lowenz on 26/9/2022 at 19:03
Quote Posted by demagogue
My university (Texas) did that study showing positive effects of exposing people to quality news and lectures back in the '90s.
It's useless if they're bombarded with Jordan Peterson victimism.
You can't fight that kind of things, 'cause he knows how to bypass every good argument based on plain rationality with its toxic counterpart just "exposed" with cunning rhetoric.
Suggest failed individuals - generated by the same system they hate - that "reason" is a planned elegant brainwashing done by "The System" to chain everybody to the "System Masters" will: they'll just fall for you as a "mind opening" messiah, a liberator.....a SHEPARD.
It's the same as reasoning with Putin. It's utterly idiotic, it's good only to convince ourselves "
we're the good guys!!!" (yes, me too I can use Peterson strategy in talking, pinpointed cynicism is cheap and has a massive ROI :p )
demagogue on 26/9/2022 at 22:48
Quote Posted by heywood
I am a little surprised the border is that open. After the call-up was announced, I expected most of Russia's neighbors to close the border to tourists, guest workers, and other people who weren't requesting asylum.
In terms of soft diplomacy, allowing people to enter & leave Russia is a soft way to message opposition to the regime and pressure it. I mean technically speaking it was the open border from East Germany to Czechoslovakia to West Germany that finally forced the Berlin wall open & the ended the Cold War (after Gorby didn't send in the tanks).
So it's still a win for them, I imagine they're calculating.
They're almost like good old fashioned defectors back in the day.
Cipheron on 27/9/2022 at 01:18
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https://news.yahoo.com/mobilised-russians-call-hotline-ask-185500131.html)
Quote:
Mobilised Russians call hotline to ask how to surrender
Andrii Yusov, spokesman for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, said that the ministry's hotline has received many calls from Russians who had recently been called up and who are now asking how to surrender to Ukraine.
Quote: "The hotline has received a lot of calls from Russians who were called up recently, and even from some who have even been called up yet. They're calling and asking ‘What should I do if I get called up? What do I have to do, what's the right way to surrender?'"
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Residents of Russian-occupied Crimea and occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are also resorting to comparable actions.
Yusov added that Russia has run out of people who could be called up in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. The only men remaining are either sick or engaged in essential work that is vital to the region's viability.
Russian occupation authorities have said that they were planning to form "voluntary" battalions in the occupied territories in southern Ukraine. At the same time, however, Putin and other Russian officials are fearful of arming residents of the occupied territories of Ukraine.
Azaran on 27/9/2022 at 15:14
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-enlistment-troops-resistance-ukraine-1.6596621) I imagine this becoming more and more common
Quote:
A young man shot a Russian military officer at close range at an enlistment office in Siberia Monday, an unusually bold attack reflecting resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to mobilize hundreds of thousands of more men to wage war on Ukraine.
The shooting came after scattered arson attacks on enlistment offices and protests in Russian cities against the military call-up that have resulted in at least 2,000 arrests. Russia is seeking to bolster its military as its Ukraine offensive has bogged down.
In the attack in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk, 25-year-old resident Ruslan Zinin walked into the enlistment office saying "no one will go to fight" and "we will all go home now," according to local media.
Zinin was arrested and officials vowed tough punishment. Authorities said the military commandant was in intensive care. A witness quoted by a local news site said Zinin was in a roomful of people called up to fight and troops from his region were heading to military bases on Tuesday.
Protests also flared up in Dagestan, one of Russia's poorer regions in the North Caucasus. Local media reported that "several hundred" demonstrators took to the streets Tuesday in its capital, Makhachkala. Videos circulated online showing dozens of protesters tussling with the police sent to disperse them.
SD on 27/9/2022 at 19:16
Quote Posted by Tocky
Get enough of their people across the border and they can hold a referendum on annexation.
They already stole a big chunk of Finland years ago.
demagogue on 28/9/2022 at 11:26
It's a part of the posturing that's easy & low hanging fruit for him to get away with.
I don't think it means anything to worry about per se.
The catch with megalomaniac mindsets is how the game theory / anterior cingulate cortex plays out if they feel like they are very close to meeting a very bad end if they don't produce a drastic turnaround in the war, and suddenly the box for avoiding being methodically tortured, unceremoniously hung, and his legacy being reduced to a final grainy video of his corpse being crowd-surfed & defiled by his haters Saddam-style looks a lot more vital than the box for avoiding the good telling-off he'll face if he resorts to tactical nukes.
RippedPhreak on 28/9/2022 at 11:49
Just please nuke DC first. US gov is the enemy of all humanity. NYC would do for a follow-up.
heywood on 28/9/2022 at 13:02
Prepare for booby traps at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. That's what I'm thinking.