Get him to spill all the beans on everything. Black site locations. Best military bases to hit in the event of nuclear war. How fucked Europe is under the current US strategy. Naked hatred for every single Chinese person. Remind him of school bussing and he will probably take you right back to 70s Strom Thurmond. Fish for the various congressperson crimes he definitely knows about. Get him to insult every Democrat in their "bench", thin as it is. Especially Buttigief, lmao. Ask him why Buttigieg isn't fixing Boeing.

Such a goldmine. Get in there, nerds. Demand "the discourse".

[–] robotElder2@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem is that his willingness to spill useful secrets is inversely proportional to his ability to recall them accurately.

[–] jonne 22 points 1 year ago

And they're barely letting him do interviews/press conferences. Remember when they were giving Trump shit for doing that?

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

We've gotta roll those dice. 60% of the time we get Corn Pop. 40% we get the true nature of the blue helmets in Syria.

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get him to spill all the beans

This place needs legume police so that people will stop spilling beans all over the floor.

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beans are the true sustenance of every proletarian. It cannot stop at frijoles negro nor baked beans. We must embrace doujiang and all its products.

Have you made and drank soy milk from scratch lately? Mao is looking down upon you, comrade. Is he smiling?

[–] a_little_red_rat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I am now turning myself in to thought police for not having made soy milk in months

[–] TheWurstman@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

rat-salute-2

[–] Sophie@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Biden will fight Putin to the last Ukrainian

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

biden was referring to russian losses. i mean that's idiotic, but that's what he was saying

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Future historians will call this the Volodymor

[–] Yor@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

the almighty slava narrative collapsing in that moment must have been devastating for the true believers

[–] aqwxcvbnji@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"losses based on data from rural towns"

What does this mean and how would someone be able to verify these numbers?

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was 800k+ by now?

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

maybe. the former Ukraine Internal Affairs Minister and Prosecutor General said in January that Ukraine had sustained 500k casualties. western media is all over the place ofc, some outlets say 500k is actually the number of Russian casualties, some say 500k is the total number of casualties on both sides. we wont have any solid numbers until well after the conflict ends

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, "casualties" refers to wounded, missing, and captured as well as killed, so who knows what "losses" refer to

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

likely “losses” means casualties. they prob used this wording bc ppl conflate casualties with fatalities. but using “losses” is more confusing so idk

[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've seen projects that count the confirmed KIA by name from social media commemorations,. and they arrive at like Russian 72k KIA, 68k Ukranian KIA. Russia does not have a 10:1 casualty rate.

Edit: I don't know why we shouldn't accept the named KIA projects as being an effective lower-bound estimate of those killed. if we accept around 70,000 Russians have died, and assume that there are significantly more russian non-KIA casualties than KIA, then not even the Russian MOD is claiming numbers that would be 10:1. Does the Slava Rossiya crew on Hexbear think there are over 2 million Ukranian casualties? in Febuary, Russia said 444,000 Ukranians killed and wounded.

[–] Voidance@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They have air superiority and are fighting an army that’s obsessed with launching hopeless offensives and been reduced to forcibly conscripting 50 years olds, I would totally believe a 10:1 ratio

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do. They have air superiority and really much more of everything including morale

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

We also know:

Ukraine has been getting slowly pushed back
Ukraine's counteroffensive failed

Abandoning a position because you can't hold it usually involves lots of deaths. Similarly, moving on a position but getting pushed back seems like it would aldo be pretty costly.

I'm skeptical of 10:1, but I'm also skeptical of 1:1.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Russia absolutely has a 10:1 kill ratio and you’d be stupid to not believe it.

[–] TheREalDonaldTrump@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

If it were me the war never would have started! Putin knows better than to mess with me!! With sleepy Joe at the wheel Putin and Xi and Kim can walk all over America!!!