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the_dunk_tank @hexbear.net ThisMachineKillsFascists [they/them] @hexbear.net 1 yr. ago

That will show 'em!

I'm starting to see why America hasn't won a war in like 100 years.

It's pretty embarrassing when you starve your people just to have the world's most expensive army... only to constantly lose. Lmao.

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damn they just lower cased my ethnicity
- your ethnicity was already lowercase in my other native language, as are all ethnicities. soon we will be freed from the shackles of capital(ist) letters for good, comrade! have we learned nothing from toki pona? from palawa kani? from some third language i'm unfamiliar with, whose orthography only makes use of lowercase latin letters? we don't want uppercase, we don't need uppercase. all that capital letters do is force children to learn a second set of letters that do all the same shit as the first set but are used less often. what type of garbage is that!
- Damn they just lower cased the ketchup salad dressing
  
  Damn they just lower cased one of the worst "salads" to ever exist.
- we honor your sacrifice
things you do when you are winning the war
I'm starting to see why America hasn't won a war in like 100 years.

Because they've come to the conclusion they don't have to, and that plunging entire world regions into chaos is enough to secure their hegemony. When you've lost Korea and Vietnam and Iraq and Afghanistan and are still on top, you start to think "it doesn't matter, we just have to fuck shit up and it'll work in our favor". Amerika doesn't need all of Ukraine, they've already written off the losses. They've already gotten at least a decade worth of wartime production for the entire IMC of the Western world out of this, they've ended cheap Russian gas for their European allies-hostages-competitors and replaced some of the supply with their own gas shipments, they'll ultimately have a greater Eastern European sphere of influence than ever before, their stay behind nazi sleeper cells get free refills on military hardware and actual combat experience if they want to and Blackrock is buying finest Ukrainian farmland at bargain bin prices. A military victory where Russia doesn't get Crimea, Donbass and Luhansk means fucking nothing compared to all that, it'd be the cherry on top but it doesn't truly matter when all the other stuff is secure.
- Wise words
- Yeah, America doesn't "win" wars, it profits from them.
mr russia, your fired sir
- hes fired
The royal academy of the Spanish language has always been run by the most reactionary, petty and self-important aristocratic geezers, as the name suggests, and considering Spain's history, they're VERY reactionary, petty and self-important.

Not even they do this kinda bs. This is clown shoes.

Also, if it's the Ukrainian spelling shouldn't it be in cyrillic?
- They’re preparing for the romanization of Ukrainian language so they can get rid of all ruzzian influenza
- Not when its geared to a Western English-speaking audience.
- I have to imagine that academy gets its knickers in a bunch frequently with regards to regional variants of Spanish in the Americas.
  
  Or it reminds them of the good old colonial days.
  
  they also might only care about how spanish is spoken in spain
- is the implication supposed to be that Russia, the country, does not exist?
  
  that would be the real implication i suppose, but I'm sure it was intended just as disrespect
This radiates serious loser energy.
Reminds me of tRump. Which I always thought was caused by lead exposure but it's apparently some dumb joke genX likes (probably due to all the lead exposure).
- Honestly "trump" is already Br*tish for "fart" so they literally could've left the name as it was and it still would've been a joke
- Drumpf
More like sussia
- I’d honestly have more respect for Ukraine if they officially made this the new name for Sussia
  
  Now all we need is for Zelensky to accuse Putin of venting
  
  I'd have more respect for the Ukraine.
wait i already do this with all words
- a true anticapitalist
least childish Ukraine supporter
Propaganda used to be beautiful, dramatic, or horrifying paintings of war, military, and ideology. Now it’s just 240p edits of squished dogs in adidas outfits, getting mad when someone says “the Ukraine” or “Kiev,” and lowercasing countries’ names
- It's only acceptable to get mad at someone for writing "the Ukraine" when it's in German and for a full-chest tattoo
The chapter where Sun Tzu stresses the importance of being insufferably and arbitrarily pedantic online is my favorite chapter in The Art of War.
They're doing the Drumpf bit again!

THEY'RE DOING THE DRUMPF BIT AGAIN!
- Maoist English but for libs
what are nouns even

i remember when western media switched from Kiev to Kyiv, I think it was ~2019. even though Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukrainian is.
- even though Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukrainian is
  
  nationality is when you're racially and ethnically pure
  
  How do I punch a comment?
  
  That's NOOO GOOD!
  
  Permanently Deleted
- The true solution to the Kyiv vs Kiev spelling debate is to spell the city's name as Qxuieghyiefvwue. It's the only way.
  
  The city is called Keith
Grammar Nazis
OH MY GOD FINALLY WHAT TOOK THEM TOOK THEM SO LONG
Zelensky gets an eightball for every 5 old men that die on the front.

Ukraine: "i'm not being owned, you are!"
Reddit country
Damn it, they're stealing the bit I do where I never capitalize nazi.
mr putin, your fired sir
:anti-capital-aktion:
- :eecummingsshining:
~~Russia~~ russia is finished
I was just in Pisa Italy and saw stenciled spray paints all over the sidewalks that said "RUSSIA IS A TERRORIST STATE" every other block or so.

Italy doing its part for NATO. 😆
- Aren't you Gladio that Italy is doing their part?
- in English or Italian?
  
  English
- Makes sense I mean they just elected a proud descendant of mussolini.
  
  Ohh wait
I am once again reminded of the scene in Barefoot Gen where the Japanese public is instructed to step on caricatures of Churchill and Roosevelt painted on the sidewalk and the dad thinks the whole thing is pathetic
So the ukies' previous attempt at owning Putler by calling the country "Muscovy" instead of Russia didn't catch on?
Ukraine are not the standards authority for the English language.
- Who would you say is the standards authority for the English language?
  
  It's me. I am
  
  None. English is not a prescriptivist language.
TBF it does annoy the shit out of me when people write Russia with lowercase. Some people do it here, on the 'Grad and Hexbear and it's annoying
- capital letters are bourgeois decadence
- Im assuming you are distincting between people doing a weird freedom fries bit and people who just dont give a shit about capitalization on an internet post
- I often do it because it's an annoying custom in english to capitalize some nouns and not others. america, china, russia, australia all recieve lower cases because I don't care to hit the caps key.
  
  If my autocorrect doesn't do it for me I don't care about capitalization or apostrophe's. Also I won't correct it when its wrong. Commas are used if I feel like it.
- anti-capitalism
russia
- So brave
What does America have to do with this caption?
- American sponsored war
  
  There’s over 45 countries that have provided mutations/aid for the defense of Ukraine. Singling out one particular country seems disingenuous when you think about it. It’s okay to not like America but your OP is strange to me since the caption is specifically about a Ukrainian policy or whatever it is.
  
  It would be like me posting about cereal or something and then saying “China bad”. See what I’m saying?

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