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- utopian3
- nothing suspicious here. carry onpango
- The list keeps growing...OBBTKN
- The Russian embassy today said the Odisha police haven't yet found any criminal link in the death of two of its citizen at the same hotel in the stateBeeswax
- within two days. Pavel Antov and Vladimir Bidenov died at the same hotel in Odisha's Rayagada district two days apartBeeswax
- I thought only Russian windows were shitty quality. Now we have to watch for Indian ones, too?Continuity
- It be funny if Bill Gates fell out of a window.Chimp
- window or teagrafician
- Not a country. It’s the Costa nostra with nukes._niko
- sted1
Behind Russia’s War Is Thirty Years of Post-Soviet Class Conflict
The invasion of Ukraine is not simply a product of Vladimir Putin’s expansionist mindset. It corresponds to a project for Russian capitalism that he and his allies have pursued since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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In the following, I try to identify some basic elements of such an analysis for the Russian context. That does not mean a similar analysis of the Western or Ukrainian ruling classes’ interests in this conflict is irrelevant or inappropriate, but I focus on Russia partially for practical reasons, partially because it is the most controversial question at the moment, and partially because the Russian ruling class bears the primary responsibility for the war. By understanding their material interests, we can move beyond flimsy explanations that take rulers’ claims at face value and move toward a more coherent picture of how the war is rooted in the economic and political vacuum opened up by the Soviet collapse in 1991...
- grafician0
"#BREAKING Russian gas exports outside group of former Soviet republics fell 45.5% in 2022: Gazprom"
Oh no
- PhanLo5
- Y E T IPhanLo
- Either one person is really big.. or the other person is really small.shapesalad
- imagine the shower blockages, but they look really happy with lifefadein11
- Sasquatchutopian
- Did russians know about HGH back in 70s?Beeswax
- I’d be crying too if I was that boyfuturefood
- GMOs created this. Where’s Shape?futurefood
- That's a huge bitch!YakuZoku
- sted1
South Africa hails friendship with Russia amid Ukraine war
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is on a visit to South Africa as joint maritime drills with Russia and China are to take place in the country in February.
- sted4
Rassan oligarch living in Budapest gets sanctioned and his yacht gets seized. Buys a new one trough a company in Hungary, what is sitting in the docks for 4 months while it gets gets adjusted to his own needs. All the work is done, new owner signs the papers, the yacht is waiting for the new owner to ship out. A week later his own people appear and start making more adjustments before the consecration ceremony.
Unfortunately today it got set on fire and burned down :)
- https://i.imgur.com/…Continuity
- How do yachts get docked in Hungary? Isn't Hungary a land locked country?utopian
- He perceived to own the Yacht, until a entity with more power than him, burst the bubble.shapesalad
- @utopian trucks mostly, but the Danube is connected to the black sea (one more reason why rassans like budapest) +there is a way from Tirol to the Adriatic seasted
- sted1
- grafician-1
China’s Yuan has replaced the US dollar as the most traded currency in Russia...
- Bwahh hah aha... they know that Yuan is a 'controlled' currency - the numbers pushed and pulled at the whim of the CCP.shapesalad
- This is what China wants, not Russia. China wants everyone to exchange it's shite Yuan for a currency with value.shapesalad
- sted0
call of duty ad by the RDM
- sted1
- pablo280
- ussr brandingmilfhunter
- selling old inventory and rotating stuff between the central asian countries and rassa. lego stopped importing flagship products, duplo is available :)sted
- drgs0
https://github.com/ilonajulczuk/…
The Captain said into the microphone, "To the south of this place is a valley. There are large buildings there. The buildings contain skeletons, and in the earth, all around, are graves."
"Wait, you can't say graves." The Cyberneticist pulled the flexible arm of the microphone closer to himself. "To the south are archi cuthtectural constructions, and near them, in holes in the earth, are dead bodies. The bodies of doublers. What does that mean?"
On this occasion the computer exchanged a long series of coughs and squawks with the doubler. The men noticed that for the first time the machine appeared to be asking, and repeating, a question of its own. Finally the speaker spoke in a monotone.
"Doubler. Physical work, no. Pause. Electrical organ. Organ work, yes, but acceleration involution degeneration overload. Pause. South is exemplification of self-directed procrustics. Bio- and socio-occlusion deathavoid. Pause. Social isolation not with force, not by compulsion. Voluntary. Pause. Group microadaptation autocentroat-traction. Production, yes. No."
"Brilliant suggestion," the Cyberneticist said to the Physicist. "Autocentroattraction, deathavoid, bio- and socio-occlusion. I warned you."
"Just a minute," said the Physicist. "This has something to do with forced labor."
"Just the opposite. He said 'not with force, not by compulsion.' It was voluntary."
"Well, we'll ask again." The Physicist bent over the microphone. "Not clear," he said. "Tell us, very simply, what is in the valley to the south? A penal colony? A labor camp? What do they produce? And why?"
The computer had another discussion with the doubler. After almost five minutes it replied:
"Microgroup voluntary. Interadhesion by compulsion, no. Pause. Each doubler against the microgroup. Chief relationship centripetal. The binding agent is anger. Pause. Who transgresses is punished. Punishment is microgroup voluntary identification. What is the microgroup? Feedback interrelations polyindividualized. Anger is the selfaim. Anger is the selfaim. Pause. Circulation socio-psychointernal. Deathavoid."
"Wait, what does 'selfaim' mean?" asked the Cyberneticist, seeing that the others were growing impatient.
"Selfaim, selfsave," said the computer, this time not even consulting the doubler.
"The instinct of self-preservation?" asked the Physicist.
"Yes, yes, self-preservation," said the computer.
"You mean to say you understand that?" cried the Engineer, jumping up from his seat.
"Understand it, no, but I think he's talking about a prison system. You have small groups within that community, and they keep one another under control."
"Without guards? Without surveillance?"
"He said there was no compulsion."
"Impossible!"
"Not at all. Imagine two people: one has matches, the other has a matchbox. They hate each other, but can strike a light only together. Anger, he said. Cooperation results from feedback. The compulsion somehow is a product of the internal dynamics of the group."
"But what are they doing? What are they making? Who is lying in those graves? And why?"
"You heard what the computer said? 'Procrustics.' That's obviously from 'Procrustean bed.' Assuring conformity by violent means."
- NBQ000
What he wants to say is... "stop with the Russiaphobia so I can go live in EU and have a bank account there that accepts my YouTube monies"
- drgs0
- sted0
- PhanLo1
- Don't celebrate, yet. This can all turn around, still.Continuity
- I just liked the image. Really never thought Vlad would go for the war in the first place. He's dead now surely?PhanLo