Ukraine Invasion 2: no more Black Sea fleet for you

[NotBruceZ]

@Trolly

nation states in general shouldn’t be edgy trolling dickheads.

Why?

[Trolly]

Because nobody likes that shit.

[NotBruceZ]

People like it when Biden takes on an edgy trolling dickhead Dark Brandon persona. It’s okay to be a dick to people who deserve it. You know, like orcs.

[CaffeineNeeded]

Ukraine keeping their population apprised that they are an effective fighting force against a country trying to utterly destroy them as a people and nation is 100% legit.

[Huehuecoyotl]

Personally think every tweet Ukraine does should have War by Edwin Starr as the soundtrack. They really need to convey that violence serves no purpose. Swords into plowshares and all that. They need to wax poetic about the futility of man and his nature.

[StrontiumDog]

@CaffeineNeeded

Made up, obviously incorrect bullshit.

Thanks for the insight into the Falklands War. Maybe I’ll ask my boomer dad about it. He hadn’t graduated college yet but might still remember.

[CaffeineNeeded]

Speaking of propaganda, interesting confluence here:

https://twitter.com/citizens_sanity/status/1586530223754911744?s=20&t=N9_lLY5cbE9jBDfSaA1K1A

[Churchill]

How Ukraine is winning the social media war

With a wealth of videos depicting Russian military setbacks being posted on social media platforms, the team is not short of material. But they’ve learned through trial and error what works and what doesn’t.

“We started displaying dead Russian bodies,” Olena says. “And then we realised that it actually didn’t work. It only united them against us.”

The team then tried to appeal to the consciences of Russian soldiers by showing images of dead Ukrainian civilians. Again, it seemed to fall on deaf ears.

“We realised they were actually proud of it. They were not condemning this at all,” she says. “We realised that we have to do this in a much more sophisticated way.”

Their most successful video, released in August after several mysterious attacks on Russian targets in annexed Crimea, has racked up 2.2m views. It mocked Russians for going on holiday on the peninsula and was set to the Bananarama song Cruel Summer.

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1557621932429819907?s=20&t=ho2x9Go7sI6j80Q6EDO59A

https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1539671779312033793?s=20&t=p1b-pngrJamc-PCVgcoT4Q

[Trolly]

That would be a big improvement over the shitty Euro technobeats they play over their video clips.

[bbb7979]

@Trolly

Because nobody likes that shit.

The tweet had quite a few likes actually

[CaffeineNeeded]

I simultaneously hate and love the metal and techno music on Ukrainian videos. The absurdity of it all just works sometimes.

[VoteForSocialists]

americans also like sending a message

[hokie]

I actually think the first one is pretty funny. Maybe that makes me inconsistent idk

[6ix]

@CaffeineNeeded

Buddy we had a Russian media member calling for the drowning of Ukrainian children like last week. If you haven’t seen this kind of stuff you’re purposely not paying attention

@CaffeineNeeded

Getting mad about graphics showing casualty numbers is performative and clearly trolling.

@CaffeineNeeded

Thanks for the insight into the Falklands War. Maybe I’ll ask my boomer dad about it. He hadn’t graduated college yet but might still remember.

Reading your posts is genocide, executions, torture, rape, abduction of children, destruction of vital infrastructure, conquering and pillaging of my eyeballs.

[6ix]

My man just used as the main working part of his joke/insult, the idea that you can’t know history without talking to somebody who was alive at the time.

[6ix]

@LouisCyphre

Question for those critical of the casualty info graphic tweets: What do you think those Russian soldiers were going to do if they were not stopped?

Have a picnic final answer.

[6ix]

@goofyballer

It’s like how Captains will infest the French Laundry thread like “oh look at you fancy people spending MONEY on FOOD, guess you’re going to hell, nice forum you have here” while their best buddy Jbro posts about drinking $500 bottles of wine;

So what you’re saying is you’ve been holding out on telling me where the good action tables are at?

[6ix]

Lol at me trying to read this thread and having my eyeball sockets raped and pillaged.

[6ix]

Srs answer though (not to imply my other posts are not totally ded srs)

@goofyballer

That post was an insult? Went over my head.

I think it was an attempt but it was so ill-constructed.

@goofyballer

What makes it performative, btw, is that this kind of outrage is only expressed in an attempt to virtue signal moral superiority over Captain enemies.

This thread so far feels like a Captain v Horsemen proxy war on all sides tbth. There’s no way so many innocuous posts would receive this level of rustlage.

(see: i’ll ask my dad about the falklands war like wat)

[hokie]

@goofyballer

What makes it performative, btw, is that this kind of outrage is only expressed in an attempt to virtue signal moral superiority over Captain enemies.

Ugh, fine, I was intending to ignore his post but I guess we can do this. You agree with CN that my posts in this thread are performative? These posts:

@hokie

Yea I think it’s a bad tweet but it’s certainly notable

I wonder what the Iraqis or Vietnamese would have tweeted if Twitter had been a thing. It seems certain to me that having this medium of communication increases sympathy for those targeted by an unjust war because they’re able to get their message directly to people who might not pay as much attention (obv it’s propaganda, yea, but it’s effective)

@hokie

I get that militaries treat personnel no differently than they treat equipment, which is one of many reasons why war is terrible, but there’s something really unsettling about including personnel casualty counts on a, like, video game scoreboard graphic posted with a sarcastic quote from a former athlete.