2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Part 1)

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75%? What an opportunity for other Russian occupied regions and opponents. Take back any disputed areas etc.

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Oh I really DO hope so. Get the popcorn popping so as to be ready. :wink:

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Russian Olympic athletes who participated in a rally supporting Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine are facing a backlash, with one losing a sponsorship deal and facing a disciplinary investigation.

Some of them may well be patriotic fuckwits (brainwashed by Russian media, or otherwise) but given that some public servants were “told” to attend, let’s be sure these athletes were there of their own free will.

Which is almost impossible to prove and if they were, they may still claim to have been “encouraged” to go and did so in fear of the consequences of not going, even though it was not something they would ever have done otherwise. And the act of saying so also gets them in the shit.

They can’t win - and some may not deserve to and some may.

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And in worse news

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Office Space GIF by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

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That is one crazy looking yacht. Seeing all these Super Yachts is starting to make me ill thinking about all the other things that money could have been spent on. (Sigh)

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Seeing all these Super Yachts is starting to make me ill thinking about all the other things that money could have been spent on.

Exactly. That was an especially piercing and poignant point made in that video awesome investigative video by Navalny’s organization about Putin’s yacht.

The money that monster spent on that monstrosity was stolen from ordinary, impoverished Russian people.

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hmm

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His bank account is distorting his idea of what design for civilization is really about.

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Obscenely wealthy patrons can pay for a lot of expensive design experiments.

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Also makes me ponder how much better everyone would have been financially were it not for the corrupt.

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Premature anti-fascist hackers.

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I have long argued that that thing deserves to be sunk on aesthetic grounds alone.

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Of course he did…

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Orig posted March 22:

All those “diplomats” that Poland just kicked out are all burning paper trails before they leave.

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How are they going to invade Poland with Uber shut down?

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