https://twitter.com/Euan_MacDonald/status/1581216751848603648
I see so many Ukraine flags every day someone who woke up from a coma would have to assume my country lost a war to them
Canada is kind of notorious for having a bunch of OUN Banderites running around.
The worst shit I've seen in my neughborhood was a condo where the owner had both a BLM sign and a "We support [city] Police" sign during the BLM protests.
I've never seen the owner of the place, but if I ever do, I REALLY wanna ask them about it.
In this blue area the houses with "in this house we believe..." signs were flying the Ukrainian flag with an American one as late as July. I don't think I've seen one since then, but also haven't returned to those specific neighbourhoods.
Those are especially fun. They'll put a sign that says "we believe water is a human right" on their house that borders a private lake and not even question for a moment if they're a demon.
There were lots of them in the last neighborhood I lived. Totally meaningless.
There's got to be a ton of astroturphing and botnets and shit. All of the US's propaganda services, all of NATO's propaganda, and all of Ukraine's propaganda are certainly kicking out as much as they can.
I definitely still see them in :kkkanada:
I see t-shirts, businesses have charity funds for loose change with ukraine hearts, flags on t-shirts, SAVE AZOVSTAL graffiti, went to a professional sports game and saw a "GLORY TO UKRAINE - GLORY TO THE HEROES" flag, and houses with ukraine flags.
Canada has the 3rd largest population of Ukrainians, its not surprising they're so gung-ho about the whole war.
Ughhh. My mum and step dad threw their Russian tarragon away to show solidarity with Ukraine.
:pathetic:
Most oh the UKR flags went up in the first few months and have never been taken down out of laziness/guilt. We don't exactly have any NEW supporters cropping up.
IDK I have recently moved between two Blue coastal suburbs and in both I have seen homes flying Ukrainian flags. Not any majority but multiple within a neighborhood. And thinking about the relative commitment and effort of buying and flying a physical flag, including either taking down your American flag or adding an extra flag pole/mount, versus just adding it to your twitter bio, I think that a significant amount of the liberals are properly brainwashed.
This was my experience being in a blue suburb for a while a few months ago
EDIT: Though also, this town happened to already have a bunch of municipal signs already be the same color schene with the opposite orientation. So there were a lot of "oh is that a... oh nevermind" moments that might be shifting my impression of how many flags there were
They are all over the place where I live and I'm pretty sure not a single one has come down since the war officially began.
Couple of public buildings and businesses have em up, I saw one on an actual house. No one really gives a shit. I guess the problem is when you make a society so everyone is too scared, exhausted and isolated to do stuff you dont want them to do like look into socialism they are also too scared, isolated and exhausted to give a shit about stuff you do want them to care about.
Also, there are too many immediate problems. Apparently a quarter of social workers are gonna be or have been using food banks. Nurses, teachers etc... that entire strata of people who are used to doing OK and even well enough to be thinking about buying a starter home are relying on charity for food. Rents going up, fuel and electricity and the government is handing out several k just to stop a decent chunk of people going bankrupt. Supermarket shelves are beginning to look sparse too, fruit and veg especially it seems like every time u go to the shops there's a buncha stuff they are out of.
Yeah exactly. There's a reason why apart from a few hopeless chumps the only ppl genuinely that upset about the queen were 60 plus. It's the high tide mark where our society went from passively allowing capital to erode social bonds and create anomie to actively promoting it.
Maybe "duh" but I see Ukraine flags graffiti'd around Finland. Also a few repeating anti-Putin graffiti like one where he's holding puppet strings above soldiers. And the most cringe is in the border cities like Lappeenranta, which literally have city commissioned banners on the streets that say Слава Україні (Slava Ukraini).
It's 100% a psyop. And part of the psyop is to demoralize and demobilize radicalizing people from radicalizing further. Like someone else on Hexbear had said before, the people I know irl stopped giving a shit about the invasion when Will Smith slapped the shit out of Chris Rock, which happened way back in March. The truth is that no one cares after a certain point. Reddit has long since been compromised, so some 5-digit net upvote post about wholesome Ukranian troops owning Russian orcs should be seen as further evidence of Reddit being compromised rather than some reflection of real life. Other social media sites are the same.
Without doxxing myself, I live in a one of those 'swing' suburb districts the democratic party has been leaning hard towards and I have seen Ukraine flags in certain neighborhoods.
Yes, it's more likely that Russians stole a whole unit's uniforms but forgot the pro Russian gun strap as opposed to say, a Ukrainian unit stealing a Russian gun? (even assuming that is a russian/LDNR marking...)
edit: i just noticed the one on the right is the only gun that isn't camouflaged too...
It's not like 50% of Ukrainians speak fluent Russian, with 30% considering to be their first/primary language. That would go against the Narrative
Ukrainian itself was typically classified as a dialect of Russian until last year
Yeah, the whole history of the language is really complicated and weird. It wasn't spoken, it was spoken, there was a literary renaissance, the Tzar crushed it, the Soviets endorsed it, the Soviets banned it, the Soviets re-worked the language to standardize spelling and verbiage, then Ukraine bans Russian, but 50% of Ukrainians still speak Russian, and lots of Ukrainians didn't speak Ukrainian until it became politically hazardous to speak Russian. It's all a crock of ethnonationalist bullshit now.
that sounds like the history of a lot of languages.
ethnic and class adjacent issues can get some spicy politics going on
Yeah, and it's not like those people were concentrated in the south and east of Ukraine for decades and voted for the president we overthrew with naz... err... Pro-europe lobbying groups. Nope, everyone in Ukraine always wanted to join the EU and NATO, and yanukovich was a puppet. Just like everyone who voted for annexation, they're all just Putin bots
Luke and Han Solo stealing stormtrooper uniforms that fit even though Luke is too short to be a stormtrooper
Oh cool now blue maga is up to "its a flase flag to make the nazis look bad bro"
Feels great to be a leftist and constantly have libs tell you that you're antisemitic for not liking Israel and then have them go full "Um Acktually" when it comes to far right militants in Ukraine literally Nazi saluting.
Capital will absorb and nullify any possible critique of itself. Words alone won't change these kinds of people.
I get that soldiers do stupid shit all the time, but I sincerely doubt most soldiers are going to waste their time doing propaganda photos by wearing an **enemy's ** uniform, while in an active warzone where friendly fire could happen. What the fuck is wrong with liberals? Do they seriously think every Russian is secretly in on it/a brainwashed guy? Do they even know what a Nazi is and that Putin, while a fucking asshole, is not one? Pure fucking brainlessness from liberals, they're such a fucking diseased people.
They honestly don't seem to know or care. It's pure reflext. Ukraine - Uncompromisingly good. Russia - Inexplicably but totally evil.
You would fail to explain why Russia is evil? Even before the invasion?
Because it's projection. Libs would absolutely support conducting false flag psyops
I don't even think that covers it because Russia isn't in this picture and aren't leftwing. "Westoids are the dumbest, most propaganda filled termite mounds imaginable" describes it better.
50% of Ukrainians speak fluent Russian and 30% speak it as their first language.
That would go against the narrative that ukraine has infinite weaponry
It's more than a narrative if we keep sending them a billion dollars every week
Could be an MG-3, which is essentially a rechambered and modernized MG-42.
These Ruzzian soldiers definitely stole clothes, helmets, armor, and a freaking machine gun from a Ukrainian unit so they could dress up and do a Hitler salute to make the Ukrainians look bad.
Yeah as much as I hate nazi shit the MG42 was brilliant and I do think it's kinda cool that designs like it and the Browning 50. are essentially unchanged cuz if I ain't broke don't fix it. My friend said you could throw gravel down the barrel of a Browning 50. and the first shot would clear the breach. Absolute Unit.
The MG-42 was good but I think sometimes it's just way too overhyped. Extremely high RoF meant that the barrel had to be replaced fairly often (after like 250 rounds), like waaaay more often than other machineguns like Bren, DP, BAR and so on. Sure, none of them matched the 42's ridiculous RoF but that 1200RPM wasn't very practical at all, and having to carry spare barrels around was not really fun for the user.
It's still good enough, the MG-42 appeared when Germany was pretty much on the defensive and it was good for that role, also the infantry squad benefitted a lot from it (and from the previous MG-34 model), but I think it sacrifices a lot for that insane rate of fire. The MG-3 introduces two types of bolts, one for 1000/1200 RPM and another heavier bolt for a slower rate of fire, about 800/900 RPM, which is something the og MG could have used to ease it's arguably main drawback.
Yeah the insane ROF was impressive but also a handicap like all the "wunderwaffen"
If the UON weren't sloppy there wouldn't be so many Poles in Lviv.
I love how libs tried to own the left anti imperial anti NATO crowd by bragging about how Wagner Group got turned into gristle and it's like GOOD, DEAD NAZIS IS GOOD, AND IF YOU WERENT A FUCKING LIB YOU COULD SHARE THAT PRINCIPLE.
Wagner Group got turned into gristle
Oh, did they? :squidward-nochill:
Sweet :squidward-chill:
I'm still not entirely convinced that all the guys that are claimed to be wagner actually are wagner, or even exist. As far as i know the actual wagner company is a small office in Hong Kong. Officially, legally, mercenaries and pmcs are illegal in Russia. It may be that the wagner dudes are allowed because they're not actually in Russia, or some other loophole, but i have this feeling that the western press uses "wagner" as an explanation for a bunch of stuff that isn't actually a western style pmc, or they just use the term when they're not sure what they're looking at. From what i've read wagner almost certainly is not a single company or a single organization, but rather a loose group of different organizations that might include intelligence, different kinds of mercenaries, and maybe non mercenary contractorsm
I was told that the Wagner group was the singular font of all Russian Nazi sentiment so now that they're gone I'm going to assume Russia's politics are good.
Full-scale invasion
Was there a miniature-scale invasion I was unaware of, with 1:3 sized combatants and vehicles?
Liberals and their Sorkin-boner for shoehorning dramatic phrases into every situation
