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Peter Todd 3 months ago
Easy to see why they didn't release the full Iryna Zarutska video immediately: image
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Peter Todd 3 months ago
Update: tonight's attack by Russia set a new record, 800 drones, along with some missiles (I got woken up again by cruise missiles getting intercepted in the morning – hard to explain how awesome that sound is). In Kyiv, two deaths: a woman and her young child murdered by a Russian attack on an apartment building. They also hit some government buildings in Kyiv for the first time, and even killed a bunch of horses with multiple shahed drones on a horse stables just outside of Kyiv. Never underestimate Russian pettiness and evil. image But, due to the amazing work of the Ukrainian military, it's still safer to be here than in Charlotte, North Carolina... Something like 90% of Russian drones get shot down. View quoted note →
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Peter Todd 3 months ago
Iryna Zarutska was from Kyiv. Pre-war, Ukraine's murder rate was ~4/100k/year. Charlotte is ~12/100k/year. _Including_ murders by Russian air strikes, Kyiv's murder rate is “only” 8.5/100k/year (~130 killed in the past year). She was safer in ~100% white Kyiv than in black NC. ...and yes, the reason why I'm even writing this is I'm in Kyiv and anti-aircraft fire woke me up at 5am. Hopefully no-one died tonight and made my stats out of date... But even then, if she had stayed in Kyiv and went to the shelters during air raids, she'd have been fine. The problem is the black population. If not for them the US would actually be fairly low crime. Getting US (and western) politics to the point where we accept imprisoning, for life, a significant % of the black population is what it'll take to fix this. image Instead, that psychopath was arrested over and over again for violent crimes. image
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Peter Todd 3 months ago
Ukrainian Oleksandr Hordiienko had become an international hero for demining hundreds of acres of farm fields and successfully returning them to production while looking based as hell. So Russia tracked him down and murdered him with a long range drone attack on his car at 9am. image This follows Russia using a ballistic missile to murder a well known Danish team removing mines left over by Russia's 2022 occupation of the area around Chernihiv, very far from the front lines. image After WW2 we forced Germans to do demining work to clean up the mess they made. We should so the exact same thing to Russians.
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Peter Todd 4 months ago
Putin claims to be saving Russian speaking Ukrainians... Meanwhile in the real world, this Russian speaking Ukrainian soldier was able to speak Russian so perfectly he fooled two Russians into thinking he was one of them. Then he shot them at point blank range.