• emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      :michael-laugh: the absolute stone cold ahistorical balls to say that as if their military dictatorships weren't US-backed

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    "Ok you're economically sanctioned until you stop calling for a coup in our country. Good luck with 60% of your economy gone."

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      Why give them the dignity of dying with a weapon in their hands when a firing squad gives them the same experience

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        'We demand to pass!' Shreider and Prokopovich shouted. 'We are going to the Winter Palace!'

        A sailor, bemused, refused to let them through.

        'Shoot us if you want to!' the marchers challenged. 'We are ready to die, if you have the heart to fire on Russians and comrades ... We Bear our breasts to your guns!'

        The peculiar standoff continued. The left refused to shoot, the right demanded their right to pass and / or be shot.

        'What will you do?' yelled someone at the sailor who doggedly refused to murder him.

        John Reed's eyewitness account of what happened next is famous. Another sailor came up, very much irritated. "We will spank you!" he cried energetically. "And if necessary, we will shoot you too. Go home now, and leave us in peace."'

        That would be no fir fate for champions of democracy. Standing on a box, waving his umbrella, Prokopovich announced to his followers that they would save these sailors from themselves. 'We cannot have our innocent blood upon the hands of these ignorant men! ... It is beneath our dignity to be shot down' - let alone spanked - 'here in...

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I think it was Dan Carlin on one of his podcasts that said, that while we don't have a ton of evidence, we have reason to believe in ancient times soldiers shat themselves constantly out of fear before battle. Just massive amounts of shit, all over the place.

          • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I can see it. I mean when you think of combat back then, somebody had to be in the front slamming straight into the front of the enemy formation. Not sure how I would react knowing that I have to run forward into a charging mob where my survival is almost an impossibility

  • fuckwit [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    YES, A*STRALIA, PLEASE FACILITATE A COUP IN CHINA. BECAUSE YOU TOTALLY HAVE THAT POWER YOU FUCKING LOSERS.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    militarizing the South China Sea

    this means "building their own Navy", because of course when our Navy goes someplace it's called "freedom of navigation"

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "freedom of navigation" is basically just like when a big brother holds his hand an inch from his little brother's face and says " does this bother you? I'm not touching you - does this bother you?"

  • Hewaoijsdb [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    What the fuck? A major Australian newspaper publishing an article calling for a coup in one of the most powerful nations in the world?

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Staring at the geopolitical chess board as our pieces are slowly whittled away and shouting "The King! The King! Why aren't we taking the King! That would turn this whole game around!"

    • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Don't you know the US State Department is full of the wisest people on the planet? When they decide how you should run your country, you should listen. You know they all graduated from Ivy League colleges, right?

  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    :xi-plz:, nuke my fucking country :aus-delenda-est:

    the rest of the whiteoids here don't deserve life and I am fine with being cleansed by the nuclear fire :posadist-nuke:

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Tomorrow, when the war began but Major Harvey is the protagonist.

      • Zo1db3rg [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Right? Just knock out the US power grid. It's estimated it would take years to get it back up in full and in that time 80% of the population would be dead. Then come in and pick off any remaining resistance.

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          And this can be done by blowing up nukes in the atmosphere, btw

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Right even though the people of the Eastern Bloc generally liked socialism and wanted to keep it around, a lot of their Communist parties like the SED in East Germany had become unpopular by 1989 for various reasons. The popularity of the CPC is so damn high in China, I don't know why these baby-brains think getting rid of Xi would do anything. I mean, at least propose a slightly more plausible idea of trying to discredit the CPC. I mean, that's not going to happen either, but at least it's slightly more logical if you actually understand China.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Most of the former communist states underwent extensive decommunization as part of their liberalization, which usually meant that everyone associated with the former political party was banned from government and the state-owned commons were privatized. "Removing Xi" implies a global order that imposes that on China - most of the 95 million people associated with the CPC (except maybe the right-leaning members like Jack Ma) would have to be purged by the new liberal order in order and the masses would have to be subjected to an entire generation of anticommunist propoganda.