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@MonPrimLemon In fact, one's attitude towards the collapse, and whether one even remembers it, is probably a good lowest bar on opinions of many things RU

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@MonPrimLemon Imo why even say strongly disagree. Saying that now is worst time to be Russian, even just in terms of relative global str is an obviously disqualifying position. A good-faith, informed person cannot come to that position. This is equivalent to saying the 90s were golden years

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@revenant_MMXX @kaosblatte Granted, you will eat ze bugs and you will like it...

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@AlekseiGriffin @failure1991 Even if you successfully point out that some individual thing is nigh impossible or incredible, in my experience the response is not to start being suspicious of UA entirely, i.e. ppl don't seem to notice the general pattern

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@AlekseiGriffin @failure1991 I'd say it isn't really a mistake.
Most normies afaik believe it all and that's good enough for the propaganda purposes. It's like how many scammers works iirc.

It seems obvious to higher-info ppl and that the claims are much, much weaker, but we don't really matter imo

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@MonPrimLemon The claim is kinda absurd to the point of being discrediting to OP

Gorbachev was better by all metrics than Putin? Really?? Incredible stuff.

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@ClassicCodNjoyr @RadarFennec @RWApodcast Ironically people wail at RU attacking neighbours as a supreme evil, as if the US attacking non-neighbours in greater numbers was somehow the lesser evil.

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@PaulMclo @Jacket_Spangler @revenant_MMXX I don't think the boomers understand him either, since everyone is going to be thrown under this bus, and before they get to kick the bucket at this rate. Iran is an unforced error for every general American class save the Zionists.

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@Jacket_Spangler @revenant_MMXX @PaulMclo tbf I think if you voted Trump on account of his high variance on either occasion, or on harm-reduction in policies like warmongering in 2015 where he almost certainly outperformed would-be HRC (tough bar not to clear), these would not be prima facie invalid points, sound or not.

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@OlgaBazova @grzlymshka Almost universally children do not know the full extent, implication and consequence of what they do. They also import their values from those they trust.

Albeit many adults also do not understand full consequence, and import values likewise. Hence Taran's 2nd theorem...

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@haylen630 @JackCreevy3 @macglobalusIII @KRenneib @visegrad24 You would hope that people would notice the numbers of soldiers in these vids that are isolated with no rifles or shoelaces and come to a more sane conclusion than RU has insufficient pants/rifles/laces

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@MK_Foxbat Eh, I'd argue with Star Wars in specific they consumed it without any of its thematic nutriment entering their heads. Taken by spectacle and aesthetic with little understanding, instead the setting is used as a vessel for their own themes.

How else do we end up with Rey or TLJ

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@DevilInMyDMs @OlgaBazova There's no real honest, good faith way to construe 3 grand soldiers in an industrial war of many 100s of thousands as necessary. It is like saying the US needed Ukraine specifically to occupy Iraq.

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@RealJohnShepSR1 Idk if the news is real but the game

It's an anime style fighting game, pretty old one

Basically Guilty Gear but 2Der

Well known in a very small crowd. Like how most normies don't know Rubicon/Magyar, but you'd be called ignorant if you followed UA war and didn't know

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@Westchester_Res @OlgaBazova Also something like Kursk really shouldn't count. That sort of thing that likely makes the war easier for the Russians

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@Westchester_Res @OlgaBazova If the Russians don't lose Crimea in short order as you say shall occur, will you refocus? I'm willing to if they do.

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@failure1991 Tbh I wonder if part of it is related to Starlink ban. Basically RU progress leaked/shown at lower rate, RU commentators dooming, UA full PR ctrl
Hence the sudden progress that probably is partly old
But I don't know and I don't follow TG directly anymore. Could be wrong here

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@OrkishAmerican @failure1991 Incidentally same is applicable to Iran war, and even from first days of UA war (hence 3 days to Kiev), or even Finland. Important to define enemy's goals for them...

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@OrkishAmerican @failure1991 Imo most examinations of UA would do better when accompanied by more honest looks at realistic UA wincons (RU political instability, dragging NATO in)

Instead we get Nafoids exclaiming straight military win, thus Crimea is actually about to fall

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@failure1991 @a_lochage @AKorybko Tbh even if he is not agreement capable it is imo worth a potential rift in UA/S, or short term gain. We remember Trump 1 changing Timber Sycamore

It is probably not worth a meaningful sacrifice, but I'm not sure how much sacrifice was made rather than what Putin pre-intended