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No.429328
News and PoliticsAnonymous
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Good morning plus4chan, with major events going down seems like a fitting time to start a new instalment.

Civil War is brewing in Russia, military group Wagner has moved against the heads of the Russian military and has marched his mercenary company into Rostov calling for other armed groups to join him.

Its being reported on by the normal worldwide media and discussed across the internet, you can verify by checking your online news outlets of choice.

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>>425557
No.429329
Anonymous
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In less important news which was popular online before this broke, a handful of rich idiots in a shitty submarine died for their arrogance and cost-cutting ways as they tried to sail down to gawk at the wreck of the Titanic.
The name of said submarine was the 'Titan'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Titan_submersible_incident
No.429334
Anonymous
Image:168758605979.jpg(170kB, 1280x853)Red.jpg
>>429328
>Russia Civil War
>Red (z) vs White (z)
Huh...
No.429335
Anonymous
Replies:>>429337
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Well things are official.

Prigozhin made demands to basically have the heads of the Russian MoD handed over to him for fucking him and fucking Russia, while moving his forces in.
Putin Put out a speech video calling them traitors, is presumably hiding in a bunker somewhere.
Putin accuses Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin of treasonyoutube thumb
Now Wagner is moving further into occupying major cities and towards Moscow itself, no one has seemingly really opposed him except for a couple of helicopters that got shot down for trying to attack his convoy and rare unsubstantiated reports of gunshots. Other home-defence troops they've ran into have surrendered.
No.429337
Anonymous
Image:168759594282.png(411kB, 1196x838)fab.png
>>429335
The Ministry of Défense is getting off its ass after Putin's denouncement, having the airforce bomb Wagner troops.
No.429338
Anonymous
Image:168759663750.png(193kB, 570x522)rats abandoning the sinking ship.png
No.429341
Anonymous
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Dickbag Mercenaries >>> Upgunned Mallcops
No.429342
Anonymous
Image:168759982706.jpg(74kB, 594x727)1687598834539662.jpg
Some impressive spin by Prigozhin.
I mean its pretty much true in regards to the corruption and the head of the state alongside his cronies being liars, but he's really going all-in playing at the part of the "noble patriotic soldier" finally standing up to strike down the evil choking the country.

Can he win? If he wins will he be able to use this to ride a wave of support all the way up to the top seat?
And upon his winning will Russia even remain in a big enough single piece for him to take over?
No.429344
Anonymous
Video:168760110913.mp4(3.18MB / 0:00:17 / avc1, 526x960)xk8z2k.mp4
RF helicopter blew up an oil depot in Voronezh, presumably to deny its use by coup d'etat forces
No.429345
Anonymous
Replies:>>429361
As a side-note to recent ongoing events, Alexander Lukashenko (president of Belarus) has fled to Turkey. Being that he was kept in power by Putin and Russia's armed forces he saw the writing on the wall and was the first out of there.

https://twitter.com/officejjsmart/status/1672420961138757639
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1672423333550333954
No.429349
Anonymous
Video:168760939963.webm(248kB / 0:00:06 / vp8, 352x640)moscow battle preperations sand trucks.webm
So government forces are setting up defences around Moscow to face off against their approaching enemies, makes sense.
But alongside sandbags and machineguns there's also the sight of many bright orange dump trucks filled with sand being used to physically block roads?
No.429350
Anonymous
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There's been reports of riots in Russian prisons after the coup began, and it seems upon claiming said prisons Wagner reuses its classic tactics to increase their manpower. Apart from that there's also mention of RF units in Russia throwing in their lot with Wagner rather than the government.

>>429349
Wonder what it'll be like when the two sides actually clash.
No.429352
Anonymous
Image:168761425688.png(535kB, 1176x1280)well then.png
>>429349
No.429353
Anonymous
Video:168761491363.mp4(4.17MB / 0:00:14 / avc1, 480x850)ao1bfd.mp4
Now excavators are being used to dig a pit across the main road to slow down Wagner's advance, that might be somewhat more effective in buying time. It's an important road for moving supplies to the war front but I suppose that's not as important if you get overthrown in the short-term.
No.429356
Anonymous
Image:168762380580.jpg(526kB, 1170x1315)IM SERIOUS YOU GUYS_NO BULLY RUSSIA.jpg
No.429361
Anonymous
Replies:>>429371
There's a tidal wave of strange information and events happening now.

So Prig's side was saying the war is built on lies, the country is corrupt and the boys on the ground are being massacred by the higher-ups for their own benefit. Putin comes out with the official statement that the ones turning against Russia are traitors stabbing the nation in the back and must be crushed.

Wagner takes over multiple cities on the way to Moscow, shoots down some Russian aircraft that attacked, are on the cusp of reaching Moscow which is readying itself for a siege.

But then >>429345 the potato peeler gets in contact with both sides and is able to "work out a deal"? Head of Wagner says he wants to stop things before they shed a drop of Russian blood (ignore anything that happened up till this point) and is going to walk back to base like a good soldier.

What exactly is going on? The mercenaries openly marched on the capital and took land with no one able to stop them, both sides were throwing out the harshest words possible decrying each other.
Russia is good at making its people forget embarrassing events but this is a big black eye for national pride that achieved nothing, its at best back to business as normal (with a few russian losses) and the war against Ukraine continues.

Did this insurrectionist just lose his nerve at the final hurdle? What could they have possibly offered him as a bribe? And wouldn't Russia likely move to assassinate him now as they've done to people multiple times in the past? Otherwise they are leaving someone who made the government look feeble alive and free.
Maybe he'll run off to have Wagner operate somewhere else in the world and leave the conflict entirely, no idea.
No.429363
Anonymous
Replies:>>429367
Image:168763338859.jpg(41kB, 992x558)san-antonio-police-01-main-ap-jt-230624_1687614292831_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg
In American news a trio of cops blew away a crazy woman because she had a hammer.
San Antonio Police Officers Shoot Woman Responding To Reports That She Destroyed a Fire Alarmyoutube thumb

https://abcnews.go.com/US/murder-charges-filed-3-san-antonio-police-officers/story?id=100350953
No.429367
Mister Twister
>>429363
American crime and police brutality cases are funny, because (as one might expect) only the craziest and shittiest stories get mainstream attention.
No.429368
Anonymous
Replies:>>429369
Looks like the remains of the actor Julian Sands has been found.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/24/entertainment/julian-sands-california-search-human-remains-found/index.html
No.429369
Anonymous
>>429368
Struggled to even recognise who he is, didn't even know his disappearance was a thing. That's a shame.
No.429371
Anonymous
Image:168768753623.png(323kB, 1346x846)Strelkov can't deal with this bullshit.png
>>429361
Igor Ivanovich Strelkov is mad jelly about the whole thing.
No.429372
Anonymous
Replies:>>429833
Image:168768761794.png(44kB, 499x232)Strelkov didn't forget.png
>>429371
No.429376
Anonymous
Replies:>>429434
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>>429329
>OceanGateGate
No.429388
Anonymous
Replies:>>429391
>>429328
we dont need a thread for this crap euro war, take it to the hundred other imageboards
No.429391
Anonymous
>>429388
You seem upset.
No.429434
Anonymous
Image:168812949213.jpg(127kB, 900x900)Stockton Rush Fucking Stupid.jpg
>>429329
>>429376
Is it wrong to see someones death as a good thing when it was caused entirely by their own actions and their own refusal to take reasonable precautions driven entirely by ego?
No.429439
Anonymous
France is rioting again (is that even news?)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66049705
No.429444
Anonymous
Image:168815338853.jpg(76kB, 594x578)1688152810469014.jpg
>>429439
>Blaming VIDEO GAMES, in this day and age
>Retreating to that tired old chestnut as an excuse why the country you are in charge of running is shit
No.429446
Anonymous
>>429439
From what I've heard, it's basically BLM French Edition, with riots and mass looting taking place; among the ones who get caught by the police, the average age is only 17.

>>429444
At least he mentioned bad parenting. That's something that would never fly in the USA.
No.429457
Anonymous
Replies:>>429503
Image:168830144308.png(140kB, 716x435)IRREFUTABLE PROOF.png
>>429444
Then how do you explain this?
No.429503
Mister Twister
Image:168855323800.jpg(92kB, 1440x1080)Gon and Killua mortified.jpg
>>429457
AH SHIT
THEY GOT US BROS
DELETE EVERYTHING
QUICK
No.429546
Anonymous
Image:168860888513.jpg(256kB, 720x1040)crowdfunding.jpg
The Somalian conflict from before is still ongoing. And Somalia (in comparison to SomaliLAND) is still desperate for artillery to the point forces in a region tried to get crowdfunding going to buy a piece.

There's something grimly interesting about the reduced scale and limited degree of weapons technology involved in an African war.
As in the comparison between Somalia and Somaliland seems pretty stark but both are stuck with handfuls of obsolete wargear from bygone eras compared to that sitting around in warehouses of advanced nations who aren't fighting anyone resulting in mobs of warriors with rifles backed up by weaponised civilian trucks launching raids and some old artillery guns being like the wrath of god unleashed in comparison.
No.429548
Anonymous
Replies:>>429557
Image:168861060872.jpg(76kB, 606x910)blast from the past.jpg
>>429546
That's true, although it's wise to never underestimate weapons for merely being dated. We've seen it time and time again.
No.429557
Mister Twister
>>429548
Based serbians.
No.429606
Anonymous
Video:168889044575.webm(2.75MB / 0:01:15 / vp8, 1280x720)1688858180410345.webm
Iran continuing to be a little shit of a nation, this time news of pirate actions at sea.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-seize-oil-tanker-strait-of-hormuz-b2370427.html
No.429617
Anonymous
Image:168903089633.png(936kB, 1064x1400)tonks.png
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/10/business/rheinmetall-german-tank-factory-ukraine/index.html
No.429623
Anonymous
Image:168904843930.jpg(159kB, 1170x1319)app.jpg
https://theins.ru/en/news/263333

[Deus Ex] What a shameyoutube thumb
No.429646
Anonymous
Replies:>>429674
>>429606
https://maritime-executive.com/article/indonesia-detains-iranian-crude-oil-tanker-caught-in-illegal-sts-transfer
Funny enough an Iranian tanker managed to get itself detained yesterday for doing something illegal.
Those who live by the naval interception die by the naval interception.
No.429674
Anonymous
Image:168932847536.jpg(367kB, 716x1019)lel.jpg
>>429606
>>429646
No.429724
Anonymous
Replies:>>429879
>>429546
China sent another warship into Somaliland waters >>429227 and like before it was escorted away.
They seem really into threatening Somaliland at the moment, if because said country voiced support of Taiwan or because if Somaliland defeats Somalia/Puntland and strengthens its position that will curtail Chinese plans in the region who can say.

China is a scumbag government. All large powers will to some greater or lesser extent seek to advance their interests in the areas of smaller nations but something that personally pisses me off is China's tendency to sail fishing fleets into other country's waters and just overfish the area to death.
Its bad enough when the ecological destruction waged by China in its desire for economic power is confined to their own borders.

Is something that notably happened in Somalia and was an influence on the widespread instances of piracy in the region, fishermen no longer having a livelihood.
No.429772
Anonymous
Image:168976250923.png(502kB, 1324x1062)sure we invaded their country but how dare they ruin my vacation.png
Over in the Russia-Ukrainian conflict Kerch Bridge has been hit again in an attempt to hinder supplies to Crimea.

For some reason despite the war going on alot of Russia tourists had decided now was a great time to holiday in Crimea (must be super cheap?).
With the bridge closed the Russian government has told them to drive back to Russia via the border territories where active high-explosive conflict is ongoing. That does not seem like a smart idea.
No.429777
Anonymous
Image:168976428876.jpg(44kB, 1200x628)Tree Law Activated.jpg
https://twitter.com/SentaMMoses/status/1681127057701617664

https://twitter.com/ChrisStephensMD/status/1681005154609545216?s=20

https://twitter.com/lacontroller/status/1681456457936687104?s=20

Trees are serious business.
You might be a big company treating your employees like slaves and trying every dirty trick to prevent them fighting for better conditions, but don't think you can fuck with the trees.
No.429796
Anonymous
Replies:>>429798
Video:168985066426.webm(931kB / 0:00:28 / V_VP9, 854x480)Blazing Saddles.webm
<-- https://capitalbnews.org/newbern-alabama-black-mayor/
No.429798
Anonymous
>>429796
Jesus fucking christ
No.429833
Anonymous
Replies:>>430201
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>>429371
>>429372
He's been arrested by the government.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/21/europe/igor-girkin-arrest-russia-intl/index.html
No.429879
Anonymous
Replies:>>429880
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>>429724
No.429880
Anonymous
Replies:>>429881
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>>429879
No.429881
Anonymous
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>>429880
No.429888
Anonymous
Replies:>>429890
Image:169058152352.png(617kB, 760x507)David Grusch is himself clearly an alien clad in a crude human facade.png
How do people feel about the absolute incontrovertible fact that aliens are 100% totally real.
No.429890
Mister Twister
>>429888
Does not ultimately matter.
No.429911
Anonymous
Replies:>>429921
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Fucking Pee Wee Herman has died, cancer.

He'll be playing with his pee wee in a porn theatre in heaven now...
No.429921
Mister Twister
>>429911
Wrong thread, also not sure what to feel.
No.429922
Anonymous
Replies:>>429924
>>429921
>claims to be wrong thread
>death of celebrity is a news item
>thread is called "news and politics"
yup.
No.429923
Anonymous
>>429921
Nah its suitably newsworthy. It could have gone in this thread or somewhere on /mtv/, but even less people post or even browse /mtv/.
No.429924
Mister Twister
>>429922
I am selectively blind apparently.
No.429938
Anonymous
Image:169122010229.png(352kB, 968x1182)The Crimea bridge has been hit again along with a russian tanker.png
>"England will answer for this"
>Alexander 3 will Remember that
No.430007
Anonymous
Video:169169319118.webm(1.51MB / 0:00:55 / vp8, 680x382)brother or brutha.webm
No.430016
Anonymous
Replies:>>430038
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/05/west-african-bloc-gives-niger-coup-leaders-until-sunday-to-end-revolt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66465146

A coup went down in Niger deposing the elected president, ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) forces seem like they might well be moving troops in to deal with it.
No.430023
Anonymous
Image:169182177313.jpg(133kB, 628x730)metroman.jpg
Luckily for the man he is not currently in Russia, so he's been sentenced but they can't carry it out at this time.
No.430038
Anonymous
Replies:>>430080
>>430016
looks like africa is finally getting sick of france's shit
speaking of france, roll to guess what the next riots will be about
No.430080
Anonymous
>>430038
Its all probably been done with the backing and prodding of other foreign nations, Africa will just be trading one outside influence for another who will use conflict as a cover to mine out more resources or what-have-you.
No.430158
Anonymous
>>429328
Prigozhin has died in a 'plane crash'
https://news.sky.com/story/putin-sends-condolences-to-family-after-prigozhin-death-in-plane-crash-12946736
No.430161
Mister Twister
Replies:>>430961
>>430158
Putin hates traitors more than he hates his enemies. He said as much on TV some years ago.
No.430162
Anonymous
>>430158
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1695044436038693017
No.430182
Anonymous
Replies:>>430250
Image:169308691189.png(1.37MB, 777x703)Prig Isekai.png
No.430201
Anonymous
Video:169333976769.webm(2.62MB / 0:00:11 / V_VP9, 1168x656)Like an animal in a cage at the zoo.webm
>>429833
Jesus. Taking him out back and shooting him would be more dignified. Then again he is an old war criminal. What a strange world that he's been incarcerated by Russia instead of everyone else.
No.430249
Anonymous
https://ew.com/music/smash-mouth-singer-steve-harwell-hospice-final-stages-liver-failure

Smash Mouth - All Star (Official Music Video)youtube thumb
No.430250
Mister Twister
No.430358
Anonymous
Replies:>>430490
Image:169547125847.jpg(152kB, 899x686)Pacific Kaiju Unleashed By America.jpg
Now I THINK this is meant to be a political cartoon portraying America as a dangerous warmongering monster threatening 'Asian country' but honestly just looks ridiculously goofy as a piece of art.

At least that's a step up from making America look incredibly badass like alot of such images usually do.
No.430462
Anonymous
There's the conflict between Israel and Hamas going on at the moment that's capturing all the headlines. Though that sort of stuff just seems like business as usual for the region frankly.

Does anyone have a happy news story to share? Like something along the lines of a puppy or kitten born with a funny pattern on its fur that looks like a smiley face that's capturing the heart of people across the internet?
No.430467
Anonymous
>>430462
The conflict at Israel means that effectively nobody gives a shit about Ukraine any more.

That's a happy news story as far as I'm concerned. I was getting sick of that shirt wearing asshole begging for more stuff every day.
No.430472
Anonymous
>>430467
>shirt wearing asshole
What kind of retarded insult is that.
No.430476
Anonymous
Image:169687466900.png(914kB, 1396x880)New C&C Generals GLA Unit Just Dropped.png
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/hamas-militants-paraglide-into-israel-amid-rave-near-gaza-strip/articleshow/104261477.cms?from=mdr
No.430490
Anonymous
Image:169695283885.jpg(141kB, 1600x900)AMURRRRRRRICAAAAAAAW!.jpg
>>430358
>a step up from making America look incredibly badass like alot of such images usually do.
No.430545
Anonymous
>>430467
The conflict over Russia's invasion of Ukraine is still ongoing and people do talk about it. Most notable as of the moment would be Ukraine recently got ATACMS from the west and used them to blow up a bunch of Russian airfields.
No.430634
Anonymous
Replies:>>430822
Image:169854699039.jpg(50kB, 680x425)TELEMMGLPICT000354820727_16985447569060_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqob-ekJ5vNDkRImiYK8Gl-WmUNXhQvDEBj1zl9sHj-KA.jpeg
https://nypost.com/2023/10/28/entertainment/friends-star-matthew-perry-dead-at-age-54-of-apparent-drowning-report/

Matthew Perry has died.
Why couldn't it have been Matt LeBlanc?
No.430660
Anonymous
Image:169893576135.png(242kB, 600x400)China Rightful Clay.png
>SOON
No.430661
Anonymous
>>430660
That would be the rightful Mongolian border, not Chinese.
No.430665
Mister Twister
>>430660
>make Tartaria great again
No.430687
Anonymous
Image:169921019139.jpg(46kB, 480x640)1699209971516107.jpg
No.430688
Anonymous
>>430687
How cool
No.430692
Mister Twister
>>430687
I wonder how much of this was just an AI program doing all the choices.
No.430755
Anonymous
Replies:>>430758
Image:169997842096.jpg(524kB, 2048x2048)flag posing.jpg
>>430462
Seems to be going well for Israel, which I guess is to be expected, Hamas is just a terrorist group who are only really good at slaughtering civilians at a festival in a sneak attack then flexing over it and not so skilled in a direct conflict.
It doesn't seem particularly newsworthy because its such an expected outcome between the two, and the fact conflict is the status quo of the middle-east
No.430758
Anonymous
Replies:>>430759
>>430755
The war is going well but not so much everything else. There are anti-israel pro-palestine demonstrations in a lot of places in the western world, despite the politicians attempting to shut them down everywhere. The gaza strip is also suffering as much losses in civilians and infrastructure in the last few months than Ukraine did in the last few years - this isn't a war, it's genocide.

>Hamas is just a terrorist group who are only really good at slaughtering civilians at a festival in a sneak attack
And yet the israeli Iron Dome is one of the most sophisticated defense systems in the world, and Hamas managed to bypass it, resulting in the current war that left Gaza a rubble. Ask who profits from that.
No.430759
Anonymous
>>430758
>resulting in the current war that left Gaza a rubble. Ask who profits from that.
The double secret deepwater jews?
No.430764
Anonymous
Replies:>>430767
Image:170004720092.png(1.48MB, 3280x1292)hamas terrorist tunnel.png
elevator shafts are now terrorist lairs.
No.430767
Anonymous
Image:170006033180.png(788kB, 686x881)Untitled.png
>>430764
>The Sun
No.430822
Anonymous
>>430634
Saw Billy Connolly trending on twitter, thought another celebrity I've known for decades had died. Luckily turned out just to be people celebreating his birthday.
No.430850
Anonymous
Replies:>>430855
Image:170155255083.jpg(42kB, 680x425)kiss.jpeg
Henry Kissenger has finally died, seems worth noting.
Rest in piss.
No.430855
Mister Twister
>>430850
The man who loved war, is now forced to be at peace, by reality itself.
No.430961
Anonymous
Image:170387137861.jpg(1.44MB, 2271x2535)history is an endless series of repetition.jpg
>>430158
>>430161
No.430975
Anonymous
Image:170403847903.jpg(135kB, 1024x1024)rar.jpg
>Current Events
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67851897
No.430990
Anonymous
Replies:>>431031
Image:170417683324.png(1.74MB, 1440x2306)Jewish Nazis.png
>>430975
>fire on US Navy warship
>get shot

Also-
>>Nazi allies in Tel Aviv
Haha, fukkin social media man...
No.431000
Anonymous
Replies:>>431001
People are talking about Epstein's Island again. Apparently there's going to be some sort of list of names released?

Mostly seems to be people of the American political divide using it as an opportunity to crow over social media about whoever they don't like on the othert team at the moment.
No.431001
Anonymous
Image:170422424690.gif(189kB, 640x448)sth2-Epstein_Island.gif
>>431000
I bet the dirty secret is that all that happened there is adults playing Sega Genesis games with the kids.
No.431031
Anonymous
Replies:>>431045
>>430975
>>430990
They're now getting airstriked for not knocking their shit on the head.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/houthis-rebels-attack-yemen-us-uk-b2477384.html
No.431045
Anonymous
Image:170510268969.png(324kB, 1504x758)BUGGED MECHANICS WHAT THE FUCK ALLAH HOW IS THIS FAIR.png
>>431031
No.431049
Anonymous
Video:170517461782.webm(696kB / 0:00:13 / V_VP9, 274x484)Lipetsk Heating Main Burst.webm
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/10/total-disgrace-anger-frustration-as-mass-heating-failures-across-russia-leave-thousands-in-the-cold-a83676

>"Europe will Freeze"
No.431058
Anonymous
Image:170526395480.png(1.44MB, 1280x809)Katastrophe.png
No.431061
Mister Twister
Replies:>>431067
>>431049
I see nothing has changed since I left the glorious motherland.
No.431067
Anonymous
No.431068
Anonymous
Are there any news in regards of the Ukraine war? is it just a stalmate or somebody is going to finally win?
No.431069
Mister Twister
>>431068
It will probably be unofficially over at the end of this year.
No.431070
Anonymous
Replies:>>431074
Image:170542374182.jpg(212kB, 1080x1475)CURSE YOU BORIS JOHNSON.jpg
>>431068
The 3-day SMO to take Kiev has stalled slightly. Despite being the invading force Russia is now on the defensive and uses a wall of meat and mines to try and not lose any more of their gains.

So yeah pretty static at the moment, only small bits of interesting news.

Right as of this moment for instance russia got an AWACS plane shredded, which is unfortunate since they only have a handful of the things left.
Funniest bits are the falsehoods thrown out to deny the ukrainian enemy the 'achievement' of shooting the thing, from it being friendly fire by Russian forces to it being THOSE FUCKING BRITS who are of course behind everything bad that happens to Russia.
No.431074
Anonymous
Replies:>>431075
>>431068
There haven't been any news since HAMAS attacked Israel. The world focuses on that now. Some allies say that it's time that Ukraine sues for peace and gives up the russian controlled territories. Germany still wants to increase support and send them more tanks (like that worked the last time they fought Russian in this territory).

>>431070
>Despite being the invading force Russia is now on the defensive and uses a wall of meat and mines to try and not lose any more of their gains.
Yes but that also means that the counter attack only advances a few kilometers per day at tremendous cost of materials and manpower. Russia is slowly grinding them up.
No.431075
Anonymous
>>431074
Wheeling out that same old bullshit are you.
There has been news about events in the war, its still getting support from the west.
There's no point whatsoever for making peace with Russia since any agreement made with them isn't worth the paper its printed on, they'll just ignore it in the future and try again as has been shown repeatedly.

>at tremendous cost of materials and manpower. Russia is slowly grinding them up
The russian will always project his own failings onto others, see >>431049
No.431090
Anonymous
Replies:>>431098
Image:170555028519.jpg(179kB, 1080x708)China get out of there you're useless.jpg
Israel is kicking the piss out of Hamas after the latter got a suckerpunch in.
Houthis is attacking international shipping and getting world policed for their bullshit.
Now it seems as if Iran vs Pakistan might kick off?

The sandlands are being particularly spicy at the moment.
No.431098
Mister Twister
>>431090
That area of the world is cursed.
No.431121
Anonymous
Image:170609236871.jpg(589kB, 1919x1406)maga communism.jpg
Foreign Subversion targetting the schizo audience.

I love the internet, but sometimes it was clearly a mistake.
No.431135
Anonymous
Image:170635566321.jpg(123kB, 610x615)you wish you could eat all the eggs.jpg
>>431049
No.431140
Mister Twister
>>431135
>that filename
I love you, anon.
No.431148
Anonymous
>>431135
>Telegram
I always forget how relevant that App is on Russia.
No.431299
Anonymous
Image:170903386457.png(614bytes, 1200x750)SwedenFlag.png
That's Sweden joining NATO now along with Finland (Hungary finally dropped the bitching for purposes of political opportunism slowing the process).
No.431370
Anonymous
Image:171068438814.jpg(102kB, 905x980)Its funny if you know what the billboard says.jpg
Its fuax-election time in Russia probably why the rate of drone strikes on refineries inside Russia is increasing.
No.431393
Anonymous
Replies:>>431394
>>431370
>Its funny if you know what the billboard says.jpg
What does the billboard say?
No.431394
Mister Twister
>>431393
Stability.
No.431400
Anonymous
Replies:>>431403
>>431370
Seems as if there's a "terrorist attack" happening in Moscow following the Election and announcement of another mobilization.
>1999 russian apartment bombings 2
No.431403
Anonymous
Image:171121207831.jpg(323kB, 1080x933)346363.jpg
>>431400
Apparently it was a bunch of brown people wandering about the mall shooting and starting fires, while russian law enforcement and secuirty forces took hours to show up.
The 4+ attackers then managed to escape from the mall into the night instead of being killed or captured.

ISIS
>took credit
for the attack, but they take credit for alot of stuff that happens.
Putin of course took the opportunity to blame Ukraine of being involved with a random terrorist shooting spree in Moscow and preparing their escape across the border.
No.431405
Anonymous
>>431403
I wonder if Russians actually believe that bullshit or they get so used to Putin's propaganda that they no longer care anymore.
No.431408
Anonymous
Replies:>>431413
>>431405
Russians are an entire nations of serfs, they have been bred/broken over generations to accept the will of the strongman in charge and not cause a fuss, actively drag down and dismiss any of their peers that threaten to become 'politicial' and actually do something about the state of the nation.

Even as the government openly lies to them in the practice of 'Vranyo' they create a fiction in their own minds to glorify the perfect untouchable 'Tsar' and blame all the constant shit handling of the nation and its actions that leave them in agony as the fault of the bad corrupt 'Boyars'.
Thats why you can find so many videos of groups of russians infront of a camera, be it say pleb soldiers or civillians, reciting their woes all begging Tsar Putin to save them (and reassuring him they know its not his fault he just doesn't know the truth because his bad bad underlings are keeping it from him).
While the actual truth is Putin is a selfish incompetent dictator who is happy to keep a bubble between himself and the plebs through long tables and countless body doubles that would sacrifice all the people of his nation if it meant one more minute in power/alive.

Its all useless performative theatre rather than taking real action.
No.431410
Anonymous
Replies:>>431430
Image:171121972842.png(741kB, 852x1280)how about an auction for earcutter knife)).png
>>431403
Russian forces have snatched some seemingly random tsukiji, cut off his ear and made him eat it while having him confess to being a terrorist, and bragged about it over Telegram.
No.431413
Anonymous
Replies:>>431414
>>431408
>Russians are an entire nations of serfs, they have been bred/broken over generations to accept the will of the strongman in charge and not cause a fuss, actively drag down and dismiss any of their peers that threaten to become 'politicial' and actually do something about the state of the nation.
That makes sense. This song popped up on my youtube recs some time ago
Lubeh - Davai Za / Любэ - Давай заyoutube thumb
When I listened to it for the first time I though it was an anti-military song because the lyrics talks about young soldiers having to endure a lot of atrocities, missing their families and losing their friends, so in similar veins to Don't Tell Mom I'm in Afghanistan (and its different iterations). However then I realized
//youtube.com/watch?v=ni19S9FazEgyoutube thumb
It's not. It's not an anti-military song, totally the opposite, it's pro-war. So with that context in mind the lyrics actually shows the Russian people giving up, accepting jumping from war to war is part of their normal life instead of the will of an autocratic government, also passively accepting having to endure missing their families, facing the horrors of war and losing their friends is something necessary to protect their country. Which is frankly something very horrible and depressing.
No.431414
Anonymous
Replies:>>431431
>>431413
Blindly suffering (at the hands of an incompetent and uncaring state) is held up as an incredible Russian culturual virtue, and in terms of warfare uselessly throwing away entire hordes of their population for every mile is held up as a great Strength going all the way back to the so-called "Great Patriotic War".

Which is all just a way to get the population to accept and even defend absolute surrender to the mobsters in charge.
They violently hate the idea of any of their slavic neighbours actually getting their act together and working to improve their country/lot in life because it destroys the myth russians live their existance by. That everywhere else is inherently as bad as it is for them but everyone else is just lying about it.
No.431415
Anonymous
>>431405
>I wonder if Russians actually believe that bullshit or they get so used to Putin's propaganda that they no longer care anymore.

Americans believe all the horse shit they hear on Fox News and CNN too, so there's no difference.
No.431430
Anonymous
Image:171133303987.jpg(58kB, 537x717)positively shocking.jpg
>>431410
There's a group of "suspects" in custody and getting presented in a show trial, with more... details of events regarding them appearing in russian social media.
If these individuals are guilty or not the authorities have as you migt expect certainly made every effort to ensure they admit to their guilt.

https://apnews.com/article/russia-moscow-krasnogorsk-gunmen-concert-hall-fire-b719cbe27d26207955fd423b1e3ddc68
No.431431
Mister Twister
>>431414
Suffering being a virtue is a recent thing, but dying (bravely, attempting to kill the EVIL enemy) was always a virtue. You will get to best Afterlife that way.
No.431520
Anonymous
Image:171303299714.gif(4.43MB, 600x472)73447437.gif
Just happened to find out OJ died.

Weird to find out simply in passing, though with all said and done Fuck that guy.
No.431525
Anonymous
>>429328
So, it seems Iran just launch the nukes.
No.431526
Anonymous
>>431525
More like they launched a bunch of drones and missiles, which seem to have been mostly intercepted?
No.431527
Anonymous
>>431525
Nah, I wish.
also the attack has gotten a 2 day advance warning.
No.431566
Anonymous
Replies:>>431570
Appears that Israel have responded to the Iranian munitions spam.
But instead of just throwing out a horde of munitions in the general direction of the other side they actually targeted and blew up an airfield or such.
No.431570
Anonymous
Replies:>>431571
>>431566
An airfield in the same sector as Iran's nuclear research program.
I hope this shit escalates until the middle east is a radioactive wasteland.
No.431571
Mister Twister
>>431570
>thinking it will just stop there
>does not know Iran and Russia are allies
No.431572
Anonymous
Replies:>>431575
>>431571
Even better.
No.431573
Anonymous
Replies:>>431574
>>431571
Well hey they've been threatening for decades over basically every little thing that hasn't gone their way, let them actually put up or shut up.
No.431574
Anonymous
>>431573
>every little thing that hasn't gone their way
You mean how the west basically carved out a piece of arab owned land for the jews, who have been genociding the neighboring islamic countries for several decades ever since? Is that what you call a little thing?
No.431575
Mister Twister
Replies:>>431576
>>431572
It's almost like you want millions of innocents to die or something.
No.431576
Anonymous
Replies:>>431578
>>431575
There is no almost about it whatsoever.
No.431578
Mister Twister
Replies:>>431580
>>431576
Then perhaps you should join those millions as collateral damage.
No.431580
Anonymous
>>431578
It would be more fun to create those millions.
No.431582
Anonymous
to post some happy news for once:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/corporate/2024/4/retired-british-man-drinks-at-over-100-pubs-in-record-breaking-bar-crawl-768551
>A retired man has broken the record for most pubs visited in 24 hours (individual) with 120.
>69-year-old David Clarkson (UK) who has called Australia home for over 40 years, smashed the previous record of 99 held by Harry Kooros and Jake Loiterton (Australia).
>With the record secured, David ordered himself, a well-deserved full pint of a beer.
No.431602
Anonymous
Replies:>>431603
Image:171387728640.png(394kB, 560x1945)spicy floodwater.png
There's been floods in Russia recently, because God hates russia, and now it seems like they might have irradiated flooding?
No.431603
Mister Twister
>>431602
Floods are semi-normal in certain parts of the world, the uranium leak is just incompetence.
No.431678
Anonymous
Replies:>>431679
Image:171541847305.png(379kB, 862x575)ab england.png
Something something solar flare, something something end of civilization.
Aurora Borialis is pretty.
No.431679
Anonymous
Replies:>>431681
>>431678
Ah yes, there was a massive solar flare eruption last night, and you could see the northern lights all over Europe during the night. I made sure to unplug my computers, just in case.
No.431681
Mister Twister
>>431679
Lucky bastard.
No.431715
Anonymous
President of Iran may have just died in a helicopter crash, currently missing at least.
No.431717
Anonymous
>>431715
Is that a good thing of a bad thing for Palestina.
No.431721
Anonymous
Image:171619059570.png(1.60MB, 1584x1512)He didn't fly so good.png
>>431715
No.431722
Anonymous
Image:171619219630.jpg(50kB, 506x538)547224865679.jpg
It seems like if anything the crash might even have been his own fault, ordering the crew to fly him back at night despite the intense wind and rain.

The leaders of the religious dictatorship that is Iran are a blight upon its people, would be a boon if all of them died.
Feel particularly bad for its population because they've actually tried to stand up for themselves in major well-documented riots against the crimes of the dictators for the state of the country, but there's only so much they can do against the hit squads.
No.431723
Anonymous
Replies:>>432002
>>431715
>Important addition: the Foreign Minister was in the helicopter with him
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/20/iran-president-ebrahim-raisi-helicopter-crash-latest-news/
No.431727
Anonymous
>>431722
Calm down Benjamin. They don't have their streets filled with fentanyl addicts, they aren't producing an infinite number of plastic junk and dumping them in the ocean, or greenhouse gases that cause global warming, and they aren't one of the multiple countries committing genocide as you are reading this. Hell the last time they attacked another country, it was in retaliation and with several days of advance warning.

When it comes to the global picture, Iran is not doing much.
No.431728
Anonymous
Replies:>>431729
>>431727
Weak deflection. Has no weight on the fact the religious dictatorship is a blight upon its people.
No.431729
Anonymous
>>431728
Most western politicians are a blight upon their people too, and have equally dictatorial laws. Say something politically incorrect on twitter and you can lose your job, say something racist in the UK or deny the holocaust in the EU and you get fined, etc.
So again, Iran isn't doing anything worse, they are just not pretending that you are "free".
No.431730
Anonymous
Image:171620314316.jpg(143kB, 1125x750)Amini.jpg
>>431729
Even with your false assertions taken at face value being fired isn't the same as being murdered by state 'morality' personnel.

Living in a middle-eastern Islamic shithole is entirely worse than living in a western country.
No.431748
Anonymous
>>431729
>they are just not pretending that you are "free".
Stop pretending you aren't free just because you can't say stupid shit on Facebook. That's completely different to actually getting killed for not following whatever religious text the state says is moral.
No.431751
Anonymous
>>431727
Where is this all coming from? Not even wrong, just non-seq.

>>431722
>The leaders of the religious dictatorship that is Iran are a blight upon its people, would be a boon if all of them died.
Alas, as the anarchists of the late 1800s learned, you can't kill the hydra by chopping off the heads.

>>431729
>Say something politically incorrect on twitter and you can lose your job
You just conflated best interest under capitalism with law. The mandatory quest for profit forces companies to try and please everyone they can, so they are pressured by economic interests to defuse media flak, spinelessly firing people who give the company a bad association. News companies in particular globally have had employees dismissed over pro-Palestinian remarks, which pro-Zionism interests (be it think tanks, media outlets, politicians) have tried to make a politically incorrect position.

You're right that the 'free world' isn't (and never was) free, but it's also silly to equivocate fines and social ostracism with execution. Secular liberalism, as flimsy, fragile and shallow as it is, has benefits. One of my internet friends will literally be killed if they come out as non-Muslim, it's a less common issue in the West. Those are harder conditions to work with compared to being able to march down a street without their thugs using their batons. Neither place is free, both suck, but I know which I'd rather be in.

(That all said, Iran is overall better off under theocratic oppression than under a 'democratic' puppet of the US - just ask their neighbours)
No.431801
Anonymous
Replies:>>431802
Image:171752017521.png(2.45MB, 1532x998)perfect.png
No.431802
Mister Twister
Replies:>>431803
>>431801
I do not keep track of absolutely everything everywhere, please forgive for not knowing who that is. But it's somewhere in Europe, right?
No.431803
Anonymous
Replies:>>431812
>>431802
Its a British politician, Nigel Farage. Right wing leader of 'nationalist/independence' politicals, generally shit at actually amassing power.
Making another bid for relevancy, in a jolly old tradition for politicians got milkshaked by a member of the public.
No.431812
Mister Twister
>>431803
I feel more cultured now.
No.431874
Anonymous
Image:171866253592.jpg(61kB, 675x638)Useful Idiots.jpg
No.431891
Anonymous
Replies:>>431895
Image:171985485987.jpg(773kB, 1077x1812)technical victory.jpg
>When you say you're having a sleepover
>But no one shows up
No.431895
Anonymous
>>431891
>Artistic Swimming
>Just one guy
That's even sadder
No.431897
Mister Twister
>>431874
Fucking hilarious.
No.431898
Anonymous
Replies:>>431899
>>431874
God, the pride flag is a fucking abomination.
No.431899
Anonymous
Image:171993681085.jpg(17kB, 894x596)568438.jpg
>>431898
There's nothing wrong with the rainbow pride flag, its fine and logical in design in its purpose.

The actual abomination is the new pride flag(s) that are multiple derivative flags slammed together, leaving it an ugly clashing mess.
The rainbow is already a symbol of unity, throwing your own personal colors over top of that just muddles the matter.
No.431904
Anonymous
>>431899
>There's nothing wrong with the rainbow pride flag
It's not good flag design and the fact some retards misstook it as "the colors mean sexualities" it was what made the other flag with ever worse designs to appear. The lack of cohesive design was what lead to the flag you are posting.
No.431907
Anonymous
Replies:>>431978
Video:172005540811.mp4(2.16MB / 0:00:06 / avc1, 1920x1080)they∕them live.mp4
>>431874
>filename
BAWWW

>>431899
This. The "Progress flag" is garbage, not only visually but like you said it symbolically sucks. A rainbow represents the entire spectrum, everything. Adding stuff on top comes off like saying "I welcome all people, and black people". Just fly a second flag to emphasize a focus.
No.431908
Anonymous
Image:172005810928.png(112kB, 400x475)Катя Страница.png
>>431874
>mfw /co/mrade does not appreciate the glorious red flag
No.431919
Anonymous
Image:172013929932.jpg(165kB, 1280x860)548.jpg
No.431950
Anonymous
Replies:>>432014
Image:172059220125.jpg(220kB, 1915x1063)whoopsie.jpg
>Iranians try to recover frigate (IRIS Sahand) that capsized in port
>While being lifted and moved to another area cables holding ship broke and it capsized again, now fully submerged in deeper water
Fail Sound Effectyoutube thumb
No.431953
Anonymous
Replies:>>431954
So how long until Israel collapses?
No.431954
Mister Twister
>>431953
Too important for certain projects. Israel is not going anywhere.
No.431957
Anonymous
Replies:>>431964
Image:172074450972.png(117kB, 900x166)garm ai.png
This sort of explains why AI is being pushed so hard now.
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/in-the-news/house-judiciary-committee-report-exposes-shadowy-corporate-coordination-silence
No.431958
Anonymous
Its funny that Cypress Hill are going to perform orchestral because of an old Simpsons joke

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/10/hip-hop-band-cypress-hill-makes-1996-simpsons-joke-come-true-london-symphony-orchestra
No.431964
Anonymous
Replies:>>431973
>>431957
>shocking details of corporate collusion to silence conservative viewpoints through targeting Breitbart News, Joe Rogan, and Twitter (now X) among others.
>Joe Rogan
Lol. It does have a point, a "text categorization" model could be trained to target specific groups, but for the way it's described in that article is the same conservatist whine "they banned us for spreading misinformation/lies that means we are getting censored!", don't take it too seriously; it's basically more culture war fear mongering bullshit that doesn't acknowledge the true potential of what an AI model could do on the hands of a undemocratic government.
No.431972
Anonymous
Video:172091415845.webm(5.13MB / 0:00:19 / V_VP9, 1280x720)ofw5n7.webm
breaking: Trump just got shot at.
No.431973
Anonymous
>>431964
>the way it's described in that article is the same conservatist whine "they banned us for spreading misinformation/lies that means we are getting censored!", don't take it too seriously;

It's a house of representatives judiciary committee report, not whining about crazy conspiracy theory. I'd say that's reason enough to take it seriously, because it gives us definite proof that there is a group who is actively manipulating social media towards their own goals. Here's the full pdf of the report:
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-07-10%20GARMs%20Harm%20-%20How%20the%20Worlds%20Biggest%20Brands%20Seek%20to%20Control%20Online%20Speech.pdf
No.431974
Anonymous
Image:172091941771.png(98kB, 813x367)Screenshot from 2024-07-13 19-42-36.png
>>431972
It's amazing how little I care and how irrelevant USA has become in the last decade on my country.
I welcome my new Chinese overlords I guess.
>>431973
I can't take seriously a government report that describes Joe Rogan as "target of corporate collusion to silence conservative viewpoints", that's the culture war and conspiracy part.
>Here's the full pdf of the report:
This is even worse than the summary. The writing is so bad, it's not even justified and in some parts looks like they put an screenshot of the document instead of the document itself. It's very unprofessional.
But letting that aside, I want to bring your attention to this part:
>GARM went beyond brand safety to silence disfavored voices like Joe Rogan
>The alleged misinformation offered by Mr. Rogan was twofold
It's not "alleged misinformation", it WAS misinformation. There are already hundreds of people online who dismantled all the misinformation on Rogan's Covid episode so I won't get into details, but the point is the fact that they put it like "it's up to the air, it could be, but it's not sure", when it clearly isn't shows they are trying to deceive the reader into believing there's an organized attempt to censor their "opinions", when in reality an anti-misinformation organization banned a guy from spreading misinformation.
For the record I think GARM and every company aligned to be against "spreading misinformation" and other stuff is bullshitting. They are magnets and the main source of that, but they don't get proper punishment because they are way too big trees to take down, and these organizations are just washing up their reputation. For instance, there's CP spam campaign going on YouTube right now, and they are still spammed with malware all day, and they are channels with thousands of subscribers that share misinformation constantly, both left and right wing aligned and of course YouTube doesn't move a finger because they are big channels that generate viewers and revenue. Last year there was a big scandal of some "breadtubber" who made a little fortune out of uploading videos with basically a lot of made up stuff and lies, the guy's channel got deleted but not because YouTube did something, but because another youtuber called him out and he deleted everything on a panic attack.

So, no, there's not an organized attempt to "kick out conservatists out of internet" in this very particular case. Internet safety organization are bullshit, but the way they are explaining this shows they just want to spread propaganda and deceive the reader.
No.431976
Mister Twister
Image:172095000920.png(1.46MB, 1748x1181)Spoiler image
>>431972
Now he can look like this.
No.431977
Anonymous
>>431973
Nah, it smacks of blogger shit. People are just using an official position to push their own fanfiction.
No.431978
Anonymous
Image:172095211476.png(159kB, 1080x715)cursed barcode flag.png
>>431907
>>431899
No.432002
Anonymous
Image:172151485387.jpg(178kB, 1170x1439)254236.jpg
>>431715
>>431723
No.432014
Anonymous
Replies:>>432017
Image:172167468524.png(1.39MB, 1550x1436)INS Brahmaputra caught on fire and tipped over in port.png
>>431950
third world can't into navy
No.432017
Anonymous
No.432041
Anonymous
Replies:>>432047
Image:172216774160.jpg(963kB, 1170x1610)wagner was there.jpg
>>430158
As for what remains of the Wagner group, sucks to be them right now.
No.432047
Anonymous
Replies:>>432049
>>432041
Why are they on Mali?
No.432049
Anonymous
Replies:>>432057
>>432047
Russia trying to make use of Africa for their own purposes, but fucking up heavily trying to deal with the locals.
No.432057
Anonymous
Replies:>>432060
>>432049
So basically like USA but more retarded
No.432060
Anonymous
Replies:>>432061
Image:172230994225.png(147kB, 368x1888)Khasham.png
>>432057
People forget that Russia also has a history of sending their men into foreign deserts for national interests, like Afghanistan for instance. They just tend to fuck up and lose far more men in the process than western nations.
No.432061
Anonymous
Image:172235045820.png(1.18MB, 1253x703)dgcim_20240730093752.png
>>432060
I'd love to say "they lost their touch after losing the cold war" but Russia was always shit at projecting power on foreign countries.
Speaking of which: Venezuelan elections resulted in oposition winning by a land slide and yet Maduro was a assigned as winner. Everybody is calling out the fraud, Russia is naturally supporting the undemocratic government.
No.432065
Anonymous
Image:172240604512.png(321kB, 750x506)Untitled.png
JAPAN IS TAKING OVER!

THE EIGHTIES WERE RIGHT!

https://www.foodandwine.com/japanese-7-eleven-in-america-8681243
No.432124
Anonymous
Image:172553073466.png(233kB, 744x806)3745347.png
Christ and I thought the most embarrassing thing to happen to Tim was when he got BTFO by a porn game over the name he wanted to use for his news blog.
No.432131
Anonymous
Replies:>>432134
>>432124
>Tim Pool
Who is this guy?
>the most embarrassing thing to happen to Tim was when he got BTFO by a porn game over the name he wanted to use for his news blog.
Would you mins to explain? that sounds pretty funny.
No.432132
Mister Twister
>>432124
>Twitter user poses as a member of Anonymous™, a hacker 4chan organization with members and leaders
My god, the bueno........
No.432134
Anonymous
Image:172559376818.jpg(156kB, 830x974)1555234017131.jpg
>>432131
Studio FOW have made a sci-fi porno video game, named Subverse. Tim Pool ('internet journalist') got in a tizzy about it because he had a thing named that and went all-in with a legal assault for them trying to "steal his brand" and ruin his "integrity".
Only for his challenges to get rebuffed and everyone to laugh at him.
No.432158
Anonymous
Social media is alight with crying about "WW3" at the moment.

Its such a blatantly forced wave of 'concern/outrage', by those employing all these spambots of either the electronic or flesh variety.
No.432162
Anonymous
No.432165
Anonymous
>>432158
At best we are getting a second cold war. Something something nukes, a direct war would end in mutual self destruction day 1 and Argentina, Chile and Australia would inherit the world and nobody wants that.
No.432173
Anonymous
Replies:>>432176
So apparently they tried to kill Trump again. It's funny how the american right has been radicalizing for the last decade and now the left is going for the same path, I can't feel sympathy for any of them.
No.432176
Anonymous
>>432173
No they didn't. An old guy armed with an AK47 was spotted near his golf course, the secret service fired at him, the guy then dropped his guns and ran away and was arrested later on charges of murder attempt. He was also a lunatic who openly claimed that he wanted to fly to the ukrainian front to fight (in his defense, he was 58, so already lived most of his life).
This is what you get when you dumb down education and media for decades; the citizens will become dumber and dumber and more prone to become politically radicalized, or flat earthers, or vaccine deniers, or to microwave their cats.
No.432178
Anonymous
Replies:>>432184
>>432176
Social media has an effect, all-consuming and always at hand, it lets all the political crazies stew together in electronic reverb chambers getting more and more crazy together (and being fueled directly by outside parties in an even more direct and subversve fashion than traditional means)
No.432181
Anonymous
>>432176
On top of that, he was driving a stolen SUV and had a history of aggressive behavior, previous arrests, and has already written a political book of his own.
No.432184
Anonymous
>>432176
To be honest, some friend told me about it and it sounded believable, I didn't researched further so that was a mistake from my part.
>This is what you get when you dumb down education and media for decades; the citizens will become dumber and dumber and more prone to become politically radicalized, or flat earthers, or vaccine deniers, or to microwave their cats.
It doesn't stop to amaze me how americans defend tooth and nail misinformation media and yellow press with the "freedom of speech".
>>432178
I think the real issue isn't echo chambers, but the fact that internet sets aside real life features, allowing people to regard their enemies and simpatizers as exagerated caricatures, grooming themselves into believing they are like that IRL and acting acordingly. You see this on all politics circlejerks, they all have their image of the big bad guy and if you think in differently then you are him.
No.432223
Anonymous
Image:172702468044.png(3.03MB, 1037x1234)SARMATfailure.png
Russia tried to perform an ICBM test for purposes of national dickswinging intimidation.
Didn't even get out of the silo before it blew up.
No.432228
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432230
>>432223
The saddest part about this, is the image may be AI generated, or not be from this war at all.
No.432230
Anonymous
Image:172706829519.jpg(186kB, 1628x913)1726959669789510.jpg
>>432228
>everything is ai
Really Twister?
This isn't even the first time a Russian Sarmat test has failed, its the 4th. Its clearly no implausible event by this point.
No.432232
Mister Twister
>>432230
Didn't say it is. But you CAN fake a photo like that. It is now technically feasible.
No.432233
Anonymous
Replies:>>432234
>>432230
>>432223
What this war made me realize is how mediocre Russian army really is. They basically rely on launching hordes of their poorly equiped youth and expect to win by sheer numbers and they've been doing it for several decades at tbis point.
No.432234
Anonymous
>>432233
That's because they are still using soviet era junk mostly, and they can't produce modern systems due to the sanctions that prevent things like ICs required to make modern electronics. I don't know if they used up all their new stuff and falling back to old junk, or if they keep the modern stuff in reserve and burn up the old useless stockpiles, but either way the depletion means that they can pour more money into modernizing their army. This is also why NATO is ok with giving Ukraine aid; in fact they can double down because not only can they get those military industrial contracts going, but they'll also have Ukraine in their debt.

Also consider that Ukraine is being fueled by the entire rest of the world, they should've won the war by now and yet they aren't.
So either the Russian army isn't in that bad of a state, or the Ukrainian army can't do shit with the weapons they are getting and it all goes into a meat grinder, or they are corrupt as shit and the aid gets nicked. From what I've been hearing, it's all three at the same time.
No.432236
Anonymous
Video:172716608517.webm(720kB / 0:00:04 / V_VP9, 1280x720)Toropets Southern Depot.webm
>>432234
>or if they keep the modern stuff in reserve and burn up the old useless stockpiles, but either way the depletion means that they can pour more money into modernizing their army.
Fuck off mate, this script from the Kremlin is tired.
No one is buying that Russia is actually holding back its super elite modern army in secret this many years into the invasion, especially not after Ukraine has counter-invaded Russian territory and its only resort was to desperatly scramble more disordered meat in their path.
Instead of modern tanks rolling off construction lines what you see is older and older machines being desperatly revived from the storage yards.

>Also consider that Ukraine is being fueled by the entire rest of the world
Ukraine is being given cold war surplus by some western countries, just like how Putin is crawling on his hands and knees to the likes of North Korea or China for armaments.

>So either the Russian army isn't in that bad of a state
The russian army, the self-professed 2nd strongest army in the world that would be rolling through Europe in a week if they so wished, has failed to even reach the capital of their much smaller border neighbour and after 2 years of invasion now resorts to throwing their mobiks to die in hordes for meters of ground.
Because they are no longer capable of anything more sophisticaited, and to give up the fight would mean death both politically and literally for Putin, so the invasion continue no matter how many plebs he has to spend to keep the clock running
>can't do shit with the weapons they are getting and it all goes into a meat grinder, or they are corrupt as shit
Every russian insult is projection, considering they have resorted to meatwaves and the reason their armed forces and even their nation as a whole is in the state it has been is due to rampant corruption on all levels, from putin and his oligarchs buying yachts & mansions using government funds down the line to military officers each skimming off their cut from funds and materials that should have been for the armed forces.
Its only advantage is being fatter and having a population who refuses to stand up to the Tzar no matter how many of their people die for his ambition, because its "not their problem" and they have been bred over generations to avoid becoming 'political'.
>From what I've been hearing, it's all three at the same time.
Nah, its just more of your bullshit.

If anyone is curious; current major events of the War in Ukraine is that Ukrainians are blowing up multiple major ammo storage facilities deep inside Russia with drones (the go-to response from internal russian propaganda is that all ukie drones were shot down every time but "debris fell" from them and caused "small fires"), and as mentioned before have counter-invaded territory in the Kursk region where the Russian armed forces ability to fight them off has been a general failure.
No.432237
Anonymous
Image:172716804489.png(3.58MB, 1146x1996)toropets north depot.png
Northern depot was hit a couple of days before the South, caused one hell of a fireball with all the ammo cooking off.
Ukrainian attack on Russian missile depot triggers mini earthquakeyoutube thumb

Where is the fire and fury Ivan? Where is all the NOOK threats now, when enemy soldiers are inside the borders and there's explosions rocking the interior.
No.432238
Anonymous
Image:172717088835.jpg(61kB, 1079x630)when you're tweaking on Panzerchokolade and you hear that German tanks have just invaded Kursk.jpg
Honestly the invasion of Kursk is fucking hilarious, really puts the boots to the loudly repeated myth of Russkie superiority and strength.
No.432241
Mister Twister
>>432238
It's likely a strategic invasion. If SOMETHING forces Russia's forces to stop the invasion, then Kursk can be traded for some other area.
No.432260
Anonymous
Image:172752851453.jpg(167kB, 680x654)Leadership sweep.jpg
Damn son.
What's really funny is the supreme leader of Iran has gone into hiding because he's so scared of getting spanked next by the israeli spooks for being their backer (was equally funny when the Iranian ambassador got injured because he was using one of Hezbollahs spiked pagers to be in contact with 'em).

The middle-east is a quagmire shithole of eternal cultural conflict but some competence on display is striking.
No.432273
Anonymous
Replies:>>432278
>>432234
>consider that Ukraine is being fueled by the entire rest of the world,
I don't see how that would be the case. Even with all the aid from Europe and USA it wouldn't change the fact Russia is a way bigger country which has been preparing for this war basically since the soviet union broke up, while Ukraine was armying itself for something like half a decade or so. I'm actually surprised they were able to hold the line when all this shit started.
>>432238
>Ukranians are our slav brothers and we have the right to reunify with them
>Ukranians are a foreign invader
Which one it is, Ivan? it can't be both.
No.432278
Anonymous
>>432273
>has been preparing for this war basically since the soviet union broke up

Russia was not preparing for anything when the soviet union broke up, they just had every possible asset sold on the black market by "private entrepreneurs" for as long as it was possible. At best it may have been preparing for it once Putin came to power, but I honestly doubt if they put any preparation into it at all. It's probably just revenge for Ukraine abusing their gas pipe transits year after year after year.
Oh and funny thing, that neonazi pretext Russia used for the invasion, it's a real thing and has been reported constantly, but now that it was brought up by the Russians, it's suddenly something that never existed. Same way how the USA used to fund extremist islamic groups to cause problems to their enemy, and then stayed quiet about it once they became a problem to the USA themselves (Mujahideen, ISIS, etc).

>>432260
The main problem with the middle east is that western powers kept trying to forcefully colonize it, and the people who have been living there for 1400+ years don't want their homes taken. Also that small matter of ethnic cleansing the israeli army has been doing since the 50s.
No.432279
Anonymous
Replies:>>432292
Image:172771825089.jpg(2.02MB, 1080x5575)autoposted immediatly after the invasion of ukraine launched_quickly taken down and memoryholed after it failed_.jpg
>>432278
>Same way how the USA-
>The main problem with the middle east is that western powers kept-
Fuck off anon.
You can't live your life trying to distract from everything by crying about The West as a nebulous all-encompassing boogieman, to be applied in any and all situations as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
No.432287
Anonymous
>>432278
You are kidding, right? Russia has been trying to recreate the soviet sphere of influence since the soviet union ended: Chechenia, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Ossetia and more recently Crimea and Ukraine. This shit has been building up for three decades at this point and everything blew up on Russia's face after not being able to take over Ukrain in two weeks.
>Oh and funny thing, that neonazi pretext Russia used for the invasion, it's a real thing and has been reported constantly, but now that it was brought up by the Russians, it's suddenly something that never existed. Same way how the USA used to fund extremist islamic groups to cause problems to their enemy, and then stayed quiet about it once they became a problem to the USA themselves
Your comparison doesn't make sense. Russia supports the separatist groups on Donetks and Luhanks, when they refer to the "fascist radicals" on ukraine they refer specifically to the ukranian speakers, not the russian ones.
No.432292
Anonymous
>>432279
This shit is very funny and I get some laughs from it every time I read it. Specially because it shows how out of date Russian politicians are, they can't fathom any way to bring back a country to their sphere of influence that isn't rolling over it with tanks, and specially considering Russia has a history of causing famines and forcefully removing ethic groups on Ukraine on soviet times, of course they would oppose with tooth and nail to Russian intervention and throw themselves into EU arms given the chance.
>The West as a nebulous all-encompassing boogieman, to be applied in any and all situations as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Agree. It's not hard to say "EU and USA" instead of the nebulous West, which basically could mean anything deppending on the context.
No.432334
Anonymous
What the fuck?

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/09/19/russias-richest-woman-wildberries-estranged-husband-deaths-bodyguards-takeover/
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/18/2-killed-several-injured-after-shooting-outside-wildberries-office-in-moscow-a86404
No.432338
Anonymous
>>432337
Its not that old, its only from a couple of weeks ago.
No.432384
Anonymous
Image:172849211187.png(2.18MB, 1182x1137)jesus christ musk.png
No.432422
Anonymous
Image:172945827272.png(89kB, 1430x899)new take on an old meme.png
>>432260
No.432460
Anonymous
Image:173027271582.jpg(83kB, 1086x724)Ga-6cyfXoAAhxxa.jpg
Even the vatican has an animu mascot now (Luce).

With their history you'd think they'd want to avoid images of a priest reaching towards a childlike figure.
No.432462
Anonymous
Image:173027295837.jpg(963kB, 3508x2480)hellsing luce.jpg
>>432460
No.432465
Anonymous
>>432460
I remember seeing that kid on either /pol/ or /v/, there's already porn of her.
No.432469
Anonymous
Replies:>>432505
>>432465
Well of course, that's the nature of the internet
No.432472
Anonymous
>>432460
Looks like an Earthbound character
No.432476
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432477
Image:173039157388.png(1.06MB, 1450x850)Gary Kasparov doesn't know what will happen.png
I would love for the next russian president to be Gary Kasparov.
No.432477
Anonymous
Replies:>>432478
>>432476
You want the russian president to be a guy who actually has worldwide renown as a chess grandmaster? You want the "president is playing 4d chess" meme to become real?
No.432478
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432479
Image:173039383657.png(168kB, 180x440)Tuuri maybe eee.png
>>432477
No.432479
Anonymous
>>432478
Where is this faggot from?
No.432480
Anonymous
Replies:>>432482
>>432479
stand still, stay silent. it was a great comic, sadly it is discontinued.
No.432482
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432483
Image:173053023790.png(100kB, 158x304)THE CHILDREN.png
>>432479
*fagette
>>432480
Minna seriously planned to do the first arc, and only did the second because why the hell not. She did not have real plans to make more. Would I like more SSSS? Fuck yes, it's one of my favourite comics in the world. Basically, it's like a show not being renewed for new seasons vs a show being cancelled.
No.432483
Anonymous
Replies:>>432487
>>432482
Don't forget that the author converted to christianity and has been doing christian comics since. So it's less likely she'd continue a comic about pagan monsters.
No.432487
Mister Twister
>>432483
That too.
>I know the reason for conversion
>it's fucked up
Most of the arguments in the bunny comic are solid though.
No.432488
Anonymous
Replies:>>432489
Image:173072894374.jpg(529kB, 1000x1081)1244058595771.jpg
am I the only one fucking sick of the US elections being everywhere?
No.432489
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432490
>>432488
US election is like smoke. It is everywhere when there is a fire in the basement, and nobody wants it. Unfortunately, if you ignore the smoke, you will die from it even before the fire gets to you. So ignoring is not an option. USA kinda sorta matters. Even when its world policing can get annoying.
No.432490
Anonymous
Replies:>>432491
>>432489
What do you expect me to do about it besides ignoring retards?
No.432491
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432492
>>432490
Try to only talk to friends.
No.432492
Anonymous
>>432491
I already do that.
No.432497
Anonymous
Replies:>>432498
Image:173082326052.jpg(46kB, 1116x837)1730816634648825.jpg
>>432460
No.432498
Anonymous
Replies:>>432499
>>432497
Bad, Luce, BAD!
Love your neighbor as yourself!
No.432499
Mister Twister
>>432498
Good neighbours convert.
No.432501
Mister Twister
Replies:>>432502
Image:173088757602.png(313kB, 860x671)Screenshot 2024-11-06 at 05.04.44.png
No.432502
Anonymous
Replies:>>432503
>>432501
This doesn't really seem News & Politics, was it meant to go in the screencap thread?
No.432503
Mister Twister
>>432502
From the big Trump thread on /pol/. To show a lot of wholesome things were posted
No.432505
Anonymous
Replies:>>432509
>>432460
>>432465
>>432469
Funny thing I just heard today: she got banned on pixiv. The copyright holders don't want porn of her, so any posts that featured her got removed. Boorus still show pixiv as the source, which is how this can be identified.
No.432509
Anonymous
Replies:>>432510
>>432505
>she got banned on pixiv
Wait, really? source?
No.432510
Anonymous
>>432509
R18 art of her was deleted en masse. There are 2-3 pics of her still up right now, but who knows for how long.

see https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=luce_%28jubilee_2025%29+source%3a%2apixiv%2a for art sourced from pixiv, most of which return missing pages now.
No.432511
Mister Twister
That is SO strange. If you want to own the Catholic Church, you gotta make R34 of a little girl. Is this 4D chess?
No.432514
Anonymous
I really like the fact that everywhere else on the internet people are obsessed over the USA elections but here we are talking about Luce porn getting banned from Pixiv.
I really like you guys, this place is awesome.
No.432634
Anonymous
Image:173332247940.png(958kB, 1069x1090)Rebel Advance in syria.png
There's some wacky things happening at the moment with countries-
The extremely unpopular president of South Korea basically tried to pull a military coup at his last moment; only for the armed forces to respond to being ordered to appear on his call of martial law by standing around the capital for awhile realizing they weren't required then returning to base without firing a shot.
So he was already in deep shit and this will have only made it worse.

As for Syria rebel forces began taking over the country, Assad's army was basically evaporating on contact and they swept major settlements (Aleppo notably) or storehouses of syrian weapon.
President Assad himself ran away to Russia early on only to get sent back (Russia seems to be pulling their navy vessals out of their port in the region and not doing much to help him fight the rebels).
Something to keep an eye on to see how it pans out from this point.
No.432644
Anonymous
Replies:>>432645
>>432634
You forgot to mention that the French government fell.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9a96gc
No.432645
Anonymous
Replies:>>432646
>>432644
Oh that's neat, though maybe a tad dull in comparison.

Would have been more fun if someone had at least been threatened with the guillotine.
No.432646
Anonymous
Replies:>>432647
>>432645
Maybe. But it looks like things are about to get interesting in France.
That there is always talk of the guillotine:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-ny-post-reports-2024-12-04/
(Assassination of a businessman. (Brian Thompson)
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/business/companies/death-sentence-upheld-for-property-tycoon-truong-my-lan-4823183.html
The death sentence for Trương Mỹ La.
No.432647
Anonymous
Image:173342775688.png(479kB, 475x792)376357.png
>>432646
>https://www.reuters.com/world/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-fatally-shot-ny-post-reports-2024-12-04/
What do you call a CEO shot dead in the street?
A good start
No.432650
Anonymous
>>432647
Yeah, and the guy who did it is quickly turning into a folk hero.
No.432652
Anonymous
>>432647
As bad as Health insurance companied are, killing their CEOs won't solve anything.
No.432654
Anonymous
>>432652
that specific insurance company has denied or delayed payment at a twice higher rate than other insurance companies. so until this problem is solved, their CEOs should keep getting killed.
No.432657
Anonymous
>>432652
Nah, like the other anon said this company in particular had blood on their hands in screwing people out of health insurance which is already a difficult issue in America for people whose literal lives are on the line.

Going after the specific scum that have risen to the top instead of some unrelated individual or working stiff at the extremities of the business is pretty fucking deserved.
No.432663
Anonymous
Image:173359322391.png(1MB, 1024x1024)Dont let the door hit your assad on the way out.png
>>432634
This is what happens when you don't pay your army, and all the outside forces you were relying on to prop up your dictatorship proceed to charge into their own conflict fuckups one after another.
No.432666
Anonymous
Video:173359641534.mp4(1.24MB / 0:00:19 / avc1, 364x640)Celebrations in Irbin Damascus.mp4
Somewhat more informative post about Syria but the rebels have taken Damascus where the presidential palace is located, along with various other cities.

Assad fucked off somewhere. A supposed address to the nation regarding the current crisis from him that was announced was instead made by a general appearing on camera.