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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 131 points 10 months ago

Classic elementary school bully bullshit. Mercilessly pick on a kid until that kid punches them square in the nose. Then all of a sudden they (the bully) are the poor helpless victim. Cry me a fucking river.

[-] vanontom@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

As Russian military continues to purposely destroy supermarkets, homes, schools, hospitals, energy infrastructure, entire towns, etc.

I wonder how many "innocent" Russians know of any of that. Or that their soldiers kidnapped and raped women and children. Tortured and executed others. "Fake news" I'm sure they'd conveniently claim. Ignorance is bliss, until the bombs start dropping on their town.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

They raped men too. "They rapin e'erybody out here!"

[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 123 points 10 months ago

Invansion? No. It's a special military operation. There is no invasion here.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

I thought it was just some normal folks on vacation

[-] SteveXVII@pawb.social 12 points 10 months ago

The Kursk people's republic needs to be liberated.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago

Maybe they shouldn't have invaded Ukraine then.

[-] mlfh@lemmy.ml 89 points 10 months ago

Get fucked, Russia.

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago

So, Russia, how does it feel when peaceful people get invaded?

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 64 points 10 months ago

The Russian babushkas who chatted in a friendly manner with the Ukrainian mobile cav passing by didn’t seem to take issue with anything, and they were left alone - as civilians should be in a conflict, to the greatest degree possible.

Not to mention, life in a Ukrainian oblast is probably going to be nicer than life in a Russian oblast, long term.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

The babushkas have seen too much to be fazed.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Seems like the 901st day of the 3-day special military operation isn’t going too well

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 59 points 10 months ago

Borders are for suckers, haha!!

...900 days later...

No, not like that!

[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

Aww did leopards eat your face?

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

No, sadly leopards are eating the proletariat faces, but they're his proletariat faces

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Agh, figures that the Russian Volunteer Corps was apparently in on the action. It just never fails to boggle my mind that the majority of the anti-Russian militias that are fighting in Ukraine are so far right that they think Putin isn't fascist enough.

Like, yeah, it's great that they're fighting Russia, but holy fuck is it this hard to find people in Russia who aren't complete pieces of shit and are also willing to fight Putin?

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 20 points 10 months ago

Shoulda considered that before intimidating the peaceful population of Ukraine. I have a friend who completely uprooted her life and career trajectory to manage humanitarian aid to her home country. The fact of the matter is peaceful Russians are want enables the Orkish horde. My view is that they've been kept in the dark about the truth of their reality. Their lack of concern is a result of not knowing what is and isn't real (and to many degrees us Americans live in the same situation with regard to our actions throughout west Asia). All Ukraine is doing right now is bringing truth to Kursk. I hope it doesn't turn into reprisals. From what I've seen, they're trying a winning hearts and minds strategy. But the bottom line is Russia initiated total war. They have no one to complain to about that there's a total war going on at their borders

[-] someguy7734206@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

I agree. The peaceful people in Russia don't deserve to be invaded. Pity there's not many of them, though.

[-] Shawdow194@kbin.run 15 points 10 months ago

Special military operation

FTFY

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

I don't understand the nuances well enough to know, but the thought control is still pretty strong in Russia. I do wonder if the populous will see this as the manifestation of what Putin has been saying all along, which is that the Ukraine means to bring violence to them and all efforts so far have been to keep this at bay. If so they will double down on their support for the dictator.

I often think about how much brain washing the Trump group has been able to do in the US even with free press and open access to the rest of the world. Imagine the power of the mind control one could achieve with an entire infrastructure built to support just that.

[-] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months ago

Nothing will make a difference unless it reaches Moscow or st Petersburg. Most of the population is too poor/oppressed to make a big difference at this point. The people Putin needs to avoid upsetting are all living in the cities, at least according to an ex-pat friend of mine

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

It's Yahoo, the source is Yahoo. You don't even have to click it, it says it right beneath the title. Stupid bot.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 18 points 10 months ago

Business Insider* yahoo is acting as an aggregator

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Ok, but the output of the aggregator can still be analyzed for bias, right? How often does "Business Insider* yahoo" aggregate right-wing bullshit vs left-wing bullshit vs actual apolitical truth? Knowing the source's source doesn't change the veracity of the article, only the contents of the article affect that.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

I wonder how a vote to join Ukraine in the occupied region would go.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

I agree.

HOWEVER…

[-] Baggins@feddit.uk 4 points 10 months ago
[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Is that fucking Kano in the road, there?!?

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