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14 minutes ago, NoRagrets said:

I saw a newer looking Ural motorcycle broken down on the side of the road a few days ago. Those things look like total pieces of shit designed in the 1940’s. 

Lol, that’s because it is. It is a copy of a BMW R-70 that the Soviets either reverse engineered or obtained the plans for. There have been some upgrades of course, notably disc brakes, fuel injection, and better ignition. But it looks like a 1940s BMW because it is one. 

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3 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

That chick is delusional or a paid shill

Go easy on her. Her name is Caitlin.

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48 minutes ago, NoRagrets said:

I saw a newer looking Ural motorcycle broken down on the side of the road a few days ago. Those things look like total pieces of shit designed in the 1940’s. 

I believe it's a copy of a WW2-era BMW. Friend has one with a sidecar, he loves it. Says it's reliable once you upgrade a bunch of the parts. They aren't cheap and they sort of just chug along.

[edit] I am slower than a Ural.

Edited September 10, 2022 by RDCanecutter
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9 hours ago, Foosters said:

Texags?

A video gaming board. I knew gaming culture had its toxic elements, but ... it might be time to divorce myself from that completely.

4 hours ago, Bevo said:

Aren't you and Nicole from Amarillo/Lubbock/Agricultural Moscow?

 

Emphasis on from.

 

1 hour ago, Born to Run said:

10 hours ago, Rimbo said:

...naw, those aren't it.
Was thinking along the lines of "you can drive north for 460 miles and end up in a shithole in Texas, too."

Yes but in Amarillo, you can stand on a beer can and see Chicago.

 

 

9 hours ago, maninblack said:

You're a chump if you're still buying into this bullshit

 

 

3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Loving the fucking retcon on this. And as usual, “it’s not fair, the U.S. baited into a fight we could never win” is a weird superpower flex. 
 

 

 

Please tell me the Fellas are all over this bitch.

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57 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

First, they are trying to take advantage of the fact that many people aren’t paying attention to the war, and that the mainstream media is bored and has a new shiny thing every few days, so they are trying to confuse low-information types. I run into this all the time with relatives who don’t follow stuff, and they hear some random story from one of these people, and they think that’s what’s happening.  Just this week, I’ve been telling some relatives about Ukraine advances and they are shocked.

There are some mental health issues with a lot of these people spreading the misinformation (not all, some just hate the USA or the idea of the US doing the right thing, like Steven Seagal).  I’ve got a Qanon-following in-law (“just asking questions!”) and she buys into a lot of this stuff and tries to spread it around. RT, ZeroHedge, etc, are their go-to sites, and they don’t understand that they are being manipulated, and even accuse those questioning them of being manipulated.  When asked if they actually buy into the more zanier specific ideas, if they are self-aware enough to realize that most people think those ideas are nutty, then they simply do the “I don’t know, I haven’t researched it yet” thing, as if it’s on their list of things to do when they get the time.

It’s the saying about “it’s easy to fool someone, and much harder to convince them that they’ve been fooled.”

Unfortunately, thanks to the internet, these people have echo chambers that help them reinforce and feel better about their beliefs (think aggy football fans who believe a natty is always next year).

Once in a blue moon, I’ll check the Qanon sites because I’m curious to see if there’s anything we should be worried about with my in-law, and they all seem pretty out of it these days and still just trotting out the Nazi bullshit, and that the US and Ukraine had bioweapon and nuclear weapon labs within spitting distance of the Russian border, and that’s been their go-to since February.

In terms of confronting anybody you know who buys into the Russian/conspiracy bullshit, don’t argue the details with them, because that’s what they want - they are looking for a tiny little gotcha that they can use to claim your whole argument is invalid.  Just laugh about Russians retreating, or laugh about how that person claims such-and-such, but here’s a video from Russian state media that proves otherwise, and ask them why they think the Russian government is lying if they are right.

A lot of the amplifiers are the useful idiot types who believe this shit but the ecosystem is not seeded organically.  
 

The non-English, Slavic language portals I follow are often kind of a beta-test. I’ll see stuff there pop up later in English, big outlets.  Weirdly enough, they will also use them to launder back into official Russian sources, I’ll see stuff pop up in TASS that was first circulating farther west, with the foreign source cited as an authority. 
 

Also, TexAgs politics is 100 percent infested with this as well as SECRant.

Edited September 10, 2022 by 956 Worldwide

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2 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

What if that store of tanks and such existed primarily on paper?

those tanks / supplies / anything of value were sold off long ago for scrap and parts on the black market 

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4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

those tanks / supplies / anything of value were sold off long ago for scrap and parts on the black market 

Anything they had in really long-term storage was not worth scrapping under the table,  or selling to other countries.

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A thread on the impact of Ukraine on China.

 

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Are the rumors of armor on the streets in Moscow true?

Also rumors that RU lost over 450 tanks in the 48 hours.

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32 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

i have a copy of Charlie Wilson's War from the library, by my bedside, still unread.

Maybe it's time I read it...

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13 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Are the rumors of armor on the streets in Moscow true?

Also rumors that RU lost over 450 tanks in the 48 hours.

Let us pray to st. Javelin that it’s true 

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Guessing he’s referring to Donetsk airport. 

 

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3 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

Guessing he’s referring to Donetsk airport. 

 

Yes, unconfirmed reports that AFU has entered Donetsk airport. If true, we are very close to needing to call this a “rout.” 

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Anything they had in really long-term storage was not worth scrapping under the table,  or selling to other countries.

that metal is worth something, not much but metal scrappers / junk yards will pay pennies for itn

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Coping and lying intensifies:

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29 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Are the rumors of armor on the streets in Moscow true?

 

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Let us pray to st. Javelin that it’s true 

I think a lot of them were lend lease without the lend lease part of the transaction.

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Czech press reporting that the head of Russian occupation authority in Kharkiv has called for a full civilian evacuation “to save lives.”

 

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22 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Coping and lying intensifies:

Yep, but they’ve been saying that for a while.  This jumps out at me from that comment:

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In towns that should have been defended. By a mobilized military who is fighting the entire corrupt Western World.

“In towns that should have been defended”. That’s a potshot at Putin.

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“In towns that should have been defended”. That’s a potshot at Putin.

I noticed those replies too but for different reasons.

It’s always a chuckle for me when they call the West “corrupt.” It’s their longest running accusation that is pure confession.

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Just now, Chad Fuck said:

I noticed those replies too but for different reasons.

It’s always a chuckle for me when they call the West “corrupt.” It’s their longest running accusation that is pure confession.

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What time is it?

 

 

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Lol, people updating the maps (LivFaustDieJung)

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If you’re one of those Ukrainian troops training in UK and other places, aren’t you begging them to put you on a transport right now and go full bore attack while the enemy is on the run?  Go retake Mariupol and then roll into Crimea and finish them off completely 

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2 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

If you’re one of those Ukrainian troops training in UK and other places, aren’t you begging them to put you on a transport right now and go full bore attack while the enemy is on the run?  Go retake Mariupol and then roll into Crimea and finish them off completely 

They will have to send reinforcements to hold the territory they took back, I am sure they are moving trips asap to the new locations. You don’t need to transfer a lot of since it’s been left for you 

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4 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

If you’re one of those Ukrainian troops training in UK and other places, aren’t you begging them to put you on a transport right now and go full bore attack while the enemy is on the run?  Go retake Mariupol and then roll into Crimea and finish them off completely 

There’s speculation that the troops being used for a lot of this stuff, were trained in the UK/etc. and are fresh,,  they certainly all look well-equipped.

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2 minutes ago, Gengs1 said:

They will have to send reinforcements to hold the territory they took back, I am sure they are moving trips asap to the new locations. You don’t need to transfer a lot of since it’s been left for you 

Most likely their territorial defense units or whatever.  Russian won’t be able to do much of an attack in those areas anyways, both due to a lack of necessary vehicles, and they’ll be spotted long before they can do anything.

 

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Nvmd.  Wrong thread

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1 hour ago, Chad Fuck said:

It’s always a chuckle for me when they call the West “corrupt.” It’s their longest running accusation that is pure confession.

They don't mean the 1000 rubles they just hid in their jacket pocket. That was favor for doing favor. They mean that you touched yourself in a possibly non-binary way, then didn't go to Russian Orthodox church later.

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Russian troops are on  the run all over NE Ukraine, Russians have lost the air superiority battle, so Russian generals decide to shell civilians with surface-to-air missiles

 

 

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I don't know what it says about me that I came in here for some encouragement and I found it.

Goddamn football

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1 minute ago, cactusflinthead said:

I don't know what it says about me that I came in here for some encouragement and I found it.

Goddamn football

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19 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

I don't know what it says about me that I came in here for some encouragement and I found it.

Goddamn football

Have some more

 

 

Edited September 10, 2022 by atomheartbevo

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And all of us have said stupid shit online at one point or another, or every day, but at least it’s not this stupid.

 

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Comment said it best: Bully starts a fight on a little opponent. Little opponent fights back viciously. Bully wants to be friends. Whole school yard watching.