I know this is just a meme post but I was watching an interview with his wife and the sheer terminally online/disconnected from reality of it all was a bit disturbing to me. Like you are dumb-as-rocks enough to believe you are going to go over there with your family and be treated like Seagal or something? I wanted to schadenfreude but I couldn’t, the level of stupidity was actually offensive to me.
What I don’t get is, so much of what is online is designed to make you angry and scared because that captures the most engagement. Are people just comfortable feeling that way? It seems way more stressful than living a mostly offline life and enjoying conversations with real people. I don’t understand why people do it to themselves.
I think for older folks at least it has to do with the chemicals they were exposed to. I’ve met countless men in their 50s who really are just angry all the time and permanently on a hair trigger. Then they fondly talk about the good old days when trucks would gas their blocks with pesticides and they’d chase after them as kids. You also can’t discount the amount lead they were exposed to which is known to make people more aggressive.
they only ever known to express anger.
Anger’s the only passion they get to experience
Are people just comfortable feeling that way?
People who complain about woke and social justice warriors feels like…they are social justice warriors and woke by having a social cause to be outraged for.
Five years ago, I saw other passengers on a flight turn on the in-flight entertainment screen and immediately bee-line straight to Fox News. For the entire 4 hour flight. And not just one person either. They could have had their pick of all kinds of blockbuster movies and critically-acclaimed TV shows on there, but they preferred to just plug into the hivemind instead.
I can’t even imagine watching any news, propaganda or otherwise, for that long. It was completely unnerving to witness.
So, yes. People really are addicted to the rage bait. Probably more now than back then. And like an addiction it’s fucking their whole lives up, and getting out is not really a consideration.
There’s quite a common trope both in fiction and in world history (in the sense of survivor-bias reported history) of the White man travelling to a foreign land and becoming more important and successful there than they ever were back home. Captain Cook being treated as a literal God in Hawai’i. John Blackthorne becoming Daimyo of Kanagawa. Sideshow Bob becoming mayor of an Italian town. So, it’s not unusual for privileged fucknuts to move to shithole countries thinking they’ll get the celebrity lifestyle.
Someone they might consider wise once said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
dumb as those canandian farmers that moved to russia for the same reasons.
Oh, Russia didn’t treat you, an immigrant, fairly? How awful.
Seems like they treated him exactly as fairly as their native population…
True. So I guess if they were treating him the way he probably wants America to treat immigrants they’d have just deported or gulagged him.
Well, but they did it the right way.
Good thing OP can appeal his human rights in court
He’s dead according to a post I saw today: https://defenseofliberty.social/@MalcolmNance/114908783699392930
I feel bad for their children who likely had no say in moving to Russia. Bet they wish they were back home in the USA with Dad now. Too late.
Oh well… moving on.
Seems to be fake, it’s just one random source and the wife is saying he’s alive (for now).
Anyway, moving on.
Oh… I didn’t care to check it as I thought it was worth a laugh.
Anyways, I hope your day is fabulous, random internet citizen!
Well, she can’t say controversial anymore while she is there
He died for the dictator he loved. May his daughters find their way home again.
🌻
They also made him pay for his own gear once he arrived. Much Russia, very magnificent.
Tbf it is Russian tradition.
But I thought Russia were the good guys in this fight?/s
The Russian officer should be saying …
“атакуй гребаное пулеметное гнездо!”
Classic right wing nut jobs always believe the entire world should speak their language, no matter what that language is.
This dude was actually surprised that they disqualified him from non combat training because he didn’t speak Russian and it was only offered in… wait for it…. RUSSIAN. How dare.
See, this is the part where the stupid just exceeds my capacity to imagine it. You mean to tell me this chucklefuck emigrated his whole family to Russia with ZERO concept of how to socially integrate?
He thought his anti wokeness would be enough.
Judging by videos of Russian officers online, your translation is missing like ten instances of “suka” and “blyat”
I don’t know … I don’t speak Russian … nor do I want to
“suka” is “removed”, “blyat” is “fuck”
I couldn’t be assed to write cyrillic, but Russian is an interesting language, and so is the culture. Too bad the country is led by a bunch of psychopathic monkeys.
Always has been. There’s a saying, that every chapter of Russian history can be summed up by: “And then it got worse.”
You speak like half of it now.‘suka’ and ‘blyat’ are the equivalent of fuck, so saying it in the right tone can get you at least kinda understood. Works for me, and i only know 3 words in russian.
нахуй блять
“why ain’t these russians speakin american?”
Russians (speaking in Russian of course): “why ain’t these americans speakin russian?”
Isn’t the narrative about new recruits getting tricked to enlisting on the basis of a lie that they will be put in a noncombat role something that we in the U.S. can relate to, too? I remember in high school and college people would talk about the recruiters that would say anything to get people to join.
“Yeah man you’ll just be driving trucks around…”
9/11 happens
“In IED land.”
There weren’t actually that many casualties to US troops, because they made mercenaries do the dangerous stuff and didn’t track how many people died.
I was a recruiter for a while. I was able to promise a noncombat role, as in job. I could guarantee you a job as a comm bubba, motor T, cook, supply admin, or whatever else you qualify for, no problem (as long as there are open slots).
The fine print that people wouldn’t tell you is we can’t guarantee what unit you will be assigned to after training. You won’t be trained to be a grunt but you could very easily get orders to and stationed with an infantry unit. They need noncombat jobs working in those combat units too. You would still get deployed to hostile places with your unit.
Sending the stupidest to take the first hit makes sense, in a psychotic sort of way.
He is fighting for what he believes. Now he gets to realize the sheer amount of people who want something different and how well equipped they are. No tankie can argue that.
According to Denys Davydov (a former pilot, Ukrainian youtuber following the war) said there is yet no evidence he’s been killed, no photos or videos, his family hasn’t said anything etc.
So not just yet I guess 😇
Well he got what he wanted
No he wanted young men to go die instead!
Sounds like DEI to me.
as a human shield, which is also non-combat.
He looks like the Wagner guy
Dude if Russia is using 46 year olds on the front line, how many prisoners have they already churned through?
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