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Author : app4soft
Score : 50 points
Date : 2022-09-03 16:47 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| dejj wrote:
| Reminds me of the fabulous Grass Mud Horse.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
| EarlKing wrote:
| Be sure... to drink... your ovaltine?
| diimdeep wrote:
| Instead of peace propaganda, Ukrainians create memes about
| bombings. And not just any Ukrainians, this is posted by official
| Defence intelligence of Ukraine. How people will judge this in
| future ? IDK, but I think Ukrainians shooting yourself in the
| foot.
| epakai wrote:
| If the meme resonates the bombs will detonate.
| mlyle wrote:
| > Instead of peace propaganda, Ukrainians create memes about
| bombings.
|
| I think if you're defending from a war of aggression, you might
| be able to flex now and then when things go alright and maybe
| even misspeak a few times and still avoid the judgment of
| history ;)
| djohnston wrote:
| Lol for real? You think Ukrainians are the ones history is
| going to judge for this?
| nine_k wrote:
| In WWII, the French surrendered to Germans and preserved some
| modicum of peace, and the British fought staunchly, at a high
| cost (see Coventry).
|
| Who, do you think, made a more appropriate choice?
| diimdeep wrote:
| Not relevant comparison, it has nothing to do with current
| conflict.
|
| Imagine world where china-india-middle_east-russia military
| organization in 800 km from Washington destabilize region,
| training military, and doing all kinds of military
| activities. And US reacts, is it aggression or protection of
| sovereignty ?
| mopsi wrote:
| Accusations of the USA and NATO destabilizing Russia are
| not grounded in facts. Quite the opposite: even before the
| USSR collapsed, its territorial integrity was among main
| concerns in the West, driven by the fear of nukes going
| into wrong hands.
|
| Here's a pretty good article on the topic:
| https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/stop-
| tiptoeing-...
|
| After 1991, the western aid to that you mention has been
| built free and stable societies in Eastern Europe, which
| has given Russia exceptional security at its borders. What
| "protection of sovereignty" are you talking about, from
| whom?
| nine_k wrote:
| Russia and Venezuela had a military exercise together in a
| not so distant past.
|
| The closest analogy would be the Communist Cuba and the
| crisis after the Soviets put nuclear weapons there. Cuba
| has not been annexed, or declared the core US land, though.
| Permit wrote:
| > How people will judge this in future ?
|
| Probably quite favorably. There appears to be broad support for
| Ukrainians across the entire political spectrum in the western
| world. I can't think of any other recent issues that have
| united the western world so completely.
|
| What kind of judgement did you have in mind?
| diimdeep wrote:
| I do not think memes about explosions (killing people) is
| acceptable in healthy society, does not matter who posts it
| and against whom.
| rendall wrote:
| Hard disagree if the killed are volunteers (i.e. invading,
| genocidal marauders). As the saying goes, play stupid
| games, win stupid prizes. The solution to the problem of
| getting blown up by the defending army is pretty simple:
| surrender, or otherwise get the fuck out.
| Theodores wrote:
| In the day job, writing code, I have options to give things fun
| names, to add a touch of humour to the error messages and to
| add Easter Eggs. These are funny when everything works but if
| boss man is there and the website is down and the 503 page has
| my cocky joke then it is not going to be funny or clever.
|
| Due to the nature of either-you-are-with-us-or-against-us two-
| tribes conflict, public diplomacy has to be very Marmite. The
| Ukrainian side want to attract numerate people able to help
| them win the war. They don't care about what people outside
| their audience think because they get their news sources
| elsewhere.
|
| I would be surprised if this tweet was considered noteworthy by
| political commentators that are prone to use the last letter of
| the alphabet in red white and blue stripes.
| LittlePeter wrote:
| If Ukrainians are shooting themselves in the foot by doing
| memes about bombings, how would you describe Russia's invasion?
| How will that be judged?
| gfaure wrote:
| "bavovna" (bavovna) is explained by Illia Ponomarenko here better
| than I could myself:
| https://twitter.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1557458609541349376
| ipnon wrote:
| Is this related to the self-awareness Twitter meme? Amtrak
| tweeted "trains," Department of Energy tweeted "energy," and so
| on. The official Twitter account of Ukraine tweeted "victory"
| yesterday, might this be a play on the meme to show Defense
| Intelligence of Ukraine is all about ciphers?
| dogma1138 wrote:
| USSTRATCOM tweeted "Deterrence" I can't feel anything other
| than we're definitely living in the stupid timeline when
| nuclear weapons are tied to memes.
| yreg wrote:
| Caesar cipher for KRYMSKA BAVOVNA, translates as Crimean cotton.
|
| "Ukrainians ironically call explosions in Russia or in occupied
| territory 'cotton'-bavovna - bavovna, ridiculing Russian media
| use of a word khlopok (a bang) in a sense of explosion, which is
| written in the same way as cotton - khlopok"
|
| source:
| https://twitter.com/olgatokariuk/status/1557042276869734401
| zoomablemind wrote:
| In addition to this, the fluffy explosion clouds from the hit
| ammo, mil equpment, and fuel depots do resemble big wads of
| cotton in the sky, well, of much darker shade.
|
| Another expression apropos is "HIMARS o'clock".
| R0b0t1 wrote:
| Feint - Mirror signal
|
| IC3PEAK - Zerkalo (Mirror)
|
| Feint - Stairway to Heaven (You Are Slaves)
|
| FACE - Kotton (Cotton)
|
| The Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready To Crumble
|
| Scarcity of Tanks (band)
| benj111 wrote:
| Is this linked to gun cotton in anyway?
| app4soft wrote:
| [0] https://www.dcode.fr/letter-number-cipher
| odiroot wrote:
| So KRYMSKABAVOVNA?
| phoe-krk wrote:
| Yes, Crimean cotton.
| https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bavovna seems
| to have more context for this.
| danielodievich wrote:
| Bavovna means cotton, which in Russian is spelled khlopok,
| which is a word that means both cotton and clap (or a loud
| clap), depending on which syllable you accent the word on.
|
| It is a play on current "New Russian" language that is part
| of the russian propaganda that calls explosions "claps",
| collapse "negative growth" and so on.
| lun4r wrote:
| There are two Telegram channels with 'krymbavovna' belonging to
| the Ukrainian armed forces:
|
| https://t.me/krymbavovna_chat https://t.me/krymbavovna_bot
| [deleted]
| ssizn wrote:
| 13415 wrote:
| No you didn't, and it doesn't
| fegu wrote:
| I bet you are fun at parties:)
| Beltalowda wrote:
| No one here seems especially fun at parties.
| [deleted]
| falcolas wrote:
| Well, hello fun police. Hard at work today?
| msla wrote:
| > gorillion
|
| Openly dogwhistling Holocaust denialism.
|
| https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/six-gorillion
| 2Gkashmiri wrote:
| can you help me explain the boner some people get around
| holocaust denial? i mean on both sides?
|
| one party denies it happened? why? are they ignoring facts?
| second party throws up a tantrum "why wont they accept
| facts", both start fighting. why?
|
| today we have flat-earthers. big deal...
|
| i understand the concept of remembering a terrible incident
| but why can't people have opinions? like i can try to
| convince a flat-earther that the world is round but they wont
| listen so should i beat them with a lead pipe til they accept
| my point?
|
| i am not trying to undermine anyone's suffering, shit happens
| but why is the current generation, someone who has NOT seen
| the events first hand so adamant on everyone toeing their
| line?
|
| i am under actual persecution as i write this so its not like
| i don't know what that feels like but yeah
| mcphage wrote:
| "gorillion" is used outside of Holocaust denialism. As is
| "six", and "muh".
| wolfram74 wrote:
| I've heard gajillion, kajillion, bazillion and during the
| 2014 world cup, brazillion before, but gorillion is a new
| one to me.
| sli wrote:
| "A Gorillian Dollars" was a short-lived meme back in
| 2011. It was a cartoon of a gorilla in a suit holding an
| open briefcase full of money. Described (derisively) on
| UD: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Goril
| lion%20...
| mcphage wrote:
| That's where I know it from.
| tom_ wrote:
| Wouldn't be much of a dogwhistle if there wasn't at least
| some plausible deniability.
| uxp100 wrote:
| It uh, really isn't.
| gsich wrote:
| no
| superchroma wrote:
| no
| kurupt213 wrote:
| Baidenu nam potriben shche odin kvadril'ion dolariv
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