Current Affairs Ukraine

[LinekersLegs]

Its always humiliating, and it appalls me how (and I don't mean you or anyone else on here) so many hacks and people online post that guys videos gleefully for the lulz whilst also being appalled when Aslin and the rest of the volunteers were paraded on Russian state TV.

It is never ok to film guys in that position.

Not just that (although it is reason enough) but they and their families back in Russia could face repercussions depending on how they were captured.

 

[Tree13]

Well, I suppose invading a country on the basis that you believe it is populated entirely by gay Satanists is marginally less absurd than claiming you're doing it because that country's Jewish leader is a Nazi.

The propoganda war being waged by the Kremlin upon its own people is staggering.

 

[Wizard]

I thought they were in Ukraine to stop the Nazis, not “the gays”.

 

[LinekersLegs]

"all of us are the Spartans of the 21st century" is also an odd thing to say right before you say you are against LGBT

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest they haven’t really looked into Spartan and ancient Greeks views on homosexuality…!

The whole thing I find quite bizarre anyway re using the Spartans as motivation - did they fall asleep before the end of the movie 300 and miss the bit where they all rather painfully died after being betrayed by a fellow Greek?

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

I thought they were in Ukraine to stop the Nazis, not “the gays”.

Gay Nazi’s - keep up!

 

[LinekersLegs]

Wonder if there is a recording of their conversation

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Wonder if there is a recording of their conversation

Musk is such a tool.

 

[Goat]

Wonder if there is a recording of their conversation

I noticed this in his twitter feed.

Christ.

 

[Wizard]

Wonder if there is a recording of their conversation

I would assume not because surely he can’t be that stupid. It is Elon so possibly…

 

[tsubaki]

I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest they haven’t really looked into Spartan and ancient Greeks views on homosexuality…!

The whole thing I find quite bizarre anyway re using the Spartans as motivation - did they fall asleep before the end of the movie 300 and miss the bit where they all rather painfully died after being betrayed by a fellow Greek?

There is probably a very good book to be written on the psychological influence of 300 - certainly on reflection one could make a good argument that it influenced every superhero movie since as well as making audiences more receptive to that kind of thing. Loads of people lapped that film up.

In terms of their motivation, I'm sure they saw the end (indeed the end is the point) but historically it is mad that people living now picked up on them, almost to the exclusion of every other Greek city state. They were an abject failure even in Greek city-state terms by the 350s and had become a sort of live action ye-olde-times tourist attraction 400 years later.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Wizard]

Can’t think of a single person in this thread that has been pushing that narrative. Can you @davids?

 

[devogue]

Have you noticed that @ramacca and @bluestevon become active on here at the same time?

Bit weird that isn’t it?

I always assumed ramacca was Kev the Rat as they started posting after Kev was banned from the thread but idk.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Wonder if there is a recording of their conversation

If I were Putin, and I wanted to leak something while giving it instant credibility, Elon Musk would be an excellent way to do that. Elon's lack of a filter means people (often mistakenly) assume he's being honest. Of course, it doesn't follow that Putin was honest with Elon in the conversation.

 

[McBain]

Tbh soon as the winters over they're be all sorts of wholes where that was filled.

Funniest thing you ever see here is every may them filling wholes then the next year pretty much doing the same things again.

Corruption on building materials is rife. Plus never seen anywhere laying tarmac before whilst it was bucketinging it down raining...

Wholly amazing take on council workers comrade