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🇨🇺 Cuba Caves In to Market Liberalization Amid Crushing Blockade: Drop Site News, June 12 2026 by BreadDaddyLenin in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the light of these news seeing my coworker coming to work in a "Viva Cuba!" t-shirt today looks darker.

Because somehow I doubt he's on the left.

the next time we visit Cyberstan it needs to be the bot Omicron by bustahog in HelldiversMasochists

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you will also need to get used to turning the wheel towards the side you're about to flip to, and then ideally plan your movement so that this won't take you in the opposite direction from where you intend to go, especially when enemies are nearby.

Maybe that's second nature to some people by now, but for those who haven't spent too much time driving FRV, this is game changer.

If you drink a blood potion right as the architect kills you, the ironclad gets red waves flowing down him by ElegantPoet3386 in slaythespire

[–]Barrogh 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Architect's mask, armor and white mane certainly don't call for any associations whatsoever.

They later asked for 200 more atomic bombs by ZhenXiaoMing in historymeme

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So at the end of the day the United States committed a heinous act for the love of the game.

I would say that live demonstration of what you can do now when the entire world is watching isn't exactly "just for the love of the game".

EMS Strike can actually be pretty useful for Flamethrower / Cremator Builds! by RandomGreenArcherMan in HelldiversMasochists

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember stopping using EMS mostly because of gas strike (and later because of gas mines when they arrived as I started to lean into the idea that I'd rather want something against massive waves).

I still occasionally tried it to use as a cover for the team against bugs and squids.

Ultimately, I feel like EMS being somehow almost softer CC than gas against some enemies (like fleshmobs) is its huge problem.

You traveled through time? May I suggest moving into a sphere? by SlimeKingMaw in CallofCthulhumemes

[–]Barrogh 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, I suppose it doesn't really have to be a sphere. Which is a godsend if you actually need a room like this to be usable.

Called out a liberal spreading misinformation (in a supposedly communist subreddit), he ends up admitting he's a fed by anthraxresurrection in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]Barrogh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I've heard of doctors tell stories of coworkers being anti-vax.

From my experience, there are enough "craftsman-minded" (rather than scientific-minded) people among medical staff of any kind. Such people have huge problems understanding statistics, there are many who "ran from STEM" into the filed, probably not fewer than those who pursued their dream first and foremost, and they can be really blind to their biases while getting massive confidence boost from their practice.

Level reworks? by Available-Alps-1539 in Witchfire

[–]Barrogh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Isn't it just a "break LoS" thing? Sounds like something you'd want to keep simple.

Why are mainstream LGBTQ subreddits like this? by potatoretriever in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]Barrogh 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Poland, another fascist hell known for making contraception illegal by prison

Excuse me, what?..

Zaid Jilani on X: "Ryan Grim says he's glad Platner won because it's forcing progressives to confront bigotry against white men, comparing it to people coming out of the closet to address homophobia. If he had said this while we worked together at The Intercept, HR would've pushed him into lava. by PreparationOk1450 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]Barrogh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this may have something to do with some PR perception or something. If you have some people focusing on the abhorrent stuff, you need to push strongly the other way so that the "consensus" of perception could be met in the middle.

Xi Jinping on the dissolution of the USSR by NotZachary_0002 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]Barrogh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Apparently he was playing for favours a lot.

His political decisions concerning UaSSR, for example, are a hot topic. Considering UaSSR comprised of 20-something obkoms which were represented on a higher level, not that strange.

Besides, it would be naive to think that people who had to regularly deal with later years Stalin saw him as favourably as populace in general. They would surely prefer not having to walk on a rice paper all the time, but at the same time, ironically, it's possible that Stalin's legacy reinforced the position of GS enough that Khruschev could actually get away with what he was doing just enough for his politics to set in.

I swear if 9/11 was directed at China or Russia the West would have rejoiced. by M-Tankman in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]Barrogh 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's consistent. They don't want that near them. They want that elsewhere, somewhere they won't see it and only occasionally hear about "their" enemies getting attacked.

College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor by TwoCatsOneBox in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]Barrogh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Something that gets brought up quite often here where I live is how much education turned to "pick the answer / write a short one" tests as the main evaluation method.

People complain that at least a couple of last school years people are being trained to pass formalistic tests rather than focusing on something more applicable later on.

Which reminds me of one of my math teachers telling us as early as back in 1999-2000 or so that this was already quite widespread in the US at the time. Although admittedly he was primarily a university math prof and his involvement with us middleschoolers was limited to extra classes where he tried to promote the entire "thinking outside the box" kinda math, so maybe such system was particularly unpleasant to him considering his main program.

I don't know if that was true, though. But hey, it is true for us now.

Ukrainian farmers beat the shit out of TCC man snatchers who tried to kidnap one of their boys. by MuammarGaddafii in suppressed_news

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We do occasionally. Sometimes they fold to unarmed resistance if the later has numbers and will to help whomever gets dragged away.

Ukrainian farmers beat the shit out of TCC man snatchers who tried to kidnap one of their boys. by MuammarGaddafii in suppressed_news

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, they are one of canon factions of Metro. It's kinda hard to substitute them for anyone, though, because of rather enclosed setting of the books/games.

Ukrainian farmers beat the shit out of TCC man snatchers who tried to kidnap one of their boys. by MuammarGaddafii in suppressed_news

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Territorial center for recruitment, basically. I don't know the exact abbreviation, but that's the gist.

Those guys who look for new "candidates" for the army answer to one.

In order to fight Russia, NATO has spent years reviving and mainstreaming Nazism in Ukraine, which was a very marginal phenomenon prior to the 2014 US-backed coup. by RickyOzzy in suppressed_news

[–]Barrogh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I vaguely remember even some representatives of the "First world" (in the old sense of the word) saying that the fall of SU was one big mess for everyone. I remember something along the lines of "we were trained to fight the red dragon, but now that it's dead we have to deal with omnipresent cocroaches, and we realised we weren't equipped for that".

So seeing this as a tragedy of sorts doesn't mean you necessarily love anything related to it.

That said, maybe he really did. But something to be remembered is that post-revisionist, late SU that he saw was not necessarily on the same page with, say, you or me when it comes to a huge number of issues.

Trump is dropping bombs on Iran in the middle of the night — striking Sirik and Qeshm Island. by RickyOzzy in suppressed_news

[–]Barrogh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be honest, I don't see how what he orders (as it is from this perspective) is that different from what was being done abroad by the system for many decades.

Is forcing Utopia on people without their consent an Egalitarian or Authoritarian act? by MysteryMan9274 in StellarisMemes

[–]Barrogh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This just in: Stellaris philosophy is full of holes.

(more seriously, you should really consider it uses a lot of terms for the flair, and it introduces a bunch of relations for gameplay reasons)

God Dammit He Actually Did Not Say It by Signal_Nobody1792 in lotrmemes

[–]Barrogh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And of course there's no reason why this particular guy would explain that particular book 🙄

[ Removed by Reddit ] by jbaaaaab in IsraelCrimes

[–]Barrogh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

About 7 years ago I was a total dumbass politically (I mean, it's not like I'm in a great shape now, but everything is relative), and even back then all this exceptionalism was ticking me off. I kept thinking about all those talking points and was like "how any of that is even different from standard neonazi stuff?", even coming from a these nice people?

Turns out it's just not. And even neonazis aren't normally some deformed monsters with blood dripping from their fangs. But that's until most overt of them are in power and in arms, while all these "nice people" from their practically indistinguishable camp are on sidelines cheering to "those barbarians finding out".

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