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Old Feb 25, 2022 | 11:53 PM
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It took about three minutes to determine that both @CNNAfghan and @CNNUKR are fake accounts, used for the sole purpose of motivating the gullible to create exactly this sort of meme.
Would still suck to die twice...
Old Feb 26, 2022 | 02:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
While I recognize that this is a badge of pride for you, I offer the following quotation from The Hunt for Red October:

"It is wise to study the ways of one's adversary."
The internet curates the truly stupid ones for me. It's astonishing how many brain cells you can numb with only 240 characters.
Old Feb 26, 2022 | 04:25 AM
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This definitely doesn't fall in the brain-numb category.
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Old Feb 26, 2022 | 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
It took about three minutes to determine that both @CNNAfghan and @CNNUKR are fake accounts, used for the sole purpose of motivating the gullible to create exactly this sort of meme.
it's everywhere.












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Old Feb 26, 2022 | 10:58 AM
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and there's other gems like this:



wtf i love ***** now.
Old Feb 26, 2022 | 11:40 AM
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Old Feb 26, 2022 | 03:36 PM
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My wife works in consulting and her company has a small branch in Ukraine. The group lead texted about needing a "shadow group" to handle the Ukraine workload because, "they're in a very difficult stage to work."

Understatement?!

Perhaps they're busy sending their families to Poland and picking up their free AR's...
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Old Feb 26, 2022 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by cordycord
My wife works in consulting and her company has a small branch in Ukraine. The group lead texted about needing a "shadow group" to handle the Ukraine workload because, "they're in a very difficult stage to work."

Understatement?!

Perhaps they're busy sending their families to Poland and picking up their free AR's...
My uncle Mikes wife is Ukrainian, her entire family is still over there on the eastern side of the country.

She said everything is shut down. No banks, fuel, food, it's all screeching to a halt. My family pooled a little money together and sent it over. But with banks not being open, it's hard to get cash. Last i heard they were looking for a way to travel and move out.

Go read Reddit, it's all basically saying the same thing.
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Originally Posted by Erat
My uncle Mikes wife is Ukrainian, her entire family is still over there on the eastern side of the country.

She said everything is shut down. No banks, fuel, food, it's all screeching to a halt. My family pooled a little money together and sent it over. But with banks not being open, it's hard to get cash. Last i heard they were looking for a way to travel and move out.

Go read Reddit, it's all basically saying the same thing.
Well ****, the Eastern region is supposed to have more Russian speakers and sympathizers. That's got to be....difficult. The videos coming out of Ukraine are bizarre--drunk grandpa telling Russian soldiers that he's Russian but lives in Ukraine now, and they should be ashamed of themselves. A man in a car asking why the tank is stopped, and the Russian saying they're out of diesel. The car offers to tow him back to Russia. Women yelling at soldiers out of their windows to put seeds in their pockets so there will be flowers when they're shot dead in the dirt...

Crazy thing--I'm hearing major rumblings that Canadians are pulling their money out of Canadian banks, after Trudeau used the freezing of accounts as a major threat to protestors. It may be enough to topple some banks , or perhaps even the system? Serious things are happening, and it's closer than Ukraine.
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Originally Posted by Erat
My uncle Mikes wife is Ukrainian, her entire family is still over there on the eastern side of the country.

She said everything is shut down. No banks, fuel, food, it's all screeching to a halt. My family pooled a little money together and sent it over. But with banks not being open, it's hard to get cash. Last i heard they were looking for a way to travel and move out.
This saddens me greatly.

I can imagine the very similar conversations which must have taken place among my father / uncles / grandparents in the late 1950s.
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More from propaganda


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Old Feb 27, 2022 | 04:24 PM
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more propaganda.



maybe biden WANTED putin to invade Ukraine...
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Ukrainian women and children burned alive during Russian siege
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