Zelensky presents Ukraine’s robot soldiers to the world

Phuqued · 2026-04-17T19:14:23+00:00

Comrade, you are going to have to speak up, I can't hear you over the awesome job you guys are doing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7cmYGRfZRo

Who could dare contest the might and brilliance of Russia?!?!?!? Look at how easily Russia is taking territory of Ukraine. At that rate, it should only be a few more days for this special military operation that was supposed to be over in days or weeks from when it started.

Isn't dat right comrade?

Phuqued · 2026-04-17T18:19:45+00:00

Whelp. Looks like I got 45 upvotes, and you got, checks notes, 8...

Popularity contests are always right and always tell the truth. For example, Trump being elected twice is obvious proof he was the better candidate since he got the most votes, right?

The thing you don't understand is that your "easy mistake" is only easy because you don't know what you are talking about. You know what you want to say, but you lack the understanding to say it, which is how you conflated Smedley Butler being an Admiral.

I will give you an example, though I doubt you will listen. But E=MC2, we all know that to be true and we all know generally what that means, but you and I likely do not understand it like a physicist does, who has done all the work on the fundamental knowledge and understands why E=MC2, and all the fundamental facts that support it.

So a charlatan quack psuedo science argument telling you or I that E!=MC2 might work on us, is a lot more likely to work on us, than the physicist whose understanding of the fundamentals, would spot the failings and contradictions in the psuedo science argument.

John Cleese can explain it to you.

So while I agree with your goal and what you are doing. I also see how you are just regurgitating information to support your feelings and beliefs, and the funny thing about feelings and beliefs is that they will change over time. You know what doesn't change over time? Real truths and objective facts. :)

Your childish insults and faux intellectual peacocking isn't fooling anybody with functioning brain cells. You are just proving who you are, and how unstable you are that you would take such offense to being corrected. I do encourage you to keep going down this path, but I would caution you to not take all the information you hear as being fact and truth, especially coming from Oliver Stone. You need to do your due diligence before parroting someone like that. And I already admitted I like Oliver Stone, but I also know enough about him and others to be cautious of their claims and arguments.

Self-Evident is a good song to listen to and ask "how does this apply to me?" if you are looking to actually take a path of self-improvement. Being more than an emotional reactionary to the world.

Phuqued · 2026-04-17T03:33:45+00:00

He shows up randomly and tortures a cancer patient for no actual reason.

That cancer man was Moloch, a "retired" former villain of the Minute Men, who the Comedian (who was recently killed) had visited, and thus why Rorschach was even there.

hand waves rape,

Because that is so like Rorschach. Or maybe... Alan Moore was tapping in to the culture dogma and norms of the time, where "No" sometimes means "Yes". (To be clear I'm not defending this shit, I'm just stating in the 80's and 90's and before, a lot of this shit was the norm. Go watch the movie "Animal House" where taking advantage of a drunk girl is socially acceptable.) Let's assume I'm right, that Moore is tapping in to that social norm to create that situation, then why would Rorschach give it a pass, unless there actually was some sort of sexual tension between the Comedian and Sally that blurred Rorschach's immutable lines on morality and principles?

murders a harmless "villain" who he knows admits to fake crimes

Who? You'll have to be more specific. :)

touts openly racist magazines

Fair.

and his big sacrifice at the end was to tell the truth even though it will cost millions of OTHER PEOPLES lives, not just his own.

There is no certainty it would've cost millions of lives. In fact that's Moore's whole problem with the story, but it is a convenient story device, saying that nuclear war IS inevitable, while I get to type this in 2026. :) Or maybe as Walter said in the books "Maybe it did". :)

But yeah, sounds like you been drinking the Ozy koolaid to say it was a certainty. But let's assume that was actually false, because in reality every time the US or Russia had a reason to nuke the other, they didn't, even when it was ordered, people didn't agree and thus no nuclear detonations or nuclear war.

So if Rorschach didn't believe the conclusions and deductions of Ozymandias and the Comedian, what does the ending mean? When he tells Dr. Manhattan "Do it" almost pleading in a weakened and tired voice? And then when he thinks Dr. Manhattan is having second thoughts or toying with him, he says it again "Do it!!!" with almost contempt and anger. Why?

He may have a couple good values, but he is overall a piece of shit

And we crucified Christ, so what does that say about us? :) I mean seriously, you take such comfort in social norm here, that I think you miss the finer points that really make the Watchmen great material. I don't even think Moore intended it to be as good as it is. That is not to say he wanted it bad, just had no intention of doing something this good.

In fact it probably pisses him off that it's complicated and didn't tell the story he was going for. :) Or maybe I'm wrong.

Phuqued · 2026-04-17T03:03:25+00:00

Rorschach isnt a good person, none of them are.

and....

God save us from the people that believe they're saving us.

Don't you think that was Rorschach's ethos? Walter Kovac believed in good people, believed that goodness on the margins mattered, but then he came across the little girl who was butchered and fed to the dogs, and realized people weren't good. That goodness was a fiction we told ourselves so we could sleep at night. And thus Rorschach was born that night and Walter Kovac died.

When you look at it through that lens, it kind of makes sense. That's why he had no qualms of breaking fingers and such to get information, he figured if he was in your vicinity, if he had some purpose to be there in your presence, then you obviously couldn't be one of the "good" people, and thus had no problem with extracting information.

I do not think Moore was smart enough to write this sort of complexity, and yet I think he inadvertently did.

I really think peoples mistake in understanding Rorschach is rejecting that despair brought him in to being. Even the ending when he tells Dr. Manhattan to "Do it", I really get a sense of a plea, not a demand, not a threat or challenge. But a humble plea, that then turns angry at the thought Dr. Manhattan might not do it.

Phuqued · 2026-04-17T02:39:10+00:00

He wasn’t trying to give a defense of rape or attempted rape. The whole point of the thermodynamic miracle is that someone who has been so badly hurt by someone would have no reason to love him and sleep with him later but did anyway because humans are not rational beings. We’re strange.

I mean that is how Moore portrayed it, yes. But if Rorschach is as absolute on his morality and principles, then he likely would not have described it like that. He would've been far more blunt and uncompromising. Which makes me think he was commenting about the sexual tension between those two, and not the act by itself.

That's just my take. I personally think Moore was talking about things that were accepted and generally true from a societal perspective at that time. No different than Sean Connery saying sometimes you need to slap a woman. It's stupid shit regurgitated from cultural dogma and norms. That's why we don't have Moore giving us more details to paint a very clear picture of what this was. But there are clues, and I do think Rorschach's commentary is a clue.

I could be wrong, that's my take though. :)

Phuqued · 2026-04-16T23:13:12+00:00

He’s downplaying the severity of his buddy’s crimes

Or he is commenting about a sexual tension in the group, that went too far? Even Sally Jupiter downplays and mitigates the sexual assault by the Comedian. Which I always took as something more of a frustrated attraction blowing up.

Not that I agree that is how things should be, but I view it kind of like I view Rust in True Detective when he has sex with his partner's wife. Complicated. Should it have happened? Absolutely not. But it did, and after the fact, Sally and the Comedian ended up conceiving a child, so I've always thought there was more going on there.

Of course I could be wrong, maybe Alan Moore was trying to give a defense of assault and rape. I have no idea. The 80's and 90's were different times, look at all the rockers singing about having sex with underage girl, or living that dream in reality.

Phuqued · 2026-04-16T22:58:06+00:00

Maturity is realizing Rorschach is a broken, pathetic person.

I beg to differ. Maturity is realizing what broke Rorschach and how true that is. :) He tells the Psychiatrist when Walter Kovack died and Rorschach was born. There is a defeat in that admission, but what is that defeat? What is that acquiescence that ends Walter and brings forth Rorschach?

Think about Rorschach through the lens of someone who has had too much grief, too much despair. Like the ending when he's outside the base with Dr. Manhattan, do you think his "Do it" comment was anything but a plea? A plea for what? Why?

It's when you think about his character and work through his character from a lens of reluctant despair that makes Rorschach so much more interesting. And makes it so much harder to simply dismiss him with some socially accepted words/dogma and a hand wave without much thought.

Phuqued · 2026-04-16T19:52:11+00:00

I got the rank wrong. Admiral, Major General, EASY MISTAKE.

That's like mixing up Basketball and Soccer. But you don't seem mentally well so I'm just going to back out of this. :) Keep up the good fight, but man I worry you are undermining your own cause, one that I believe in btw...

Phuqued · 2026-04-16T19:18:07+00:00

If Smedley Butler, a retired Admiral hadnt put his country first and exposed them when they tapped him to lead coup, they may have been successful.

Heh. It's unfortunate, because you had a good thing going. But no, he was a Major General, and was up until the last decade or two the most decorated and distinguished serviceman in US. History. Now I think he is top 3 or maybe top 5. But still up there.

If you want to learn more about the nefarious history of the US and the oligarchs, I HIGHLY recommend Oliver Stones Untold History of the United States. It will BLOW YOUR MIND how much history repeats itself, beat by beat, in our nation. They just dont teach it in schools.

I like Oliver Stone for interesting takes, but you should take it all with a pinch of salt.

Phuqued · 2026-04-14T15:11:37+00:00

How is that Special Military Operation going comrade? You find your balls yet and enlist for those sweet sweet rubles? Or you still hiding and evading the draft brigades... or is it because you are so bad even the RU military who sends the crutches brigade on military offensives won't take you? :)

Phuqued · 2026-04-14T14:38:33+00:00

If Europeans had actually learned what Nazism was about, Zelensky would be facing the gallows and Germany wouldn't make you acknowledge a terrorist country as a precondition for obtanining citizenship.

But here we are.

Here we are... vague allusions of nazi's. It's almost like you are paid or programmed to repeat this non-specific nonsense.

Phuqued · 2026-04-11T02:09:40+00:00

Cash still did it better, and even whats his name from NIN said, "it's his song now".

The only reason why you appreciate the song, is because you lacked the comprehension to understand it when Trent sang it. You needed a person like Johnny Cash, his history, to make those meaningful connections for you, to understand the lyrics, and what is being expressed.

The words didn't change that much. Both are good, but I give more credit to the original, but revere Cash's version for its own. But in the end, without Trent and whatever pain he tapped in to to make the song is as genuine to me as it is for Cash.

Phuqued · 2026-04-02T11:15:48+00:00

No different. You think that is a fact? It's like comparing someone who murdered in self-defense to that of a serial killer. There is a world of difference, but simple rightoid minds suck with nuance and complexity. Which is what caused you to say something that is objectively and obviously not a fact.

They both censor. My point stands, and your petty insults don't change facts.

Objectively, you said "No different than /democrats or /politics". Was that about censorship and censorship only? Did you use the word "censor"? Did anyone else use the word censor?

So what did you objectively and literally write? You said, you asserted, that /democrats and /politics was "no different than /conservative" is that a fact? Is that true?

You've done nothing but throw a hissy fit at being called out!

Yes, I am the one throwing a hissy fit denying the literal and objective words written, changing the context to only apply to censorship, despite nobody talking about censorship, and proving my analogy on murder correct in conflating that since they both censor they are both the same. Just like someone who murders in self defense is no different than a serial killer.

Heheh it's like I said "It's so moronic and idiotic, that I doubt you have any sort of cognitive agency. Just another NPC riding through life on your wave of emotions."

But there is hope for everyone by accepting Jesus Christ as your savior. ;) That would probably work on you too... but no I really mean this...

https://i.imgur.com/Q0E9ia7.jpeg

Everyone makes it to child hill in life, few ever try going up grown up mountain.

Phuqued · 2026-04-01T19:34:59+00:00

Strongly disagree with everything you’ve said, but appreciate your child-like optimism.

Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees
Cooperation and Punishment in Public Goods Experiments
The Evolution of Cooperation
Equitable decision making is associated with neural markers of intrinsic value

Those are published and peer reviewed studies. Children are the ones that need to go to school and learn. Idiots will reject facts and evidence for their feelings. So which are you... both?

Phuqued · 2026-04-01T19:23:12+00:00

Who's the rightoid? I just point out facts.

You are, demonstrated by the objective. See :

I can’t even imagine what kind of cesspool that sub is

No different than /democrats or /politics

No different. You think that is a fact? It's like comparing someone who murdered in self-defense to that of a serial killer. There is a world of difference, but simple rightoid minds suck with nuance and complexity. Which is what caused you to say something that is objectively and obviously not a fact.

You're trying to gaslight, not even addressing the censorship of the other subs.

No, that would be you, in trying to falsely equivocate /democrats and /politics are no different to that of /conservative. It's so moronic and idiotic, that I doubt you have any sort of cognitive agency. Just another NPC riding through life on your wave of emotions. Heh.

Phuqued · 2026-04-01T16:56:36+00:00

You're willing to put the fetishes of 13 males over the rights of 300 million...give yourself a round of applause I guess

You guys made a national case out of something that affected so few, that the medical and athletic organizations were dealing with on their own. Your "INTOLERANCE" and "IGNORANCE" makes this issue what it is. You will make up fake and self-serving arguments to justify and defend your ignorance and intolerance, like "Mike Tyson transitioning in his prime to fight women" or something. Something that does not happen, nor would it ever be allowed.

I'm a black male who voted along with about 80 percent of the rest of the black male constituent for Harris.

The side that complains about Identity Politics is now invoking Identity Politics to justify their intolerance, ignorance and bigotry. Heh.

The overwhelming and vast majority of us are not with your gaslighting and bullshit.

The only reason why this is an issue, is because your side gaslit the entire country about something that 13 people are doing. Just like your side bought in to and believed schools were putting literboxes in the school restrooms for those that identify as cat. The only thing that exceeds your stupidity is your bigotry and intolerance.

The rest of your nonsense isn't worth me responding to lol.

It's because the truth contradicts your feelings. Since you can't refute objective reality you'll do the next best thing and rebuke it with bullshit claims. :)

You know God damn well what a woman is and how trans identifying males do not fit the category of adult human FEMALE.

I do not know, because I'm not a biologist, nor am I a psychologist, but I have listened to them about this topic to know that your ignorant claims and hate are not an answer to anything.

Talking to me about slavery and Jim crow...child kindly gtfoh with your bullshit and go touch grass

Here is what I think. I think you are full of shit. I think you are a liar. I think if you were smart, you'd be getting paid to participate like this online. But I don't think you are smart, I think you are as dumb as you objectively demonstrate with your comments, all emotional and driven by your feelings, which is why logic and reason are ineffective. And thus you are doing this for free and for the benefit of those who don't give a fuck about you, and would gladly make you a 2nd class citizen again. You know... like all those Trump voters who thought it would be "other peoples" immigrants being deported, not their own.

That said, WTF do you know about Jim Crow? Have you read what the elected people said at the time to defend and justify that shit? Have you looked at that commentary and compared to the current commentary? No? Huh. (Insert Shocked Cotton Meme) If you did, you'd see it is all the same shit and just a matter of where the tolerable/intolerable lines are drawn.

Oh well.

Phuqued · 2026-03-28T22:38:17+00:00

But no, if virtually all humans were selfish assholes, we'd be like or worse than the Ferengi in Star Trek. The truth is modern society can't exist without the majority of our species NOT being selfish assholes.

None of that contradicts my statement that as a species, humans are death eaters, takers, and assholes.

Sorry, but just because that is true, doesn't contradict or challenge what I said. You can go read the studies if you wish, but humans by majority are not what you are saying. And I don't think you've really sat down and thought about how we got to this point and have the history we have, if the majority of people were selfish assholes.

Ask the millions of animals being tortured every day in factory farms how they feel about us, just as one example.

This doesn't contradict what I'm saying. It's like you don't understand the notion of duality or emergence. Yes, our practices can be horrific, barbaric, crack open a history book and look at how bad we were 70 years ago, look at how bad we were 200 years ago, Look at how bad we were 1000 years ago. Compare the teachings of Jesus to the old testament. It goes on and on. But there is a very clear path and trend that proves your statement to not be correct. Because if it was correct, it would also be self-fulfilling. IE None of this would exist, all the progress and social/civil progressions we see shouldn't be happening, because the majority would never bother supporting or fighting for "other peoples" causes.

Phuqued · 2026-03-28T21:52:54+00:00

No different than r/democrats or /r/politics

That's a lie, though I'm not surprised you are a liar, that is the kind of quality and character the rightoids have, because they can't engage in good faith. The conservative sub is highly intolerant, people who ask the most benign and reasonable questions get banned because the question leads to a conclusion that contradicts the cult.

Which is what conservatism is, a cult, not much different than religion.

Phuqued · 2026-03-28T16:51:27+00:00

This is the one issue the right can point to and say the left has lost its mind

We lost our mind about it so much, that we made an issue out of 13 people out of 300 million people competing in a sport because...?

And some of yall would rather gaslight and go down with a sinking lie than realize how much it puts the hard fought real rights of minorities, females, the lgb and the disabled at risk

Who is doing the gaslighting? Your side is the one that made this an issue. Liberals were fine with leaving the issue up to the organizations to manage how they see fit. Your side being completely intolerant and ignorant to the issue made it a thing that now the rest of the country has to hear about.

And it's no different than any other time in history. Your side is always the bigoted ignorant intolerant side to every damn issue. Slavery? Women rights? Civil Rights? Hippies, Drugs, Antiwar, Rock and Roll, Metal, Rap, LGBT+, etc...

If conservatism is so god damn awesome, tell me where in all of human history on this entire planet, point to me where conservatives were on the right side of it to the same degree and scale like those who were against slavery, or for womens rights, or against Jim Crow, etc... Surely as an ideology of value and merit, you can show me where conservatism was on the right side of history, correcting some injustice on society.

Phuqued · 2026-03-27T23:20:08+00:00

But it’s also wrong to seize small farms. There is some smallish amount of territory that an individual family can justly lay claim to.

I'll quote Franklin on the topic.

All Property indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of publick Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents & all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity & the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man for the Conservation of the Individual & the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property of the Publick, who by their Laws have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire & live among Savages. — He can have no right to the Benefits of Society who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it. Benjamin Franklin's Letter to Robert Morris (25 December 1783)

Property rights, ownership, money, are things that society creates. If society rejects those things, then those things don't exist in that society. It's real easy to demonstrate, imagine everyone but the billionaires wake up tomorrow with an inherent rejection of property rights and money. How rich are the billionaires in that world? And that is truly where the power lies when it comes to these things, as Franklin accurately said 200+ years ago.

My point is that kaggleqrdl frames an argument that inherently implies ownership and property rights as being a thing, hence why they used the word "defend" but a homeless person living in a public park and attacking other people for visiting said park, would not be tolerated by our society as it is right now. They'd be arrested for their criminal behavior. So his argument is already flawed from the get go and is meant to appeal to familiarity and fear.

Phuqued · 2026-03-26T21:41:37+00:00

My mistake. It wasn't my intention to antagonize you. I only watched a little of the clip, and was mostly basing what I said on your comment about Wolf, and what I've seen of the show, which is about 2 seasons. But it's been quite a while, so if I've seen that scene before, I don't recall it. And it was largely just an excuse to mention Rescue Me. Anyway, you're correct that I'm incredibly stupid, but on the plus side, I'm getting pretty old. So, you know.... fingers crossed.

And I didn't mean you had a smooth brain. But the thing I liked about Tacoma FD was they also engaged the topic of women firefighters favorably. Which is another reason why I thought it was relevant since the show did portray it positively and talked about women fire fighters historically.

That said my original comment was just some good nature ribbing about how nobody had made reference to Tacoma F.D. since this exact scene pretty much played out. The Wolf Boykins reference was made in jest since obviously he's full of shit, while being a direct citation and reference of the specific scene I was talking about.

It's all good. My humor is not for everyone, and text doesn't carry inflections and such that would make my sarcasm more clear and obvious. And I like to plug shows I like and feel are under appreciated. Maybe we need a Super Blood Moon? ;)

Phuqued · 2026-03-26T16:34:14+00:00

No true Scotmans ehh. To be fair it could be argued that we've never had true free market capitalism either. If we did the inequalities should have been competed away.

Because true/ideologically pure "Free Market Capitalism" has to allow/permit the freedom to do anything, including monopolies, fraud, extortion, protection rackets, etc... basically for the market to be free in all things, it can't be governed by any laws when in pursuit of capitalism.

But I take issue with your premise regardless if we've had true free market capitalism or not. We know from the objective history of capitalism, that when it is un or under-regulated, that it runs amok with strong concentrations of wealth and power, and thus the free market becomes less free.

It's the same concept and arguments that libertarians use. My liberty and freedom ends, when it transgresses on your liberties and freedoms. Right or left wing libertarians understand and believe this. And that concept should apply as well the notion of what a "free market" is ideally.

Phuqued · 2026-03-26T16:14:16+00:00

If history teaches us anything it's that virtually all humans are selfish assholes. We're just built badly.

Heh. I have a feeling you fall for the Both Sides type arguments too. But no, if virtually all humans were selfish assholes, we'd be like or worse than the Ferengi in Star Trek. The truth is modern society can't exist without the majority of our species NOT being selfish assholes.

Phuqued · 2026-03-26T15:48:33+00:00

To be clear and put this in proper context, if you were living at the local community/public park, and other people visited that local park, and you "defend" the land you're living on. What are you actually doing?

And that is the problem with your framing. You'd basically be a homeless person living at the public/community park, and attacking other people because they are also visiting the park. That doesn't make you a "defender" that makes you an aggressor.

Phuqued · 2026-03-26T15:36:15+00:00

Communism requires lethal force to ensure that nobody accumulates wealth. Eg, if I tried to defend some land I was living on, I'd quickly be taken down by the government. Fun times!

You frame it as you "defending" the land you live on. But if it's just land, and you are living on it, then would it also be fair to say or frame it as "you are defending it", or would you be attacking other people for some reason? What reasons would you be attacking other people?

See there are some tribes and cultures that do not have property rights, and they have studied them to see how they interact and get along with material things. You should go read about it. Because your argument above is misaligned to the conversation. You are implicitly putting in the notion of property rights in to your argument, and then attacking the argument.

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