Ukraine invasion memes and viral content

[cupid_stunt]

 

[The39thStep]

We no longer need to worry about the map of the UK when the nuclear bomb hits anymore

 

[AmateurAgitator]

You’ll find that there’s a very strong sense of community here which is well worth being part of. Certainly there’s some cunts, but there’s a lot of very knowledgeable and interesting people too.

I don't doubt that you are right.

 

[Nylock]

We no longer need to worry about the map of the UK when the nuclear bomb hits anymore

That idiot (or his whizzy graphics team) clearly has no idea of UK geography or basic physics. Leaving aside that fact that his detonation location of the Poseidon torpedo off the NW Scottish coast will send the '500m high tsunami' crashing into 3 mountain ranges with average elevations of 300-1100m (and that's assuming they make it past the islands to the mainland intact in height and energy), the fact is that waves generated by underwater nuclear detonations have been found to not behave like tsunami waves at all and would expend their energy once making contact with the continental shelf.

Underwater nukes would generate high waves in the immediate locality but not hundreds of miles away. They would also need to be detonated at the right depth: too shallow and most of the energy goes into the atmosphere, too deep and all you get is a patch of hot radioactive water. To get his 500m high wave it would probably have to be detonated pretty close to shore but in water deeper than 200m in order to achieve that effect. But this is all speculation and conjecture as full-scale underwater nuclear tests have been banned since the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and also, latterly, under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1996. Frankly though, a 100mt detonation in shallow water a few miles offshore is about the same in effect as a surface detonation* so you probably wouldn't be around to witness the 'tsunami' it generates.

But, even if we entertain this lunacy, in order to generate an actual Tsunami just on the scale and height of the 2011 Japan one (40m peak height) would require a nuke in excess of 32 Gigatonnes** detonating on or below the sea floor and even that should ideally be done over an existing fault line to induce the required large-area sudden seafloor height differential that causes a tsunami wave. It's weapons-grade nonsense.

TL/DR, the guy's talking out of his arse.

*(but with the added 'fun' of highly radioactive rain).
**(equivalent TNT required to create a 9.0 magnitude earthquake)

 

[WhyLikeThis]

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[The39thStep]

There's a short piece in The Telegraph that looks at the Russia 1 channel

The twilight of the Russian pundit​

Russians have pundits, too. On a Russia 1 chat show last week, MP Andrei Isayev blamed Britain for Nato’s defence of Ukraine, telling us to “Clear off back to your island” and “catch your chip and fish from your foggy marshes!” He concluded: “Pray for your moss-covered Queen!”

Smart dictatorships know not to stifle emotion but direct it. In the book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, journalist Peter Pomerantsev illustrates how Putin’s Kremlin imported Russian analogues of American TV, current affairs shows that exposed corruption and vented anger at officials. By permitting criticism of the middle-ranks of the bureaucracy, the state thus gave the impression that dissent was possible - so long as the most powerful man, and thus the system itself, remained unchallenged.

In a sense, what you’re watching on Russia 1 is real. These talking heads are debating the issues, albeit within parameters, and Isayev probably shocked and amused as many Russians as much as he does us. (He has form: he lost his job as deputy leader of the ruling party in 2013 after a drunken row on a plane). But by encouraging him to say mad things that some in the audience might feel, the regime can give voice to dark thoughts while playing the more sober part. Another guest said Moscow could use nukes against Britain; the hosts reminded him that this would end in disaster for Russia, too.

One permits a blast of extreme punditry in order to reassert the party line, which, if we’re being honest, is what happens in the West, too. The real problem, in various regimes, isn’t a lack of free speech but of free thought, the bandwidth of opinion narrowing so far that it becomes impossible to imagine an alternative to a certain way of life that might well be insane but which the powers-that-be reinforce as normal. Thus the Russian dictatorship creates a theatre of “debate” that always concludes in the need to kill more Ukrainians.

That said, I’d quite like to live in the Britain of the Kremlin’s imagination, with its foggy marshes and mossy monarchs. Later, after tea time, Mary Poppins will take us flying with her umbrella, to hunt Russian bears.

 

[Chz]

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There's been more than one of those floating about. Dark Arts did one for a while, as did some Dutch roasters (both raising money for Ukrainian charities). That's the first one I've seen in Ukraine though.

 

[DaveCinzano]

There's been more than one of those floating about. Dark Arts did one for a while, as did some Dutch roasters (both raising money for Ukrainian charities). That's the first one I've seen in Ukraine though.

What's it taste like? I've had mixed results with good cause coffee in the past - Zapatista coffee was great, really zingy, Feral Trade was atrocious, like the sort of thing that a German budget supermarket can't shift so ends up in a British Poundland.

 

[Chz]

What's it taste like? I've had mixed results with good cause coffee in the past - Zapatista coffee was great, really zingy, Feral Trade was atrocious, like the sort of thing that a German budget supermarket can't shift so ends up in a British Poundland.

I found it a bit green for my tastes. They had rather heavy demand while it was on offer, and I think it may have got rushed a bit.
It's sort of immaterial, since it's no longer on offer.

 

[editor]

Fuck off back to sucking on billionaire capitalist cock you fucking bootlicker. You pathetic people make me fucking sick.

If I do get banned (which no doubt I will now) then atleast I won't have to put up the idiotic drivel you wankers post on here anymore.

You will if you keep up this level of hysterical abuse.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I no doubt went OTT, but as I said it wasn't me who commenced the slating and insults.

 

[nogojones]

I no doubt went OTT, but as I said it wasn't me who commenced the slating and insults.

You got pulled for sharing an alt-right, sexist meme without engaging your brain first. Something many people have done here. Instead of taking the criticism and looking at how it might be perceived you started frothing instead.

Just in case you've not encountered the angry feminist meme before, here's an example of the genera:



Do an image search of "angry feminist meme" and you'll get plenty more. All from an alt-right/ incel/ misogynist perspective. Remember that in the good ol' USA, liberal is Trump speak for anyone to the left of George Bush. Your facebook anarchist friend should know better too.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I no doubt went OTT, but as I said it wasn't me who commenced the slating and insults.

Exquisitely Putinesque

 

[Lurdan]

There's a short piece in The Telegraph that looks at the Russia 1 channel

Here's a link to an archived version of the whole piece which I think is interesting
The TalkTV gamble is doomed to failure

The primary focus of the column is to sneer down at TalkTV, set up by Murdoch a rival media oligarch. The second section of the column about Russia 1 is clearly intended to be read with that in mind.

Separated out from that context the points it makes about creating a 'theatre' of 'managed' performative 'debate' and controversy are ones I'd agree with. Also the implicit message to be as sceptical about how far the talking heads on Russia 1 can be taken as 'representing' an 'official line', as one would be about Murdoch's 'gobs for hire' on TalkTV.

But I'd apply that scepticism across the board to the entire pool of 'experts' and 'alt-experts' in the septic tank linking academia, think tanks, political and campaigning organizations, churches, the fringes of the media, and so on and so on. Tim Stanley the author of this article is himself a pretty emblematic example.

 

[The39thStep]

Here's a link to an archived version of the whole piece which I think is interesting
The TalkTV gamble is doomed to failure

The primary focus of the column is to sneer down at TalkTV, set up by Murdoch a rival media oligarch. The second section of the column about Russia 1 is clearly intended to be read with that in mind.

Separated out from that context the points it makes about creating a 'theatre' of 'managed' performative 'debate' and controversy are ones I'd agree with. Also the implicit message to be as sceptical about how far the talking heads on Russia 1 can be taken as 'representing' an 'official line', as one would be about Murdoch's 'gobs for hire' on TalkTV.

But I'd apply that scepticism across the board to the entire pool of 'experts' and 'alt-experts' in the septic tank linking academia, think tanks, political and campaigning organizations, churches, the fringes of the media, and so on and so on. Tim Stanley the author of this article is himself a pretty emblematic example.

I must say that this bit, although in the article it was in reference to Russia, made me think about its wider application

The real problem, in various regimes, isn’t a lack of free speech but of free thought, the bandwidth of opinion narrowing so far that it becomes impossible to imagine an alternative to a certain way of life that might well be insane but which the powers-that-be reinforce as normal

 

[frogwoman]

 

[cupid_stunt]

The video game puts you in the shoes of brave Ukrainian farmers facing Russian tanks › Geeky News

From the very beginning of the invasion, the media did not stop praising the merits of Ukrainian farmers, who, as best they can, oppose Russian troops, starting with tanks. The video game was inspired by this struggle and puts players in the shoes of these farmers. They have been one of the...

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They have been one of the symbols of Ukrainian resistance since the beginning of the Russian invasion: now the farmers have their own video game. Images of these agricultural vehicles towing Russian armored vehicles have flourished on social media, inspiring independent developers.

Thus was born the “Ukrainian FarmArmy”, dedicated to all those farmers who, as best they could, held back the Russian forces. The game is available on the itch.io platform at a price of your choice. Profits generated by developers will be directed to associations with a presence in Ukraine.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

You got pulled for sharing an alt-right, sexist meme without engaging your brain first. Something many people have done here. Instead of taking the criticism and looking at how it might be perceived you started frothing instead.

Just in case you've not encountered the angry feminist meme before, here's an example of the genera:

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Do an image search of "angry feminist meme" and you'll get plenty more. All from an alt-right/ incel/ misogynist perspective. Remember that in the good ol' USA, liberal is Trump speak for anyone to the left of George Bush. Your facebook anarchist friend should know better too.

I didn't post that meme though, I posted an image from the meme which I understood to be representative of some liberals in the meme I posted - atleast that was the intention. And criticising me for using the word lib/liberal when the meme I posted was about liberals is completely absurd and ludicrous if you ask me.

 

[Ax^]

sock puppet

 

[mojo pixy]

I've started getting a warm glow each time a post of mine gets a from Nigel .. it's a weird seal of approval but I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling this so worth sharing.

I've long said it about Israel / Palestine, taking a neutral position favours the stronger party, which is why I tend to come down on the side of Palestine (now there's an anti-ststist can of worms we needn't open). To me this situation with a larger, more powerful and very imperialist aggressor is not dissimilar from that situation and in both cases 'neutrality' or saying 'just stop fighting' effectively supports the more powerful party, the 'controlling' party. They get to dictate any terms, or simply not engage at all.

So I want another haha for all the people who should just stop fighting and accept whatever terms they're offered. Another haha for the erasure of a nation, its transformation to a mere region and its people scattered or interned. Or just killed.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

sock puppet

I’m glad a few of us are clocking this.

 

[kebabking]

Nazi Jews and Black Magic. Excellent stuff.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Nazi Jews and Black Magic. Excellent stuff.

'signs of Black Magic' = 'empty boxes...'




Good to know they are getting their supplies of chocolate.

 

[A380]

Nazi Jews and Black Magic. Excellent stuff.

Is Bedknobs and Broomsticks no longer on the syllabus at Shrivenham?

 

[kebabking]

Is Bedknobs and Broomsticks no longer on the syllabus at Shrivenham?

Harry Potter. Should have been Red Storm Rising, but that might give people ideas about readiness exercises, war stocks, ammunition expenditure, and political cohesion - Potter lets you wave your hand about, someone else does the magic and there's unicorns.

The above should, of course, in no way be taken as my opinion on UK defence policy....

 

[Raheem]

Nazi Jews and Black Magic. Excellent stuff.

There was video of Russian soldiers just happening upon the base of an "gay and lesbian organisation" in Mariupol, and it was all satanist paraphernalia.

I can't find it now, but I'm fairly sure I didn't dream it.

 

[The39thStep]

Nazi Jews and Black Magic. Excellent stuff.

This is 20 years ago but its very difficult to stamp out this sort of thing ime.

'Cannibals' arrested in Ukraine

The Ukrainian police have arrested three men and a woman suspected of murdering and possibly eating six people in black magic rituals.

www.theguardian.com

 

[nogojones]

This is 20 years ago but its very difficult to stamp out this sort of thing ime.

'Cannibals' arrested in Ukraine

The Ukrainian police have arrested three men and a woman suspected of murdering and possibly eating six people in black magic rituals.

www.theguardian.com

Just how much experience do you have with Ukrainian cannibals?

 

[LDC]

This is 20 years ago but its very difficult to stamp out this sort of thing ime.

'Cannibals' arrested in Ukraine

The Ukrainian police have arrested three men and a woman suspected of murdering and possibly eating six people in black magic rituals.

www.theguardian.com

You're not seriously giving that bollocks Russian Satanist story any credibility are you?

 

[The39thStep]

You're not seriously giving that bollocks Russian Satanist story any credibility are you?