Keith Houchen Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 7 minutes ago, 69MeDon said: I'm sure he will un-ban them when the war is over. I mean, he will, right? Yeah I’m sure he won’t forget or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69MeDon Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Keith Houchen said: Yeah I’m sure he won’t forget or anything. Yeah, and I'm sure he was just getting around to unbanning those three opposition TV stations he banned in February of last year, but then the war started and it just went right out of his mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 37 minutes ago, 69MeDon said: Yeah, and I'm sure he was just getting around to unbanning those three opposition TV stations he banned in February of last year, but then the war started and it just went right out of his mind. Don’t worry, they can all be merged into this new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 I take it this wasn’t comrade Keith? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 14 minutes ago, Mr_Danger said: take it this wasn’t comrade Keith? Nyet. I use the double Y spelling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Danger Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 18 minutes ago, Keith Houchen said: Nyet. I use the double Y spelling. Don’t be a spelling Stalinist be a spelling Neo Nazi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 What the fuck is going on? There's seemingly 100's of these videos in this Twitter thread and more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperBacon Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Look I know this isn't the main thing to take from that first video, and it IS horrific, but is that the fucking Terminator theme he's playing on the piano? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted March 20, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2022 23 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Look I know this isn't the main thing to take from that first video, and it IS horrific, but is that the fucking Terminator theme he's playing on the piano? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 20, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 20, 2022 1 minute ago, Nostalgia Nonce said: Yes. It's almost as if your 80s action movie senses were tingling when Bacon asked that question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 I guess Varg's brand of fascism doesn't match theirs. I'm pretty sure he views both leaders as puppets of "them", the fucking proper racist nutter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 21, 2022 Moderators Share Posted March 21, 2022 23 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: This is what leadership looks like. Fighting to keep democracy alive. But he’s the good guy so it isn’t a purge or anything resembling what a dictator would do. That’s different. In over my head on this stuff. No idea what sources to trust and no time to find out tbh. One lot of sources says this is an ultra nationalist power grab and others say that they were all pro-russian with financial ties to Russia. 🤷🏽 My gut says the intensity of the situation has created some serious paranoia that's leading to questionable and overly broad decisions, but that they're are motivated by aims of national security over future power consolidation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 3 minutes ago, Chest Rockwell said: In over my head on this stuff. No idea what sources to trust and no time to find out tbh. One lot of sources says this is an ultra nationalist power grab and others say that they were all pro-russian with financial ties to Russia. 🤷🏽 My gut says the intensity of the situation has created some serious paranoia that's leading to questionable and overly broad decisions, but that they're are motivated by aims of national security over future power consolidation. Interesting that none of the far right parties were proscribed. Some of the parties have ties to Russia in the sense that Ukraine has a fairly substantial Russian population in the east and a lot of these parties are popular there, but they’ve (at least some of them what I’ve seen) have condemned the invasion. I think it’s absolute shite that a party with 44 seats are booted out. Hopefully it’s temporary though. As you say, these are not normal times, and martial law can always be seen as paranoid and overreaching. I think there are too many, ahem, red flags surrounding Zelenskyy for me to give him the benefit of the doubt. Sure he’s gutted about that. Also completely unrelated, it pisses me off the way people/idiots make out that Putin and Russia are somehow left wing and how this is communism rearing it’s ugly head again. Arseholes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted March 21, 2022 Paid Members Share Posted March 21, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: Also completely unrelated, it pisses me off the way people/idiots make out that Putin and Russia are somehow left wing and how this is communism rearing it’s ugly head again. Arseholes. I put this down to the simple fact that people have become largely unaccustomed to the idea of enmity with other countries or spheres on the basis of nothing more than self-interest and power rivalries, rather than political ideology, at least at the level of the general population who've been sold the idea that the big enemies of our times have been either the Communists, or the Muslims. The last time we went to war with any other states over something other than the pretext of political principle was probably WWI (and even then, the people were probably told there was something principled in it). They can't get their heads around the idea that Putin's Russia is a capitalist state that's vying with the US and the West for power, so they just settle for the easy Russia = USSR. Putin has essentially brought back imperial Russia, not the USSR. Edited March 21, 2022 by Carbomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Correction to my post before yours, two of the proscribed parties seem to be pretty far right so I got that wrong when I said it was left parties, it was mainly left parties. 19 minutes ago, Carbomb said: Putin has essentially brought back imperial Russia, not the USSR. Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.