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[–] goat 53 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I dunno why he hasn't returned to Russia. His family moved to Canada to flee Russia, and he's extremely rich, yet refuses to go back?

Never made sense to me moving to a country that lifts you out of poverty, and then you live in said country while saying how bad it is and how good your old poverty was.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yog is rich? Not very ML of them

[–] goat 10 points 1 week ago

Incredibly rich. he's in the one percent for canada.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh. He has a published book on Amazon.

[–] Tar_alcaran 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That means nothing. It costs like $199 to self publish a book, and nothing if you so ebook-only

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I know. But amazon big bad!

[–] goat 6 points 1 week ago

so do thousands of robots

but yeah, i get your point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lol what's the book

Edit did a Google is this some clojure dev who spends all this time spamming shit on an obscure forum??

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

He notoriously cries wolf after people hackle him over defending russia irl.

Keyboard warrior.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's rich? Then why can't the fuck he fund ML then, so not a single cent donated to lemmy would be used to fund propaganda instance. Shouldn't be a problem for him, he's a communist after all.

[–] goat 11 points 1 week ago

The rich aren't generous. And tankies aren't communist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

"I'm the most hetero, man, I can't stand what all those queers have done to this country" "Why do you get a little overly into wrestling when we watch and you have all these bodybuilder posters" "Shut up"

"I'm the smartest man alive man I'll tear anybody apart in a debate" "Why when Tricia started disagreeing with you did you absolutely flip your shit and hit the table and leave the party" "Shut up"

"My home country is the BEST, it is the best place to live and most goodest government on the planet or ever" "Why did your family leave then" "Shut up"

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why are you assuming money was stolen in Canada?

[–] goat 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Acquisition of capital is a crime ;)

[–] goat 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay? I never mentioned stolen money though.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Europe: Hey we're going to put ground troops in Ukraine and absolutely wreck your shit unless you agree to the peace terms we decided on

Yogthos: OUT RAGE OUS HOW DARE

[–] Panamalt 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Last I checked Russia was getting their ass handed to them by a much smaller and supposedly less equipped nation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think they're just riding off the high of a couple of wins Russia scored the other week and declaring it as a "total victory" LMAO

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Really weird that "winning" looks like oil refineries and weapons depots and manufacturers in their own country blowing up every other day. Would hate to see what losing looks like for Russia.

[–] Panamalt 6 points 1 week ago

That would make sense, they do that shit every other week, lol.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.ml/comment/13598927

Buddy was claiming 8 months ago that Pokrovsk would be taken in the "near future" and the Kursk incursion would buy no more than a few months... Even with North Korean troops stationed in Kursk helping them reduce the need to split troops, Russian forces still haven't made it to Pokrovsk yet.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He said:

it’s not able to produce its own weapons

Ukraine is probably at the forefront of the world at this point in terms of producing combat drones.

They depend on the West for intelligence support, missiles and anti-air and the high-tech kit of the 20th century, and raw mass of ammunition. They're far from self-sufficient. But they are also set up to be a weapons-production powerhouse in the future if they survive the war in some independent form.

Edit: Also, Russia is outspending Ukraine+allies roughly ten to one in this war. They like to whine as if it is cheating for anyone to give Ukraine any help at all, as if the West is just propping up Ukraine with raw money power, but all the aid is doing is reducing that ratio down from 20-to-1 which it would be, to 10-to-1. The money level spent on the war is not the reason why they've been losing.

[–] Tar_alcaran 13 points 1 week ago

it’s not able to produce its own weapons

Says the country using north Korean and Iranian weapons and soldiers.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Russia doesn't win. They sacrifice their citizens in the thousands to "win". They are inferior but have larger numbers and lower morals and don't care how many die for putler. In that sense yes they will "win". Theyre forced to. No decent nation would do this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I wasn't aware you can get access to unlimited supply of copium in Canada

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But we should donate to these people or Lemmy dies!!!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If I was better at Rust or it was written in a better language, I'd spite fork it.