Russia mobilises - consequences and reactions

[NoXion]

I mean... include both a tweet and a screenshot? Post an embedded link to the tweet instead of the auto embed thing along with the picture? Plenty of options.

This is the way. Is it more work? Yes, but that's a good thing in this case, making it harder would encourage more posters to consider whether sharing a particular Twitter link really is worth their time and anyone else's.

 

[NoXion]

In other news, they're drafting farmers:

Farmers among Russians drafted into the military, Putin says

Farmers are among the Russians being drafted into the military, President Vladimir Putin told a meeting with officials on Tuesday, signalling potential further risks for the 2023 crop.

www.reuters.com

Doesn't Russia have a good ratio of farmland to population? Damaging that doesn't seem to be a very smart move to me.

 

[WouldBe]

Snowden has just been granted Russian citizenship so he'll probably be moving to Ukraine soon.

 

[frogwoman]

Nah. Too high profile

 

[Flavour]

Snowden has just been granted Russian citizenship so he'll probably be moving to Ukraine soon.

He could be a new sort of John Cantlie

 

[bcuster]

Spoiler: graphic video of leg being broken

 

[frogwoman]

maybe put a spoiler or a content warning on that.

 

[WouldBe]

In other news, they're drafting farmers:

Farmers among Russians drafted into the military, Putin says

Farmers are among the Russians being drafted into the military, President Vladimir Putin told a meeting with officials on Tuesday, signalling potential further risks for the 2023 crop.

www.reuters.com

Doesn't Russia have a good ratio of farmland to population? Damaging that doesn't seem to be a very smart move to me.

They might want them to recover their tanks.

 

[DaveCinzano]

They might want them to recover their tanks.

When they call up the Indesit engineers you'll know how bad things have got

 

[editor]

maybe put a spoiler or a content warning on that.

I've done it. bcuster - if you really must post up graphic content*, please ensure it has a spoiler.

*I'm not sure any such content has a place here, to be honest.

 

[frogwoman]

Fucking scum

Poet Artem Kamardin arrested and raped for reading anti-war poetry — Meduza

Poet and activist Artem Kamardin, 31, was arrested in Moscow. According to his lawyer Leonid Solovyov, Kamardin was beaten and then raped with dumbbells during a search on September 26th.

meduza.io

 

[rekil]

What's the Russian for "fragging"?

I watched one of Zolkin's videos a while back which has since been deleted. The pow said that the commander was so worried about being killed by his own men, they had to strip off before seeing him. They had no reconnaissance because he was using them as guards. The afv crews particularly wanted to kill him. The troops were only able to surrender when the officers all fucked off. How widespread that stuff is we don't know.

 

[frogwoman]

Advert for Dagestani protests against mobilisation, with the slogan 'The invader doesn't become a martyr'. I found this on twitter. These protests are being advertised for after Friday prayers - and I'm guessing police cant exactly arrest everyone at a mosque without looking very bad indeed

 

[bcuster]

Russias professional soldiers about those mobilised in Ukraine: "To be honest, they will all die there"

STANISLAV POHORILOV - WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2022, 16:25 Russian professional soldiers and mercenaries who have fought at the front [in Ukraine] told the media that nothing good awaits the mobilised in Ukraine; most of them will die.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Artaxerxes]

Advert for Dagestani protests against mobilisation, with the slogan 'The invader doesn't become a martyr'. I found this on twitter. These protests are being advertised for after Friday prayers - and I'm guessing police cant exactly arrest everyone at a mosque without looking very bad indeed

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Has that ever stopped a) the police b) Russian regimes or c) Russian police?

 

[existentialist]

I am trying to mix screenshots of Tweets for those that don’t use Twitter with actual tweets mainly if there is a video and pleasing absolutely no one I’m afraid .

A good compromise might be to post the screenshot, but also post the link to the Tweet (without necessarily embedding it).

 

[existentialist]

I mean... include both a tweet and a screenshot? Post an embedded link to the tweet instead of the auto embed thing along with the picture? Plenty of options.

Ah. Beat me to it

 

[The39thStep]

A good compromise might be to post the screenshot, but also post the link to the Tweet (without necessarily embedding it).

Thanks. Will we will ever get a consensus on this though?

 

[two sheds]

I agree.

 

[The39thStep]

But of a stunt this , the Police only allowed the protest 3k from the border crossing and apart from reasons of social media circulation why is the banner in English ?

 

[Dystopiary]

More racist "mobilisation" - ethnic Tuvan men on a coach, presumably heading to Ukraine.



link - Kimberly St. Julian-Vernon on twitter

 

[Ax^]

But of a stunt this , the Police only allowed the protest 3k from the border crossing and apart from reasons of social media circulation why is the banner in English ?

think you explained it with bit of a stunt , also high levels of English as a second language in Georgia

 

[teqniq]

More potential repercussions:

As Protests Erupt Over Putin’s Draft, a More Ominous Threat Surfaces

Demonstrators in the mostly Muslim North Caucasus are hinting at secession

newlinesmag.com

 

[NoXion]

But of a stunt this , the Police only allowed the protest 3k from the border crossing and apart from reasons of social media circulation why is the banner in English ?

I don't get these fuckwits who rag on Russians for fleeing their country. I've seen a couple on Twitter recently too. What the fuck do they want them to do instead, stay and be part of Putin's war machine?

 

[ska invita]

I don't get these fuckwits who rag on Russians for fleeing their country. I've seen a couple on Twitter recently too. What the fuck do they want them to do instead, stay and be part of Putin's war machine?

Imagine they were from north africa and trying to flee the draft to england , then everything becomes clear - its xenephobia

 

[frogwoman]

I don't get these fuckwits who rag on Russians for fleeing their country. I've seen a couple on Twitter recently too. What the fuck do they want them to do instead, stay and be part of Putin's war machine?

Can understand it a bit from countries like Georgia with a recent history of invasion by Russia but random Europeans/Americans, nah it's really bad

 

[kebabking]

It's probably xenophobia - although, to be fair, if you lived in Estonia, Moldova or Finland, would you fancy having a few hundred thousand Russian blokes turning up on your doorstep?

It s also about schadenfreude and the calling out of hypocrisy: what little reliable information on public opinion there is in Russia suggests that Tsar Vlads' Russian Empire 2.0 was quite popular with Russians who didn't have to fight in Ukraine, but as soon as it's time for rabidly nationalist vloggers in St Petersburg to get on a bus with a bit of dog food and an 80yo rifle for a one way trip to trench foot and a two way range, suddenly they're all peace activists.

Meh...

 

[existentialist]

It's probably xenophobia - although, to be fair, if you lived in Estonia, Moldova or Finland, would you fancy having a few hundred thousand Russian blokes turning up on your doorstep?

It s also about schadenfreude and the calling out of hypocrisy: what little reliable information on public opinion there is in Russia suggests that Tsar Vlads' Russian Empire 2.0 was quite popular with Russians who didn't have to fight in Ukraine, but as soon as it's time for rabidly nationalist vloggers in St Petersburg to get on a bus with a bit of dog food and an 80yo rifle for a one way trip to trench foot and a two way range, suddenly they're all peace activists.

Meh...

"two way range".

 

[frogwoman]

I think the less people in Russia, the less people he can call up, and its deeply problematic territory to start refusing ppl entry on the basis of assumed beliefs. The reasons may be understandable but its counterproductive imo, and feeds into his doctrine that everyone hates Russians and need him to protect them

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It's probably xenophobia - although, to be fair, if you lived in Estonia, Moldova or Finland, would you fancy having a few hundred thousand Russian blokes turning up on your doorstep?

It s also about schadenfreude and the calling out of hypocrisy: what little reliable information on public opinion there is in Russia suggests that Tsar Vlads' Russian Empire 2.0 was quite popular with Russians who didn't have to fight in Ukraine, but as soon as it's time for rabidly nationalist vloggers in St Petersburg to get on a bus with a bit of dog food and an 80yo rifle for a one way trip to trench foot and a two way range, suddenly they're all peace activists.

Meh...

That's dangerously close to the line taken by the Estonian PM - that merely by being Russian, they are responsible for what the Russian state does.