You won't believe what happened

In the southeastern part of the Kursk salient, Russian forces began counterattacks against the new Ukrainian positions in and around Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Fanaseevka.

They advanced in two directions on the flanks of the Ukrainian spearhead. In the east, Russian forces… pic.twitter.com/gJLFBFSZ8u

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) February 9, 2025

Russian retreated a bit to let Ukrainian…

wait for it

Wait

A new pocket

Novosilka wasn't enough with a 100% wipe

Ukraine continues to having more pockets

This map seems to also now updating slow

Since Russian mod report of capturing after reinforcements has arrived

According to Zelenskyy, a "significant number" of enemy troops were destroyed. He gave no details but said the losses were in the hundreds.

Billions

Russia's Ministry of Defense said Saturday that it had repelled a Ukrainian counterattack in the Kursk region.

Russia said Friday its forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking. Ukrainian officials did not confirm the report.

I just love how the reporters sucker punch it

But let's ask our expert that knows everything Ukraine is doing is right:

@rdramamademegay

Since invasion of Kursk where Ukraine gained around 1400 km and now holding 400km and a town Sudzha with pre conflict population of 5000 people.

Ukraine lost those town with population over 10000 people: Kurakhove, Selydove, Hirnyk, Vuhledar, New York, Pivnichne, Ukrainsk, Krasnohorivka, Novohrodivka and of course Toretsk

You see that's why I love khohols they rush to lower the population of towns they are about to lose. I respect it and I am understandable so

So it's a 31k city.

And those clowns doing it other wise with Sudzha

They writing its population is 6k

While

So @rdramamademegay was it worth holding 400km of basically rural farm land in Kursk while losing land in the most populated and mineral rich region ? I ask pure rational question no need for emotional answers.

There is very good reason why Trump asking Zelenskyy to leave Kursk since Putin told there won't be any peace talk until Ukrainian are in Kursk and this month Ukraine is about to lose more than 400km in Kharkiv. Putin can get that land back when he wants and while Ukraine send its best men to Kursk and launches reckless offensive in zone where they are now outnumbered is a great gift for Putin in an attrition war.

Also here funny event

This week Korean soldiers left

But Ukraine offensive failed and they getting owned so this weekend

North Korean returned

@rdramamademegay Fact check this genius

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Note: I posted this in a different sub but wanted to share here too. I'm just so angry

As a Black woman, the entitlement of white families and the shit they get away with both amazes me-and enrages me.

I'm away on a business trip-kind of my first. They are paying for my hotel room and everything. It's pretty awesome. The hotel I'm at has a swim pool so I decided to bring my bathing suit and go for an evening swim after my conference.

I figured I'd wait till about an hour before pool closing so it'd be less busy. Clearly, everyone had the same idea as me. Fine, whatever. There were 3 parties of us there-myself, solo, a filipino family (maybe 5-6 of them children included) and a big group of white families together for what I assume to be a hockey tournament (I saw them checking in with their sticks and hockey bags in tow).

The white adults were absolutely plastered. They had several coolers in the pool (not allowed) boxes of pizza (also not allowed). The adults were all drinking beers poolside (again, NOT allowed). Meanwhile, their kids are causing an absolute disturbance. Prior, their sons were playing FRICKING FLOOR HOCKEY in the hotel HALLWAY. I could hear them before I left and I saw them on during my time in the pool (they were coming in and out) and on my way back to my room.

At one point, one of the moms is so shitfaced she drops her glass and it shatters. she then starts scraping the glass into the pool where myself and the Filipino families kids were swimming. One of the moms goes "no no dont do that just leave it"

I decide I'm done with the main pool and head over to the hot tub where more of the Filipino family are hanging out. As we're relaxing, one of the front desk staff comes in with one of the boys. The boy goes "guys guys listen-the front desk says we need to quiet down we're being too loud" to which the moms respond "we're being too LOUD?! Tell them to shut the front door!" (Which makes zero sense because the pool door WAS shut-it requires key card entry). They were just that fricking loud.

Just the absolute gall and entitlement of the parents to think they should be allowed to disrupt everyone else was appalling. I lean over to someone in the hot tub and go "have they been acting like that all night?" "Yup, since we got here!" And then we started talking about how rude they were, the disrespect to public space, the glass in the pool, etc. Suddenly all the boys decide theyre down playing hotel hallway hockey and come into the pool. There's a huge sign that says "no diving-shallow pool". So naturally, they all start doing cannonballs. The splashes were so big they were hitting me and the family in the hottub. The parents continued to sit back shitfaced and pleased with themselves.

I'd had enough so I left and went to complain to front staff. I let him know that the family was drunk off their asses, not controlling their kids, the boys playing hockey in the hall, the broken glass, the pizza, the way the mom disrespected the first staff member to go in, all of it. He was very apologetic to which I said it's not his fault and the family would likely retaliate again (all the front desk staff were POC) and he said he'd handle it and escalate to management. I went off to my room.

Some of you are gonna say this is just a shitty parent thing-and it is. However, whiteness does come into play. Watch a Black person act up and see how we're shamed, dragged across the internet, everything. Watch a Black person follow the rules and still get shit. I'm thinking of those stories of Black people getting kicked out of pools in their own apartment complexes cause racists POS didn't think they live or "belong" there.

White people are just allowed to be shameless. The reason that mom was so bold talking back to the staff is cause she felt entitled and knew she held a position of power. She is the white woman, and is offended by the POC staff member politely telling her to get a hold of herself. The staff dare tell them how to behave??? They know at the end of the day they will get a free pass. I want to make sure to include the dads in this too cause they were shit too. I mention the mom cause my time there she was the one mouthing back. The dads were all standing around drunk and smug.

And this is how kids, especially white kids, turn into entitled adults. Mommy and daddy never say no. Of course theyd be allowed to play floor hockey in the middle of a hotel hallway and disrupt other patrons! Of course theyre allowed to break pool rules! Why shouldn't they? They're watching their parents do the exact same shit!

I'm not saying BIPOC should get a free pass to be unruly shits btw, or that we never act up. I'm angry at how different the repercussions are and how white folk are simply allowed to do whatever they please and train their kids to be the same because society has put them so far up on a pedestal.

Just watched this movie, and I think everyone should watch it. It has a really good message.

Sanya marries a 6ft+ guy who behaves well before marriage but turns out to be the most sexist and misogynistic person ever.

This seems to be the case with every 6ft+ guy pic.twitter.com/D51X6QACKg

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Clears the alimony cheque every month yeah

I love manlets

They can always make me feel better about myself.

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I've been stuck with these frickers for last few day, so why not put them to some good use and farm a coin or two with their unsolicited pictures.

This is an animal hole, those are some animal pictures. I don't think there is anything to add.

Holy shit what a bum

I have one of his books. It's supposed to be aight.

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rightoids don't cry about your mutilated peen for 5 seconds challenge

I had a circumcision and never had any issues with it

You carry the mark of a slave to jews bro.

They literally invented circumcision to reduce pleasure… sorry dude ur missing out

I'm not missing out on anything

what a self-own holy shit

More sanitary

You're just coping.

I hope you guys realise how hard it is for me to post twitter drama, I've discovered a new level of ban where I can't even read the website

We have foreskins AND soap on my country and we're quite sanitary.

He's Polish and said this

Yet another example of an explicitly anti Christian attitude being displayed by a page followed by many Christians.

how do you do my fellow Christians

Let's hear the female opinion. Do you want a fruit roll up with stinky schmegma in it, or a normal looking one with 0 crust in front of you?

> Let's hear the female opinion!

So strange……dudes obsessed with other dudes peepees

@Sneedman

you sound like an unclipped savage, son

My friend's son got bad UTI that started affecting his kidneys because of that peepee skin.

how do you tell a twitter user their friend's son was molested

The account admin is def an Indian.

>posted by moroccan

BROWN FIGHT

It's healthier and more hygienic

I'm noticing that this take only comes from third worlders with no access to soap... and Americans. what means

@Kongvann

- 15 votes

- 60 votes

Let's get a fight going in the comments

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Guess the fact that those 10 athletes aren't exactly regularly outperforming their biological counterparts parts doesn't matter hey? Ofcourse it doesn't you don't give a frick about women lol. (85)

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Why have competition if you are going to let it be unfair? It's silly (22)

Because you are making a mountain out of a mole hill. The amount of trans athlethes is minescule in the big picture. There are bigger problems to be solved. (-26)

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Out of 500,000 NCAA athletes 10 are transgender 😂 completely made up issue (239)

This logic is flawed. While there maybe only 10 transgender athletes, those athletes impact more than just 10 people. They individually impact everyone they ever play with and against. That number is certainly larger than 10. Rules like this aren't for the individuals that they prohibit, they are for everyone else that are affect by them. (-8)

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Imagine if someone made a rule that red headed people were no longer allowed to go to the movies, because their red hair was so bright it might hurt other people's eyes while watching. That's silly, right? There's no evidence of that, there are very few red haired people even that exist, and the majority of the people watching movies are cool with red haired people.Maybe not getting to go to the movies and have a source of major enjoyment that other people get to have isn't a big deal to you.But next they will say red haired people are distracting - we shouldnt allow them to drive either, they can cause accidents.Redhaired people start getting fired from jobs and no longer getting hired, or their businesses no longer patronized since people don't want to risk being around themRed haired people start being murdered and r*ped and committing suicide more often, because criminals know they can get away with it.Then they will say we should round all the red haired people up and put them... (2)

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The reasoning behind it is flawed and masked in "protecting women" when it's about targeting the LGBTQ community Cis women are being targeted and accused of being trans if someone feels they are too good, too masculine presenting or they just don't like them/what they have to sayCis women are being accused of being trans because of how they biologically exist, such as naturally occurring variance in hormones. Once this information is released people refuse to the believe they're women and all their accomplishments as athletes are thrown away. I was born with 9 times the amount of testosterone that I am suppose to have. It never made me a better athlete but people don't care and if that were given out the the public, people would die on the hill that I am biologically male even though I have had two children emerge from my body that lived in my uterus with my eggs that were naturally released through my fallopian tubes.This issue unfairly targets people of color who have a long histo... (8)

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J.K. Rowling says it bestJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowlingThis 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy, and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities, and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it.People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that s*x is real and matters.When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been ha... (1)

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Now renamed after a WW2 soldier instead of the Confederate general

/r/army is actually for the most part okay with it but there's still some seething

Good to see the important issues are being tackled.

I'm sure you took that attitude when it was changed the first time.

I wonder how much money this will cost the DoD and the rest of the American people….

What a waste of money? This administration is stupid and petty.

Good to know that they're laser-focused on government efficiency.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ShermanPosting/comments/1imntla/braxton_bragg_is_objectively_one_of_the_biggest/

Union larpers also discuss it

Can't help but notice a common theme here.

Zero crackers.

How many _ _ _ users are they protecting at this point

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Every time I read one of these posts I get a little more hopeful. My parents are still stuck that Rump isn't gonna take away social security and that dems are "saying whatever they can" to try and get people to turn against him. (-4)

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As someone who hates Trump, I'm having trouble giving a pass to these people. With smart phones, we all have access to the same kinds of information. What is it that makes people think he didnt mean what he said? (42)

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A lot of these comments are pretty mean, and while I think it was dumb of her, I think people have to remember not everyone who voted for trump is a monster. Not everyone who voted for trump is racist, some of them saw how bad things were under Biden and didn't want Kamala and didn't investigate exactly what was going on. We have uninformed voters, but most dangerous of all misinformed voters. We have the media saying crime is on the rise and immigration is a matter of homeland security and neither are true and both parties are running with it. The Democrats are ratcheting right, but they can't out-flank the Republican party. There comes a time when if the Democrats are just doing the same inhuman shit but with a cleaner coat of paint, 1 Democrats are going to stop coming out to vote, 2 more people are going to vote Republican. Democrats keep chasing the idea of stealing votes from the Republican base and all it is doing is shrinking their own. With a world on fire, to a lot of peop... (1)

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ima throw a gross generalization here, but... i work in the public sector and deal with a rainbow of people. and an alarming number of these indivs are... dumb. they cannot communicate well; they are slow to comprehend; those factors combined cause them to get frustrated easily. their parents failed them and the system has failed and continue to fail them.i get why trump is president--these poor numbskulls relate to him. it's sad and scary at the same time.edit: i am sorry for saying this in a sub for optimists, but i feel as though irreparable damage has been done to our country. and based on world history, this kinda extreme ideological division will only lead to a geopolitical(?) schism... (15)

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So exactly what is your definition of a Republic? As in The People's Republic of China??, I've never heard the terminology Republic of USA... United States of America, United. Being the operative word. That word got lost somewhere.You might as well blame everybody because that's really where things went awry. I really didn't care that he, won this election The country is in horrible shape. Had he lost? Do you think he would have left gracefully and with dignity? Heck? No, it's embarrassing to watch him.Be our leader.. Nobody's united, everybody on the right waits. to see what he wants, and then they all share the same brain,. If you want to call that United they're all in lockstep. Okay, but thru chaos comes order . I don't see him or any of the Democrats looking for order .He has no interest in order as if they're looking for order. We are a supposeed democracy, a government in which the people rule. You don't have to try to teach me anything, I understand I'm not going to lose tra... (1)

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A leaked draft of the list of plans by the European Commission shows that the Commission wants to follow a new approach to introduce "hate crime" as a felony in the entire EU. There have been several attempts since 2021.

Already during her first term as Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen wanted to declare "hate crime" a EU felony.

The magazine Euractiv recently published a draft of the list of all initiatives that the European Commission wants to implement this year. On Tuesday, February 11th, the final list is to be presented by Ursula von der Leyen to the members of the European Parliament. The European Commission president wants to tackle another initiative so that "hate speech" is recognized as a felony in all of the European Union.

Already in 2021, during her first term as Commission president, the Commission presented a corresponding legal initiative. The parliament agreed to the initiative, but there was no agreement in the Council of the European Union. Because "hate crime" can only be introduced as a EU-wide felony if all member states agree. In November 2023, members of the European Parliament demanded again that the initiative shall be followed on.

Crimes need to meet certain requirements in order to be considered "EU crimes". These requirements are stipulated in Article 83 Paragraph 1 on the work of the European Union. The crimes must be cross-border, the acts must be categorized as "particularly severe crime", and there must not be an alternative to the expansion of EU crime status to get the crime under control. So far, among EU felonies are human trafficking, terrorism, and money laundering. "Hate speech" allegedly is cross-border not only because of the Internet, but also because media such as newspapers are able to distribute content far and wide.

So far, at the level of the European Union, discrimination on the basis of skin color, religion, or s*x is punishable. The European Commission argues that the introduction of a felony "hate crime" is necessary because hate not only harms the individual victim, but "also society at large", as the legal initiative from 2021 says. "Hate undermines the very foundations of our society. It weakens mutual understanding and respect for diversity on which pluralistic and democratic societies are built", it continues.

When "hate crime" is fundamentally recognized as a felony in the European Union, then, in a second step, the Commission together with the Parliament and the Council of the European Union, in the scope of the regular legislative procedure, can set concrete characteristics of the felony "hate crime". Also, the three institutions can then decree minimum regulations that are then valid in all member states.

Currently, in EU law, there is no definition of hate speech and hate crime. On the definition of the term "hate speech", the Commission refers to a recommendation by the European Council from 1997, in which it states that hate speech is the incitement of hate because of certain protected characteristics like religion or s*x. The term "hate crime" is being defined in a recommendation by the European Commission in 2015 as "advocacy, promotion or incitement, in any form, of the denigration, hatred or vilification of a person or group of persons." A "negative stereotyping" is also seen as "hate crime". In that, it is about characteristics like an alleged social gender identity, age, origin, s*x, or religion.

Based on these two documents, the Commission speaks of "hate crime" being any crime with a motive based on prejudices. Specifically, the initiative from 2021 says: "For both hate speech and hate crime, it is the bias motivation that triggers the perpetrator's action." Furthermore: "These are 'identity' or 'message' acts, as the messages conveyed - notably that the targeted victims do not belong to that society - are addressed not only to the victim, but also to their community or group."

Accordingly, the motivation of the perpetrator is crucial for the felony. In addition, the text says that "hate crime" and hate speech "undermine the foundations of the EU". The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decided in 2006 that it could be necessary for "democratic societies to sanction or even prevent all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify hatred based on intolerance".

The right to freedom of speech does not protect against law enforcement reactions to hate speech, the ECtHR says. The legal initiative from 2021 also refers to the concept of a "ladder of harm" or "pyramid of hate", according to which hate not only leads to discrimination or insults, but also "bias motivated violence" like r*pe, murder, or genocide. As an example, they refer to a study according to which hate-filled tweets lead to an increase of hate crime in a city.

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