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One of my favourite jokes of all time may be relevant here.
Apparently, there was Asst Professor X at a provincial department Y, and he was up for tenure. Professor X's advisor was a famous Japanese mathematician Z at an Ivy League school. Naturally, he was asked for a letter, which he duly sent. The letter said:
X has a very nice body of work, he proved the following interesting theorems, extended such and such results, used such and such techniques... and so on for two pages. The last sentence was: all in all, X is a very good second-rate mathematician.
The committee was mortified, but figured that the rest of the letter was so good, they should call Z, since maybe since English was not his native language... So, call they did, and the phone conversation went about the same as the letter: did this, improved that, ..., all in all a very good second-rate mathematician.
The committee then said: look, we don't understand why you say he is second-rate!!!
to which Z replied: well, I really can't understand why that would be a problem -- after all, you are a third rate department.
But but yesterday you blew a valve about Ukraine getting them! >

Bluff got called, so call the calling or whatever Poot Poot thinks. Thinks we're all stupid. >

It works well on apparently half the public who are recognizable as Republicans. >

It also work well, on the other half by creating view that divide is permanent and not fixable. In the end both half have to find way of working together.
I'm not going to pretend that it is both half are equally bad kind of situation, but that the whole goal is division and this strategy works to that goal even if one side is morally or factually correct :(.
That it is why it's such an insidious strategy. >


It also work well, on the other half by creating view that divide is permanent and not fixable. In the end both half have to find way of working together.

We didn't tell Germany to find a way to deal with Fascists, we told them to get rid of them. America unfortunately never got rid of fascists themselves. >

That is one of the solution, civil war. This is also win for those who used this strategy. 
It might be the only solution, but I hope not. Perhaps society will manage to wrangle control of social media from libertarian billionaires and reintroduce fairness doctrine. >


It might be the only solution, but I hope not.

It's really about needing to treat commercial press differently than free speech. I don't care about the veracity of somebody talking in a small group or giving live speeches to a live crowd. But there should be some responsibility when a paid company employee's speech is being broadcast with commercial purposes, even if it's simply requiring commercial speech to broadcast redactions in the same manner. In particular, orgs related to news. >

Didn’t their only aircraft carrier catch on fire lmao >

While in dry dock, yes. >

After the dry dock sank and a crane on the dry dock fell on the carrier.
But then it was the guys fixing it who seemed to accidentally set it on fire. >

What is “whoops” in Russian? >

Voops >

That is German. >

Voopsie >

That's Swedish. >

Oy! >

Yiddish >


Putin told his media outlets, however, that the Patriot systems promised to Ukraine were "quite old systems" that do not work like Russia's defense.
"It's just prolonging the conflict, that's all," Putin added.

Whereas keeping his piece of shit army in Ukraine isn't prolonging the conflict.   What a fuckwit. >


do not work like Russia's defense

For a starter, they work, so this much was a given. >

Was going to say... been a awful lot of things blowing up in Russia as of late.. >

As opposed to the brand new s**t Russians have from the 60s and 70s >

*40’s and 50’s my dude. >

They're running around with Mosins. They were accepted into service in 1891. >

Don't forget the maxim machine gun. Cutting edge military >

I feel like I've seen UA use a maxim too. It's honestly good for its age if you have the ammo. >

The Maxims that they have were made in 7.62x54 IIRC so ammo isn't that much of an issue. They've apparently served very well in Bahkmut and a few other places. I mean it was designed as a hard counter to human wave attacks, so.... 
It made me laugh a week or so ago, when I saw one of those pre-Soviet Maxims with a brand new Holosun red-dot sight on it... >

I think bro has personality disorder >

Naw, man, he's just a punk ass bitch trying to save face. >

He's doing a terrible job at it >

He promised the Russian public it would be a fast operation and was told by his advisers before the war that NATO backing would waver in the wintertime due to high energy costs on the EU this just throws a huge wrench on all of that Putin is fucked. >

Ruzzia: Don’t you dare do X or else.
Ukraine: Shrugs and does X
Ruzzia: Ok no big deal, but don’t you dare do Y or else.
Ukraine: Shrugs and does Y
Ruzzia: Ok, ok, huh, well, don’t you dare do Z or I don’t know what I’ll do.
Ukraine: Shrugs and does Z
Ruzzia: Huh, well, no big deal, you will be defeated regardless. >

Stop! Or I'll say, "stop" again! >

Has one aircraft carrier and it's on fire. Again. >

In the dry dock >

Well put it in the water ti get the fire out. >

Then the dry dock would get wet. >

Well it did sink already >

As his nation retrieves 60-year-old tanks from museums and presses them into service. >

Russian Museums must be in a crisis right now >

They've presumably still got plenty of plundered art. >

Bold thing for a man who's equipping 18 year old kids with rifles older than their dads and pulling 50 year old T-62's back into service to say >

Rifles older than their great grandfathers >

Putin: Don't you fucking dare give them Patriot missiles.
Putin: Mother fuckers, I said, look at these mother fucking Nukes, don't give them Patriot missiles
USA: Gives Ukrain patriot missiles
Putin: Eh, they're so old anyways. >

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.
The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it. The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.
Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.
"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."
And off he walked. >

Those patriot missiles are probably newer than anything the Russian forces currently have that's operational. >

He’s also missing out on the fact that military hardware like this is upgraded over the years as new tech gets developed.
I don’t know the exact variant we’re sending, but it’s probably pretty modern actually >

Yep, the missiles might be an old design (so is the Browning .50) but they’ve got 2010s targeting computers and various electronic enhancements. Russia will see how “old” these are shortly after the New Year >

Says the senile old man sending his citizens to die using outdated Soviet era technology. This war has shown Russia to be a glass house. If it weren't for the constant threat of nuclear weapons they'd be steamrolled by now. >

I worked on the patriot system when I was in the army. He’s absolutely right the patriot system is very old which anyone in the military knows is a sign of value if they weren’t still fully capable and just as effective as day 1 the military would’ve replaced it. >

Not to mention they do get upgrades and enhancements. To compare apples to apples, the Navy's Standard ER SAM is roughly the same age and has undergone numerous upgrades. The AIM-9 Sidewinder AA missile was adopted in 1964 and, as the AIM-9M, is still standard weaponry for NATO/Western oriented air forces.
Even setting aside outliers like the B-52 and the C-130, the backbone of much of our defense are 1960s designs that debuted in the 1970s and 1980s, e.g., the F-15, F-16, and F-18, the M1 Abrams, the Navy's AEGIS system and Ohio-class SSBNs, etc. >


The AIM-9 Sidewinder AA missile was adopted in 1964 and, as the AIM-9M, is still standard weaponry for NATO/Western oriented air forces.

Honestly, often “upgrades” are just a fig leaf to get through appropriations easier than a new system. The original Sidewinder and the current AIM-9x have almost nothing in common, other than the rough size and role, and being “heat seeking” (though the newer ones are imaging infrared, which is a completely different tech). It’s more like car models. No one would look at a Corvette C8 and be like “Hahah, that was introduced in the 1950’s!”. >

Quite old indeed. But still generations ahead of the stuff Russia has... >

Yea I’m kinda laughing at Putins take here.
Yes they are old (80s or so) but that’s kinda the flex.. we have systems from 40 years ago that are gonna fuck his missiles up.
Does he really wanna see the new systems we are coming up with now? >

He’s the expert on outdated military things >

Every accusation is an admittance. >

I can't stop laughing about how this is literally the fuckin' douchbag pickup shtick. You know what I'm talking about, right?
"Hey girl, I think you're sexy as fuck!"
"Don't talk to me."
"Oh yeah? Like you're anything special!"
It's one to fucking one. >

Oh my God you're right. Bahaha! I don't think I'll ever be able to read anything Putin says in any other way now. >

This is going to age like milk >

Russian hubris at record highs these days >

Ffs, stop posting Newsweek clickbait. 
It’s literally owned by The Community. >

And now it makes sense. Thank you for linking to the Rolling Stone article. I missed that one and also had not yet tied "the community" to the moonies. Really appreciate the comment. >

Do you smell that? What's that smell? Putin, did you just shit your pants? >

I just Pooed-in my pants >

younger than your bullets biotch. >

Says the guy getting arms from North Korea. Lol. >

Say the dude using t64 tanks. That fk amazing >

And mosin that are over a century old. >

He says unironically while sourcing 50 year old munitions from North Korea. >

Old yet still pretty good at shooting down enemy missiles.  My car is "quite old" yet still runs fine.  Yea MAZDA! >

That is hilarious. >

Your whole military is quite old. >

The troops keep getting newer. >


Despite our warnings, [a] Patriot air defense system will be sent to Kyiv

I don’t remember asking you a gd question. >

Shit still beats Soviet era weaponry Kremlin has >

Putin being a puto like always >

As George Lopez said FTP = Fuck that Puto >


Russia hit back at reports that the U.S. is poised to send the Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, calling it a “provocative” move that “can lead to unpredictable consequences.”
Patriots enter Ukraine "along with NATO personnel, they will immediately become a legitimate target for our armed forces." 
The Patriot air defence is outdated. An antidote will always be found … Russia will knock down the Patriot system,” he declared on Thursday.

There seems to be a progression, “Don’t do it, Really we mean it, If you do it we’ll beat you up, Never mind you’re not worth it, I could beat you easily” >

40 gear old ocean missile put out their most advanced naval ship. I'm pretty sure our 40 year old anti air missiles can put down the best Russian planes >

The best Russian planes are little more than a concept drawing anyway. >

Bro invaded a country in 2022 with T-54/55s and he’s lecturing about the age of Patriot systems >

Hey now they're using T-62's as well, give them credit