• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Reminds me of the latest Adam Something video. Russians are raised from birth with ridiculous amounts of “Russia Fuck Yeah” that’s just pure triple distilled victory porn, and posts like that are the consequence.

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        1 month ago

        My favourite line from any of the Grand Theft Auto games is from a radio ad for some movie that ends with “Rated PG for Patriotic Garbage”

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Start from American movies, then add a bunch of historical rewriting and fighting Nazis everywhere and you’re getting close to Russian level movies from what I’ve heard.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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        1 month ago

        As an American, American jingoism in films does make me laugh. Like we are the only ones who can save the world.

        Does Russia have films like that?

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      1 month ago

      As a non-American, how is that any different from America?

      Many big countries are basically the same, with the belief that their armed forces are “the best”, with hours of pop propaganda around how their marines or special ops are the best in the world.

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        1 month ago

        Well as s non american I feel it’s quite simple : the USA has an incredible potent war machine, so if their citizens think they have an incredible army, then they are more or less quite correct.

        Russians on the other hand just smokes copium and have fever dreams.

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          1 month ago

          It’s true for military stuff but false for many many things that they’d still insist is the best way to handle things. Mass shootings is an anomaly that’s completely normalized there, sometimes it’s not even worth a media footnote.

          And there’s a strange thing about shooting presidents every once in a while

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        1 month ago

        From what I can tell, America has better access to alternative viewpoints and the ability to express them largely without fear.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      I think there’s a new one now, isn’t there, from march? Of a “destroyed” Abrams, where the crew got out safely, turret still attached and probably recoverable.

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        1 month ago

        There’s a couple of photos of abrams with fracked tracks that they’ve been claiming are “destroyed”, that’s been pretty great.

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          1 month ago

          Well, if that happens on the retreat, that’s still a loss of a vehicle. But losing a crew is almost always worse.

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    1 month ago

    Ah yes. “Better.” Although the only time I ever hear about the Ruskies’ newest “better” tank is when gets blown up by a missile.

    While I (American) am not a fan of the F35 - mostly because it costs so goddamn much money that could be better used for shit like infrastructure or healthcare - the Abrams remains a solid, proven platform. It’s starting to show its age a little, but it’s still MUCH cheaper and more practical to minority iterate than start from scratch. Whatever guy posted that was probably one of these ‘Tankies’ I keep hearing about.