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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #12241 on: August 31, 2022, 05:14:50 PM »
Real meme wars :salute


Sunak still thinks it's a good idea to highlight the fact that he neglects his family. Going for that deadbeat dad vote  :doge
https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1565066854447587329

And he made that sacrifice to lose to Liz Truss.

I don't know why the people in the UK aren't protesting in the streets right now.
I mean, sure things suck in most countries with inflation and high energy costs and all but the fact that they get this circus instead of any real government action really takes the cake.  :doge
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« Reply #12242 on: September 01, 2022, 03:26:28 AM »
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1565234707587125250

Dugina, Gorbi, this guy.

It's FSB season.
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« Reply #12243 on: September 01, 2022, 03:40:25 AM »
Window design safety standards in Russia sure seem like they need an update.
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« Reply #12244 on: September 01, 2022, 02:28:56 PM »
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« Reply #12245 on: September 01, 2022, 04:07:34 PM »
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« Reply #12246 on: September 01, 2022, 06:00:49 PM »
pro-tip: Plant bamboo and you get free wood for heat all winter long
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« Reply #12247 on: September 01, 2022, 06:05:29 PM »

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« Reply #12250 on: September 02, 2022, 10:48:52 PM »
NT Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly criticises anti-racism 'ideology' sentiment in speech on domestic violence in Aboriginal communities

Talking about domestic violence in Aboriginal communities was "difficult" according to the judge, due to "an ideology of supposed 'anti-racism'".

"[Anti-racism] is beginning to assume the dimensions of a religion or a cult under the influence of which people and institutions are casually and inaccurately labelled as "racist" without any evidentiary basis for the charge," Justice Kelly said.

"Eschew the invidious terms 'institutional racism' and "systemic racism" unless there is at least some evidence that the institution in question does actually have racist policies."

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« Reply #12251 on: September 03, 2022, 05:15:23 AM »
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1565977901941641216

Don't shuffle so close to those windows guys. You might never know which 300 pound depressed oligarch might land on your head.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1565987223299825664

With Gorbi out now we can finally have real communism  :ussrcry
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« Reply #12252 on: September 03, 2022, 01:54:40 PM »
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« Reply #12253 on: September 03, 2022, 02:10:28 PM »
Fascist dictators can just quit?

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Re: International Politics Thread - Disease and Disaster
« Reply #12256 on: September 05, 2022, 01:21:00 AM »
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-05/chile-resoundingly-rejects-new-progressive-constitution/101405962

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Chileans have voted to resoundingly reject a new constitution to replace a charter imposed by the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet 41 years ago.

It focused on social issues, the environment, rights to free education, healthcare and housing.

Critics said the proposals were too long, lacked clarity and went too far in some of measures.

Proposals included characterising Chile as a plurinational state, establishing autonomous Indigenous territories, and prioritising the environment and gender parity.

Most Chileans favour changing the dictatorship-era constitution, and Mr Boric made it clear the process to amend it would not end with Sunday's vote.

He had tied his fortunes so closely to the new document that analysts said it was likely some voters saw the poll as a referendum on his government.

Mr Boric's approval ratings have been plunging since he took office in March.

What happens now amounts to a big question mark.

Many Chilean political leaders agree that the constitution dating from the country's 1973-1990 military rule must change.
Imagine fucking up your proposed new constitution so badly that 62% of the population prefer the one drafted by Pinochet...
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« Reply #12257 on: September 05, 2022, 03:06:25 AM »
More like a Wokestitution :trumps
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« Reply #12258 on: September 05, 2022, 01:11:55 PM »
https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1566768172933550081

Putty makes it official


In other news, Liz Truss is "elected" as the new UK prime minister

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Liz Truss 81,326
Rishi Sunak 60,399

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« Reply #12259 on: September 06, 2022, 05:56:00 AM »
On the bright side, the Kremlin is pretty unhappy about Truss becoming new PM, because this means continued strong (military) support for Ukraine.
I hope the rest of Europe steps it up, too. With Russia having stopped to deliver natural gas (in breach of contract), there really is no more reason to hold back.
The sanctions are obviously working, as Russia is now forced to import artillery shells from NORTH KOREA, of all places.
Furthermore, it would seem US- and international pressure on China is effective, with China not supplying Russia with much needed hi-tech (though gobbling up cheap Russian oil).
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« Reply #12260 on: September 06, 2022, 06:21:15 AM »
The UK hasn't delivered significantly more stuff than many other EU countries. They're just way more vocal about it (what a shock coming from Boris et al :teehee)

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« Reply #12261 on: September 06, 2022, 09:06:06 AM »
https://twitter.com/Fxhedgers/status/1566467202739347456

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Not good.  Initial Lehman crash was stopped with some $800 bn fed money.  Now double that amount is needed to cover short squeeze losses. European energy trading risks grinding to a halt unless governments extend liquidity to cover margin calls of at least $1.5 trillion, according to Norwegian energy company Equinor ASA.   :dizzy   VP claims that “the company’s estimate for $1.5 trillion to prop up so-called paper trading is “conservative", too.   :-\

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« Reply #12262 on: September 06, 2022, 10:34:00 AM »
Nintex is going to freeze to death this winter when his feeble Dutch body cant handle temperatures below 6c
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« Reply #12265 on: September 06, 2022, 05:46:32 PM »
I appreciate a good troll but it's also pretty grim to fake deaths in a war that has costs the lives of thousands. It also doesn't help to give the people who think the whole thing is faked and staged in Hollywood more ammunition.  :doge
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« Reply #12266 on: September 06, 2022, 05:50:24 PM »
Surely even Putins bored of this shit now, can't he just pretend he won, its not like the Russian gov have been telling the truth to their people in the first place so another fib won't do any harm :elon
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« Reply #12267 on: September 06, 2022, 06:16:37 PM »
Surely even Putins bored of this shit now, can't he just pretend he won, its not like the Russian gov have been telling the truth to their people in the first place so another fib won't do any harm :elon
Russian gas giant Gazprom made a record 2.5 trillion roubles ($41.75 billion) in net profit in the first half of 2022 :putin

Russia is fighting a very cheap and profitable war. They're mostly using artillery shells stored for god knows how long.
Their latest new supplier is North Korea, who will probably undercut the Chinese on price.

Russians troops are the lowest of the low. Fed dog food and send to the trenches with decades old equipment. The LNR/DNR rebels get the left-overs from the Russian left-overs.
The homefront for Russian soldiers is mandatory male prostitution or running errands for the mob who blackmail the military for all they're worth.
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« Reply #12268 on: September 06, 2022, 07:26:05 PM »
Doesn't matter how cheap they get their arsenal - the ruble is currently a one-side trade as imports to Russia have disappeared.  Russias reported imports and the export numbers published by their (former) trade partners show a huge discrepancy.  It has resorted to stripping microchips from dishwashers and fridges to use in its military gear for semiconductors.  Timely indicators like sales/registration of cars show that nobody is buying anything.  Also, Russia does not have a viable alternate market in India and China like everyone thinks they do -- something like 40 out 250 billion cubic meters are exported as liquid natural gas, but there are no pipelines from the huge fields north of Murmansk to anywhere else other than Europe.  It will take years for Russia to build anything that could redirect flows.  The Power of Siberia pipeline still is in its infancy and pumps relatively little.   
    

 This is a game of attrition that Russia is losing. 

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« Reply #12269 on: September 07, 2022, 01:30:43 AM »
Exactly. What Russia does is not sustainable, and there is no quick way out.

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They have even started to sell cars without airbags.
And they get no replacement parts for anything, planes, trains, automobiles.
Russia has no capability to produce any of that stuff. The side effect of decades of kleptocracy.
Additionally the country is facing a brain-drain; hundreds of thousands of capable young adults (who are badly needed in the technology sector) are getting out or have already left (some in recent years, many after the start of the invasion).

In the short run , Russia is able to screw with Europe by withholding energy, but in the long run, Russia is screwed.
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« Reply #12270 on: September 07, 2022, 01:59:14 AM »
Thinking about all the russian gamers that weren't able to pick up a 3xxx GPU before this started and now will never get a new gpu

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« Reply #12271 on: September 07, 2022, 02:11:48 AM »
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-05/chile-resoundingly-rejects-new-progressive-constitution/101405962

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Critics said the proposals were too long, lacked clarity and went too far in some of measures.
Imagine fucking up your proposed new constitution so badly that 62% of the population prefer the one drafted by Pinochet...
Thanks I meant to look at this earlier, thing is 178 pages long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Proposed_Political_Constitution_of_the_Republic_of_Chile

A lot of the rights seem like they'd have to contradict, which is pretty normal for these modern constitutions. For example, it establishes the right to equality under the law, then establishes specific separate laws and rights for recognized Indigenous groups. It recognizes nature as having its own set of rights somehow while also claiming the state will be secular.

The old one's pretty long too but a bunch of it involves the transition back to democracy, setting up a bunch of stuff that was supposed to go away after so long, etc. I can see why people wouldn't trust it over something that's already been amended twenty some times.

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« Reply #12273 on: September 07, 2022, 09:48:17 AM »
I’m sure all the rich and powerful will have their electricity reduced too  :kermit
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« Reply #12274 on: September 07, 2022, 10:17:14 AM »
Simply turn off the internet between 5 and 7pm
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« Reply #12277 on: September 07, 2022, 02:32:52 PM »
Russia's getting their shit kicked in quite hard in both the Kherson and Kharkiv regions.

This sums it up pretty well:

https://twitter.com/Vlad85742324/status/1567550258023915520

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« Reply #12278 on: September 07, 2022, 03:03:18 PM »
I watched some reports but it looks like Ukraine hyped up a big counter offensive in Kherson so they could deliver a big blow in Kharkiv also.

They're making mincemeat of the first echelon of "Russian" troops, mainly DNR/LNR rebels and poorly equipped guys from the far east.
The question now is where Russia will deploy it's reinforcements and air power to try and stop the counter attacks.

Reserves were on route to Kherson and now risk being cut off.

The Russians are retreating across the Dnipro using their Pontoon bridges
https://twitter.com/tinso_ww/status/1567571695535366145

There's a sequel video to this that is quite graphic and shows them all shell shocked because crossing pontoons within enemy artillery range is... yeah.

At the same time the attack has also taken its toll on the attackers. Especially those in the first wave.
https://twitter.com/shashj/status/1567570862764613639
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« Reply #12279 on: September 08, 2022, 10:01:31 AM »
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62834633

Queen seems to be on her deathbed


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« Reply #12282 on: September 08, 2022, 12:40:47 PM »
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62834633

Queen seems to be on her deathbed

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Shes the one thing the whole world had in common


Edit, just realized my grandmother is older than the queen  :doge
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« Reply #12284 on: September 08, 2022, 01:40:38 PM »
Queen passed

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« Reply #12285 on: September 08, 2022, 02:11:21 PM »
The PMs statement sounds like a middle grade history presentation.     

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« Reply #12286 on: September 08, 2022, 02:23:27 PM »
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« Reply #12287 on: September 08, 2022, 02:39:16 PM »
Boris's statement was so much better.  BBC anchor then trips himself up by unintentionally comparing the two statements.  Then they switch to another guy who, in the same metaphor, compared the Queen to both a fish and a rock in the stream of current events :dead

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« Reply #12288 on: September 08, 2022, 02:47:15 PM »
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1567904154500370446

https://twitter.com/Igor_from_Kyiv_/status/1567909161148600323

Ukraine is mostly mopping up LNR/DNR troops in occupied villages and trenches and there doesn't seem to be any effort from the Russian side to either send in the air force or reinforcements.
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« Reply #12294 on: September 09, 2022, 07:38:19 AM »
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« Reply #12297 on: September 09, 2022, 03:18:24 PM »
The Russian army encircled at Izyum is on the verge of collapse.
They have 10 000 troops there

https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1568310989149605888

https://twitter.com/jamesfraney/status/1568318805696303111
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« Reply #12298 on: September 09, 2022, 10:33:39 PM »
A lot of what I've read basically says this massive counter offensive would be pretty risky and somewhat reckless against a standard/prepared army, given that it would leave Ukrainian forces open to rear attacks. But it doesn't sound or look like the Russian forces are a standard or prepared army. They're running, there is no leadership, etc. Ugly situation for them.

And given how much trouble they had earlier this year in the snow and mud, if Ukraine and hold these gains going into the upcoming winter months it may be game over. Not to mention they seem poised to re-take Crimea.
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« Reply #12299 on: September 09, 2022, 10:40:29 PM »
There should be so much anger at Putin for throwing their kids into this meat grinder with absolutely nothing to win. At this point casualties might be as high as 50.000