Russian Invasion of Ukraine Megathread

[Feline Supremacist]

Japanese Yen is actually cheap now because Bank of Japan decided instead of buying dollars like everyone else, they wanted to keep Yen low to increase inflation. It's a bargain sale for Japanese Yen for now. So yes, I still believe Dollars is a stable currency

At first I was like
If California were a sovereign nation (2020), it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy...
but then I was like


US Dollar
Stable currency
stable


Are you living off dividends from preferred petroleum stocks? Because this kind of inflation isn't the hallmark of a stable currency, not even in a state that's reputed to be the fifth largest economy in the world.

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

I like how we've all momentarily came together to say torturing POW's (regardless of allegiance) for fun is shit.

We're genuinely better Human beings than Redditors.

That's a low bar to get over as Redditors are bots.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

That's a low bar to get over as Redditors are bots.

Wait does this mean we have a moral justification to declare war on reddit and redditors?

 

[MindYourSeabiscuits]

At first I was like
If California were a sovereign nation (2020), it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy...
but then I was like
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US Dollar
Stable currency
stable


Are you living off dividends from preferred petroleum stocks? Because this kind of inflation isn't the hallmark of a stable currency, not even in a state that's reputed to be the fifth largest economy in the world.

Holy fuck that is wild. $9.40 a gallon, how does anyone who isn't rich or non-white survive in that state?

 

[SneedEyeMitch]

Wait does this mean we have a moral justification to declare war on reddit and redditors?

It's free real estate.

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Holy fuck that is wild. $9.40 a gallon, how does anyone who isn't rich or non-white survive in that state?

You don't lol. Though to be fair, they do have a higher average income over there. However making 50 to 60k a year in some flyover state with a low cost of living is basically the equivalent of making 150k a year in Cali. For reference, gas in my flyover state is currently "only" 3.90 a gallon.

 

[White_N]

Speaking of which, the guy who claimed Russians hadn't seen running water before further clarifies:
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The guy is a lying retard.
Russian roads are notorious, but highways are well done. I personally vouch for one in Petersburg.

Main road of Yakutsk. Nothing spectacular, but a passable road

Here is another of his professional opinions.

Highway 121 (Sortavala)

From what I gather, he is a Russian who moved to Germany and caught globohomo. He even said that Syrian refugees are the heart of Germany. "Right Opinion 101".

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

The guy is a lying retard.
Russian roads are notorious, but highways are well done. I personally vouch for one in Petersburg.

Main road of Yakutsk. Nothing spectacular, but a passable road
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Here is another of his professional opinions.
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Highway 121 (Sortavala)
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From what I gather, he is a Russian who moved to Germany and caught globohomo. He even said that Syrian refugees are the heart of Germany. "Right Opinion 101".

That confirms my suspicions that he found pictures of the backest of back roads for his example. Russia may not be the richest, but they're definitely not THAT poor.

 

[White_N]

In Ukrainian books for schoolchildren, Russians are portrayed as bloody commissars, talking: "Children will become my army and children's children will be devoted slaves," I will not lie, I would like to receive these books as a historical artifact. The second book is "The History of Ukraine (10 centuries BC). I would not be surprised if the ancient Ukrainians personally flooded Atlantis so that it would not get to the ancient Russians.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Holy fuck that is wild. $9.40 a gallon, how does anyone who isn't rich or non-white survive in that state?

They vote Democrat and get free gibs unironically.

And the current governor, is promising even more gibs.

The power of idpol is strong in California. Many non whites blame their problems on that evil Republican white man, if only they did not exist, that California and the United States would be a utopia. For reference, California has a super strong Democrat majority in the state house and senate.

The Republicans in California might as well don't exist. The media is a giant bubble where everything is one sided liberal to an extreme degree. Not many in this state knew that other states like Florida did not have mask mandates or lockdowns, but hate on them for being evil and not obeying the Democratic Party.

 

[Lord Edge of Leetworth]

In Ukrainian books for schoolchildren, Russians are portrayed as bloody commissars, talking: "Children will become my army and children's children will be devoted slaves," I will not lie, I would like to receive these books as a historical artifact. The second book is "The History of Ukraine (10 centuries BC). I would not be surprised if the ancient Ukrainians personally flooded Atlantis so that it would not get to the ancient Russians.
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Wait, there is Ukrainian propaganda books telling kids that Ukraine existed in 10.000 BC?!

 

[Richardface]

In the neoliberal mind, Russia is simultaneously able to subvert elections, even of the Sainted Hillary, and threaten the entirety of Europe unless said euros spend hundreds of billions more on defense, while also being a large mudflat filled with Orcs in which there is just 1 wooden structure which Putin lives in

 

[Feline Supremacist]

They vote Democrat and get free gibs unironically.

And the current governor, is promising even more gibs.

The power of idpol is strong in California. Many non whites blame their problems on that evil Republican white man, if only they did not exist, that California and the United States would be a utopia. For reference, California has a super strong Democrat majority in the state house and senate.

The Republicans in California might as well don't exist. The media is a giant bubble where everything is one sided liberal to an extreme degree. Not many in this state knew that other states like Florida did not have mask mandates or lockdowns, but hate on them for being evil and not obeying the Democratic Party.

Newsom is going to throw y'all a lousy $400 to pay for that $10/gal gas.

Just buy a 80K electric car, plebe (the extra 20K are CA taxes, fees and whatnot)

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

In the neoliberal mind, Russia is simultaneously able to subvert elections, even of the Sainted Hillary, and threaten the entirety of Europe unless said euros spend hundreds of billions more on defense, while also being a large mudflat filled with Orcs in which there is just 1 wooden structure which Putin lives in

Ok the mudflat part is right though.

 

[Richardface]

Ok the mudflat part is right though.

Bullshit there are also frozen bits and woods filled with bears and witches

 

[Spicey McHaggis]

Bullshit there are also frozen bits and woods filled with bears and witches

Those are just the seasons. All Russian men turn into bears in the winter.

 

[The Other Baldwin]

Ukrainians are shelling people in the Donbass\Donetsk, as usual.

Patrick is fucking awesome.

 

[Smity Werbenjagermanjensen]

In Ukrainian books for schoolchildren, Russians are portrayed as bloody commissars, talking: "Children will become my army and children's children will be devoted slaves," I will not lie, I would like to receive these books as a historical artifact. The second book is "The History of Ukraine (10 centuries BC). I would not be surprised if the ancient Ukrainians personally flooded Atlantis so that it would not get to the ancient Russians.
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From what I've been reading about Ukrainian-Russian relations, there seems to be a view from a lot of Ukrainians that the whole "Ukrainians and Russian are brothers" shit mainly comes from Russia, not really mutual, and some compare it to the mentality of a domestic abuser, Ukrainians suffered hard under Soviet Leadership, and Russia keeps it under wraps by trying to argue that those atrocities affected Russians too, or completely ignore the matter. Although these views are much more popular in the western regions and also predate the invasion.

 

[Lord Edge of Leetworth]

From what I've been reading about Ukrainian-Russian relations, there seems to be a view from a lot of Ukrainians that the whole "Ukrainians and Russian are brothers" shit mainly comes from Russia, not really mutual, and some compare it to the mentality of a domestic abuser, Ukrainians suffered hard under Soviet Leadership, and Russia keeps it under wraps by trying to argue that those atrocities affected Russians too, or completely ignore the matter. Although these views are much more popular in the western regions and also predate the invasion.

They have been suffering under the Russian yoke since 7.000 B.C. Source: The Historian of Kiev.

 

[Richardface]

From what I've been reading about Ukrainian-Russian relations, there seems to be a view from a lot of Ukrainians that the whole "Ukrainians and Russian are brothers" shit mainly comes from Russia, not really mutual, and some compare it to the mentality of a domestic abuser, Ukrainians suffered hard under Soviet Leadership, and Russia keeps it under wraps by trying to argue that those atrocities affected Russians too, or completely ignore the matter. Although these views are much more popular in the western regions and also predate the invasion.

The trick is that there is no unified "ukrainian" identity, just a Galician one that became "ukrainian", so you have people who are Ukrainian by culture largely in the West of Ukraine and people Ukrainian by geography who identify as part of the broader Russian world

Edit: also the Holodomor was not targeted at Ukrainians specifically but was part of a general programme of prioritising food for the cities (where the communists had most support) and for export (to fund industrialisation to both protect the revolution and quickly get to the social order where communism is actually supposed to start per marx's theories) and so agricultural regions of Russia equally suffered. There was definitely an atrocity of mass starvation ordered by Stalin but it was targeted at class enemies not ethnicities (not that Stalin was above ethnic targeting per the treatment of Chechens, Volga Germans, Crimean taters, and Jewish doctors)

Ukraine was a geographical description that became an ethnic one mostly in the 1990s once Ukraine weirdly found itself to be a state