trying to get :reddit-logo: karma got them killed lol

  • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This type of shit has popped up quite a bit these last few weeks and it's genuinely incredible how unserious these foreign combatants take this. They're going to keep doing it too cause clout brain has damaged every neuron that still tingles in these worm infested brains

    • binman [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      This is how disconnected the mainstream and social media has made westerners to reality. They think they can do anything, just imagine it and poof it exists.

      It's because the media convinced them. It's frightening how much media can just create "reality" out of thin air. It's straight out of 1984.

      • JoesFrackinJack [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        1984 is a meme, which means it's hilarious to actually live in the anxiety enducing George Orwell book constantly .

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        No wonder so many of them actively crave nuclear war because they've already fancied themselves Fallout protagonists where Fallout rules and worldbuilding come true. :agony-minion:

      • Foolio [any]
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        2 years ago

        It's been going on longer than social media. People in the 1980s wrote satirically things to the effect of "Americans can have entire conversations of nothing but film and TV quotes", or even advertising taglines! If you polled Adults on Western countries on a list of like 15 historical events vs film plots, I bet many would struggle to distinguish the films from reality.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      it’s genuinely incredible how unserious these foreign combatants take this

      I mean, they're total amateurs. Its like someone shipped a bunch of Jan 6th Instagram models to the front. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a handful of people in the group telling people to turn off their cell phones, don't take pictuers, don't post shit online. But its not like these dofuses are actually in a command structure or operating out of some kind of play book. Even if only 1 in 10 of them fuck up, that's still an orgy of data for trained Russian intelligence to pounce on.

      Idiot assholes taking selfies exposed Abu Garab among other American war crimes. This isn't something unique to the Reddit Batallion. Its just indicative of how trivialized being a soldier has become in the mind of Americans.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Cell phones can be incredibly useful - bordering on invaluable - when used discretely and judiciously.

      But yeah, posting geo-tagged selfies to Reddit in full tacticool kit, saying how you're going to personally shoot Mr. Putin Sir is maybe not the smartest move.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    14 less fascists to spread fash shit back home, the UK objectively became more left wing thanks to their stupidity.

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    give them a break, those poor brown farmers that they are used to slaughtering, didn't have sophisticated high tech weaponry. Totally new territory for these mercs.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      "Nooooo, you can't just bombard us with cruise missilerinoooos!"

      "XAXAXA Iskander go whoosh."

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    When you have poorer opsec than a Trot Pamphlet Club with 12 people in it.

  • JosipBRUHTito [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Noooooooo I'm supposed to kill my enemies in their sleep not the other way around, nobody ever gets the drop on the revengers wtf worst war ever

  • binman [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Why just a screenshot from some dubious source reporting that another source said something? Why not a link to the actual article?

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/03/19/british-volunteer-fighters-may-have-triggered-deadly-strike/

      If you're inclined to give regime media a click, go for it.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Real Life is actually a Transformers Movie, but nobody gave you a giant sentient robot armed with Macross missiles.

  • aFairlyLargeCat [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Family back home in :ukkk: receiving an empty coffin filled with print outs with their highest rated comments.

    :gigachad-hd: