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Post by Corsair114 » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:31 pm

Let's stalk a person who may or may not be the founder of bitcoin and then post a picture of his house and address on the Internet.
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Let's just make this a double-header of W.T.F.-edness.
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Post by nockermensch » Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:45 pm

> virgil wrote:http://fightland.vice.com/blog/brazilia ... protestors
> Aside from the amusing idea of jiu-jitsu police squads in an After Sundown game, I'm confused by some people's responses to this...

> > Random Schmuck wrote:What? Brazil is a Communist-Socialist-Progressive country. Why are people rioting in a "people's paradise"?
> > I thought everyone would be happy once the evil capitalists were forced to be subservient to an all-powerful state? Like the capitalists are in Venezuela and China, and now under Obama's USA.

Brazil is far from a nice place. What the labour government has been doing during their decade+ in power was reducing inequality by finally implementing the social programs that the civilised word takes for granted, like food stamps. I can't blame them, because should be impossible to address any other problem if your people are still dying when droughts hit (and they did until the fukken 1990s). The current big program is one that imports medics from other countries to go to where no brazilian doctor wants to go (brazilian doctors are elitists). A big part of these foreign doctors are Cubans, so you can imagine the frothing anger from regressive sectors now that poor brazilians from remote places (remote places in Brazil = "everywhere that's not a state capital") will begin to not dying from easily prevented diseases, at the hands of socialists.
That being said, we still have bad infrastructure, a shitty educational system and a chronic and pervasive corruption problem. The correct way to attack the corruption problem would be to invest heavily into education right now, with mandatory civics classes, so that in 15 years or so we could have a critical mass of people not willing to put up with that shit anymore. This is not being done, however, and probably never will, so there will always be a large undercurrent of anger in Brazil.
That being said, the protests against the World Cup are totally astroturfed by regressive sectors, as part of their long term strategy of creating instability and proving that "the government is bad", which by now is their only slight quasi-legal hope of regaining the power. The other hope is a coup, of course, and this is also being considered.
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Post by Redshirt » Fri Mar 07, 2014 6:54 pm

The Crimean parliament has released its ballot for the referendum on joining Russia. There are only two options: being annexed by Russia, or going back to the 1992 constitution that had Crimea as an independent republic that was still part Ukraine. Maintaining the current constitution, or becoming a fully independent state, are nowhere on the ballot.
Incidentally, the current executive leadership of Crimea was installed on February 27th, after Russian troops totally native pro-Russian self defense-forces stormed the parliament, locked the doors, and confiscated everyone's phones. Immediately afterwards, the majority of MPs decided that the Russian Unity party, which got about 4% of the vote last time, had some really great ideas, and made their leader the new Prime Minister.
I'm sure all of this has been completely above-board.
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Post by Maxus » Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:14 pm

Looks legit
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Post by Username17 » Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:15 pm

Hilariously dickish, although it's important to remember that the Crimeans never agreed to the later constitutions. The last legal constitution of Crimea (from the standpoint of the Crimeans) would be the 1992 one. Crimea has voted to install the 1992 constitution repeatedly, only to have it annulled unilaterally by the government in Kiev time and time again. The Crimeans never voted to be part of Ukraine. They voted for autonomy by 88 points with an 81% turnout. Ukraine has always been shitting on democracy in Crimea, even going so far as to abolish their presidency entirely and rule by decree in 1995.
The Crimeans had several chances to vote on whether they wanted to be part of Ukraine, and they have always voted no. The fact that they are nonetheless considered to be part of Ukraine against their repeatedly expressed wishes is one of the great mysteries of the modern world.
Yes, for completeness sake there should be more options on the ballot. Hell, there should be nested options. But "Join Russia" or "Revert to the last thing we actually fucking voted for" is not that weird of a proposal.
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Post by Josh_Kablack » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:34 pm

The current weekly email circular from my FLGS is headlined "[STORENAME] votes to annex Crimea!".
At least they know their votes are being ignored.
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Post by Longes » Sat Mar 15, 2014 5:00 pm

http://youtu.be/9aoNh-KXsdE
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Post by Koumei » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:45 pm

So, March 2011 there was a "convoy of no-confidence" against then-PM Julia Gillard. Murdoch's money managed to bankroll something like ten trucks and a thousand people to protest. Melbourne had 100-500 people in a protest. It was plastered all over every news channel owned by Murdoch. Which is most of them.
This March, Melbourne alone had 50,000 protesters swarming the streets. Only the national broadcasting service, ABC, has really covered it. But still, 50,000. That's pretty awesome. It has not taken long for him to thoroughly anger the populace on basically every level. This guy has a worse public image than Polio (which to be fair has a certain charm to it).

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Post by PhoneLobster » Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:25 am

The local private media described the local rally as basically just a few workers from a specific annoyed union marching about something something, whatever, fuck those unions am I right, high fives all round.
And who cares if they were just a fraction of a mass movement with a remarkably large turn out for a non-capital city turning out in tandem with tens of thousands around the nation in numbers basically unprecedented since the Iraq war protests on the also unprecedented issue of simple general dissatisfaction with an existing democratically elected government taking an alarming ideological axe to everything in fucking sight.
Because that doesn't need mentioning, but unions need more demonizing for the up coming union busting/workers rights purge that is currently already being broadcast loud and clear by smug wankers.
On the plus side it looks like as early as this Thursday IF Abbots "you better let me have everything I want in senate or I will call a new election and get everything I want anyway!' supposed threat gets a formal legal trigger when his attempt to basically shut down Australia's wind and solar power industries gets rejected again.
I mean the spineless slimy lying fucker won't call a double dissolution, but he totally fucking crowed it to the heavens that he would at the drop of the hat, and the hat drops on Thursday.
edit: wait, Thursday was yesterday... was that this week or next... fuck it, I don't remember, but I think it was a Thursday. It largely doesn't matter since it's a fizzler, but you get the idea.
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Post by Koumei » Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:27 am

I know, if he actually did call for some Double-Ds a DD, I would be so happy. Most Australians I know are basically going "DO IT, BRING IT ON, I DOUBLE DARE YOU!" because that would basically be the punchline to a long, drawn-out joke that starts with "So the new opposition leader against K-Rudd is the Mad Monk..." and ends with "And then six months in he gets booted back out!"
Also, something awesome: there's a cafe in the NT that has a notice for all patrons. They don't sell any newspapers that are owned by Murdoch, "a foreign national who gave up his Australian citizenship and thus his right to have a say in Australian politics". They decided his papers would not be welcome, and so "because he owns all the local papers, we have imported them from NSW and VIC". It's delightfully petty (and makes a serious point).

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Post by Username17 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:51 am

The Ukrainian junta has started liquidating their brown shirts. That was quick. Seems like only last week that the junta government was still having those guys patrol Maidan square to intimidate people who didn't like the new government. Far right politicians film themselves beating up a news director, and the whole fascist wing of the Maidan junta is suddenly treated as a liability.
I'm not surprised that UDAR and Fatherland are throwing Svoboda and Right Sector under the bus, I'm surprised that they are doing it so quickly.
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Post by Redshirt » Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:27 pm

They're a junta now?
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Post by Maxus » Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:31 pm

http://time.com/38409/north-korea-kim-jong-un-haircut/
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Post by Redshirt » Wed Mar 26, 2014 5:39 pm

> “Until the mid-2000s, we called it the ‘Chinese smuggler haircut,” the source told the Korea Times.

That actually makes it sound kinda cool.
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Post by Maj » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:12 pm

This is so bizarre that I have to wonder if it originated on some form of satire site.
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Post by RobbyPants » Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:19 pm

> Maj wrote:This is so bizarre that I have to wonder if it originated on some form of satire site.

The very first thing I checked on that was the URL. I'd like to hope it's just satire. It sounds like something the Onion would post.
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Post by Username17 » Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:29 pm

I think what's going on is that the state has decided that the great leader's hairstyle should be more common and is strongly encouraging people to adopt it. You're only allowed to have one of 14 different hairstyles while in North Korean university, and now Kim Jong Un's hairstyle is one of the options. But the story that everyone was being forced to adopt Kim's haircut is almost certainly fake.
North Korea is a crazy place, but not quite that crazy.
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Post by Maj » Thu Mar 27, 2014 5:10 pm

I tracked it all the way back to a Korean website, but since I can't read Korean, I dead-ended. Maybe there's a Korean satire site? I don't know. But the Slate article seems to make sense.
I suppose we'll find out soon enough.
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Post by Koumei » Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:40 am

> FrankTrollman wrote:You're only allowed to have one of 14 different hairstyles while in North Korean university

> North Korea is a crazy place, but not quite that crazy.

It's only a 5-foot step away from it though.

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Post by tussock » Fri Mar 28, 2014 3:57 am

Huh. So meanwhile, in the Ukraine.
http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.nz/
I forgot about Dmitri in all this, nice guy.
So they're broke already. Big time. 50% on the bond market and they've no way to pay that other than massive currency devaluation.
The nation's entire army has, almost completely now, joined the Russian army, citizenship and all. The Air Force has grounded all flights and is openly refusing orders from anyone who isn't the head of a duly elected government (which is everyone).
Coincidentally, about 80% of Ukrainians primarily speak and read Russian, especially the city folk with educations and stuff, at least on the internet. Also 10% English, and 10% Ukrainian. Remember how the new guys sort of banned the Russian language? Yeah, they all speak Russian too, so, uh ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxSzSWbcxo
Leader of the new Ukrainian junta suggests genocide in Crimea. Leaked from Germany. In parliament they claim to be "holding back" the Russian forces, which is funny really, when they don't even have an army any more.
It ... really is very fucking sad when people with no fucking support at all at home (remember that retard the US flew in to take over Iraq initially?) talk big western powers into financing their personal takeover of some mid-size resource state.
Russia was sponsoring Ukraine by around $15 billion per annum, and that's gone, so they're fucked. If they ever get to vote again, these retards are done, and they'll just join Russia. Why not, it's not like the EU actually wants them, certainly not for that price.
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Post by Username17 » Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:27 am

The previously released Russian phone taps were confirmed as genuine, but if you listened to them carefully they really didn't live up to the hype at all. Really none of the people on the previous tapes said anything all that interesting or revealed that they were members of conspiracies. Even the one where the Estonian guy said that the snipers might have been part of the Maidan coalition was not a smoking gun for anything. He seriously just said that someone had raised the possibility.
Now the Tymoshenko phone tap has some genuinely bad things in it. But both people on that phone call have said that the call is edited and that they actually never said anything bad about Ukrainian Russians.
Remember: while the Ukrainian junta is an unelected group of thugs, and some of the factions in the coalition are literally marching around with Confederate flags and Swastikas, Putin's people are also dishonest thugs. Every time the KGB releases three minutes of hacked phone conversation, they at the very least sorted through thousands of hours of wiretaps in order to find something that sounded as bad as it did. And there is a not inconsiderable chance that they cut and pasted a conversation together in order to make something sound even worse.
I note that Tymoshenko is not denying that she made comments in favor of shooting Putin in the face with an avtomat, nor is she back peddling the idea that she expressed a desire to have a war between NATO and Russia. But while those are stupid and dangerous plans, that was also a private phone call where she was expressing frustration with the current leadership. So that could be, and very likely was, simply hyperbole that was intended to be understood as such.
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Post by Redshirt » Fri Mar 28, 2014 7:09 pm

Tussock, almost all of your information is either only half-true or just objectively false.

> The nation's entire army has, almost completely now, joined the Russian army, citizenship and all.

No. Maybe a lot of troops in Crimea? Where are you getting this from?

> The Air Force has grounded all flights and is openly refusing orders from anyone who isn't the head of a duly elected government (which is everyone).

I can't find anything with google. Russia Today doesn't seem to have anything either. Link?

> Coincidentally, about 80% of Ukrainians primarily speak and read Russian, especially the city folk with educations and stuff, at least on the internet. Also 10% English, and 10% Ukrainian. Remember how the new guys sort of banned the Russian language? Yeah, they all speak Russian too, so, uh ....

Your language numbers are bad. I don't know where you're getting them from, but they're bad. The division is much more even, and the reality is that people are generally conversant in both outside of the westernmost oblasts and Crimea.
Further, no attempt was made to ban the Russian language. There was a vetoed attempt to overturn a 2-year-old law on Russian's status as an "official" language in some regions, but there is a lot more to Ukrainian language law than that one bill. News at 11, Russian wasn't banned prior to 2012.

> Leader of the new Ukrainian junta suggests genocide in Crimea. Leaked from Germany. In parliament they claim to be "holding back" the Russian forces, which is funny really, when they don't even have an army any more.

Regardless of whether that call is actually a montage, Tymoshenko is not the leader of the new "junta". I'm not sure if she's even the leader of her own party anymore.

> It ... really is very fucking sad when people with no fucking support at all at home (remember that retard the US flew in to take over Iraq initially?) talk big western powers into financing their personal takeover of some mid-size resource state.

The government's coalition holds about 55% of the parliament's seats. The three leading parties of that coalition control about 36%. Via elections. Comparing them to Ahmed Chalabi is laughably ignorant.
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Post by RadiantPhoenix » Sat Mar 29, 2014 5:55 am

Frank, and/or anyone else in this discussion: how accurate would you say this image is?
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Post by Longes » Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:06 am

Like not fucking all. There hasn't been a presidential election in 2014.
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Post by tussock » Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:44 am

We've done the language thing already, it's a problem in the same way it's a problem for Sri Lanka to remove Tamil from the list of official languages there. Because you can't be a judge any more, or a teacher, or often work for the government at all just because you grew up in the wrong part of the country. It's bad stuff, and not at all subtle about it, by people who are actual swastika-wearing fascists making jokes about genocide.
#Tymoshenko, true. I assumed she'd stepped up again, given it was her calling for this revolution for the last four years after she lost the election, when they decided all those serious crimes she committed weren't crimes after all and let her out of prison. I suppose she's not actually a politician right now though, and they do want to look a little bit legitimate.
The junta holds a lot of seats because a lot of people who used to be the elected government just got finished resigning at gunpoint. The centre parties went with the flow and are part of whatever camp holds the presidency, or the guns as the case may be, like always. Fascists are just never all that popular.
#Military and stuff. Rumours on blogs, mostly. All the western media mentions is mass desertions and a starkly poor turnout when they called up the reservists. And that one tank that turned around and went home when asked, which seems to have been it's entire mission. Oh, someone had film of Russia "raiding" a base, but it was a pretty trippy stage-piece too. Huge propaganda effort, very little action.
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