack in a united effort. Yes, from experience.
Posted by: Dale || 05/15/2022 12:05 Comments || Top||

#17  I. Don't. Care.

My background is Slovak and German. I speak neither. Those languages have nothing to do with who I am.

When Posobiec idiot screeches about how Americans have to care about Poland because of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, that's a load of bullshit. That was then. It isn't now.

You do not to be Noam Chomsky to get that.

If you are listening.

In English.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 12:13 Comments || Top||

#18  The idea I must care about everybody means I must care about pedos (I don't). White flesh peddlers (I don't). Pervs (I don't). People fighting their neighbors (I don't).

I'm fine with all those people hating me.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 12:20 Comments || Top||

#19  To the fluent Russians and the copy and paste translators:

If you cared so gah dam much that I was getting your message, you'd say it in English.

That you don't says a mouthful.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 12:25 Comments || Top||

#20  Copying and pasting foreign language on an English-speaking web site is lame ass bullshit.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 12:37 Comments || Top||

#21  Fun! Nobody expects Americans to understand those funny words foreigners speak, so there’s innocent amusement to be found in speaking one of the uncommon ones like Ukrainian.

Part of the reason trailing daughter #2 studied Japanese was for the advantage it would give her in business meetings later, and so it has. We discovered this in reverse long ago, when it was brought to our attention that in Cincinnati there are enough German speakers that one will inevitably be nearby when one of the tds made a childish observation about the people around us at the grocery store in that language.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2022 12:50 Comments || Top||

#22  Separately, with regard to badanov’s

Those losses are nothing new for the Russian Army in modern times. They will send troops to a meat grinder until resistance ends.

That was all very well when Russia/the Soviet Union had a huge army with a large number of youths growing up to replace the fallen, and ditto for supplies. When supplies and soldiers are limited, replacing the fallen and the destroyed becomes the limiting factor.

Granted that the Ukraine has a similar manpower replacement issue, so should I understand this as a question of who last runs out of meat for the grinder?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2022 14:57 Comments || Top||

#23  Granted that the Ukraine has a similar manpower replacement issue, so should I understand this as a question of who last runs out of meat for the grinder?

"War doesn't determine who is right, but who is left (remaining)"
Posted by: badanov || 05/15/2022 15:30 Comments || Top||

#24  No.20について

サルも木から落ちる
Posted by: バグMcGurk4586 || 05/15/2022 18:34 Comments || Top||

#25  in Cincinnati there are enough German speakers

One of my uncles immigrated from Germany. He would not teach his kids German because "we are Americans". Then one went to Germany for work, had kids, and that uncle has grandkids who speak German.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/15/2022 22:12 Comments || Top||

#26  My father pulled the same thing about German, Rob — it was one of the two languages my parents had in common, the other being English. And though he saw to it that we all were taught Hebrew — first private tutors, then afternoon Hebrew school — he never used that to converse with us, though he did with the Israelis on the Hebrew school staff. Daddy was a typical math/science type: languages are for efficient communication, not for enjoying or improving. He was pleased that we and the trailing daughters became fluent German speakers over there, though he thought moving to Germany a bad idea. Unforgiving type, my father, but then he was among other things Israeli, not German.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/15/2022 23:15 Comments || Top||

#27  I had a friend in college who taught himself enough Russian in two weeks to converse with a visiting Russian mathematician. He used to berate me for seeing language as anything more than a tool.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/15/2022 23:25 Comments || Top||


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