Effectively. It will end up being a typically shoddy and half-baked version of China’s Great Firewall, riddled with holes, still reliant on FOSS from the West, and ultimately only benefiting whichever oligarchs control Russia’s domestic tech industry.
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Related:
Despite the spin they’re trying to put on it, the UK government is just trying to say no to all refugees.
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Anonymous claim to have hacked into Russian television channels to broadcast videos from Ukraine.
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Co-ordinated by the daughter of immigrants. If ladder-pulling ever becomes an Olympic event the Patel family will win the gold medal for generations to come.
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Just 50 visas.
There was some talking head on the radio a few minutes ago, some Lord or other, who suggested that we have an unemployment crisis in the UK and should therefore invite as many civililsed, hard-working and determined Ukrainians as we can.
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I’m willing to bet that a lot of the Anonymous members involved were born in Russia and brain-drained out of there over the past couple of decades. It breeds resentment when one finds that the only way for talent to succeed in one’s home country is to kiss up and pay tribute to a gangster leader and his cronies.
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I went to school with an Iranian who described the revolution as (paraphrasing from memory) “Imagine your local firebrand Pentecostal minister was suddenly the mayor and chief of police.”
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This sounds like a great set-up for an Elvira movie but a terrible idea in real life.
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Interesting analysis. The comments are even more revealing.
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She is not only thick as two short planks, she is a very nasty piece of work to boot. I don’t often (well, not too often) get excessively offensive about someone when posting here, but re the phrase “I wouldn’t cross the road to piss on her if she were on fire”, well, if she were on fire I’d be tempted to cross the road to piss on the bits that weren’t burning, but that would stop the fire spreading, so what’s a person to do?
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Sometimes that admiration is cultivated.
“Anti-Fascist”, riiiight… Supposedly shut down (just like Walking Together, the previous organization), but I doubt anything like that simply disappears.
The batshit claim that the invasion is to “de-Nazify” Ukraine seems to be a call-out to the people suffering from that ideology.
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This is an interesting article discussing possible reasons why pro Ukrainian propaganda has been so effective.
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What do you believe the comments reveal?
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The euphemism worked. “No fly zone” is very much something we cooked up so we didn’t have to say “persistent air war in Iraq”.
And even as goes it’s stated purpose. We weren’t all that effective at it. One of the reasons for the Iraq no fly zone was to prevent bombings of Kurdish civilians. While we were flying missions to protect the Kurds from Turkish air bases, the Turks were actively bombing the Kurds from those same airfields.
My father did something like 6 deployments to the no fly zone, commanding a combat search and rescue unit. He’s not a fan the concept.
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I’d go deeper and say at this point a significant amount of people seem to actually be having a sort of break with reality where “words about a thing somewhere” as well as stories in all forms of media are as real to them as their day to day life. And so it must be easy to think of complicated real-world operations as beats in a story and just expect the next one. It’s as if real world contingencies can just be waived away because it “seems that way in the news.”
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All sorts of things, including what I might depict as some factionally induced delusion in places.
(Sorry, not in a position to enter into debate about the finer points of that today - up to my neck in a range of personal stuff. I’ve no idea what they might reveal to others.)
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Re Priti Patel and ladder-pulling
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