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- Jaysyn ( @Jaysyn@kbin.social ) 83•10 months ago
Everyone point & laugh at the sad tankie in this thread.
- balls_expert ( @balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 31•10 months ago
Damn we don’t see them on blahaj :<
- bingbong ( @bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 24•10 months ago
Lucky
- Hexadecimalkink ( @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml ) 3•10 months ago
Ignorant
- sunbeam60 ( @sunbeam60@lemmy.one ) 4•10 months ago
Has blahaj banned hexbear?
- LoopingRiver ( @LoopingRiver@lemm.ee ) 2•10 months ago
I can always tell when I’m browsing Lemmy from my lemm.ee account vs lemmy.world by the sheer number of tankies spouting nonsense.
- 𝔊𝔦𝔫𝔧𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔲 ( @Ginjutsu@lemmy.zip ) 76•10 months ago
HexBear and brigading yet another Ukraine thread with misinformation and Kremlin propaganda, name a more iconic duo.
EDIT: It appears that I’ve triggered the horde.
- Gyoza Power ( @GyozaPower@discuss.tchncs.de ) 18•10 months ago
It’s funny seeing the replies to your comment crying about “not brigading” but then the vast majority of the comments in this post come from hexbear users commenting tankie shit
- 𝔊𝔦𝔫𝔧𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔲 ( @Ginjutsu@lemmy.zip ) 9•10 months ago
It’s almost as if they completely lack self-awareness.
- KevonLooney ( @KevonLooney@lemm.ee ) 11•10 months ago
Easy way to trigger them:
Ahem…
“Human Rights”
- SpaceCowboy ( @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ) 7•10 months ago
Interesting, I’m not seeing the hexbears… has my instance blocked them or has hexbear blocked me?
It’s kinda a nothing of value lost kinda situation, just curious about why I’m not seeing them any more.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 6•10 months ago
Yea, they’re defederated from your instance. You can check it out in the instances list of each instance under “blocked”, here’s yours: https://lemmy.ca/instances
- SpaceCowboy ( @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
Ah cool, thanks!
So that means they see my posts but I don’t see theirs?
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 1•10 months ago
YepI think they don’t see yours either, but you can still go check out the cacophony in their hexden if morbidly curious: https://hexbear.net/post/475665?scrollToComments=falselol
- Stuka ( @Stuka@lemmy.ml ) 4•10 months ago
Well I might be moving instances…
The moron brigadie is getting old.
- straycat ( @straycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) Nederlands5•10 months ago
Apparently the thread’s got 117 comments, but only yours is showing. Don’t they have anything better to do? Seriously…
- 𝔊𝔦𝔫𝔧𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔲 ( @Ginjutsu@lemmy.zip ) 5•10 months ago
Apparently no 🤷
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 4•10 months ago
Thank you for your sacrifice, now we can just mass block them :)
- thecodemonk ( @thecodemonk@programming.dev ) 71•10 months ago
The comment threads here are weird. Who, in their right mind, would ever support a country like Russia? It’s mind blowing.
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 41•10 months ago
Tankies.
- SeaJ ( @SeaJ@lemm.ee ) 11•10 months ago
Tankies claim to not be supporting Russia but only point out issues with Ukraine and believe every bit of info that comes out of Russia.
- First ( @First@programming.dev ) 5•10 months ago
Hexbear.net is a Russian nationalist instance… They’ve grown up under Putin’s cencorship and state media brainwashing.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•10 months ago
It’s a whole subculture. I don’t know, I can think of weirder conspiracy theories with a following.
- macniel ( @DmMacniel@feddit.de ) 35•10 months ago
Good for Kyiv. Those armchair generals should shut up and fight if they think things are going slowly.
- lntl ( @lntl@lemmy.ml ) 33•10 months ago
Haters gonna hate. Still though, they’ll need to be cordial if some of these critics are also paying Ukrainian bills. Being rude is the fast track to falling out of favor with foriegn taxpayers.
- RangerAndTheCat ( @RangerAndTheCat@startrek.website ) 58•10 months ago
They’re tired and weary from the onslaught of war fringe to safe their country from Putins aggression. Any dig at their progress is a dig at morale that spreads not only through the ranks, but also to the general public. There is a time for constructive criticism, but that should be done in private with actual solutions offered by those criticizing. I understand their needs to be some decorum but you can’t blame them for what I would consider a mild retort as their countrymen die trying to retake their land everyday.
- Rapidcreek ( @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ) 30•10 months ago
Somewhere in the Pentagon there surely must be a series of rooms isolated for this war. In them intelligence is gathered, counterparts in Ukraine can be in instant contact, resources from both armies are tracked, tactics are formulated, simulations are run. How do I know this? Because this would be too good of a learning opportunity to pass up.
And those folks ain’t talking.
- DrNeurohax ( @DrNeurohax@kbin.social ) 26•10 months ago
All those folks in the 50+ age group that grew up with “Russia is enemy #1” are probably cycling through waves of intense work and prolonged orgasm.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the first things considered in strategizing any armed conflict is whether they want Russia and China to know that we have X or are capable of Y. Russia has shown their hand. If they could do more, they would have by now.
It has also taught NATO that Russia is still in the barbaric tactics mindset. Hospitals, schools, churches, shipping centers - they’re all valid targets. If Russia wants a position, they’ll level the entire town. That certainly changes the plans, of anyone thought they would abode by the Geneva Conventions.
- rastilin ( @rastilin@kbin.social ) 15•10 months ago
All those folks in the 50+ age group that grew up with “Russia is enemy #1” are probably cycling through waves of intense work and prolonged orgasm.
The ones that haven’t suddenly decided that Russia is our best friend all of a sudden for some reason that I still can’t figure out. This is even considering that Russia was found to have been paying out bounties on dead American soldiers, or that they had people assassinated in the UK. Certainly it should be a disqualifier that Russia isn’t a true Democracy and had Putin’s political opponents jailed. Two Democracies won’t directly start a conflict against each other, but that doesn’t hold up between Democracies and non-Democracies.
My hope is that as Russia runs out of money and organization to fund overseas psyops, the sheen will wear off.
- awwwyissss ( @awwwyissss@lemm.ee ) 5•10 months ago
My hope is that as Russia runs out of money and organization to fund overseas psyops, the sheen will wear off.
Same, feels like the democracies of the world really got caught with their pants down by authoritarian operatives and their LLMs on social media.
- phoenixz ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 4•10 months ago
Putin will only run out of money once the price of oil nosedives.
That won’t happen because Saudi Arabia has been squeezing oil output to keep the price high because they need the money for their countries transformation to a horror Show (different discussion required there) and they basically keep squeezing until the US gives them a whole lot of concessions that they don’t want to…
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
The ones that haven’t suddenly decided that Russia is our best friend all of a sudden for some reason that I still can’t figure out.
The reason is money. Either they got paid by Putin or they’ve been brainwashed by someone who got paid by Putin.
- Rapidcreek ( @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ) 10•10 months ago
The Russians have less tactics and capabilities than NATO thought. Now it is a matter of how quickly they can be overwhelmed should it come to it. Their big problem is mid level command.
- gnuhaut ( @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml ) 5•10 months ago
It has also taught NATO that Russia is still in the barbaric tactics mindset.
Oh those backwards Russians, still stuck in the past, where they were just a bunch of barbarian hordes. I assume the West, by contrast, has developed a civilized kind of warfare, as befitting their superior civilized culture? That’s what you’re saying, right?
The civilized West would never… oh yeah they would and they did, repeatedly, and it was worse actually in e.g. Iraq. So all this “barbarism” shit is just racism with no basis in reality.
- figaro ( @figaro@lemdro.id ) English8•10 months ago
Or both sides suck and all war is bad, and no one should attack sovereign countries
- gnuhaut ( @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
Russia is still using barbaric tactics, according to the person I replied to. This implies that barbarism is typical (and backwards) of Russia, like that racist trope about barbaric Mongol hordes. It also implies that someone else (presumably NATO, which they mention) isn’t using barbaric tactics, which is blatantly untrue.
I don’t understand how what you wrote is a addressing my post? What’s your point?
- figaro ( @figaro@lemdro.id ) English8•10 months ago
Has Russia been bombing civilian apartment buildings in Ukraine?
Please note, I am asking nothing about NATO or America. I agree, the US has committed atrocities in other countries at war. I’m asking specifically if Russia has bombed civilian apartment buildings in Ukraine.
- gnuhaut ( @gnuhaut@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months ago
So it’s not racist to say Russia is still in a barbaric mindset, because they are bombing apartment buildings in Ukraine? Is that it? Even though the way it was phrased implies that barbarism is typical of Russia and its history, and also falsely implies NATO isn’t barbaric and isn’t doing the same thing, and it’s a well-known racist trope?
This person’s comment exhibits the common double standard of the good civilized nations vs. the uncivilized primitives bullshit, which is about the oldest racist narrative there is.
- figaro ( @figaro@lemdro.id ) English6•10 months ago
I didn’t say anything about the people. Every Russian person I have met is super nice.
Governments though, they suck. Governments bomb apartment buildings full of people. These particular governments are barbaric.
I think it is important to acknowledge that both the US government and the Russian government are responsible for terrible atrocities. It is not racist to say that.
- JoYo ( @JoYo@lemmy.ml ) English3•10 months ago
the whole world is sending people to become veterans so they can return with their experience and become trainers.
- atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 20•10 months ago
I wish we would just go ahead and give ATACMs. It would certainly speed things up.
- ParkingPsychology ( @ParkingPsychology@kbin.social ) 19•10 months ago
I’m following the combat activities (the actual combat, not high level strategic stuff). It’s all mines, mines, mines and then some trench warfare.
No amount of ATACMS can do anything about that. You still have to advance slowly, figure out where the mines are, clean them up or move around them and then take the trenches.
Drones can do a whole lot more good for a whole lot less.
- Zoidsberg ( @Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
Where do you follow that?
- ParkingPsychology ( @ParkingPsychology@kbin.social ) 6•10 months ago
/r/combatfootage on reddit. But you can also do it on twitter by following OSINT accounts (and you can combine the two). I just couldn’t deal with the constant twitter BS anymore. They both mostly have “second hand” sources. First hand are telegram accounts, but I rather receive it filtered and sorted by votes, so I never went that far.
- PuppyOSAndCoffee ( @PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
BooOOOOoooo
“drones AND f16 and ATACMS”
Yaaay
- Rapidcreek ( @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ) 17•10 months ago
IMO these critics are used to air superiority which Ukraine doesn’t have.
- qyron ( @qyron@sopuli.xyz ) 2•10 months ago
Regardless being what it is, I wonder why a few A10s couldn’t be leased to provide air support.
Its a plane with little to no cutting edge technology, perfect for ground support and anti armor and entrenched positions.
- Rapidcreek ( @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ) 1•10 months ago
I agree and have heard stories of Ukrainians already training on them. But, I wonder if depleted uranium ammo might be a problem.
- qyron ( @qyron@sopuli.xyz ) 1•10 months ago
In the sense that is a controlled ammunition or a banned one?
That brings to mind the fragmentation bombs.
- Rapidcreek ( @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com ) 1•10 months ago
I think there are laws which would prohibit the export of depleted uranium
- phoenixz ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
Yet.
It’ll take some 6 months but then they’ll start having air support and soon air superiority.
However, Ukraine doesn’t have 6 months. They don’t know how the US election will go, it they will still have an ally in the US. They MUST press on so into the meat grinder they go.
- SpaceCowboy ( @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
US election is more than a year away though.
- phoenixz ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 1•10 months ago
Yeah and they’ll need every minute of it to get to a point where the cjjan ico Russia out. F16 jets won’t come at.keast for another 6 months, they can’t sit on their hands until then, so until then, the meat grinder it is…
- WuTang ( @WuTang@lemmy.ninja ) English9•10 months ago
As an european taxpayer who see Ukrainian in Jaguar and Audi Q7 driving aroung in my country, I would say to these pain in the ass to shut up! Never seen such an arrogant people, they are in a conflict, getting free supply of everything and they complain!
- Summzashi ( @Summzashi@lemmy.one ) 34•10 months ago
This has to be the dumbest take I’ve seen on Lemmy yet. Holy shit.
- SpiderShoeCult ( @SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz ) 12•10 months ago
I… have some news for you.
Sadly, this is the sort of shit parroted amongst less tech savy populations in countries with Ukranian refugees. Mostly older parents, grandparents, older aunts and uncles and such from Eastern Europe (the first port of call usually for refugees - neighboring countries). Hence why you don’t see it that often around here. It’s present in the west of Europe, as well.
Also quite popular is ‘we can’t take care of our own [homeless people], but have you seen the amount of money that the government is pumping into them with their fancy cars?’
Oh and “I’m sick and tired of hearing ukranian everywhere I go. The playground is full of ukranian children and their parents that don’t speak {local language}!”
I suspect it’s russian propaganda, because nobody can be that stupid on their own, right?
Like sure, they have audi q8s. What were they supposed to do? Leave them there and walk towards new places? And if your daughter/son was fleeing invaders, what would you think of the asshats that point at them and say ‘go away with yer fancy car!’? I thought we were all on the same page of not wanting russia as a neighbour in the near future. Apparently not. Somehow people running away from actual rape and murder are inconveniencing them.
- Hexadecimalkink ( @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
Your logic is that the rich Ukrainians that bribed their way out of the war should be allowed to enjoy their wealth while their countrymen die for their freedom, rather than sell their luxury cars to help the war effort? I think you’re a giant POS and would never want to know you IRL.
- BitPirate ( @BitPirate@feddit.de ) 28•10 months ago
As an european taxpayer who see Ukrainian in Jaguar and Audi Q7 driving aroung in my country
So you’re just jealous because they weren’t all beggars when the war broke out?
they are in a conflict, getting free supply of everything and they complain!
A lot of people are getting killed. They have every right to complain.
- Blursty ( @Blursty@lemmy.ml ) 4•10 months ago
So where are you on the other refugees who get nothing and are from even close countries than Ukraine?
They get nothing because they’re not white, right?
- BitPirate ( @BitPirate@feddit.de ) 7•10 months ago
So where are you on the other refugees who get nothing
We didn’t buy those cars for them if that’s what you’re trying to imply here. Being a refugee doesn’t mean that you leave your country without any possessions or money.
and are from even close countries than Ukraine? They get nothing because they’re not white, right?
I’m not aware of any bonus for Ukrainian refugees that would set them apart from others. But feel free to cough up some facts.
- Hexadecimalkink ( @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
Their countryman are dying and pleasding for support, and they’re driving luxury cars. You don’t see anything wrong with that?
- BitPirate ( @BitPirate@feddit.de ) 2•10 months ago
It is morally questionable, yes. But we are not talking about hundreds of thousands of refugees with luxury cars. In every conflict there are people with a golden parachute.
- Hexadecimalkink ( @Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
Seems like there are enough of them to make it apparent to many that they’ve absconded with wealth that should be used for the war effort.
- WuTang ( @WuTang@lemmy.ninja ) English3•10 months ago
i am not jealous, fucktard.
I am pissed of. There are real refugees out there with family getting shit while these suckers get a wild card.
- MHcharLEE ( @MHcharLEE@lemdro.id ) English26•10 months ago
Those are the ones you see. How do you tell a Ukrainian from your own countrymen on a bus? They’re not all rich, they’re not all assholes, they are where they are because they wanted to stay alive. And so would you if you were in their shoes, you dense fuck.
- WuTang ( @WuTang@lemmy.ninja ) English3•10 months ago
if you were in their shoes, explain to why this syrian, palestinian refugees has still no access to the work market or his children have access to school after 3years in our asylum while ukrainians get everything and for free?
you dense fuck.
I gently fuck you.
- infinipurple ( @infinipurple@lemm.ee ) 18•10 months ago
What a hot and plainly idiotic take.
If you’re not shilling for the Russians, you’re certainly dense as fuck.
- awwwyissss ( @awwwyissss@lemm.ee ) 9•10 months ago
Probably a bot, they love to start their propaganda with “as an X I think that…”
- WuTang ( @WuTang@lemmy.ninja ) English5•10 months ago
i’m a taxpayer and I don’t give a fuck about non-europeand and moreover corrupted countries regarding refugees, they should be treated like the others, no exclusive rights or benefits, waiting in line.
it has nothing to do with being with one or the other.
- figaro ( @figaro@lemdro.id ) English16•10 months ago
Hey,
I know you are getting downvoted and railed on pretty hard here, but please take this moment to reconsider some of your core beliefs and why you might feel the way you do.
Are people fleeing their home country to get rich?
- WuTang ( @WuTang@lemmy.ninja ) English5•10 months ago
the question is why do they get privileges over other refugees?! their country is not wiped off like lybia or syria , UA is quite intact, so they shouldn’t even fly away and if so, we should not provide them wildcard access, but follow the process.
they are refugees which lost everything, qualified and their country sent back to stone age: waiting in line for 3 to 5 years to just get access school, work market and co. They are at the image of their president, arrogant and ungrateful.
I’m just an european taxpayer pissed of!
- BitPirate ( @BitPirate@feddit.de ) 7•10 months ago
They are at the image of their president, arrogant and ungrateful.
Look at Mr Worldwide over here who knows each and every Ukrainian.
I’m just an european taxpayer pissed of!
Sure.
- shottymcb ( @shottymcb@lemm.ee ) 3•10 months ago
Is that the Ukrainians fault? They’re not the ones deciding how they’re being treated. They’re not the ones deciding how other refugees are treated either.
Why are you mad at them instead of the people making those decisions?
- Blursty ( @Blursty@lemmy.ml ) 3•10 months ago
They got rich by being crooks in the most corrupt country in Europe. They fled the country they ruined and turned into a shithole vassal state of the USA. These are the worst Ukraine has to offer.
- figaro ( @figaro@lemdro.id ) 9•10 months ago
I’m sorry you have so much hate for people you do not understand. Genuinely, it might be better to see people as just people, and not representatives of the worst parts of the governments they happened to be born under.
- Blursty ( @Blursty@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
I understand them just fine. Nazis are not people.
- Letstakealook ( @Letstakealook@lemm.ee ) 16•10 months ago
Diday terb yur jerbs?
- _Gr1zzel ( @_Gr1zzel@feddit.de ) 15•10 months ago
You don’t flee to get rich, you flee to stay alive. It’s no matter of money.
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) 5•10 months ago
What a coincidence, “shut up” is what I tell people who can’t stop talking about Ukraine and Russia.
- JakeHimself ( @JakeHimself@lemmy.ml ) 7•10 months ago
Why?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Nearly three months since launching a much vaunted counteroffensive using hundreds of billions of dollars of Western military equipment, Ukraine has recaptured more than a dozen villages but has yet to penetrate Russia’s main defences.
Stories in the New York Times, Washington Post and other news organisations last week quoted U.S. and other Western officials as suggesting the offensive was falling short of expectations.
Ukrainian commanders say they are moving slowly on purpose, degrading Russia’s defences and logistics to reduce losses when they finally attack at full strength.
After months of fighting their way through heavy minefields, Ukraine’s forces have finally reached the main Russian defensive lines in recent days, south of the village of Robotyne which they captured last week in Western Zaporizhzhia region.
They are now advancing in an area between the nearby villages of Novopokropivka and Verbove, looking for a way around the anti-tank ditches and rows of concrete pyramids known as dragon’s teeth that form Russia’s main fortifications visible from space.
Russia is also facing the aftermath of a mutiny two months ago by Wagner, a private army that had formed the main attack force of its own winter offensive earlier this year.
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- Franzia ( @Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•10 months ago
Is only war, why you hef to be mad?