Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-23 and Invasion

[Jacob]

Plus maybe going beyond polite refined fact checking and start calling out Carlson and the like for the fucking traitors they are.

I've gotten used to their disinformation machine being abused to screw around with tax policy and sabotage Democrats but carrying water for Putin's clique while he is mass murdering his way through Ukraine is going too far.

As I've been saying for years: Murdoch is a cancer.

I wonder if any NSA / CIA / other national security types are motivated / empowered to investigate to what degree Fox has been suborned by hostile foreign interests.

[FunkMonk]

I wonder, because Trump got his Twitter account axed, would Twitter actually ban Russian government accounts for spreading conspiracy theories and generally being asses?

[Sheilbh]

I wonder, because Trump got his Twitter account axed, would Twitter actually ban Russian government accounts for spreading conspiracy theories and generally being asses?

They've removed a tweet from the Russian embassy in the UK today - basically saying the pregnant woman in that picture from Mariupol was an actor, it was staged and the Azov Battalion had cleared and taken over the maternity hospital days ago.

But not actually removed/dealt with the account.

[crazy canuck]

I wonder, because Trump got his Twitter account axed, would Twitter actually ban Russian government accounts for spreading conspiracy theories and generally being asses?

They've removed a tweet from the Russian embassy in the UK today - basically saying the pregnant woman in that picture from Mariupol was an actor, it was staged and the Azov Battalion had cleared and taken over the maternity hospital days ago.

But not actually removed/dealt with the account.

It took them years to remove Trump's misinformation account. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I wonder, because Trump got his Twitter account axed, would Twitter actually ban Russian government accounts for spreading conspiracy theories and generally being asses?

 

It took them years to remove Trump's misinformation account. 

That was... complicated.

[PDH]

Watching how that armor column piled up into a chokepoint to be hit at the head then the tail which made advance and retreat a far slower deal...the Russian "change is tactics" is to try the same thing as earlier but with more stupid.

[Razgovory]

Trump, asked for a podcast how he thinks the war will play out ... talks about windmills being shit.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1501733405423251456?s=20&t=Iyyx9nPDaJM-_2F-Xus2nA

His brain rot must be terrible.

No, he's just cowardly.  Answering the question would put him position of possibly being wrong.  He can't take that.

[Sheilbh]

On inane cultural nonsense - as well as the Cardiff Philharmonic cancelling their Tchaikovsky programme (), I see the Montreal Symphony Orchestra has called off a concert by a young Russian pianist who has repeatedly spoken out against the war It just seems very bizarre.

[Tamas]

On inane cultural nonsense - as well as the Cardiff Philharmonic cancelling their Tchaikovsky programme (), I see the Montreal Symphony Orchestra has called off a concert by a young Russian pianist who has repeatedly spoken out against the war It just seems very bizarre.

Both of these are nasty idiocies especially the second one.

EDIT: on second thought not focusing on a Russian composer for a bit is probably wise to avoid looking like you have a political meesage, and it is  perhaps better for the pianist kid to be left out of all this. Still feels wrong though.

[The Brain]

*shrug* Russia's brand is toxic. Which is hardly surprising.

[Admiral Yi]

I've seen shitloads of blown up Russian equipment taped on camera phones, and I've seen quite a few Russian POWs saying how sorry they are.

Why is Russia not publishing equivalents?  Surely they've knocked out *some* Ukrainian gear.

Or does that work against the propaganda narrative that it's a bloodless special operation to liberate Ukrainians from the nazi junta?

[Grey Fox]

@The Brits, not Yi.

Londongrad works deeply.

[Admiral Yi]

Je comprend pas

[Grey Fox]

Je comprend pas

I hadn't seen your post. I was replaying to the Brit cabal.

[alfred russel]

*shrug* Russia's brand is toxic. Which is hardly surprising.

so it is cool to discriminate against people if their nation of origin does something stupid?